History

News She was petite, beautiful and always smiling – but behind her ‘innocent’ face was a steely determination to carry out her brutal mission.

Business He’s behind one of the best-loved products on the planet. But $31.5 billion rich-lister Giovanni Ferrero could end up gambling it all.

News This bushfire season has far exceeded the worst expectations of firefighters, and the blazes have literally rewritten the definition of ‘worst case ­scenario’.

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News Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia’s destiny. But was he a reformer or a tyrant? Grantlee Kieza looks at the man behind the myth.

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News Indigenous Australians will welcome the return of sacred artefacts from a British museum after they were stolen more than a century ago.

News Never getting married could be the answer to living to a long age for Colin Fulford.