A Chinese businessman who disguised $20,000 cash in a gift box of breakfast tea in a bid to speed up his solar company’s applications before Australia’s Clean Energy Council was heard saying he knew it was “against the law”.
MANILA, Philippines — The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (Paocc) on Thursday defended its operations of the Sanjia Steel Corp. in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, which led to the arrest of Chinese citizens.
Hayden Panettiere’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach were both in the apartment complex where the actor went into cardiac arrest and died earlier this week, according to police reports.
The three Scots College students charged with aggravated sexual assault after allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in an eastern suburbs alley have been barred from Bondi Junction as part of their bail conditions.
A D.C. Superior Court judge signed arrest warrants on August 18, 2026, for six current and former members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Fifth District, accusing them of fraudulently claiming overtime and regular-duty hours they did not work in 2024. The warrants target Peter Sheldon, Frantz Fulcher, Thomas…
Police are scouring Melbourne’s north for an injured man who vanished after he was allegedly shot during an argument and loaded into the back of a ute.
A peak national group representing First Nations children has urged the Queensland government to withdraw a controversial new youth justice bill, citing fears for the safety and welfare of vulnerable kids.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said on Thursday that it has initiated an independent fact-finding investigation into the Aug. 18 shooting at the Ateneo de Zamboanga,as it extended its sympathies to the families and the school community.
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) -- A joint anti-terrorism exercise involving the military, civilians, government and police will be held later Thursday on South Korea's eastern Ulleung Island as part of the ongoing combined exercise with the United States, the Navy said.
DEATHS IN A CAMPUS. The Ateneo de Zamboanga University junior high school campus in Zamboanga where deadly shootings claimed the lives of two young students on Tuesday morning, August 18, 2026.
A biological male who identifies as a woman was sentenced on Tuesday to six years and one month in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to kill US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
A biological male who identifies as a woman was sentenced on Tuesday to six years and one month in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to kill US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Triple murderer Erin Patterson continues her bid to have her conviction overturned in the Court of Appeal, while the Office of Public Prosecutions launches its own appeal to have a harsher sentence imposed that removes any chance of parole.
HAMPTON, Tenn. (AP) — Two members of a university cycling team were killed and seven others were injured Wednesday when a car collided with a group of riders in northeastern Tennessee, state officials said.
Tennessee runs onto the field before an NCAA college football game against Georgia, Sept. 13, 2025, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
Lebanon has handed over a former senior Syrian army officer to Damascus to face charges related to murder and torture, the first such transfer since former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was toppled in 2024.
Women protest for stronger laws to combat misogyny and femicide on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Border Police officers seized 162 kg. of avocados suspected of having been stolen from agricultural fields near the community of Yesodot in central Israel on Tuesday, police said.
Three teenage boys have been charged over the alleged rape of a girl at a home in Sydney’s south-west suburbs on the weekend, one week after a trio of eastern suburbs teens were accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old.
Protesters against a Missouri congressional redistricting plan gather outside the Missouri Capitol on May 12, 2026, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)
A sign in support of a proposed constitutional amendment backed by the group Respect Missouri Voters sits outside the Cole County Courthouse in Jefferson City, Mo., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
A coordinated crackdown on organized retail crime across California ended with 97 arrests and the recovery of thousands of stolen products, according to KTLA.
Foreign minister says Australia is ‘outraged’ after Israeli government decided not to pursue criminal proceedings over 2024 triple drone strike on humanitarian convoy