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A U.S. teenager was sent home by her school principal after she had gone to school with dyed red hair.

A Canadian criminal, convicted for raping and killing a two-year-old toddler, was murdered in prison.

A man who was fishing in the Adelaide River was taken by a crocodile, and the man's wife witnessed the shocking assault, Northern Territory Police confirmed.

A spokesman from the Kurdish forces said ISIS has kidnapped Yazidi and Christian women to be turned as "Sabaya" or "war booty slaves." He added that ISIS also plans to sell the women. According to accounts of witnesses, the most beautiful of the kidnapped women were handed to "ISIS princes."

An Australian same-sex male couple who had a commercial surrogacy deal in Thailand were prevented on Thursday from leaving Bangkok due to lack of documents as proof they are the legal guardians of the twins. However, ABC reported that one of the pair eventually was able to leave the Southeast Asian nation and has arrived in Singapore with the newborn twins.

Photographer Lucy Hilmer has celebrated her birthday every year since 1974 with dramatic topless self portraits for her photo series "Birthday Suits."

The man believed to be Mohamed Elomar, an Australian ISIS militant, had posted a tweet that since been deleted: "Anyone in Sydney who can give me the details of Habashi dog Dr Jamal Rafi, anything, house details, what area am willing to pay $1000."

Fear over a crime-spree threat has reached the attention of police officials and even the FBI to take action.

Six Swiss tourists were fined by police for not wearing seatbelts after catching them having sex at the back of a van.

A former British rapper who travelled to Syria to become a Jihadist along ISIS has reportedly posted a photo of himself on Twitter holding a decapitated head.

The Australian government may be considering the acceptance of as much as 4000 Iraqis and Syrians as refugees after the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne called for their protection. Philip Freier acknowledged Tony Abbott's government's "rapid response" in providing assistance to the people of Iraq. He asked Mr Abbott to go one step further and offer asylum to people facing the threat of genocide.

Malaysia's transport minister is expected to visit Australia to discuss more plans in resuming the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8 along with 239 people on board.

Hours after the United States launched airstrikes in Iraq to destroy ISIS artillery, supporters of the Islamic militants began calling for retaliation against the U.S. They used Twitter in posting their direct threats with the hashtag #Amessagefrom ISIStoUS. When U.S. President Barack Obama announced "limited airstrikes" in northern Iraq, Islamic jihad and ISIS supporters slammed the president's decision.

The grandfather of the Australian boy who held a soldier's decapitated head while posing for the camera was sickened by what he saw. The young boy was reportedly forced to hold the head of an executed soldier in Syria.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that the search for more remains of MH17 victims will resume in eastern Ukraine once conditions are safe. In a visit to Netherlands, Mr Abbott assured the victims' families that no Australian will be left in the MH17 crash site.

A Polish couple who only wanted to pose for a picture at Cabo da Roca met their untimely death instead.

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The U.S. air strikes in Iraq will only have "minimal impact" on ISIS, the Islamic militants that overrun most of the area. President Barack Obama has authorised "limited strikes" against the militants who are in immediate areas targeted by the U.S. military. Despite the continuous airstrikes for four days, U.S. lawmakers fear an impending attack by ISIS on American soil. U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham said that unless a more decisive action is taken against Islamic militants, the threat...

An eve teaser from India had experienced firsthand how viral the fury of a woman can be. Veena Ashiya Chindlur kicked KR Suryaprakash on his face to avenge herself when the latter sexually harasses her on the streets.

The investigation regarding the New Zealand girl who fell to her death in Australia has begun. According to authorities on the case, the last person to have seen Warriena Tagpuno Wright was Gable Tostee. The 28-year-old man has denied any involvement in Wright's death.

Drought is slowly covering eastern Australia as the area is in the middle of its driest year since the Federation Drought more than 100 years ago. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the average rainfall in eastern Australia including the coastal areas from Coffs Harbour to Bundaberg for the last 12 months was at its lowest level since 1901-02.

A fishing boat in New Zealand has caught a small plane in its nets when it was in the ocean near Cape Barrier on August 7. Reports said the plane wreckage was belongs to a man who was declared missing in his homemade bi-plane months ago. According to his estranged wife, a Sanford fishing trawler finding the plane was "like a miracle."

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The deranged 30-year-old suspect named Henry Chau, with his friend and accomplice Tse Chun Kei, 36, allegedly killed Chau's elderly parents, chopped their corpses and even cooked their flesh and packed them in lunchboxes. The crime happened in March.

When 39-year-old Adriana, a Brazilian, searched for her mother who abandoned her as a baby, she came upon a shocking truth about her family - that the man she married, Leandro, 37, is her biological brother.

A Brazilian woman searching for her long-lost mother learnt on a live radio show that her husband of seven years is actually her brother.

Australian and Dutch authorities have abandoned their search for the remains of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster. In a statement, Australian envoy Angus Houston and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that it was "impossible" for them to continue the search amid the worsening conflict in Ukraine.

There was uproar in Saudi Arabia after a female news anchor appeared on national television without wearing a headscarf.

Five teenage males were arrested after allegedly threatening dozens of Jewish children with Nazi chants on a school bus in Sydney on Wednesday.