A British mother is set to be deported from Dubai without her children after having a cup of tea with a male friend.
Marnie Pearce, 40, began a three-month jail sentence on February 27 for "adultery" after her Egyptian husband Ihab El Labban told authorities she was having an affair, a claim which she denies.
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The wife of a New York dentist who hired a relative to kill her husband had planned to film the murder in case she was double-crossed by the hitman, prosecutors say.
Mazoltuv Borukhova, 35, also arranged for the hitman to shoot her husband in a public park in front of their daughter so she would not become a suspect herself, Queens Supreme Court heard.
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A woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter was reportedly collecting images of skulls and skeletons in the weeks after the little girl's death.
After months of speculation, Madoff confirmed in court through his lawyer Ira Sorkin that he will plead guilty at a hearing on Friday (AEDT).
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A collapse in the job market will push unemployment to 7.5 percent in the coming year, according to economists.
The number of newspaper job advertisments fell by 55 percent in the past year and more than 25 percent in the past month alone, according to figures released today by ANZ bank
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Star fullback Brett Stewart is set to play in Manly's NRL season opener on Saturday despite facing an allegation of sexual assault.
Stewart returned to training with his teammates on Monday and Manly chief executive Grant Mayer said he would be considered for selection against the Bulldogs at ANZ Stadium
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Helg Sgarbi, the so-called "Swiss gigolo", has gone on trial in Munich for allegedly trying to hoodwink BMW heiress Susanne Klatten and a string of super-rich women out of millions of euros.
If convicted, the smooth-talking Sgarbi, who told his wealthy conquests he was a "special Swiss representative in crisis zones" according to the charge sheet, faces up to 10 years in prison
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Websites are selling fake state-of-the-art Australian passports for as little as $1250, boasting they'll pass the most rigorous border checks.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says the sites are just another money-making scam but admit they are "the subject of ongoing discussions" with Australian Federal Police
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A woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter was reportedly collecting images of skulls and skeletons in the weeks after the little girl's death.
Newly released police records revealed the woman, Casey Anthony, posted the macabre pictures to a photo-sharing website on June 26 last year, Fox News reports.
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Spanish police said Friday they had arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering his broken leg was supported by a "cast" made out of cocaine.
The man, who had hobbled off a flight from Santiago, was carrying more of the drug in fake beer cans and two hollowed-out stools.
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Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks and his wife Terry have saved a suicidal man who was threatening to jump off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge.
The couple were returning home on Thursday night when they saw the man standing on railings and apparently about to leap to his death, News Limited newspapers said.
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A Spanish man convicted of murdering his girlfriend after she rejected his marriage proposal on a popular television show was sentenced to 21 years in jail Friday.
The court in the eastern city of Alicante sentenced Ricardo Navarro to 19 years behind bars for the fatal stabbing of his Russian girlfriend, Svetlana Orlova, and another two years for "habitual" physical abuse of the woman during their four-year relationship.
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Incest daughter Jenny Deaves has vowed police action against "low life cyber bullies" who are using Facebook hate groups to menace her family.
The group "John and Jenny Deaves — you disgust us but we want more" has only 42 members but Ms Deaves, 40, says she's been bombarded with abuse and threats.
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A former British model has been jailed after smashing a wine glass on a student's face and dragging it along his cheek.
Lisa Kee was drunk when she attacked Liam Sharratt at an upmarket bar in Deansgate in England's south in 2007, theTelegraph newspaper reports.
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A newborn baby in Britain died after being kissed by her mother who had a cold sore, an inquest has ruled.
Ruth Schofield had no idea she was placing her 11-day-old daughter Jennifer in danger as she went about breastfeeding and kissing the infant, The Telegraph reports.
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The mother of a nine-year-old girl killed instantly in a freak wall collapse has told an inquest she screamed "where's my baby" as she searched for her daughter in the rubble.
Carol Hammacott, 39, was walking daughter Stephanie along the footpath to school in Plymouth, south-west England, last year when a gas explosion caused her neighbour's terrace house to cave in, bringing a wall down on top of the girl.
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody begged doctors to end her life after she learned the disease was terminal, she has revealed.
The reality television star told OK Magazine she "just wanted to give up" in the moments after learning her cancer was incurable.
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The Australian woman who had a romantic relationship with her father and bore him two children has broken up with her most recent boyfriend.
Jenny Deaves told ninemsn she recently called it quits with bisexual father-of-three Shayne Farrell, 34, who has since moved to Tasmania to start a "modelling and casting agency".
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Victorian communities devastated by bushfires will rebuild and Australia will never forget the dead, a memorial service in Melbourne has been told.
Thousands gathered on Sunday at the service, which was addressed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Princess Anne, Governor-General Quentin Bryce, religious leaders and others.
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A Victorian woman has been charged with fraudulently claiming her father was killed in the state's deadly bushfires in order to receive compensation payments.
Victoria Police allege the 31-year-old Sunshine woman made a $10,000 compassion and bereavement application to the Victoria Bushfire Appeal Fund which was denied after its checks found there was no relationship between her and the deceased
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A Sydney dentist has been charged with child sex offences against two teenage girls.
Police say the 41-year-old man's dental surgery and home, both at Penrith in Sydney's west, were raided by officers on Tuesday.
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In as many ways as one can be bullied in person, the possibilities are raised substantially when online technologies are thrown into the mix. As some recent cases have shown, the results of cyberbullying can often be more damaging than face-to-face harassment, due to a lack of understanding about what it is and what can be done to stop it.
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A five-year-old girl has died in hospital after falling from a third-floor window of a Sydney unit block.
Paramedics were called to the unit in Curtis St at Caringbah, in Sydney's south, at 1.42pm (AEDT) on Saturday, finding the girl unconscious.
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A shark attacked a surfer at Bondi beach last night, just a day after a navy diver lost a hand after he was bitten in nearby Sydney harbour.
The 33-year-old man, named as Glenn, had his left arm was seriously injured in the latest attack, shortly before dusk, and he was helped to shore by other surfers.
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Police and family members are baffled by the disappearance of a five-year-old girl who went missing from her own bed.
Sheriff's deputies have searched the local neighbourhood house-to-house and a dive team has probed a nearby river but so far no one can account for Haleigh Cummings from Satsuma, a small town in the US state of Florida.
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AS Catena Di Mauro left her grandmother's home last week, she whispered the words "You remember I love you".
They were the last words she said to her family before she lost a seven-year battle with anorexia nervosa.
The 20-year-old Sydney woman died on Saturday, her frail body weighing just 32kg.
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The death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 84, police say, in what has officially become Australia's deadliest bushfires disaster.
As dozens of blazes continued to rage on Sunday night, it seemed certain that the rapidly-unfolding disaster would claim many more lives.
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The death toll from Victoria's savage bushfires has risen to 35, police have said.
More than 3000 firefighters and many more residents worked to contain fires in all corners of the state, including major fronts at Horsham, Coleraine, Weerite, Kilmore East, Bunyip, Churchill, Dargo, Murrindindi and Redesdale.
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A Californian single mother-of-six who recently gave birth to octuplets has spoken for the first time about her desire to have a "huge" family.
In excerpts from a TV interview yet to be broadcast, Nadya Suleman said she wanted to make up for the loneliness she felt growing up as an only child.
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A brother and sister who disappeared 20 years ago have been found by police.
Bobby and Christi Baskin went missing during a custody dispute between their parents and grandparents in March 1989.
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An 18-year-old US student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts.
"The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really sinister in my estimation," Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel said on Wednesday.
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A woman suspected of recruiting dozens of female suicide bombers in Iraq has told how she arranged the rape of victims and then convinced them martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
The Iraqi military announced the arrest of the woman yesterday, and played reporters video footage of her confessing to her role as a recruiter.
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Judy (not her real name), a 26-year-old Kenyan student who had an illegal abortion aged 18, gives the BBC her reaction to US President Barack Obama's recent decision to end a ban on US aid money going to abortion counselling groups.
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The European Union is being forced to defend one of its founding principles - the free movement of labour between its member states - as unrest among workers across the UK continues.
UK members of the European Parliament are debating precisely how, if at all, existing rules might have to change to end the dispute at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire which has led to various wildcat strikes across the UK.
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No sniffer dogs were being used at the entrance to the Big Day Out music festival where overdose victim Gemma Thoms reportedly swallowed several ecstasy tablets, police say.
Ms Thoms, a 17-year-old trainee hairdresser, died after collapsing in 36-degree heat at the festival, held at Perth's Claremont Showground on Sunday.
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Female empowerment has contributed to the break-up of the traditional family, leaving a generation of children emotionally damaged, according to a controversial report on the state of British childhood.
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Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases.
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An Ohio man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for disciplining his children with a dog shock collar.
David Liskany of Jamestown had pleaded guilty to charges of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault
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Five infants in a hospital incubation unit in northern India have burnt to death when the facility caught fire, media reports said.
The three boys and two girls were being treated for jaundice in the state-run facility in the northern city of Patiala in Punjab state, the United News of India (PTI) news agency reported.
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The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilisation, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
Angela Suleman told AP she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year.
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The father of three children who have names associated with Nazis is accusing the state Division of Youth and Family Services of taking his children under false pretences and said one appeared neglected when he saw them last week. Heath Campbell said on Saturday that he and his wife, Deborah, have been allowed to see their children once since state child welfare workers removed them from the family's home on January 9.
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A note warning of a "big fight" has been found in the home of the man who allegedly threw his daughter off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge.
Her father, 35-year-old Freeman, was arrested about 10.30am after he was spotted with the two other children walking around the Commonwealth Law Courts in central Melbourne "visibly distressed," with the Landcruiser parked outside.
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A man charged with the murder of his daughter after she was allegedly thrown from the West Gate Bridge is in an "acute psychiatric state'', a court has heard.
Arthur Phillip Freeman, 35, of Hawthorn, did not appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court where he was charged over the death of his four-year-old daughter, Darcey Iris Freeman.
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A four-year-old girl remains critically ill after being thrown from Melbourne's West Gate Bridge into the water below.
A man, aged about 35, was arrested just over an hour later outside the Federal Court building in central Melbourne with two other children in his car.
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A Melbourne father of two young boys believed to have been abducted by their mother in Sweden claims a taxpayer-funded feminist group called Kobra is involved.
Swedish authorities are investigating members of Kobra amid allegations the group is using a vast network of "safe houses" and covert techniques to help the mother and children evade police.
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Olivia Newton-John's former partner, believed drowned in a boating tragedy three years ago, staged his own disappearance and is still alive and on the run, private investigators in the US claim.
But suspicion remained over McDermott's disappearance after it emerged he filed for bankruptcy before his disappearance and owed thousands of dollars in child support payments to his ex-wife.
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A talented straight-A student about to begin studies at a prestigious university has lost her two-year battle with anorexia. A "very, very thin" Alice Rae, 18, was found dead in bed by her doctor mother two weeks ago in their $4.2 million family home in Hampshire in the south of England.
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A man who shot dead his pregnant wife on the NSW south coast will be free within two weeks after being granted parole eight years before his maximum jail term expired. Brian Corrigan was sentenced to 22 years in prison after shooting his wife Kim twice in the head at their Kiama home in 1992, killing both her and their unborn baby girl.
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Australian Facebook users who were targeted by identity fraudsters have expressed frustration that their accounts stayed active for days after they were compromised.
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Medication and psychotherapy may be beneficial for patients suffering from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). But a new Cochrane Review found that much more research is required to determine the most effective treatment and whether both approaches should be used in combination.
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A review article which is published in the current issue of the European Journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the relationship between depression and bone metabolism.
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A boy's crusade to stop swearing has drawn the unwanted attention from notorious internet group Anonymous. McKay Hatch's No Cussing Club, which encourages teens to "chill on the profanity", claims to have over 20,000 members worldwide.
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YOUNG Australian women are making more claims for anti-depressants than any other medicine as depression takes hold of a new generation. A new Women's Health Australia study suggests women aged 28 to 33 are in poorer mental health than their mothers or grandmothers, with almost one in five reporting a diagnosis of depression by a doctor. The search for answers in prescription medicines has had young women making about seven claims for anti-depressants a year against the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and spending $113 a year out of their own pockets on treatment.
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NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, including the "happy pill" Prozac, may be no better at relieving the symptoms of depression than a dummy pill. Controversial new research builds on earlier claims that the drugs work only for the most severely depressed patients, and there is no reason to prescribe them unless other treatments have failed.
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AUTHOR Anthony Burgess once wrote that incidents of evil could not always be explained by a shortage of social workers. These days he might argue that not all criminal and obnoxious behaviour is a result of depression. But increasingly that's what teachers, parents and judges are being told. Depression has become the great excuse of our times and what is a genuine condition has been corrupted into a nifty carry-all excuse.
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NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, including the "happy pill" Prozac, may be no better at relieving the symptoms of depression than a dummy pill.
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A PHONE call to emergency services might reveal the fate of two Indonesian students who never returned from a day trip to Marysville on Saturday.
Julianne The, 29, was yesterday searching for her brother Rudi Rudi, 28, and his friend Dean Lesmano, aged in his 20s, after she discovered the pair had called emergency services using the number 112 on her mobile phone on Saturday.
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A Sydney woman told by a doctor "life's a bitch" as she miscarried her baby in a NSW hospital is traumatised, her husband says. The woman is the latest to reveal her harrowing story of poor treatment while miscarrying in the state's public hospitals.
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A man in California has been arrested for arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter for $US16,000 ($A23,577), 100 crates of beer and several cases of meat, police said on Tuesday.
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The baby koala which took refuge in a bucket of water during last week's Victorian heatwave had been deserted by its sick mum and left to roast in the blistering temperatures.
"The mum had become distressed and disorientated by the heat so she left the baby on its own without realising," said Tracey Young, who found the young koala shaking beneath her verandah.
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A second, unidentified U.S. soldier bends around in front of the camera and whimsically interjects, "oh so cute, so cute, little puppy.."
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AIn this photo, King hanging a dog while Lottie Stagg, his assistant, watches attentively. There is no excuse for animal cruelty!
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10 urban administration officers in Dongguan went to Shangjiangcheng village to kill stray dogs, and led to a local villagers' riot. The administrators beat 7-8 dogs to death in 5 minutes. They put the dogs onto the trash in the truck. The blood dyed the ground, frightening some women. Three young men ran out and tried to stop them from killing dogs with kitchen knives. Some villagers complained that the violent scene would scare children nearby; some complained that they lost their watchdogs that guarded their families...
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On a recent visit to Romania, I was shocked to face the cruel reality of bears held in captivity. I‘d like to share with you my experience with Ursula, one of the bears I met there. Ursula is an Asiatic Black Bear and has lived day and night for 26 years in a dirty, rusty cage just a few metres square.
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A Kenyan form of bullfighting, in which two bulls are encouraged to fight each other, was prevented from taking place in the capital Nairobi this month by the joint efforts of a network of animal welfare groups.
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An orphaned bear cub, found by an officer of the Department of Fish & Wildlife in Washington state, USA, and transported nearly 430 miles to the WSPA-funded Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation (IBBR) centre, is a welcome sign that its tried and tested bear rehabilitation techniques are achieving widespread recognition.
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The international campaign against bullfighting gained momentum in South America in November, with the ‘cultural’ argument for bullfighting taking a battering.
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An up-to-date clinic made possible by a generous supporter is now enabling staff at a WSPA-funded sanctuary in Pakistan to give rescued bears the very best care and treatment.
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As the Japanese whaling fleet prepares to set sail for the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary in the coming days, WSPA finds evidence from the country’s own Institute of Cetacean Research that it is impossible to accurately shoot a whale at sea.
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Two blind bears that spent their lives in tiny, rusting cages found new homes in the large woodland enclosures of the world’s biggest bear sanctuary last week – part of a groundbreaking project funded by WSPA.
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