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Russian custom officers seized a Harry Winston ring made of 95 per cent platinum and with a six-carat diamond. Its value was estimated at more than 22 million rubles ($400,000).

Australian faces jail in Russia over $400,000 engagement ring

The 60-year-old man said the ring was for his fiancee when customs officers found it in his backpack.

  • Rob Harris

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Sydney man Mohamed Rifai being led to a press conference in Bali on Thursday.

Accused Australian brawler paraded in Bali alongside his bouncer foes

Tourist Mohamed Rifai, from south-west Sydney, faces up to five years in jail over a fight outside a Bali beach club. The security guards face even longer.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Matthew Radalj, 39, spent nearly 5 years in jail in China following what he says was an extortion attempt at an electronics store where he had taken his yellow iphone to be repaired.

Matthew went to get his iPhone fixed – and spent the next five years in a Beijing jail

An Australian man says an extortion attempt at an electronics repair store landed him in prison, where he was forced to confess to stealing his own phone.

  • Lisa Visentin
Adelaide homeowner Daniel Emery moved to Germany to be with his girlfriend Sarah and went back to renting.

Daniel achieved the Great Australian Dream. Then he found something better

The 32-year-old software engineer is amazed by the freedoms enjoyed by tenants in Germany.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Men brawl in Bali

‘Let’s go, bro!’ Australian tourist suspected of triggering wild Bali brawl

Bali police are still looking for four tourists involved in the fight in which four security guards were injured.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Australian soccer player Samantha Kerr, right, departs Kingston Crown Court, in south west London, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, where she is was found not guilty on charges of alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A chaotic taxi ride, the big ‘bluff’, and the four words that landed Sam Kerr in court

The jury deliberated for four hours before deciding the Matildas captain did not intend to cause harassment, alarm or distress after a night out two years ago.

  • Rob Harris
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Australian soccer player Sam Kerr leaves Kingston Crown Court after being found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment.

Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially abusing UK police officer

The 31-year-old Australian soccer star has been cleared of the criminal charge in a unanimous verdict by a British jury.

  • Rob Harris
Chelsea and Australia soccer player Sam Kerr, right, arrives wither partner Kristie Mewis at Kingston Crown Court, south west London, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, where she is charged with alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer.

‘Vital minutes’ of Sam Kerr’s police encounter never captured on camera, court hears

The soccer star’s behaviour during her exchange with police could be compared to “a puffer fish blowing itself up” to feel more secure, her lawyer said.

  • Rob Harris
Sam Kerr

Kerr’s ‘stupid and white’ remark was an insult and racist, court told

The prosecutor submitted to the jury that calling a white man “white” was “plainly not as loaded” as calling a black man “black”, but it was still racist.

  • Rob Harris

The February 8 Edition

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