No contact with Iran Nobel winner since arrest, supporters say
Published: 6:28am, 15 Dec 2025Updated: 6:32am, 15 Dec 2025 There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi since her...
‘Rational optimist’: sci-fi writer Liu Cixin on why he’ll be happy if AI surpasses humans
Liu Cixin is the most influential contemporary science fiction writer in China. He is best known for his trilogy that starts with The Three-Body...
World leaders express horror at Bondi Beach terror attack as vigils are held for victims
Published: 5:49am, 15 Dec 2025Updated: 6:28am, 15 Dec 2025 World leaders voiced horror and revulsion at Sunday’s mass shooting in which 15 people were...
French farmers spray manure, keep up road blocks over cow ‘mass slaughter’
Farmers sprayed manure on government offices and kept up roadblocks in southern France on Sunday in protest against a mass cull of cows as...
Netanyahu accuses Australia’s PM of inaction in tackling antisemitism
Following the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Australia of not taking...
Egypt reveals restored colossal statues of pharaoh in Luxor in bid to boost tourism
Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the...
For some Australian Jews, Bondi shooting feels inevitable after thousands of antisemitic incidents
Days after Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the devastating war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was...
Ukraine’s Zelensky eyes US, EU guarantees to prevent more Russian aggression
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signalled that Ukraine could accept security guarantees from the US and Europe as a way to prevent future Russian aggression,...
How China’s US$150,000 robotic start-up beat Tesla boss Elon Musk in 2 years
The odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk – tech legend,...