Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Take Amazon: to fix Amazon, we need policy solutions. We need to ban predatory pricing – selling goods below cost to keep competitors out of the market (and then jacking…
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’
"A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells. The virus’s ability to conceal…
Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests
An Australian man who was detained upon arrival at Los Angeles airport and deported back to Melbourne says United States border officials told him it was due to his writing…
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in what Amnesty International has described…
Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed Muna were held overnight on charges of “violating public order” after the Educational Bookstore shops were ransacked. Images on social media showed piles of…
UK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data
Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
Simon never linked the pain in his hands and feet to multivitamins – but a pathology test did
When Simon Bogemann’s hand began cramping around the steering wheel in a claw position on his commute from Geelong to Melbourne, he began to worry. Bogemann, then 43, was also…
Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say
A devastating population collapse that decimated stone age farming communities across northern Europe 5,000 years ago may have been driven by an outbreak of the plague, according to research. The…
Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim…