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Nepal earthquake: all eight bodies recovered from crashed US helicopter
Nepal's rhino numbers rise steadily thanks to anti-poaching measures
‘I'd rather die at sea than stay there’: migrants on crossing the Med
Burundi crisis is not over yet – analysis
The mothers fighting to get their children back home again
Dear Jeremy – your work issues solved
Man and Beast With Martin Clunes review – wrestling with bears, and carnivore conscience
Australian government to double Coral Sea area subject to curbs on shipping
China and India sign business deals worth more than $22bn
Asian American groups file racial quotas complaint against Harvard University
Australian-controlled Thai gold mine faces accusations of polluting water supply
Indonesian navy rescues 200 from ocean near Aceh, after 750 saved earlier
Man who shot at George Zimmerman's truck in Florida charged with assault
Pregnant asylum seekers on Nauru 'forced to create makeshift toilets'
Iraqi audio recording shows Saddam Hussein's deputy may still be alive
Mexican judge returns teenage girl to US mother after earlier sending wrong teen
Families of eight Amtrak crash victims mourn loved ones
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death for Boston Marathon bombing – as it happened
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death – video
Colombia suspends spraying illegal coca fields with herbicide over cancer link

Nepal earthquake: all eight bodies recovered from crashed US helicopter

Posted: 16 May 2015 12:54 AM PDT

Technical team investigating why the helicopter, carrying six US and two Nepalese armed forces members, crashed during aid mission

Nepal's rhino numbers rise steadily thanks to anti-poaching measures

Posted: 16 May 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Country's population of endangered one-horned rhinos now stands at 645 – up from 375 in 2005

‘I'd rather die at sea than stay there’: migrants on crossing the Med

Posted: 16 May 2015 12:00 AM PDT

After a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean, thousands of migrants arrive in Sicily every week. These are their stories. Portraits by Gideon Mendel

Burundi crisis is not over yet – analysis

Posted: 15 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT

The president has returned after a failed coup, but the International Crisis Group tells the Daily Maverick that the situation has not yet been resolved

The mothers fighting to get their children back home again

Posted: 15 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Meet the women facing a stark choice between being prosecuted for abduction or accused of child abandonment – all because they took their family to a foreign country and split from their partners Continue reading...

Dear Jeremy – your work issues solved

Posted: 15 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Our work expert – and you the readers – give an older MBA-educated professional tips on writing successful applications, and help a teacher achieve their salary expectations Continue reading...

Man and Beast With Martin Clunes review – wrestling with bears, and carnivore conscience

Posted: 15 May 2015 10:59 PM PDT

Meat-eating animal-lover Clunes gets knee-deep in cow dung and goes on a bear hunt in his global quest to resolve his muddled ethics

Australian government to double Coral Sea area subject to curbs on shipping

Posted: 15 May 2015 10:27 PM PDT

Area close to Great Barrier Reef will expand by 140%, or 565,000 square km, infrastructure minister Warren Truss says

China and India sign business deals worth more than $22bn

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:58 PM PDT

Agreements on renewable energy, steel, media and finance revealed at end of a three-day visit by the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi

Asian American groups file racial quotas complaint against Harvard University

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:32 PM PDT

More than 60 Chinese, Indian, Korean and Pakistani groups came together for the case, which was filed with civil rights offices

Australian-controlled Thai gold mine faces accusations of polluting water supply

Posted: 15 May 2015 08:29 PM PDT

Mine controlled by Sydney-based Kingsgate Consolidated limited and located 280km north of Bangkok

Indonesian navy rescues 200 from ocean near Aceh, after 750 saved earlier

Posted: 15 May 2015 06:53 PM PDT

Military official tells ABC 200 asylum seekers were seen in the water by fisherman and picked up by a warship amid warnings of a growing migrant crisis

Man who shot at George Zimmerman's truck in Florida charged with assault

Posted: 15 May 2015 06:46 PM PDT

Matthew Apperson also charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and firing a missile into an occupied conveyance

Pregnant asylum seekers on Nauru 'forced to create makeshift toilets'

Posted: 15 May 2015 06:30 PM PDT

Women decreased water intake to avoid walking long distances, Save the Children tells Senate inquiry into sexual assault and conditions on Nauru

Iraqi audio recording shows Saddam Hussein's deputy may still be alive

Posted: 15 May 2015 06:06 PM PDT

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was thought to have been killed last month but message appears to show feared figure discussing recent events

Mexican judge returns teenage girl to US mother after earlier sending wrong teen

Posted: 15 May 2015 03:30 PM PDT

Decision ends eight-year search by Texas-based mother
Another girl was sent to US by same judge before DNA revealed error

A Mexican judge returned a long-missing teenager to her US mother on Friday, ending the woman's eight-year search and a cross-border custody case in which another girl was mistakenly sent to Texas against her will.

Alondra Díaz, 13, was handed over to the custody of Houston resident Dorotea García in the afternoon after DNA tests confirmed her identity, Judge Cinthia Elodia Mercado said in Los Reyes, a town in the western state of Michoacán.

Families of eight Amtrak crash victims mourn loved ones

Posted: 15 May 2015 03:09 PM PDT

They were a 'geek's geek', 'wonderful' mother, devoted to family and friends – and all died tragically Tuesday night in the nation's deadliest train crash in years

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death for Boston Marathon bombing – as it happened

Posted: 15 May 2015 02:44 PM PDT

Jurors sentence Tsarnaev to death on some counts for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Follow live updates

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death – video

Posted: 15 May 2015 01:45 PM PDT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bombing on the Boston Marathon – an attack that killed three people and left more than 260 wounded. As for almost the whole trial, Tsarnaev's face registered little or no emotion as the jury handed down their unanimous sentence of death Continue reading...

Colombia suspends spraying illegal coca fields with herbicide over cancer link

Posted: 15 May 2015 01:44 PM PDT

Move marks end of decades-long strategy to counter drug trafficking after a number of studies suggest glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans

Colombia will suspend aerial fumigation of illegal coca plants in light of a number of studies linking the herbicide it has used to cancer, a move which marks the end of a decades-long strategy in the country's fight against drug trafficking.