His loyal followers were getting ­increasingly nervous. Less than a month earlier, terrorists had carried out a series of attacks on London’s public transport system that killed 56 people. In the days following the attack, he had told his “jemaah”…

They flocked to the sand to escape the inferno in an eerie half-light tinged orange from flames which blocked out the sun, holiday plans in tatters and hearts in their mouths. Some likened it to the apocalypse, the End of Days. “It went darker than a…

Australian pedophiles are fuelling the market for online footage of children being tortured and murdered, according to senior police. They say the explosion in the amount of child exploitation footage has become so great they can no longer “arrest…

Commander Rockwell was a formidable force in the online gaming community. He had spent more than 120 hours playing Battlefield 4 — a war-based first-person shooting game where kills are highly prized — notching up awards for being a “killing machine”…

It was a quiet investigation into suburban money-transfer businesses that led Australian investigators to a man laundering billions of dollars a year for the world’s criminal and terrorist elite. They had just begun monitoring what amounted to…

She keeps the briefcase in the linen cupboard, high up on the top shelf, resting on the towels and bed sheets she uses the least. The briefcase is tan coloured and old and made of pig and snake skin. Felicity O’Neill places it on her dining table and…

He was a star in Melbourne — a dashing silver-haired businessman who had MPs and business veterans fighting in his corner. There was a place for him on a BRW Young Rich List, thanks to his co-founding of innovative cut-price internet provider Dodo,…

Our journey begins at Unit 5C, 75 Lakemba Street, Belmore, a block back from the railway line in a tree-lined pocket of Sydney’s west. This was where it started for Paul Calder Le Roux, a newly married computer coder with a big idea. Those who knew…

The blood began to pool on the hospital floor. It had run down the leg of a pregnant foreigner — the wife of an Islamic State fighter — who knew she was having a miscarriage. Yet she was mostly ignored by the Syrian medical staff busying themselves…

DAVID O'Keefe stared down at the iPod in front of him with tired eyes, unaware that an Aboriginal man in his protective custody was close to death. The 28-year-old police officer had pulled the late-shift in the Alice Springs watch house and was…

No one knows if 1-year-old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like 6 million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. But one day, while on her boss's property, she went…