A day after reports came out that British Prime Minister David Cameron will announce next week the country's support to air strikes over Syria and Iraq initiated by the US, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted on Tuesday that the country couldn't rescue a citizen whose head is being threatened to be chopped by the extremist group.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 17, 2014
Sydney police arrested in Fairfield on Thursday two men who attempted to bring into the country over 100 kilogrammes of heroin and methamphetamines worth $75 million by disguising it as liquid in ice packs hidden under frozen fish fillets from Malaysia.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 16, 2014
International support for the US-initiated air strikes in Iraq and Syria to wipe out the extremist militant group Islamic State (IS) continues to gain traction, with British Prime Minister David Cameron expected to announce an air strike next week. He gave a hint of Britain's military plan in response to the Saturday beheading of British aid worker David Haines
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 16, 2014
The Islamic State is back on a beheading frenzy, claiming it third victim on Saturday just barely less than two weeks since it last decapitated American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 14, 2014
There's a 1992 song written by Queen guitarist Brian May titled Too Much Love Will Kill You. For a 23-year-old male Chinese medical student, the apt song title would have been Too Much Masturbation Will Kill You - that's because Zheng Gang died in February 2012 after he made his fourth sperm donation to a Hubei sperm bank in just 10 days.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 13, 2014
A South African court released the verdict on the high profile case of Paralympic Athlete Oscar Pistorius finding him guilty of culpable homicide.
Christine Caparras
Sep 12, 2014
Because of a state-wide heroin and opioid epidemic, Ohio is locking up hundreds of non-violent, drug-addicted offenders yearly. For the 13-year period 2000 to 2013, the number of people accused of possession and petty theft tied to heroin or opioid use went up to 8.3 per cent from 1.6 per cent.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 12, 2014
The United States has gone beyond traditional memorial services in New York and Washington DC to mark the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. With another threat from Islamic fundamentalists hovering over the country and other parts of the world, a photographer has launched a unique social media campaign that would help ferret out Muslim terrorist in American neighbourhoods.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 11, 2014
Australian federal police arrested on Wednesday two men after they raided the iQraa Islamic Centre in Underwood. They arrested 31-year-old Omar Succarieh of Kuraby and an unnamed 21-year-old man from Boronia Heights.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 11, 2014
A report by the Dutch Safety Board, released on Tuesday, on the cause of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17's crash on June 17 attributed the aviation mishap to a "large number of high-energy objects" that entered the Boeing 777 jet's fuselage.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 10, 2014
A woman from Oregon was put behind bars for playing what she calls "The Zombie Game."
Sarah Thomas
Sep 09, 2014
With the second lawsuit filed by ex-model and actress Shantel Jackson on Thursday against former fiancé Floyd Mayweather Jr for physical assault, comparison becomes inevitable with former boxing champion Mike Tyson.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 09, 2014
Most boxing experts foresee Floyd Mayweather Jr would still keep his unbeaten boxing record of 0 loss and up his wins to 47 when Money May meets Argentinean boxer Marcos Maidana on Sept 14 for a rematch.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 08, 2014
A PE teacher has been charged with the offence sexually abusing her pupil. The teacher, Emily Fox, from Bath had sex with her student at an all girls private school.
Sarah Thomas
Sep 08, 2014
A report come out last week said that about 1,400 white English children from the UK town of Rotherham were sexually abused by Muslim men of Pakistani origin from 1997 to 2013. The tolerance for the rape was due to social services and government workers ignoring the abuses so as not to further antagonise the Muslim community in the area and worsen the racial tension.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 08, 2014
There was another British victim of beheading on Thursday, but it was not the Briton held captive by the Islamic State. Rather, it was Palmira Silva, a resident of Edmonton in North London.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 05, 2014
An Egyptian who has undergone training with the Islamic State (IS) revealed that among the things he has learned from the militant organization is how to behead properly. The disclosure came a day after the IS released a video on Wednesday indicating that it had beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 04, 2014
Britain had tried in the past but was not successful in rescuing a Briton who was threatened by members of the Islamic State to be next on their chopping block, after it beheaded within two weeks apart two American journalists.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 04, 2014
Besides kidnapping westerners and asking enormous ransom amounts for their release, the Islamic State is funding its jihad by plundering historical artifacts in Syria and Iraq.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 04, 2014
Ryan Corr, the star of The Rafters, almost lost his Hollywood career after he was caught in May with heroin in a Bondi laneway. On Tuesday, he saved his acting career and narrowly escaped conviction after the judge gave him a second chance.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 03, 2014
The Peruvian police confiscated during the last week of August 8.5 tonnes of cocaine. It is considered the biggest haul in the country's battle against illegal drugs.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 03, 2014
The family of Steven Sotloff, the second apparent beheading victim of the Islamic State, issued on Tuesday a statement saying they believe that the video just released showing his decapitation is authentic.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 03, 2014
A 21-year-old man from Virginia accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexual assault on March 23, 2013 in New York City.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 01, 2014
Police from Effington County jailed a pair of sibling after they admitted to incestuous sex thrice at a church parking lot outside Savannah, Georgia. The brother and sister, 25-year-old Timothy Savoy and 20-year-old Christopher Buckner, had sex after watching the film The Notebook.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 01, 2014
Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra sentenced former Playboy model Brandi Brandt to at least three and a half years jail for her role in cocaine importation.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 01, 2014
A laptop seized from an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighter yielded details on how jihadists would operate in their terrorism campaign. Among the files found in the computer in an ISIS hideout raided in earlier part of 2014 were instructions on how to make bombs, how to build biological weapons of mass destruction, steal a vehicle and use disguise to avoid arrest.
Vittorio Hernandez
Aug 30, 2014
Amid a second video posted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Friday showing the beheading of a Kurdish Peshamar fighter, a report on the same day by Judicial Watch warned that members of the extremist militant group are in Mexico and preparing to attack the US.
Vittorio Hernandez
Aug 30, 2014
Barely two weeks after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shocked the world by posting a video of the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley, the extremist group again lopped another head off and posted the video.
Vittorio Hernandez
Aug 30, 2014
Ben Panangian was arrested in Bali after he was caught with marijuana.
Anne Lu
Aug 29, 2014
Corinna Schumacher lost a lawsuit against German newspaper and TV station that published unauthorised pictures of her.
Rachelle Corpuz
Aug 29, 2014
