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australia

Teenage dad jailed for killing his baby

Australian court

A Perth who killed his one-month-old son by fracturing the infant's skull was jealous, court hears.

Australia and the Islamic State

Experts disagree about why the Islamic State group has been so effective recruiting in Australia.

'Termites of the sea' threaten dive spot

Aussie teen jihadist disturbed child

americas

Walker dies in cliff collapse

The collapsed section of the Arch Rock overlook at the Point Reyes National Seashore, where one walker was killed and another injured.

One hiker died and another was seriously injured after a cliff crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Guns 'with history' in controversial ad

A fake gun store set up in New York City that shocks potential customers out of buying a gun has drawn the ire of US conservatives.

Savannah Hardin, 9, ran to her death under the supervision of her grandmother and stepmother.

Is doing nothing murder?

Savannah Hardin's grandmother made her run to her death as her stepmother watched idly.

europe

Surfers ride surging river wave video

River Severn surfers

No sandy beaches and crashing waves here. These surfers in the United Kingdom are hitting a naturally occurring wave in an estuary on the River Severn.

Teen mum gives birth, dies

Modern medicine could not save 19-year-old who died soon after giving birth to twins in the UK. 

The base of the skull of Richard III showing two potentially fatal injuries.

Richard III starts final journey video

Dug out of a car park five centuries after his battlefield death, England's Richard III will soon receive a fitting burial.

middle east

Pakistan wants nukes

Pakistan's army test-fired a long-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile.

Pakistan and larger neighbor India have fought three wars.

Students may be in Syria

The students traveled together from Sudan to Istanbul, according to Turkish and British media reports.

Afghan women rights activists carry the coffin of 27-year-old Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death by a mob, during her funeral, in Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghan woman murdered by mob

The mob of men beat 27-year-old Farkhunda before throwing her body off a roof, running over it with a car, setting it on fire.

asia

Pic leads to abandoned children

Tweeted with the message: 'Can someone help these helpless kids at New Delhi Railway Station near platform 16 entrance?'

When a journalist shared this photo it sparked a search that led to three sobbing children.

Singapore's prime minister dead

Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, one of the towering figures of post-colonial Asian politics, has died in hospital following a weeks-long struggle with pneumonia.

A Shinto shrine gate remains standing on a hill as sea walls are being built in the waterfront area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Japan building giant sea walls

Efforts to fend off future disasters are focusing on a nearly 400-kilometer chain of cement sea walls, at places nearly five stories high.

africa

June: Fighting for Reeva

A MOTHER'S PAIN: June Steenkamp says she is trying to heal from her daughter's brutal killing.

The only time June Steenkamp talked to her daughter's killer, Oscar Pistorious, was to warn him to protect her daughter.

Boko Haram's pile of throat-slit corpses

Soldiers liberating a Nigerian town from Boko Haram have found scores of bodies dumped under a bridge.

SPRAWLING SEARCH: The Wildlife Conservation Society field team travel by pirogue from the Goualougo Triangle Camp back to Bomassa Headquarters. In the race to answer the big scientific questions around Ebola, researchers in the Republic of Congo are looking into the role of red river hogs in transmission of the virus from wildlife to human populations.

Hunting for the next Ebola outbreak

This team isn't looking for infected people. They're trying to find out where Ebola hides between human epidemics.

south pacific

Picking up the pieces after Pam video

21032015 Feature Photo:Lawrence Smith/Fairfax NZ
Residents on the island of Tanna piece their lives back together after cyclone Pam. Masau Kalia and wife Nalin and child at their destroyed home.

Not many people see their house explode before their eyes. Masau Kalia did though, and it was while saving the lives of more than 90 other people.

Mum crying for her husband in NZ

An anxious and heavily pregnant Cyclone Pam survivor will have to wait another three weeks to reunite with her husband Jack Molising.

Terrifying ordeal: Louise Kalsick had to carry her hours-old premature baby through the raging cyclone.

Mother's love defies cyclone video

With a cyclone bearing down and a child on the way, Louise Kalsick was told to push.

Video

Vanuatu after the Cyclone

A week after the cyclone tore Vanuatu, people are focused on rebuilding.

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