Young practitioners are helping make stained glass, which fell out of fashion over two decades ago, a vibrant art form in Australia once again.The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Julia Bergin.J... More »
Considering how often their profession is associated with venality, it seems only fair to record occasions when lawyers go out of their way, entirely unpaid, to maintain public confidence in the administration of justice.They were generous last week following ... More »
One person is dead and seven others are missing in Noto Peninsula, state media reported. The region is still recovering from a catastrophic earthquake earlier this year.Record rainfall in Japan’s Noto Peninsula caused deadly flooding and landslides in a region... More »
Money and power have enabled men throughout time to get away with the most appalling abuse and keep it quiet. The sheer number of allegations of sexual assault and rape that women have made in the past week against the late former owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al ... More »
To say things looked bleak for Orange Lutheran’s football team Saturday night at Sierra Canyon was being nice. Down 19 points at halftime, the Lancers were not blocking, not tackling and showing little energy. Their bus could have started warming up for the lo... More »
The Middle East crisis has reached an extremely dangerous juncture. That’s a statement made many times since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on 7 October last year precipitated a descent into war. Yet it is precisely because nearly 12 months of internati... More »
The question I am a 42-year-old woman about to undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer. I’m increasingly feeling what I think is anger, which has always been a difficult emotion for me to experience in myself. In the past I’ve squashed it down and turned i... More »
As the international community presses for a ceasefire hostage agreement in Gaza, there has been a drastic acceleration and intensification of settlement construction, land confiscation and home demolition in the West Bank, exacerbating longstanding patterns o... More »
Joe Biden has been recorded on a hot mic telling the leaders of Australia, India and Japan that an aggressive China is “testing us”, in remarks at a Quad summit that risked undercutting the group’s declaration that carefully avoided referring to Beijing by nam... More »
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat, conservationists said in a new report. The number of white rhi... More »
Texas redshirt freshman quarterback Arch Manning’s highly anticipated starting debut had its share of ups and downs, but the Longhorns dominated overmatched Louisiana-Monroe 51-3 on Saturday night before 102,850 at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.Mannin... More »
The Walker Buehler who retired 11 of 12 batters with six strikeouts from the second through fifth innings Saturday night could play in a postseason rotation for the Dodgers.The Buehler who gave up three runs and three hits, walked one batter and hit another wh... More »