Last week's visa-check debacle in Melbourne, Operation Fortitude, has many questioning the motivation of the new Border Force whose actions left ordinary citizens feeling intimidated and unwelcome.
Billionaire Carlton Football Club board member Raphael 'Ruffy' Geminder is being sued over a bitter dispute involving a luxury Toorak mansion, chandeliers and handwoven art.
Not many convicted fraudsters can walk free from jail while they mull an appeal, but the case of Luke Brett Moore is "almost unique", a judge has ruled.
Condemning movie massacre gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for his rampage in a midnight screening of a Batman film, a Colorado judge said on Wednesday that evil and mental illness are not mutually exclusive.
Furious investors have kidnapped the head of a Chinese exchange for minor metal trading from his hotel and handed him to police, the Financial Times (FT) has reported.
