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Malaysia arrests three editors for sedition
Arn Chorn-Pond: why the arts are as important as hospitals in Cambodia
Nigeria election: Buhari in front after half of results declared
Borneo man faces death penalty for murder of British medical students
Iran nuclear negotiations enter final day as deadlock persists
Q: What makes Finnish teachers so special? A: It’s not brains
African Development Bank president calls on successor to focus on poorest
The Podemos revolution: how a small group of radical academics changed European politics
Wife of Australian stabbed to death in Bahamas appears in court charged with his murder – video
G20 world leaders’ personal details leak a ‘huge embarrassment’, says Labor
American Pharmacists Association votes against supply of lethal injection drugs
Germanwings crash: Australian victims Carol and Greig Friday mourned - video
Mexican man needing heart and liver transplant is granted pass to enter US
Homophobia among teenage boys at frightening levels, says Beyondblue
Government knew of abuse on Nauru months before it acted, staff to allege
Australia's immigration department bans email autocomplete after G20 leak
Google doodle marks day Eiffel tower was opened to public
MI6 chief says service is in 'technology arms race' with terrorists and criminals
Taser fired by federal agents kills driver as car is engulfed in flames
Jay Z aims to topple Spotify with music streaming service Tidal

Malaysia arrests three editors for sedition

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:11 AM PDT

Offices of Malaysian Insider raided over news report discussing proposal to amend federal law to introduce Islamic punishments

Arn Chorn-Pond: why the arts are as important as hospitals in Cambodia

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Music saved Arn Chorn-Pond's life in a Khmer Rouge camp. Now he is dedicated to reviving his country's cultural heritage

Nigeria election: Buhari in front after half of results declared

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:46 PM PDT

Opposition candidate opens up lead over Goodluck Jonathan based on returns from 18 out of Nigeria's 36 states and capital city Abuja

Muhammadu Buhari took a significant lead over the Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday night with half of the results declared in a fiercely contested general election. Buhari, the opposition candidate, led with 8,520,436 votes against Jonathan's 6,488,210, based on returns from 18 out of Nigeria's 36 states plus the capital city. Turnout was consistently higher in the strongholds of Buhari, who ruled Nigeria in 1983-85 as a military dictator.

Borneo man faces death penalty for murder of British medical students

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:34 PM PDT

Fishmonger Zulkipli Abdullah has been convicted of killing Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger in Malaysian city of Kuching

A fishmonger faces the death penalty after being found guilty of murdering two British medical students in Borneo.

Iran nuclear negotiations enter final day as deadlock persists

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:31 PM PDT

US says prospects of deal on the final day are '50-50' as talks remain stuck on Tehran's demand for immediate end to sanctions if nuclear programme is halted

High-level negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme enter their last day on Tuesday before a deadline for agreeing the outline for a comprehensive settlement, with top diplomats still struggling to overcome persistent obstacles.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, his Iranian opposite number, Mohammad Javad Zarif, alongside foreign ministers from France, the UK, Germany and China, worked late into the evening on two consecutive nights in an effort to break the deadlock. Russia's Sergei Lavrov left the talks on Monday afternoon to hold official meetings in Moscow, but his spokeswoman said he would be on hand to return to the talks in Lausanne if necessary.

Q: What makes Finnish teachers so special? A: It’s not brains

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:31 PM PDT

David Cameron argues we need to train the smartest to teach. But Finnish universities select only 10% of applicants – and not the cleverest Continue reading...

African Development Bank president calls on successor to focus on poorest

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:00 PM PDT

As he prepares to step down in May, Donald Kaberuka warns that energy shortages and infrastructure gaps remain key challenges for the continent

The Podemos revolution: how a small group of radical academics changed European politics

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 10:00 PM PDT

Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain. Can this grassroots party win power – or is its bubble about to burst?

At the start of the 2008 academic year, Pablo Iglesias, a 29-year-old lecturer with a pierced eyebrow and a ponytail greeted his students at the political sciences faculty of the Complutense University in Madrid by inviting them to stand on their chairs. The idea was to re-enact a scene from the film Dead Poets Society. Iglesias's message was simple. His students were there to study power, and the powerful can be challenged. This stunt was typical of him. Politics, Iglesias thought, was not just something to be studied. It was something you either did, or let others do to you. As a professor, he was smart, hyperactive and – as a founder of a university organisation called Counter-Power – quick to back student protest. He did not fit the classic profile of a doctrinaire intellectual from Spain's communist-led left. But he was clear about what was to blame for the world's ills: the unfettered, globalised capitalism that, in the wake of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, had installed itself as the developed world's dominant ideology.

Iglesias and the students, ex-students and faculty academics worked hard to spread their ideas. They produced political television shows and collaborated with their Latin American heroes – left-leaning populist leaders such as Rafael Correa of Ecuador or Evo Morales of Bolivia. But when they launched their own political party on 17 January 2014 and gave it the name Podemos ("We Can"), many dismissed it. With no money, no structure and few concrete policies, it looked like just one of several angry, anti-austerity parties destined to fade away within months.

If the party's leaders have to renounce some of their ideas to broaden their appeal, they will do so. The aim is to win

Spain's far-right pundits had embraced TV, and Iglesias believed it was time for the left to do something similar

Ratings surged as Iglesias, equipped with endless facts and simple messages, wiped the floor with fellow debaters

Iglesias said politics was like sex: you start off doing it badly, but learn with experience

The party's use of transparency websites, voting tools and online debate is already cutting-edge

Iglesias is aware of the paradox of a party with anti-capitalist roots bidding to administer a market-based economy

One journalist wrote that Iglesias is selling a religious tale similar to that of Jesus expelling the money-changers

Wife of Australian stabbed to death in Bahamas appears in court charged with his murder – video

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 08:43 PM PDT

Donna Vasyli, 54, the wife of a millionaire Australian podiatrist, Phillip Vasyli, appeared in court in the Bahamas capital Nassau on Monday. Phillip Vasyli, the founder of Vasyli International, now called Vionic Group was found with multiple stab wounds and it's believed he had been dead for several hours before the police were called. Continue reading...

G20 world leaders’ personal details leak a ‘huge embarrassment’, says Labor

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 08:32 PM PDT

Shadow immigration minister Richard Marles calls on Australian government to explain why world leaders were not notified of the breach when it occurred last November

American Pharmacists Association votes against supply of lethal injection drugs

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:57 PM PDT

Death penalty opponents hail ethics ruling that could further restrict availability and increase pressure on state authorities to halt capital punishment

Germanwings crash: Australian victims Carol and Greig Friday mourned - video

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:28 PM PDT

Relatives of Australian plane crash victims Carol and Greig Friday gather at the Germanwings crash site memorial in the French Alps. The Fridays, from Victoria, were among 150 people who died when Germanwings flight 4U 9525 came down on 24 March. Authorities believe the first officer deliberately crashed the plane Continue reading...

Mexican man needing heart and liver transplant is granted pass to enter US

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:24 PM PDT

After two previous refusals, Jose Chua to be let in on temporary humanitarian grounds but faces long wait for donor organs

Homophobia among teenage boys at frightening levels, says Beyondblue

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:23 PM PDT

Mental health charity launch ad campaign to try to challenge discriminatory views, which they say are causing 'psychological distress' among young LGBTI people

Government knew of abuse on Nauru months before it acted, staff to allege

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:00 PM PDT

Current and former workers at asylum seeker detention centre are prepared to tell Senate inquiry that the government was aware of abuse before Moss report

Australia's immigration department bans email autocomplete after G20 leak

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 06:33 PM PDT

Officials scramble to respond after blunder reveals passport numbers, visa details and other personal information about leaders including Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

Google doodle marks day Eiffel tower was opened to public

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 05:10 PM PDT

It's 126 years since work was compelted on Gustave Eiffel's famous structure – still the tallest building in Paris

MI6 chief says service is in 'technology arms race' with terrorists and criminals

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 04:38 PM PDT

Alex Younger, head of Secret Intelligence Service, defends use of internet and big data to protect the country

Taser fired by federal agents kills driver as car is engulfed in flames

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 04:30 PM PDT

Alex Martin, 25, died in March 2012 when stun gun ignited gas fumes
Video released during family lawsuit against Border Patrol agents

Jay Z aims to topple Spotify with music streaming service Tidal

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 04:05 PM PDT

Musicians including Beyoncé and Madonna show support for rapper as he overhauls service designed to make more money for artists

He has sold 100m records, founded a business empire worth upwards of $520m (£350m) and married Beyoncé. Now, Jay Z, backed by a roll call of A-list friends, is fronting the relaunch of a music streaming website heralded as the first real challenger to Spotify.

Kanye West, Rihanna, Coldplay, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and more threw their weight behind the rapper at a press conference last night where he unveiled the new look for Tidal, a streaming site originally launched by Norwegian firm Aspiro in October 2014 and acquired for $56m earlier this month by a company controlled by the music mogul.