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Charles Leclerc (Scuderia Ferrari) qualified third on the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, alongside pole position qualifier Lando Norris and second-placed qualifier Oscar Piastri, both of McLaren.

‘It’s Piastri v Norris’ for the F1 title – and the Australian just pulled further ahead

Australian Oscar Piastri extended his lead over McLaren teammate Lando Norris with victory from second on the grid in a rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix.

  • Hannah Kennelly

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Several countries have been trying to regulate children’s access to social media in some way, not always successfully.

What other countries do to control children’s social media access

Australia will now have a ban. Some other countries also have regulations, but huge numbers of their children have social media accounts.

  • Charlotte Van Campenhout and Terje Solsvik
Sydney couple, Anjelika Elliott holds her husband Dr John Elliott’s hands as he attempts to rise from his hotel room bed in Zurich 26 hours before going to the Dignitas clinic where he ended his life in 2007.

The legal status of assisted dying around the world

A number of countries have recently passed or introduced laws to permit a form of euthanasia for people who meet certain criteria. Here’s a list.

  • Sarah Young
Okahirongo Elephant Lodge, Purros.

Ten of the world’s greatest immersive travel experiences

If you like to get under the skin of a destination – with a few indulgences to boot – then these extraordinary global experiences are for you.

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Who is watching who? Rene Magritte’s The False Mirror (1929).

Surrealist master heads to Australia for a summer of blockbusters

The first retrospective of Belgian artist Rene Magritte ever held in Australia is coming to the Art Gallery of NSW in October.

  • Linda Morris
Flanders.

I thought this place would be boring. Instead, it reduced me to tears

When I saw a day roaming a World War I site on the itinerary, the word ‘boring’ came to mind. Now I think every Australian needs to visit it.

  • Julietta Jameson
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Singapore Airlines has recommenced flying to Brussels.

Singapore Airlines resumes alternative Europe route after 20 years

The move offers an alternative entry point into north-western Europe to the busier, bigger Amsterdam and Paris airports.

  • Julietta Jameson
Australian troops on the way to take up a front-line position in the ruins of Ypres.

In war, the horror is the only thing you can believe

Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past, and remains alien to current wars.

  • Tony Wright
Carl Johnson and Lambis Englezos at the grave of J. Collier, whose war memorial headstone was removed a replaced with a tin plaque.

When the graves of our war dead were desecrated – to save the government money

Australia has always honoured its war dead. But what of the thousands of unmarked graves in Australia of soldiers who brought home their war wounds?

  • Tony Wright
British Union flags, also known as Union Jacks, fly against a backdrop of offshore wind turbines off the coast in Clacton On Sea, England.

Britain forced to import $5 billion of electricity from Europe

Electricity was brought in via the growing network of interconnector cables designed to boost the collective resilience and energy security of neighbouring countries.

  • Jonathan Leake

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