Quiet achiever gave away his fortune to the world
Before Bill Gates and Paul Ramsay there was duty-free empire boss Chuck Feeney who made billions and gave it away in his lifetime.
Before Bill Gates and Paul Ramsay there was duty-free empire boss Chuck Feeney who made billions and gave it away in his lifetime.
Unassuming researcher MS Swaminathan changed the way essential crops are grown across the world – and transformed economies.
Fifty years ago this week a coalition of Arab states, backed by Soviet Russia, attacked the Jewish homeland on its holiest day.
Zoleka Mandela was an alcoholic drug addict who lost two children – but she rose above it all to devote her life to helping others.
London’s print unions had paralysed newspapers and were happy for them to die off. Rupert Murdoch was not.
A 1981 killing in Savannah made Sonny Seiler famous and gave birth to the book and film Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil.
Isabel Crook, who led one of the most extraordinary lives of the 20th century working tirelessly to improve the lives of China’s rural poor, has died aged 107.
Two of Australia’s leading criminal defence barristers back the use of sodium pentothal to force convicted murderers to provide details on where they stashed their victims’ bodies.
Bevan Spencer von Einem knows many of Adelaide’s ghastly secrets, possibly going back to the Beaumonts, but he’s not talking.
The most difficult interview of Michael Parkinson’s long career in journalism was with a wordless Australian in the mid-70s.
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