A round-up of Saturday's action in LaLiga, Serie A and Ligue 1.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a series of executive orders fulfilling campaign promises, including declaring an emergency at the southern border, addressing a national energy crisis, and defining sex-related policies. The orders aim to address immigration, national security, and energy independence, with a focus on reversing policies implemented by the previous administration.
Four cities in neighbouring Pakistan and one in China are among the world's top 20 polluted cities.
The Delhi prisons department has written to a city court to issue a death warrant against the guilty in the 2000 Red Fort attack case, officials said on Monday.
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day
A court in Surat on Thursday sentenced stalker Fenil Goyani to death for killing 21-year-old college student Grishma Vekariya in February this year, terming it as a "rarest of the rare" case.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of death sentence of a young woman and her lover convicted for killing seven members of her family, including a 10-month-old baby, in Uttar Pradesh in 2008.
A 28-year-old Indian IT professional has been sentenced to death in the US for the gruesome killing an Indian baby and her grandmother in a 2012 kidnapping plot that went horribly wrong.
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie and his 682 supporters to death, a move that could raise tension in the country, which has been gripped by turmoil since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year.
Pandher and Koli were held guilty of kidnapping, rape and murder in the case
The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded life sentence to four convicts in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case for the remainder of their lives without remission, citing the severity of the offence. Thirteen people were killed and nearly 40 injured in the explosion.
The four convicts in the December 16 gang rape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.
Foreign media reports and analyses the Kasab death sentence
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded the resignations of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his father, union minister Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Govt said these amendments are aimed at discouraging the trend of child sexual abuse by acting as a deterrent.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court sentenced Surinder Koli-- servant of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher--to death, for rape and murder of a nine-year -old girl in the sensational Nithari killings in 2006, saying he deserved a more severe punishment for his crimes.
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko on Saturday requested Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to take efforts for cancelling the death sentence awarded to three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
New Zealand scored in the last minute of regulation time and then held on to their nerve to beat South Africa 9-8 via the sudden death penalty shoot-out to finish ninth in the men's hockey World Cup in Delhi on Friday. New Zealand captain Dean Couzins scored from the spot in sudden death after both sides were tied 4-4 in the penalty shoot-out, and 4-4 after regulation time.
Noting that kidnapping has become a lucrative and thriving industry all over the country, the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of two convicts who kidnapped and murdered a 16-year old school student in Punjab for a Rs 50 lakh ransom.
Trump thanked the Government of Pakistan for "helping arrest this monster".
Joining the growing clamour to award death penalty to perpetrators of rape, Rashtriya President Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday said his party would advocate for capital punishment for rapists in the Delhi gang rape case in the next Parliament session.
A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was on Thursday sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity", including genocide and religious persecution, during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Tuesday said it was disappointed by the Gujarat court's decision to award death penalty to only 11 convicts in the Godhra train burning case and asked the state government to appeal against the verdict.
Ernakulam Principal Sessions court judge N Anil Kumar awarded the death penalty to Ameerul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, for committing murder of the law student at nearby Perumbavoor.
A fresh application has been filed before the Pakistan Supreme Court seeking review of its decision to dismiss the Indian death row inmate Sarabjit Singh's petition challenging his death penalty, The Daily Times reports.
The Beijing number 2 Intermediate People's Court, which is conducting the trial, announced the stiff verdict handing down death sentence to 60-year-old Liu, state-run Xinhua news agency reported quoting verdict.
The condemned prisoners convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case deserve death sentence, the Supreme Court said on Thursday and refused to go into the merit of the conviction while hearing their plea on commuting death penalty to life due to delay in deciding their mercy plea.
The draft legislation seeks capital punishment for persons convicted of rape if their actions result in the victim's death or leave her in a vegetative state.
Family members of those convicted alleged that an attempt has been made by the BJP to polarise the UP Assembly elections and questioned the timing of the judgment.
Saudi Arabia said this month it had executed 81 men, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian.
In a veiled attack on CM Shinde, Thackeray said the 'Kansa Mama', a reference to a character in Mahabharat, is busy getting rakhis tied on his wrists and asked when he will get justice for the nieces.
A 3-judge bench would hear the plea, that has questioned
The protest against the alleged sexual abuse of two girls at a school in Badlapur town of Maharashtra's Thane district turned violent on Tuesday as the angry agitators vandalised the school and also indulged in stone-pelting at the local railway station during the 'rail blockade', police said.
Holiram had carried out the execution in broadlight in front of the villagers in an effort to protect his supremacy in the village.
Quamruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat, is the fourth accused who was convicted for the 1971 war crimes siding with Pakistani troops while his party was opposed to Bangladesh's independence.
The Delhi high court on Monday granted bail to four convicts serving life imprisonment in the murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to Abdul Ghani Isma Turk in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Former assistant commissioner of police R P Tyagi was awarded capital punishment by a Delhi court for torturing two persons to death in judicial custody.
The bench, which refused to stay the high court verdict, imposed certain conditions and directed that the four people, who were acquitted, be released unless wanted in any other case.
