Family trapped in rubble

Survival against the odds gives rescuers glimmer of hope after earthquake

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued,trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.

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Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is nearing.

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is a trillion-dollar promise that can’t all be true

As the event and its mixed messages about tariffs nears,the Donald Trump’s White House appears to have liberated itself from reality.

  • Michael Koziol
Hutchison’s 96-year-old multi-billionaire founder Li Ka-shing.

Was Li Ka-shing pushed to sell Panama ports,or did he jump?

Trump sees the sale of CK Hutchison’s ports as a victory,China sees it as coercion. For the 96-year-old Hong Kong billionaire,it might just be a good opportunity.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Russian Emergency Ministry employees leave one of two planes that landed in Myanmar following Friday’s earthquake.

China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen

The United States,the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid,has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

  • Hannah Beech andEdward Wong
Peter Dutton visits a mosque

From yum cha to a mosque:Dutton sells himself as a multicultural champion

In his first weekend on the campaign trail Peter Dutton visited a mosque before a church,synagogue or a Hindu temple,inviting voters to take another look at him.

  • Matthew Knott
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s ‘dumb power’:it’s feeble,friendless,stupid and lethal

The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration’s dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it,“we’re shooting ourselves in the head,not the foot”.

  • Hillary Clinton
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US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
America,led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019),is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

Crowds at a section of the Great Wall of China during Golden Week.

Ten things travellers will never understand about China

Everyone holidays at the same time,there’s an obsession with giant,bizarre buildings,and it’s very different to how it’s portrayed in the Western media.

  • Brian Johnston