HOUSEHOLDERS would be charged for each flush under a radical new toilet tax designed to help beat the drought.
The scheme would replace the current system, which sees sewage charges based on a home’s value – …

AN alleged murderer slathered peanut butter on his victim’s naked body before dumping her in a ditch and hoping that wild animals would get rid of the evidence.
The grisly disposal of the body of attractive …

THE Gold Coast’s bikini girls now proudly boast the largest fake breasts in Australia, according to the nation’s leading supplier of cosmetic implants.
Confirming what us south of the border have suspected for years, Nick Steventon …

A lucky cat owes one of its nine lives to a firefighter who revived it with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Al Machado rescued the cat from a burning apartment in Massachusetts on Tuesday, and told The Standard Times …

A courtroom observing a French murder trial could be excused for thinking the presiding judge has gone barking mad.
In what is believed to be a world first, the investigating magistrate has invited a dog to …

A dog whose owner was having a seizure saved his life by calling the emergency services and barking down the line to raise the alarm.
Joe Stalnaker adopted German shepherd Buddy as an eight-week-puppy and trained …

SIXTEEN American athletes, including six former NFL players, have agreed to donate their brains to a program that will study the long-term effects of concussions, a founder of an organization running it said today.
“Our goal …