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A US man, buying an iPad for his mate in Canada, had part of a finger amputated after a man stole the device. DENVER – A thief’s thirst for a brand new iPad cost a […] […]

Police are considering the possibility that the murder of Carl Williams in prison had a ‘sinister’ motive. CANBERRA – The murder of former Melbourne crime boss Carl Williams has opened a new can of worms […] […]

Prison officers reportedly took 25 minutes to find a dying Carl Williams in his top security cell at Barwon Prison. A source told the Herald Sun police and prison bosses were shocked to learn no […] […]

RICHMOND, Virginia – A former Virginia Tech graduate student from China who prosecutors said decapitated a classmate in a campus cafe because she rejected his romantic advances was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Montgomery […] […]

Despite grounding 100,000 flights across Europe, battering a beleaguered airline industry, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers, disrupting schools and businesses, and giving homes under flight paths their first peace and quiet in decades, the […] […]

A 15-year-old who was relied on to counsel schoolmates devastated her family and community when she took her own life after receiving threatening text messages from the wife of her lover. The Rotorua teenager killed […] […]

Jessica Watson is on course to be the youngest person to complete a non-stop solo sailing trip around the world. They have claimed Phar Lap, Crowded House and pavlova as their own. But now New […] […]

A former Auckland University student has been convicted of murdering his wife and torching their United States home to destroy evidence. After eight hours of deliberations over two days, a jury found Blazej Kot, 25, […] […]

Teanewa Joseph Ipo forced both his victims into a wardrobe. File photo / Supplied A man who burst into a Auckland woman’s home, raped and then beat her before he trapped her in a wardrobe […] […]

A woman cyclist killed after being struck by a train is believed to have been distracted listening to an iPod-style music player, prompting warnings about the dangers of the devices. The 55-year-old, from Tauranga, was […] […]