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 weekend death of the northern white rhino Angalifu, 44, leaves only five of his kind in the world.

The Republican presidential candidate was asked how it would be different from Jews having to register in Nazi Germany.

The US official co-author of the contentious memo permitting water-boarding and other interrogation techniques, now seen as torture by many around the world, has conceded operatives might have "crossed the line".

A return to the seaside village of Unawatuna in Sri Lanka 10 years after it was devastated in the Boxing Day tsunami brought back good and bad memories for a Melbourne family.