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Four Australian nationalities along with four other US citizens were detained in Thailand for allegedly attempting to leave the country with surrogate children.

A 33-year-old Canadian man was stabbed in the heart after he had bumped into a couple of strangers.

Deceased NSW premier Neville Wran’s daughter Harriet was arrested in connection with a Sydney murder.

After allegedly having her ex-partner killed by two male accomplices, a 41-year-old woman threw the man's body from a cliff and made love to her current lover in a nearby secluded sport in Kyneton. Then they drove back to Preston.

A Kentucky lawmaker has proposed a law named after Tim Tebow in an effort to help home-schooled students play sports in public schools.

A design academic who was the former professor of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's daughter, Frances, filed a complaint with the Fair Work Commission against the Whitehouse Institute of Design for alleged dismissal and discrimination.

Billie Piper has been involved in a vehicle accident that seriously injured a cyclist. The former “Doctor Who” star was questioned by the police in London on Tuesday.

Canada teacher Neil Bantleman is going to stay in jail for 40 more days. The Ontario man was earlier arrested in Indonesia even though he had not been charged. Bantleman has been accused of sexual assault on children.

The Malaysian diplomat accused of sexual assault has not yet returned to New Zealand to face charges despite the Malaysian authorities' waiver of immunity. New Zealand Prime Minister Murray McCully said Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail will return "sometime soon."

Keith Urban has broken his silence over the alleged rape that happened at his concert in the U.S. over the weekend. A 17-year-old girl was apparently sexually attacked while other concert-goers filmed her rape with their mobile phones.

New Zealand has passed a bill in Parliament that will make match-fixing a criminal offence with a penalty of seven years in jail if convicted.

Leading airline major British Airways will be sued for damages for the alleged child abuse offences of one of its pilots in African schools and orphanages. According to a BBC report, a Law firm in London has taken up the case on behalf of the allegedly abused children.

The Australian federal police have issued warrants of arrest for two Aussie jihadists accused of fighting with the Islamic States. The two, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, were also behind the posting of a viral photo in Twitter showing Elomar holding two decapitated heads.

Keith Urban’s concert in the U.S. has sent dozens of his fans to hospitals or in protective custody.

Unexpectedly losing their loved ones to a senseless war was already painful. But families of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 may have to endure one final blow, as authorities declared it may be already impossible to retrieve all bodies. The families may have to source from elsewhere their much needed closure.

Former Australian Parliament Speaker Peter Slipper is again in the limelight after an Australian Capital Territory court declared him on Monday guilty of dishonesty for charging to Aussie taxpayers his cab fare while touring a wine district in Canberra.

The Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday the arrest of 63 traders who passed of $1.6 million worth of rat, fox and minx meat as lamb meat. The mask the meat from mice and make it appear from lamb, the traders mixed the rat flesh with gelatin, red food dye and nitrates.

The head of the Australian Catholic Church's military diocese, Bishop Max Leroy Davis had appeared in court for being charged with an offence of child sexual abuse that dates back to 1969. The Bishop allegedly abused a 13-year-old boy who was a student at St Benedict's College at New Norcia, north-east of Perth, 45 years ago. Davis was a teacher there and the incident is said to have occurred two years prior to him being ordained in 1971.

Johnny Lee Banks Jr of Birmingham filed a lawsuit on Tuesday at the Jefferson County Circuit Court against the Princeton Baptist Medical Center for malpractice. The lawsuit includes the hospital, a clinic, two doctors and other hospital staff involved in his medical procedure.

The family of a 90-year-old woman Genevieve Calandro has been awarded $14 million by a Middlesex County Jury. In August 2008, she was rushed to the hospital after falling from a wheel chair at a Danvers nursing home. She suffered from acute appendicitis, a festering blood pressure sore on her back, a terrible urinary tract infection that invaded her blood stream, kidney failure, uncontrolled diabetes and severe dehydration.

Law enforcement agencies and moralists would surely disagree with the proposal to decriminalise prostitution, which got a major support from a credible publication. Editors of The Lancet, a leading medical journal, supported the decriminalisation move to protect the health of sex trade workers. To reduce the risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases that hit women and men in the flesh trade, there is no alternative except to push for prostitution's decriminalisation, the editors sa...

An Iranian defense expert opined that the reason why the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot while flying over eastern Ukraine on July 17, Thursday, was because the civilian aircraft was escorted by Ukrainian fighter jets.

The body of radio icon Casey Kasem is no longer at Gaffney Funeral Home & Cremation Services, the lawyer of Kerry Kasem, Casey's daughter, found when he went to Tacoma, Washington, to give the funeral home a copy of a judge's restraining order.

A convicted stalker was caught in possession of a video capturing the obscene sexual act of a woman having sex with a horse. The video was stored in his phone which stunned court officials when it was aired during his hearing.

Police authorities have arrested a coupe for allegedly having sex on the roof of a Chipotle restaurant in Newark, Delaware.

A 14-year-old teenager committed suicide after a masturbation video of him went viral on social media networks, his parents say.

A gay male couple who has been together for 17 years had challenged Singapore's 76-year ban on oral and anal sex, and the country's highest court is hearing the legal challenge. Violators of the ban are charged with gross indecency and face jail terms of up to two years.

The investigation of Malaysian Authorities on who is behind the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370 has gone a full circle four months after the Boeing 777 jet left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board.

French police on Thursday said it had intercepted a terrorists' plot to blow-up the famous romantic monument Eiffel Tower, the Louvre as well as a nuclear plant in France last summer.