10-part Killing Time will have its world premiere in New Zealand tonight on Prime after the series was prevented from airing in Australia due to legal proceedings.

Australian actor Richard Cawthorne has flown all the way to Auckland to see the controversial mini-series he stars in because it cannot be shown in his home country.The 10-part Killing Time will have its world premiere in New Zealand tonight on Prime after the series was prevented from airing in Australia due to legal proceedings.It tells the story of disgraced Melbourne lawyer Andrew Fraser, who...

JEALOUS lover clubbed a man to death and injured his ex-partner while they were sleeping, a Brisbane court has been told.

Faimanifo Sione, 51, is charged with the murder of Brian Curry, 48, on September 3, 2009, and the attempted murder of Michelle Hayes, now 38, or the alternative charge of acting with malicious intent.Sione pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday.Mr Curry was attacked while he was asleep in bed with Ms Hayes, who had ended a three-year relationship with Sione in April 2009.Crown...

Men in Tas court over burnt body murder

Two men charged with murder after burnt human remains were discovered in northern Tasmania have appeared in a Launceston court.A man found a body by a roadside in bushland at Hollybank at around 8.30pm (AEST) on Monday.Police said they believed the body had been put there only recently.The ABC and the Hobart Mercury are reporting the victim is 43-year-old Scott Rock, but police have yet to confirm...

former Queensland police officer has appeared in a Brisbane court on drugs charges.

former Queensland police officer has appeared in a Brisbane court on drugs charges.It is alleged Natasha Nicole Fewson possessed and supplied ecstasy, methylamphetamine and cannabis in September and October last year.It is claimed she also stole a drug-testing kit from the Beenleigh Police Station.Fewson's arrest followed a seven-month investigation into several officers in the Logan district.The...

Yong Vui Kong, a 23-year-old Malaysian who faces execution for smuggling 47 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin to Singapore, lost a bid at the city state’s highest court for a presidential review of his sentence.

Yong Vui Kong, a 23-year-old Malaysian who faces execution for smuggling 47 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin to Singapore, lost a bid at the city state’s highest court for a presidential review of his sentence.Yong’s lawyer M. Ravi asked a three-judge appeal panel to re-examine Singapore’s clemency process, in the first case of its kind. Ravi had argued the president had the power to grant a pardon, rather...

Police rounded up 35 people for allegedly using illegal drugs between Sunday night and yesterday morning in their final operation during the Spring Scream music festival in Kenting, Pingtung County.

Police rounded up 35 people for allegedly using illegal drugs between Sunday night and yesterday morning in their final operation during the Spring Scream music festival in Kenting, Pingtung County.A total of 37 people were arrest for alleged drug use during the festival.A majority of those arrested on the final day were young men and women suspected of using ketamine or taking ecstasy pills. Others...

parents of a missing Melbourne woman say the committing to trial of someone over their daughter's murder is a "milestone" in their 17-year quest for answers about her disappearance.

Shane Andrew Bond, 44, formerly of Don Valley, east of Melbourne, denies killing Elisabeth Membrey, who was last seen leaving the Manhattan Hotel in Ringwood on December 6, 1994.The then 22-year-old's body has never been found.Today, after a two-week committal hearing, Bond was ordered to stand trial for her murder.Bond, who denies ever knowing Ms Membrey, has pleaded not guilty.Outside court, Ms...

Australian backpacker is recovering in a Peruvian hospital after being shot in the stomach by a cab driver.

Elizabeth 'Lilly' Littlewood was on the way to the airport in the nation’s capital of Lima last Thursday to catch a flight back to Newcastle when the cabbie demanded money and opened fire.Her father, Rex, who rushed to his 26-year-old daughter’s bedside from Australia after the shooting, told The Daily Telegraph today that his daughter and her boyfriend were on the final leg of a month-long trip through...

Woman survives six-storey car plunge

An Australian woman survived a terrifying car accident when her car careered off sixth floor of a multi-storey car park in Melbourne.Despite suffering head injuries, the woman aged in her 40s, was reportedly conscious when she was rescued by paramedics.In the video it is clear how far the woman fell and onlookers described hearing a series of crashes as the vehicle bounced off the walls of adjoining...

MAN who claimed to have feasted on human flesh as a child has today been jailed for life after drinking the blood of a former housemate he brutally slaughtered almost six years ago

MAN who claimed to have feasted on human flesh as a child has today been jailed for life after drinking the blood of a former housemate he brutally slaughtered almost six years ago, a jury has been told.A Brisbane Supreme Court jury deliberated a day before this morning finding Robert Ian Logan, 23, guilty of the murder of former housemate Benjamin Peter Huntingford at his Adelaide Circuit home in...