Associated Press

Sarah and Jennifer Hart and their six adopted children are all believed to have died when their SUV sped off a cliff and into the ocean

United States & Canada

US family drove off cliff at 145km/h. It may have been intentional

2 Apr 2018 - 10:44pm 1

Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli was on the scoresheet twice in the 3-1 win at Stamford Bridge. Photo: AFP

Soccer

First Spurs win at Chelsea in 28 years widens top-four gap to eight

2 Apr 2018 - 10:27am

Daniel Maher is facing deportation to China, where he has never lived. Maher is from Macau, which became part of China after his family immigrated to California when he was 3. File photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

Trump wants these ex-convicts deported to China and Cambodia

1 Apr 2018 - 9:19pm 2

Gerrit Gong, who is Chinese-American, joined a panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the start of a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Photo: AP

United States & Canada

Mormon church names first apostle of Chinese ancestry. Is it a sign?

1 Apr 2018 - 9:19pm 1

Palestinian men wave their national flag during a demonstration in the Israeli occupied West Bank on March 30. Israeli troops opened fire on the protesters, killing 16. Photo: AFP

Middle East

Israeli military pledges to expand Gaza response if clashes continue

31 Mar 2018 - 9:01pm 2

David Matthews, father-in-law to Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, has been handed preliminary charges by a French judge for alleged rape of a minor in the late 1990s. Photo: AP

Europe

Pippa Middleton’s father-in-law arrested for 1990s rape of a minor

31 Mar 2018 - 9:01pm

Dr Bennet Omalu determined Clark was shot seven times from behind and took three to 10 minutes to die. Officers waited about five minutes before rendering medical aid

United States & Canada

Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting

31 Mar 2018 - 4:01pm

LA Galaxy footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic holds up a team jersey during his first press conference for the club in Los Angeles. Photo: AFP

Soccer

‘The lion is hungry’: Zlatan announces Galaxy arrival in trademark style

31 Mar 2018 - 11:17am

Laura Ingraham and David Hogg. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

Fox News host takes time off after being shunned by advertisers

31 Mar 2018 - 6:47pm 6

Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up an Islamic State cell dubbed ‘The Beatles’ speak during an interview with The Associated Press at a security centre in Kobani, Syria on Friday. Photo: AP

Middle East

British ‘IS Beatles’ say hostage beheadings were a ‘mistake’

31 Mar 2018 - 5:55am 4

Actor Bill Cosby leaves the courtroom after a pretrial hearing for his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Friday. Photo: AP

United States & Canada

Will Cosby trial hear his admission that he drugged a 19-year-old girl?

31 Mar 2018 - 5:01am 2

Venezuelan officials have remained largely silent on how one of the worst jail fires in their nation’s history happened

Americas

Venezuela prison fire victims to be buried 3-at-a-time in mass grave

31 Mar 2018 - 6:08am

Kim Jong-un wants North Korean athletes to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, IOC president Thomas Bach said

Asia

Olympic president meets Kim Jong-un to talk future NK participation

31 Mar 2018 - 1:45am 1

Sun An Tso, 18, had vowed to protect his classmates in the event of an attack, a friend said - but his collection of guns and ‘joke’ high school shooting threat scared police

United States & Canada

Taiwan teen who threatened US high school ‘loved flame throwers’

31 Mar 2018 - 5:18am 4

Noor Salman had been on trial in Orlando on charges of helping her husband in the 2016 attack and lying to the FBI

Americas

Wife of Pulse shooter cleared of all charges by Orlando jury

31 Mar 2018 - 6:24am

Earlier in the day Moscow had summoned the ambassadors of a number of nations including Britain, France, Germany and Canada to tell them of retaliatory measures

United States & Canada

Spy crisis: Russia rages over US ‘recruiting diplomats’ after expulsions

31 Mar 2018 - 3:44am 3

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife Crown Princess Masako. The government announced a list of rituals for his accession to the throne. Photo: AP

East Asia

Rituals for new Japan emperor announced, but female family not allowed

30 Mar 2018 - 8:25pm

The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a non-profit group, sued Starbucks and about 90 other companies under a state law that requires warnings on a wide range of chemicals that can cause cancer. One is acrylamide, a carcinogen present in coffee. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

What goes well with coffee? A cancer warning, California judge decides

30 Mar 2018 - 11:50am

James Stannard of Australia in action at the USA Sevens tournament. Photo: AFP

Rugby

Australian rugby sevens captain admitted to hospital after ‘one-punch’ assault

30 Mar 2018 - 3:58pm

A handout photo made available by the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows a shakemap of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the New Britain region east of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea, on Friday. Photo: EPA

Australasia

Magnitude 6.9 quake hits Papua New Guinea, triggers tsunami alert

30 Mar 2018 - 8:15am

Three hours into the planned 6½-hour walk, flight controllers decided to limit the men’s time outside to six hours because of an issue with one of their spacesuits

United States & Canada

Nasa astronauts make repairs to space station during spacewalk

30 Mar 2018 - 6:14am

Sun Wenliang, 26, legally bought two rifles – one with a sniper scope – and a car worth US$70,000 after a ‘dramatic change’ in his behaviour, police said

China

‘Disturbing behaviour’: US to deport Chinese student who bought guns

2 Apr 2018 - 9:54am 62

Stormy Daniels is interviewed by Anderson Cooper for the television programme 60 Minutes. The segment was broadcast on Sunday. Photo: CBS News/60 Minutes via AP

United States & Canada

Trump will not have to testify in porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit

30 Mar 2018 - 6:33am 2

Black Lives Matter protesters march through Sacramento on Wednesday in response to the police shooting of Stephon Clark. Clark, an unarmed African-American, was shot and killed by police on March 18 at his grandparents' home while holding a mobile phone. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Tension high over funeral of unarmed black man shot by US cops

30 Mar 2018 - 6:38am

Trump said he may hold up the agreement “because it’s a very strong card and I want to make sure everyone is treated fairly”

Asia

Trump may ‘hold up’ South Korea trade deal until North Korea talks

30 Mar 2018 - 3:01am 15

The proposal, which could affect nearly 15 million applications a year, would demand usernames, email addresses and telephone numbers

United States & Canada

US wants social media details from all visa applicants

30 Mar 2018 - 7:19pm 6

Zachary Cruz, brother of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, walks into court on Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. Zachary Cruz pleaded no contest to trespassing on the campus where his brother allegedly murdered 17 people, and was sentenced to time served and six months of probation. Photo: South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP

United States & Canada

Brother of ‘Florida shooter’ given probation for trespassing at school

30 Mar 2018 - 5:55am

Judge Steven O’Neill said at a pretrial hearing that he was ‘not biased or prejudiced’ because his wife Deborah is an advocate for assault victims

United States & Canada

Cosby’s judge refuses to step aside over wife’s assault victim work

30 Mar 2018 - 5:39am

Russia has promised to eject the same number of foreign diplomats from its borders that other countries kicked out of theirs

United States & Canada

‘Cold war’ warning: Russia expels 60 US diplomats, shuts consulate

30 Mar 2018 - 7:19pm 6

A commuter reads from his mobile phone next to an advertisement discouraging the dissemination of fake news at a railway station in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AP

Southeast Asia

After outcry, Malaysia cuts penalty for fake news to six years

29 Mar 2018 - 7:04pm 1

Anti-corruption police allege Setya Novanto was among about 80 people who used the introduction of a US$440 million electronic identity card system in 2011 and 2012 to steal funds

Southeast Asia

Indonesian politician’s US$135,000 watch could land him in more trouble

29 Mar 2018 - 6:43pm

Miguna Miguna was put on an Emirates flight two days after police detained the politician on his return to Kenya

Africa

After filthy airport toilet ordeal, he was ‘drugged and deported’

29 Mar 2018 - 5:54pm

China said it would take ‘all appropriate’ measures in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. Photo: EPA-EFE

Diplomacy & Defence

China will ‘fight to the end’ if US doesn’t stop trade war

29 Mar 2018 - 11:27pm 8

A Singapore Airlines flight attendant aboard its first Boeing 787-10 aircraft. Photo: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren

News & Trends

Inside Singapore Airlines’ new Boeing 787-10 ‘Dreamliner’

29 Mar 2018 - 5:36pm

Meeting between Kim Jong-un, leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, and the South’s President Moon Jae-in will be only the third of its kind

Diplomacy

Rival Korean leaders to meet on April 27 for historic summit

29 Mar 2018 - 11:27pm 17

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives on Wednesday to attend a march to honour Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old woman stabbed to death in her Paris flat. Le Pen was booed and insulted at the march. Photo: AP

Europe

Le Pen heckled at march for victim of ‘anti-Semitic attack’

29 Mar 2018 - 8:45pm

‘How do you defend yourself against someone who’s been honing their skills as a predator for 25 years, who’s also a multimillionaire, and one of the most famous and successful artists in the music industry?’

United States & Canada

R. Kelly accused of grooming 14-year-old girl as sex ‘pet’

29 Mar 2018 - 7:08pm

Donald Trump fires Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and names White House doctor to replace him

United States & Canada

Trump fires Veterans Secretary, names his doctor to replace him

29 Mar 2018 - 8:45pm

An Tso Sun, a Taiwanese exchange student charged with making terroristic threats, in a photo provided by the police department in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Sun was arrested after police said he threatened a shooting at his school, Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School. Sun is in custody in Delaware County Prison in lieu of US$100,000 bail. Photo: Upper Darby Police Department via AP

United States & Canada

Taiwanese teen arrested in US for threat to ‘shoot up’ his high school

29 Mar 2018 - 7:08pm 10

No deal yet for man charged with theft of Frances McDormand’s Oscar at afterparty

United States & Canada

No deal for man ‘who stole Frances McDormand’s Oscar at afterparty’

29 Mar 2018 - 4:42am

Amazon shares fell as much as 7.4 per cent on Wednesday after reports that Trump wanted to target the tech giant. Photo: AFP

World

Amazon loses US$54b in value after ‘Trump threatened to go after it’

29 Mar 2018 - 3:59am 5

Noor Salman is being tried for not doing enough to stop her husband, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, the gunman who killed scores of people in the Pulse nightclub shooting before being killed himself by police. Photo: Handout

United States & Canada

Orlando gunman ‘planned to attack Disney World instead of Pulse club’

29 Mar 2018 - 1:39am 1

Stormy Daniels. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer seeks to question Trump under oath

28 Mar 2018 - 10:26pm 6

Robert Mueller and Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Is this first direct link between Trump campaign and Russian spies?

28 Mar 2018 - 10:08pm 1

Australian cricket captain Steve Smith departs from Cape Town International airport before his ban was announced. Photo: EPA

Other Sport

Australia’s Smith and Warner banned 12 months for tampering plot

28 Mar 2018 - 7:22pm 2

Electoral constituency bill tabled in parliament Wednesday, two days after the government proposed a law to combat ‘fake news’

Southeast Asia

Malaysia’s PM called a ‘monster’ as electoral map plan draws protests

30 Mar 2018 - 1:02pm 1

Win Myint, an ally of Aung San Suu Kyi, is Myanmar’s new president. Photo: Xinhua

Southeast Asia

Myanmar parliament elects Suu Kyi ‘henchman’ as new president

28 Mar 2018 - 8:06pm