EXPERT VIEWS: Climate change and empowering women top aid agencies' 2020 to-do list

Tackling climate change and addressing violence against women and girls will be among aid agencies' top priorities for 2020. We asked 10 organisations which two key issues they would focus on in the coming year.

Climate champions Thunberg and Attenborough join forces to push for change

Thunberg has transformed over the past year from an unknown, solo campaigner to the figurehead of a global movement


Use of facial recognition in Delhi rally sparks privacy fears

It was the first time facial recognition was used to screen the crowd at a political rally, according to technology analysts


From tattoos to Christmas cake, 7 unique ways into life after slavery

More efforts are being taken to help people rescued from extreme exploitation, from using bikes, to cakes to hairdressing, and stop them from returning into a life of servitude


From sausage rolls to hairy female scientists: 10 offbeat stories from 2019

From hit songs about sausage rolls to the world's first odour map, here are 10 of the more offbeat news stories from 2019


Australian tennis great Court hits out at LGBTI education, trans athletes

Court, a Christian pastor at the Victory Life Church she set up decades ago, called the teaching of LGBTI materials at schools the work of the 'devil'


Shelling of Yemen's Hodeidah grain stores halts WFP milling

The war has severely hit food supplies in Yemen and millions of people are at risk of starvation in what aid agencies describe as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises


Freezing weather causes deaths in India and Bangladesh

Winters in western and northern India have become colder in recent years, due to climate change and rapid urbanisation, experts say


Battle to save Australian wildlife as bushfires rage

Officials fear that 30% of one koala colony on the country's northeast coast, or between 4,500 and 8,400, have been lost in the recent fires



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