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Baby saved from Japan earthquake
Yaron Steinbuch A BABY girl who had been asleep when a deadly earthquake struck Japan was rescued from the rubble of a destroyed home after a six-hour rescue operation.
Pentagon chief visits South China Sea
AP THE US Defence Secretary, Ash Carter, has visited an American aircraft carrier in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
‘Worse today than 100 years ago’
Reuters DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has decried the “immoral” gap between the world’s haves and have nuts at a Vatican conference.
Princess Cristina’s accuser arrested
AP THE leader of the anti-corruption group that brought criminal tax fraud charges against Spain’s Princess Cristina has been arrested.
Swede on trial for terrorism charges
A SWEDISH man is on trial on terrorism charges after he allegedly tried to build a bomb similar to ones used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks.
Taliban launch major push to retake city
Taliban insurgents have launched an offensive to seize the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.
Belgian minister quits over security
Reuters THE Belgian transport minister has resigned over accusations she ignored lapses in security at Brussels airport before the March attacks.
UK arrests five over Paris, Brussels
Reuters FIVE people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels.
South America
Vice president’s massive speech leak
WITH Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff facing impeachment, her deputy ‘accidentally’ released a speech that critics described as evidence of a ‘brazen coup plot’.
Neglected toddler ‘eaten by ants’
A MEXICAN woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after neglecting her daughter so badly that authorities found her paralysed and eaten by ants.
New murder capital of the world
WELCOME to the most dangerous city in the world, where a person is killed every hour and morgues are overflowing with bodies. WARNING: Graphic
Panama law firm’s huge China presence
AS BEIJING’S web censors ban any mention of the tax evasion leak, it has been revealed the Panama Papers law firm has more offices in China than any other country.
Man threatens to burn judge alive
A MAN douses a judge in petrol, threatening to burn her alive if she found him guilty of assaulting his wife. WARNING: Graphic
Fidel Castro slams Obama’s Cuba visit
FIDEL Castro has broken his silence over US President Obama’s Cuba visit in a damning letter published in state-run newspaper Granma.
Mexicans burn Trump effigy for Easter
VENGEFUL Mexicans have set fire to an effigy of Donald Trump in a modern twist on a Holy Week ritual in which figures of the devil are torched.
Ruthless gangs running virgin auctions
GIRLS as young as 10 are being sold to tourists who want to take their virginity in one of Colombia’s most famous cities.
Argentina sinks Chinese fishing boat
ARGENTINA has opened fire on a Chinese boat, sinking the alleged illegal fishing vessel inside its national waters.
Dragged from the toilets and bashed
BRUTAL footage from Cancun, Mexico, shows an alledged paedophile being beaten by an angry father, moments after he heard his daughter’s screams.
Protesters call for President to quit
MORE than three million Brazilians have taken to the streets calling for embattled President Dilma Rousseff to resign amid a major corruption scandal.
‘We have no idea what animal this is’
A WEIRD, blob-like sea monster has washed up on a popular beach, leaving tourists shocked and experts baffled.
Weather girl’s bum confuses viewers
SHE shot to fame after Playboy named her “the world’s hottest weather girl”. Now Yanet Garcia is once again turning heads.
Strippers give prison inmates lap dances
STRIPPERS have been caught on camera gyrating naked in front of nearly 200 admiring prisoners in these graphic scenes.
Beetle invasion sparks apocalypse theory
HOLIDAYMAKERS have reacted with horror after an unexplained “biblical” plague of black bugs invaded a beach, leaving experts baffled.
Bolivia’s Morales concedes defeat
BOLIVIA’S President Evo Morales has reluctantly conceded defeat in a weekend referendum aimed at delivering him a fourth term.
Survivor recalls decision to eat friends
A SURVIVOR of the 1972 Andes flight disaster has recounted in a new book of the anguish he faced in eating the bodies of his friends to make it out alive.
‘Mythical river’ boils things alive
ANDRES Ruzo located a “boiling river” in the Amazon that is so hot that it can cause third-degree burns or even death.
What does the Pope eat?
POPE Francis has spent the past week visiting Mexico. So did he chow down on tacos? What are his dietary demands? His chef tells all.
Desperate women beg for abortions
WOMEN scared of giving birth to babies disabled by the Zika virus are turning to the internet for abortion pills.
Video shows baby on window ledge
VIDEO of a toddler walking out onto a window ledge and hanging precariously above a street has gone viral as the family responds to calls of neglect.
Pope seals historic meeting with a kiss
POPE Francis has kissed Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in a historic meeting nearly 1000 years after the split of Eastern and Western Christianity.
Prison riot leaves 52 inmates dead
RIOT police have been called to restore order at an overcrowded prison in Mexico after a bloody battle between rival gangs left 52 inmates dead.
Town wiped off map in minutes
IT TOOK decades to build and just minutes to completely destroy. This is the crushing legacy of a monumental disaster.
Zika found in saliva and urine
IN a sign of mounting global concern, the Zika virus has been found in saliva and urine samples raising the possibility it could be spread by the two body fluids.
Inside El Chapo’s underground world
EL CHAPO’S infamous tunnels have made him a household name. Liz Hayes explored the maze that made him a fortune.
Zika case raises new alarm
BRAZIL has confirmed the first known case of the Zika virus being transmitted through a blood transfusion, adding a new concern for health authorities.
Zika virus spreads through sex
THE first case of Zika virus transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been recorded in the US as two people in Ireland are diagnosed with the disease.
Extreme response to virus panic
PANIC is escalating over the spread of a horrific virus with no cure, and some worried countries are going to extremes.
Asia braces itself for Zika virus
TROPICAL Southeast Asia is bracing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus, after cases were found in New Zealand and the World Health Organisation said it was “spreading explosively”.
Man falls to death after forgetting keys
THIS is the horrific moment a man plunges 10 metres to his death after scaling his apartment building to try to access his third-storey home.
Only hope to stop horror virus
SCIENTISTS have developed a radical new solution to defeating one of the biggest health threats since Ebola.
Scared sloth saved from highway
THESE photos of a sloth in Ecuador have captured the attention of people all over the world, after police posted the frightened critter to their Facebook page.
US airlines refund tickets over Zika fears
TWO major US airlines are offering refunds to passengers worried about the Zika virus as the first American resident tests positive.
Explorer dies in Antarctic solo attempt
AN EXPLORER and friend of the British Royals has died of organ failure just 50 kilometres short of completing the first unaided crossing of the Antarctic.
Aussies at risk from the Zika virus
PREGNANT women are being urged to avoid trips to countries affected by the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is suspected of causing brain damage to babies.
Flying man’s miraculous survival
INCREDIBLE dashcam footage shows the moment a man is flung into the air as a pick-up truck spins out of control in Brazil. Watch the heart-stopping video.
Mystery death crippling a country
HE WAS found with a single bullet to the head hours before testifying to Congress. One year on, there’s a new twist in the case some say is state-sanctioned murder.
Sisters rescued from shocking squalor
COLOMBIAN police are investigating the discovery of two women believed to have been held captive in the most deplorable conditions in their family home for many decades.
Bombshell nabbed over burglary spree
A BRITISH mum dubbed the “Barbie bandit” has been arrested for allegedly leading a gang that burgled luxury homes in Argentina.
‘I want you’: Drug lord’s lustful texts
FOR a month, the world’s most wanted drug lord exchanged lewd texts with the famous Mexican actress who would end up getting him caught.
‘Burning’ boys pleaded for help
SEVEN school-age boys were trapped in a locked prison cell as it was engulfed by flames. But the response from authorities was as horrifying as the fire itself.
World’s ‘most wanted’ druglord captured
THE world’s most-wanted drug lord has been captured for a third time in a daring raid by Mexican marines.
Reporter loses bikini live on air
A TV reporter in Chile had an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction during a live TV segment when the surf got the better of her bikini top.
Prisoner’s gross escape attempt
WARNING: Graphic. Hold your breath, folks. A prisoner has been caught attempting to escape from jail via the communal toilet. And it’s all on camera.
Mayor dead a day after taking office
SHE declared her fight against crime would be “frontal and direct”. But Gisela Mota didn’t stand a chance, and only lasted a day in office.
Miss Colombia: ‘It was humiliating’
MISS Colombia is back home and she isn’t holding back in response to questions about the Miss Universe debacle, calling it a “very big injustice”.
Panic over twin UFO sightings
SOMETHING strange is afoot in South America. Two UFO sightings have sparked a frenzy among sceptics and believers alike.
Rescued after five days in a sinking boat
PICTURE this. You are on a boat and it suddenly breaks apart. You are forced onto a lifeboat but then that starts to sink. What do you do?
How Rio looks as Olympics loom
TRAFFIC is snarled, venues far from ready and tickets nowhere near sold. There aren’t even enough beds, with just 36 weeks until Rio 2016.
Horror as bus plunges off bridge
AT least 42 people, mostly police officers, have been killed when a bus lost control and drove off a bridge in Argentina.
Radio call becomes murder confession
IT’S the country’s most popular radio program on relationships, but when a former soldier called up, no one was ready for what he had to say.
Two dead after chopper crash on TV show
TWO people have been killed in a helicopter crash on the set of MTV reality show The Challenge. It is the latest in a sad string of TV deaths involving choppers.
The internet says he’s the hottest cop
A GOOD-LOOKING policeman has been whipping up a storm on social media with a mass of admirers flooding a fan page with pictures.
Rio braces for post-Olympics ‘bloodbath’
BRAZIL’S most famous city is making progress ahead of the Games, but there are fears over what will happen when the circus moves on.
Is this the holy grail of shipwrecks?
ITS location has been a mystery since it sunk 300 years ago with a billion dollar cargo of emeralds, gold and silver coins. But Colombia says they’ve found it.
Did missing Aussie surfers know the risk?
SINALOA state in Mexico is known as dangerous territory. But official advice to Australian travellers has not been changed since late October.
Olympic host city Rio ‘a war zone’
THE shooting deaths of five young men in an apparently botched police operation have reignited safety fears for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Secret passage may lead to Aztec king
A SECRET passage leading to two sealed chambers has Mexican archaeologists hopeful they have finally found the tomb of a long-lost Aztec emperor.
‘Raped into confessing husband’s murder’
HAVING lost her husband, Yecenia Armenta could never have imagined her life could get worse. But she was very, very wrong.
Sex accident kills bride’s parents
A BRIDE has lost both her parents on the eve of her wedding after a romantic tryst in a hotel spa bath went horribly wrong.
‘I was raped 43,200 times’
BY THE time she was rescued from her four-year nightmare, Karla Jacinto, 23, had experienced the very worst of humanity.
‘There are people here who lost it all’
BHP is under fire after two mining dams burst in Brazil swamping remote villages in a deluge of mud. As the death roll rises rescuers search for survivors.
‘The biggest natural disaster in our history’
TWO dams have burst in an iron ore mine in Brazil, leaving two people dead and hundreds of others fleeing for their lives.
‘All we ask for is the truth’
HE was found with his face skinned off a day after 43 of his classmates vanished. Now, Julio’s corpse could crack the case wide open.
Incestuous act that shocked a nation
WHAT this woman did with her stepbrother is beyond belief, but she says she has a clear conscience. WARNING: Disturbing.
Men are vanishing from this island
A BEAUTIFUL island in the Caribbean Sea has become the last port of call for a nefarious trade, and one in four of its men have disappeared.
Outrage over ‘girl fight club’ footage
SICKENING vision has emerged of two girls, aged five and six, fighting on a street encouraged by their mothers. WARNING: Graphic video
Man gravely ill after spider bite
A STUDENT is fighting for life after being bitten by one of the world’s most dangerous spiders outside a university toilet. WARNING: Graphic
23 members of one family killed
220 people are dead and 350 still missing after a landslide swallowed a town in Guatemala. This man lost most of his family, and is left sorting through the bodies.
Young girl ‘possessed by the devil’
SHOCKING footage has emerged of a girl who apparently became possessed after playing with a Ouija board using a mobile phone app.
Assassin ‘just as vicious ... as the men’
THE 10-year reign of Mexico’s assassin queen is over. One of the country’s most notorious hired killers has been arrested after her boyfriend turned on her.
The baby born with ‘two noses’
DOCTORS say a baby born with two tubes growing from his face is doing well and with plastic surgery will look like any other infant.
Tourist shot and killed in Colombia
AN American tourist has been shot to death in Colombia during an apparent robbery attempt after leaving his hotel in a wealthy enclave of Medellin.
‘She died in a terrible way’
SECURITY cameras capture Maria allegedly being hurled off apartment balcony by her ‘easygoing Aussie’ boyfriend.
Mysterious 9000-year-old facepalm
FACEPALM had a completely different meaning 9000 years ago. But we have no idea what. A strange stone-age decapitation burial has anthropologists scratching their heads.
‘All your little problems in life don’t matter’
HE WALKED 800 kilometres through Spain with only bare necessities. But what Mitch Kyle learnt along the way changed his life forever.
‘Serpent Jaguar’ tomb opened
AN intact 2700-year-old tomb has been unearthed in Peru, containing the mysterious remains of two ‘Serpent Jaguar’ priests and their symbols of power.
‘We screamed as everything was shaking’
A MASSIVE 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile, killing five people, triggering evacuations and sparking warnings that tsunami waves could reach as far as Japan.
Two dead on set of Tom Cruise film
TOM Cruise flew across a dangerous stretch of mountain just 10 minutes before a plane crashed, killing two crew members on his upcoming movie.
Man kept wife and son in filthy cage
A MAN kept his wife and autistic son locked in a cage, where he allegedly forced one of them to eat dog food and breathe gasoline fumes.
Poll challenge for Trump at last
THE Donald Trump presidential nomination campaign juggernaut has been dealt a blow, by a most unlikely contender.
Brazil’s glamour mayor on the run
THIS young mayor has gone into hiding after she was accused of corruption and remotely running her town through WhatsApp.
Bloodiest $30 billion ever made
HE WAS behind thousands of murders, stopping at nothing to protect his trade. It made him one of the world’s richest men.
Gunned down in cold blood at bar
EIGHTEEN people have been killed and seven injured in a wave of overnight shootings in Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, that some have linked to rogue police.
11-year-old rape victim gives birth
AN 11-year-old girl who was raped is “lucky to be alive” after being forced to give birth, as authorities refused to let her have an abortion.
Time runs out for gangster ‘Playboy’
SOME are toasting his death as justice catching up with a very bad crime lord, but others say it was state-sanctioned murder.
Radio host shot dead on air
HE WAS an outspoken personality who often criticised the government. But during a live broadcast, two gunmen silenced him for good.
Stark warning about killer robot arms race
KILLER robots are inevitable: It’s a stark warning, but Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and 1000 other academics and entrepreneurs have made an urgent appeal to do something about it.
Snake-stampede? Yes, they had legs
A FOUR-LEGGED snake? A new fossil uncovered in Brazil suggests the ancient reptile wasn’t always on its belly.
MP breastfeeds baby in parliament
A PHOTO showing a politician feeding her 8-month-old baby during a parliamentary session has caused a sensation on social media.
Australian link to ancient Amazon
DID an ancient tribe of Australian Aborigines colonise the Amazon? Unexpected new DNA results may have uncovered a long-forgotten wave of migration some 15,000 years ago.
‘El Chapo’ escape: seven arrested
WHILE Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman continues to evade authorities, several others have been arrested in connection with the Mexican drug lord’s elaborate prison escape.
How a sparrow ‘helped El Chapo escape’
A SPARROW may have played a key role in the ingenious jail break of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, it has emerged.
The T-shirt too rude for Pope Francis
A BUSTY model has caused a furore after wearing this top as she waited to see Pope Francis — and it’s not the first time she’s made headlines.
The moment Mexicos drug lord escaped
MEXICO has released a video showing fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman going into his prison cell’s shower and bending down before he escaped.
Mayan pyramid one of world’s biggest
FIVE years after its discovery, excavations of a Mayan pyramid in Mexico have revealed it to be among the largest yet found.
Inside drug lord’s elaborate plot
HIS escape from maximum security prison has astonished many. This is how the notorious drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman did it.
Papal gift raises eyebrows, hackles
THE president of Bolivia has been accused of attempting to embarrass Pope Francis by presenting the Pontiff with an unusual and highly political gift.
Beaten senseless for refusing threesome
A WOMAN who was bashed by her husband after an indecent proposal has posted images of her injuries to shame police into prosecuting him. Warning: graphic.
