Today
British tycoon Mike Lynch missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily
The former IT mogul Mike Lynch had just been acquitted of a billion-dollar fraud trial in June. Now he’s missing and one person is dead after a yacht sinking.
- Olivia Solon and Jonathan Browning
This Month
Brazilian airliner crashes, killing all 62 on board
Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be an ATR-made plane spinning out of control as it plunged to the ground.
- Reuters
May
Fears of second PNG landslide and disease outbreak
The blanket of debris has become more unstable after rain and streams trapped between the rubble.
- Rod McGuirk
Papua New Guinea landslide toll revised up to 2000
The unstable terrain, remote location and nearby tribal warfare are hampering relief efforts in PNG.
- Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson
PNG landslide death toll estimates raised to 670
Crews have given up hope of finding survivors buried deep under the soil and rubble after a landslide slammed into a village on the Pacific island.
- Rod McGuirk
April
Twenty minutes of terror inside Westfield Bondi Junction
Witnesses have recounted the terrifying period when Joel Cauchi murdered six people in a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Gus McCubbing, Les Hewitt and Campbell Kwan
Horror fire engulfs Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange
Shocked passers-by raced to save artwork and treasures from the 400-year-old stock exchange building as its spire collapsed in flames.
- Tom Little and Isabelle Yr Carlsson
15-year-old arrested after bishop stabbed in Sydney church
Police had to face down angry crowds who gathered at the scene of the alleged stabbing in western Sydney in the hours after the attack.
- Updated
- Andrea Hayward, Lewis Jackson and Stella Qiu
Police to probe if Bondi killer targeted women
Police are investigating if Joel Cauchi was targeting women when he murdered six people during a nightmarish stabbing spree in Sydney.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Police say 12-year-old carried out school shooting in Finland
Finnish authorities say the child shot and killed a classmate and seriously wounded two others in a suburb of Helsinki, shocking the nation.
- Essi Lehto
March
Cargo ship issued mayday before hitting US bridge
After being hit, the Francis Scott Key Bridge buckled and collapsed into the river below. Two people were rescued, six were missing.
- Updated
- Lea Skene
January
Four Rio Tinto staff killed in Canadian plane crash
Four passengers and two aircraft crew were killed when a plane heading to Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine crashed. One person survived.
Woman rescued from rubble five days after Japan quake
According to the Metropolitan Police Department cited by the Yomiuri newspaper, the woman appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but was responsive.
- Motoko Rich and Miharu Nishiyama
October 2023
Hunt for man after ‘confronting’ private school killing
A manhunt is under way after a young female staff member was found dead in the gymnasium at a private school in Sydney’s city centre.
- Peter Bodkin and Luke Costin
September 2023
Man dead, another in hospital after boat struck by whale
The two men were flung from their vessel off Cape Banks at La Perouse in Botany Bay about 6am on Saturday.
- Samantha Lock
- Analysis
- Libya
Disastrous floods a rallying cry for divided Libya
The Derna dam tragedy has ramped up pressure on the country’s leading politicians, viewed by some as the architects of the catastrophe.
- Hazem Turkia and Jack Jeffrey
Rescuers race to find survivors over 48 hours after Morocco quake
Search teams from Spain and Britain are joining efforts to find survivors of the 6.8-magnitude quake that struck 72 kilometres south-west of Marrakech.
- Updated
- Tom Perry
August 2023
Maui wildfire death toll hits 80 as questions raised over warnings
The death toll from the fires has risen to 80 as officials try to determine how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort town with little warning.
- Marco Garcia and Mike Blake
Grim search continues on Maui as death toll rises
The official death toll from the fires has reached 80 but rescuers had yet to move inside buildings in their search for other victims.
- Mike Baker, Jenny Gross and Mike Ives
Goldman Sachs analyst found dead in New York City creek
John Castic, 27, was discovered floating face down just weeks after another body was found in the same waterway.
- Tanaz Meghjani
