Probably the single most damaging revelation in AUSTRAC's case against Westpac is that its LitePay service allowed paedophiles to send money to the Philippines to pay for child exploitation without raising any red flags.

The revelations have already cost the bank one high-profile customer, child protection advocacy group Bravehearts.

"Child sexual assault and exploitation happens in the darkest of corners and Westpac had an opportunity to shine a light on it. Instead they showed an unbelievable and inhumane disinterest," said the group's founder Hetty Johnston.

"There are rules and regulations in place so this doesn't happen but it seems Westpac has opted to ignore them. Every organisation has to take responsibility for protecting our children and if Westpac hasn't been doing that, we simply can't keep banking with them."

In its statement of claim, anti-money laundering watchdog AUSTRAC outlined 12 customer cases where repeated suspicious payments were made to the Philippines in a pattern that should have raised red flags about potential child abuse.

It also said that while LitePay has now taken steps to improve its monitoring, other Westpac services still present opportunities for high-risk transactions to be made to the Philippines and South-East Asia without alerting the bank or regulator.

So how were paedophiles exploiting Westpac's banking services and why was this allowed to continue for so long?

A bear has been blamed for a pair of vehicle break-ins at an Alaska airport parking lot that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage to one car, officials said.

The vandalism occurred at the Island Air terminal parking lot adjacent to the Kodiak Benny Benson State Airport, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Wednesday.

Vehicle owners Doreen Phillips and Alyssa Brenteson are both residents of Akhiok, a village about 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Kodiak.

Brenteson parked her car for two days at the lot and returned to find a caved-in roof, broken window, ripped seats, and muddy bear prints and fur covering her car, she said.

The body of a man found in a freezer in a dead woman's home may have been there for as long as 11 years.

The grisly discovery happened last week when police were doing a routine welfare check on a 75-year-old woman named Jeanne Souron-Mathers that had not been seen for about two weeks. When police gained access to her home they discovered her deceased on her bed.

"That is kind of what started all this," said Tooele City Police sergeant Jeremy Hansen to ABC News' affiliate station KTVX.

Officers began processing the scene of the woman's death but when they looked into a deep freezer they found an adult male deceased inside the freezer.

Former Vice President Joe Biden's son allegedly frequented a Washington, D.C., strip club where his "baby mama" worked around the time he was in a relationship with his dead brother's wife.

Hunter Biden, 49, allegedly frequented Mpire Club, located in the heart of D.C. in Dupont Circle, where Lunden Alexis Roberts worked, who went under the stage name "Dallas," sources told The Post, Page Six reported Wednesday. The sources told the publication that Roberts worked at the club around the time she became pregnant.

Several Mpire workers reportedly said they recognized 28-year-old Roberts.

Mpire is located blocks away from the strip joint Archibald's Gentlemen's Club, where employees told the New York Post they suspect Hunter Biden used the VIP room to smoke crack.
DNA test results confirmed Hunter Biden is the father of former basketball player Roberts's baby, a motion filed Nov. 20 in Independence County, Arkansas, on behalf of Roberts said. Roberts filed a petition for paternity and support for her 1-year-old baby in May, the Daily Mail reported. Hunter Biden denied the allegations in August and requested the court dismiss the allegations altogether.

Hunter Biden reportedly fathered Roberts's child while in a relationship with his late brother's wife, Hallie Biden. Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden's relationship ended in April, and Hunter Biden would go on to marry Melissa Cohen in a surprise wedding in May, Business Insider reported.

The November motion stated that "DNA testing has established with scientific certainty" that the defendant is the father of the plaintiff's child and that Hunter Biden "is not expected to challenge the results of the DNA test or the testing process."

Roberts said the baby's "paternal grandfather, Joe Biden, is seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States of America" and is considered "by some to be the person most likely to win his party's nomination and challenge President [Donald] Trump on the ballot in 2020."

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen launched a scathing attack on the social-media giants last week for enabling the proliferation of 'hate, conspiracies and lies'. In his keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Baron Cohen denounced Facebook as 'the greatest propaganda machine in history'. The Who is America star called for greater regulation of social media to remove hate speech, even if it meant banning elected politicians. And because Facebook doesn't fact-check political adverts, he claimed that if the platform were around in the 1930s, 'it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his "solution" to the "Jewish problem"'.

There are two major problems with Baron Cohen's broadside against social media. First, it is simply untrue that social-media platforms are unregulated and unmoderated havens for free speech. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and PayPal have all banned users who they consider to be spreading 'hate speech' - a definition which extends from conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and EDL founder Tommy Robinson to left-wing feminists like Meghan Murphy and some Antifa organisations.

It's his 20th anniversary in the rubber room.

Aryeh Eller taught orchestral music at Hillcrest High School in Queens for just two full years before being suspended in November 1999 for allegedly harassing female students with sexual comments and touching.

He asked girls to lift their shirts to show him their butts, lewdly remarked on their breasts, hugged and kissed them and claimed that he "had a hard time teaching" with the way they dressed, investigators found. He even admitted having a "crush" on a teen.

Locals are fuming over their town council's plans to sell a medieval copy of the Magna Carta.

The charter of rights is just one of seven in existence and was presented to the Kent town of Faversham in 1300.

After caring for the document for more than 700 years, Faversham Town Council have revealed plans to sell the manuscript, which was signed and sealed by King Edward I.

Social media giant Twitter has quietly amended their terms of service to allow for "discussions related to... attraction towards minors" to be allowed on their platform.

"Discussions related to child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon or attraction towards minors are permitted, provided they don't promote or glorify child sexual exploitation in any way," reads Twitter's terms of service.

Twitter noted that they would allow for nude depictions of children on their platform in certain instances.

There are a lot of unbelievable things happening in our world today. So many, that it's easy to ignore them as they whip by us like the Wicked Witch of the West's hoard of flying monkeys.

But some things are just too remarkable to ignore. The ACLU's tweet for International Men's Day is one of them:

The man charged in the murder of UIC student Ruth George at a campus parking garage was denied bail Tuesday.

Donald Thurman, 26, is charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault. Police said he has confessed to the crime and has a criminal history.

Judge Charles Beach II ordered Thurman held without bail, after Cook County prosecutors said he admitted to the attack. He has no connection to UIC and did not know George, police said.

The 19-year-old sophomore was found strangled in the backseat of her family's car at a UIC parking garage near Halsted and Taylor streets.

Police said surveillance video shows Thurman at about 1:35 a.m. Saturday following George into the garage and then leaving a half hour later.

A person of interest is in custody after authorities said a University of Illinois Chicago student was strangled at a campus parking garage.

Thurman allegedly confessed after being arrested Sunday morning at the nearby Harrison and Halsted Blue Line stop. Investigators said they had staked out that station after tracking his travel patterns with the help of nearby cameras.

"The defendant was angry that he was being ignored. The defendant came up behind the victim, grabbed her around the neck from behind, and put her into a choke hold," said Cook County Asst. State's Attorney James Murphy. "With his arms still wrapped around the victim's neck the defendant dragged the victim from the ground and he opened her back seat car door."