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Catherine Armitage

Catherine Armitage is ideas and innovation writer and an editorial writer at The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a highly experienced career journalist who has won multiple awards for her work across a wide range of topics including business, science, higher education, social issues, education and legal affairs. She is former higher education editor and China correspondent.

Nidhi Chaphaker and an unidentified woman photographed by Georgian Public Broadcast's Ketevan Kardava immediately after ...

Brussels attack: the woman caught on camera in a profoundly human moment

Every public tragedy in the internet age has its defining picture, the one that's most viewed, most shared, most commented on. It's often the photo that brings the disaster closest to home because it captures ordinary people at extraordinary moments: vulnerability, disbelief, shock. It's the photo that says: "It could have been any of us."

Brittany Pilkington allegedly admitted to killing her three sons.

Mother accused of murdering sons faces death penalty

It doesn't get much sadder than this. Today Brittany Pilkington is in jail coming to terms with an indictment for killing her three sons which carries the death penalty while across town mourners are viewing her last surviving son, three-month-old Noah, before his burial.