Aleppo becoming 'another Rwanda': Forging a life amid Syria's ruins
The unnamed man shown on CCTV, standing in a sunny courtyard and fiddling with his phone, could be any one of us whiling away a few minutes of the day.
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Megan Levy
Megan Levy is a breaking news reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, after previous stints at The Age in Melbourne and London's The Daily Telegraph. Email or tweet Megan with your news tips.
Istanbul airport attack: Police officer tackled suicide bomber before blast
A police officer tackled a suicide bomber to the ground at Istanbul's international airport before the attacker detonated his vest, almost certainly killing both of them, according to a witness who was attempting to flee the mayhem.
Shooter's wife 'tried to talk him out of attack'
The wife of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen was with him when he purchased the weapons used in the deadly assault on a gay nightclub, and attempted to talk her husband out of launching the attack, according to reports.
Florida shooting: What we know about the Orlando nightclub massacre
Fifty people have been killed and a further 53 wounded when a gunman opened fire in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It was the worst mass shooting in US history.
Rye Hunt checked into Copacabana apartment before disappearing in Brazil: family
The mystery of what happened to an Australian backpacker missing in Brazil has deepened, with revelations he checked into an apartment in the beachside neighbourhood of Copacabana before disappearing.
A 'monstrously unique' economic basket case
It's become so dire that the president has even called on his people to stop blow-drying their hair.
'This is the worst crisis in our history'
When the gaze of the world focuses on Brazil for the Olympic Games, the spectacle will mask a country that is in turmoil.
60 Minutes crew freed in Lebanon: Tara Brown says it's 'great to be going home'
Freed 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown says it is "great to be going home" after she and her Channel Nine crew were released from a Lebanese prison overnight and, hours later, boarded a flight back to Australia.
Accused wife killer Rod Covlin 'tried to marry off teen daughter in Mexico'
A former US stockbroker and renowned backgammon player charged with strangling his wife to death in her Manhattan apartment had attempted to marry off their 13-year-old daughter in Mexico to gain access to her million-dollar inheritance, a court has heard.
Amazing video footage from edge of space revealed as lost cameras found
A group of students who launched a weather balloon over the Grand Canyon to capture images of the landmark from the edge of space thought their science experiment had failed - until a hiker discovered their cameras two years later.
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