World
'It's all political': Malka Leifer ordered to undergo psych evaluation
An Israeli court has ordered a former Melbourne school principal accused of child sex abuse be placed under psychiatric evaluation until further notice.
- by Farid Farid
Opinion & Perspectives
The motherhood penalty is still deeply entrenched ... even in Denmark
It will take more than progressive government policies to ensure equal opportunities for mothers and fathers.
Matt Wade
It's 2018, so let us begin anew
It's at this time of year when even those who have had the luxury of a long break are back at work, when all of us are focused on the year ahead, that we might reflect on what would be a welcome change in the new year.
Amanda Vanstone
'We are all Davos men now': Free trade triumphs despite Trump's trade tantrums
It's a brave new free trade world we live in, where we view ourselves more as consumers than workers. Where a threatened train strike elicits more concern about how we will all get to work than how fairly our fellow workers will be compensated.
Jessica Irvine
North America
Opinion
Guns
US shooting victims caught in the crossfire of a war that never ends
Having grown up between the United States and Australia, and with American rural family ties who leaned more towards pro-gun than not, I was always immersed in both worlds: Australia, the country that took action in the wake of horrific, senseless tragedy – and America, the country that offered prayers where legislation should have been.
- by Riley Wilson
scandal
Donald Trump
$130,000 payment to porn star raises questions for Trump confidant
Storm clouds are gathering over US President Donald Trump after the admission by his lawyer that he sent $130,000 to a pornographic film actress, who claimed to have had an affair with Trump.
- by MAGGIE HABERMAN and CHARLIE SAVAGE
Former student Nikolas Cruz named a suspect in Florida school shooting
- by Rachel Olding and Rachel Clun
World
North America
Kim Jong-un's ultimate nuclear ambition to reunify Korean peninsula
- by Peter Mitchell
Europe
Oxfam
Charity
Haiti may revoke Oxfam's right to operate based on sex scandal claims
- by Sebastien Malo & Joseph Guyler Delva
Aid agency Oxfam hit by new report of sex abuse
- by Alistair Smout & Avi Selk and Eli Rosenberg
Asia
Hun Sen's Cambodia slides even further into dictatorship
A new plan from the ruling party has alarmed activists and opposition members in a state that is already vigorously suppressing dissent.
- by Lindsay Murdoch
Alleged Melbourne attacker's sister knifed policeman: Dhaka police
An international student who stabbed a man in his Melbourne home has been linked to a terrorist organisation by her sister in Bangladesh.
- by Lindsay Murdoch
Also in World
politics
Israel
Netanyahu says bribery charges 'slanted', full of holes
As Benjamin Netanyahu fought back against a police finding that he had accepted nearly $300,000 in bribes, his self-confidence betrayed not the slightest worry.
- by DAVID M. HALBFINGER
