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Google urged to drop Chinese 'Dragonfly' projectGoogle urged to drop Chinese 'Dragonfly' project
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The new search app would block search terms like human rights and religion

Staff at Google have called on the search giant to end work on a controversial search engine project for China.

Called Dragonfly, the search engine would be a censored version developed with the aid

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Fehmida Riaz: Pakistan poet who dared to talk about female desireFehmida Riaz: Pakistan poet who dared to talk about female desire

Fehmida Riaz, who died in Pakistan last week, was not just another poet, fiction writer or translator. She broke social taboos and set new standards in Urdu literature, writes M Ilyas Khan.

Riaz was a compulsive political animal who unapologetically lived her ideology rather than bend it to the demands of different situations.

Born in what is now

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The fight over the right to name Australian placesThe fight over the right to name Australian places
Image:Last year's marriage equality celebrations on what is now known as "Equality Green"

When should a public place be renamed The debate is often complex. In Australia, many would like to see names reflect a more modern, equal nation. Gary Nunn reports from Sydney.

In November last year, 30,000 Australians gathered biting their nails in Sydney's

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Afghanistan: US service members killed in bomb explosionAfghanistan: US service members killed in bomb explosion
Image copyrightAFP/GettyImage caption US forces serving with Nato have been training Afghan forces since combat operations ended in 2014

Three US service members have been killed and three others wounded in an explosion near Ghazni in Afghanistan.

A US civilian contractor was also hurt by the improvised explosive

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No sale for Australia's enormous Knickers (who is, by the way, a bull)No sale for Australia's enormous Knickers (who is, by the way, a bull)
Image copyrightGeoff PearsonImage caption Knickers is often followed by a herd of wagyu cattle

Knickers looms above the thousands of other cattle that he feeds with in rural Western Australia.

At some 1,400kg (220st) and 194cm (6ft 4in), the seven-year-old is believed to be the biggest steer in a country home to

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Ben Lecomte: Swimmer abandons attempt to swim PacificBen Lecomte: Swimmer abandons attempt to swim Pacific
Image copyrightReutersImage caption He completed more than 2,700 kilometres of his journey

A French man has abandoned his bid to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean after his support boat was damaged by a storm.

Ben Lecomte, 51, set off from the coast of Japan on 5 June and had covered more

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