A week on from the deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet the search continues for more than four thousand missing people including 38 Australians. The focus has shifted to retrieving and identifying the hundreds of bodies and body parts that have been washed downstream, but hope remains with officials today saying  there’s a good chance that 46 people could be alive, in a chamber in an underground hydro-electric plant. ABC correspondent Natalie Whiting has been visiting the devastated district of Chitwan. 

Settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank reach unprecedented levels, and hundreds of former Israeli security chiefs have written to the US president Donald Trump pleading with him to intervene. Former brigadier general Ephraim Sneh describes the violence as 'ethnic cleansing'.

Science communicator Vanessa Fuchs just LOVES plants, her latest book What the Flora? is an epic tale of evolution and the ingenuity of plants, and a timely reminder that our survival is deeply intertwined with theirs. 

Last week's disaster in the Himalayas did not respect borders, but information flows at a trickle between Nepal and China controlled Tibet and, critics like Dibyesh Anand, a professor of international relations at Westminster University, say has exposed a deeper problem when disaster strikes.

More than seventy thousand hopeful African migrants swam to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in late July, spurred on by false rumours online of a new open door policy. Now Spain’s Prime Minister is accusing Israel and Russia of using the event for payback and to sow division in Europe. 

A major retrospective of Australia's most renowned artists, modernist Margaret Preston goes on show at the National Gallery of Victoria this Friday. Born in Adelaide in 1875, Margaret Preston helped to forge a uniquely Australian modernist style - with bold and distinctly coloured renderings of local landscapes, native flora and fauna. The exhibition's curator Beckett Rozentals lifts the veil on this collection.s. 

It’s D-Day for the collapsed New South Wales developer Bathla, which needs $20 million in cash to get to the end of the week, if not, the major property developer will be liquidated and with it, the dreams of hundreds of buyers who paid deposits for new apartments. AFR associate editor Primrose Riordan says the next few days will be critical.   

The 2026 northern summer has driven home the reality of climate change in terrifying and deadly fashion; from the blistering heatwaves that gripped Great Britain like a vice for days on end, to the infernos that engulfed Europe’s holiday coasts and now of course, the catastrophic flash flooding in Nepal, which according to  scientists was triggered by a glacial melt and subsequent collapse. Paul Behrens British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford says it's not the new normal but the new abnormal. 

When the titans of Silicon Valley first spouted their ‘move fast and break things’ mantra they were hailed as heroes but little did we know it was democracy itself that they wanted to smash and replace with their own network states, their own laws and in their own image. That's the thesis of a new book called The Nerd Reich by journalist Gil Duran.

The number of missing people in Nepal has risen sharply to more than 4,000, with least 900 confirmed dead. We speak to John Torpey who's leading the emergency response for World Central Kitchen. 

Computers powered by human brain organoids, grown from skin, blood or hair. That's the vision of a Dr Brett Kagan, chief scientist and CEO at Cortical Labs a Melbourne based company which claims to have developed the world’s first biological data centre, replacing silicon chips with human tissue.  

And Sanjeev Gupta was dubbed 'The Saviour of Steel' when he swooped into the South Australian town of Whyalla in 2017, offering a billion dollar lifeline and a grand vision for the future of green-steel. But as former ABC presenter Paul Barry details in his new book, The Big Steal, that appears to have been a mirage. 

The Chair of Universities Australia, Professor Carolyn Evans has spoken out this week about her concerns over creeping government regulation and how populist backlash over issues like migration is already harming higher education. 

For this week's edition of 'The Diplomats' Tracey spoke to one of the world's foremost most experienced and respected hostage negotiators, Suzanne Williams.

For six decades Ghanaian cameraman Chris Hesse toiled in obscurity amassing a visual record of Africa’s painful journey to independence. The precious reels have been used in a new documentary Eyes Of Ghana, debuting at the Africa Film Festival Australia. Tracey spoke to the films producer, Anita Ofanu.

Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us. 

A quarter of a century ago, hundreds of refugees were rescued from a small fishing boat adrift in the Indian Ocean and taken aboard the Norwegian freighter the MV Tampa. The stand-off that followed up-ended decades of refugee policy and crystallised a political mantra embraced by governments across the world: ‘stop the boats’. Abbas Nazari was a small child on that ill-fated voyage, Australia refused to take him and his family but they started a new life in New Zealand where he went on to become a Fulbright scholar.

They can run, dance and box but the robots on show at the World Humanoid Games in Beijing aren’t just there for our entertainment, they point to a future in which machines that look like us are indispensable to our lives. Michael Milford is a professor and director of the robotics centre at Queensland University of Technology and has been watching the advancements on show in Beijing closely.

Dolly Parton wrote over 3,000 songs during her seven decade career, but her gift and passion for storytelling extended well beyond the stage. Because of her, 3 million children around the world and 50 thousand here in Australia receive a book in the mail every month. 

One Nation voters say Australia is on the wrong track and immigration is to blame. The Labor government would rather we look the other way, but fresh polling says  both major parties are bleeding votes over the issue. 

It’s been ten years since Myanmar’s military launched a murderous campaign to expel the country’s Rohingya minority forcing more than seven-hundred thousand people to flee the country. Fayazul Islam was just 11-years old when he escaped this horror. Now 20, he works as a photographer documenting his life and that of fellow Rohingya living in the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. 

Author and podcaster Jon Ronson has a knack for sniffing out a bizarre story, his latest began when his son was lured to a mock gothic castle in suburban Connecticut and invited to participate in a reality tv series called Princesses 101. What followed was definitely not a fairytale. 

When teenage boys are accused of sexually assaulting their peers we’re horrified and wonder why and how? But in Australia now, boys are more likely to commit these crimes against their peers than adult men. Global consent advocate Chanel Contos says their sense of entitlement is part of the problem. 

Israel is accused of feeding Large Language Models propaganda in a bid to influence the response produced by chatbots to questions about their war in Gaza. Politico journalist Jacob Wendler says the information is being used to prepare briefs for US lawmakers.

Airports are the backdrop to monumental beginnings and sometimes tragic endings - life, death, adventure and romance - taking flight or coming into land all day long. That’s the premise of a new SBS series, The Airport Chaplain starring beloved Aussie actor Hugo Weaving and inspired by the real-life airport chaplain Martyn Scrimshaw.

Tracey Holmes brings you compelling conversations with some of the most interesting people from around the world, on the issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.