By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
When a plane crashes, it’s natural to question just how safe flying really is. Here’s what the data shows – and why we often perceive the risk to be greater than it is.
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By Akwe Amosu
“I consider my birth home to be the Netherlands. ... But my chosen home in many ways used to be Hong Kong for many years until I no longer could be there.”
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025. The analysis underscores the urgent need to investigate the Israeli military for the war crimes of […] The post Satellite imagery reveals total razing of Khuza’a in May 2025 in further evidence of Israel’s wanton destruction and genocide in Gaza appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman walks among Taliban soldiers at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023. © 2023 Ali Khara/Reuters The United Nations special rapporteur on Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, reiterated in his latest report his call for states to establish a comprehensive mechanism to advance accountability in Afghanistan for grave past and ongoing rights abuses, particularly against women and girls.Bennett documents the many forms of discrimination that women and girls in Afghanistan face and their difficulty accessing justice and protection. He also…
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By Guido Carim Junior, Senior Lecturer in Aviation, Griffith University
An Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad in northwest India on Thursday afternoon local time, killing more than 260 people.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Flight AI171, was carrying 242 people bound for London. Only one passenger, a British man, survived.
The plane crashed less than a minute after takeoff, coming down…
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By Natasha Heap, Program Director for the Bachelor of Aviation, University of Southern Queensland
As history has shown, publicly speculating about a disaster when there is so little evidence available is more than just unhelpful.
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By Dana M Bergstrom, Honorary Senior Fellow in Ecology, University of Wollongong
When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put.
The existence of emperor penguins seems all but impossible. Their lives revolve around seasons, timing and access to “fast ice” – sea ice connected to the Antarctic coast. Here, the sea ice persists long enough into summer for the penguins to rear their chicks successfully.
But climate change is upending the penguins’ carefully tuned biological cycles. The crucial sea ice they depend on is melting too early, plunging…
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By Thomas Corben, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and Defence, University of Sydney
Trump may push Albanese on defence spending, but America needs its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific perhaps more than anywhere else in the world.
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By Keersten Fitzgerald, Lecturer in General Practice, University of Sydney
Melissa Kang, Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
We often use the word vagina to describe everything “down there”, but that’s not actually anatomically correct.
The vagina is the stretchy, muscular tube that connects the external genitalia, or vulva, to the cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus (womb).
Because it’s barely visible from the outside, many vagina owners wonder how long theirs is, or should be.
Worried teenagers going through puberty regularly asked “Dolly Doctor” – the medical…
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday.
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