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Jail term urged for Archbishop Wilson despite ill health

UPDATED | The most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted of concealing child sex crimes must be jailed to send a message that institutional cover-ups will no longer be tolerated, a NSW court has heard.

Facebook struggles to hold back tide of violence and hatred

Facebook is struggling to block hate speech posts, conceding its detection technology “still doesn’t work that well” and it needs to be checked by human moderators.

A woman sells produce at a food market in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Lucy Hughes Jones / AAP

There’s a sting in the tale of Vietnam travel

“The more dangerous the snake, the better the whisky.” That’s what a Vietnamese local tells me as she hands me the bottle, a cobra inside with a black scorpion’s tail in its jaws, as we sit on the banks of the Mekong Delta.

Indigenous rights: ‘They can’t wash their hands of this’

It was the most successful referendum in the nation’s history, but the 1967 vote was only the beginning of an unfinished journey to equality for indigenous Australians.

"Anything's possible" as Paralympics get off to flying start

A man in a wheelchair soared down a six-storey high ramp at high speed as fireworks lit the sky over Rio’s Maracana Stadium.

Record fourth-year of losses tipped for $A

The Australian dollar is set for a third consecutive year in the red as 2015 draws to a close and could reach a post-float record of pain if the tailspin continues next year.