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It’s 67 years this week since Australia’s worst air crash yet the tragedy remains shrouded in mystery IT was a tragedy that was immediately declared to be, in the words of a US army officer, […] […]

NOT many people can say a camera crew filmed their birth or that their arrival in the world was hailed a triumph. Or that their birth made the national newspaper’s front page. But on June 23, […] […]

MORE than a million people living along rivers in China’s south have been evacuated with water rising to dangerous levels as torrential rains left at least 88 dead. Chinese officials earlier said 90 people had […] […]

The United Nations refugee agency is investigating claims that Iraqi asylum seekers were assaulted by British officials on a plane taking them back to Iraq. Fourteen asylum seekers described “near identical” experiences of mistreatment to […] […]

Thousands of people waited in line for hours to get into The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando on its opening day as Daniel Radcliffe and other stars from the movie greeted fans […] […]

EMBATTLED BP boss Tony Hayward is handing over the daily management of the complex operation to cap the Gulf of Mexico spill, a day after a public mauling by US lawmakers. The news capped a […] […]

MOTORCYCLE mogul Jesse James will be moving to Austin, Texas permanently, his lawyer has told People Magazine. However he wouldn’t comment on whether James was moving to Austin to be near his soon-to-be ex-wife, Oscar-winning […] […]

The parents of a two-year-old boy who died after being crushed under a wall faced fresh heartbreak today after a London council denied a failure to properly maintain the masonry. Saurav Ghai was killed when […] […]

The family of a student killed in a bus crash in South Africa has described him as the “warmest, kindest, gentlest person you could ever meet”. Dan Greenwood, 22, was one of three people killed […] […]

FRANCE’S richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, filed a police complaint against her daughter over the release of tapes reportedly revealing that the L’Oreal heiress conspired to evade taxes. Ms Bettencourt’s ex-butler allegedly secretly recorded conversations between […] […]