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- Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov to meet in London for talks
- MH370 search extends to the Indian ocean – live updates
- Royal prank call: Sydney radio station wins appeal against media watchdog
- Viral Video Chart: Justin Bieber, Lena Dunham and Kevin Bacon
- Record 77 candidates to contest re-run of Western Australian Senate election
- Peruvian women intent on bringing state to book over forced sterilisations
- Travelling through America with an alligator: From the archive, 14 March 1957
- MH370: Malaysia Airlines plane search continues amid signals mystery
- Helicopter crash in thick fog kills four in Norfolk
- Jailed without conviction: send Rosie Anne Fulton home | Mick Gooda and Graeme Innes
- Violent crime judges may be forced to consider family impact statements
- David Cameron's science advisers call for expansion of GM crops
- PNG police set to charge men over death of Reza Barati in Manus riot
- Privacy commissioner seeks better surveillance guidelines
- Indigenous child death rate in Queensland twice that of peers
- Deadly knife attack in China market
- Alan Joyce won't say if Qantas will seek debt guarantee again if Senate votes no
- Daniel Morcombe’s killer sentenced to life, with no parole for 20 years
- WA premier appoints new treasurer after Troy Buswell's resignation
- This week on @IndigenousX: five questions to Mary Guthrie | IndigenousX
- Snooker hall siege: man arrested
- Syria's war, 3 years on: 'a horror film', in faces of the dead and voices of revolt | Molly Crabapple
- Philadelphia plane emergency as nose gear on Airbus collapses
- Asylum seekers: the key to compassion lies in human stories | Sunili Govinnage
- Bill Shorten sticks with 'market-based system' to lower greenhouse emissions
| Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov to meet in London for talks Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:18 AM PDT  US secretary of state meets Russian foreign minister at ambassador's residence as he tries to halt Crimea referendum Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and the US secretary of state, John Kerry, are to meet in London on Friday for talks on Ukraine before Sunday's planned referendum in Crimea. The two will meet at the US ambassador's residence in central London as Kerry attempts to head off a vote that could lead to Crimea – now under the control of Russian troops – deciding to become part of Russia. Both the US and the EU say that if the referendum – which they have declared illegal – goes ahead, Moscow will face the prospect of fresh sanctions being imposed. Western diplomats have expressed little optimism ahead of the London talks. Nothing resembling a peace plan has been sketched out between the two sides, one said. Kerry and Lavrov have spoken almost daily as the Ukraine crisis has unfolded but have yet to find any common ground. Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, on Thursday accused Russia of demonstrating unacceptable "military aggression" that has "no reason and no grounds". Moscow has deployed 10,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, deepening the crisis. The Russian defence ministry claimed the troops were only involved in a training exercise that would last two weeks. Yatsenyuk told the UN security council he was convinced Russians did not want war. He urged Russia's leaders to heed the people's wishes and return to dialogue with Ukraine. "If we start real talks with Russia, I believe we can be real partners," he said. Rhetoric from western capitals has stepped up in recent days as the planned referendum nears. Kerry warned on Thursday that Russia could face "a series of serious steps" if Russia annexes Crimea. Before leaving Washington for London, he said the EU was planning to join the US in imposing more sanctions on Moscow if the referendum went ahead. The sanctions would include a travel ban and a freeze on bank accounts. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, backing up Kerry in the strongest language she has employed so far, on Thursday told the Reichstag that the consequences for Russia would be huge if it failed to enter into negotiations. She ruled out military force, but warned sternly that the crisis would cause "massive damage to Russia, economically and politically". The US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry would reaffirm US support for Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity without interference or provocation by Russia. Kerry had previously declined a Russian invitation to Moscow and his decision to go to London prompted speculation the Kremlin may have offered concessions to ensure he would not leave empty-handed. Other diplomats expressed scepticism. Kerry and Lavrov spoke by phone on Thursday, and Russia said the two discussed "taking into account existing Russian and US proposals to normalise the atmosphere and provide for civil peace". The UK prime minister, David Cameron, and the foreign secretary, William Hague, will meet Kerry before his meeting with Lavrov. A Foreign Office spokesman said Hague had phoned both Kerry and Lavrov to encourage them "to hold talks in London with a view to de-escalating the situation in Crimea and setting up dialogue between Russia and Ukraine". As part of a series of moves aimed at displaying solidarity with Ukraine, Nato was planning on Friday to meet representatives of the Tatar population in the Crimea who are largely hostile to a Russian takeover. Nato's deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, will meet the Ukrainian MP and leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Cemilev Kirimoglu. One person was killed and several were treated for injuries on Thursday evening, when hundreds of pro- and anti-Moscow demonstrators clashed in the eastern city of Donetsk. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| MH370 search extends to the Indian ocean – live updates Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:17 AM PDT Follow live updates as the White House suggested the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been extended to the Indian Ocean almost a week after it disappeared over the South China Sea with 239 people on board       |
| Royal prank call: Sydney radio station wins appeal against media watchdog Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:26 AM PDT 2DayFM argues it was up to the courts, not Acma, to decide if it had committed a criminal offence       |
| Viral Video Chart: Justin Bieber, Lena Dunham and Kevin Bacon Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:15 AM PDT  Girls in the garden of Eden, kissing with confidence, bitcoin banter and Barack Obama between two ferns Would you Adam and Eve it? Before Girls, there was Lena Dunham in a Biblical Movie that would tempt a laugh from the serpent himself. Girl is Lena's take on the life of Eve, a struggling 20-something in the Garden of Eden. As the first couple on earth, Adam and Eve would have shared the first kiss. Our next video features a first kiss between several couples who have never met before – and if that's a bit sloppy for you, check out video number three, a spoof on the first (ahem) "hands-on" loving. Staying with the laughs, we've got Barack Obama plugging his healthcare website in a cringe-making interview with Zach Galifinakis and a hilarious explanation about bitcoins for the Conan O'Brien show. Kevin Bacon, star of The Following, lectures the millennium generation on the perils of life in the 80s and we've also got the full deposition from Justin Bieber. If cute kids get you chuckling, then check out our three-year-old who always wants the last word in an argument with his mum. But the final word must go to movie trailer voiceover artist Hal Douglas, who died last week at the age of 89. We've got a fitting tribute to his vocal genius. Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and tickled by Janette. 1. Biblical Movie - Saturday Night Live 2. First Kiss 3. First handjob (First Kiss Parody) 4. Zach Galifinakis and President Barack Obama Between Two Ferns Official Interview 5. Bitcoin's COO Explains What bitcoin Is 6. Justin Bieber Deposition (Full Video) 7. Kevin Bacon Explains the '80s to Millennials 8. Comedian Movie Trailer 9. My 3 year old must argue and debate everything! 10. The ice-cream van Source: Viral Video Chart. Compiled from data gathered at 14:00 on 13 March 2014. The Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately 2m blogs, as well as Facebook and Twitter. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| Record 77 candidates to contest re-run of Western Australian Senate election Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:09 AM PDT Voters head back to polls to choose six senators out of a long list including of contenders including euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke and candidates for Save Our ABC and WikiLeaks       |
| Peruvian women intent on bringing state to book over forced sterilisations Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT  Women sterilised in the late 1990s under a Peruvian government scheme show no signs of relenting in their long fight for justice Guillermina Huaman, 42, struggles to find the words in Spanish to express her grief and rage. It is in her mother tongue, Quechua, a language widely spoken in Peru's southern highlands, that she explains how public healthcare medics terminated her pregnancy at three months during what she thought was a routine check-up. She remembers being anaesthetised after being told she was to be given vitamins intravenously. When she awoke she saw that her abdomen had been cut and stiched. She had been sterilised and her foetus aborted. "They told me I wasn't pregnant, but I knew that I was," she sobs. Hers is one of many accounts of coercion in the forced sterilisation of 2,074 poor, rural women, many of whom were illiterate and spoke little Spanish, between 1995 and 2000. The women have been fighting for some sort of justice and compensation for years. Their legal case began in 2003, when the state paid compensation to the family of Mamérita Mestanza, who died during a surgical sterilisation in 1998. In 2004, the Peruvian state pledged before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate and sanction those responsible for the sterilisation campaign. Legal proceedings were opened but then shelved in 2009 only to be re-opened in 2011. This January, however, a judicial investigation was closed after a prosecutor, Marco Guzman, said he found no evidence that women were systematically coerced into sterilisation. Lawyers are appealing the decision on the grounds that sufficient evidence of human rights abuses exists. Campaigners say they have succeeded in ensuring that a senior prosecutor will re-examine the case. Alberto Fujimori, who was Peru's president between 1990 and 2000, is serving a 25-year sentence for authorising death squad killings and corruption. Both he and one of the investigated health ministers, Alejandro Aguinaga, now a congressman for his political party, maintain the sterilisations were consensual. "You can't force someone into the operating room. This was a reproductive health programme with backing from international institutions," Aguinaga says. In 1995, the Peruvian government legalised surgical sterilisation. The "voluntary surgical contraception" (VSC) programme began as part of a poverty reduction campaign. Fujimori wanted to reduce the birthrate from an average of more than 3.7 births a woman in 1995. According to World Bank figures, the birthrate stood at 2.5 by 2011. The US agency for international development, USAid, gave $25m (£15) over five years to women's rights NGO Manuela Ramos to implement ReproSalud, a family planning programme that included VSC. But when evidence of the forced sterilisations emerged in 1998, in an investigation by other women's groups called "Nada Personal" (Nothing Personal), Manuela Ramos joined Peru's human rights ombudsman in reporting the abuses. In 1998, Joseph Rees, an adviser to the US congressional sub-committee for International Operations and Human Rights, said the US should stop all funding for family planning programmes until it was clear the "sterilisation goals and related abuses" would be discontinued. In a 2004 document seen by the Guardian, USAid says it "denied funding and support to the VSC campaign and took proactive steps towards promoting changes" in the Peruvian government's strategy, adding that it "separated assistance to ensure no support went to campaigns". "During the campaigns … physicians had to perform a number of surgical interventions in order to reach an annual goal imposed by the Peruvian government," says University of Kent PhD candidate Ines Ruiz, the director of A Futile Voice, a film about Peru's forced sterilisations. "The women were not only misinformed, taking advantage of the fact they were illiterate or Quechua-speaking, but also had been coerced or threatened that they would not receive food or medicine if they refused," she adds. Peruvian heath ministry manuals said the women should be given at least two prior counselling sessions, at which they should be told that the procedure was irreversible and given 48 hours to make a decision. These guidelines were largely ignored. Concepcion Condori, 48, a mother of three, was sterilised in 1999 after giving birth. "What have you done to me? I asked the nurse. This is by order of the government, she said to me, you people have many children. This is the way it has to be." She still suffers abdominal pains and is unable to do any heavy work in her village. But the stigma of infertility has been even harder to bear. "It's as if our bodies are dead. When it comes to intimacy with our husbands there's no feeling, and after they beat us because they say we're no good for anything." "They took advantage of us because we don't know how to read and write because we're from the country," says Serafina Illa, 49, another indigenous woman from Cuzco who says she was sterilised after giving birth. Her baby later died. According to Peru's health ministry, 346,219 sterilisations were performed on women and 24,535 on men between 1993 and 2000, more than half carried out between 1996 and 1997 alone. It has been suggested that health workers were given cash incentives of about $10 for every woman they sterilised. "If this case does not proceed in the Peruvian courts then we'll take this to international courts," says Rossy Salazar, a lawyer with Demus, a Peru-based women's rights NGO. "All we want is that a judicial procedure is opened so that both sides can put forward their cases and at least these women can go to a trial and hear someone say that a crime was committed against them. That's all they want to hear – it was a crime and no one should have done this to them." theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Travelling through America with an alligator: From the archive, 14 March 1957 Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT  Imogen Thomas grew so fond of a repile she bought in Florida that she sailed back to the UK with it I saw him first on one of the roadside stalls that line the great highways east and west of Florida. It was a fairytale setting. In the shining blue of the sky a flock of pelicans flew, spanish moss hung in drifts, and all around colours gleamed. The sign above him said "Genuine North American Alligator—$3 with Bucket." In actual fact he was a cayman, imported from South America. The owner of the stall sauntered over and poked him meanly to make him snap. He didn't snap. Instead he winked majestically at me, and I bought him. Having bought him I was quite at a loss. I was driving up to New York to spend a week in a friend's flat and then sailing back to England on the Queen Elizabeth. I didn't know whether either the flat or the liner was equipped for housing alligators. I didn't want to turn him loose, for I did not know whether he would be happy so far from home, and besides I liked him, so I christened him Ponce de Leon, after the explorer who had discovered the near-by "Fountain of Eternal Youth," and together we set off. The flat turned out to have a magnificent bathroom and a central heating system more suited to alligators than to humans, so we settled in happily. The next morning it occurred to me that there would probably be a cleaning woman whom I should warn about my pet. That message was one of the hardest I have ever had to compose. I started with an apologetic note "I am afraid there is an alligator in the bathroom," but when I read it as a stranger might it suggested that I might equally well have been driven out by pink elephants in the kitchen. Then I tried a casual request : "Please do not disturb the alligator in the bath," but that was just as odd. I settled for a cryptic message: "Do not worry about my pet. He is in the bathroom and will not harm you." When I came back from my walk the coloured char, who had obviously been watching for me came waddling down the passage, wheezing with laughter. "Say, Missy," she gasped, "Ah sho' am glad yo' warned me. What yo' Momma say when yo' get that home to her?" I explained to her that alligators are ideal pets: you feed them only once a week, they make no noise, and they keep strangers at bay. She shook more than ever at this, and for the rest of the week whenever I went past would pop out from some cubby-hole or other with a conversational giggle. I found the same reaction everywhere and enjoyed myself immensely. A pet alligator knocks down as many barriers as a clumsy hurdler. I had only to ask in a drugstore for a raw hamburger "for my alligator" to make a shopful of friends, and my request at a library for a book on alligators "as I have one at home and want to know what sex it is" was an equal success. My next worry was what my cabin-mates on the Queen Elizabeth were going to say to Ponce de Leon, who by now was called Ponce for short. He and I were getting on very well together. When I stroked the back of his neck he would relax and shut his first pair of eyelids that cut out the light but left him alert to any movement. Then, when quite somnolent, the scaly pair would come down and he would sleep. On the ship we had a tremendous piece of luck. The other three members of my cabin were a mother and two young daughters, who thought a baby alligator in the cabin the most exciting part of the whole trip. At lunch one day my neighbour asked a question that worried me. What was the Customs going to say? Perhaps alligators were classed with parrots and parts of motorcars on the notice that one is always handed to read. Perhaps there would be a fantastically high import duty or a long period of quarantine, both equally awkward. Well, it is impossible to smuggle an alligator under one's clothing, and I decided on absolute honesty. I made out a list of all the things I had bought during my stay and at the bottom I wrote "one baby alligator." When we came to the barrier I placed my suitcases on the counter and held his bucket in my hand. The Customs officer handed me the board and I skimmed down it —no mention of alligators; in return I handed him my list and he skimmed down that. I waited. There was no flicker on his face. With a weary gesture he marked my suitcases and I passed on. I never knew what he made of the last item on the list, but I blessed the recent fashion which had dictated that a smart lady should carry, as an accessory, a large white plastic bucket bag. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| MH370: Malaysia Airlines plane search continues amid signals mystery Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:58 PM PDT Follow the latest developments on the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which is still missing after it vanishing from radar last Saturday with 239 people on board       |
| Helicopter crash in thick fog kills four in Norfolk Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:28 PM PDT  Aircraft that crashed near Beccles on Norfolk-Suffolk border was reportedly travelling to Northern Ireland Four people including Northern Ireland's richest person, Lord Ballyedmond, have been killed after a helicopter crashed in thick fog at a small village on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. Police were called to the incident at the village of Gillingham, near Beccles, at about 7.30pm on Thursday night. The aircraft was reportedly travelling to Northern Ireland, and it crashed near a stately home owned by Ballyedmond, a peer who on Friday morning was reported to be among the dead. Ballyedmond, better known as businessman Edward Haughey, was head of the leading veterinary pharmaceuticals company Norbrook Laboratories and Haughey Air, a helicopter charter firm. Police confirmed that the aircraft was civilian rather than military and that the area of the crash site has been cordoned off. A spokesman confirmed that all four occupants of the aircraft were killed. An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Ambulance resources have now been stood down from the scene. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those who have lost their lives tonight. "EEAST sent a number of resources to the incident including two ambulance officers, three ambulances, two doctors and one rapid response car." A spokesman for the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it will be sending a team to investigate. One Twitter user said that the helicopter came down near his house, which he wrote was near the woodland leading to the small village of Gillingham. Roland Bronk, owner of The Swan House inn and restaurant in Beccles, said it was "very foggy" in the area. Bronk said he also heard customers talk about "a lot of police activity and ambulances". It is not yet known whether fog, which beset much of England earlier in the day, played a factor in the crash, although the visibility was reported to be poor in the area on Thursday night. There have been a series of disasters involving helicopters in recent months. The site is 45 miles from the spot where four crew members died when a US military helicopter crashed in January on a training mission in a nature reserve in Cley-next-the-Sea. There have been a series of disasters involving helicopters in recent months. In January this year, a Pave Hawk from RAF Lakenheath was taking part in a low-flying training exercise when it came down in a nature reserve in Cley-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. In November last year, 10 people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a pub in Glasgow. All three members of crew died and a further seven people who were in the pub at the time of the incident were also killed. In August, four people died after a SuperPuma helicopter ditched in the sea off Shetland. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| Jailed without conviction: send Rosie Anne Fulton home | Mick Gooda and Graeme Innes Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:26 PM PDT Mick Gooda and Graeme Innes: Around 30 Australians who have not been convicted of a crime call prison their home – and the length of time they will spend there has not been determined  |
| Violent crime judges may be forced to consider family impact statements Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:16 PM PDT NSW Labor leader John Robertson plans legislation to make the statements influence the sentences of violent offenders       |
| David Cameron's science advisers call for expansion of GM crops Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT  Report urges scrapping of 'dysfunctional' regulations on crops that risk curtailing the UK's food supply David Cameron's official science advisers have called for GM crops to be rolled out across the UK by scrapping "dysfunctional" EU regulations that risk curtailing future food supplies. "We take it for granted that because our supermarket shelves are groaning with food, there are no problems with the food supply, but there are," said government's chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir Mark Walport, citing rising global population, limited farmland and climate change. "If we don't use GM the risk is people going unfed." In a report published on Friday, the scientists say GM crops should face the same regulation as conventional crops and that the UK government should take back powers from Brussels to be able to unilaterally approve the growing of GM crops across the UK. The plant science experts who wrote the report, backed by the Walport, argue that decades of use of GM crops around the world have revealed no adverse effects. They say the UK should forge ahead with GM crops to help secure future food supplies, ensure UK farms do not become uncompetitive and benefit the UK's knowledge economy. GM crops are now grown on 12% of all the world's arable land but are barely used in the EU following years of public concern. Walport and the report's authors argue that EU regulation – which has approved just two GM crops compared to 96 in the US – must be changed to test each crop on its merits, not on whether it was bred conventionally or by GM techniques. "When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts," said Walport. "The EU decision-making has been dysfunctional. It makes much more logical sense to regulate on a product-by-product basis: technologies are neither universally safe or universally unsafe." "The process takes years and costs millions of euros for each crop. Not surprisingly, there are very few applicants," said the report's lead author, Professor Sir David Baulcombe, at the University of Cambridge. The report notes that the EU imports 70% of its animal feed, most of it GM, and, in an article for the Guardian, Baulcombe notes: "Bizarrely, our animals eat GM quite safely although we do not have the option." The report backs the conclusion of the European Academies Science Advisory Council that "there is no rational basis for the current stringent regulatory process". The first GM plants were grown more than 30 years ago and the first commercial GM crop – the Flavr Savr tomato – was grown 20 years ago in the US. Now the area cultivated for GM crops is doubling every five years and already 80% of soybean and cotton has been genetically modified to withstand pesticides or repel pests. GM crops in development could withstand pests or diseases such as potato blight, which costs $5bn a year, cope with heat or drought, or have better nutritional or storage properties. One GM crop would even produce the healthy Omega-3 oils usually derived from fish. But the report, commissioned by the prime minister's Council for Science and Technology and endorsed by Walport, recognises that significant public opposition remains. Walport said: "It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies." But he added: "There are obvious competitive benefits for the UK. We want the science done by the academic sector to yield the maximum benefits and one way is through the market place." Claire Robinson, editor at campaign group GMWatch, said the report's authors were not independent of the industry with, for example, lead author Baulcombe receiving research funding and working as a consultant for the multinational Syngenta. "Their views should be treated with the same scepticism we would apply to any sales pitch," she said. In response, another report author, Professor Jonathan Jones at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich and also founder of GM patent-holding company Mendel Biotechnology, said: "I have the courage of my convictions because I think the technology has a lot to offer." He said public funding should be used to test whether GM traits would be useful in the specific climate and conditions of the UK, a recommendation made in the report. Jones said the specific regulations for GM crops were no longer needed: "We have been breeding GM plants for 31 years. There are no 'unknown unknowns'." Professor Jim Dunwell, at the University of Reading and another report author, said it cost $10-$20m more to put a GM crop through the EU approval process than for conventionally bred new crops. "There is a history of safe use for at least 20 years and the attitude that the technology is intrinsically unsafe is no longer valid. The regulation is not fit for purpose," he said. "Some of those costs will come down if those requirements are removed. But changing mindsets that are impervious to experience and evidence is difficult." The prime minister will issue an official response to the report, although there is not set timescale for that to be published. In January, the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, backed GM crops in a speech: "Europe risks becoming the museum of world farming as innovative companies make decisions to invest and develop new technologies in other markets." theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| PNG police set to charge men over death of Reza Barati in Manus riot Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:55 PM PDT Manus Island police commander says three or four men likely to be arrested for the death of the 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker       |
| Privacy commissioner seeks better surveillance guidelines Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:49 PM PDT Timothy Pilgrim says police access to private communications 'should be proportional to the risk they seek to address'       |
| Indigenous child death rate in Queensland twice that of peers Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:52 PM PDT Suicide rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children more than five times that of non-Indigenous young, report finds       |
| Deadly knife attack in China market Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:50 PM PDT Several dead including attacker shot by police, reports from Changsha say, with another suspect captured and more fleeing       |
| Alan Joyce won't say if Qantas will seek debt guarantee again if Senate votes no Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:43 PM PDT CEO says market factors and government decisions are behind $252m loss and the need to restructure Qantas and cut 5000 jobs       |
| Daniel Morcombe’s killer sentenced to life, with no parole for 20 years Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:38 PM PDT Judge says Brett Peter Cowan's 'horrific and disgraceful' murder of schoolboy had driven 'fear into the hearts' of the community       |
| WA premier appoints new treasurer after Troy Buswell's resignation Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:22 PM PDT Western Australian finance minister, Mike Nahan, will take the place of former treasurer, who resigned following a car crash       |
| This week on @IndigenousX: five questions to Mary Guthrie | IndigenousX Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:21 PM PDT IndigenousX: Each week, a new guest hosts the @IndigenousX twitter account. We're inviting them to tell us about who they are       |
| Snooker hall siege: man arrested Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:14 PM PDT Armed standoff ends after 10 hours in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, with police detaining 20-year-old       |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:01 PM PDT Molly Crabapple: For the anniversary of a civil war no side can win, painting a history, with the Western left failing at every stroke       |
| Philadelphia plane emergency as nose gear on Airbus collapses Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:59 PM PDT Pilot forced to abort takeoff as blown tyre leads to mechanical failure but no serious injuries, authorities say       |
| Asylum seekers: the key to compassion lies in human stories | Sunili Govinnage Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:47 PM PDT Sunili Govinnage: It was the power of human connection, not rhetoric or information, that helped my parents understand the reality of the situation for asylum seekers  |
| Bill Shorten sticks with 'market-based system' to lower greenhouse emissions Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:43 PM PDT Labor leader says party will take its plan to voters in 2016, based on the 'principle that climate change is serious and real'       |
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