They said it couldn’t be done. On Sunday not one but TWO runners completed the London marathon in under two hours. It's a feat of human endurance for sure, but what they were wearing on their feet also played a starring role. Australian and world champion marathon runner Robert De Castella reflects on far the technology has come.

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it's ever been with decades old nuclear disarmament treaties under pressure and world powers choosing force over diplomacy to get their way. Australian nuclear weapons expert Dr Emma Belcher says the world is on the verge of a new nuclear arms race .

Actor Lisa McCune, talks about her latest project, a stage revival of the Hollywood classic, Steel Magnolias.

Does the gamified footage we see of missile strikes and drone attacks lead to a detached view of what war is really like? This ANZAC day, soldiers who've lived the real fear and horror of the battlefield are angered by the sanitised imagery we are served up on our screens. 

Google’s former head of AI ethics, Margaret Mitchell explains why Silicon Valley’s claim that dangerous chatbot behaviour can be fixed by new guardrails just doesn't stack up.

Melbourne Opera is giving Don Giovanni a #MeToo makeover, shifting the focus from the casanova to the women who bring Don Giovanni to justice. So does this scoundrel from the eighteenth century still have lessons for us all today? 

Sting, the rock legend who fronted The Police, is now in Brisbane performing a musical he wrote based on his childhood experiences in a 1950s English, shipbuilding town. The Last Ship takes Sting back to the yard where his father and grandfather worked right up until it's last days. 

One of Australia’s leading experts on Motor Neurone Disease, Dr Dominic Rowe, discusses his new research revealing that if you live in Tasmania or South Australia, you have a higher chance of dying from this devastating disease which kills two Australians every day 

The high stakes, multi-million dollar Kyle and Jackie-O court case has a new twist. New radio figures show the pair’s explosive exit from the airwaves has barely shifted the ratings.

'A very dark day' — that’s how people living with disability are describing the cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme unveiled today. The government plans to kick at least 160,000 participants off the scheme, changes that will save billions, but at what cost to a cherished and life-saving social insurance project?  

The US President Donald Trump and his sons have already pocketed hundreds of millions from World Liberty Financial, but now there's signs that the cryptocurrency venture could be "on the brink of collapse". Who would have predicted that? 

It's one of Labor’s crowning achievements but the world leading National Disability Insurance Scheme has become unwieldy and unaffordable. As the government looks to find massive savings in next month's budget, where are the kindest cuts? Dr Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director with the Grattan Institute shares his ideas. 

Ten years ago Dr Kakenya Ntaiya shared a story of extraordinary bravery with the ABC. It set off a chain reaction of kindness and ambition to educate girls in Kenya. Now the charity it inspired - Women For Change - is celebrating its tenth birthday after helping thousands of African girls graduate University. 

Left in ruins after Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022, the Ukranian city of Mykolayiv was adopted by the nearby country of Denmark. Dymtro Tarasenko explains how this novel aid delivery scheme has brought the city and its people back to life. 

British PM Keir Starmer’s leadership is hanging by a thread after revelations that disgraced former British ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson failed a key security test even before he was dispatched to America. As he prepares to front the House of Commons, will Sir Keir survive this moment of peril?

In his latest books - ‘The Challenge of the Future’ and ‘For the People ’ British philosopher A.C. Grayling asks whether Artificial Intelligence will be a master or a servant for humanity.

For many people living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder life is a constant struggle. Medication can be life changing, but the number of adult Australians diagnosed with the condition in recent years has sky-rocketed, particularly in women under 40. Dr Norman Swan asks whether this is a sorely neglected mental health challenge or a social media generated crisis?  

A ceasefire has been declared in Lebanon as a fragile peace holds with Iran, is this enough to bring everyone back to the negotiating table? Former US diplomat Alan Eyre helped to broker the Obama era deal, he questions whether this administration is really in it for the long haul.

Acclaimed Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen lives with a voice in her head, it belongs to her great-aunt who lost her own voice after being raped by a soldier in the Red Army in 1944. Her story is the backdrop to Oksanen’s latest work, Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women, a searing account of the toxic misogyny that courses through modern Russia and its brutal war in Ukraine.    

The trombone is having a moment, thanks to a recently discovered 16th-Century German manuscript - inspiring an orchestral epic called ‘The Book of Miracles’. Hellen Vollam - Principal Trombone of the BBC Symphony Orchestra - was the first musician to bring this work to life.  

A former US fighter pilot could be sent back to the country of his birth after the Federal Court rejected his bid to avoid extradition. Dan Duggan, who’s now an Australian citizen, is accused of unlawfully training Chinese military pilots - an offence that carries a penalty of 65 years in prison. His lawyer Howard Adams says the Australian government has been waging a fight for his extradition on behalf of the US.

Scientists in Europe have issued a dire warning about one of the world’s most important ocean currents, saying their predictions about its possible collapse are looking more likely. It could mean bitterly cold winters and summer droughts in Europe and dramatically alter rainfall on the farmlands we rely on to feed us. UNSW professor of oceanography Matthew England says the slowdown or collapse of the amok current could see Australia experiencing prolonged La Niña weather cycles. 

 It’s taken years for Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi to find the words to talk about her time inside one of Tehran's most notorious prisons, Evin, but now she’s turned it into a film, Roya, screening at the Persian film festival. 

Against the backdrop of the Ukraine war, the asymmetric conflict in the Middle East and a volatile US administration Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles will tomorrow unveil the latest National Defence Strategy. Professor Ian Langford says there's an arms race underway across the world and its vital that Australia develops its own sovereign defence capabilities.    

Everybody’s a winner, and a loser it seems in a marathon case involving the mining wealth of Australia’s richest woman. A West Australian judge has found Gina Rinehart’s company must pay royalties to two rival mining dynasties from one of its valuable Pilbara iron ore projects - but the court dismissed other claims against Rinehart - including those brought by her children. 

His music is steeped in the soul of America's deep south, but it wasn’t until he left the US that blues maestro Eric Bibb found a kind of freedom.   

A blockade to end a blockade has begun in the Strait of Hormuz with the United States vowing to prevent ships coming to or from Iranian ports. According to military analysts the strategy could bring Iran back to the negotiating table but Al Jazeera Tehran correspondent Ali Hashem says the regime has shown a high tolerance for pain so far. 

Why has one of the world’s most powerful AI companies decided its latest model is too dangerous to release? Former cyber security chief Alastair McGibbon says Anthropic's new AI model poses a catastrophic risk to Australia's infrastructure if it gets into the wrong hands.  

Fiji is in the grip of a spiralling drug crisis, becoming a key transit point for vast quantities of methamphetamines and cocaine en route from Mexico to Australia. A special ABC investigation for Foreign Correspondent has found that the trade is fuelling drug addiction and spreading crime and HIV beyond Fiji.