A security guard has been arrested for stealing $US5 million ($A7 million) in diamonds from a New York jeweller after a construction worker accidentally threw the precious stones in the trash, police say.
Former Police Association boss Paul Mullett has failed in a bid to have former police commissioner Christine Nixon questioned on the stand by his legal team before their bitter dispute proceeds to trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria in March next year.
Police investigating a series of deliberately lit fires near Castlemaine in central Victoria are looking for more information about a white four-wheel drive.
The mother of murdered Melbourne teenager Prue Bird says she is on edge at the thought the man linked to her daughter's death could soon be released from jail.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said.
