JEFFERSON -- The owner of a Rottweiler that killed a black bear cub this week, two months after killing a neighborhood dog, is the subject of charges filed Wednesday by the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

In the US, Shauneen Lambe defended juveniles on death row. Now her legal charity helps fight the enduring injustices she says youngsters in the UK are facing. By Mary O'Hara

TEHERAN - Iran's parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet, reports said on Wednesday.

Smuggling drugs in the Gulf is a high-risk enterprise, with frequent death sentences for dealers and mules. It is possible Sheikh Talal Nasser al-Sabah believed that being a relative of Kuwait's rulers would protect him.

AMonmouth County grand jury has indicted a Brick Township woman on a first-degree murder count in connection with the death of a Jersey Shore University Medical Center patient. The medical center is in Neptune.