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NSW election 2015: Early exit polls point to win for Baird government - live
Germanwings flight 4U9525: what’s it like to listen to a black box recording?
Unreported World: The City That Beat Isis review – a 3am Girl goes to Syria
Africa's political event of the decade? Nigeria goes to the polls
Patrick Gale: ‘I turned my great-grandfather gay’
Islam Karimov set to reprise presidential role as Uzbekistan heads to the polls
Dear Jeremy – your work issues solved
NSW state election 2015: by the numbers
From the archive, 28 March 1970: Fighting erupts in Beirut streets
4,000 foreign fishermen stranded on remote Indonesian islands
Amanda Knox murder conviction annulled - as it happened
Ex-University of Mississippi student charged with hanging noose on statue
Amanda Knox acquittal greeted with cheers and fireworks in West Seattle
Sky dwellings: the transit operators building real estate over the tracks
Kercher family have a bitter pill to swallow after verdict
Meredith Kercher murder: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito acquitted
New York City mayor: gas line may have been 'inappropriately' tapped before blast - video
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito: timeline of the seven-year legal fight
Astronauts blast off for year-long stay on space station - video

NSW election 2015: Early exit polls point to win for Baird government - live

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 01:24 AM PDT

Early counting shows some sizeable swings to Labor but Coalition appears to be holding most of its seats. Follow the results live ...

Germanwings flight 4U9525: what’s it like to listen to a black box recording?

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 01:00 AM PDT

After every air disaster, finding the black box recorder becomes the first priority – but for the crash investigators who have to listen to the tapes of people's final moments, the experience can be incredibly harrowing Continue reading...

Unreported World: The City That Beat Isis review – a 3am Girl goes to Syria

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:44 AM PDT

Two seriously gutsy journalists smuggle themselves into a pulverised Kobani to witness the final days of the battle between Isis and the Kurds

Africa's political event of the decade? Nigeria goes to the polls

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Continent's wealthiest and most populous country is voting today in what is being hailed as the country's closest-ever election. Here's what you need to know

Patrick Gale: ‘I turned my great-grandfather gay’

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Enthralling and irreverent, Gale's granny was full of family gossip – about everyone except her father. In his latest novel, the author tells the story of this enigmatic man who left his home for the life of a cowboy on the Canadian prairies Continue reading...

Islam Karimov set to reprise presidential role as Uzbekistan heads to the polls

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Critics say incumbent, who is without a credible election opponent, is flaunting constitution by standing again after 25 years in office

Dear Jeremy – your work issues solved

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Our resident work expert and readers help one person with the boss from hell, and another who fears they are moving around too much Continue reading...

NSW state election 2015: by the numbers

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 11:15 PM PDT

Four million voters will decide 93 lower house seats, while the 21 seats in the upper house will be contested by a record 394 names on the ballot paper

• NSW election live blog - results and updates as they happen

From the archive, 28 March 1970: Fighting erupts in Beirut streets

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 10:30 PM PDT

Tensions between Christian Phalangists and Palestinian guerrillas boil over in Lebanon

17 March 1977: Lebanese leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt assassinated

4,000 foreign fishermen stranded on remote Indonesian islands

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 08:53 PM PDT

Migrant workers dumped on islands after being abandoned by boat captains when Indonesia banned foreign fishing

Amanda Knox murder conviction annulled - as it happened

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:58 PM PDT

Italy's top court acquits American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito of murder of British student Meredith Kercher

Ex-University of Mississippi student charged with hanging noose on statue

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:34 PM PDT

Graeme Phillip Harris faces civil rights charges over incident involving statue of university's first African American student James Meredith

Amanda Knox acquittal greeted with cheers and fireworks in West Seattle

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:16 PM PDT

Supporters celebrate in Knox's US hometown as verdict in Meredith Kercher murder case ends 'excruciating and twisted journey'

Sky dwellings: the transit operators building real estate over the tracks

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 04:00 PM PDT

Property developments above and around urban railway lines are increasingly being seen as a way of reducing long-term public transport subsidies Continue reading...

Kercher family have a bitter pill to swallow after verdict

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:59 PM PDT

After more than seven years of twists, turns and retrials, Meredith Kercher's relatives must come to terms with the fact that the only people who have ever been seriously considered suspects in the case are now to walk free

Meredith Kercher murder: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito acquitted

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:59 PM PDT

Italy's highest court clears pair definitively, ending case that began in November 2007, when body of Leeds University student was discovered in Perugia

The trial of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher has ended in a stunning acquittal after Italy's highest court decided to annul their murder convictions.

The decision by a five-judge panel on Friday night to clear the pair definitively ends a case that began when the body of Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds University student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found in the bedroom of the flat she shared with Knox in Perugia on the morning of 2 November 2007. Her throat had been slashed and she had been sexually assaulted. She had been in the first weeks of an Erasmus year in the Umbrian hilltop town.

New York City mayor: gas line may have been 'inappropriately' tapped before blast - video

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:38 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says people may have "inappropriately" tapped into a gas line before a devastating Manhattan explosion, but he cautions it could take as long as a week to make a final determination on the cause of the blast. Continue reading...

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito: timeline of the seven-year legal fight

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:30 PM PDT

The complexities and delays of the Italian legal system have seen the pair convicted, freed on appeal, then their convictions upheld and finally anulled

Astronauts blast off for year-long stay on space station - video

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:27 PM PDT

A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on their way to the International Space Station, a Nasa television broadcast showed. Two of the men, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, 51, and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, 54, will stay aboard the station for a year, twice as long as previous crews. Continue reading...