A Hong Kong court has sentenced a domestic helper to five months in jail for molesting her former employer’s 12-year-old daughter in the family home. Lady Jay Santos Flores, 45, offered no mitigation before she was sentenced at Kowloon City Court on Friday on three counts of indecent assault. She sobbed occasionally during the hearing. Flores was convicted last month of molesting the girl, who said the Filipino helper had touched her genitals on several occasions between May and June 2025. The...
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A 90-year-old woman who was shot in the leg during last year’s Bondi terror attack has died in hospital.
The RPSCA attends Coles North Lakes after shoppers reported a crow stuck in the supermarket.
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has backed a proposed overhaul of rules to tighten access to land records, warning that journalists have no exemption when collecting data as complaints over information misuse appear to be worsening. Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung Lai-ling said on Friday that journalists do not enjoy an exemption under the Privacy Ordinance when gathering information, even though certain safeguards apply to how the data is subsequently used. “The Privacy Ordinance does provide an...
The first day of the Open will be Kids Day, allowing children to watch training and have a go on centre court.
Two army personnel accused of choking and gang raping an 18-year-old woman planned the attack, a court has heard.
Eva Geller, 90, was told she would never walk again after being critically injured in the December terror attack. She died in hospital on Thursday
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Shareholders in the country’s largest media company have delivered a protest vote against the company’s executive pay arrangements.
Two teenagers, 17 and 18, have been charged after a young woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint in Sydney’s south-west.
The former NSW police officer dabbed at his eyes with a tissue before telling the 15-person jury he shot Jesse Baird twice.