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Alan HoweHistory and Obituaries Editor

Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title and achieved the greatest margin between competing newspapers in Australian publishing history. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Alan was previously The Australian’s Opinion Editor.

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Fearless streakInquirer

964-3aONE TIME USE for The Australian ONLY. Renowned Australian war photographer has published a new of his pictures taken during the Vietnam war - titled

Apocalypse wow: History’s page turns for Vietnam legend

Photographer Tim Page was once asked to write a book that took ‘the glamour out of war’, but he didn’t think that was possible.

Alan Howe

Real dead calm?Inquirer

Sole survivor Terry Jo Duperrault, 11, badly sunburnt, dehydrated and surrounded by curious sharks on a life raft in the Bahamas in 1961 after the massacre.

Link between a massacre and a missing yacht

In 1961, a family was murdered off Florida by a scheming psychopath. The film Dead Calm was based on those events. Did they play out for real off Sydney in 1988?

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The Wrecking Crew legendary guitarist Bill Pitman has died, aged 102

Wrecking Crew guitarist helped create string of hits

Bill Pitman was part of the loose alliance of musicians that has become known as the Wrecking Crew backing the biggest stars of the 1960s and 1970s.

Alan Howe

Life

D4NHD2 US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan leads a group of multinational ships during RIMPAC exercises July 24, 2010 in the Pacific Ocean.

Ocean oddities pack a sting

Jellyfish can be found in vast numbers off the Australian coast in blooms that have stretched for more than 2000km from Derby to Perth.

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A world of her own

With the Seekers, Judith Durham had a series of hits across the UK and US, but nowhere was she loved as much as in Australia.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 14, 2011, US President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Medal of Freedom to NBA basketball hall of famer and human rights advocate Bill Russell during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC. - NBA great Bill Russell, the cornerstone of a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 titles and a powerful voice for social justice, has died at the age of 88, a statement posted on social media said July 31, 2022. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Basketballer broke records as his team’s fans jeered

Bill Russell stood at 208cm, but it was his endless fight for human rights – he mistrusted the term civil rights – that made him a giant of our times.

Alan Howe

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Cars travel on a road in heavy smog in Beijing, China, 29 January 2013. Endless lines of slow-moving cars emerge like apparitions and then disappear again into the gloom of the thick smog that has shrouded Beijing this week and reduced its skyline to blurry gray shapes. With more than 13 million cars sold in China last year, motor vehicles have emerged as the chief culprit for the throat-choking air pollution in big cities especially Beijing, which has suffered even more than usual these past few days. As the Chinese middle-class expanded dramatically over the last 20 years, cars became the new symbol of prosperity. With the economy continuing to grow, the love affair with cars will only bloom more, and is already posing a challenge for dealing with the hazardous air pollution in urban China with widespread impact on health, productivity and quality of life.

The small-town scientist who poisoned the world

Thomas Midgley was a brilliant scientist, an out-of-the-box thinker whose inventions killed millions and almost ruined the planet.

Alan Howe

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 16, 2012 Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lord David Trimble discusses efforts to negotiate a peace accord between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in the south during a press briefing in Manila. - David Trimble, Northern Ireland's Nobel peace prize winning former first minister, has died at the age of 77, his Ulster Unionist Party said on July 25, 2022. Trimble helped forge the 1997 landmark peace deal in the troubled UK province which ended decades of conflict, and won the prize along with SDLP leader John Hume. (Photo by JAY DIRECTO / AFP)

Leader helped end Troubles that blighted homeland

David Trimble was elevated to the House of Lords having negotiated the peace that had eluded Northern Ireland for 30 years.

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A July 2019 picture of Nikola Stedul (L) and his daughter Monika Štedul.

Secret police tried to assassinate this canecutter

Successive Australian governments bought the line that Nikola Stedul had terror on his mind.

Alan Howe

SCIENCEInquirer

An X8.2 class solar flare flashes in the edge of the Sun on Sept. 10, 2017. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 304 angstrom wavelengths. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

Dark side of the sun an existential danger

Don’t worry about asteroids hitting earth – well, not too much. The greatest potential threat to our modern, digitally driven, satellite-connected world lurks much closer.

Alan Howe

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