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Pippa Middleton is more commonly seen drinking champagne than making charity visits but she took a leaf out of her older sister’s book last week, playing a game of volleyball for a local special needs school. Pippa got sporty during a visit to Mary Hare, a school for the deaf near her parents’ home in […]

You might expect an ex-judge and a sex worker to be on opposite sides of the law. But former High Court judge Michael Kirby has become patron of advocacy group Touching Base, which links sex workers with people with disabilities. And in his new role, Mr Kirby has spoken out against hypocrisy in laws that […]

As convicted child sex offender Brett Peter Cowan is sentenced to life imprisonment for the sickening murder of 13-year-old Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe, we investigate whether paedophilia can ever be cured. It’s every parent’s unspoken fear: finding out your child has been sexually abused. Their innocent trust in the world around them shattered. Their […]

Brett Peter Cowan has been sentenced to life in jail for the murder of Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. Justice Roslyn Atkinson handed down the sentence in the Queensland Supreme Court at 1.10pm today. She also sentenced him to three-and-a-half years for indecently dealing with a child and two years for interfering with a corpse, […]

While Malaysian authorities approach the seventh day of searching for missing Flight MH370 – which vanished without a trace on Saturday morning – many have begun to draw parallels between the missing passenger jet and the fatal Air France Flight 447 of 2009. In the early hours of June 1 2009, Air France Flight 447 […]

The Chinese government has released days-old satellite images which may provide new clues as to the whereabouts of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished five days ago with 239 passengers and crew on board. A report from China’s official Xinhua News Agency says satellite images posted on a national defence technology website from […]

New mum Zara Phillips has found herself at the centre of a fashion firestorm, with style critics blasting her “unflattering” outfits at the Cheltenham races. The 32-year-old royal – who gave birth to her first child just eight weeks ago – attended the races on Tuesday and Wednesday and fell foul of fashion critics on […]

Put your knitting needles down! The penguins of Phillip Island officially have enough jumpers. The Phillip Island Penguin Foundation issued a call to action to knitters worldwide last week, asking for penguin-sized pullovers for animals injured in oil slicks. The plea quickly went viral and within days, the foundation had a whole shipping container packed […]

A 44-year-old father of three, Brett Peter Cowan, has been found guilty of the murder of Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. A 12-person jury sitting in the Queensland Supreme Court returned its verdict at 2.13pm today after 7 hours and 25 minutes of deliberation. Daniel’s parents, Denise and Bruce Morcombe, and Daniel’s twin brother, Bradley, […]

Malaysia’s military believes the missing Malaysia Airlines flight changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait, off the west coast of Malaysia, hundreds of kilometres from the jetliner’s last position recorded by civilian authorities. In another puzzling discovery, the search for the missing Boeing 777-200ER is now approaching its fifth day with no sight […]