KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — The police have arrested a man at Jalan Klang Lama for allegedly abusing a cat by dragging it with a rope tied around its neck.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — Police have detained five Myanmar nationals in a murder investigation involving a woman, whose blood-stained body was found in a rented room in Bandar Teknologi Kajang near here yesterday.

MANILA, Oct 28 — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed a "death squad" existed under his watch to control crime when he was Davao City mayor, but gave conflicting accounts of its makeup, first saying it was run by police officers, then by gangsters.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — A Malaysian student in the United Kingdom, who put her newborn baby in a cereal box in March and hid the box in a suitcase, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 — A Malaysian student in the United Kingdom, who put her newborn baby in a cereal box in March and hid the box in a suitcase, has been convicted of murder.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 — A Los Angeles prosecutor today said he would ask a judge to release Erik and Lyle Menendez on parole after nearly 35 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, as new evidence emerged indicating they were sexually abused by their father for years.

KOLKATA, Oct 22 — Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off a 17-day-old hunger strike yesterday, which launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 16 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentences of two former factory workers today to 34 years in prison, along with 12 strokes of the cane each, for the murder of an acquaintance 13 years ago.

DUNGUN, Oct 15 — The driver who crashed her car into four Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Dungun students on Wednesday (October 9) was charged at the Magistrate's Court today with three counts of murder for the death of three of the victims.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — The High Court was told the police had issued a blue notice to Interpol to locate the whereabouts of an American couple over the murder of Dutch model Ivana Esther Robert Smit in 2017.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence imposed on a father convicted of murdering his son to 40 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The Federal Court has commuted former chief inspector Azilah Hadri’s death sentence to 40 years in prison for murdering Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — Two followers of the deviant sect group 'Tuhan Harun' convicted of murder escaped the gallows when the Federal Court replaced their death sentence today with 40 years' imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The father of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu has submitted a letter requesting for the death sentence of the convicted killer of his daughter, Azilah Hadri, to be commuted to imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 8 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentences of a former lawyer and a former farmhand today for the murders of cosmetics millionairess Sosilawati Lawiya and her three aides, committed 14 years ago.

HULU SELANGOR, Oct 7 — The Kuala Kubu Bharu Magistrate's Court has set December 10 for mention regarding the submission of the chemist and autopsy reports in the murder case of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah, involving Lance Corporal Muhammad Alif Monjani, who was charged in July.

KUALA PILAH, Oct 6 — A man was found dead by the roadside after he stabbed his father to death at a house in Kampung Senaling, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, yesterday afternoon.

PETALING JAYA, Oct 2 — An unemployed man was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with the murder of an interior designer, who was stabbed 20 times in a condominium unit at Persiaran Meranti, Bandar Sri Damansara last month.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 — The suspect of the murder of an interior designer, who was stabbed 20 times in an apartment in Persiaran Meranti, Petaling Jaya, on September 15 will be charged at the Petaling Jaya court tomorrow.

KLANG, Sept 25 — The High Court has rejected an application for a second psychiatric evaluation by a man accused of murdering his mother in Pasir Penambang, Kuala Selangor, two years ago.