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A New Zealand-based beer company, Tui, sponsored a prank pulled off by a group of buddies. The Kiwi friends had to crawl under their buddy's house to hook up all of his plumbing to kegs filled with Tui beer. A commercial from New Zealand also gained popularity for warning against drug-driving in a the most hilarious way. The ad stars three children from New Zealand who were comical in playing their characters.

Simple arithmetic to count your pleasure in Heaven

There are two incidents of sexual assaults reported in Toronto. Both the victims are teenage girls. One of the suspects is captured while the other is still allowed to walk free.

UN experts who went to Damascus to verify claims of chemical weapons use by President Bashar al-Assad have confirmed "unequivocally and objectively" that the Syrian government was to blame for the chemical attack.

An 82-year-old man was arrested by Genoa police for trying to break into a car. He reportedly did it to help his wife who was said to be ill.

A Tasmanian girl helps the arrest of a paedophile posing as Justin Bieber online

Australians are being urged to affirm their commitment to being a citizen on Citizenship Day 2013 on Sept 17.

Two mountain climbers, one Australian and one British, fell to their deaths in New Zealand. According to Police Inspector Dave Gaskin, the two climbing accidents in consecutive days were unrelated. Both climbers died in Aoraki-Mt. Cook National Park. Mr Gaskin said the deaths of the Australian and British nationals will serve as a reminder to climbers to always be careful when climbing treacherous slopes.

Badia Senouci's family was allegedly assaulted because of her religious faith

Ever need an "uncle" for life advice? In Japan, even if you don't have a blood relative, you can rent a middle-aged guy to hang out with you. Ossan Rental, which translates to Uncle Rental, allows people to hire an uncle for just $11 per hour.

Soldier Bevan Vincent Arthur McKay has been kicked out of the New Zealand defence force after admitting that he had recorded a female colleague having shower. The 35-year-old Territorial Force lance corporal pleaded guilty to four charges of making or attempting to make intimate visual recordings at a military barracks in July.

An Australian man, known as Abu Asma al-Australi in social media accounts, was suspected of carrying out a suicide bomb attack in Syria in behalf of terrorists. Images of the alleged bomber with his face intentionally blurred had been circulating the Internet particularly in social media sites as social media users in Australia tried to confirm his identity.

New Zealand woman Erana Te Haeata Brewerton has been barred from entering a bathhouse in Japan because of her facial tattoo, her "ta moko," which identifies her Maori origin. The incident has caused international controversy, which prompted Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga to weigh in.

At least six people have died in the floods that ravaged 15 counties in Colorado on Sunday, while the number of unaccounted people have risen to 1,254. Authorities fear the number of fatalities could rise as rains continued to fall.

A double whammy weather disturbance now blasting Mexico has killed at least 19 and displaced thousands. Hurricane Ingrid and Storm Daniel combined forces to dump as much rain that triggered landslides and floods on the country's east and west coasts on Sunday.

The Quebec provincial police is seeking the public's help in catching a Hells Angels member who ran away from a Laval prison on Saturday night.

Colorado floods death may increase even further, warned Colorado authorities.

Obituaries are usually filled with loving sentiments and sometimes laced with humour to honour the life of the deceased. But Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick's obituary neither has tender words nor good humour. Her surviving children made sure the readers know how horrible she led her life in possibly the most disturbing obituary ever written.

With everyone trying to discover the flaw that the latest iPhone 5S can render with its most modern fingerprint sensor feature, a funny little female kid already got ahead of everyone by putting its promised security at high risk.

The UFO allegedly seen over a Canadian baseball game turned out to be another hoax. However, it was said to be an unlikely hoax since it did not come from an individual or a group of geeks flying a remote-controlled object or device. The UFO spotted over a baseball game in Canada was only a drone deployed by a planetarium. The drone flying over Canada was not quite like the typical unmanned and armed military drone.

Prisoners in Switzerland are receiving a different way to calm down and that is by staying in a prison cell painted pink. As the old saying goes, even tough guys wear pink, right?

Can you drink tea with your feet with your head coming up front from the back? This is one of the impressive tricks that a new Guinness record holder Leilani Franco features in a video that can really make anyone’s jaw drop in awe.

Sometimes, it must take extreme measures for parents to teach their kids a lesson. This is what exactly a funny Utah dad, Scott Mackintosh, did to embarrass daughter and teach her a lesson. A lesson on wearing sexy shorts.

Apparently, not only human babies suffer the fate of rejection and abandonment from their mothers. Even baby animals too. In China, a newly born baby calf elephant had cried inconsolably for five hours, pained by the rejection it suffered from its own mum.

When the parents of 7-month-old Finn Jordan hired Alexis Khan, they thought they had found a decent babysitter. Apparently not, all thanks to their loyal hero family dog which acted as the baby's protector every time he was left to the care of the 22-year-old young woman.

NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft lift-off at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was supposed to be the highlight last Friday, September 6, but a recently released image shows a tiny frog’s photobomb that stole the attention.

New Zealanders and Australians are among world's happiest people in the world. The United Nations World Happiness Report ranked New Zealand as 13th happiest country out of 156 nations while Australia ranked 10th place. A Kiwi psychologist, Christ Skellet, said that New Zealanders are happy because they have a "pioneering ethic" and a "can-do-attitude. " Most Kiwis also want to be more involved in the community and play a significant role in society. Australians have more reason...

A Devizes man was jailed after he admitted that he had had sex with a goat.

Former Archbishop Kenneth (Seraphim) Storheim claimed that he was not guilty of the alleged sex assault.