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Greg Hunt calls Australia's Direct Action auction a success, despite criticism
Father arrested after allegedly drinking and leaving young son in hot car to die
New Zealand PM John Key's history of hair horseplay - video
Woman whose ponytail was pulled by PM identified by New Zealand Herald
Education is a basic human right – which is why private schools must be resisted
Millennium development goal 2: 15 achievements on education
US says Russia is building air defence systems in eastern Ukraine
What is the millennium development goal on education all about?
Pensioners can be pilots says Japan as shortage sees age limit lifted to 67
Uganda’s success in universal primary education falling apart
Shakespeare's Globe goes around the world with Hamlet – in pictures
This World: World’s Richest Terror Army review: it’s both fascinating and terrifying
'You can find nothing in the city now': Yemen reels after month-long air strikes
Has the Rana Plaza disaster changed your shopping habits?
Attorney general's office says security laws monitor should stay part time
Four accused of sorcery in Papua New Guinea await visit by spiritual diviner
Coral Triangle key part of $24tn global ocean wealth
Freddie Gray death: police clash with protesters for second night in Baltimore
One refugee on Nauru takes up resettlement offer, says Cambodian official
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gives jail cell camera the finger – video

Greg Hunt calls Australia's Direct Action auction a success, despite criticism

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 01:13 AM PDT

Abbott government awards emissions reduction contracts worth $660.4m, but Climate Institute says first auction shows the policy will fall short of stated goals

Father arrested after allegedly drinking and leaving young son in hot car to die

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 01:01 AM PDT

James Koryor taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter and child abuse after allegedly abandoning two-year-old in vehicle in 32 degree heat

New Zealand PM John Key's history of hair horseplay - video

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:35 AM PDT

New Zealand prime minister John Key has apologised for pulling a waitress's hair in 2012. But additional news clips reveal this wasn't an isolated bit of hair-related horseplay. In one clip, Key holds a girl's braid before asking: "The boys don't pull it do they? No, that's good. We don't want that to happen do we?" While a second from Campbell Live shows him pulling a third pony tail Continue reading...

Woman whose ponytail was pulled by PM identified by New Zealand Herald

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:30 AM PDT

Interview with waitress who accuses John Key of harrassment was published against her wishes, she says

Education is a basic human right – which is why private schools must be resisted

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:30 AM PDT

Privatisation of education has a devastating impact, aggravating inequality, so why does the development community fund profit-seeking providers?

Millennium development goal 2: 15 achievements on education

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT

In developing regions 90% of children are in primary education, and gender parity in enrolment has almost been achieved

Explainer: what is MDG2 all about?

US says Russia is building air defence systems in eastern Ukraine

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:59 PM PDT

As well as conducting training exercises involving drones, it is sending extra troops to Ukrainian border, spokeswoman says

What is the millennium development goal on education all about?

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:30 PM PDT

The education goal was designed to ensure that every child in the world gets a primary school education. How has it fared since its launch?

Pensioners can be pilots says Japan as shortage sees age limit lifted to 67

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:16 PM PDT

Japanese commercial pilots to become among the oldest in the world under new rules

Japan on Thursday raised the age limit for being in charge of a commercial plane to 67, the latest effort in Asia for an industry struggling to get to grips with a drastic shortage of pilots.

The move looks set to make pilots working for Japanese airlines among the oldest in the world.

Uganda’s success in universal primary education falling apart

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Despite the $302m spent annually on primary education, almost 70% of children are likely to drop out, with hidden costs proving too high for poorer parents

Shakespeare's Globe goes around the world with Hamlet – in pictures

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

After 80,000 miles, 96 countries and more than 150 shows, the two-year worldwide tour of Hamlet has reached its halfway point in Spain – on Shakespeare's birthday. Here's a taste of some of the shows so far. The next leg of the tour will be to Asia.

This World: World’s Richest Terror Army review: it’s both fascinating and terrifying

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

We all know what Isis does, but how does it find the money to do it? This enlightening documentary provides several surprising answers Continue reading...

'You can find nothing in the city now': Yemen reels after month-long air strikes

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Saudi Arabia's four-week aerial assault has left Yemen a divided country, with almost 1,000 dead and many more injured

Saudi Arabia's four-week aerial assault on Yemen, designed to restore to power the country's elected president, has left the Arab world's poorest nation facing fuel shortages, hunger, interruptions to water and electricity, while almost 1,000 have been killed and many more injured.

But according to interviews with ordinary Yemenis, a more serious long-term challenge will be to reconcile a gaping chasm between the antagonists in this conflict.

Has the Rana Plaza disaster changed your shopping habits?

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

On Friday it will be two years since the Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed and injured thousands of Bangladeshi workers making garments for sale in the UK, Europe and the US Continue reading...

Attorney general's office says security laws monitor should stay part time

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 10:46 PM PDT

Bill introduced by the Greens would enhance powers of independent national security legislation monitor, but Coalition says not it is not necessary

Four accused of sorcery in Papua New Guinea await visit by spiritual diviner

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 10:18 PM PDT

Two men and two women, who were taken from their homes and allegedly tortured by people seeking confessions of witchcraft, will have fate determined by 'glass man'

Coral Triangle key part of $24tn global ocean wealth

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 10:00 PM PDT

New WWF report highlights the Coral Triangle as a crucial asset but warns it may disappear if global warming continues at current rate

Freddie Gray death: police clash with protesters for second night in Baltimore

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 09:32 PM PDT

Two arrested after scuffles outside the western district police station as tensions simmer over the death in custody of 25-year-old black man

One refugee on Nauru takes up resettlement offer, says Cambodian official

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 09:28 PM PDT

Australian Greens and Human Rights Watch say Abbott government is misleading refugees about life in Cambodia in a bid to convince them to relocate

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gives jail cell camera the finger – video

Posted: 22 Apr 2015 08:57 PM PDT

The US Department of Justice has released footage of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev giving the finger to a security camera in a jail cell, a day after prosecutors showed it to jurors in the sentencing phase of his trial. The footage, taken three months after the April 2013 bombing, is one of the only images of Tsarnaev to be made public since his arrest. It was supplied to the Guardian censored Continue reading...

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