Image copyrightGetty Images Australia's highest court has made a landmark ruling that a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies. Michaela Banerji was fired in 2013 for her criticisms - expressed under a pse…
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Media caption"Mental illness pulls the trigger, not guns" - Trump's five solutions to combat mass shootings. Donald Trump is to visit the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas amid warnings he will not be welcome. The attacks in Dayton and El Paso left…
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Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Indian state has been in lockdown ever since the decision to revoke its special status has been announced Indian-administered Kashmir has been in a state of lockdown ever since the government decided to strip the region …
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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Lewinsky, pictured left last year, will be played by Beanie Feldstein President Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the 1999 impeachment proceedings it led to are to be dramatised on US tele…
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Image copyrightPA MediaImage caption Palaeontologists found fossils of the parrot in southern New Zealand A giant parrot that roamed New Zealand about 19 million years ago had a height of 1m (3ft 2in) - roughly half the average height of a human, a new stu…
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Image copyrightReutersImage caption The Taliban has mounted a deadly insurgency campaign since their toppling in 2001 A car bombing has injured almost 100 people in the Afghan capital Kabul, as militant violence continues despite talks between the US and t…
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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Tekno's songs include Pana - which has been watched more than 100 million times on YouTube Nigerian musician Tekno has been arrested after travelling through Lagos in a lorry with semi-naked women. A video, which a…
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