France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen has thrown in recent weeks all her energy at a Paris trial into fighting what she ...

Increasing number of executions in Iran has prompted an outcry by human rights groups. Rape and adultery are among offences ...

An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of women over the past two decades has been executed in public, the country's state ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, in the sixth public execution since their return to power.

Corporal punishments -- mainly flogging -- have been common under the Taliban authorities and employed for crimes including ...