24 Oct: Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford successfully lobbied the UK Government to provide free school meals once. Now he's enlisted the support of businesses after the Government knocked back a proposal to extend the scheme.... more
24 Oct: After recording the world's worst per capita rate of new coronavirus infections, Israel finds some success with a second lockdown. But there are now fears Israelis might be less willing to cooperate with restrictions.... more
24 Oct: Bangladesh has lifted the lid off one of its darkest secrets — its silent rape crisis. As cases surge amid the pandemic, human rights organisations say the new death penalty for rape crimes won't fix the problem.... more
24 Oct: An exercise in passing the buck, that's the assessment from a campaign group to the race relations commissioner's idea to put iwi in charge of prisons... more
23 Oct: The flight is underwritten by the Australian Government and is the first of eight by Qantas that will fly directly to Darwin before passengers are transferred to the Howard Springs quarantine facility where they will spend 14 days.... more
