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Kiwis appeal for an immigration law change that will promote equal rights for Kiwis living in Australia

A lawmaker from US California is mulling to grant prisoners access to free condoms in order to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), even if this runs smack against an already existing law prohibiting sex between inmates.

Lieutenant General David Morrison is surprised that his speech on YouTube has become viral. The three-minute clip shows Australia’s Chief of Army addressing the recent sex scandal of the nation’s army has been viewed over 1.3 million times in less than a month.

Facebook party organizers might face jail time if party becomes uncontrollable says Queensland proposed law.

The Hong Kong High Court sent to jail for 12 years on Friday Feng Shui expert Peter Chan for forging the will of Nina Wang, once the richest woman in Asia who was his lover.

Chileans are hotly debating whether to allow an 11-year-old rape victim to abort her baby or not. The pre-teener, named in media as Belen, was raped by the partner of her mother and is now 14 weeks pregnant.

Immigration New Zealand denied an Indian boy’s application for immigration for marrying a 59-year-old NZ woman

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did not focus on the more apparent issue on asylum seekers

Jon Venables, one of the two killers who infamously murdered two-year-old James Bulger in England when they were just ten years old, has been granted parole for the second time. The child killer, now 30, was released on parole in 2001, but was sent back to prison after pleading guilty to charges related to child pornography in 2010.

A complaint he made in January 2013 about the theft of expensive paintings from his Salerno house could have done Vatican Monsignor Nunzio Scarano more harm than good.

A famous Russian doctor was fired from a Perm hospital where he was the head of the medical facility's anaesthesiology and intensive care department. He was booted out because of a video footage of him physically beating a male patient who had just underwent heart surgery.

After a decade long man hunt for Mark Adrian Perry, he was finally arrested in a factory at Perth

Google joins Telecom and Kim Dotcom’s Mega warns New Zealand against its Telecommunications Interception Capability and Security Bill

Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane has been diverted to Austria amid suspicion that US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is on board.

After sequence of Vatican scandals, Pope Francis pressure the Vatican bank to shape up.

Former Glee star Charice Pempengco admitted in June that she was lesbian because her mom, Raquel, had confirmed her daughter's gender preference to end public speculation caused by the international singer's drastic change in appearance.

Queensland MPs pay rise of $57,000 to be pass on taxpayers if MPs claim their back pay

Another scandal has hit the seat of the Roman Catholic Church amid new allegations of a sex ring scandal that surfaced over the weekend in Vatican City.

This time, he was not flashing his wallet full of 500 euro notes. Rather, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano is apprehended by Italian authorities after allegedly trying to bring back to Italy $26 million in cash owned by Salerno, Italy's prominent D'Amico family aboard a government plane.

The federal government released $6.6 million fund to help tackle the high unemployment rate for migrants in the country

The FBI has seized files from a private detective to celebrities, Anthony Pellicano, that reveals the deceased King of Pop Michael Jackson spent $35 million to keep silent 24 boys who had accused the superstar of sexual molestation.

The Indiana Federal Court sentenced on Friday a 42-year-old Australian man 40 years prison term after he pleaded guilty to charges of child exploitation. The man made pornographic films that caters to paedophiles using his adopted son.

Don Patrizio Poggi, a convicted paedophile priest, has opened yet another Pandora's box in the mysterious realms of the secular Roman Catholic faith. Mr Poggi alleged the Vatican keeps a gay prostitution ring that rents underage boys for sex.

Van Quai Tran is among the names found in the 2011 list of Most Wanted Men in New South Wales. Tran is facing charges of engaging in sexual activity with his unwilling victim, drink spiking, and sexual and physical assaults. The man who has been running from the police since July 2010 finally surrendered to the police today, according to the AAP.

A man from Washington is accused of strangling his girlfriend and soaking her body in a tub of acid. The murder was reportedly inspired by an episode of the popular television series "Breaking Bad".

"He really wasn't saying much at all – a lot of yelling and screaming," Sgt. Goeff Fox said of the 41 year old Ohio man who ripped part of his genital after consuming the hallucinogenic mushrooms he got from a friend.

A woman who unleashed racist rants on an Asian student aboard a Sydney bus has been charged with using offensive language. Although no formal complaint was lodged either by the alleged victim or his family, police have identified and charged the 55-year-old woman after footage of the “disturbing” incident caused outrage online.

A US Airways flight 906 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Charlotte, N.C., got delayed from its original take off schedule on Sunday not because of technical error or by causes lashed out by nature. Lindsay Capri Bien-aime delayed the flight's takeoff by 30 minutes because she refused to coordinate with airport security to get out of the plane. Plane staff had called in for support after Ms Bien-aime deliberately snubbed to follow orders to turn off her cellphone as they prepare to take off.

In 2011, Edwin Schmielding was arrested for growing 8,000 marijuana plants at his farm and greenhouse in Lenawee County, Michigan. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman felt sympathy for the 61-year-old cancer survivor and only sentenced him 2 years of supervised probation after receiving letters of appeal from family and friends who described Schmielding’s countless good qualities.