To care about the controversy swirling around Arizona-based neonatal nurse Cara Dumaplin, you first have to understand what she means to millions of Millennial mothers.

Outside Brazil, the variant was first detected in Brazilian travellers arriving in Japan in January. It has now been found in South Korea, the US and Europe.

The rallies against the coup — now daily occurrences — have drawn people from all walks of life, even ethnic minorities afraid of the military.

The scandal over a sexist outcry throws the troubled Games into disarray six months before they are scheduled to start.

US President Joe Biden has returned to traditional foreign policy based on human rights.

In this episode, US correspondent Matthew Knott talks through the former president’s impeachment trial, his possible defence tactics and the likely outcome.

The gap between scientific probability and certainty has never been wider for Xi Jinping’s coronavirus diplomacy.

In this episode, a conversation about the new US Vice-President, Kamala Harris, with BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant, The Age and SMH’s US correspondent Matthew Knott and Good Weekend’s Konrad Marshall.

“January 6th was a culmination of the president’s actions, not an aberration from them,” impeachment manager Jamie Raskin said.

The move comes as Twitter’s approach to prominent figures and government is under scrutiny after the high-profile ban of former US President Donald Trump.

She is seen by some as an Obama-like figure who can help restore faith in America. Can Kamala Harris live up to the hype?

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The US is on pace to exceed Biden’s goal of administering 100 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office, with more than 26 million shots delivered in his first three weeks.

Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, said the UK was “urgently” looking at punitive measures against the military regime.

His prognosis became so worrisome officials believed he would need to be put on a ventilator, two of the people familiar with his condition said.

Talks come after more than half of the Republicans in Congress voted to block certification of Biden’s election victory just hours after the Capitol siege.

As Donald Trump’s impeachment trial resumes, Democrats will focus on the damage wrought in the Capitol and the former president’s alleged role in inflaming the rioters.

The pens were embossed with the emblem of the Madison Dinners, a series of events that raised concerns within the State Department inspector general’s office.

The judgment means the former actress will avoid embarrassing courtroom testimony from her father Thomas Markle.

US prosecutors and the FBI have accused self-identified Proud Boys with leading some of the earliest, most destructive, and critical efforts to overrun police and break in to the building.

The move comes just a week after Britain’s own media regulator pulled the Chinese state-run television channel CGTN off British airwaves.

Yoshiro Mori’s resignation would be bound to raise new doubts over the viability of holding the postponed Olympic Games this year.

The Republicans face a truly awful choice. Acquit Trump and they license a seditious brand of politics; convict and they rent themselves asunder.

The group, which is said to have ties to the Indian military, has targeted Pakistani military officials and the country’s top nuclear regulator.

Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday with searing footage of the US Capitol riot.

The two leaders spoke for the first time since Biden’s inauguration just hours after he announced plans for a taskforce to review US national security strategy on China.

The battle over control of her finances is due to return to court this week amid a renewed discussion of how she was treated during her meteoric rise as a teen pop star.

The evidence presented on day two of Trump’s impeachment trial offered a fresh and visceral perspective on what took place on January 6.

The US Senate is sitting to decide if Donald Trump is guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol. Follow our impeachment trial coverage.

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The Israeli prime minister is yet to receive a personal phone call from Biden, who has already spoken to leaders in Britain, France and Germany. 

Democrats said Trump “assembled, inflamed and incited” his supporters to commit violence and waited until it was too late to condemn the deadly Capitol riot.

Her imprisonment, along with her allegations that she was tortured, focused global attention on the crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Biden administration planned to identify specific targets of the sanctions later this week.

In an effort to shore up its own supplies, the EU last month gave itself powers to block exports of vaccines made on the continent.

Shirkey had earlier apologised after the release of an hour-long video in which he told Republicans last week that the January 6 protest “wasn’t Trump people.”

The panel of scientists said Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and should be deployed widely to adults of all ages.

Prosecutors in Fulton County have initiated a criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results.

Expectations are rising in Europe that the former Australian finance minister could pull off a historic victory.

As his second impeachment trial began, a Zoom meeting discussed if Trump violated a 1993 deal that allowed him to convert his residence into a money-making club.

Other trans-friendly changes include replacing the use of the word “woman” with the phrase “woman or person”, and the term “father” with “parent” when working with transgender patients.

Police and protesters clashed in Myanmar on Tuesday in the most violent day of demonstrations against the February 1 coup by generals.

Amal, in Arabic, is a source of immense national pride for the first Arab state to launch an interplanetary space mission.

What’s behind the latest coup? Why is Aung San Suu Kyi in detention? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

Wuhan probe done, the science has become part of a much larger geopolitical minefield.

David Vigneault is worried about what he says are attempts to steal secrets and intimidate the local Chinese community.

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Rawiri Waititi was prevented from asking questions because he wasn’t wearing a tie. He wore a Maori greenstone pendant instead.

The program, believed to be the first of its kind among the Group of 7 industrialised nations, was inspired by author Margaret Atwood.

The former US president’s lawyer Bruce Castor’s opening defence argument was so cringe-worthy that Newsmax, the fiercely pro-Trump alternative to Fox News, cut away.