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As he watches events unfold, he speaks to relatives still there and reflects on Iran’s fate.
Jaws was only the second feature film for the 28-year-old Steven Spielberg – and it would become a cultural smash.
Two Tasmanian women have been hospitalised with invasive meningococcal disease, bringing the number of cases nationally so far this year to 48. Health authorities are urging people to watch for ...
Austerity sounds like it should be about governments cutting costs and spending less. But it’s more about who controls ever-expanding public spending – and who doesn’t.
Community pushback has scuttled many renewables projects. Sometimes, communities are angry landowners hosting infrastructure will be paid, but neighbours and those further afield may not.
When the Western Australian state government handed down its state budget on Thursday, it showed a balance sheet solidly in the black with a A$2.5 billion surplus. But, as it has for seven years, the ...
Sexual violence in conflict is a tactic of war, torture and terror. It does not only devastate survivors but also tears apart families and communities. The trauma, shame and stigma are borne by ...
The collapse of classical Hollywood’s studio system in the 1960s mirrored much of America’s cultural and political uncertainties at the time. The assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, ...
The recent death of a British woman from rabies after a holiday in Morocco is a sobering reminder of the risks posed by this almost universally fatal disease, once symptoms begin.
In the Greater Toronto area, a school board’s flag restrictions speak to an unwillingness to sever emotional attachments to a colonial and western way of thinking, doing and being, in the name of ...
The U.S. military could certainly make an impact in any air campaign against Iran. But it will want to avoid another Iraq-like quagmire.