World Archive

A friend rang me yesterday and said: “Have you heard? Bowie has died.” I had only just come off Facebook and there had been no mention. How could he have passed? He looked in apparent rude good health and had only a …

  Venezuela’s opposition party has won a resounding historic victory in the parliamentary elections on Sunday. This is the first time the opposition has secured a majority in the National Assembly in the 16 years of Hugo Chavez’s administration. The National Electoral …

As Aung San Suu Kyi gallops to a landslide victory in Myanmar this week, she faces enormous challenges in a country riven with corruption. Not least of her problems is the lack of education, especially in remote areas like Shan state near …

On April 16 Copenhagen and all of Denmark celebrated Queen Margrethe’s 75th birthday and the media circus went crazy in its enthusiasm testing the limits of public tolerance. Meanwhile the question more and more emerges on social media: why should Denmark still have …

43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa:  A Showcase of Hope, a photography exhibition that vividly illustrates the civilian response to state violence in Mexico, will open in Sydney this week. The photographs, by Mexican photographers Antonio Díaz and Joel Martínez, document the ongoing demonstrations …

An ill female health worker has been admitted to Canberra Hospital this week and is being treated in isolation under the hospital’s Ebola protocol after returning from West Africa. The results of the Ebola test are not yet known for the woman who …

Chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver has launched his biggest campaign ever – a global petition to get food education back on the school curriculum. On March 29, Jamie launched the petition following his LIVE Food Revolution show as part of the Sydney Opera …

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the head in Venezuela during a government crackdown of student protests this week commemorating last year’s student rebellion. In February 2014, thousands of students protested against corruption, media censorship, lack of security and oppression, resulting in …

  Horror, disdain, anger, sadness. Those are all the words that came to mind after the last week of stressful and horrible news of what was happening in my home country, France. How could 2015 start in such a shattering way? Wednesday 7 January 2015, 10:47pm: …

We should have seen it coming. Thirty years on from Band Aid’s original version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Bob Geldof has once again made a few phone calls, tweaked a few lyrics and quickly assembled the fourth version of the song …