5:40 AM | The soldier killed in yesterday’s alleged terrorist attack in Woolwich, London has been identified by the Ministry of Defence as Drummer Lee Rigby, a 25 year-old with a two year-old son.
23 May 13 | One minute he was heading to the shops to pick up some fruit and vegetables.
23 May 13 | Indonesia has accused environmental groups of protesting against the removal of trees that don't exist.
23 May 13 | Far-right activists in balaclavas have clashed with riot police in London after the killing of a man believed to be a British soldier by alleged Islamic extremists.
23 May 13 | A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant.
23 May 13 | Tensions are rising along Syria's borders as government forces battle to regain control of a strategic border town from rebel fighters.
23 May 13 | The scale of destruction in Moore on the fringe of Oklahoma City was so vast that during the first full day of recovery authorities could do little more for dazed survivors than clear the roads and sling a protective perimeter around them.
22 May 13 | Insulation rained down on his head. He could hear glass shattering, walls crumbling and the roof tearing from his one-story home that sits in the shadow of a multiplex here.
22 May 13 | India and China are mending ties through trade.
22 May 13 | A pair of Australian stormchasers, Perth teacher Melissa Marshall and her meteorologist husband, were in Oklahoma City when the tornado swept through.
22 May 13 | As the school day was ending, parents in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, were forced to make an impossible calculation - rush to schools to gather up their children and risk being caught in the open, or trust that the reinforced walls of the school buildings would shelter them.
22 May 13 | As a massive tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday afternoon, a news helicopter belonging to KFOR, the NBC-affiliated television station nearby, tracked it the whole time, providing a visual exclamation point for the meteorologists who were warning residents to seek shelter.
22 May 13 | Sarah Johnson was forced to rush from her home in Moore to a nearby hospital as the storm raged when her four-year-old daughter, Shellbie, suffered an asthma attack.
22 May 13 | Prime Minister David Cameron has been forced to rely on opposition support to rescue his same-sex marriage legislation from defeat in the House of Commons.
21 May 13 | A huge tornado almost two kilometres wide has flattened entire neighbourhoods, set buildings on fire and landed a direct blow on a primary school in Oklahoma City. We'll have the latest developments as they come to hand.
21 May 13 | The owners of a New Zealand guesthouse who refused to let a lesbian couple share a bed are standing firm despite threats.
20 May 13 | The vast majority of Indians are worried about China's rise and consider it a security threat, an opinion poll has revealed, with the results exposing a serious trust deficit between the Asian giants.
20 May 13 | The Herald's picture editors showcase the best images from around the globe.
20 May 13 | Rolf Harris made an odd choice for a final encore, considering.
19 May 13 | Myanmar President Thein Sein has begun the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years with the United States throwing its support behind his reforms.
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