Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday arrested three people in relation to trafficking and exploitation of four Filipino nationals. A press release issued by the AFP said, the arrested include two men from Green Valley, NSW, aged 59 and 33. The third person arrested in this case is a Green Valley woman, aged 34.
The ruling of the provincial British Columbia Court of Appeal to uphold on Thursday the ruling that bans assisted suicide or right to die has gone controversial. Supporters vowed to take the matter before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Essex authorities caught a man for keeping endangered birds in a freezer. Apparently, they found frozen owls inside the household freezer of the arrested man.
The verdict of William Patrick Mitchell is set to be reviewed this weekend, Oct. 13, by the Parole Review Board. Any comment or recommendation given by the Board will have to be reviewed by the attorney general. Should he be seen as fit for parole, the governor will have to sign off if he has to return to society.
Female drivers from Saudi Arabia are revving up to stage a protest on Oct 26 to pressure state government to lift the ban on women driving.
A Delta flight to Las Vegas last week had an unusual passenger - a 9-year-old boy, alone and without a ticket. Reports say the boy went through security without incident but officials of the airport are still boggled on how the boy did it. Getting through security, he then boarded the plane.
There is a possibility that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro died not because he committed suicide but possibly due to auto-erotic asphyxiation. In plain language, that means masturbating himself to death.
A Japanese man pretending to look for tea-drinking companions was actually looking for sexual partners for the elderly. On the outside, it may appear to onlookers that the elderly members of the Japanese 'Three Loves' club is just drinking afternoon tea when they gather. What actually happens behind the guise of ceremonial tea-drinking is the possibility of sexual encounters among the elderly.
A Canberra heroin addict, John Christopher Walmsley, is now facing four years in jail due to a botched suicide attempt. On New Year's Day 2011, an unnamed 25-year-old woman ended her life in a supposed suicide pact with Mr Walmsley. The former survived, called triple-0 and performed CPR on his then girlfriend to no avail.
Zoran Zivanovic, the 56-year-old massage therapist accused of inappropriately touching his clients, is now facing life behind bars. According to reports, seven women filed cases against the masseur on the bases that Mr Zivanovic fondled their breasts--an act that was uncalled for in the remedial massage therapies that he had been performing on them.
Same-sex marriage advocates in Australia said states and territories have the constitutional power to legalise gay marriage based on a Tasmanian report. The Tasmania Institute of Law Reform has published a report in response to an upper house vote in same-sex marriage legislation in Tasmania in 2012.
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.
The missing 1,000-year-old stone temple sculpture of Shiva (Ardhanarishvara - an androgynous from of Siva and Parvati) with the bull Nandi has reportedly been found on display in an art gallery in New South Wales (NSW), Sydney. This was according to the police in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Mark Brandon Chopper died of cancer at age 58 in Melbourne
A 52-year-old UK man, by all effects drunk, was unceremoniously tasered by police at Manchester Airport when he got naked down to his birthday suit, tattoos and beer belly for all to see. Not only that, he likewise challenged the pilot to a fight.
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...
Married lesbian couples are most likely to succumb to failed marriages and divorce more than their male, gay counterparts, analysis of figures released the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed.
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.
Australia Government knows about spying program PRISM months before Edward Snowden’s expose’
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.
An open letter addressed to Prime Minister John Key on Aussie-Kiwi rights equality
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.
The Catholic Church in Australia on Thursday has proposed to work on a new systems and procedures on how it would deal child sex abuse cases in the future.
