He received it as a gift meant to entertain and educate him with the rigours of responsible gun handling and gun safety. But what should have been a simple child's toy has claimed a life of another loved one.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
May 02, 2013
South Korea has been accused of economic espionage in Australia as one senior South Korean public servant has been found conducting secret meetings with NIS officers, an act that goes strongly against Australian government policy.
Frances Samson
May 02, 2013
QinetiQ North America (QQ) a world leading defense technology and security company providing satellites, drones and software services to the U.S. Special Forces deployed in Afghanistan and Middle East suffers humiliation as intelligence officials confirmed that China was able to steal the U.S. classified documents and pertinent technological information - all this because of QinetiQ's faulty decision-making.
Athena Yenko
May 02, 2013
While girls her age are playing with their dolls at 14, a virgin teen was being forced by her jailed mother to get pregnant through artificial insemination . Desperate to have another child, a London-based American woman had made her adopted daughter get pregnant for her wish for another child to come true. The teen victim, identified only as “A” in a ruling by London court, had obliged to her mother’s request in hopes “to be loved more,” and she began to try to “please” her mom when she was f...
May 01, 2013
More skeletons are now popping out of the King of Pop's Neverland closet at the hearing for wrongful death case that Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, filed in a San Francisco court against the producers of his London concerts.
Vittorio Hernandez
May 01, 2013
Hulk Hogan is still after his sex tape. The World Wrestling Federation star wants U.S. Web site Gawker to take down all clips, photos, links, and transcripts of his infamous sex tape even after receiving a court judgment that an excerpt from the tape be taken down.
Anne Lu
Apr 30, 2013
Australian DJ Mel Greig promised to help the family of Indian nurse Jacintha Saldanha find answers to questions surrounding the suicide by participating in a British inquest in September.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 30, 2013
Four months after the regrettable incident happened, the hoax royal phone call made by Radio Australia DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian continues to hound them for the death of Indian-born nurse Jacintha Saldanha.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 29, 2013
United Arab Emirates residents who love fast cars but can't afford one, could try enlisting in Dubai's police department. Applicants with love for speed would have their fantasies come true since the city's police force just bought new Ferraris to augment its fleet of Lamborghini's rolled out just two weeks ago.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 26, 2013
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson against AEG Live is expected to draw media attention with celebrities as well as immediate members of the family of the King of Pop expected to provide testimonies.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 24, 2013
Jade Goody's sons will be left with nothing if it's up to the taxman. The late British reality TV star's estate has been hit with a £1 million (approximately 1.5 million AUD) tax bill four years after she passed away.
Anne Lu
Apr 23, 2013
Believed to have sought the perks of an anonymous life in Rome, an Australian 67-year-old Catholic priest is bound to face 10 legal cases of sexual abuse related charges once he gets back home.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Apr 22, 2013
Last Friday, Kris Humphries finally decided to end his feud with his wife for 72 days, Kim Kardashian. It was reported that the basketball player ended his legal battle with the reality star because he feels sorry for her.
Czarina Malleta
Apr 22, 2013
Reese Witherspoon apparently thought her celebrity status would get her husband out of trouble. The "Legally Blonde" star was so pissed that husband Jim Toth was being arrested for DUI that she told the arresting officer, "You're about to find out who I am."
Anne Lu
Apr 22, 2013
Kim Kardashian can become a single woman again this week if she apologises to estranged husband Kris Humphries. According to reports, the Brooklyn Nets basketball player will finally settle for divorce instead of annulment if the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star would only apologise to him in court.
Anne Lu
Apr 19, 2013
A hotel porter who was convicted of raping an unnamed TV star in her hotel room has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Soby John, an Indian national who entered the UK on a student visa, attacked the woman while she was drunk and asleep.
Anne Lu
Apr 18, 2013
Marathon organisers are not fazed by the Monday bombing of the Boston Marathon. They insist these annual sport events that draw thousands of international participants will go on as scheduled, but with tighter security measures to ensure the safety of marathoners.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 17, 2013
Paul Hogan vows to "take every step possible in every country possible" to hold his once trusted financial adviser accountable for his lost millions. The "Crocodile Dundee" star is going after Philip Egglishaw for allegedly running off with his riches.
Anne Lu
Apr 16, 2013
The United States of America is now vigilant after the tragic 2013 Boston Marathon blast that reportedly killed three people and injured more than 100 people. US President Barack Obama promised the victims that the people responsible for the attack will receive “the full weight of justice” as he ordered federal agencies to help in preventing further “acts of terrorism” through increased vigilance.
Apr 16, 2013
Even in western nations, owning a Lamborghini car is a privilege because of its prohibitive price tag of $550,000. However, in oil-rich United Arab Emirates, this vehicle, considered by many as a luxury car, is used by the police to patrol Dubai's streets.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 12, 2013
Former pornographic actress Jenna Jameson has been arrested for battery as she was en route to her advance birthday celebration on Saturday. The 38-year-old was put under citizen's arrest by her alleged victim until the cop arrived.
Anne Lu
Apr 09, 2013
The Vatican receives about 600 claims yearly against abusive priests. Some of the charges go all the way back to the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Under the previous popes, most of the accusations were swept under the rug and the Roman Catholic Church imposed silence both on the victims and perpetrators.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 08, 2013
Australia has introduced changes to the tax treatment of superannuation but critics are quick to point out that reforms barely scratched the surface of needed reforms to address the incredible inequity that lies at the heart of the tax treatment of superannuation, according to the Australia Institute.
Christine Gaylican
Apr 05, 2013
AGE Live, the concert producer of Michael Jackson's series of London concerts, insisted it has no liability over the death of the King of Pop. The company argued that the singer was responsible for his own death due to use of propofol.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 02, 2013
The iconic Eiffel Tower is Paris was closed on Black Saturday, March 30, for two and a half hours because of a bomb threat.
Vittorio Hernandez
Mar 31, 2013
All eyes are now in the U.S. Supreme Court as it discusses same-sex marriage for the second consecutive day. With the court's nine justices questioning the constitutionality of the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Washington Post reports that there is a chance the court may strike the DOMA which limits the definition of marriage between one man and one woman.
Vittorio Hernandez
Mar 28, 2013
There is a possibility that the two older children of deceased King of Pop, Michael Jackson, could be called as witnesses after Katherine Jackson, the grandmother and guardian of Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson, filed on Thursday a civil lawsuit against AEG Live.
Vittorio Hernandez
Mar 22, 2013
The saying that art imitates life appears to be true in a firearms possession case heard by a British court on Thursday. It turned out that two main characters in the trial - the accused and the judge had names as the characters in the famous cartoon The Simpsons.
Vittorio Hernandez
Mar 22, 2013
Rev Fr Francisco Jalics, one of two living Jesuit priests kidnapped in the 1970s by the Argentine military junta, had come to the defense of the newly-installed 266th pontiff, Pope Francis.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 21, 2013
Two male prisoners in Saint-Jerome, Quebec, Canada, who escaped on Sunday their jail James Bond style, are now back in jail by early Monday.
Vittorio Hernandez
Mar 18, 2013