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Snow or No Snow, Australia’s Winter Resorts Are Open
Business owners say it’s hard to keep pace with the country’s sporadic snow conditions and spontaneous skiers.
By Julia Bergin
Business owners say it’s hard to keep pace with the country’s sporadic snow conditions and spontaneous skiers.
By Julia Bergin
The United States no longer towers over the Asia-Pacific, dictating terms to its allies. Instead, it’s offering to be a teammate and share responsibilities.
By Damien Cave
The investigation of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of Hebrew University has prompted a debate inside Israel about the repression of free speech and academic freedoms since the war began.
By Damien Cave and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad
American travelers going abroad this summer will find their money buys more in some unexpected countries, including Japan and Australia.
By Elaine Glusac
The Pacific island nation has become an object of fascination for some Americans who no longer want to deal with the U.S. political divide.
By Pete McKenzie
They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.
By Darren Incorvaia
A new bulletin says China is trying to step up recruitment of Western-trained fighter pilots to improve its air combat capability.
By Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.
By Carl Zimmer
The art is accessible, the attendees cut across the social spectrum and the architecture beguiles.
By Damien Cave
The number of Indians abroad is small relative to the country’s population. Indian political parties want their support anyway.
By John Yoon
Plus, South Africa goes to the polls
By Whet Moser
The sole known copy of the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was not to be heard by the public until 2103. Some fans will be able to hear a selection of the 31 tracks at a museum in Hobart, Tasmania.
By Remy Tumin
The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals.
By Darren Incorvaia
Just getting to survivors has proved to be an enormous challenge, with a blocked highway and unstable ground “posing ongoing danger” to rescue workers.
By Damien Cave
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Nearly 4,000 people live in villages that were engulfed, a local official said. Unstable debris was complicating search and rescue efforts in a rural part of the Pacific nation.
By Victoria Kim and Christopher Cottrell
Many more were missing in the Pacific nation as recovery and rescue efforts were delayed by a blocked highway and fallen boulders.
By John Yoon
The government has committed hundreds of millions of dollars for people fleeing domestic violence, but among those who work with victims and survivors, optimism is hard to find.
By Julia Bergin
John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.
By Jennifer Schuessler
Justine Payton was drawn to a Hare Krishna ashram for its yoga, meditation and vegan meals. She’s still figuring out what went wrong.
By Ruth Graham
The WikiLeaks founder won his bid to appeal his extradition to the United States on espionage charges, opening a new chapter in a prolonged legal battle.
By Megan Specia
A hearing on Monday will determine whether Julian Assange has any more recourse in the British courts to appeal his extradition to the United States.
By Megan Specia and Emma Bubola
At a sanctuary on New Zealand’s North Island, the long-endangered flightless birds have grown so much in number that they are being transported to other areas to start new colonies.
By Pete McKenzie
New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.
By Rachel Nuwer
Estudios recientes ponen en duda que las intervenciones en salud mental a gran escala le hacen bien a los niños y adolescentes. Algunos, incluso, sugieren que pueden tener un efecto negativo.
By Ellen Barry
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As the death toll in Gaza has risen, countries have turned their backs on Israel. The consequences of those desertions, from security to economics, risk turning Israel into a pariah.
By Damien Cave
Many isolated Indigenous communities are dependent on fragile supply chains. This year, floods made that dramatically clear.
By Julia Bergin
Los guardabosques indígenas del desierto occidental de Australia pudieron observar de cerca al topo marsupial del norte, un animal diminuto, de color claro y ciego que casi nunca sale a la superficie.
By Anthony Ham
Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.
By Ellen Barry
Qantas, Australia’s national carrier, apologized and said it would pay a fine and compensation to settle a suit brought by a consumer watchdog.
By Jin Yu Young
The episode occurred just weeks after two major stabbing attacks in the country. The youth had been under monitoring for having extremist tendencies.
By Jin Yu Young
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