Arlene Paredes

A 29-year-old woman from Melbourne was saved by the police from her online date gone wrong, as she realized she was kidnapped and brought to a house with a grave dug in the backyard.

A Qantas plane carrying all of the Northern Territory's Central Australian politicians Friday morning had to turn back as part of safety precautions. After experiencing a technical problem, Qantas flight number 1935 with 115 passengers on board, turned around for an emergency landing in Darwin.

The recent Amber Video search frenzy proves three things on the cyberspace today: one, people cannot resist jumping on the curious bandwagon; two, anyone hungry enough for attention - for whatever purpose -- has a place on the internet; and three, internet users have a long way to go before grasping the concept of responsible sharing of information.

Wisdom does comes with old age, a study has recently found out. Canadian researchers studied 24 young people aged 18 to 35 and a group of ten older people aged 55 to 75, all of whom are still employed. The findings disproved a common belief that the mind deteriorates with age.

Pumping operations are set to resume Thursday on the ill-fated MV Rena as weather gets better in Bay of Plenty, calming the waters except for light breezes and mild swells. An exclusion zone around the ship is also being reviewed today by Tauranga's harbour master, as Maritime New Zealand salvage unit manager Bruce Anderson plans the oil pumping process from MV Rena to the bunker barge Awanuia.

A Las Vegas man whose scrotum has severely swollen and now weighs over 45kg has broadcasted his plea for support, as he needs $US1 million for a scrotal surgery to correct his condition.

The latest addition to the directory of Ikea's stores will also be the biggest in the southern hemisphere. The megamart is twice the size of the Sydney Cricket Ground, according to reports. On top of its 9000-product offering, shoppers will enjoy a 760-seat restaurant and 1680 dedicated car spaces.

She had been told that she would not be able to conceive, so her pregnancy came to her like a miracle, one that she had vowed to protect, even if it meant her death. Stacie Crimm, 41, was already pregnant when she learned that she had cancer. The diagnosis came to her when she sought a doctor's help for crippling headaches, tremors and double vision. She refused chemotherapy to save her baby's life, even as the doctor had explained to her the risk she was taking.

Facebook may not be keeping the activity of some of your brain regions private, but can it increase the size of your brain? A recent study has discovered that the number of Facebook friends you have is consistent with the size of certain brain regions, which are associated with creating memories of names and faces as well as how people fare in social interactions.

Oil and containers that have fallen off the ill-fated cargo ship Rena have begun washing up more than 130 kilometres away on scenic East Cape beaches.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck Adelaide CBD, waking up residents at 2:22am Wednesday. The shallow quake was felt across the city for about five seconds, with the epicentre believed to be in the south eastern suburb of Upper Sturt, according to ABC news.

While the world has gone used to seeing men get convicted over child pornography, a Swedish court has convicted 23 women over the despicable crime this time, proving that child abuse and sexual offenses are not exclusive to men, although the ring leader of these women is a man.

The bus drivers union agreed on Tuesday night to an Industrial Relations Commission order to lift a ban on gas-powered buses in Sydney. The explosion of a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to raise their protest by refusing to get on the road, resulting in huge inconvenience among Sydney passengers at peak hour Tuesday.

A suspected explosion in a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to park their vehicles instead of getting on the road, creating commotion among Sydney passengers at peak hour. Fearing the risk of another explosion, drivers are refusing to drive 700 gas-powered buses after learning about a video footage of a bus in fire reportedly after an explosion.

E. coli or Escherichia coli are a common type of bacteria that is found in unclean food, usually contaminated due to careless toilet habits. E. coli can get a person really sick if these bacteria found a way into someone's system. Unfortunately, a mobile phone has been revealed to be a common E. coli vessel due to users' poor hygiene.

A woman who is under pressure is more likely to get pregnant with a girl, according to a new study by researchers from Oxford University and the U.S.

Bad weather resulting in 4 meter swells has interrupted once again salvage and clean up efforts in relation to the stricken MV Rena, which is feared to split in half if the water swelling persists. The 47,000-tonne MV Rena, reportedly "croaking" and "groaning" as salvage operations were underway, is still spilling oil into New Zealand's Bay of Plenty almost two weeks since it ran aground Astrolabe Reef.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and reoffending is a real danger if he comes out of jail. The boy, who cannot be named under Queensland law, killed a high school student in a random knife attack at a shopping plaza.

The high cost of living is putting more low-income Aussies at risk of falling into poverty, a report says. Poorer households are compelled to spend more of their income on essential goods and services due to price hikes on these non-discretionary items, such as food and electricity, a report by St Vincent de Paul Society says. As a result, households' health and education expenses are delayed, if attended at all.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and re-offending is a real danger if he comes out of jail.

The first drugs for a slower aging process could exist within five to 10 years, after which people could eventually live up to 150 years old or older, researchers from the University of NSW said.

Bob Parsons, the CEO of internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, which sponsored the IndyCar Challenge that cost Dan Wheldon his life, had spoken in relation to the tragedy. Wheldon, 33, died following a horrifying accident on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The accident occurred during the lap 11 of the race, when his car flew mid-air and burst into flames after a 15-car pileup. He was immediately airlifted to a local hospital but was unable to survive due to "serious injuries." Three ...

A man who tried to abduct a 16-year-old girl in Mount Claremont is being hunted by the police, ABC News reports. The teenage girl was jogging along Stephenson Avenue near Challenge Stadium just after 6:00 pm Sunday night when a man suddenly emerged from the bushes and grabbed her from behind.

A French teacher has died of injuries from third degree burns after setting herself on fire in front of frightened students. The 44-year-old teacher, who had worked at Jean Moulin school for 10 years, was depressed over her relations with her students in her math classes.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not die of suicide in Berlin in 1945, but he killed himself and died an old man in Argentina, a new book by British authors had claimed.

Over a thousand birds had been found dead since MV Rena's reef crash resulting in oil spill almost two weeks ago, as operations in oil removal have been stopped because media vessels are getting too close to the ship.

Researchers have uncovered in a South African cave some paraphernalia that look like paint-making kits, including abalone shells that were used as containers around 100,000 years ago.

Tragedy struck minutes after a teenage girl applied hair coloring on herself. Tabatha McCourt, 17, was at her best friend's house in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, when the incident happened.

After describing deafness "as a scourge in our world," a prominent educator takes the heat from the deaf community. Dr. Dimity Dornan, director of Brisbane-based organisation Hear and Say, was accepting an award when she made the remarks at Telstra's Queensland Businesswoman of the Year on Tuesday.