A 5-month old baby died in hospital while the doctor was playing a game online, an investigation has found.

<-- Not the baby picked by aclister 2 weeks ago

China's Ministry of Health has banned the use of physical punishment to wean teens off the net, months after a boy was beaten to death at an internet boot camp. picked by aclister 2 weeks ago

Typhoon Parma has been upgraded to a super typhoon with a sustained wind speed in excess of 150 mph. It was only last weekend when typhoon Ketsana left most of Manila under water. picked by aclister 2 months ago

A 29-year-old man has been bludgeoned to death in broad daylight at Sydney Airport in a brawl that police believe involve up to 15 outlaw bikies from possibly two gangs. picked by aclister 8 months ago

Not the guy who swung the baby - just some guy who reposted on LiveLeak. He was charged with accessing and uploading child abuse material.

"This charge could impact on every Australian who surfs the net, downloads a file and shares it with others", the lawyer said. picked by aclister 9 months ago

Scientists say a 2.5-metre great white shark was responsible for attacking surfer Glenn Orgias at Bondi Beach, leaving his hand hanging by a bit of skin.

The first attack at the beach since 1929 and the second in Sydney in 2 days picked by aclister 9 months ago

Thirteen-year-old Alfie Patten is the victim of a scam, his girlfriend having been told to pretend he was the father of her baby so their families could strike lucrative deals with the media, a family friend has claimed.

Followup to picked by aclister 9 months ago

Key mobile phone industry players, including Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, have agreed to fit phones with the same power socket by 2012. picked by aclister 10 months ago

...and what's more, the body of the phone is made out of recycled water bottles. Greenies rejoice!! picked by aclister 10 months ago

A British Airways plane arriving from Amsterdam crash-landed at London City Airport on Friday but all 67 passengers and four crew were safely evacuated, emergency services said. picked by aclister 10 months ago

- 20 million laid off - half of all toy factories have closed - government plans 4 trillion yuan ($USD 585 million) stimulus package. - risk of "mass incidents and social unrest" as jobless migrants return to the countryside. I have also heard that the factories are just closing their doors - no back pay, no severance packages. We are not talking wealthy people here but they all contri... read full post picked by aclister 10 months ago

A new bill is being introduced called Camera Phone Predator Alert Act which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera's phone. picked by aclister 10 months ago

Politicians in NSW could be breath-tested for alcohol before voting on laws after a series of late-night incidents that have embarrassed the centre-left government.

"Honestly, if you are going to have breathalysers for people driving cranes you should have breathalysers for people writing laws," picked by aclister 12 months ago

Travellers and shift workers could soon be able to pop a pill that adjusts their body clocks, allowing them to avoid jet lag and insomnia. picked by aclister 12 months ago

A Japanese woman kept her daughter prisoner in their home for eight years until she turned 19, leaving her too feeble to walk or talk properly, officials and media reports said today. picked by aclister 1 year ago

A senior civil servant who left secret intelligence files relating to Iraq and al Qaeda on a train was fined 2,500 pounds on Tuesday. picked by aclister 1 year ago

A 19-year-old arrested for trying to offload 1000 ecstasy pills while undercover police watched won't have to ring his mum to bail him out of jail - she drove him to the drug deal. picked by aclister 1 year ago

Police have released shocking X-ray images of a 16-year-old with a knife lodged in his head after a stabbing in London, England, to serve as a warning about the dangers of knife crime. picked by aclister 1 year ago

Petrol heads will have to survive on a slab of beer a day at next month's Bathurst 1000 car race. A "slab" is a term used in Australia to refer to a box of 24x375ml cans. picked by aclister 1 year ago

An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said. picked by aclister 1 year ago

Australia has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.

The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese picked by aclister 1 year ago

An exhibition by the Australian artist Mike Parr, which includes a film showing a live chicken being decapitated, has prompted a complaint to the RSPCA and a visit from police.

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The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday's municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent. picked by aclister 1 year ago

An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities and media reports said. picked by aclister 1 year ago

A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos. picked by aclister 1 year ago