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  1. We showed young people in Beijing this banned Tiananmen photo

    China has worked hard to erase the defining image of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thirty years after the bloody uprising, we asked Beijing students what they know about 'tank man'.

  2. Hundreds of IS women and children released from Syrian refugee camp

    A large group of people, mostly women and children, is allowed to leave the sprawling al-Hawl refugee camp, which is also home to a group of Australians.

  3. Canada's Indigenous women and girls victims of a 'genocide'

    A special commission in Canada finds the disappearances and murders of more than a thousand Indigenous women and girls in recent decades to be a national "genocide" and blames long-standing discrimination.

  4. Japanese woman launches campaign against mandatory high heels at work

    A Japanese woman launches a campaign urging the Government to prevent companies from forcing women to wear high-heeled shoes to work, with her #KuToo petition gaining nearly 20,000 signatures.

  5. Chess piece found in antique dealer's drawer belongs to the Lewis Chessmen Viking hoard

    One of the five missing pieces of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen is set to be auctioned next month after it was bought for about $10 by an antiques dealer in the 1960s and passed down through his family.

  6. Assange won't be extradited to Sweden in suspected rape case — for now

    A Swedish court on Monday rejected a request from prosecutors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be detained in absentia over a 2010 rape allegation.

  7. Russia spies on Tinder trysts as state swipes left on internet freedoms

    Russia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users — including messages — to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country's widening crackdown on internet freedoms.

  8. Trump dines with Queen after blasting London Mayor as 'stone cold loser'

    Donald Trump and First Lady Melania attend a state banquet with Queen Elizabeth II, but not before the US President hits out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Twitter.

  9. Why 93 per cent of girls in Solomon Islands drop out of high school

    Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been urged to invest in girls' education in Solomon Islands, as a report reveals the Pacific nation has one of the lowest secondary school graduation rates for girls in the world.

  10. Chinese warships arrive in Sydney with no public Government announcement

    Three Chinese warships arrive in Sydney Harbour amid increasingly strident rhetoric from Beijing over its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

  11. Five bodies believed to have been spotted in India's Himalayas

    Aerial search teams spot what they believe to be five bodies and bags where eight climbers, including an Australian woman, went missing in the Indian Himalayas.

  12. Thirteen killed, hundreds wounded as Sudan troops besiege protest camp, doctors say

    Sudanese security forces seize a protest sit-in camp in the capital, setting fire to tents and killing 13 people following a weeks-long standoff, protest leaders and doctors say.

  13. Boeing 737 MAX planes may have faulty parts, US regulators say

    Hundreds of Boeing's troubled 737 MAX planes and its prior generation 737 may contain improperly manufactured parts, the United States Federal Aviation Administration says.

Features

  1. Joy and defiance

    Archive footage shows students celebrating and calling for democracy in the weeks leading up to the Tiananmen massacre.

  2. A soldier remembers

    The Tiananmen Square massacre was erased from history in China but is still remembered by witnesses 30 years later.

  3. The dark side of marijuana

    Five years after Colorado's "great experiment" with weed, the state's economy is booming. But violently ill people are filling hospitals.

  4. Race to recycle

    The recycling industry says it is ready to capitalise on election promises made by the Morrison Government.

  5. Iconic image of war

    After the photographer behind this image was shot, he spent decades searching for the piano-playing soldier who saved his life.

  6. Facebook tomb raiders

    Opportunistic tomb raiders turn to Facebook to sell antiquities stolen in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.

  7. Conquering the Mount

    This year's Mount Everest 'summit window' was brief and it was deadly, one of the most fatal years on record.

  8. Morrison's Solomons trip

    Scott Morrison will become the first Australian PM to visit Honiara in over a decade, but this time it's not all about China.

  9. A phosphate romance

    How love bloomed between two people on opposing sides of the history of a Pacific island devastated by mining.

  10. Fancy another life?

    Our personal data isn't stable — it is being bought, sold and shared in ways most of us have no idea about.

  11. Riding solo

    As Sydney joins the list of cities across the globe embracing driverless trains, are governments adequately prepared?

  12. Trump's challengers

    Those vying to be the Democrats' 2020 Presidential candidate represent the most diverse field in American history — who are they?

  13. Refugees 'were a danger'

    A retired US immigration judge says two Rwandan men resettled in Australia posed a threat to the safety and security of the US.

  14. Israel to return to the polls

    Mr Netanyahu's failure to form a governing coalition means Israel's parliament has been dissolved, just weeks after being sworn in.

  15. Refugee self-harm 'crisis'

    More than 20 refugees living on Manus Island have attempted self-harm or suicide since the Federal Election, according advocates.

  16. Peter O'Neill resigns

    Peter O'Neill entered the prime minister's office surrounded in controversy and this morning he exited the same way.

Asia Pacific

  1. China-Taiwan contest in the Pacific

    Scott Morrison has brushes aside American calls for Australia to weigh into the diplomatic contest between China and Taiwan in the Pacific.

    Solomon Islands is one of six Pacific nations which recognise Taiwan, and the United States has signalled it would like Australia to use its influence in the region to make sure none of them switch allegiance to Beijing.


  1. 'Missing' North Korean official appears

    A North Korean senior official who was reportedly sent to a labour camp has been spotted alongside Kim Jong-un.

  2. Solomon Islands pledge

    Scott Morrison is reshaping Australia's aid program in Solomon Islands by pledging $250 million.

  3. China defends Tiananmen

    Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe says crackdown on protesters was the "correct policy" decision.

  4. Waste to be returned

    Malaysia will send back some 3,000 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as Australia.

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