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The 'Australia Est. 1788' shirts are requested for pull out in relevance to the coming Australia Day event. Aldi, the German supermarket who released the range of promotional shirts is greatly criticised by the social media for having an alleged racist design.

A Florida man was caught red-handed on secret camera while having sex with a dog.

The latest road safety ad by the New Zealand Transport Agency has a grim message for drivers who love speeding. The road is not the right place to learn from mistakes. The video of the ad campaign has gone viral on the Internet which is exactly what the agency may have been hoping for.

A Canadian couple found a human tooth in their bag of peanuts on the New Year's Day.

Western Australia continues to experience rising temperatures due to a record-breaking heat wave that began in the later weeks of December before creeping towards South Australia. Queensland and New South Wales were not spared from the sweltering heat with temperatures peaking across Queensland on Jan. 3. Fears of bushfires having the same magnitude as those in Oct. 2012 were triggered by the ongoing heat wave. Authorities have issued severe fire warnings in Queensland and Western Australia.

An angry baker in New Zealand sent a poo-shaped cake to a customer with the message "Eat sh*t." The customer was shocked and of course, not happy with the cake. Emma McDonald, the baker who created the poo cake "masterpiece" has refused to apologise to the 24-year-old customer Micaela Harris. A relative of Ms Harris had placed an order with Oh Cakes, a business run by the Kiwi baker, for an engagement cake.

After promising to not have sex for a year on the first of 2013 for charity, Pete Lynagh has become a changed man.

More than 350 people across 32 prefectures in Japan fell sick after eating food manufactured by a food company that has been alleged to have been selling tainted frozen food products.

China has started to hear the case of four health officials formerly connected with a hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province for alleged dereliction of duty after a hospital obstetrician was able to traffic seven babies.

Britain is expected to experience more flooding as gigantic waves slam the west coast. Residents are advised to prepare and brace for the coming Winter Storm Hercules. The storm system caused a record-breaking freezing temperature in the United States. Waves as high as 27 feet or 8,2 metres have been recorded at Land's End. Various reports and weather forecasts claimed that professional "big wave chasers" were tracking the movement of Storm Hercules across the Atlantic Ocean.

Joe Rickey Hundley, the former aerospace executive accused of slapping a black child on the face, was sentenced to be imprisoned for 8 months.

Just when no extraordinary thing was expected to happen on an ordinary day, human body parts start falling from the sky in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. According to police, it could possibly be the remains of an individual who may have been trapped in the wheel bay of an aircraft.

A man with a rare medical condition called Diphallia has braved the Internet to show everyone his two sexual organs. He also did more than post pictures, though; he answered questions from the curious members of Reddit about what it’s like to have two penises.

Migrant workers in New Zealand may soon enjoy the benefits of a proposed law to make migrant abuse a criminal offence. New Zealand Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse remarked a change in migrant protection laws will help improve the welfare of foreign workers in the country. The proposed change came after allegations of exploitation of migrant workers in Christchurch.

Despite the protest of thousands of Australians at Cottlesloe Beach, the Western Australia government will still go with its plan to cull sharks. More than 4,000 people showed up on Perth's beach on Jan 4 in protest of the government's plan to kill large sharks using baited lines.

With millions of people around the world coming back to work on Jan. 6, various web analytics and social media statistics showed that Jan. 6 is the most depressing day of 2014. Further analysis showed it is mainly because it is the first Monday of getting back to work.

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Adelaide before 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6, after an earthquake rattled nearby Flinders Ranges in South Australia (SA) at 4:31 a.m. on the same day.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in New Zealand has confirmed that no arrests were made in the shooting of Kiwi woman, Lynn Howie and British man, Mark De Salis, in Libya.

Animal welfare organisations are concerned about the way a plumbing company in Montreal treating guard dogs.

A mother-daughter duo from Queensland mysteriously died in Bali apparently after having fish.

Bonita Lynn Vela did the unthinkable. She sliced the genital of her daughter’s boyfriend.

Inland Australia continues to deal with rising temperatures as the Bureau of Meteorology declares 2013 the hottest year on record with average temperatures at 1.20 degrees Celsius higher than the long term average of 21.8C. According to the bureau's Neil Plummer, the statistics point to a warming trend in Australia. He added it is not only in Australia where rising temperatures have been recorded but in other parts of the world as well.

A Kiwi woman and British man were reportedly killed in western Libya. New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is checking details of reports concerning the deaths in Libya. According to Reuters, the two were found dead with gunshot wounds near the coastal area of Mellitah, 100 kilometres west of Tripoli where a large gas and oil complex is located. The complex is owned by Italy's ENI.

An Indian IT worker in New Zealand was denied entry to a bar on New Year's Eve. Sandesh Gopal, a 30-year-old software project manager from Bangalore, described what he called an act of "racism" when a bouncer stopped him and his friends from going inside a bar in Viaduct Harbour, Auckland.

Canada beats the North Pole and Mars as it records some of the lowest temperatures in the history.

Some parts of Australia welcome the New Year in sweltering heat as South Australia and Queensland experience scorching temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The heat wave is expected to continue in the coming days as authorities issue total fire bans in the northern areas of South Australia. The Bureau forecasted the town of Moomba to have a temperature of 49C on Dec. 2 while Oodnadatta will experience 48C.

In Sweden, some people have their own way of welcoming the New Year like lighting up Thai-style rice lanterns in the sky. However, the Swedish UFO experts are expecting a flow of UFO sighting reports during teh start of 2014 with the appearance of the rice lanterns in the dark, particularly on New Year's Eve.

A father in Sydney, Australia has been charged by authorities for consenting to the genital mutilation of his infant daughter during a holiday trip abroad. According to the police, the man travelled with his family in Feb. 2012. It was also during that time the father consented to have his nine-month-old baby undergo female circumcision. It was only six months later that the mother realised what her partner had done when she took her baby to the doctor.

CNN was recently in the hotseat after mistakenly reported that Auckland is a city located in Australia. The American news channel showed a video of the annual fireworks display at Auckland Sky Tower with a caption of "Auckland, Australia."