With seven more arrests on Sunday, the Madagascar police have now made 26 arrests over the lynching of two Europeans and one local by a violent mob on Thursday in the popular tourist location of Nosy Be.
It's not every day that a court gets to see a dead man walk up to a judge and demand that he be recognized as, well, alive. In the case of Donald Miller that's exactly what happened. The 61-year-old had been proclaimed dead since 1994 following a disappearance from his Arcadia rental home. Apparently, Mr Miller lost his job sometime before 1990 and as an alcoholic had nowhere to go and "had nothing left."
Police claimed they are ruling out foul play on the death of Daniel Sihvola whose body was found in Bulimba Creek in August, two weeks after he was reported missing.
Mark Brandon Chopper died of cancer at age 58 in Melbourne
The mother who allegedly poisoned her daughter with cancer drugs pleaded guilty for her endangering her child's life. In April, detectives charged the Queensland woman for giving her four-year-old chemotherapy medication for 10 months.
Footage from a murder scene has San Francisco officials concerned that smartphones are a dangerous distraction. The San Francisco Department told the press that the security footage of the alleged killer of a man aboard the light-rail train had his gun in plain sight.
Authorities are not putting the takedown of the black market bazaar Silk Road into a halt after the arrest of its alleged owner. Sources say that authorities have also started the search for drug dealers who sold items in the web site.
A 58-year-old man, Ian Scargall, has been tried in court for giving a supermarket attendant for her to put her dirty undewear in. Scargall has admitted to a single count of stalking when he appeared in court this week.
Fayahn al-Ghamdi, a self-appointed Islamist preacher, was found guilty by a Saudi court in the town of Hawta on charges of torturing and murdering his 5-year-old daughter, Lama. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 600 lashes and asked to pay a million riyals ($270,000) of "blood money" to his wife Syeda Mohammed Ali.
Missing 9-year-old boy, Nathan Parker, was found walking to his school, Canley Vale Public School, the morning after his disappearance. Earlier this week, it was reported that Parker, who usually walked the short distance from school to his home, was missing. Seen last on his way home from school, the boy never made it home. A search for the child was immediately set up, complete with descriptions of his clothing and built for the public. The culprit behind the boy's disappearance? An "una...
Day care worker, Heather Koon on Friday was accused and arrested for two counts of rape. The Lorain County Sheriff's Office in Ohio announced in a statement that the 25-year-old had allegedly violated two of the toddlers that she was professionally caring for.
A Science Fair project done by a high school girl from Sussex suggests that microwaves are bad for human health after photos of her experiment started making the rounds in social networking sites. The post sparked talks about controversial microwave oven stories.
In an incredibly tragic event, an 11-month-old boy was found dead in a car after his father accidentally locked the vehicle, forgetting the boy inside. At 4 PM on Wednesday, the lifeless body of the child was found in a dark grey Honda Civic, the same car that was used to take the boy to his day care centre.
A 12-year-old girl in Stamford, Connecticut was allegedly arrested for bullying one of her classmates.
Never take your king literally, particularly when he says he is open to criticism. A Thai woman learnt it the hard way when she got a five year jail term for a 2008 web comment considered discourteous to the Thailand royals. But she must be relived she got away with a lesser term, in a country which has the world's toughest lese-majeste laws, with royal insults punishable by up to 15 years in prison for each offence committed.
20-year-old serial rapist Daniel Chipchase was classified as a possible sex offender when he was only three years old after displaying sexualised behaviour.
The sentencing of a prominent U.S.-trained human rights lawyer to 30 months in prison in a tax evasion case by a Hanoi court on Wednesday could hit U.S.-Vietnam relations. Le Quoc Quan, 42, is one of Vietnam’s best-known activist-blogger. Following the sentencing, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi issued a statement accusing Vietnam of using tax laws for political ends and urging the government to release other political prisoners.
In one of the largest single seizures of ephedrine in Australian history, a multi-agency investigation resulted in a major seizure of 274kg of the banned substance hidden in a shipment of rice from India into Melbourne. Three people have been arrested in Australia and one person in India on charges for their alleged involvement in the importation and intended distribution of the substance.
Trident Taskforce arrested on Wednesdy a 46-year-old Brighton man for drug related offences. The arrest is part of a major operation undertaken by the multi-agency Trident Taskforce, to disrupt an alleged large drug importation and trafficking syndicate. According to a press release issued by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), this is the third arrest by the Taskforce since it launched its anti-drug trafficking operation in Dec 2012.
The Australian Defence force had released the inquiry report of the Aug 29 insider attack
It seems to be comeback time for shamed tech entrepreneurs. After, Kim Dotcom's plans to enter politics and his decision to quit Mega to pursue other projects, it is now the turn of disgraced anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee. McAfee, 67, aims to make the Internet safer for everyone and promises to launch a new cyber-security company to do so.
Two people were arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) following the seizure of a .22 Caliber Sig Saur pistol and magazine by Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACPBS) officers on Aug 16, at the Melbourne Gateway Facility.
Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge of causing potentially life-threatening bodily harm to his patient during a 2004 surgery in Australia. Meanwhile, as the trial continued on Tuesday (Sept 24), the presiding Judge Terence Martin slammed a Channel 7 report related to the case as "totally irresponsible."
A joint operation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) and South Australian Police (SAPOL) resulted in the arrest of two people—including a member of the Gypsy Jokers motorcycle gang—in relation to the seizure of a semi-automatic firearm and approximately seven kilograms of cannabis, 38 cannabis plants and four litres of GBL.
The number of citizenship requests for children born in India has increased by more than 300 per cent over the past five years. This accordingly to a media report in Australia quoting documents obtained under freedom of information. This increase in Australian children being born in India shows laws criminalising commercial surrogacy are doing nothing to stop parents going overseas to find birth mothers for their children, the report quoting surrogacy advocates says.
Manu Maimbilly Gopal, 39, an Indian-origin doctor in Australia, is facing multiple charges of rape and sexual assault even as he pleaded not guilty and called the charges against him “a conspiracy.” Meanwhile, on Tuesday after a two-week trial, the Australian Supreme Court jury found Mr Gopal guilty of two counts of rape.
Australian Citizenship Day celebrates citizenship ro the bond that unites all Australians.
A Tasmanian girl helps the arrest of a paedophile posing as Justin Bieber online
13-year-old boy from Adelaide might face charges over sexting an image of his genitals to friends.
Kim Dotcom seems to have a few more surprises up his sleeves. After his tweet about plans to launch a political party in New Zealand - a leak which he attributed to “whistleblower”- picked up storm, it is now known that he quit as director of Mega, the cloud hosting service that he launched with much fanfare in Jan 2013, after his previous file sharing venture Megaupload was shut down in a U.S. driven operation, following allegations of mass copyright infringement and money laundering.
