The legislation was motivated by the devastating January wildfires with more than two dozen arrests of people accused of looting in fire zones, with some allegedly impersonating firefighters to avoid ...

A frenzied knife attack on Salman Rushdie happened “so fast” that the author did not even realise what was happening to him, a court has heard.

The investing world's attention has been firmly on soaraway US growth stocks over the past couple of years but there is a contrarian opportunity to profit closer to home, says Iain McCombie.