In the pursuit of his America First agenda, Donald Trump has thrown out the rule book on trade, international relations, respect for human rights and, as we've seen with the bombing of Iran, of lethal force against sovereign states.

Fifteen thousand strip searches are conducted in Australian prisons every month. But the contraband detection rate is less than 1 per cent, so why are we still subjecting people to this invasive and often traumatising practice?  

Since starting out in the 1980s, as one of Italy’s first hip-hop DJs remixing the sounds of Run DMC and the Beastie Boys, Italian superstar Jovanotti's sound has evolved through funk, rap, disco and world music.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts the war on Iran will be a gateway to peace and has laughed off suggestions that the war will drag on. The US is also insisting that it will be quick and decisive. But as gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE bearing the full force of Iran's retaliation, there's speculation they may be forced to end their long-held stance of neutrality.   

Elon Musk is backing a radical plan to move data centres into space using one million solar‑powered satellites. So is this the future of clean computing, or just another multi billion‑dollar moonshot with serious implications for climate change? 

In Italy he’s a musical superstar who's mobbed when he walks down the street, but here in Australia Jovonotti is enjoying his anonymity - that might change after his tour this month. 

Elon Musk is backing a radical plan to move data centres into space using up to one million solar‑powered satellites. So is this the future of clean computing, or just another multi billion‑dollar moonshot with serious implications for climate change? 

Iran is continuing to retaliate against it's gulf neighbours, firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and launching drones at states that have up until recently sought to mediate the tensions between the US, Israel and Iran. 

The strikes, which have landed on hotels, airports and critical infrastructure prompting anger and dismay. Now the Gulf Cooperation Council is reportedly weighing up a military response to Tehran's aggression.  

The deadly strike that killed Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday came without warning, reasoning or for that matter congressional consultation. While few will mourn the passing of Iran’s murderous dictator, his death and the deaths of dozens of his trusted lieutenants in the revolutionary guard  leaves an unpredictable and combustible void in a region that’s already paid a heavy price for previous American attempts at regime change. If there’s a plan for the day and months after or a clear rationale for why Saturday was the day to try and wipe out a 47 year old dictatorship, the Trump administration is yet to articulate it. 

Sustainable, livable, resilient; they're the buzzwords loved by urban planners, but they don’t describe the modern cities we are living in, which are increasingly shutting out all but the very rich. Eminent urban planner Alain Bertaud says the conventional wisdom of urban planning and regulation is failing and its time to let the market have more of a say.   

Iran’s supreme leader is dead - a transformative moment for the 90 million Iranians who have lived under his murderous theocracy - but powerful forces remain and they’re lashing out, sending drones and ballistic missiles across the region. Donald Trump is vowing to continue Operation Epic Fury, acknowledging it will cost American lives and he’s urging Iranians to seize this chance at freedom. But will this unarmed population be able rise up or will America and Israel’s great gamble plunge Iran and the broader region into deadly chaos? 

It's often assumed that careful planning and design are essential to getting the best outcomes for the people who live in our cities: better housing, better transport, better lives.

Another round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program have wound up in Geneva with mediators claiming ‘significant progress’ has been made. It's another reprieve for the regime’s leadership who’ve watched in recent weeks as the US has manoeuvred the largest military arsenal into the region since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But the exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, is urging th US to launch an attack.

When he launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said Kyiv would surrender within days. Few could have predicted that Ukraine would transform itself into a global drone powerhouse.

After blowing up their relationship with Netflix, Hannah Gadsby has gone down an even more unconventional path with their latest project.