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There are more than 10 missions to be moon slated to blast off in 2026, among the payloads carried by these missions will be an Australian-led project carrying seeds, whose ultimate aim is to grow fresh food on the moon. 

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children.The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance. Iraq’s parliament, which is dominated by a coalition of conservative Shia Muslim parties, is preparing to vote through an amendment that would overturn the country’s “personal status law”.

After Ukraine's surprise incursion into Kursk in August, troop movement suggest Russia is planning to re-take the territory. 

This year’s UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan will for the first time rally the technology industry to take on the climate emergency. COP29, which is being held in the capital Baku, will hold its first-ever Digitalisation Day with Artificial Intelligence and its growing impact on climate high on the agenda.

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Don Watson is one of Australia's most respected speech writers. He is most famous for his work his Paul Keating on the iconic 1992 Redfern Park speech.

Ronald Reagan is considered one of the most consequential presidents of post World War 2 America. The Hollywood actor-turned-politician ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics when he was elected President in 1980, serving for eight years. A new definitive biography called Reagan: His Life and Legend explores his trajectory, his setbacks and failures and his impressive achievements.

Cats and Dogs are reigning at the National Gallery of Victoria this month, with the opening of a new exhibition that features over 250 of cats and dogs from ancient history to the present day.

Israel has one of the highest fertility rates in the developed world thanks to a raft of pronatalist policies. Since October the 7th, another avenue for producing children has opened: the families of every fallen IDF soldier have been offered a procedure called post-mortem sperm retrieval.