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FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday that the intelligence agency already knows the identity of Jihadist John, the hooded man who had beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines.

It's an eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth law in the ongoing war with the Islamic State (IS) on one side and the US-led coalition on the other side. After France, a member of the coalition, refused to stop its air strikes in Iraq, the IS beheaded a Frenchman, Herve Gourdel, whom it kidnapped in Algeria on Sunday.

Here are some of the strange Australian laws that visitors have to be familiar with.

Ogling at naked bodies of people seems to be a natural human trait. While some people are content enjoying the unclothed beauty of their partners, others would go to great lengths to take a peek at other people in various states of undress without their knowledge or consent. That is the reason why the Internet is agog at the ongoing nude photo leaks of female celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and on a local scale, the reason why a 19-year-old Greek male migrant was sentenced on Wednesday by the...

Young male jihadists are raping thousands of women in Iraq and Syria to raise an army of "believers" in the Islamic State. The fruit of the sexual molestation would populate the caliphate that the IS will establish.

Australia may be thousands of kilometres away from the Middle East where the Islamic State (IS) is on a beheading frenzy, having decapitated so far three foreigners, American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and Briton aid worker David Haines.

Some of the world's most renowned and beloved celebrities actually spent time behind bars

A day after a generous benefactor offered $30 million reward money for information that would lead to identify who is responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the Russian Union of Engineers pointed blamed the crash on the Ukraine Force

More than six months after the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, the tragedy continues to grab headlines as various aviation or security personalities speak their mind about the first of two aviation tragedies to hit the embattled air carrier in a span of four months. On Monday, former Kiwi International Airlines Chief Executive Ewan Wilson told aviation experts in Birmingham that he believes pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned the crash of the jet ...

A day after reports came out that British Prime Minister David Cameron will announce next week the country's support to air strikes over Syria and Iraq initiated by the US, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted on Tuesday that the country couldn't rescue a citizen whose head is being threatened to be chopped by the extremist group.

Sydney police arrested in Fairfield on Thursday two men who attempted to bring into the country over 100 kilogrammes of heroin and methamphetamines worth $75 million by disguising it as liquid in ice packs hidden under frozen fish fillets from Malaysia.

International support for the US-initiated air strikes in Iraq and Syria to wipe out the extremist militant group Islamic State (IS) continues to gain traction, with British Prime Minister David Cameron expected to announce an air strike next week. He gave a hint of Britain's military plan in response to the Saturday beheading of British aid worker David Haines

The Islamic State is back on a beheading frenzy, claiming it third victim on Saturday just barely less than two weeks since it last decapitated American journalist Steven Sotloff.

There's a 1992 song written by Queen guitarist Brian May titled Too Much Love Will Kill You. For a 23-year-old male Chinese medical student, the apt song title would have been Too Much Masturbation Will Kill You - that's because Zheng Gang died in February 2012 after he made his fourth sperm donation to a Hubei sperm bank in just 10 days.

A South African court released the verdict on the high profile case of Paralympic Athlete Oscar Pistorius finding him guilty of culpable homicide.

Because of a state-wide heroin and opioid epidemic, Ohio is locking up hundreds of non-violent, drug-addicted offenders yearly. For the 13-year period 2000 to 2013, the number of people accused of possession and petty theft tied to heroin or opioid use went up to 8.3 per cent from 1.6 per cent.

The United States has gone beyond traditional memorial services in New York and Washington DC to mark the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. With another threat from Islamic fundamentalists hovering over the country and other parts of the world, a photographer has launched a unique social media campaign that would help ferret out Muslim terrorist in American neighbourhoods.

Australian federal police arrested on Wednesday two men after they raided the iQraa Islamic Centre in Underwood. They arrested 31-year-old Omar Succarieh of Kuraby and an unnamed 21-year-old man from Boronia Heights.

A report by the Dutch Safety Board, released on Tuesday, on the cause of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17's crash on June 17 attributed the aviation mishap to a "large number of high-energy objects" that entered the Boeing 777 jet's fuselage.

A woman from Oregon was put behind bars for playing what she calls "The Zombie Game."

With the second lawsuit filed by ex-model and actress Shantel Jackson on Thursday against former fiancé Floyd Mayweather Jr for physical assault, comparison becomes inevitable with former boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Most boxing experts foresee Floyd Mayweather Jr would still keep his unbeaten boxing record of 0 loss and up his wins to 47 when Money May meets Argentinean boxer Marcos Maidana on Sept 14 for a rematch.

A PE teacher has been charged with the offence sexually abusing her pupil. The teacher, Emily Fox, from Bath had sex with her student at an all girls private school.

A report come out last week said that about 1,400 white English children from the UK town of Rotherham were sexually abused by Muslim men of Pakistani origin from 1997 to 2013. The tolerance for the rape was due to social services and government workers ignoring the abuses so as not to further antagonise the Muslim community in the area and worsen the racial tension.

There was another British victim of beheading on Thursday, but it was not the Briton held captive by the Islamic State. Rather, it was Palmira Silva, a resident of Edmonton in North London.

An Egyptian who has undergone training with the Islamic State (IS) revealed that among the things he has learned from the militant organization is how to behead properly. The disclosure came a day after the IS released a video on Wednesday indicating that it had beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff.

Britain had tried in the past but was not successful in rescuing a Briton who was threatened by members of the Islamic State to be next on their chopping block, after it beheaded within two weeks apart two American journalists.

Besides kidnapping westerners and asking enormous ransom amounts for their release, the Islamic State is funding its jihad by plundering historical artifacts in Syria and Iraq.

Ryan Corr, the star of The Rafters, almost lost his Hollywood career after he was caught in May with heroin in a Bondi laneway. On Tuesday, he saved his acting career and narrowly escaped conviction after the judge gave him a second chance.