Ferrari boy's father charged

2:26pm Charges have been filed against a man who allowed his nine-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, police in the southern Indian state of Kerala say.

UK measles outbreak linked to vaccine scare

NICK MILLER 2:57pm Experts say the false connection of vaccines to autism 10 years ago is now bearing dangerous fruit.

Jurors grilled on hostility to Australians as bizarre bank robbery trial gets under way

Peter Mitchell 1:52pm The 12 American jurors who will decide the fate of accused Melbourne bank robber Corey Donaldson have been asked if they have any "anger or negative feelings" toward Australians.

Why all these crushes on Dzhokhar?

Hanna Rosin 2:50pm It's common for teenage girls to fantasise about young men convicted or accused of terrible crimes. But how do you explain similar sentiments from grown women?

Hamas 'modesty' crackdown stokes fears of Islamic militancy

Phoebe Greenwood 11:29am Gaza residents are being beaten by police for wearing the wrong clothes, or sporting the wrong hairstyle.

Surviving a nightmare in a factory collapse

11:25am Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more than a few inches. In that time she'd had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since subsided. The moans of the injured had gone silent.

'Female DNA' on Boston bomb

Brian Bennett 2:59pm The FBI has found female DNA on at least one of the two homemade bombs detonated during the Boston Marathon on April 15, a law enforcement official says.

Hacking

Cyber attack suspect to be sent home to Netherlands

Harold Heckle and Ciaran Giles 9:19am A Dutch citizen arrested on suspicion of the biggest cyber attack in internet history is expected to be handed over to the Netherlands.

'Cruel harvest of the poor': five convicted of organ-trafficking

Dan Bilefsky 9:14am Five people have been convicted in Kosovo in connection with an elaborate organ-trafficking network that lured poor people to the country and then sold their kidneys and other organs to wealthy transplant recipients from the West.

No more austerity: PM sets Italy on new course

Ella Ide 8:00am Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta says his coalition government will act fast to reverse an austerity policy he argues is killing Italy and has called on Europe to become a motor for growth.

Guantanamo hunger strike nears crisis point

7:44am Extra medical staff have been sent to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay amid a hunger strike that has spread to nearly two-thirds of the detainees, authorities say.

Security

Guardian's Twitter accounts hacked

8:04am The Guardian says its Twitter accounts have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.

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Former UK boxing champion 'killed and dismembered'

5:47am A man murdered a former champion boxer and dismembered his body before using his credit cards to go on a shopping spree, a British court has heard.

UK mother forced daughter, 14, to get pregnant using sperm donor

5:47am A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge says.

Asians now California dreaming

Jennifer Medina Beneath the palm trees that line Huntington Drive, named for the railroad magnate who founded San Marino, hang signs to honour families who have helped sponsor the suburb's centennial celebration this year. There are names like Dryden, Kirkendall and Ramsay. But there are newer names as well: Sun, Koo and Shi.

How the CIA's bags of cash couldn't buy President Karzai

Afghanistan Matthew Rosenberg Kabul For more than a decade, wads of US dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan's President, courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.

File-sharing

Internet activists turned pirates sail into Iceland's Parliament

Iceland's Pirate Party, a file-sharing activist movement, had wind in its sails in the country's election, becoming the first of its kind to win seats in a national Parliament.

How the CIA's bags of cash couldn't buy President Karzai

Matthew Rosenberg For more than a decade, wads of US dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan's President, courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Palestinian schoolboys taught to use weapons

Phoebe Greenwood Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a program run by Hamas' education ministry.

Search ends for survivors

BEN DOHERTY Hope of finding any more survivors within the wreckage of the collapsed garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh is all but extinguished with the army bringing in heavy earthmoving equipment to clear the rubble.

Small-town crime in the birthplace of jailhouse rock

How a local squabble made international news. By Matthew Teague in Tupelo.

From 'Prince Pils' to a crown

NICK MILLER In Britain the abdication of a monarch was accompanied by a constitutional crisis and scandal. In the Netherlands, it's the cue for a nationwide party.

Spammer had hacking van, bunker, say police

A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyber attack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials said.

Philippines peace talks fail

1:19am The Philippines says peace talks with communist rebels have collapsed and a target of ending the decades-long insurgency by 2016 is impossible to achieve.

Details emerge of Everest brawl

1:16am A mountaineer on Everest has described the "terrifying" scene of two famous European climbers fighting with Nepalese guides in a high-altitude brawl that has sparked a police investigation.

Bangladeshi garment workers strike

1:16am Thousands ofBangladeshi garment workers have walked out of their factories, demanding the death penalty for the owner of a tower block that collapsed and killed at least 381 of their colleagues.

Syrian PM survives bomb attack that kills six

Dominic Evans 8:25am Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has escaped an assassination bid, surviving a blast that targeted his convoy in Damascus, Syrian state television reports.