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Elon Musk took to his own social media platform to express his wrath over with David Swan’s tech predictions for 2025.

I was at the centre of an Elon storm – and survived

Waking up to hundreds of notifications on X is generally not a good sign. This time, it was nuclear – and it came from the world’s richest man.

  • David Swan

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Every weekend, parents of unmarried adults come to the marriage market in Shanghai in hope of finding a good match for their children.

Inside Shanghai’s marriage market - where parents seek a match for their unwed child

Marriage rates are declining across China. But at a pop-up market in Shanghai, parents sit for hours every weekend, advertising their single children’s key attributes.

  • Lisa Visentin
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.

What Trump’s first four days tell us about the next four years

Donald Trump always said he would put America first. His barnstorming return to executive power shows he intends to do so with an American fist.

  • Michael Koziol
American thriller writer David Baldacci

This best-selling author had an Aussie holiday. It became a thriller in the making

Australia hasn’t featured in any of David Baldacci’s 60 novels. But that might be about to change.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Climate changed has increased the risk of Melbourne experiencing LA-type fires.

The home front: Could the Los Angeles fires happen in Australia?

Experts say it is only a matter of time until major Australian cities experience “house-to-house ignition” on a similar scale to Los Angeles.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall
Triple J turns 50

Ratings in freefall and a shift to TikTok tastes: Triple J’s not very happy birthday

As the station turns 50 this Sunday, the question remains: can a youth radio station still exist for the streaming generation?

  • Calum Jaspan
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Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the film Conclave.

Who will be the next pope?

The release of the film Conclave has once again thrown the spotlight on one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope.

  • Rob Harris
From left: Anthony Albanese’s approval rating has dropped, while Justin Trudeau is the latest progessive leader leaving the stage, along with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces the electorate next month, while Jacinda Ardern left politics in 2023.

Trudeau, Biden and Ardern are done. What’s eating the global left?

Australia may be an island, but it is not immune to the systemic forces sweeping across global politics.

  • Matthew Knott
Donald Trump begins his second term with few checks to restrain his actions.

Term-limited and immune from accountability, Trump’s power is unprecedented

If Trump dismantles American democracy, Australia must answer a tough question.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Alyssa Healy gives Nitschke a spray after Australia won the 2023 T20 World Cup. This year they were knocked out in the semis.

‘They were picking on a kid … gutless’: The ultra-competitive woman behind our greatest sporting team

England were sledging a young Meg Lanning. The teammate who stepped in is now coaching Australia in a historic Ashes series.

  • Peter Hanlon

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