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Zoran Zivanovic, the 56-year-old massage therapist accused of inappropriately touching his clients, is now facing life behind bars. According to reports, seven women filed cases against the masseur on the bases that Mr Zivanovic fondled their breasts--an act that was uncalled for in the remedial massage therapies that he had been performing on them.

Slade Dill is now on health news headlines after surviving a flesh-eating virus. His recovery has amazed his doctors. The eighth-grader was just playing tag when he cut his knee running.

It's not every day that a court gets to see a dead man walk up to a judge and demand that he be recognized as, well, alive. In the case of Donald Miller that's exactly what happened. The 61-year-old had been proclaimed dead since 1994 following a disappearance from his Arcadia rental home. Apparently, Mr Miller lost his job sometime before 1990 and as an alcoholic had nowhere to go and "had nothing left."

Police claimed they are ruling out foul play on the death of Daniel Sihvola whose body was found in Bulimba Creek in August, two weeks after he was reported missing.

A 58-year-old man, Ian Scargall, has been tried in court for giving a supermarket attendant for her to put her dirty undewear in. Scargall has admitted to a single count of stalking when he appeared in court this week.

Fayahn al-Ghamdi, a self-appointed Islamist preacher, was found guilty by a Saudi court in the town of Hawta on charges of torturing and murdering his 5-year-old daughter, Lama. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 600 lashes and asked to pay a million riyals ($270,000) of "blood money" to his wife Syeda Mohammed Ali.

Missing 9-year-old boy, Nathan Parker, was found walking to his school, Canley Vale Public School, the morning after his disappearance. Earlier this week, it was reported that Parker, who usually walked the short distance from school to his home, was missing. Seen last on his way home from school, the boy never made it home. A search for the child was immediately set up, complete with descriptions of his clothing and built for the public. The culprit behind the boy's disappearance? An "una...

These days, it seems like everything old is new again. From fashion to movies and now literature, the fad seems to be out with the new and in with the old, with a few choice modifications of course. The latest in this trend cycle is the reworking of Jane Austen's masterpieces to fit the modern world. The book is the newest addition to the simply and quite directly named Jane Austen Project and penning it is best-selling British author Alexander McCall Smith.

For internationally published author Krissie Kneen, there can be no literary issue bigger than that of censorship. Though she has cultivated a fan base for her erotic works such as Triptych and Follow the Sound, she maintains that Brisbane still remains a dominantly conservative society. For Kneen, the disconnect in the acceptance of her work and the country's "hangover from the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era," is a big problem.

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, had earlier leaked information about PRISM, a highly sensitive issue commonly known as global spying program. This was a bombshell that shocked the country after the revelation that the U.S. government had installed a global spying system, which can burrow deep an individual's web activities through social media platforms and email exchange.

Day care worker, Heather Koon on Friday was accused and arrested for two counts of rape. The Lorain County Sheriff's Office in Ohio announced in a statement that the 25-year-old had allegedly violated two of the toddlers that she was professionally caring for.

If you haven't heard of the drug PMA, it's probably because it's being sold as something else and a mere change in name has proven to be a fatal alteration indeed. In August of this year, the Office for National Statistics made public figures on drug-related deaths in 2012. While the statistics themselves were about equal to the previous years, what stood out were the deaths associated with PDA.

Australia's south coast is expected to reach 40 degrees, a little over that and it may well be the hottest day of the year. One cause of this might be the hot air mass that has been building over the northern parts of the territory while the bodies of water surrounding the continent have been no help as the warm surface temperature continues to rise.

The children of Brisbane are getting a cursory education in the art of sewing thanks to Sew Sista. The lady teaching kids how to thread a needle and run stitches is Kerry Rushton, who after seeing a lack of skill in the younger set, formed Sew Sista. Sew Sista is an organization that arranges and undertakes sewing workshops to young children.

Australia's newly rebadged Climate Council is naming this year as the hottest calendar year documented since record keeping began. 2013 is set to have the highest temperatures, passing by far 2005's warm climate. The elevated temperature is cause for concern as local governments are concerned with spontaneous bush fires may erupt should this budding heat wave continue. This is one hot streak that the public should be talking about.

In an incredibly tragic event, an 11-month-old boy was found dead in a car after his father accidentally locked the vehicle, forgetting the boy inside. At 4 PM on Wednesday, the lifeless body of the child was found in a dark grey Honda Civic, the same car that was used to take the boy to his day care centre.

It’s difficult when a well-loved series comes to an end; it’s devastating when the final shot of Breaking Bad came to a close. This week, ANC aired the finale of the critically acclaimed show to millions of fans. Though the series has always been well-written, many viewers are of the opinion that the concluding episode was especially good.