From chess to a medical mystery: Great global reads from 2025 you may have missed
Underappreciated Global South stories cover childhood transitions, inheritance customs, children’s play amid crises, health-system responses to aid cuts and Ebola research, and India’s chess rise.
Australia increasingly alone' in countering China's influence in Pacific, aid report shows
Australia now provides 43% of Pacific official development finance, expanding aid and infrastructure lending as US and other Western donors cut funding.
Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
"So it has been eight days since both Dorcas and her mom, Theresa, took the last of their HIV medications. The change in routine has confused the little girl."