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MONTREAL – A Canadian man sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to schools and political parties has joined a matchmaking website for inmates. Luka Magnotta’s profile was posted Sunday on Canadian Inmates Connect Inc., a website that tries to …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian authorities on Wednesday ended a 15-hour prison riot involving up to 300 inmates in Melbourne suspected to have been triggered by a ban on smoking. Rioters armed with pieces of wood lit fires in buildings, broke down an internal wall and smashed windows during the chaos, …

LONDON – Amnesty International has expressed outrage after a British tribunal confirmed that Britain’s government had spied on the human rights organization. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal wrote to Amnesty on Thursday to notify it that Britain’s electronic intercepting agency, GCHQ, had violated its rules when it kept intercepted communications from …