Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just a few feet away from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting. While she prayed, the Philippines government was wrapping up a lengthy legal battle over her fate. Veloso’s life was ultimately spared — temporarily — by Indonesia’s Attorney General's Office, which issued a stay of execution shortly before Veloso was to be executed with eight other death row inmates.

Anna-Marie Stevens, 52, was killed in a horrific crash after a car mounted a pavement and hit her and her 23-year-old daughter - she had spoken out about her lottery win just months ago

Detectives in Australia have made a disturbing discovery in bushland near the airport. The body of a missing woman was found dumped by the roadside, and police say it is an unusual case

The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has been discreetly handed the use of a taxpayer-funded apartment inside Admiralty House, the old love nest of John Prescott.

Baroness Ann Mallalieu has become one of the most vocal critics of Chancellor Rachel Reeves 's ill-conceived plan, likely to affect more than 50,000 farms across the country.

On 15 December 2014, images from the heart of Sydney were beamed live around the world into millions of homes.

A true cultural heavyweight, the former recipient of the Governor General’s Saidye Bronfman Award in Visual and Media Arts is now the city's 2025 cultural ambassador.

Asma al-Assad was once seen as Syria's Princess Diana. Now, she will likely live out her days exiled in Russia.

Architecture student Brianna Kupfer, 24, was fatally stabbed 46 times by a 31-year-old man who hated women while she was at work at a furniture shop in Los Angeles

The family of the victim, Harshita Brella, has accused her husband, Pankaj Lamba of domestic violence. Her mother revealed that she didn't want to go to him.

Amanda Flood previously discovered a hospital worker had twice snooped on her medical records.

Kambhampati Rajeshwari Murthy, pioneering educator and Principal of SPW College, Tirupati, passes away at 103 in New York City.

‘WE’RE ON OUR OWN’: In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her supposed allies. Raquel Willis tells Io Dodds why Republican bathroom bans are everybody’s problem

Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9.

Dr Charlotte Proudman, who specialises in family law and women's rights, called the position of the Bar Standards Board's director general "untenable" after being cleared of misconduct