A New Zealand couple who bought a hillside property for NZ$122,500 more than 30 years ago are now selling the unusual recycled-brick castle they spent three decades building and improving. Denise and Greg Powell bought the 13-hectare property at 785 Portobello Road in Broad Bay, on New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula, in 1992. What began as…

Image Credit: AI Generated A hospital employee in New Zealand diverted more than $1 million in patient payments over 6 years by manipulating the organisation’s accounting system and changing bank details on official documents. The money, which should have gone to Christchurch Hospital, was instead transferred to accounts controlled by the employee. The fraud came…

File photo: Russia formally leaves anti-torture convention amid allegations of abuse in detention Russia has formally withdrawn from the council of Europe’s Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, bringing an end to the European body’s mandate to independently monitor conditions in Russian prisons, police stations and other places…

Co-pilot of the doomed Learjet flight has been identified as Nathalia Gadelha Nathalia Gadelha, a 20-year-old aspiring commercial pilot, has been identified as the co-pilot aboard the Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida on Sunday, killing all nine people on board. Gadelha was identified by her mother and stepfather, according to the New York Post….

Michael Chadwick Fry. Image Credit: FOX4 News A Texas man has been arrested after allegedly removing human remains from a cemetery mausoleum and throwing a bucket containing human bones over the fence of an FBI office in Dallas. The investigation into the incident began after the man’s mother contacted police about his unusual request for…

Image Credit: AI Generated The founder of a New York charity established to help low-income families has been sentenced to 8 years in prison after stealing more than $2.5 million in donations to fund an expensive personal lifestyle. Keith Taylor, who led the Modest Needs Foundation, used money intended for people struggling with unexpected bills…

Indian-origin Srishti Tarana Sharma  charged in US over pro-Palestine threats at Michigan university/Image: AP An Indian-origin woman, Srishti Tarana Sharma, 23, is among four additional people charged in a federal investigation into alleged threats, vandalism and intimidation targeting Jewish organisations, University of Michigan officials and businesses perceived to have links to Israel.US Attorney Jerome F…