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Playboy Brandi Brandt, busting out in this August 1989 Playboy magazine cover, appeared briefly Friday night in a Sydney courtroom after being extradited from California on cocaine trafficking charges. Brandi Brandt, 45, was once a top Playboy model , a TV actress, and the wife of heavy metal bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue. Now she’s in a Sydney jail ...

Bernandino Hernandez/ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities have been finding mass graves like this one, unearthed in 2010 in central Mexico, since the Knights Templar cartel went to war with the New Generation syndicate over turf and trafficking routes. MEXICO CITY — An official says investigators have dug up 18 bodies in western Mexico after questioning nearly two dozen police who say they ...

JOE WARNER/South Jersey Times /Landov “Operation North Pole,” a nine-month sting operation with local, state and federal agents, took down huge and violent narcotics network that moved millions of dollars in heroin and cocaine in Camden, N.J., was announced by state Attorney General John J. Hoffman. Authorities have arrested 34 people and seized drugs, money and a “party bus,” in ...

Theodorakis, Andrew/Theodorakis, Andrew An ancient gold tablet which a judge ruled must be returned to a Berlin museum. ALBANY — A Holocaust survivor’s family has to hand over a precious 3,000-year-old gold tablet to the German museum that is its rightful owner, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals, in a unanimous decision, rejected a “spoils of ...

Media for Medical/UIG via Getty Images A baby (not pictured) was born to a 31-year-old woman after she suffered an aneurysm that left her brain-dead, a Hungarian hospital announced. A baby was born to a brain-dead mother in Hungary after she was kept in a vegetative state for three months – one of few such cases on record, doctors said. ...

FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images Pope Francis has made certain Italian mobsters nervous through his effort to reform the church, and by speaking out against corruption, it was reported.  An anti-mob prosecutor in Italy has warned that Pope Francis has ruffled feathers among the ‘Ndrangheta organized crime organization. Nicola Gratteri, 55, a state prosecutor in the Calabria region of southern Italy, said ...

Dramatic footage shows the moment a Chinese toddler was rescued by firefighters after she became stuck in a protective window grate four stories up. The 3-year-old’s head was trapped between two iron bars and her tiny body dangled in the air after she fell through an anti-theft grate at an apartment building in Yunnan Province, in southeast China, on Monday, ...

NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images At least eight people (not shown) were killed when a wall collapsed on typhoon survivors that were looting a local warehouse in Tacloban. TACLOBAN, Philippines — An official says eight people were crushed to death when thousands of typhoon survivors stormed a government rice warehouse in the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines. National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez said ...

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan’s rampage through the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday as CNN reports two U.S. Citizens are among those killed. “Ten thousand, I think, is too much,” Aquino told CNN in an interview. “There was emotional drama involved with that particular estimate.” CNN, ...

Jason Reed, Pool/AP Secretary of State John Kerry is confident that there will be a deal on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Kerry predicted a deal on Iran’s nuclear program within months Monday as the secretive state agreed to new inspections of key production sites. Last week, Kerry met in Geneva with Iranian ...