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'We just hugged': Aussies survive carnage

Despite deaths and destruction at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, it appears no Australians were injured in the suspected terrorist attack.
April 16, 6:59 pm
Jurors challenged in Michael Jackson case

Some potential jurors in the Michael Jackson wrongful death case had to be excused because of personal links to Jackson's family.
April 16, 5:49 pm
More than 120 injured in Boston blasts

A spokesman at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where some of the injured have been taken says that two people are critical.
April 16, 5:48 pm
PNG and Fiji seal Vodafone deal

PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and Fijian leader Frank Bainimarama have announced closer economic ties between the two nations.
April 16, 4:55 pm
Churchman queries Thatcher's legacy

A senior figure in the Anglican Church says Britain needs to ask itself why the UK's first female PM is still a controversial figure.
April 16, 4:18 pm
BBC veteran to enter plea on sex charges

A former BBC It's A Knockout presenter is due to enter formal pleas to charges that he indecently assaulted young girls in the 60s and 70s.
April 16, 4:14 pm
Children among Boston blast victims

An eight-year-old child is among the three dead in the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon.
April 16, 2:56 pm
Police search Boston flat:TV

A TV station in the US is reporting that police are search a Boston apartment as part of their investigations into the Boston bombings.
April 16, 2:28 pm
Australian man shot dead in PNG

A 62-year-old Australian man has died after being shot at point-blank range in Papua New Guinea in a confrontation with 10 men at his home.
April 16, 1:48 pm
Novel about North Korea wins Pulitzer

A novel that tells the story of a military hero who falls out of favour with the North Korean regime has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
April 16, 1:10 pm
Gap closing in life expectancy in NZ

Maori still die earlier than non-Maori in New Zealand but the gap has closed from 9.1 years in the mid-1990s to 7.3 years in 2010-2012.
April 16, 11:47 am
Aussie 'Robin Hood' says cash missing

An Australian man accused of the brazen robbery of a US bank has told a judge a substantial amount of cash went missing after his arrest.
April 16, 7:47 am
British boy stabbed 'in postcode rivalry'

A 15-year-old boy was chased by a "hunting posse" of boys on bicycles and stabbed to death in London, a court has been told.
April 16, 5:07 am
Row over BBC's N Korea documentary

The BBC is to air a documentary filmed in North Korea by a crew embedded with a group from the London School of Economics despite objections.
April 15, 8:56 pm
Anti-Thatcher song misses top spot

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, from The Wizard of Oz, has roared into the British charts in the No.2 spot, thanks to opponents of Margaret Thatcher.
April 15, 4:38 pm