The World Today

The rapidly expanding business of trading in human breast milk is raising ethical and regulatory issues. Indian company NeoLacta was last year granted permission to start importing breast milk to Australia. Now, a breastfeeding researcher says breast milk cooperatives, rather than commercial players, may be the better option.

New research into the environmentally devastating cane toad has found the invader is adapting faster to Australian conditions than previously understood - regardless of whether those conditions are hot or cold. The research published by the Royal Society suggests cane toads may adapt more quickly to climate change than native animals, enabling them to conquer native habitats.

In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were finally returned from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in 2011. But experts say there are still thousands of remains and sacred objects still to be repatriated.

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It has traditionally been seen as one of the most stable countries in South East Asia, but Thailand is facing a period of uncertainty. With a new King, an entrenched military, and a territorial dispute near the Malaysia border, there is concern that Thailand could struggle to maintain its standing in the region.

Senior Liberal MPs have backed a speech given by the Prime Minister in London in which he pointed out Robert Menzies didn't want the party to be known as conservative. While observers have taken the speech as a thinly veiled swipe at Tony Abbott the MPs aren't conceding the point.

The son of US President, Donald Trump, is expected to testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee about his meeting with a Russian lawyer. Donald Trump Junior has admitted he met the lawyer last year, after she'd offered damaging information about Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton. News of the meeting has rocked the Trump administration - which is embroiled in allegations that the President's campaign team colluded with Russians in the lead up to last year's election.

In Iraq, the celebrations on the streets are continuing after the Prime Minister's overnight declaration of victory in the battle for Mosul. Haider al Abadi says the Islamic State is now a 'mythical' construct, and has described the win in Mosul as a 'triumph against darkness'. Today, the full scale of the destruction left from the nine-month street-fight against Islamic State is coming into sharper relief.

As the battle in west Mosul intensified, researchers from Amnesty International interviewed civilians who had fled. That has culminated in a report being released today, which sheds light on the scale of death, injury and suffering in the former ISIS stronghold.

Amber Harrison has been gagged from making a planned statement to the New South Wales Supreme Court as her legal battle with the Seven Network comes to an uneasy end. The former executive assistant who had an ill-fated affair with Seven West boss Tim Worner has been told that most of her submission won't be allowed.