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Separatist group Free Papua Movement (OPM) has been accused for the siege as authorities look to resolve the situation without any casualty.

A Sudanese man accused of planning a terror attack on British soil thought it was okay to download bomb-making instructions because they had not been deleted by Facebook.

Curtis Van Dam was employed by Sioux Center Christian School, but is now behind bars facing a flood of sexual assault allegations made by pupils.

Two paedophiles in Ekaterinburg, Russia, reportedly kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl while filming the abuse for fellow child sex offenders on the internet.

A Philadelphia woman abruptly ended a date after she found out the man voted for Donald Trump, as last year's election complicates the mating game.

A crew of nearly 25 people were involved in the man's dramatic rescue from the deep crevice in the Dachstein mountain range in the Austrian Alps.

The girl, who had been allegedly raped by a North African man she had met in the city, was attacked by the priest for allowing it to happen.

Abbas Allawi, from Watford, has been jailed for attempting to sell elephant tusks, hippopotamus teeth and rhino horns.

The 16-year-old girl who was sexual assaulted by three of her classmates from Cedar Hill High School, Dallas on 9 October, reported the assault four days later.

Police found the mutilated body of a koala which had its ears cut off. Police say have called the incident "troublesome and disgusting."

Father of two Imran Qureshi, 44, squeezed a 21-year-old nurse's breast and told her "it's what friends do" during a shift at a hospital in Manchester, a medical tribunal heard.

Landmark ruling sees company lose ruling its drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed.

Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's book Original Sin claims priests sexually abused teenage boys at a St. Pius X pre-seminary for middle- and high-schoolers in the Vatican.

Dmitry Luchin, 21, from Valday, in the Novgorod region of Russia, was known as a talented poet with a high IQ level before he allegedly attacked his 46-year-old victim, named only as Olga B.

Juan Manuel Santos could achieve one of his longstanding ambitions this month, if country is cleared to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Birmingham company RaffleMyHouse offering chance to win bungalow in West Midlands town of Halesowen with £1 competition.

The marriage between the mother-daughter duo came to light during an inquiry by a state child welfare investigator.

Nafas shows "the obscene face of war that we should avoid, this is what politicians won't tell you," says director Narges Abyar.

Tina Knight was found with a huge haul of drugs that included 158kg of amphetamines worth £1.5m and just under 1kg of cocaine worth around £100,000 on the street.

The Correctional Court also ordered 25-year-old Sandy Gaillard to pay a fine of £4,400 and seek psychological help.

Avon and Somerset officers Samuel Dexter and Hannah Mayo dismissed for inadvertently leaving horrific message about vulnerable teenager.

A four-year-old girl from Melbourne was re-united with her puppy after robbers had a bout of conscience.

The advert plays on Saudi Arabia's recent historic decision to overturn its decades-old women driving ban.

A man won a $7.5m payout from supermarket giant Walmart after he was injured when his foot became stuck under a pallet of watermelons.

Substitute teacher Madeline Marx has been accused of having sex with at least two high school male students in Kettering, Ohio.

George Ciccariello-Maher, from Drexel University, had earlier blamed "Trumpism" for Las Vegas shooting.

A Briton died minutes after landing in Ibiza for a stag do after texting his fiancee telling her how much he loved her. The 51-year-old suffered a blood clot during his flight.

Kim Jong-un's Apple obsession may have resulted in the regime copying an Apple feature to block people from accessing the internet.

Neil Parrish was sentenced to 11 years for each rape charge, three months for affray, one month for criminal damage and one month for assault by beating.