Iran attack: US troops targeted with ballistic missiles
Iran has carried out a ballistic missile attack on air bases housing US forces in Iraq, in retaliation for the US killing of General Qasem Soleimani.
More than a dozen missiles launched from Iran struck two air bases in Irbil and Al Asad, west of Baghdad.
It is unclear if there have been any casualties.
The initial response from Washington has been muted. President Trump tweeted that all was well and said casualties and damage were being assessed.
Iran crash: Ukraine Boeing with 176 onboard comes down near Tehran
Iranians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Swedes, Afghans, Germans and three Britons killed in crash, reports say
A passenger plane bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has crashed a few minutes after taking off from Tehran’s main international airport, killing 176 people.
Iran’s Red Crescent said there was no chance of finding survivors, and Pir Hossein Kulivand, an Iranian emergency official, later told state TV all those onboard had been killed.
Victims of the crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three Britons, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko. Most of the passengers were en route to Kyiv, transiting through there to other destinations.
MP Zali Steggall hopes climate bill will shift national debate
By Peter Hannam
Independent MP Zali Steggall said the bushfire crisis is an opportunity to shift the debate over climate change to set goals for action across the nation before threats become overwhelming.
Ms Steggall, who snatched the seat of Sydney seat of Warringah from former prime minister Tony Abbott at last May's election, is planning to draw up a private climate change bill to put before Parliament.
"What we're hearing from the community is a high level of anxiety" over the bushfires scorching much of Australia, she told the Herald on Wednesday. "If this wasn't a national emergency, what would it take to become a national emergency?"
'I don't want my kids to accept this': Iranian-Americans questioned at US border fear impacts of Trump's Middle East tactics
Some 200 Iranian-Americans have reportedly detained at the US-Canada border, sparking outrage
Clark MindockNew York
When Negah Hekmati and her family, who are American citizens, arrived at the US-Canada border early on Sunday, skis strapped to the rack on top of their car, she figured they would be waved through and quickly be on their way.
With Nexus cards in hand — a pre-screening service for expedited travel over the border — Ms Hekmati, 38, was expecting little more than the two more hours of driving that remained before she and her husband could put their five-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son to bed in their suburban Seattle home.
Charlie Hebdo and the demise of caricature
Five years after the Islamist attack on the Parisian satire magazine "Charlie Hebdo," experts say caricatures in the press are an endangered species — and not only in France.
For the Charlie Hebdo staff, January 7, 2015 began like any other day with a discussion of topical issues at a morning conference. There was a cake on the table: One of the artists was celebrating his birthday. But at around 11:30, two men charged into the room and opened fire. Eleven people died from the bullets spewing forth from the kalashnikovs. Afterwards, the perpetrators ran out onto the street shouting: "Allah is great. We have killed Charlie Hebdo. We have taken revenge for the sake of the Prophet Mohammed."
The attack by the brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, theretofore known to the police as minor criminals in Parisian suburbs, was on a newspaper that had dared to publish caricatures of Mohammed.
‘Pervert’ Gorka Ripped For ‘Gross’ Joke About Greta Thunberg’s Body
Sebastian Gorka, radio host and former aide to President Donald Trump, is under fire after cracking a joke about young climate activist Greta Thunberg’s body.
During an interview on Gorka’s radio show, guest Andrew Klavan tripped over the teen’s last name.
“Whatever her name. What is her name?” the crime writer said. “Greta Thunberg?”
Gorka then turned that into a crack about her body.
“Thunder thighs, Greta Thunberg,” he replied in a clip posted online by Media Matters:
Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist named Time’s Person of the Year, just turned 17 last week. Critics slammed Gorka for offering up any comment at all about her body: 
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