An airline pilot has been told that he must present himself in front of a judge the next time he is in Brazil after being detained for dropping his trousers whilst going through routine security checks at a Brazilian airport. Pilot Michael D Slynn, who flies with Chicago based United ...

The 29-year-old Thomastown man at the centre of Melbourne’s shed kidnappings has been charged with two counts of illegal firearms possession and three counts of kidnapping. He is expected to attend a specially arranged court date this afternoon which may be held at the police complex at St Kilda Road. Seven ...

A 48-year-old Spanish man has been arrested at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport following reports of three cases of indecent assaults at different McDonalds restaurants. The man was apprehended after a manhunt was launched by police following reports of two separate incidents of young boys being kissed and touched on Saturday night, ...

An additional 800 police will patrol Queensland streets this weekend as part of a nationwide crackdown on alcohol-related offences. The show of force is part of Operation Unite, which is an Australia-wide two-day initiative aimed at curbing alcohol fuelled violence and crimes. Queensland Police Minister Neil Roberts, said officers would target entertainment ...

Stoned enough to pass a police breath test, but apparently not straight enough to keep quiet about the mystical dragons. That was the case for 22-year-old Jay Danny Crawford as he regaled Babinda police with his reptilian recount during a random roadside breath test last month. Despite recording a negative blood ...

Police raids in the Sydney suburb of Auburn last night led to a bottle-throwing stand-off between locals and officers. The raids were carried out by the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad following a shooting incident in the western suburb over the weekend which saw a 23-year-old man admitted to Auburn hospital ...

Michael McGurk, the Sydney businessman at the centre of a legal property debate, and one who only last week told media that he feared for his life, has been shot dead. McGurk, aged 46 and father of four, was shot once in the head around 6.30pm last night as he left ...

A court in Western Australia has charged a 34-year-old man from Palmyra with theft following the heist of a sea container full of the Belgian beer Hoegaarden. Police have claimed that in the early evening of the 20th of August two men stole 1349 cartons of the luxury import beer from ...

NSW Police have warned that frozen road kill, including koalas, could be used by protestors as a way of disrupting a car race scheduled for the north of the state. The Repco World Rally Championship will travel to the Tweed Valley this week in the Australian leg of the WRC. Superintendent for ...

Classes were put into lockdown at Ipswich High School near Brisbane following an invasion by a group of armed girls. A group of around 10 teenage girls reportedly went on the rampage after entering the school grounds in two vehicles in the incident late last week. According to onlookers some of the ...