Trainspotter killed by steam engine

Trainspotter, 50, killed by steam engine while he stood on tracks taking pictures 'may have misjudged distance through his camera lens'

Kristi Abrahams jailed for at least 16 years over murder of daughter Kiesha Weippeart

Douglas C. Engelbart 88 died

Dr. Engelbart died on Tuesday at 88 at his home in Atherton, Calif.

Kiesha's mother abused as child

Kiesha's mother abused as child
The court heard she was automatically placed in the indigenous care system because of her father's background, despite the fact she did not identify as being Aboriginal.
''She was confronted with a system which said 'no, you're Aboriginal','' Ms Manuell said. ''It dictated the care structure, it dictated the level of care she got, or didn't get.

Rapist Capsicum Sprayed and Tasered

Man charged over bus stop attack upon woman - Hunters Hill

Kiesha's mother pleads guilty to her murder in court

Kiesha's stepdad jailed for 12 years

Kiesha's stepdad jailed for 12 years 
Friday, May 03, 2013 » 07:02pm
Robert Smith stood by and did nothing as Kiesha was killed, before he burnt her body and pretended she had disappeared.

Kiesha's mum to face murder trial

Kiesha's mum to face murder trial

Thursday, May 02, 2013 » 06:22pm

Kristi Anne Abrahams has admitted to killing her six-year-old daughter and to interfering with her body.
Kiesha was reported missing from her home at Mt Druitt, in western Sydney, on August 1, 2010.
Abrahams was charged with murder after human remains were discovered in bushland at Mt Druitt eight months later in April 2011, on what would have been Kiesha's seventh birthday.

Son Thanh Nguyen murdered

Dumped body in Bankstown identified

meth-smoking population outbreak of TB

Aust meth users 'dry tinder' for TB

'You do have a fair old whack of methamphetamine use, and that is pretty bad for your lungs,' Dr Story told AAP.
'Your meth-smoking population is probably a very good example of dry tinder just waiting for a spark to drop onto it and away it goes,' he said.
Globally about one third of the world's population has TB, with 1.7 million people dying each year from the disease.

 

Khaled Kahwaji, 29, from Rhodes

Khaled Kahwaji, 29, from Rhodes, was spoken to by police at Petersham around 12:30pm on Friday March 15, 2013 - six hours later his body was found on Wilbur St, Greenacre.
Kahwaji was charged with the murder of Saba Kairouz in August 2010.

Investigators are focusing their main line of inquiry to include a retaliation attack in relation to that murder, but are also investigating links with the shooting of a crime family matriarch on Auburn road at Auburn last Saturday.
The victim in that case, revealed by this newspaper earlier this week, was the aunt of Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy, the founder of the organised crime group Brothers For Life.
Police later said they were bracing for an escalation in violence over the attack, which saw her shot four times in the legs at her front door.

 Witnesses living on Wilbur St at Greenacre said they tried to help Kahwaji as he lay on the road just after being shot in the back of the head about 6pm Friday night.

Daxchan Selvarajah, 21, to remain in custody

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker had been out of immigration detention for eight days and had been living in university accommodation without authorities' knowledge when he allegedly sexually assaulted a sleeping female student. 
A magistrate this afternoon, March 07, 2013, ordered Daxchan Selvarajah, 21, to remain in custody on charges of breaking into the woman's unit at Macquarie University and indecently assaulting her early on February 21. The 21-year-old will return to court next month.

Hyundai-Samsung doomed?

North Korea scraps peace pacts 

Are Hyundai and Samsung doomed?

While North Korea is not deemed capable of any nuclear strike on the US mainland, there are growing fears that it will mount some provocation in the form of a missile test or a similar artillery assault.

'To me, this feels like the most dangerous situation since the Korean War,' said Paik Hak-Soon, a North Korean analyst at the Sejong Institute in Seoul.
'The North is cornered more than ever in the international community and will keep pushing ahead with even more confrontational moves militarily,' said Paik.

Will Hyundai and Samsung be shelled out of existence?

 

Tony Ming Ly, 21, in custody

Tony Ming Ly, 21, IT student from the University of Western Sydney, refused bail over half-tonne of ice imported from southern China.
Ly's co-accused, Hong Kong national Cheung Tuen, 51, and Singaporean national Boon Cheng Leow, 32, did not apply for bail, which was formally refused.
All three men will have their matters heard before the same court on May 8.

Kiesha stepdad 'burnt and buried her body'

Kiesha stepdad 'burnt and buried her body'

Six-year-old Kiesha, who was knocked unconscious by another person.

Kiesha was injured, leaving her in a "comatose" state and returning home that night to find her dead. 
Kristi Abrahams, 28, and Robert Smith, 31 were charged.

Khoder Zahab, was arrested

Father beheaded by son in Sydney home, police say
Toufic Zahab, 69, died after he was attacked with a brick and a knife inside the home on Stacey Street in Bankstown on Thursday morning.

CityRail uses smoke signals

CityRail network was thrown into chaos again this afternoon - this time because of smoke in a signal complex at Strathfield.

Falah Alkanaan charged murder of Hussein Khanafer

Falah Alkanaan charged with the murder of Hussein Khanafer

Katherine Abdullah charged with Susan Sarkis's murder

Katherine Abdullah, 31, faced Parramatta Bail Court today accused of bashing 21-year-old Susan Sarkis over the head with a vase and stabbing her with a kitchen knife.

Wheelchair-bound man assaulted, robbed - Rosehill

Wheelchair-bound man assaulted, robbed - Rosehill

The pair threatened the man before pulling him out of his chair, causing him to fall to the ground.
The first man is described as being of black African appearance, aged in his mid 30s, about 170cm tall, and with thin build.The second man is of Caucasian appearance, aged in his mid 30s, blond hair, about 180cm tall and with solid build.

Multiculturalism at work.