A Tasmanian resident who was officially registered as missing has been discovered, alive and almost well, in a bar in the south island of New Zealand. The wayward drinker was reported as being oblivious in every sense. 45-year-old Michael Craig was reported as missing by his travel buddy after he left ...Read More...

A Sydney woman accused of choking her two-year-old son and hiding his body in a piece of luggage has received a 19 year prison sentence. Twenty-eight-year-old Rachel Pfitzner pleaded guilty to the murder of her son Dean Shillingsworth in October 2007. Pfitzner told the NSW Supreme Court that she had held the ...Read More...

Qatar Airways begins operations to and from Australia with a new Doha to Melbourne air route. The carrier thus adds one more continent to its rapidly expanding international network. Melbourne becomes Qatar Airways’ 85th destination and its fourth new route in 2009. The award-winning airline plans to initiate flights to Sydney ...Read More...

Shark campaigner Richard Fitzpatrick says he lassoes and humps on the sea predators for science, stressing that he’s not doing this in the name of entertainer. The marine biologist does not want to be compared to the famed and late croc hunter Steve Irwin. The 39-year-old scientist is amassing information stemming from ...Read More...

An alleged Satanist and would-be paedophile has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment over a bizarre scheme which attempted to lure young girls to a cemetery in Sydney for sex using a bogus internet gothic club. The conditions of becoming a member of the Rookwood Gothic Society was that new applicants ...Read More...

Re-enactment of Tiger Woods car incident.   Apple Daily website, based in Taiwan, has come up with a computer-generated sequence of events depicting Tiger Woods' car crash in Florida last week. Also, an American commercial passenger carrier is aiming at cashing in on the latest pro golfer controversy by showing on its website ...Read More...

Nine men have been charged by police authorities over their involvement in an alleged criminal network responsible for the distribution of heroin, crystal methamphetamine and firearms in the Illawarra. The accused, ranging in age between 24 and 50, were apprehended yesterday after raids on four residences in Dapto, Cringila and Unanderra ...Read More...

Worrying new statistics have revealed that children from the Northern Territory are twice as likely to suffer premature death before they reach the age of 17 than in any other Australian state of territory. The new report, released this week, showed that some 56 Northern Territory children under the age of ...Read More...