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Phil Rudd is accused of hiring a hitman to kill two people.

The Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij nabbed by the Thai border police in Nong Khai.

A 26-year-old Australian man was electrocuted at the Brisbane Railway Yard on Saturday night while trying to write graffiti in the area. One of them climbed on a commercial container that was on the rail line and within reach of an overhead line, leading to an electric shock.

Decapitations are not exclusive to Islamic State militants, even New Yorkers who are deranged also engage in beheading. However, in the case of beheading victim Patricia Ward, a 66-year-old former State University of New York professor, the axe man was not Jihadist John but her son Derek who had mental health problems.

The MPAA reports about notorious websites like The PIrate Bay to the U.S. Government.

Beheading, stoning to death and now wakeboarding. Based on videos released by the Islamic State, the militant organisation is high on the list of breaching human rights, the latest of which is gorging a hostage with water and then placing extreme pressure on his midsection.

Convicted athlete Oscar Pistorius and his slain girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp didn't have sex because she was afraid to elevate their relationship to the next level, claimed Steenkamp's mother, June, in her book titled Reeva: a Mother's Story.

While whistleblowers in many countries are hailed for their bravery despite the threat to their life in exposing wrongdoings, especially when done by government officials, it is not the case in Australia. One was even sued for violation of the law which carries a maximum penalty of two years prison term. It is no coincidence though that the object of 21-year-old Freya Rachael Sommerville Newman's expose was France Abbott, the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The star of the 2-minute video below may have been the 17-year-old Australian who left Sydney under the guise of going on a fishing trip, but the clip apparently include a previous viral photo star.

Beheading, like what the Islamic State (IS) has done to two American and two British hostages in the past few weeks, causes instant death to the victim. However, in a slower and more painful way of killing, the IS has prescribed death by stoning to a female adulteress.

Penal history would likely be repeated after reports came out on Tuesday that Brazil has an inmate who could pass for a movie actor. However, Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha is not only the owner of a face and body to-die-for since at least 39 people have actually died from his fatal hands.

True Crime production company claimed Anne Greene violated the nudity rider if her contract.

The embarrassment caused by an 80-foot tall art installation on Place Vendome in Paris was addressed by vandals who deflated the large inflatable green structure that looked like a giant sex toy - a butt plug, to be specific.

Samuel Evan Lake taunted police on Facebook.

In what appears to be a rapist getting a dose of his own medicine, Inquisitr reported on Saturday that Daryell Dickson Meneses Xavier, a Brazilin jujitsu instruction, allegedly raped his eight-month-old stepson, Michael Star, who was confined on Sept 27 at the Anchieta Hospital but died two days after.

American boxer Floyd Mayweather's problem with the Nevada State Athletic Commission over two objectionable scenes shown in his All Access TV show is far from over. A lawsuit filed by sons of a former heavyweight champion could support a claim by Showtime employees that Mayweather lied to the commission when he said the two scenes in the TV show he produces are just fake or stage managed.

Andrew Walls from Dover in Delaware woke from a colonoscopy at the Delaware Surgery Center in October 2012 and realised he was the victim of a prank because he was wearing a pink panty when he gained consciousness.

The police had filed homicide charges against a 10-year-old Pennsylvania boy for killing a 90-year-old woman. The incident happened on Saturday when Tristen Kurilla visited his grandfather, Anthony Virbitsky, who looked after the victim, Helen Novak.

Willemijn Vermaat of New Zealand said she knocked over the statue because it "didn't belong in the temple."

Gottfrid Svartholm and his 21-year-old co-defendant's hacking trial ends. Prosecution blames The Pirate Bay founder for the CSC hacking.

Gigi Jordan, a former executive of a pharmaceutical company, claimed that her 8-year-old autistic son, whom she killed with a deadly dose of prescription drug, proposed for them to engage in a suicide pact.

The owner of the brothel where slain, chopped and cooked Indonesian transsexual sex trade worker used to work said on Thursday that there were indicators that the union of 27-year-old Mayang Prasetyo and her Australian husband Marcus Volcke was in trouble.

The unnamed woman flew to Sydney to meet with a man she was introduced to via Tinder.

Brisbane men have lately been in the news. A few weeks 28-year-old chef Marcus Volcke chopped his transgendered Indonesian wife, cooked her body in chemicals and committed suicide, a 47-year-old Brisbane man abducted a female German tourist and raped her similar to the sexual assault in Wolf Creek.

Marcus Volcke, the 28-year-old Australian chef who made headlines over the weekend by chopping his 27-year-old Indonesian transsexual wife, Mayang Prasetyo, and cooking parts of her body in chemicals in their Brisbane flat, was also a sex trade worker.

The teenage girl said that she was sorry for running the prostitution ring.

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.