Andrew Muirhead, the controversial former ABC presenter is expected to plead guilty in the child pornography case lodged against him, a court heard Monday. Here's a look back to the cases against Muirhead, over two years since police seized his home computer.
Hitman scam queries are now being directed to a message from Detective Superintendent Brian Hay as filmed and uploaded to YouTube by Queensland Police. On Twitter, Aussies react to scam operators sending messages, which tell receivers to deposit $5,000 lest they will get killed.
A Central Coast grandmother told reporters she saw an unidentified flying object moving silently above Brisbane Water last week. Does this latest development confirm increasing UFO sightings in Australia?
Twelve Colorado shooting victims were killed while in anticipation of three hours of ‘Dark Knight Rises.’ Two of them shouted out on Twitter, not knowing they were tweeting for the last time. One of them was celebrating his birthday, the other managed to call 911. A six-year-old girl is also among those killed in the horrifying shooting spree.
A shallow earthquake was felt 117km east-southeast of Melbourne at 7:11pm local time. Some Australians took to Twitter to shout out about the tremor under #melbquake.
The Colorado shooting claimed the lives of 12 people. It seems to be a lone man's shooting spree. News media outlets later picked up that one of the victims at the shooting was a survivor of the Eaton Centre shooting almost two months ago.
A 15-year-old girl is still reeling from shock after watching her mother die in a freak accident at a Northcote service station Friday morning. The teen was seated at the passenger seat in the family car when it rolled back. Her mother tried to stop it from outside, but tragedy struck.
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Goggle is taking on organised crime this time, convinced that crime fighting will have a bigger chance of neutralising the enemy with ample help from technology.
An 18-year-old male faced the court Thursday over allegations that he had king-hit Thomas Kelly on July 7. The suspect made his first court appearance a day before Kelly’s scheduled funeral.
Rachelle Yeo, 31, a hospital specialist representative, died Monday after suffering from critical injuries believed to be sustained in the middle of an argument. Her former boyfriend is suspected of murder, while her new boyfriend has paid tribute on Facebook, saying she made him happy in the short time they have shared together.
A new report done by World Bank and infoDev revealed that 75 per cent of the world's population are using mobile phones and have mobile access. This means that mobile communications is now entering a new and bigger level.
More than 3,000 languages currently in use around the world are projected to vanish before the turn of the century, a spectre that Google said its aims to prevent from happening by launching its new culture-protection project.
Huge chunk of Greenland glacier breaks off and poses major environmental challenges.
People who are always experiencing a "no reception" problem when riding the Sydney train could now rejoice as network companies are now providing full high-speed 3G mobile broadband reception.
David Fisher will make a statement before the court in September on whether he is guilty or not for the death of his seven-month-old son, Baby Elijah, on June 23. Meanwhile, Lauren Fisher, David's wife and Baby Elijah's mother, has said she misses her baby and her husband.
Shark attacks in Western Australia are feared to have an adverse effect on tourism. It may be time to reconsider the ban against fishing for the great white shark, the state Fisheries minister said. Here are two shark attack video clips and a photo of a white shark jumping off the WA waters in May.
Ben Linden, a 24-year-old musician and cabinet maker from Perth, is the fifth fatality of a shark attack in a WA beach in ten months. A jet-ski rider who tried to pull Linden’s body said he saw the massive shark. The shark tried to knock him off his jet ski as he tried to recover Linden's body.
Danielle Hibbert’s remains may have been found, Australian media reported over the weekend. Hibbert, a 25-year-old Darnum hairdresser, had been reported missing since June 24. Hibbert’s family has been contacted over the discovery of the woman’s body.
Some superstitions are too sticky; you could almost imagine it will still exist even after man has built a home in Mars. A compilation of Friday the 13th tweets in July 2012 shows some people still believe that the date brings bad luck.
A 27-year-old pilot on board a Golden Eagle twin engine freight plane died when his aircraft crashed Thursday midnight in Broome. A concert being held near the crash site was interrupted by the arrival of emergency services. Concert-goers were shocked by the tragedy.
Monsoonal conditions are bringing a record-breaking level of rainfall in North Queensland. In Townsville alone, rainfall was measured to be more than six times the total average July rainfall. An average of 89mm rainfall has been dumped across the city within 24 hours, from 9am Monday to 9am Tuesday.
A 32-year-old man talks to his 12-year-old self. The young boy from 1992 asks about the internet, and the older man is reminded that he used to draw on regular papers. The video has gone viral and been viewed six million times, as of this writing. Here are five of the coolest things about the video by Jeremiah McDonald.
The infamous hacking group, Anonymous, has found another worthy cause by declaring cyber war with Web sites known to process exchanges of child pornography, a report by tech news site ZDNet said on Tuesday.
A 17-year-old male teen has lost part of his arm in an alligator attack. He credits his television time with shows like "Swamp People" in surviving the horrifying ordeal.
Hans Kristian Rausing, one of the richest men in Britain, was arrested twice in two days over illegal drugs and the mysterious death of his wife. Here is a roundup of news highlights on Britain's elite man and wife, Hans and Eva Rausing.
In a recent column for Women's eNews, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett--two feminist media critics--dismissed the now infamous article in The Atlantic about the tricky balancing act between work and family as a "sideline scuffle."
Darrel Lea, Australia’s largest comfort food retailer, was placed Monday in voluntary administration, putting 700 jobs at risk in the process.
The country's mining boom has created an underground economy in Queensland, which mostly caters to the sexual needs of workers, police authorities in the state said.
An estimated $113 million were lost over the past five years to online-based scams that according to the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) had victimised thousands of Australians.
