Social media footage showed a man in a bloodstained white t-shirt and dark pants limping along a road and being helped by a medic.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew when it plummeted into a residential area just seconds after leaving the runway.

Australia should demand the father of NSW prop Payne Haas be released immediately if he is not set free, his legal team says following the global agencys decision.

Officials initially believed there were no survivors when the Boeing 787 jet crashed shortly after take-off, before Indian authorities confirmed a passenger in seat 11A was pulled alive from the wreckage.

India foreign ministry on Air India plane crash

A plane has crashed shortly after take-off in the north-west Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Visuals showed debris on fire, with thick black smoke rising up into the sky near the airport.

The world has lost a music visionary with the death of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson.

Masked youths smashed windows and set fire to a leisure centre in Larne which had been used as an emergency shelter for families after rioting in Ballymena.

An animated video showing bee vision, which is pixellated because their compound eyes but includes greater perception of colour, including UV light wavelengths (as well as blue and green), and greater distinction between contrasts of black and white.

Residents have spoken of long-running tensions with the Roma community, but the alleged attempted rape of a schoolgirl lit the touchpaper for riots.

As National Guard took to the streets of Los Angeles and protesters clashed with police, the California Governor stepped spoke to the nation, in a moment that may well prove a turning point for the Democratic Party.

The personnel moves come amid heightened security risks in the region and signs the sputtering nuclear diplomacy between Washington and Tehran could end in conflict.

Los Angeles police have made hundreds more arrests as protesters return to streets after first night of curfew.

Brian Wilson who was the genius behind The Beach Boys, one of the most successful bands of all time, has died at the age of 82.

The former movie mogul was found guilty at retrial on one charge and acquitted on another, but the jury has not yet reached a verdict on a third count in deliberations that have been marred by fighting.

Efforts to control language never work. Banning something only makes it more powerful.

Downtown Los Angeles has been placed under a curfew as protests spread across the US.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.

The inner core of Americas second-largest city looked more like a war zone readying for an air raid as a new 8pm curfew aimed to curb rampant looting and vandalism.

After a marathon round of talks, US and Chinese negotiators arrived back at the same starting point they brokered one month ago.

TV camera operators, a newspaper photographer and reporters have been hit with rubber bullets, some apparently deliberately.

U.S. correspondent Michael Koziol is on the ground in Los Angeles during protests over the federal administrations immigration crackdown.

Tanks, armoured troop carriers and artillery systems pour into Washington for the US Armys 250th birthday celebration.

Hundreds of rioters attacked police and set homes and cars in Ballymena alight following a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.