Shots fired in Hong Kong as violence flares
Philip Wen 11:00 PM Hong Kong police fired "warning shots" in a bid to contain hundreds of surging rioters as Lunar New Year celebrations descended into a night of chaos.
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Indonesians jailed over Islamic State roles
Jewel Topsfield 11:01 PM A group of young Indonesians are jailed for their involvement with Islamic State, while an old face of radicalism pleads for leniency.
More survivors rescued from Taiwan rubble
Philip Wen 3:36 PM Four trapped survivors - including an eight-year-old girl and a woman found under the dead body of her husband - have been rescued alive, but the prospect of finding more survivors is diminishing.
Bernie Sanders on fire in New Hampshire
Nick O'Malley 12:19 PM Vermont senator who advocates a political revolution well ahead of Hillary Clinton on eve of primary vote.
Merkel outraged over Russian air strikes
Russian air strikes in Syria amount to an ethnic massacre, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says.
Islamic State: Is Australia too worried?
Do Australians worry too much about the threat of Islamic State? One Israeli political scientist thinks so.
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Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and the Caddyshack connection
Nick O'Malley 11:23 PM The 1980s comedy tells us something about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.
Shots fired in Hong Kong as violence flares
Philip Wen 11:00 PM Hong Kong police fired "warning shots" in a bid to contain hundreds of surging rioters as Lunar New Year celebrations descended into a night of chaos.
Eight killed, 150 injured in train collision in southern Germany
Joern Poeltz 9:53 PM Eight people were killed when two passenger trains collided in the southern German state of Bavaria on Tuesday, a police spokesman said, adding about 150 people were also injured.
It's a 'crisis' in environmental science, scientists say
Peter Hannam 9:27 PM CSIRO scientists say deep staffing cuts facing key divisions constitute "a real crisis for all environmental science" in the organisation, amid mounting international criticism.
Indian soldier survives six days buried in snow after avalanche
Fayaz Bukhari 8:51 PM An Indian soldier declared dead has been found alive under eight metres of snow, six days after he was buried by an avalanche that hit his military post in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
4000-passenger cruise ship inexplicably sails into Atlantic mega-storm
Angela Fritz 3:37 PM At the height of the storm, waves were breaking over the tops of the life boats and the whole ship was listing to almost 45 degrees.
Rogue intelligence officer directing elephant poachers in Tanzania
Willy Lowry 2:06 PM An investigation into the death of a British helicopter pilot who was looking for poachers near Serengeti National Park has uncovered a criminal poaching ring led by a rogue intelligence officer, the Tanzanian authorities have said.
How a huge Chinese 'Ponzi scheme' lured investors
Emily Rauhala 1:37 PM Ezubao advertised on China's government-built bullet trains, and its executives schmoozed with state media big shots and Communist Party cadres. But it was the spot on CCTV's sober nightly newscast that sold one investor. "The government is behind it," she thought.
What is Shrove Tuesday?
11:48 AM Shrove Tuesday is a day of feasting before Christians traditionally move into a period of fasting in the lead up to Easter.
Russian firepower helps Syrian forces push towards Turkey border
Humeyra Pamuk 11:33 AM The Syrian army has advanced towards the Turkish border in a major offensive backed by Russia and Iran that rebels say now threatens the future of their nearly five-year-old insurrection against President Bashar al-Assad.
What is Lent, when is it held and how long does it go for?
11:17 AM In the Christian calendar, Lent is the six-week period leading up to Easter which is characterised by prayer, fasting and abstinence.
Nepal ethnic minorities call off trading blockade
Gopal Sharma 9:55 AM Nepal's ethnic minority groups have lifted a four-month-old blockade along a major trading point with India, saying it didn't want ordinary people to suffer anymore, but vowed to carry on with its campaign against the new constitution.
Meteorite may have killed someone for the first time in two centuries
Ishaan Tharoor 8:46 AM Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are investigating whether the death of a man at a college campus over the weekend was the result of a falling meteorite.
North Korea's new satellite flew over Super Bowl site
Eric Talmadge 7:07 AM Here's a bit of Super Bowl trivia: North Korea's newest satellite passed almost right over the stadium just an hour after it ended.
Migrant boat sinks en route to Greece, 27 dead
Michele Kambas 4:37 AM Coastguards have confirmed 27 migrants, 11 of them children, drowned off Turkey's Aegean coast as they tried to reach Greece.
Family's dramatic rescue from car swallowed by sinkhole in Peru
Locals have scrambled to rescue a family of three after their car was swallowed by a five-metre-deep sinkhole in Trujillo, Peru.
After months of restraint, Bill Clinton lets fly at Bernie Sanders
Jonathan Martin 2:35 AM Bill Clinton has uncorked an extended attack on Senator Bernie Sanders, harshly criticising Sanders and his supporters for what he described as inaccurate and "sexist" attacks on Hillary Clinton.
Syrian government is 'exterminating' its population: UN
Stephanie Nebehay 1:50 AM Detainees held by the Syrian government are dying on a massive scale, amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, United Nations investigators say.
Wild leopard wreaks havoc, mauls six in Bangalore school rampage
A leopard on the loose in a school in India has mauled six people who attempted to capture the wild animal.
Somalia plane bomber was meant to be on Turkish flight - airline executive
Drazen Jorgic A suspected suicide bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane last week and forced it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, the Daallo chief executive said on Monday.
