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Turkish military in attempted coup, prime minister says
Turkey's prime minister says a group within Turkey's military has engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup.
Live updates: Military attempts coup in Turkey, prime minister says
The prime minister of Turkey said Friday night that factions of the military had attempted a coup.
After Nice attack, internet trolls frame Sikh man as a terrorist, again
A Photoshopped selfie of a Sikh man who lives in Canada has again been circulated in the wake of a deadly attack in Nice, France.
First female-to-male Zika transmission via sex reported
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the report is the first documented case of sexual transmission of Zika from a woman to her male sex partner.
Nice attack: What we know about the victims
An 11-year-old American boy, Brodie Copeland, was among the first publicly known victims of a suspected terror attack on crowds celebrating Bastille Day in France.
As it happened: Bastille Day attack in Nice
At least 30 people were killed in the southern French town of Nice when a truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday.
Nice, France terror attack: what we know now
What we know now about the terror attack in Nice that has claimed as many as 84 lives.
'I turned around and behind me was this big truck'
As thousands celebrated France's national holiday late into the evening in Nice on the French Riviera, a white truck menacingly stalked a crowd of revellers, revving its engines before mowing them down from behind.
Driver said to be of Tunisian background
The driver of the attack that has claimed as many as 84 lives in the beachfront southern French town of Nice has been described as being of "Tunisian" background in local media.
Drug overdose turns 33 into 'zombies'
There were bizarre scenes in New York as more than 30 people stumbled round a city street like 'zombies' after apparently taking K2, also known as synthetic marijuana.
Donald Trump wants Congress to declare war on Islamic State. It hasn't done that since World War II.
In the hours after the Thursday night attack on Nice, France, Donald Trump called for a major shift in US foreign policy.
The everyday tools of terror
The awful carnage in Nice with a metal monster could inspire the next attack to be anywhere - Europe, the United States or in Australia.
World leaders horrified by terror in Nice
As the day unfolded after the attack in Nice, world leaders added their condolences and promises of support.
Three Australians injured in Nice terror attack
Three Australians have been injured in a suspected terrorist truck attack in the French city of Nice which has left at least 80 people dead.
How terrorism became tourism's 'new normal'
The latest horrific events in France have rendered the question "to go or not to go" and even more pertinent one for travellers.
Truck 'terrorist' kills 84 in Nice Bastille Day crowd
A gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.
Nice attack: Three Australians injured in 'mayhem' as truck hits crowd
Three Australians have been injured after a truck drove into a crowd in Nice, killing 84 people.
United we stand. Threatened, we revert to groups.
How we are involved in events unfolding in Dallas, Baghdad, Orlando and Nice has serious political and social consequences.
84 dead as truck ploughs into crowd, France says
A truck ran into a crowd gathered in the southern French town of Nice to celebrate the Bastille Day national holiday late on Thursday.
Escape from Nauru: how ex-MP Roland Kun slipped the net to New Zealand
An escape from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru deployed the kind of tactics that would hardly be out of place in a Cold War thriller.
