A woman in Australia is standing trial for reportedly starving her 4-year-old son. According to authorities, the woman had locked her son in his bedroom for 12 days and was given only food pushed under the door. The 23-year-old mother appeared before the District Court in South Australia to face charges. She was charged with criminal neglect and endangering the life of the child. Her son had survived starvation and the neglect of his mother.
A Facebook post sparked outrage to the mob leading to the murder of a woman suspected as a witch in Guarujá, Brazil 86 kilometers from Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city.
New Zealand's Court of Appeals has refused to overturn a lower court decision to deport the world's first climate change refugee Ioane Teitiota to his island nation of Kiribati.
Boko Haram, the group behind the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls, has released a shocking new video. The video claims to show more than a hundred kidnapped Nigerian teenage girls who have been converted to Islam, according to The Daily Mail. Nigerian’s Islamist group’s leader said that Boko Haram will only release the girls in exchange of militant prisoners who are in the custody of the government. Meanwhile, another report revealed Boko Haram’s connection with Al Qaeda founder Osama Bi...
The World Bank has declared Australia one of the most expensive countries in the G20 economy. Australia's cost of goods and services which makes it at par with other expensive European countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released videos of their astronauts training underwater for their upcoming asteroid mission in Houston. On Friday, May 9, astronauts Stan Love and Steven Bowen can be seen in the videos testing the new suit and numerous tools in an underwater asteroid drilling practice at the space agency’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Centre.
A mother reunited with her daughter eight decades after she had left her for adoption.
A hot air balloon accident in Virginia killed two people while one went missing.
A YouTube video entitled, "The Most Important Sexy Model Video Ever," released by Save the Children USA went viral after it amassed 1.8 million views in a matter of six days.
Mother's Day, which falls on May 11 this year, is the time when children and even adults visit stores and boutiques to get their mothers a present as a token of appreciation.
Did Elizabeth Raine, the alias of a pretty 28-year-old medical student who caused furor on the Internet by auctioning her virginity to the highest bidder, had second thoughts about her decision not to push through with the 12-hour date with sex and instead concentrate of her medical studies?
A 49-year-old woman from New South Wales is the 2014 Mother of the Year awardee in Australia. Gloria Nascimento was recognised on Friday by the children's charity Barnardos for her selfless love for her cancer-stricken daughter as well as another male cancer patient whom she treated like her own child.
With Mother's Day around the bend, Google Glass uploads an emotional video on YouTube which immediately goes viral the moment it was published after it earned over 56,000 views within the day.
A cancer expert has downplayed the recall of Australian retailers for thousands of shorts, jeans and bed linen with the reported cancer-causing clothing dye.
Contestant Anna Sass and her family had to re-live their performance in “Family Feud” as the popular game show re-broadcast the episode recently. What happened at the final round became a viral video and it has received mixed reactions from users on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
A survey conducted by News Corp. Australia has revealed that 77 percent of Australians believed crews searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are looking in the wrong places while others say they don't want Australia to pay any more money for it.
Who would have thought that after all these years of McDonald's existence worldwide, there are still American adults who have not tasted their yummy selections?
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Moscow has pulled back its forces in the eastern borders of Ukraine.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and finding that perfect gift for your beloved mother can be stressful. She’s one of the most important persons in your life and she deserves to know that. Her unconditional love and painstaking efforts deserve to be appreciated. A thoughtful gift can convey the message and make her feel loved and appreciated. Let her know how great she is with a gift that is not expensive but very thoughtful.
Hollywood stars such as Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie and more have joined in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign rally against the government of Nigeria and its president Goodluck Jonathan.
A female American medical student who auctioned her virginity to the highest bidder officially closed the bidding at 8 pm on Wednesday night, May 7. Hiding the alias Elizabeth Raine, she posted in her Web site that the highest bid received was $801,000.
Who says only the cats have nine lives? Apparently, there is a man with seven lives and a winning lotto ticket.
The Western Australian government's official tally for its shark cull policy was released and more than 170 sharks were caught on drum lines off popular beaches. The great white shark, the cause of fatal attacks on humans, was not part of the government's official "kill" tally.
Yingluck Shinawatra is no longer Thailand's Prime Minister after a court found her guilty of abusing power that led to a prolonged political crisis that has spurred a number of violent protests.
A brain-injured teen involved in a fatal car accident that occurred a year ago has been reported to receive nearly $3 million after the incident was settled with the family of the teen drunk driver claimed to have suffered from "affluenza."
Australia is preparing for budget cuts and raising taxes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott defends his move as vital to avoid a debt crisis.
New Zealander Mary Quin faced her former captor, Abu Hamza, in a New York court on May 7. In a terror trial of suspected terrorist and London imam Abu Hamza as-Masri, Ms Quin told jurors how she had escaped the men who held her captive along with other tourists in Yemen.
New Zealand's Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) head Ian Fletcher has denied accusations that the spy agency is conducting a mass surveillance on Kiwis. In a seminar in Wellington organised by the Privacy Commission on May 7, Mr Fletcher said the country has legitimate concerns in preventing organised crime, terrorism and nuclear arms trade.
U.S. Secret Service went berserk and haywire on Tuesday when a man driving a gray Honda Civic was able to breach protocol and joined a motorcade carrying the Obama daughters through a security checkpoint near the presidential mansion.
It is just a few hours to the May 7 deadline for all bids for the virginity of 28-year-old medical student who goes by the alias Elizabeth Raine. Followers of the story would surely want to know who would be the lucky and rich chap who would get to have sex with her on a 12-hour date in Australia.
