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Two men allegedly threatened the owner of Rhia Jewellers Calamvale with a gun before taking $200,000 in jewellery from the family-owned store on May 22.
At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody.
Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting.
An assault charge has been quietly dropped against a man arrested after a violent confrontation between protesters at a speaking venue for NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham.
Balin Stewart was aged 16 when his heart was pierced by a 12 centimetre steak knife blade on January 20 last year outside his family's home in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Buddina.
The owner wasn't at home at the time of the theft but received a notification on his phone from the tracking device fitted in his car, saying that it had been moved.
A trial of convicted wife-killer, former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson will begin examining his alleged relationship with one of his students.
Two Greek nationals have been arrested in Sydney after police allegedly found 120kg of cocaine, worth $60 million, hidden inside a shipping container the men allegedly wanted to break into.
An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so severely the 10-month-old was dead just over a month later were sentenced to life in prison.
A traumatised mother has described the moment she begged for her baby's life when a group of men allegedly broke into a young Melbourne couple's home, armed with machetes.
The mother of Brian Laundrie, the man who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, and later himself in 2021, wrote to her son saying she would help him 'dispose of a body' or 'bake a cake with a file in it' to help him in jail.
The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.
An officer allegedly asked great grandmother Clare Nowland to "stop" several times during negotiations with her to drop a steak knife before saying "bugger it" as he was deploying his Taser.