In Australia, when they say "you’ve got Buckley’s chance," it means you have little to no chance. This is ironic, considering that ex-convict William Buckley managed the impossible: Buckley escaped ...

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison for smuggling amphetamines into the country, despite accepting her testimony that she was tricked ...

At the height of the Clinton impeachment brouhaha, when the moralistic right were rolling their eyes and drooling at every fresh revelation of Bill Clinton's debauchery, an Australian newspaper ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for two Australian convicts facing execution for drug trafficking in Indonesia filed a last-ditch legal challenge in the country's highest court on Thursday, in the hope ...

Life in Australia’s 19th-century penal colonies was harsh and unforgiving. Isolation, punishment, and forced labor drove many ...

Banished will follow the "lives, loves, relationships and battle for survival of a group of convicts" in New South Wales, Australia, 1788. How the first convicts survived is the best story I've come ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHIBA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese court on ...