A new memoir has raised a flurry of interest among scholars because of the rarity of insiders going public with details about China’s political royalty.

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The 16-page report is the first document to be released since the President last week moved to declassify materials that for years have remained secret.

Bush’s compared what he called the unity of Americans after the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the disunity of the present day.

The child in the landmark Roe v Wade case has finally been named. Here’s how the mother and daughter shaped a nation’s furious abortion debate that still rages 48 years on.

The rejection, revealed in a new book, comes as new US research shows that unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19.

The Prince’s lawyers have raised the possibility of challenging a US court’s jurisdiction in the case filed by Virginia Giuffre, a longtime accuser of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Americans are not renowned for their subtlety, but the occasion was restrained and dignified. The focus was on paying tribute to victims, not politics.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

The poet laureate is “weaponising” a big brand to push her own big platform of advancing literacy, equity and access.

‘It’s not a crisis, it’s a collapse’: life in a total economic meltdown in Beirut.

An international genome-tracking study published in Science warns that Africa’s slow vaccine rollout could produce a vaccine-evading mutation.

The survivors of a massacre say they’re still searching for more than 100 people days after one of the deadliest battles of the Ethiopian conflict.

The trailer reveals a dance-off between Camilla and Diana while the script reportedly has the Queen say: “In the old days we would have chopped off your head.”

The decision was made on the recommendation of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention the day after the Taliban cleared new flights from Kabul.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary ceremony, those whose lives were changed forever have made their way to the memorial to the Twin Towers.

The Republican National Committee plans to sue the administration “to protect Americans and their liberties”.

It is a straightforward chemical reaction: taking the carbon dioxide causing global warming out of the air and tucking it away where it can do little harm.

The Duke of York was served with papers at the Royal Lodge, Windsor on the morning of August 27, according to a witness statement filed in Manhattan federal court.

An eyewitness transformed, a grieving son, a student stifled under Taliban rule - they all remember what they were doing when they heard about the attacks.

A recent power outage that disrupted half of New York City’s subway system for hours was likely caused by someone accidentally pressing an “Emergency Power Off” button.

Lisa Clancy, whose brother-in-law died in the crash, urged the Russian President to admit to his people the Kremlin’s involvement in the murder of the 298 people on the flight.

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The planned meeting will offer Morrison an important opportunity to cement a personal relationship with Biden eight months after he entered the White House.

Activists say it was about time free contraception was offered to more women in France.

Its founders and June 4th vigil organisers appeared in court on Friday charged with subversion under new national security laws imposed by Beijing.

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From the commencement of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to the continued conflict in Afghanistan, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

Biden is channelling the sentiments of the majority of Americans who are fed up with the unvaccinated. He’s picking his fights wisely.

Loose Change, a 2005 documentary on the terror attack, was one of the first viral hits of the still-young internet. It encouraged millions to question what they were told.

Biden is also signing an executive order to require vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government — with no option to test out.

US President Joe Biden has said the law which leaves enforcement to private citizens is “almost un-American”.

The Qatar Airways flight to Doha marked a breakthrough in the bumpy co-ordination between the US and Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers.

Denied basic rights, women in Afghanistan were treated only slightly better than farm animals. A day before the 9/11 attacks, the Herald published this report.

Thammanat Prompao claimed the drugs were “flour”. In the end an internal party brawl brought down the former royal bodyguard-turned-MP.

Indonesian troops could also begin training with Australian military in Australia soon as defence links between the neighbouring countries grow.

A video posted on social media showed a Taliban fighter whipping one of the demonstrators as several women screamed and hurried away.

Weeks into the pandemic, Soren Brostrom gained international prominence for discussing a topic few health officials dared to broach: casual sex and COVID.

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Since 1890, the towering memorial has stood in the former capital of the pro-slavery Confederacy.

A four-wheeled law enforcer is helping to enforce mask-wearing, social distancing and other forms of bad behaviour such as smoking in no-smoking areas.

The lawyer for Prince Andrew’s accuser says the Duke’s legal team is “stonewalling” and made clear that wherever he is, they will find him.

The nurse said she fell under the cult leader’s spell and she started rationalising the wrongdoing she saw around her.

Melbourne teacher Shanae Edwards, 31, disappeared while trekking in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on July 30. Her body was found the next day.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sent a stream of Twitter messages over the past 36 hours instructing users on how to download the government-backed Chivo.

Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir Mohamad says Australia’s renewed Quad alliance with the US, Japan and India is “an aggressive move” that will anger China.

The backdown has prompted claims Boris Johnson is not applying enough pressure on Australia ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

The trial of 20 men accused in a series of co-ordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France has opened.

Zero tolerance, zero emissions, COVID zero – as targets of public policy, these all had their origin at Ground Zero.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the sacrifices of Australians stuck overseas had helped save 30,000 lives.