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Victorian police had identified on Monday the victim of a gruesome murder by a 28-year-old Australian chef of his transsexual Indonesian girlfriend who he chopped and the boiled in chemicals inside his Brisbane apartment.

After beheading two American and two British hostages the past few weeks, the Islamic State (IS) surprised the world over the weekend by releasing on Thursday British headteacher David Richard Bolam after it abducted him in May 2014 while shopping in Libya.

The Islamic State (IS) is on a decapitation frenzy again. On Friday, it released a video showing the beheading of its second British hostage, taxi driver Alan Henning. The video had all the elements of a standard IS video: the hostage who wore an orange jumpsuit blamed his government for his death and Jihadist John was attired in black garments and hood, holding a knife.

Google claims it already has deleted the leaked nude photos.

Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer represents dozens of female celebrities victimised by The Fappening.

Queensland Ombudsman Phil Clarke ruled on Tuesday that strip searches on female inmates detained at the Townsville Women's Correctional Centre were illegal. Clarke's decision prompted prisoner advocate Debbie Kilroy to push for disciplinary action on the perpetrators.

A 24-year-old male Briton complained of rape while attending the Oktoberfest beer festival in Theresienwese, Munich. The unnamed victim went behind a bush to urinate when two men approached him and said they wanted to have sex with him.

A suicide club has been set up in Britain by Australian doctor Philip Nitschke, who is named Dr. Death.

TPB founder Gottfrid Svartholm hacking trial in Denmark continues.

National security concerns have made the National Security Agency weary of the iPhone.

Three retired New York firefighters who responded to the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center and exposed to toxins died on Monday of cancer.

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.