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Chinese crackdown on Uighur Muslim, continues in the country’s restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, as security agencies arrested over 139 activists over the past few weeks on charges of promoting jihad online.

Herald Sun’s three-year investigation revealed that Victoria’s Worst Sexual Predators strike again after being freed

Tunisian authorities arrested several young women who allegedly left their homes to perform sexual jihad. According to the officials, the arrest supports rumors that have been plaguing Tunisia for months.

Occasionally, there are mums from hell. And one of them is Margarita de Jesus Zapata Moreno, 45, who is accused of pimping her 12 daughters' virginity for $200 each!

A dream vacation won by an elderly Australian couple turned out to be a ploy to make them into unwitting drug mules. Australian Federal Police has warned the public of a new scam organised by a bogus Canada-based tour company that targets older people into transporting drugs in the guise of a paid holiday.

Aussie parents will be getting a surprise payment of $410 per child as schoolkids bonus despite the government's move to scrap it.

A disturbing report “The Neglected Genocide - Human Rights abuses against Papuans in the Central Highlands” revealed a connection with Australia

Texas police arrested Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, a civilian resident of military base in San Antonio, after she allegedly tried to pull off the penis of her 6-year-old son while angry at the child.

Buying an expensive designer belt is a crime if you're a black man, at least that's what college student Trayon Christian has learned. The 19-year-old engineering student from Queens, New York was wrongly arrested for credit card fraud after purchasing a USD349 Ferragamo belt at the high-end department store Barneys.

Don't rush - is the advice of Prime Minister Tony Abbott to Australian gay couples who want to avail of the same-sex marriage law approved on Tuesday by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

Muslim sectarian antagonism was reported in the Holy City of Mecca in Saudi Arabia Oct. 16 when a group of Lebanese-Australian Sunni Muslims allegedly attacked men and threatened to rape women of an American Shiite Muslims group from Detroit.

Despite two Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) cadets being found guilty of streaming videos over Skype while one of them was having consensual sex with a female cadet, the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court on Wednesday decided not to send the two young men to jail for their offences.

The controversial alleged rape of a young girl resulted to a street demonstration Tuesday evening as hundreds of supporters call for "Justice for Daisy."

A new report from Amnesty International documents U.S. drone’s unlawful killings of civilians

Model of humility for the Roman Catholic religion, no less than its spiritual leader Pope Francis, has finally met on Monday Germany's extravagant Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst who allegedly spent a whopping $42 million on renovations to his home.

Tony Chan Chun-chuen, the former lover of Hong Kong's richest woman and currently facing charges of forgery, has renounced this week Chinese geomancy as evil and was baptised as a Christian.

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has put an end to the debate as the same-sex marriage bill passes into law. The bill will allow gay couples to marry in the country. Lawmakers supporting the bill were confident it will pass with the help of the Australian province's ruling party. The same-sex marriage was made into law despite the opposing lawmakers vowing to vote against the bill. The same-sex marriage bill has passed 9 votes to 8.

Russia and Netherlands seem set on a diplomatic collision course on the recent detention of a ship used by Greenpeace International and its 30 crew members of various nationalities who attempted to stage a protest against the offshore ice-resistant fixed platform ‘Prirazlomnaya’ in the Barents Sea. Netherlands has approached the United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, requesting provisional measures - for the Greenpeace International ship, ‘”Arctic Sunrise” which fi...

New Zealand police recalled an incident in which a man tried to hitch a ride home in a police car after committing a crime. The Press newspaper reported that Senior Sergeant Malcolm Johnston said that they drove past a man who whistled and tried to get the police's attention.

Aggressive firefighting strategy seems to be yielding “positive results” in the raging inferno that have enveloped Blue Mountains of New South Wales (NSW). The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) had started backburning in an effort to contain the spread of the fire front.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has declined the sexual assault charges against CeeLo Green. “The Voice” judge has also pleaded not guilty over the felony drug charges hurled against him by the authorities following claims by a woman that he had slipped ecstasy in her drinks while having dinner in Los Angeles in 2012.

Canadian-led drug syndicate targeting Australia was busted by Australian police

In a horrific incident, a US couple is facing charges for forcing their four underage daughters into performing sexual acts for pornographic filmmakers. The enormity of the horror faced by the four girls came to light when investigators found the “deplorable” conditions under which the girls where living inside a trailer in Tennessee, U.S. Reports say the girls, aged five to 16, were taken around town, to sex customers.

As the mountain side turns red, smoke fills the Sydney air, blanketed by hazardous gases. Even as firefighters battled the raging fire in New South Wales (NSW), the Australian military has been asked to prepare to face what many see as a doomsday disaster.

As New South Wales continues to battle the bushfire disaster, it is being reported that two boys, aged 11 and 14, have been charged with starting two separate fires – one near Newcastle and another one at the Hunter Valley. In a similar incident, two teenage girls, aged 12 and 13 have also been arrested on charges of deliberately lighting grass fire.

Former Boston Celtics center and NBA all-time great Bill Russell apologized on Sunday for bringing a loaded gun to an airport.

Mapping Social Cohesion report reveals that Aussies racism is higher within the past seven years; Immigration minister Scott Morrison wants asylum seekers to be called as “illegal”

Alireza M was hanged on Wednesday by Iranian prison officials after he was found guilty of drug offences. A doctor examined the body after the 12-minute hanging and certified that Alireza M is dead. His body was brought to the morgue and kept overnight. To the surprise of the morning staff Alireza was still breathing, prompting them to rush him to the hospital.

Recent reports on the involvement of Australians in cybercrime have revealed some shocking truths about their vulnerability over social media. Many cyber criminals have targeted their computers and phones causing damages amounting to $1 billion.