In a speech at a state dinner in the former British colony, William acknowledged slavery “should never have happened”. 

The best pictures from the international wire services as chosen by the Picture Editors at the Sydney Morning Herald

In the pitched political battles over freedom of choice in school cafeterias, New York’s “vegan-ish” mayor has triggered a nationwide furore over the sugary drink.

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks is this the beginning of a new level of interference?