5 January 2020
A few thousand people are about to gather at a hotel in America to play video games non-stop for a week. At the same time, they'll be raising millions for charity.
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5 Jan: Pundits predicting the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party have been proven wrong decade after decade. But experts say some of the measures that have made the party strong are eroding under President Xi Jinping's rule.... more
5 Jan: Record temperatures are fuelling the Australian wildfires - with one Sydney suburb hitting 48.9 degrees, the hottest place on the planet yesterday... more
4 Jan: Indonesia's air force drops salt flares on storm clouds in an effort to stop further rain in the capital Jakarta, after deadly floods ravaged the city over the New Year period.... more
4 Jan: The President of Mexico has expressed his solidarity with Julian Assange, saying he hopes the Australian WikiLeaks founder will soon be pardoned and freed... more
4 Jan: Five members of an Iran-backed militia have been killed in an air strike north of Baghdad, one day after top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed by the US, an Iraqi official says.... more
4 Jan: The two nations cut diplomatic ties decades ago, and today they're on the brink of war. To understand why, you need to know their history. It's a story of oil, the Cold War, a CIA-led coup and a damaging hostage crisis.... more
4 Jan: Zac Purton is possibly the best jockey in the world, and one of Australia’s top sporting exports. But most Aussies wouldn’t even know his name. He dropped out of school to chase his dream and is now a millionaire sportsman and investor.... more
3 Jan: It's a rare thing for a South Korean to defect to the North. But on the Korean peninsula, where the two countries are still at war, any defections are deeply politicised and fodder for propaganda.... more
