World
New book paints Trump as wounded, forgetful and hung up on Hollywood
Disgraced, defeated and twice impeached. Trump’s party had abandoned him and he focused on happier times – when he was just a celebrity businessman.
- by Shawn McCreesh
Opinion & Perspectives
Can a national hero like Kylian Mbappe stop the rise of the far-right in France?
Before President Emmanuel Macron’s stunning decision to dissolve parliament and call a snap poll, France’s reckoning with the hard right was scheduled for 2027.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China
Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.
Lisa Visentin
North Asia Correspondent
I mentored the next British PM. Here’s what Australians need to know about him
Keir Starmer does not have the charisma of Boris Johnson or Tony Blair, but charisma in politicians is much overrated.
Geoffrey Robertson
Human rights barrister and author
North America
Wild Thang crowned world’s ugliest dog after five tries
Perhaps it’s his pink tongue, or the way his eyes poke out from a mop of frizzy fur, but Wild Thang has made judges’ hearts sing.
- by Aimee Ortiz
New book paints Trump as wounded, forgetful and hung up on Hollywood
Disgraced, defeated and twice impeached. Trump’s party had abandoned him and he focused on happier times – when he was just a celebrity businessman.
- by Shawn McCreesh
‘Abnormal noise’: United Airlines jet turns back after engine piece falls off
- by Mary Schlangenstein and Allyson Versprille
Europe
Explainer
World elections
‘Le TikTok king’ : How a 28-year-old could be France’s new prime minister
- by Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
Asia
‘Bad spiral’: Feeling the heat in Ukraine, Putin turns up the temperature elsewhere on the West
Some analysts worry that Western desensitisation to Putin’s warnings, particularly about using nuclear weapons, has created a precarious situation.
- by Paul Sonne
Analysis
China relations
Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China
Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.
- by Lisa Visentin
Opinion
China relations
Beijing is not on our side. Let’s not fall for a pair of therapy pandas
- by Peter Hartcher
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