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Denys Hawthorne, who has died aged 77, became an actor almost in spite of himself. By nature a reticent, rather shy man, he blossomed on stage, film, television and radio in a variety of roles, from characters in several different productions of Waiting for Godot to appearances in the films The Russia House (1990) and

It wouldnt be an Aussie Xmas without sun, prawns and native birds. Perhaps too many native birds. Patrick Lenton investigates Coming back to Australia after doing most of my primary school years overseas involved a couple of moments of cultural discord chief among them the bizarre, almost organic stage-musical moment of watching everyone suddenly

Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavk, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two years Houses have caught fire in the fishing town of Grindavk in south-west Iceland after a volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month.

Peter Landin, who has died aged 78 of prostate cancer, was a complex character: a political radical, a gay-rights campaigner and an outstanding academic computer scientist. With a burst of creativity in the 1950s and 60s, he laid the foundations for the software that runs the laptops, desktops PCs and the internet of today.

Mass shootings remain an almost exclusively American phenomenon among advanced countries. These nine rocked the country and galvanized many in favor of gun control so why has so little action followed?