Crime
Manson's grandson wins battle for infamous cult leader's corpse
A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson has won the bizarre California court battle for the killer's corpse
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Crime
Port Melbourne citizen's arrest: Thief shoved into cupboard after being busted in car
A man who was woken by the sound of someone rummaging through his car boot makes an unusual citizen's arrest.
- by Daniella Miletic
Brisbane
Police release images of remaining Irish tourists accused of scams, fraud
The group, made up of men, women and children, have been linked to glass or hair planting in restaurant meals, shoplifting, trashing several apartments and dodgy construction across Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
- by Amy Mitchell-Whittington
Crime
'Nationwide call' for sex abuse victims at boys' home after arrest
More arrests ''imminent'' after allegations of decades of ''horrific'' sex abuse at Sydney boys' home.
- by Lucy Cormack
‘Like a magician’: thief bamboozles fruit shop cashier out of $100
How did he do it? While the cashier was distracted, the man hid a $50 note he was handed, then claimed to have been short-changed by this amount.
- by Angela Thompson
Opinion
Opinion
The astonishing eye of Peter Temple
Temple was born in South Africa and didn’t arrive on these shores, by way of Germany, until his early thirties yet he held a true mirror up to Australia.
- by Michael Robotham
USA
Childcare worker gets 21 years for drugging children to go tanning
January Neatherlin, 32, was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison on 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and one count of third degree assault.
USA
'They kill people': Trump urges death penalty for drug dealers
The US criminal justice system is too soft on drugs, according to President Donald Trump.
Health warning as nerve agent found in pub visited by Russian ex-spy
Traces of a highly toxic nerve agent have been found at a pub and restaurant visited by ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
- by Henry Nicholls
UK
Russian spy mystery: The family surrounded by death
Yulia Skripal travelled to Salisbury in England to commemorate her brother's untimely death.
- by Steve Bird
Russia
Mysterious bag containing 54 severed human hands found in Russia
Russian police launch investigation after a bag of 54 severed human hands was discovered at a popular fishing spot.