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Papua New Guinea hit by 7.2-magnitude earthquake
I won’t be watching it next bloody week: Mount Druitt reviews Struggle Street - video
Uber's operations under investigation in second Chinese city
Cyprus pins hopes on Australian solar technology to make shift away from oil
Keep it in the Ground divestment campaign attracts 200,000 supporters
Australian on trial in China says he thought drug was muscle builder
Five lessons we should have learned from pandemics
Beijing snuffs out suburban barbecues in pre-Olympic smog fight
Western lawyers go back in time to repair Liberia's broken legal system
Is India's 100 smart cities project a recipe for social apartheid?
Rome's Fiumicino airport closed after terminal fire
A road trip into the Communist past – in pictures
Japanese zoo rethinks naming baby monkey after Britain's Princess Charlotte
Australian listed in Isis guidebook as go-to man for recruits
Why have North Korean defections dropped?
Prayer, food, sex and water parks in Iran's holy city of Mashhad
Golden Dawn leaders to resume trial in Greece
Democrats 'didn't act in good faith' over 2016 presidential primary debate limit
Chile's president Michelle Bachelet asks entire cabinet to resign amid crisis
Ivory Coast bans potentially deadly skin-whitening creams

Papua New Guinea hit by 7.2-magnitude earthquake

Posted: 07 May 2015 01:11 AM PDT

Tsunami warning issued in South Pacific after what is the fourth strong quake in the area in a week

I won’t be watching it next bloody week: Mount Druitt reviews Struggle Street - video

Posted: 07 May 2015 12:53 AM PDT

It's caused a song and a dance in the media this week, but what do the people of Mount Druitt make of the SBS documentary series Struggle Street now that they've had a chance to see it? Are they angry across the board or has one hyped-up promo made a mountain out of a molehill? Guardian Australia's Monica Tan pounds the pavements of the western Sydney suburb to get the lowdown what the locals thought of the first episode Continue reading...

Uber's operations under investigation in second Chinese city

Posted: 07 May 2015 12:29 AM PDT

Police visit Uber offices in Chengdu in a widening investigation into the company's operations after a raid in Guangzhou last week

Cyprus pins hopes on Australian solar technology to make shift away from oil

Posted: 07 May 2015 12:14 AM PDT

Solar thermal technology will generate electricity and tackle water shortages – earning Australia's science agency CSIRO $500,000 for solar field design

Keep it in the Ground divestment campaign attracts 200,000 supporters

Posted: 07 May 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Global movement picks up pace as more institutions divest, helping Guardian's drive to push Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust away from fossil fuels

Australian on trial in China says he thought drug was muscle builder

Posted: 06 May 2015 11:55 PM PDT

Facing a possible death penalty if found guilty, 25-year-old says he did not knowingly try to smuggle 30kg of methamphetamine out of China

Five lessons we should have learned from pandemics

Posted: 06 May 2015 11:45 PM PDT

Scientific advances have helped us understand and limit the impact of pandemics but we still cannot deliver the simple measures needed to control them for the benefit of all

Beijing snuffs out suburban barbecues in pre-Olympic smog fight

Posted: 06 May 2015 11:17 PM PDT

Poor air quality is a major stumbling block to Beijing's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, but many residents say factories rather than barbecues are to blame

Western lawyers go back in time to repair Liberia's broken legal system

Posted: 06 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Former president Charles Taylor left behind a judicial system in chaos, but now volunteers for Lawyers Without Borders have painstakingly indexed precedents set by cases dating back to 1861 to help restore justice

Is India's 100 smart cities project a recipe for social apartheid?

Posted: 06 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT

The emergence of hi-tech prototype cities is raising concerns that India's new urban enclaves will override local laws and use surveillance to keep out the poor

Rome's Fiumicino airport closed after terminal fire

Posted: 06 May 2015 10:24 PM PDT

Airport not expected to reopen until later Thursday according to officials

A road trip into the Communist past – in pictures

Posted: 06 May 2015 10:00 PM PDT

Inspired by vintage postcards, photographer Marco Citron's series of 'boring landscapes' from the former Soviet Union reveals the beautiful in the banal, says The Calvert Journal

Japanese zoo rethinks naming baby monkey after Britain's Princess Charlotte

Posted: 06 May 2015 09:37 PM PDT

Complaints of disrespect after a vote staged by Mount Takasaki monkey park to name its new macaque came out in favour of the royal name

Australian listed in Isis guidebook as go-to man for recruits

Posted: 06 May 2015 09:30 PM PDT

Neil Prakash, also known as as Abu Khalid al-Cambodi, is believed to be the most senior Australian fighting in Syria with the extremist group

Why have North Korean defections dropped?

Posted: 06 May 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Sophisticated propaganda campaign by Kim Jong-un's regime combined with an improved economy has dampened the allure of the South, writes Andrei Lankov

Prayer, food, sex and water parks in Iran's holy city of Mashhad

Posted: 06 May 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Since the escalation of Iraqi violence in 2011 and the appearance of Isis, the number of Iraqi Shia pilgrims to Iran has risen fast

Golden Dawn leaders to resume trial in Greece

Posted: 06 May 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Leader Nikolaos Michaloliako and 12 more MPs from neo-Nazi party among those accused of operating a criminal organisation after trial was adjourned in April