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.
'We knew it was coming, we got on the ground'
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.
A fair to remember: why Sydney galleries head to New York and Hong Kong to sell their art
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Helicopter cameraman caught enormity of tornado's damage
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.
Tornado like no other
As the school day was ending, parents in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore 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.
Trying to find the children
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.
Gay marriage in Britain 'could lead to lesbian queen'
The debate in Britain over legalising gay marriage took a surreal turn on Tuesday after a senior politician said it could result in a lesbian queen giving birth to an heir by artificial insemination.
Search continues at Oklahoma school after tornado wreaks havoc
As night descended on the scenes of destruction in Oklahoma City, rescue workers continued to search for survivors of a massive tornado responsible for more then 50 deaths.
How tornadoes are ranked in severity
The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 320 kilometres per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Queen basks by the billabong at flower show
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