(Reuters) - Lawyers for German automaker Porsche said actor Paul Walker was responsible for his own death in a crash of a Porsche sports car, in response to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his daughter, court documents showed.
Convicted criminals on death row will be entitled to free legal representation under a new rule drafted by the Ministry of Justice, a ministry source told China Daily.
The death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar may divide the Taliban ranks and will cause a split among the militant group's leadership, local analysts suggested.
Following a news release of the Afghan government on death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said on Wednesday that he could not confirm the death but the administration believes the reports are "credible."
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III ordered Friday for a speedy investigation into the boat mishap off central city of Ormoc where death toll already rose to 39.
No new case of infection with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was reported in South Korea for three days in a row, with one more death being added, the health ministry said Tuesday.
Egypt's Prosecutor General succumbed to injuries he sustained Monday in a bomb attack in Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.
U.S. federal judge in Boston on Wednesday officially sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attacks and the following killing of a police officer when on the run.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence against ousted President Mohamed Morsi over mass jailbreak during the 2011 political turmoil.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Thursday a policeman to 15 years in prison over the death of a female protester during a leftist march earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
Mammography screening can reduce the risk of death from breast cancer by 40 percent in women aged 50 to 69, a major international review suggested Wednesday.
The death toll from a tanker explosion in the southeastern Nigerian city of Onitsha in Anambra has risen to 85 as of Monday night, local authorities said on Tuesday.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced nine extremists to death over charges of embracing extremist ideologies, targeting security forces and associating with the Islamic State (IS) militant group, official MENA news agency reported.
An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted a police officer of torturing a young Islamist man to death when investigating a church blast case in 2011, a few days before the turmoil that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak, state-run Ahram news website reported.
Norway on Tuesday denounced as "unacceptable" the death sentence handed down by an Egyptian court against former President Mohammed Morsi and his 106 supporters.
Egypt's first freely-elected president Mohamed Morsi, who was removed by the military in 2013, has been sentenced to death over jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.
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