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Viramundo – review
Brazilian music's elder statesman Gilberto Gil meets indigenous peoples around the world, to gather and dispense wisdomGilberto Gil is the 71-year-old Brazilian musician, activist and social campaigner...
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Anti-fracking protesters halt Sussex shale gas operation
Activists in Balcombe block lorry carrying equipment for drilling operation that is due to start next weekAnti-fracking campaigners claimed a surprise victory on Thursday against attempts to extract...
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Days of Grace – review
When the football World Cup is on, Mexico's criminals and cops suspend hostilities – ordinarilyViolence, nihilism and despair are the keynotes of Everardo Gout's brutal Mexican thriller. The title...
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Blackfish – review
This documentary about fatal attacks by performing killer whales is as gripping as a serial-killer thrillerThe clue is in the name: not cuddler whale, not hugger whale – but killer whale. Yet the irony...
View ArticleHouse vote on NSA amendment: privacy advocates hail near miss – live
Amendment to restrict NSA surveillance defeated 217-205 but civil liberties supporters claim vote sends clear signal to Obama. Follow live updates hereTom McCarthy
View ArticleSyrian refugees mark Ramadan in camps in Lebanon and Jordan - in pictures
Oxfam photographer Karl Schembri photographs Syrian refugees marking Ramadan a long way from home
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Bradley Manning a traitor who set out to harm US, prosecutors conclude
In closing arguments, US government lawyers say Manning 'had a general evil intent' and was 'a traitor, not a whistleblower'The US government has completed its case against Bradley Manning, the source...
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Church of England holds stake in Wonga financial backer
Embarrassment for archbishop of Canterbury, who had promised to compete payday lender 'out of existence'The archbishop of Canterbury was forced to admit on Thursday that the Church of England holds a...
View ArticleBetter Man - TV review
Vicky Frost: Remy Hii gives an extraordinary performance as Van Tuong Nguyven in SBS's original drama examining the circumstances of his executionVicky Frost
View ArticleAustralia, just like people smugglers, disregards the harm done to refugees |...
Stewart Motha: My family and I flew from Sri Lanka to Australia to escape persecution – so it is a cruel blow that Australia now see refugees no better than people smugglers see themStewart Motha
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Five questions to Sean Choolburra: this week on IndigenousX
Each week, a new guest hosts the @IndigenousX twitter account. We're inviting them to tell us about who they areEach week, a new guest hosts the @IndigenousX twitter account to discuss topics of...
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Five charged in US$300m hacking case
Three suspects still at large in alleged global racket involving credit card details being stolen and traded onlineFederal prosecutors in the US have charged five men blamed for a hacking and credit...
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Tasmania gambling on an uncertain economic future
The Apple Isle is searching for answers to a record budget deficit and the highest youth unemployment in the countryThere's a pub in Beauty Point, northern Tasmania, called the Riviera Hotel. You can...
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Slavery compensation: Caribbean nations propose Mau Mau model
Regional organisation targets British, French and Dutch governments over continuing effects of slaveryLeaders of more than a dozen Caribbean countries are launching a united effort to seek compensation...
View ArticlePNG, Rice and thanks: The Roast - video
On the Roast, the PNG Prime Minster responds to criticism from Abbott, Thailand's rice stockpiles go off, and WA premiere asks for more thanks
View ArticleHobbit blogging from Middle Earth as trilogy filming ends
Peter Jackson is spending his final day filming The Hobbit, and New Zealand will never be the same again
View ArticleScientists lasso angry shark underwater to remove hook from its mouth - video
Marine scientists have lassoed an angry shark and removed a large hook from its mouth off Byron Bay in Australia
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US refuses to decide whether Egypt events were a coup
Calls to amend law that obliges US to cut off aid when coups take place, but not to determine what constitutes a coupThe Obama administration told Congress on Thursday it had no plans to determine...
View ArticleAustralia, the country where you can be 'too privileged' to go to jail | Van...
Van Badham: This is the story of two Australian men, both 27, drunk and in trouble with the law. Their respective treatment neatly encapsulates a tale of two AustraliasVan Badham
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Halliburton admits destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
Contractor to plead guilty over deleted computer simulations testing methods used to cement Deepwater Horizon wellHalliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf...
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