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Singapore police arrest 17-year-old over critical Lee Kuan Yew video
Decorated military dog Sarbi, survivor of Afghanistan horror, dies of brain tumour
GitHub cleans up after cyber-attack
Bali Nine: law expert supports appeal for pair in Indonesian administrative court
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert found guilty of corruption
Greenaway offends Russia with film about Soviet director's gay love affair
Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
Red skies and abandoned ostriches: the fallout from Fukushima – in pictures
Rural women in Tunisia: ‘We have been silent for too long’
Jamie Oliver interviewed by nine year-old about food petition - video
Republicans see Obama as bigger threat than Putin and Assad, says poll
Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organisers
Australia's climate change policy on course for 'disastrous' 4C warming
Evo Morales's party suffers serious blows in Bolivia's local elections
Jacky Green: 'Nothing has really changed since whitefellas came. First it was horses now bulldozers'
Sudan: an unlikely path to jihad for nine British medical students
Barack Obama recovers after near fall down steps of Air Force One – video
Welcome to Australia's newest islands, thrust from the sea by a raging cyclone Nathan
Powerful earthquake generates small tsunami off Papua New Guinea
Mike Baird declares his love for NSW in election victory speech – video

Singapore police arrest 17-year-old over critical Lee Kuan Yew video

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 01:15 AM PDT

Amos Yee uploaded eight-minute video Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead! and claimed others were scared to speak out against late founding prime minister

Decorated military dog Sarbi, survivor of Afghanistan horror, dies of brain tumour

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 01:10 AM PDT

The explosives detection dog that was thought lost after fierce fighting in 2008 reappeared more than a year later

GitHub cleans up after cyber-attack

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 01:04 AM PDT

US coding site responds to flood of traffic following hacking attack, with reports claiming Chinese search engine Baidu was source

Bali Nine: law expert supports appeal for pair in Indonesian administrative court

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 12:51 AM PDT

Otong Rosadi's call comes after court threw out a challenge against the rejection of clemency for death row pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert found guilty of corruption

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 12:09 AM PDT

Man who hoped to sign historic peace accord with Palestinians to be sentenced over claims he accepted cash bribes from US businessman

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty of accepting bribes in a retrial on corruption charges, the latest chapter in the downfall of a man who only years earlier hoped to lead the country to a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Olmert's lawyers said they would likely appeal against the ruling by the Jerusalem district court. He will be sentenced at a later court hearing.

Greenaway offends Russia with film about Soviet director's gay love affair

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

British director speaks to The Calvert Journal about his latest work featuring Sergei Eisenstein's hidden relationship with a Mexican man in 1931

Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 11:54 PM PDT

Latest attack on country's independent writers follows similar killing in February of American atheist blogger

A blogger has been hacked to death in the capital of Bangladesh, in the latest brutal attack on the country's independent writers, a senior officer said.

Police have arrested two men over the murder, which comes weeks after an American atheist blogger was also killed in Dhaka, in a crime that triggered international outrage.

Red skies and abandoned ostriches: the fallout from Fukushima – in pictures

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 11:00 PM PDT

With scarred skies, scratched negatives, shots of shattered railways and dead wildlife, Japanese photographers respond to the tragic events of 11 March 2011, when an earthquake led to a tsunami and nuclear reactor leak

Rural women in Tunisia: ‘We have been silent for too long’

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Tired of the challenges they face going unnoticed, growing numbers of Tunisian women are supporting a scheme designed to uphold their rights

Jamie Oliver interviewed by nine year-old about food petition - video

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 10:49 PM PDT

The celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was grilled by a nine-year-old boy, Dash, during his recent visit to Sydney to promote a push for compulsory food education. Dash asks Oliver what his favourite 'ugly food' is, and what 'lovely jubbly' means. Oliver is working with change.org on a campaign to convince the governments of G20 countries to introduce compulsory food education in schools Continue reading...

Republicans see Obama as bigger threat than Putin and Assad, says poll

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 10:29 PM PDT

A Reuters/Ipsos online poll asked Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organisations and individuals posed to the United States

A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organisations and individuals posed to the United States on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being no threat and 5 being an imminent threat.

Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organisers

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 10:17 PM PDT

Exclusive: Obama, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Modi and others kept in the dark after passport numbers and other details were disclosed in Australia's accidental privacy breach

Read the immigration department's letter outlining the circumstances of the G20 privacy breach

The personal details of world leaders at the last G20 summit were accidentally disclosed by the Australian immigration department, which did not consider it necessary to inform those world leaders of the privacy breach.

The Guardian can reveal an employee of the agency inadvertently sent the passport numbers, visa details and other personal identifiers of all world leaders attending the summit to the organisers of the Asian Cup football tournament.

Australia's climate change policy on course for 'disastrous' 4C warming

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 10:15 PM PDT

The government's just-released discussion paper on emissions reductions has no mention of the global goal to limit warming to 2C

Evo Morales's party suffers serious blows in Bolivia's local elections

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 09:45 PM PDT

Unofficial quick count results show governing party has lost La Paz and several key governorships

Jacky Green: 'Nothing has really changed since whitefellas came. First it was horses now bulldozers'

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 09:40 PM PDT

The Garrwa artist and activist talks about the politics of his art, big mining on his ancestral lands, and how history consistently conspires to dispossess Indigenous peoples

Sudan: an unlikely path to jihad for nine British medical students

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 09:00 PM PDT

A group of young medics recently travelled to Syria to work in Islamic State-controlled hospitals. Khalid Abdelaziz visited Khartoum to investigate their path to radicalisation

Barack Obama recovers after near fall down steps of Air Force One – video

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 07:48 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama comes close to falling down the steps of Air Force One. Obama was returning to Washington DC from a golfing trip in Florida when he bounded from the door of the plane only to lose his footing. He recovers and continues across the tarmac with the same spring in his step Continue reading...

Welcome to Australia's newest islands, thrust from the sea by a raging cyclone Nathan

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 06:38 PM PDT

In his latest dispatch on extraordinary marine environments under threat, Guardian Australia's ocean correspondent goes diving in the 'officially amazing' Coral Sea – and discovers a string of brand new (if very small) islands

It is not often that human beings get to stand on dry land anywhere on planet Earth and know they are the first to leave a footprint.

Stepping off her inflatable tender on to a sand and coral rubble outcrop at Holmes Reef, 200km offshore from Cairns, photographer Julia Sumerling said: "Welcome to the newest islands in the Coral Sea."

Powerful earthquake generates small tsunami off Papua New Guinea

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 05:59 PM PDT

Frighteningly intense tremors hit town of Rabaul for five minutes, but no injuries or major damage reported

A powerful earthquake rattled the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Monday, generating a small tsunami and frightening locals near the epicentre, but prompting no reports of damage or injuries.

A tsunami of half a meter (1.5ft) was measured in the harbor of Rabaul, a town near the epicentre of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake, said Martin Mose, acting director for Papua New Guinea's national disaster centre. The quake struck at a depth of 40 miles (65km), about 30 miles south-east of the town of Kokopo, near Rabaul, in north-eastern Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey reported.

Mike Baird declares his love for NSW in election victory speech – video

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 05:32 PM PDT

The New South Wales premier Mike Baird declares how much he loves the state that he has been elected to continue to lead. Despite losing seats, which the premier puts down to Labor's 'scare campaign', the Coalition was returned after an election campaign fought largely on the issue of selling off the state's electricity 'poles and wires' Continue reading...