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A Chinese woman killed her husband then boiled his remains to keep her crime a secret. Anhui News, a government-backed news agency in China, said she had discovered that her husband was abusing her daughter and had acted out of revenge.

A math and religion teacher in Sydney was jailed for a year for having a sexual relationship with her 15-year-old student in 2008. Meanwhile, another similar case happened in Worcester County, Massachusetts when a female sex education teacher had sex with her 14-year-old student on several occasions.

Taking a step towards opening its Australia office, social media giant, Twitter is reported to have recruited former Google Australia display advertising head, Karen Stocks as local country head. The move has a strong commercial motive but will also help closer engagement with authorities.

It is a major piece of legislation and could change the way we know software. It is a move that is expected to improve the system and drive further innovation. The New Zealand parliament on Thursday passed legislation that bans software patents. The motion was passed by a 117 to four vote and followed five long years of parliamentary debate. However, the legislation will only affect new patent applications. It means that existing software patents in New Zealand will continue to remain in force.

In a cautious yet deliberate move toward action, President Obama is ensuring the validity of his claims on chemical attacks in Syria on its own people. A revenge attack by the U.S. defence officials is planned by the end of the week; most likely on Thursday as UN officials leave Syria after investigating on the chemical. massacre

Four West Papuan pro-independence leaders were arrested by authorities on Wednesday, in Sorong – a coastal city in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua - on charges of organising a congregation pray meeting at the Maranthan Church in the city. Over 2000 people had gathered at the local church to pray for the safe passage of the “Freedom Flotilla” to West Papua - a journey, which the organisers say, hopes to reunite the indigenous cultures of Australia and West Papua, and bring human ri...

Laura Ziv, 45, the ad director of a fragrance company in Lawrence, is blaming her boss for the brain hemorrhage she suffered resulting from stress because her boss said she looks like Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle.

The NFL coughs up $765 million for ex-players concussion settlement.

Last week, rumours mills were busy with the story of love rekindling between Prince Andrew and Fergie -Sarah Ferguson. Media reports suggested that the royal couple, both 53, may well be in the path to get remarried after 17 years of divorce. But after all the excitement over the past week, Hello Online on Monday reported that rumours are after all, rumours.

He built his empire shooting girls going wild. But a rendezvous with three women at a college graduation party at the Supper Club in Hollywood got the 40-year-old creator and owner of Girls Gone Wild, Joe Francis into some real trouble this time. He thought he “owned the police” but that didn’t help. His luck with the law ran out on Tuesday. Francis was sentenced to a jail term of 270 days, 3 years of probation, an anger management course and sessions of psychological counselling.

The jury of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court declared on Wednesday guilty the two Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) cadets who had sex with a female cadet and broadcast the act live via Skype.

If Libya has former dictator Moammar Gaddafi and the U.S. Ariel Castro as poster boys for men who abduct and rape their victims, their Australian counterpart, Michael Allen Pilgrim, has been found guilty and sentenced on Tuesday to at least 19 years prison term.

Two men from Kenya had entered into a contract agreeing to share one wife with each other

An Aussie couple from Melbourne experienced the worst nightmare that travellers in Phuket can possibly experience.

In news that could further embarrass the U.S. Administration and strain its relations with allies, the Germany weekly Der Dpiegel, on Sunday, citing documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapped the United Nations (U.N.) Headquarters in New York.

Chinese fake ghosbuster Huang Jianjun is probably one of the world's worst charlatans, and a sex maniac at that. He tried duping a woman who complained of having evil spirits in her vagina by telling her he could exorcise the spirits using his penis.

Right-wing Hindu organisation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said that demonstrations would be held across the country on Monday to protest against the ban on its 'Chaurasi Kosi Parikrama Yatra' (pilgrimage) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). This comes after the state government foiled, on Sunday, the proposed ‘yatra’ of the VHP demanding a Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

In swift action that has earned them accolades; the Mumbai Police has arrested all the 5 accused in the gang-rape of the young photojournalist in Mumbai. As reported earlier, on Thursday, 5 men accosted the 22-year-old photojournalist and took turns to rape her. She and her male colleague were on an assignment at an abandoned mill compound in Mumbai. Her male colleague was beaten and tied up during the incident.

Drawing a parallel between Iraq in 2003 and Syria today, Russia warned the U.S. against taking unilateral action in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said such action will be a repeat of past mistakes of the U.S. in the region. This warning from Russia came amid reports of U.S. and UK were contemplating options for military strike against government forces in Syria on complains of chemical weapon use.

Angelina Jolie is speaking up against the horrific tragedy that has befallen Syria, in which hundreds of children died of suspected chemical attack. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy issued a statement about the Syrian situation, condemning the assault to the innocent as “sickening.”

He called on Allah’s wrath to be on others and now the police have expressed concerns about his safety. In his March sermon, the Tunisian-born Mosque Preacher Sheikh Sharif Hussein Sheikh who is said to be a leading member of the Adelaide Islamic community, attacked Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, US President Barack Obama and called Australian soldiers in Iraq as "Crusader pigs”.

A Maldivian court quashed a public flogging sentence of a 15-year-old girl convicted for having premarital sex. The high court issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the girl, whose step-father is on trial for raping her, had been wrongly convicted by a juvenile court of having pre-marital sex with another man. The February conviction of the girl sparked international outrage and focused attention on treatment of women in Maldives, which is a favourite holiday destination.

Mumbai, the financial capital of India in for some horror as news came of three among a group of five men raping a 22-year-old photographer. Reports said that three men took turn to rape the girl, after her male colleague was bashed up at an abandoned mill compound. The incident happened on Thursday evening close to the railway tracks in the Mahalaxmi area in the city.

The Australian Labor Party, allegedly, draws campaign budget through capitalizing on gay marriage

There is now a list of drug manufacturers and dealers in New Zealand engaged in the production of synthetic recreational drugs. The list is dominated by adult shops, while the names of some of them such as Pillz & Thrillz sound like their specialty is getting their customers high.

Mohammed Sanoussi, one of the 14 convicted Skaf gang rapists, may be on his way out of jail if the State Parole Authority approves his plead for release after serving 13 years in Long Bay Jail in Sydney.

Australian Election 2013 Recap: The Brisbane debate reveals a talkative Kevin Rudd and Touch Tony Abbott

The U.S. government, on Tuesday, condemned the military-backed interim government in Egypt for the detention of Mohammed Badie, the 70-year-old spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood terming it “certainly not the standard that the Egyptian people expect of their government.”

It is an epic war and will be studied for generations - media for freedom versus governments for security – the Snowden saga continues. On Tuesday, even as David Miranda sued Britain over his detention, UK defended its action saying that the government and the police have a duty to protect the public and national security.