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An image of Britain's Queen Elizabeth is illuminated on the sail of Sydney Opera House, following the Queen's passing, in Sydney, Australia, September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy

Australia Mourns Queen Elizabeth from Home of 'World's Oldest Continuous Culture'

Australia held a national day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying the greatest tribute the nation could offer was not a statue but "a renewed…

22 September 2022

Emigration: Where Dreams are Forever Changing and Never Finite

For as long as humans have existed, there have always been migration movements. The longing for new horizons has been in most of us. People who consider leaving their birth country to move to a…

Luisa Markides 26 August 2022

British royal family memorabilia collector Jan Hugo looks at a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as Hugo readies to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, in Nulkaba, Australia May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Stefica Nicol Bikes

Australian Grandmother Hopes Queen Has Jubilee to Remember

Jan Hugo never realised her childhood dream of becoming a princess so instead she became Australia's queen of royal memorabilia with over 10,000 pieces, a collection she plans to grow as Queen…

23 May 2022

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz bump fists after holding a joint press conference during a European Union (EU) summit at the European Council Building at the EU headquarters in Brussels on December 17, 2021. (Photo by JOHN THYS / POOL / AFP)

Franco-German Solidarity

On December 8, Olaf Scholz was sworn in as new Chancellor of Germany after his predecessor and political mentor Angela Merkel had governed the country for the past 16 years. In the wake of power…

Jassem Mohamed – Bonn 24 December 2021

Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef thought to have been caused by heat stress as a result of global climate change

Reviving the Great Barrier Reef

"I recommend getting inside the net. It's very good for you," jokes marine ecologist Peter Harrison. "It's good for your skin, it's good for your clothes." The net in question is a giant, slimy…

Donna Lu 15 January 2021

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