
Has the World Cup been a soft power failure for the US?
A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
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A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.

Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.

The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.

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Learning languages may keep your brain young, but the evidence for preventing dementia itself is far less clearcut.

As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has major problems.

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry — a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup — wants George Speight to name those behind the racist takeover. The 84-year-old Labour Party leader, who became Fiji’s first prime minister of Indian heritage in 1999, made the comment after
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The changes come just weeks after the US threatened new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries – including Australia – for inaction on slave labour.

The confirmation of the bird flu virus in a brown skua appears to be a single detection. Ongoing surveillance will be essential to detect any further cases.

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If VAR catches a player offside by their toe, this is a correct decision. Whether this is what we want as fans is a philosophical debate.