Sydney photographers give early Christmas present to homeless family
Wildlife photographers Chris and Jess Bray had just landed on the tarmac at Sydney Airport when they got an email from Dick Smith. The couple, from Avalon in Sydney's northern beaches, keep in contact...
View ArticleTurkey Internet servers under sustained cyber attack - internet body
Istanbul: Turkish Internet servers have suffered one of the most intense cyber attacks ever seen in the country over the past week, according to an Internet management body, raising fears Ankara may be...
View ArticleStar Wars stunt woman Olivia Jackson to have arm amputated after horror...
A stunt woman who appeared in Star Wars Awakens and Mad Max: Fury Road is to have her arm amputated after a horrific on-set accident earlier this year. Olivia Jackson, 34, was filming a high-speed...
View Article'They hit me and took my money': Bulgarian border police accused of abusing...
Sukrupasa, Turkey: The small squat structure, a cross between a kiosk and a duck blind, was starkly pale against the brown, soggy hillside a few hundred yards away. "Bulgarian border police," said...
View ArticleRe-print of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' unleashes row in Germany
Berlin: For the first time since Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise Mein Kampf, unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist...
View ArticleFour suspected Boko Haram Islamists detonate suicide bombs on Lake Chad island
N'Djamena: Four Islamists detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of locals on a Lake Chad island, killing three of the attackers but no one else, official and security sources said on...
View ArticleHassan Aboud's journey from Syrian rebel leader to Islamic State enforcer
Beirut: Hassan Aboud's practiced baritone belied the malevolence in his words."Oh Darraji!" he sang. "Our state provided us ammunition and sent us to assassinate you." That state is the self-proclaimed...
View ArticleNew footage of Indonesia ferry sinking
Makassar: Footage has been broadcast of the sinking of an Indonesian ferry, the Marina Baru, off the island of Sulawesi, killing about 80 people. Mobile phone vision taken by one of the passengers on...
View ArticleHelicopter crashes just metres from Australian holidaying in Fiji
An Australian holidaymaker in Fiji had a close call with a crashing helicopter as he dined with family on Treasure Island. Incredibly,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders would 'hammer' Donald Trump in a head-to-head race for the...
While Donald Trump continues to lead the race for Republican nominee for the White House in 2016, Hillary Clinton would still comfortably beat him, according to a new poll. But while Ms Clinton's...
View ArticleMelbourne woman Nicola Andrews, who died in New Zealand fall, is remembered
A Melbourne lighting designer and biomedical engineering student who fell to her death in New Zealand is being remembered as an intelligent, talented maverick and much loved friend. Nicola Anne...
View ArticleNinth person arrested in Belgium over Paris attacks
Brussels police have arrested a man in connection with the November 13 militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people, federal prosecutors said on Thursday,...
View ArticleFormer Neighbours, Underbelly actress Eliza Szonert calls for Foreign...
Australian actress Eliza Szonert who snatched her son in Malaysia has been released from the local jail where she had been locked up for refusing to reveal the boy's whereabouts. But on Thursday she...
View ArticleLittle girl calls the police after accidentally knocking over her 'Elf on the...
Her mum was napping when the unthinkable happened. Izzy LaPeruta, 7, was playing with a ball inside her living room, next to a Christmas tree wrapped in colourful lights. She had bad aim, or the ball...
View ArticleFour teens charged over gang-style slaying in Montgomery County, US
Four teenagers have been charged in the brutal stabbing and beating of a 34-year-old man whose body was found in a shallow grave four months ago - the latest in a series of local killings that police...
View ArticleAustralians urged to exercise 'heightened vigilance' following Beijing terror...
Several foreign embassies in Beijing, including the American and British ones, warned on Christmas Eve of possible threats against Westerners in a shopping district on or around Christmas Day, urging...
View ArticleChina seeks to turn film stars into models of morality
Beijing: Imagine if, after arresting a wave of celebrities on drug charges, US government officials pressed the heads of major Hollywood studios, A-list actors, record-label chiefs and chart-topping...
View ArticleAfrican migrants win $603,000 each in Spain's Christmas lottery
Madrid: About 35 African migrants, including at least one rescued at sea from an overcrowded wooden boat, are among the top prize winners of Spain's Christmas lottery, according to the owner of the...
View ArticleWealthy men targeted in New York nightclubs by thieving women, police say
New York: A succession of high-wattage thefts in New York has uncovered a bizarre pattern involving women who target wealthy men at nightclubs, accompany them home and then disappear with tens of...
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