Vittorio Hernandez

Author reveals the secret behind the easy invasion of Nazi troops of Poland and France during World War II.

An alleged victim of scopolamine has shared his story with IBTimes AU.

The animal protection group is seeking a stop to annual driven hunts in South Africa, two months after the killing of Cecil the lion.

Tragedy struck a young family because of a loaded gun left at home unlocked. A five-year-old boy from Elmo, Missouri, shot to death on Monday his nine-month-old brother who was in a playpen.

West Palm Beach Police had arrested last week a black teen who pretended for about one month that he was a doctor at St Mary's Medical Center.

On Jan 26, Australia Day, an asteroid named 2004 BL86 will pass near Earth, flying about 745,000 miles or thrice the distance of Earth and the Moon.

Family ailment had delayed British singer Sarah Brightman's return trip to Russia, but after some delay she is now back in the country to prepare for her trip to the International Space Station (ISS), Yury Lonchakov, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, said on Monday.

The Australian Dollar remains resilient on the back of the Swiss Central Bank's currency announcement to abandon its floor.

Paige A. Jennings quit her internship at a blue chip firm on Wall Street because she thought she's not cut out for the job despite her university degree in finance from the University of Florida.

Despite the open popemobiles that Pope Francis used in his five-day pastoral visit to the Philippines on Jan 15 to 19 and his frequently breaching security by joining the crowd to shake hands, kiss babies, bless the sick and join selfies, there was no attempt to kill him.

Despite the topic being embarrassing, 26-year-old Sarah Tetley is encouraging women to speak about marital abuse.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo turned down the request of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to commute the death sentence of Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, a former pilot who was one of the six drug smugglers executed through a firing squad on Saturday midnight.

In US economic data, consumer sentiment rose to 11-year highs in January, up from 93.6 to 98.2. Industrial production fell by 0.1% in December (forecast: flat). Consumer prices fell by 0.4% as expected in December but the core measure (excludes food and energy) was flat.

This week is all about confirmation of our top-down macro views.

It is not just the Islamic State whose beheading knife is sharp and used often. Saudi Arabia's decapitation knife was put to use on Friday when it beheaded a Burmese woman convicted for sexual abuse and murder of her 7-year-old stepdaughter.

From beheading to using a gun fired by a boy, the Islamic State (IS) showed a new method of killing people who go against Islamic beliefs - throwing people from buildings to their death.

Losses almost doubled on the Australian market this afternoon with the ASX 200 Index slumping by 0.6 per cent. The mining sector's gains were wiped out in late trade with only the defensive telcos and consumer staples managing to rise modestly.

Because of the rapid pace of growth of medical tourism, Australian insurers are starting to cover medical procedures done abroad. Yearly, about 25,000 Australians undergo cosmetic procedures overseas valued at $300 million, experts said.

Australian shares are falling for the fifth straight day with the ASX 200 Index down by 0.7 per cent. This takes the falls this week to 3 per cent; making it the worst week since June 2013 for local stocks. This is also only the third time in 12 months the ASX 200 has lost ground from Monday through to Friday.

Being a holiday in Metro Manila, millions of Filipinos lined-up the streets where Pope Francis passed on Thursday night from his arrival at the airport to his accommodation at the Apostolic Nunciature.

While European equities continued to rally, the real story was in the FX space where the move made by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) surprised global markets.

The Swiss National Bank has removed its 3-year old cap of the franc against the Euro, sending the Swiss franc soaring against major currencies.

Local shares extended this week's losses, with the market again held back by heavy falls in the materials sector. A weak lead from Wall Street also weighed on investor sentiment. Overnight markets sold off on weak metal prices, US retail sales for December coming in weaker than expected and poor earnings results from large cap banking stocks.

Australian shares are sliding for the fourth day despite the creation of seven times more jobs than expected in December. The ASX 200 Index is down 0.6 per cent following falls in US markets overnight and weaker base metal prices.

After rejecting the $975 million divorce settlement cheque that her former husband, oil billionaire Harold Hamm, offered last week, Sue Ann Arnall came to her senses and had the cheque cashed.

A British court gave a life sentence on Tuesday to 19-year-old Lewis Daines for the death of 14-year-old Breck Bednar. Both teens are online gamers who agreed to meet in person in Bednar's flat in Essex, England.

The 3-year-old son of British dad Lee Webb, 23, goes to a pre-school named Smarty Pants Nursery in Folkestone, Kent. However, it seems the father is not smart because he made the mistake of giving the child his drug dealer's kit instead of the kid's lunchbox.

The 101-year-old chocolate company, Ernest Hillier, entered into voluntary administration with the appointment of Col Cordis this week as administrator. That would mean Australian may soon miss the confectionary products sold by the oldest chocolate-maker in the country under the brand names Hillier's and Newman's.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) appealed for donations from other countries of kangaroo pouches after the wildfire caused joeys to be orphaned.