Two tourists have been arrested after six human skulls were found in their hand luggage at Athens international airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA says an animal cruelty case in Mackay in north Queensland is one of the worst it has seen in several years.
A 30-year-old man is due to face court next month after he allegedly glued a puppy’s eyes shut, punched and kicked it and dragged it along the ground — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Zealand prime minister John Key has ordered an inquiry into how intelligence services granted high security clearance to a defence official accused of making wild claims on his resume — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has pitted several homing pigeons – Rory and Tref – carrying a microSD card with 200MB of HD video data, against a fairly typical rural broadband connection to see which is faster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Zealand retailers are selling synthetic urine to help people beat workplace drug tests for substances such as cannabis and ecstasy, a New Zealand newspaper says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany’s Greens, who are riding a wave of record support, may take control of a state government for the first time next year, co-leader Cem Oezdemir said on Thursday, and deal a severe blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
France remains opposed to a plan by the European Union’s executive to let each member country decide on whether to approve the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the French farm minister said on Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Telstra ADSL, cable, satellite, Next G and dial-up BigPond services were hit with a national email outage following a server glitch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Romanian lawmaker Alin Popoviciu is blaming fear for the failure of a bill he sponsored that would have imposed new regulations and taxes on witches and fortune tellers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally will today sign a memorandum of understanding with Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore committing to an overhaul of transport and traffic in the CBD — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A deactivated World War Two mortar bomb has been found in the attic of a house in east Belfast — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A convicted conman has been tracked to Africa where he has spent the last seven years posing as a doctor, without any medical qualifications, BBC Wales has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman who kept the bodies of three stillborn children in a bin in her wardrobe for up to 20 years and secretly buried another in a cemetery has been warned she could be jailed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Regional Development minister has told the assembly that the government-owned company model for Northern Ireland Water should change — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Kent couple have been jailed for two years for abusing two young boys.
Kristina Davies, 20, and Ricky Winter, 23, had both denied eight counts of child neglect but were found guilty at Canterbury Crown Court last month.
The couple, both from Margate, left the children with fractured bones, bruises and bites to the genitals when they were looking after them in July 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been sworn into office, making her the first woman elected to the post in the nation’s history — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There would be another hung parliament if Australians went to the polls today, according to the first Newspoll since the federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Returned Services League (RSL) will today debate a push for special care facilities for younger war veterans returning home from Afghanistan with severe disabilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yesterday (9/11, as Americans call it), was widely touted as International Religious Tolerance Day, for reasons which should be obvious. To a first approximation, this seems like a good idea; a lot of the most unpleasant news of the past decade has been generated by the actions of the religious and intolerant, from Al Qaida to Pastor Terry Jones. But is more religious tolerance the answer? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA is appealing for information after the bodies of seven dogs were found at stables — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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