Northern Territory

A pet monkey escaped from a balcony of a house and attacked children playing in a park in the Fatih district of Istanbul on Sept. 22.

The monkey bit a six-year-old child in the park and injured him, prompting his mother to file a complaint against the owner of the monkey.

Veli A?baba, the deputy head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), has criticized a vice principal of a school in the eastern province of Malatya for comments suggesting folk dancing is similar to "adultery." 

A?baba said the mindset of the vice principal, identified as N.T., is no different than that of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Australian officials are looking to increase the export of crocodile products in 2016, after decades of official protection to stop them being hunted to extinction have increased their numbers.    

Australian officials said Feb. 22 all efforts were being made to help those hit by Tropical Cyclone Marcia, which smashed through Queensland state leaving 1,500 homes damaged and thousands without electricity.
      

Two powerful cyclones pounded Australia on Feb. 20 and left a trail of destruction with houses ripped apart, trees uprooted and power lines torn down, cutting electricity to thousands of people.
      

A 19-year-old man has killed his fiancée after learning that she was not a virgin during a trip to the western province of Sakarya.

The murderer, identified only as K.A., went to the district Police Department in Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü district on July 8 to confess that he had murdered his fiancée, N.T., and buried her in a Sakarya forest on July 6.