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The F/A-18 Hornet under the Aperture in the Middle East Gallery, seen during a visit to view construction work of Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Wednesday 2 July

From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall

Engineering and architectural nous is behind the controversial expansion of the Australian War Memorial, which will include helicopters, armoured vehicles and an F/A-18A Hornet.

  • Julie Power

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How Australia became home to a million refugees

Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.

  • Brittany Busch
Hearty and hot… bun bo Hue.

Beyond pho: The other Vietnamese soup you need to try

Think of this as pho’s bolder cousin, with a heady mix of salty, spicy, sour, sweet and umami flavours.

  • Ben Groundwater
Image from a video showing people on a capsized tourist boat being rescued in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, on Saturday

‘Water gushed in’: Death toll revised to 35 after Vietnam tourist boat capsizes

Rescuers are bracing for the approach of Typhoon Wipha as they search for survivors after one of the worst boating accidents in the popular tourist area of Ha Long Bay in years.

  • Phuong Nguyen
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said some countries might be given a three-week extension to negotiate.

Whack-a-mole: Comparative advantage is being redefined by Trump’s trade war

It used to be that economies prospered if they could produce goods more efficiently than their competitors. Now, the competitiveness of their exports to the world’s largest economy will be dependent on the tariff the US imposes.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump fancies himself as the ultimate the dealmaker.

Trump’s foolish war on the world is a mess

Trump promised “90 deals in 90 days” in April. It’s proving far more difficult than he thought as the clock ticks down.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley and his mate, Ron “Butch” Swanton, died together in Vietnam in 1965. They have been honoured posthumously with the Medal for Gallantry.

Sixty years after they died together, two soldiers awarded for gallantry

Kevin Wheatley and Ron Swanton died together by a paddy field in Vietnam. Sixty years later, their acts of bravery have earned them Medals for Gallantry.

  • Tony Wright
Macron kisses his wife Brigitte on election day in 2017.

The Macrons have always shown a united front. Now we’ve had a glimpse behind the curtain

It was supposed to be a routine presidential visit. But as the doors of Emmanuel Macron’s plane opened we instead got a rare glimpse of a power couple’s extraordinary dynamic.

  • Susanna Galton
Macron-Brigitte face shove gif

Macron downplays video showing wife pushing his face away

The moment quickly made headlines in France, with media trying to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane.

  • John Leicester
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut (centre)  and Kim Phuc (left) holds the “Napalm Girl” photo in 2022.

‘Napalm Girl’ was in the photo. But who was behind the camera?

Questions about the credit for a famous photograph from the Vietnam War have divided the photojournalism community.

  • Benjamin Mullin

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