26 February 2020
A child rights commissioner in Indonesia is resisting calls for her sacking, after telling women and girls they risk becoming pregnant if they swim in the same pool as men.
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26 Feb: Europe correspondent Linton Besser travels to northern Italy, where 11 towns have been closed off and nearly 50,000 people placed into quarantine.... more
25 Feb: In just nine days, Eagle Island on the Antarctic Peninsula went from covered in snow to wet and then green as high temperatures led to significant melting of snow and ice.... more
25 Feb: The only way Andy Parker can stop people watching his daughter Alison's final moments online is to scour YouTube and report the videos of her murder. He's finally had enough.... more
25 Feb: The first 10 months of data from NASA's Mars Insight mission reveal the Red Planet really does rumble, but there are lots of things scientists are at a loss to explain.... more
25 Feb: Indonesians working on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan beg for help from President Joko Widodo in a video released exclusively to the ABC.... more
25 Feb: In the space of a week South Korea has gone from dealing with a couple of dozen COVID-19 cases to being the next frontier for containing coronavirus. It has prompted locals to hit out at "public harm auntie" for ignoring advice to get tested.... more
24 Feb: At a time when the threat of brain injury and the effect of concussion are in the public eye, the Tyson Fury versus Deontay Wilder heavyweight bout shows professional boxing is as popular as ever, writes Richard Hinds.... more
24 Feb: Englishman Tyson Fury hands Deontay Wilder the first loss of his professional career, claiming the WBC heavyweight title with a seventh-round technical knockout. Follow all the action in our live blog.... more
23 Feb: US senator Bernie Sanders wins a decisive victory in the Nevada caucuses, while Joe Biden claims second place to boost his campaign. Here's what else you need to know.... more
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BUSINESS Effects of the coronavirus outbreak have led economists to forecast global growth will slip to 2.4 percent this year, the slowest since the Great Recession in 2009, and down from earlier expectations closer to 3 percent More...
