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A wandering, distressed girl dubbed as Dublin’s “Mystery Girl” was identified as an Australian.

A 14-year-old girl buried family members in the Saharan desert when they died of thirst. Her family, along with over 100 others, was on their way to Algeria.

Decades ago, the Chinese were known for selling counterfeit bags that had Louis Vuitton labels. It was later followed by other counterfeit items such as mobile phones displaying the Apple logo and were sold not only in China but in other parts of Asia.The counterfeiting did not stop there though as news about food safety and fake food hit newsstands in recent years. The following are a few of the most controversial faked food made in China.

To combat the growing webcam child sex tourism, Terre des Hommes created Filipino Avatar “Sweetie”

Apple Inc has released the iPad Air in its stores in Nov. 1 and is expected to show strong opening weekend sales. Investors who are concerned with the sales performance of Apple's latest tablet may be happy to know that the iPad Air has a higher adoption rate than the previous iPad. Mobile analytics company Fiksu reported that the iPad Air had five times the adoption rate of the iPad 4 during the first three days of sale.

Kurt Delves said he was frustrated because he couldn't make 10-week-old baby Harli Reid stop from crying. So he shook her vigorously. He admitted it was a "momentary loss of control." Baby Harli's cries, however, will no longer be heard.

A jury at the Downing Centre District Court declared on Monday that 78-year-old Fr Finian Egan is guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of rape which he committed over 30 years.

The Australian Defence Force is allegedly guilty of leaking sensitive medical records of Skype sex scandal victim “Kate”.

Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight is about to tell her story. In the taped two-part episode of the U.S. talk show “Dr Phil,” Knight describes her horrible condition during her 11-year captivity in the hands of her tormentor Ariel Castro.

The defiance in 2010 by two middle school female students in Easton, Pennsylvania, has led to a legal battle all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court on the use of a word to mean the female breast.

In a decision that will have far-reaching implication, Germany became the first country in Europe to create a new category for "indeterminate sex." According to BCC, the move is aimed at taking the pressure of parents of newborns to make a quick decision on the sex assignment surgery.

Fairfax Media has reported that Australian embassies were being utilized by U.S. to spy Asian nations through a spy program dubbed as "Stateroom."

Halloween 2013 came earlier for the wife of former Brazilian Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos when Geisa Silva found on their home's front steps the decapitated head of her husband on Tuesday morning.

After hearing the new Michael Jackson death trial verdict, Dr. Conrad Murray revealed he cried and pointed out that the jury’s verdict as “justice.” He described himself as “relieved” in wrongful death civil trial, which allowed him have some taste for freedom.

Did European intelligence agencies partner the U.S. National Security Agency in the mass surveillance program which whistle-blower Edward Snowden exposed? If report in the Wall Street Journal, are to be believed, the millions of European phone records tracked by NSA, now threatening US’ trans-Atlantic relations, were not collected by NSA but by intelligence agencies in those countries itself. This revelation, by WSJ timed before the head of NSA was due to testify before Congress, will help to t...

The police in China arrested five suspects on Wednesday evening in connection with the Monday’s deadly car crash suicide terror attack at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, state media reports. It was also revealed that the SUV used in the attack was registered in China’s restive Xinjiang province. Reports say police also found a petrol container, two knives, extremist flag and religious slogans in the vehicle.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that Australian embassies were U.S.’ spy across Asian nations

White Ribbon Australia launches its campaign again domestic violence titled “Australia, The Land of Secrets”

Barely two days after having reduced sentence from felony charges to a misdemeanor, Chris Brown voluntarily entered rehab for anger management issues.

Authorities in China are looking out for two men belonging to the country’s ethnic Uighur Muslim minority from the country’s restive Xinjiang province on suspected terror charges as they investigate whether the SUV which crash and then caught fire at Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square on Monday killing its three occupants and two tourists, and injuring 38 others, was actually a suicide attack.

Tasmanian Greenpeace activist Colin Russell, arrested by the Russian authorities along with 29 others from the Greenpeace vessel, the Arctic Sunrise has been formally charged in Russia. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the Mr Russell had been formally charged with hooliganism.

Australia is listed as one of the notorious markets for pirated DVD by the Motion Picture Association of America

With an agreed payout of almost $60 million, the 26 sex abuse victims of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are bound to get an average of $2.3 million each.

In the latest attack by Chinese media on global companies, Starbucks and Samsung have both come under fire for allegedly bullying Chinese customers and over-charging them. Leading the charge China Central Television (CCTV) and the China Daily. This comes after iPhone maker Apple was blasted by CCTV earlier this year for not repairing customers' iPhones for free.

With the Cancer Council in Australia estimating that of all new cancer cases being reports, over 80% account for skin cancer, public health officials in several Australian states are in the process of banning the use of indoor skin tanning bed. The latest initiative is in the state of Victoria where lawmakers banned tanning devices effective end-2014. With Victoria’s action, five of the eight Australian states and territories have now banned the use of tanning salons and devices.

A young Pakistani man, dubbed as "Jack the Ripper," stabbed 25 women in a town 450 kilometers away from Islamabad. Chichawatni authorities confirmed that about 25 women and girls sustained stab wounds from separate attacks by this lunatic man. The attacks reportedly occurred within the month.

Explosive remnants of the World War 2 will be detonated safely from Solomon Islands says the Australian Defence Force

According to the one-off TMZ, Chris Brown was arrested in Washington, D.C. this morning after allegedly attacking a man outside the W Hotel. The rumours suggest that Brown got into a dispute around 4:30 AM, which ended with Brown punching the other man and breaking his nose.

Chris Brown may be the victim of an acutely adverse situation. As Brown currently arrested for felony assault on Oct. 27, and now in jail a source close to the him revealed that he was not guilty of all charges and he was the victim rather than perpetrator. He was just trying to defend himself from a possible attack as the singer has been erroneously accused and was innocent.