A ferry carrying about 300 passengers reportedly sunk off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. Authorities in Papua New Guinea and Australia have sent boats to help in a search and rescue operations. PNG Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters about 28 survivors were rescued from the MV Rabaul Queen, which is operated by [...]

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A decomposing body found about 30feet up a tree in Sydney, Australia, has left police baffled as to how it got there. The female body was found last week after residents in Prince Lane, Randwick, began smelling a foul odor down a narrow street behind a row of homes where garbage containers are kept. Initially, [...]

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An American doctor was sentenced in a Cambodian court to 10 years in prison for paying for sex with two boys, aged 12 and 15. Sixty nine year old Phillip Bruce Shepard, who worked at a private Phnom Penh clinic, was arrested last July after the boys’ parents filed a complaint against him.  Authorities began [...]

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A former U.S. Marine from Arizona has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court for being a CIA spy. Five months after he was arrested, twenty-eight year old Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, who served as an Arabic translator in the military, was convicted of “working for an enemy country…for membership in the CIA and also [...]

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A professional Mexican soccer player is accused of having ties to drug cartels who are involved in a major kidnapping ring. Omar “El Gato” Ortiz is accused of using his celebrity status to get close to at least 20 wealthy Mexicans, including the husband of pop star Gloria Trevi, who were kidnapped by the cartels. [...]

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