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By Eden Gillespie, ABC News Ashley Paul Griffith appeared emotionless as he fronted the Brisbane District Court on Friday. Photo: ABC News / Sharon Gordon Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse. One of Australia's most notorious paedophiles has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to raping and abusing scores of children in daycare centres in Australia and overseas. Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty in September to more than 300 charges against 69 children in early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy over almost two decades. Griffith will have a non-parole period of 27 years, with Judge Paul Smith describing his offending as "depraved". He will not be eligible to apply until 2049. He appeared emotionless as he fronted the ...

Local residents take shelter in a metro station during an air strike alarm in Kyiv, on 28 November. Photo: TETIANA DZHAFAROVA / AFP Russia's widespread overnight attack targeting critical energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine was a response to strikes on Russian territory using US-made ATACMS missiles, President Vladimir Putin says. Putin claimed Russia hit 17 targets that were "military facilities, defence industry facilities and their support systems," without acknowledging the hits to power infrastructure. "As I have said many times, there will always be a response from our side (to the use of American ATACMS)," Putin said on Thursday during comments made at a security summit in Kazakhstan. More than a million households in Ukraine were left without power following the aerial b...

By Kathy Rose O'Brien, CNN Former soldier Daniel Khalife was found guilty of spying for Iran. Photo: Metropolitan Police via CNN Newsource A former British soldier whose escape from a London prison last year sparked a three-day man-hunt has been found guilty of spying for Iran. A jury convicted 23-year-old Daniel Khalife despite his claims that it had been an attempt to work as a double agent to help British security agencies. Prosecutors told his trial this was "a cynical game." The spy, who admitted to escaping from prison, was cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax. Khalife reached out to a "middle-man" associated with Iran by sending him a Facebook message and claiming he would remain undercover in the British Army for them for more than 25 years, according to Britain's Crown Prosec...