German woman, 65, pregnant with quads

A 65-YEAR-OLD woman from Berlin is pregnant with quadruplets, German private broadcaster RTL has reported. 

 
THE woman, identified on Sunday only as Annegret R due to German data protection laws, conceived after receiving fertility treatment abroad.

Bangladesh hangs top Islamist leader

BANGLADESH authorities have hanged a top Islamist leader for overseeing a massacre during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan, officials say
An Islamist leader has hung in India for war crimes during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.

"MOHAMMAD Kamaruzzaman has been executed at 10.30pm Bangladesh time," law and justice minister Anisul Huq told AFP after Saturday's hanging.

Rapper and reality TV star Nelly arrested

RAPPER and reality TV star Nelly is facing felony drug charges after being arrested in Tennessee.
Rapper and reality TV star Nelly is facing felony drug charges after being arrested in Tennessee

TENNESSEE Highway Patrol said in a news release that Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Haynes, was pulled over at 9:20am on Saturday because the bus he was riding in failed to display a US

Seven killed in US plane crash

SEVEN people have been killed in a small plane crash outside Chicago.

 

THE passengers were returning home from the NCAA college basketball championship game in Indianapolis early on Tuesday morning.

Newlywed bride dies after contracting rare brain-eating bug swimming in lake on holiday

A YOUNG newlywed’s life was tragically cut short after she contracted a rare, brain-eating amoeba while swimming on a Spring holiday. 
 

Tragic ... A young brides life was cut short after she contracted a rare, brain-eating amoeba on holiday. 

The Mirror reports that US woman Koral Reef, had just married her high school sweetheart Corey Pier when she fell ill.

Adult, 7 kids 'found dead in US home'

US police say seven children and one adult, all related, have been found dead in a Maryland home. 



OFFICERS from the Princess Anne Police Department said no foul play is suspected.

100-year-old man kills wife with axe while she slept

US prosecutors say a 100-year-old man apparently killed his wife with an axe as she slept in their home, then took his own life in the bathroom with a knife. 
Tragic ... Man kills his wife and then himself. Picture: Supplied.

Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said there was a “history of domestic issues” between Michael Juskin and his 88-year-old wife, Rosalia.

US sociologist exposes a world of ‘real vampires’

There really are vampires among us, lurking in the shadows of society and hiding in plain sight. Are they really monsters? Or just misunderstood? One academic has stepped into their world of darkness to find out. 



DOCTOR John Edgar Browning has been working among them for the past five years in the quiet corners of New Orleans and Buffalo.

He has been researching the phenomenon of ‘real vampirism’.
Armed only with satchel, clipboard and a digital voice recorder,

Lawyers to fight on for death row Aussies

ANDREW Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have a legitimate legal case that should prevent Indonesian authorities from moving on their executions, their lawyers argue

Lawyers for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are vowing to launch a fresh legal bid. Sou

THE Bali Nine pair on Monday lost a bid to challenge their clemency rejections, with the state administrative court upholding its earlier decision that the presidential decrees were outside its jurisdiction.

Iran like you’ve never seen it

IN the small Gulf Coast town of Minab in southern Iran there is a market as famous for its uniquely dressed vendors as it is for its wares. 
 A strikingly dressed Bandari woman at her stall in Iran’s Panjshambe Bazaar. 

African and Indian influences are evident throughout the Gulf Coast region.

Each week, Panjshambe Bazaar attracts visitors from all over the region who come to experience the vibrant mix of African, Asian and Arab influences that make up the local tribes, known as the Bandari, which means ‘people of the port’ in Persian.

The woman behind the world’s most powerful women

YOU may not have heard of her, but Kristina Schake is the woman behind the world’s most powerful women. 

Kristina Schake knows who to talk to ordinary people.
 

She was responsible for making us see Michelle Obama as a strong, stylish and relatable first lady.
Now she’s taking on an even bigger challenge: getting Hillary Clinton elected as the first female US president.

The girls finally standing up and being counted

ARRIVING in India is always an assault on the senses — visceral, confronting, confusing. But as I landed in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad a few days ago, India surprised and confounded me in a whole new way.
India’s daughters are finally stepping forward to be counted.

I bounced straight off the plane into a party my friend was hosting. The crowd was a mix of well educated locals and expats.

There was animated discussion about the BBC documentary India’s Daughter, a film about the vicious gang rape of a young Delhi woman in 2012.

Malaysia arrests 17 over terror plot

MALAYSIA'S police chief says 17 people, including two who recently returned from Syria, have been arrested on suspicion of plotting terror attacks in the capital Kuala Lumpur. 

 

AUTHORITIES in the Muslim-majority country have expressed increasing alarm over the threat of Muslim militancy in the wake of the Islamic State (IS) group's bloody jihad in Syria and Iraq.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein lives on in Islamic State

SADDAM Hussein’s legacy lives on in the senior ranks of the Islamic State, with his former top commanders leading the jihadist organisation. 

The Islamic State was built on Saddam Hussein’s influence

The Iraqi dictator’s influence has made IS, also known as ISIS, more efficient and dangerous than would otherwise have been possible.

Bali Nine lawyers lose death row appeal

AUSTRALIANS Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan have lost their appeal in Indonesia to challenge the decision to deny them clemency. 

 
A decision is due in the last-ditch death row appeal in Indonesia for the Bali Nine pair.

THE appeal in the state administrative court was likely the pair's last legal avenue to save them from the firing squad.

DownGRADED: Dad gives sons bad haircuts as punishment for appalling school grades

A DAD decided to teach his two sons a lesson they wouldn't forget – by shaving off parts of their hair for getting bad grades at school.

The unusual super-strict parenting style was filmed and uploaded onto popular video-sharing website LiveLeak.

Nun 'stabbed schoolboy in hand' to teach him about the suffering of Jesus Christ

A NUN allegedly stabbed a schoolboy to teach him about the suffering of Jesus Christ.

 JESUS WEPT: Sister Ludovita allegedly put a needle into a schoolboy's hand

Sister Ludovita, 30, had been giving Religious Education classes at a school when she told pupil Adam Celko, 7, to come to the front of the class.

War vet suing docs for £3.5m after penis op left him 'deformed' and 'bent'

A WAR veteran is suing doctors for £3.5million after a penis implant left his package "bent in two places"

 DEFORMED: The man claims his penis is now bent in two places

Luis Carrillo, 68, said the operation – designed to cure erectile dysfunction – left him too "deformed to have sex".

Woman charged with murder after claiming her dog shot her boyfriend

A WOMAN who told cops that her dog shot her boyfriend has been charged with his murder.

CHARGED: Tyaina Finch claimed a pet dog shot her boyfriend 

Tyaina Finch, 27, told police that the gun had gone off accidentally as she tried to wrestle it from the pet's mouth.

Dog finally finds a family when tear-jerking pic goes viral

A DOG who sat and waited to be adopted for five years finally found a loving home – thanks to Facebook.
 WEEP: Chester with the sign which finally got him adopted 

Chester the pit bull was found as a stray and taken into an animal shelter where he was overlooked for five long years.

Aust "victim" seeks Michael Jackson riches

AUSTRALIAN choreographer Wade Robson could learn this week in a Los Angeles court if he can pursue a slice of Michael Jackson's $US1.5 billion ($A2.0 billion) estate. 

 
Wade Robson

ROBSON, once the late King of Pop's staunchest defender, now claims Jackson was a predator who repeatedly sexually abused him as a child.

Kenya massacre: Garissa gunman Abdirahim Abdullahi a ‘brilliant upcoming lawyer’

AUTHORITIES in Kenya say they have identified one of the four dead al-Shabab gunmen who massacred nearly 150 people at Garissa University as an ethnic-Somali Kenyan national and law graduate. 

Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka on Sunday named one of the attackers as Abdirahim Abdullahi, saying he was “a university of Nairobi law graduate and described by a person who knows him well as a brilliant upcoming lawyer.”

UK holds 16-year-old girl on terror charge

BRITISH police say a 16-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.



GREATER Manchester Police said on Sunday that the girl was arrested following a police raid at her Manchester home on Friday.

Scientists restart Large Hadron Collider

SCIENTISTS have successfully restarted the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful atom-smasher ever built, hoping to enter a new realm of physics and make history for the second time. 




TWO beams of particles travelling a whisker below the speed of light were sent flying in opposite directions through the LHC's 27 kilometres of circular underground tunnels straddling the Swiss-French border.

Stranded sailor hits back at doubters

THE US sailor who claims to have survived 66 days at sea by eating raw fish and reading his Bible has hit back at sceptics, saying: “God knows I’m a truthful man”. 

Not a scratch ... Louis Jordan walks from the Coast Guard helicopter to hospital in Norfolk, Virginia after being found off the North Carolina coast.

Louis Jordan made headlines when he was rescued last Thursday after being stranded 330 kilometres off the North Carolina coast.

Former TV staffer sues network, alleging sexual harassment

HIS lawyer says the story of Kenneth Lombardi is “typical of a man or a woman who just wants to get ahead in the entertainment business.” 
Former CBS associate video producer Kenneth Lombardi said he was doing his dream job when a request for career advice went awry.  

The handsome former video producer at US TV network CBS is suing for sexual harassment, saying he was repeatedly drunkenly groped and kissed by powerful men at the company.

Malaysia chopper crash kills six

A HELICOPTER has crashed south of Kuala Lumpur, killing all six people on board, including Prime Minister Najib Razak's Chief of Staff and a former ambassador to the United States. 
 Crashed chopper with six onboard

THE helicopter went down on Saturday in a rubber plantation in the town of Semenyih with Najib's principal private secretary, Azlin Alias, aboard.