Category Archives: World

A Missouri teenager who told authorities she wanted to know what it felt like to kill has pleaded guilty to murder, telling a judge that she strangled a nine-year-old neighbour with her hands, stabbed her in the chest and cut her throat with a knife… Continue reading →

Organised crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country’s biggest “bank” and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report… Continue reading →

Médecins sans Frontières says two of its employees in Mogadishu — a Belgian and an Indonesian — have been killed in gunfire that occurred in one of its offices… Continue reading →

A lone gunman with extreme rightwing sympathies has gone on a shooting spree in Florence, killing two Senegalese street vendors and wounding three others before killing himself… Continue reading →

A nurse charged with murder over the fatal nursing home fire in Sydney’s north-west was at the scene of the blaze yesterday… Continue reading →

There are calls for tighter identity checks for people selling property in Australia, after several homeowners have been conned by so-called Nigerian scams… Continue reading →

Up to nine elderly people died when fire ripped through a nursing home in western Sydney this morning, in what fire crews are calling the city’s worst blaze for 30 years… Continue reading →

More damaging evidence has emerged of the German authorities’ failure to stop a group of neo-Nazi terrorists who killed 10 people, robbed 14 banks and planted two nail bombs during 13 years on the run… Continue reading →

A 110-carat diamond is expected to fetch up to $15m (£9m) at auction in Geneva next week, Sotheby’s says. The so-called Sun-Drop Diamond is described as fancy vivid yellow, the highest colour grading, and is the largest known diamond of its kind… Continue reading →

German investigators have linked an unsolved series of murders of eight foreign-born food vendors and shop owners, nicknamed the “doner murders” to a neo-Nazi terrorist cell, the federal prosecutors’ office said on Friday… Continue reading →

The Japanese government has unveiled radical plans to build a standby city for Tokyo’s political functions to move to in the event of a disabling earthquake or other natural disaster… Continue reading →

A man who set fire to more than 100 cars in Berlin, a wave of attacks blamed by some on political extremists, was motivated by envy and frustration, police who arrested him said on Sunday… Continue reading →

A relative of serial killer Ivan Milat has pleaded guilty to murdering a teenage boy last year in the Belanglo State Forest, south of Sydney… Continue reading →

A 13-year-old girl has lied to police about being abducted and undressed by two men on the NSW north coast… Continue reading →

Libya’s ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after an assault on his birthplace of Sirte, officials say… Continue reading →

The Basque separatist group ETA says it has called a “definitive cessation” to its campaign of bombings and shootings… Continue reading →

A Buddhist monastery near Kathmandu is enjoying a surge in popularity after its spiritual leader directed its 300 nuns to use martial arts techniques… Continue reading →

The head of a Christian schools group has defended the practice of having students sing an additional religious verse to the national anthem.
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The financial abuse of elderly Australians is getting worse with a growing number of cases and an increase in the amounts of money involved.
But it is not criminal scams which are inflicting the abuse; research shows that family members are the most l… Continue reading →

Dozens of wildfires raging in rain-starved Texas are now reported to have engulfed more than 1,000 homes… Continue reading →

BC Mounties say 13 high-end luxury cars were impounded and 13 people fined after an alleged street race in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday afternoon — and police are looking at permanently seizing the vehicles…
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This handy chart of defunct country names can help you determine the age of your globe… Continue reading →

A former Australia Post contractor has been sentenced for stealing almost 3,000 items of mail from the Castlemaine area in central Victoria… Continue reading →

Australia is facing the possibility of a ferocious bushfire season because of vast areas of grass which have grown across the country in the wake of recent rains… Continue reading →

Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years… Continue reading →

Channel Nine’s director of news in Brisbane has resigned and three journalists have been sacked for faking reports about the search for Daniel Morcombe’s remains… Continue reading →

Warring tribes on the tiny Pacific island of Tanna have agreed to swap two children to settle a long-running land dispute that descended into violence.
The clans, who have been arguing over property rights on the island for more than two decades, revi… Continue reading →

Russian investigators say a high-ranking retired police officer who allegedly organized the 2006 murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested — potentially the breakthrough her family and friends have been waiting for afte… Continue reading →

Christchurch City Council has laid out an ambitious, decade-long plan to rebuild the city after last year’s devastating earthquakes in the region. The plan includes free citywide Wi-Fi, an augmented reality memorial and a central ICT precinct… Continue reading →

The math is impressive. In the last 25 years, the population of Singapore has nearly doubled, to more than five million… Continue reading →