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Immigration Minister Scott Morrison shed light on pertinent issue of alleged child bride case, Syrian passport cancellations and torture claims

A father stabbed his 12-year-old son to death at in Melbourne during a cricket training camp at a sports oval

British comedian Avery Edison, a transgender woman, was detained due to a visa-related issue in Canada.

Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Christine Nixon has been caught driving an unregistered vehicle. She was pulled over along the Mornington Peninsula Freeway during a police traffic operation in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Jakarta: an Australian military officer faces charges of child pornography

A Muslim cleric in Sydney has been charged over allegedly solemnising an illegal marriage of a 13-year-old girl. The 35-year-old from the Hunter region was arrested outside Parramatta Police Station Monday afternoon.

Lending a car for a friend’s wedding may lead to jail time. The Transport Department has sent letters to Adelaide residents who had lent their vehicles to other people for a wedding, threatening to prosecute them.

AAP reports 14-year-old girl raped by gang

Sixty-five-year-old William F Brock Sr of Ohio may look like Santa Claus, and he even tells neighbourhood kids that he's jolly old St Nick.

Convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has been granted parole, nine years after she was jailed in Indonesia. However, the 36-year-old Australian wouldn’t be able to go home yet, and has to wait until 2017 before she can fly to Australia.

Venkatesha Kodandappa, an Indian astrologer, pleaded on Friday not guilty before Magistrate Margaret Harding to four counts of rape and another four counts of indecent assault filed by a woman from Victoria, Australia.

Canadian police claim to have identified the driver who was driving the truck while it almost met with a terrible accident. The near-crash Canadian video went viral a few days back on YouTube.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is setting his expectations low from his talks with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott regarding the seemingly never-ending issue of discrimination against Kiwis and the recent bouts on "Buy Australia Campaign."

Pope Francis may be enjoying popularity now as rock star of the Roman Catholic Church, evidenced by his being the cover of Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. However, that did not prevent the UN from demanding that the Church open its archives on child sex abuse cases tolerated by his predecessor.

To further curb the illegal practice of female genital mutilation, the New South Wales government upped the penalty by increasing it to 21 years prison term from 7 years.

“Hunger Games” star Philip Seymour Hoffman has left his fans grieving over his untimely and sudden death. The late actor was found dead in his apartment and is said to have died due to overdose of the drug, heroin.

An Australian man who went berserk aboard a China Southern Airlines flight 329 to Vancouver on Sunday has been charged with disturbance, mischief and assault and will be deported back to Australia.

It seems like the proverb about nine lives of a cat happens to be true.

Maine police were expecting scenes of domestic violence when they responded to a call from a neighbour in the town of China last week. The neighbour reported hearing screaming, prompting her to seek police assistance. Their houses were separated by woods.

This is a story of an immensely tired burglar who had to take a nap on the sofa of the victim before stealing his mobile phone.

Lawmakers from UK are close to legalizing amendments to the Children and Families Bill which seeks to ban smoking in cars that have children passengers inside. But UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is not pleased with the proposed bill.

Tara Anne MacKay from Dunedin has been slapped with 300 hours of community service plus 12 months of supervision after a state of drunkenness pushed her to go on a rampage onboard an Air New Zealand flight on August 2013.

A 17-year old girl from Ottawa, Canada, faces a 14-year imprisonment term after the court found her guilty of running an underage prostitution ring.

Rodney Chambers, a 58-year-old from Western Australia, has been found dead inside his hotel room in the Philippines. A Filipino woman has been charged with murder over his death.

Another high Canadian church official has fallen. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Christopher Mainella found 67-year-old Winnipeg Archbishop Seraphim Storheim guilty of sexual assault on a boy in 1985. But he was acquitted of a similar accusation filed by the boy's twin brother due to issues such as mental ailment and alcohol addiction which clouded the second complainant's memory and affected the quality of evidence he provided.

Quentin Tarantino is suing Gawker Media for posting a link to the leaked “The Hateful Eight” draft. The filmmaker, who shelved his film project when its script made its way to industry agents and insiders, filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles district court for copyright infringement and contributory copyright infringement.

An Australian student has reportedly been raped in Sri Lanka while she was on an educational tour.

A 24-year-old woman allegedly had sex on an Air Canada flight with a 38-year-old man during the weekend.

A New Zealand pastor has been found guilty of importing more than nine kilograms of methamphetamine and heroin into Australia. Bernadine Terry Prince, who also goes by the name of Pastor Bernie McCully, is facing up to three years in jail after a Supreme Court jury in Darwin found her guilty on Thursday.