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From a distance, Rio’s colourful favelas look appealing.

Authentic insight or voyeurism? My struggle with slum tourism

I saw a colourful, poor neighbourhood from a distance and wanted to visit it. But I learnt just how thorny, divisive and nuanced the issue is.

  • Gary Nunn

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Lionel Messi and the World Cup in 2022.

Australia among nations driving demand for World Cup tickets despite ‘disgraceful prices’

FIFA received five million requests for World Cup tickets in the first 24 hours of the latest sales phase, it says, despite an outcry over prices.

  • Rory Carroll
Anthony Albanese during the opening plenary session at the G20.

Trump boycotted the G20. Albanese and other world leaders stared him down

A senior Trump official branded it “shameful” that the meeting had forged ahead with a leaders’ declaration despite US opposition.

  • Matthew Knott
Brazil’s Environment Minister, Marina Silva, left, speaks as COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago listens at a news conference at the COP30.

Takeaways from heated UN climate talks in Brazil

Few countries got everything they wanted. And the venue even caught fire. Here’s what you need to know.

  • Melina Walling, Anton L. Delgado and Seth Borenstein
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Undermined and underdone: How Australia’s climate talks bid failed

On Monday night in Brazil, the mood among the Australian contingent at the United Nations conference was high. Three days later, the nation’s hosting tilt was over.

  • Bianca Hall, Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anthony Albanese, Chris Bowen

Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles

There are many authors of Australia’s failure to win the right to host a COP for the Pacific. They are not all in Canberra.

  • Nick O'Malley
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Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen went to Brazil thinking he’d triumph over Turkey, until Anthony Albanese conceded.

Australia beaten by the Turks. Don’t mention the war

Australia has a long history of being defeated by determined Turks. And now, in the age of climate change, it’s happened again.

  • Tony Wright
Trump is scrambling as America grapples with cost-of-living woes.

Trump changes his mind about bananas and coffee

Donald Trump has now decided that a range of household favourites are no longer an “extraordinary” threat to the security of the United States.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Homes lay in ruins in Bento Rodrigues, Minas Gerais, Brazil, after the Samarco dam burst on November 5, 2015.

BHP found liable in Brazil dam collapse disaster

Australia’s biggest mining company is liable to compensate hundreds of thousands of people devastated by a fatal dam collapse in Brazil, a court has ruled.

  • Nick Toscano
From left, Prince William, Prince George, Kate Princess of Wales , Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to view the fly past featuring the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows after a military procession marking the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, in London, Monday, May 5, 2025

‘How much do I say?’ The hard question William had to answer after Catherine’s diagnosis

In a candid interview in Brazil, the heir to the British throne also spoke of how he and his wife were managing Prince George’s growing demand for a mobile phone.

  • Victoria Ward

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