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.
The Peruvian police confiscated during the last week of August 8.5 tonnes of cocaine. It is considered the biggest haul in the country's battle against illegal drugs.
The family of Steven Sotloff, the second apparent beheading victim of the Islamic State, issued on Tuesday a statement saying they believe that the video just released showing his decapitation is authentic.
A 21-year-old man from Virginia accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexual assault on March 23, 2013 in New York City.
Police from Effington County jailed a pair of sibling after they admitted to incestuous sex thrice at a church parking lot outside Savannah, Georgia. The brother and sister, 25-year-old Timothy Savoy and 20-year-old Christopher Buckner, had sex after watching the film The Notebook.
Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra sentenced former Playboy model Brandi Brandt to at least three and a half years jail for her role in cocaine importation.
A laptop seized from an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighter yielded details on how jihadists would operate in their terrorism campaign. Among the files found in the computer in an ISIS hideout raided in earlier part of 2014 were instructions on how to make bombs, how to build biological weapons of mass destruction, steal a vehicle and use disguise to avoid arrest.
Amid a second video posted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Friday showing the beheading of a Kurdish Peshamar fighter, a report on the same day by Judicial Watch warned that members of the extremist militant group are in Mexico and preparing to attack the US.
Barely two weeks after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shocked the world by posting a video of the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley, the extremist group again lopped another head off and posted the video.
Ben Panangian was arrested in Bali after he was caught with marijuana.
Corinna Schumacher lost a lawsuit against German newspaper and TV station that published unauthorised pictures of her.
Redfoo was "glassed" by a 21-year-old attacker at a Sydney hotel.
On Wednesday, another news of a bloody death was reported by media. However, it didn't happen in the Middle East but in Arizona where a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot to death her shooting instructor with an Uzi.
Challenging the strict nature of Islam, Egyptian feminist Aliaa Magda Elmahdy made a bold statement to ISIS as she and a friend literally bleeds and defecate on Islamic flag.
A Canadian man who was suspected to as a serial killer confessed being involved in a couple of murders.
Supporting a theory now being suggested by British media that the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley was partly stage managed, a British analyst said on Monday that the decapitation likely happened off camera.
Images of jihadists tweeting their photos holding decapitated heads are good leads who are the key leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). One of them who tweeted in early August that kind of photo helped British intelligence agencies find the true identity of jihadist John, who beheaded American photojournalist James Foley.
Hours after British media reported that Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary is the main suspect in the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley last week, British intelligence agencies M15 and M16 identified on Sunday that the rapper is indeed jihadist John.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a British rapper, is suspected by UK's SAS to be John, the man with an English accent who beheaded American journalist James Foley last week, the New York Post reports.
After beheading American photojournalist James Foley and threatening to also decapitate another media man, Steven Sotloff, the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is threatening this time to blow up a city in the United States.
Did American photojournalist give up his life so his fellow hostages would be spared from being beheaded too? The family of James Foley believes it is in his character to give way to the extent that he could have possibly volunteered to be decapitated so the other captives would live.
It is exactly three months away from Manny Pacquiao's bout with Chris Algieri in Macau, but the Filipino champion seems to have added a ninth title to his name as he scored a major victory against the Philippine tax agency.
Labor leader Bill Shorten admitted on Thursday that he was accused of rape by a young woman. The crime allegedly happened in the 1980s. However, he said that based on information from the Victoria Police, there was no case and no charges were laid.
Jodhi Meares was fined after she had been charged for drunk-driving.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was on a summer holiday when news of the beheading of American journalist James Foley sparked an international search for the man with a British accent who decapitated the newsman. Mr Cameron cut short his vacation and lead the hunt for the jihadist.
The British accent of the man who beheaded American journalist James Wright Foley is the key to tracking the terror group identified with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levants (ISIL). Intelligence agencies are trying to know the identity of the executioner who hid his face using a black cloth.
Jaycee Chan together with Taiwanese actor Kai Ko Chen-tung were arrested and detained due to drugs.
Local internet service providers may face lawsuit for failing to block The Pirate Bay and other similar websites.