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Budget 2014: Bill Shorten says Abbott should not break promises politics live
Oscar Pistorius trial live coverage Monday 12 May
Missing West Australian: human remains found in Nepalese mountains
Houses of cards in pictures
Labor MPs push for rethink of party's support for offshore processing
Voters disapprove of raising pension age, Medicare co-payment plans
Royal commission told AWU official paid workman at Julia Gillard's home
MPs' pay freeze: Tribunal can't rule out a big catch-up rise in 12 months
Egypt's Sisi says he will step down as president if people rise against him
Iran and Assad have won in Syria, say top Tehran foreign policy figures
Thai protest leader to set up office in empty Government House
Glenn Greenwald: 'I don't trust the UK not to arrest me. Their behaviour has been extreme'
Fatal balloon trip: Pilot concealed fact he was a long-term cannabis smoker
Boris Johnson hits out at 'disgraceful' treatment of DJ in BBC racism row
Ukraine: pro-Russia separatists set for victory in eastern region referendum
Bruce Wilson in confrontation with photographer outside royal commission
Five Syrian asylum seekers split up 'to keep them quiet'
Beijing police boosts armed patrols after spate of attacks by militants
Insider trading: alleged scam was uncovered through LinkedIn
Pension access: Clive Palmer wants MPs treated the same as all citizens
Pair charged with abducting two-year-old girl from Ipswich
Ralph Blewitt tells royal commission false invoices key to funding elections
Icac: Liberal MP won't stand again after banned donation revealed
Budget 2014: Joe Hockey's promised end of the age of entitlement is here
Two NT police officers charged after five boys injured in Alice Springs crash

Budget 2014: Bill Shorten says Abbott should not break promises politics live

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:39 AM PDT

The numbers are crunched and the budget papers are printed. It's the day before the annual economic statement, and the Abbott government is intent on shrinking the size of government

Oscar Pistorius trial live coverage Monday 12 May

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:37 AM PDT

Rolling coverage as the defence continues to make its case that Oscar Pistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder

Missing West Australian: human remains found in Nepalese mountains

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:37 AM PDT

Matt Allpress has been missing in the Annapurna region since November after he failed to return from a solo 10-day trek

Houses of cards in pictures

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:30 AM PDT

World champion cardstacker Bryan Berg was invited to mark the completion of renovation work on a shopping mall in Bucharest, Romania, by constructing a model of the centre and two other buildings entirely out of playing cards.

Labor MPs push for rethink of party's support for offshore processing

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:26 AM PDT

Melissa Parke and Anna Burke re-open asylum debate by putting forward motion that Labor should no longer support offshore processing

Voters disapprove of raising pension age, Medicare co-payment plans

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:24 AM PDT

Poll shows wide dislike of measures hitting the middle-class, but less concern for the deficit levy for higher income earners

Royal commission told AWU official paid workman at Julia Gillard's home

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:21 AM PDT

Ralph Blewitt says Bruce Wilson instructed him to pay house renovators

MPs' pay freeze: Tribunal can't rule out a big catch-up rise in 12 months

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:11 AM PDT

After the last pay freeze in 2008 the tribunal awarded a rise of $40,000 to backbenchers and $90,000 to the prime minister

Egypt's Sisi says he will step down as president if people rise against him

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:28 AM PDT

Ex-army chief hits out at Muslim Brotherhood, saying it was more concerned about power and not solving country's problems Continue reading...

Iran and Assad have won in Syria, say top Tehran foreign policy figures

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:17 AM PDT

Insiders say western strategy in Syria encouraged radicals and backfired, leading to threat to European security from returning jihadis Continue reading...

Thai protest leader to set up office in empty Government House

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:13 AM PDT

Anti-government protesters to end months-long occupation of park and march to former prime minister's compound in Bangkok Continue reading...

Glenn Greenwald: 'I don't trust the UK not to arrest me. Their behaviour has been extreme'

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:01 AM PDT

He has been lauded and vilified in equal measure. But did the journalist's 'outsider' status help him land Edward Snowden's NSA revelations? Why did he nearly miss the story? And how powerless did he feel when his partner was detained at Heathrow? One year after the scoop, we meet him in his jungle paradise in Rio

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Fatal balloon trip: Pilot concealed fact he was a long-term cannabis smoker

Posted: 11 May 2014 11:59 PM PDT

Eleven people were killed after balloon hit power lines and caught fire during NZ sightseeing trip in 2012

Boris Johnson hits out at 'disgraceful' treatment of DJ in BBC racism row

Posted: 11 May 2014 11:57 PM PDT

London mayor says Britain is living in a 'Boko Haram world' and calls for BBC to give radio presenter David Lowe his job back Continue reading...

Ukraine: pro-Russia separatists set for victory in eastern region referendum

Posted: 11 May 2014 11:46 PM PDT

Kiev defends military's 'anti-terrorist operations' as rebels say 90% of vote is in favour of 'people's republics' in Donetsk and Luhansk Continue reading...