AUSTRALIA – A 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty to child sex offenses for permitting her boyfriend to sexually assault her daughters. Apparently the man was “educating” the girls on sex by raping them. As one can imagine, the girls are traumatized still from the continuous abuse they went through by their mother’s boyfriend between 2005 and 2008. The most shocking pat of the story is that their own mother knowingly put them in the situation where [...]

AUSTRALIA – An Australian girl was food poisoned when she was seven after eating Chicken Twister Wrap at a KFC restaurant back in 2005. The family of the girl initiated a lawsuit against KFC and won the case. A judge recently ruled that she became sick due to the hygienic negligence of the KFC employees at that particular branch. The girl, Monika Samaan suffered severe brain damages that led to paralyses after consuming salmonella infected [...]

AUSTRALIA – A 3-year-old boy determined to get his favorite toy from a vending machine one way or the other. The toddler managed to squeeze himself inside the vending machine and reached the SpongeBob toy. The problem wasn’t getting in for Noah Jeffrey, but it was the getting out of the air deprived toy filled box that resulted quite challenging for the little fella. After a lot of persuasion by his mother and management the [...]

AUSTRALIA – On Friday last week, a manager at McDonald’s apparently threw hot oil in a customer’s face and which logically burned him. He was annoyed with the customer for a yet unknown reason and allegedly acted in self-defense. No charges were filed against the fast-food restaurant manager and Australian authorities are further investigating the facts. They did report that the burn victim threatened to kill the manager inside the restaurant. The manager reportedly warned [...]

QUEENSLAND – Researchers in Australia named a unusual horse fly “Beyonce” after the singer/performer due to its golden behind. The biological name of the fly is “Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae fly. The Beyonce fly is mainly found in northern Queensland and is considered a pest. But why name a pest Beyonce? It’s due to its discovery in 1981 which is the year that Beyonce was born and also the fly has a curious gold spot on [...]

AUSTRALIA – A heartbroken fellow after breaking up with his girlfriend, stole 15 engagement rings to propose, but after being rejected, he voluntarily returned most of the jewelry. Mr. Daniel Lawrence Moss (39) had his lucky day in court because instead of a 18 month jail sentence, the judge ordered for his sentence to be suspended after 6 months in jail. The Judge explained his reason why he suspended Moss’s sentence. It was because at [...]

An Australian hospital has launched an investigation after staff treating a woman carrying twin boys unintentionally terminated the wrong fetus. Doctors told the woman that one of her baby-boys had a congenital heart defect that would require several surgeries, if he survived. The woman chose to abort the 32-week-old fetus but sadly the hospital staff terminated the life of the wrong fetus. The Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne labeled it as a “terrible tragedy”. They [...]

Recently the Australian government passed a law that only allows plain olive-green packaging for cigarettes with graphic health warnings. Tobacco giant Phillip Morris is now suing the government as regards to the new law. According to Philip Morris Asia, the law ruptured a bilateral investment treaty with Hong Kong. While Australian’s Philip Morris will also hunt rights under Australian domestic law. They’re arguing that removing its trademarks from cigarette packaging will decrease its profits and [...]

  Australia becomes the first country to implement plain packaging for cigarettes. From December 2012, all cigarettes will be sold in olive green packs. Tobacco companies promised to fight the fresh legislation in the courts. The color of the packaging was chosen based on a research which has shown is least tempting to smokers. Under the new laws, no trademark brand logos are allowed on any packaging of tobacco products. The companies are allowed to [...]

A crocodile over 8 foot long turned orange in an Australian park. Snappy is the name of  reptile and he didn’t turn orange because he was sick or from eating carrots but it was because he chewed and broke the water filter and the PH of the water went down. The high amount of acid in the water changed the croc’s color, iron, tannins from leaves, or red algae that oxidizes when it dries. Thankfully [...]

AUSTRALIA – The little two-year-old girl picked a used condom in McDonald’s playground and was chewing on it. The father said that he was absolutely disgusted and immediately washed his daughter’s mouth and hands with soap. According to the father, he showed the used condom to the junior manager, and he said that it was the second one they found that day. After the incident, people were grabbing their kids and left the restaurant in [...]

Australian passports will now have three gender options: male, female and indeterminate. The government issued a statement where they explained that adding the new gender X will remove discrimination against  transgender and intersex people. I’m sure at least some of you have been in a situation where you would say, excuse me sir, ma’am? sir? This happens especially when you encounter a transgender man going to the process of transformation. He dresses like a woman, [...]

The police caught a man riding his motorized beer cool box drunk. His blood alcohol was three times the limit. The Australian man has been banned from driving because of the incident. Chris Petrie (23) purchased the scooter for about $650 US on the internet. Excited about his new toy, Chris naturally filled his cooler with beverage cans, in his case they were beer cans. As he was assembling the scooter, he was also drinking [...]