Global/International

PM's staffer did not act alone: report
Canberra Times
Lisa Martin, AAP
February 1, 2012 .

A federal government source has contradicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard's statement that a former staffer acted alone when he passed on information to a third party that led to a security scare at an Australia Day event, an indigenous newspaper says.

Alabama death row prisoner Thomas Arthur

Rebekah Skelton reports on a case where an Alabama man's life is at stake.

March 28, 2012

THOMAS ARTHUR has been on Alabama's death row for 30 years. He was convicted of killing Troy Wicker in 1982, but has always maintained his innocence. Recently, a federal appeals court stayed Arthur's March 29 execution date over an issue about lethal injection, though that stay could be lifted at any time.

Hashizume Bun, 80-year-old author of “The Day the Sun Fell - I Was 14 Years Old in Hiroshima”, poses in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on March 25, 2011. Bun, who has spoken in 70 countries about her ordeal, was less than 1.5 kilometres from the hypocentre of the explosion over Hiroshima at the end of WWII.