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Queensland juduciary in crisis under Tim Carmody, says senior colleague
Apple to launch streaming service to compete with Spotify
Greece hopes to secure vital reform deal next week - live updates
Kipper Williams on Sports Direct
Australia v India: Cricket World Cup 2015 semi-final – live!
Fiskville firefighting centre closed for good after toxic chemicals found
Senate debates Metadata laws – politics live
Top 10 twins in children's books
The film that makes me cry: Field of Dreams
Steve Bell's If ... on Jeremy Clarkson's meat rage
Arthur Tress’s best photograph: a boy from the Boston ghetto hides with a gun
How to cook the perfect simnel cake
What is the millennium development goal on gender equality all about?
Litotes: the most common rhetorical device you've never heard of
Why patients are campaigning against NHS outsourcing
Adrian Bayley's crimes 'sickening', says Victoria's police minister
New data world order: government can read every Australian like an open book
2015 Cricket World Cup: Australia v India – in pictures
Direct Action set up to allow large rise in emissions, says Climate Institute
Civil service pay freeze: the cracks are beginning to show

Queensland juduciary in crisis under Tim Carmody, says senior colleague

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:14 AM PDT

The role of the chief justice appears increasingly problematic after supreme court justice publicly revealed the depth of dysfunction at the top of the courts

Apple to launch streaming service to compete with Spotify

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:13 AM PDT

The tech giant is developing its own subscription streaming service, and looks set to launch a radio station fronted by Zane Lowe

Greece hopes to secure vital reform deal next week - live updates

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:11 AM PDT

Rolling business and financial news, as Athens races to produce a list of reforms to satisfy its lenders by next Monday

Kipper Williams on Sports Direct

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:07 AM PDT

Sports Direct has been branded as a 'backstreet outfit' by MPs at a parliamentary inquiry

Australia v India: Cricket World Cup 2015 semi-final – live!

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:06 AM PDT

Australia 328-7 off 50 overs; India need 329 to reach the final
Email: john.ashdown@theguardian.com | Tweet: @John_Ashdown
Ben Doherty at the SCG: 'a home game for India' in Sydney
Gallery: the best images from the Sydney Cricket Ground

Fiskville firefighting centre closed for good after toxic chemicals found

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:04 AM PDT

Victorian government permanently closes Country Fire Authority training facility where testing showed high levels of possibly cancer-causing chemical pollutants

Senate debates Metadata laws – politics live

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:01 AM PDT

In the last parliamentary sitting day before the budget, the Senate is expected to pass the Abbott government's controversial metadata laws. All the developments from Canberra, live

Top 10 twins in children's books

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

From The Parent Trap's Lottie and Lisa to Fred and George Weasley, Francesca Haig sees double as she picks out the greatest twins in children's books

The film that makes me cry: Field of Dreams

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

When you've lost your father, Field of Dreams strikes home with an unexpected force – as the tourists who flock to the farm where it was filmed prove

Steve Bell's If ... on Jeremy Clarkson's meat rage

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

Arthur Tress’s best photograph: a boy from the Boston ghetto hides with a gun

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

'When you take pictures of children with guns, they're often aggressive, but this boy posed in a defensive, frightened way'

How to cook the perfect simnel cake

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

Sweeter and more spring-like than Christmas cake, with marzipan disciples assembled on the top, does this feast-day favourite merit a comeback, or will you be sticking to hot cross buns?

What is the millennium development goal on gender equality all about?

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

MDG3 was intended to promote global equality and empower women. What achievements have been made since its launch?

Litotes: the most common rhetorical device you've never heard of

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

It's the rhetorical equivalent of having your cake and eating it. No wonder politicians love it

Why patients are campaigning against NHS outsourcing

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:45 AM PDT

Thousands of Lewisham residents have signed a letter to save the health service from private market providers, who cut corners to take profits

Adrian Bayley's crimes 'sickening', says Victoria's police minister

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:44 AM PDT

Wade Noonan says he is confident the state now has the toughest parole system in Australia – 'though you can never eliminate risk completely'

New data world order: government can read every Australian like an open book

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:42 AM PDT

The story of your life in metadata relates where you went, who you spoke with, how long you were there for. And now that story will be kept on file

2015 Cricket World Cup: Australia v India – in pictures

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:38 AM PDT

The best images from the second semi-final of the Cricket World Cup as the co-hosts take on a rejuvinated India at the SCG for a place in the final against New Zealand

Direct Action set up to allow large rise in emissions, says Climate Institute

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:30 AM PDT

So-called 'safeguards mechanism' will at best mean business as usual for Australia's major polluters and at worst lead to far more greenhouse gas output

Civil service pay freeze: the cracks are beginning to show

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:30 AM PDT

HMRC cant recruit expertise, Defence can't get scientists … only the public sector seeks to recruit and retain highly marketable skills with bargain basement pay