Matt Bevan

During its time in office, the UK Conservative Party was chaotic, inept and hubristic. But, if it was bad, the Labour Party's infighting might have been even worse.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spent years fighting to send asylum seekers to an offshore detention facility. Not only has the plan failed, it's likely to help sweep his government out of office.

The NHS was woefully unprepared when the pandemic arrived. Will this damn the Conservative Party when voters go to the polls in a few days?

US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump conclude their debate in Atlanta, Georgia — and pundits are united in their view that it was a bad night for the president. Take a look back at how the debate unfolded.

David Cameron took a colossal gamble on Brexit and lost. What followed was years of political chaos and division. With a general election approaching next month, did Brexit break Britain?

When the Conservatives took power in Britain 14 years ago, they took a butcher's knife to budget spending. It was designed to save the country, but did it break it instead?

Spending on domestic violence prevention in this year's budget was dwarfed by funds apportioned for fighting terrorism. Is it time to change our approach?

Michael Cohen was once Trump's personal attorney and said he would "take a bullet" for his boss, so what happened to make him flip?

In 1974, two French doctors were called to the Iranian capital, Tehran. The doctors — specialists in blood diseases — had been asked to assess a government minister with cancer, but the appointment was odd.

China's pandas are not just pandas. They're diplomats. You're friendly to China? You get a panda. You criticise China? You get no pandas.

Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea's primary form of foreign currency income.

Benjamin Netanyahu's brother once led a team that rescued 102 hostages and created a legend. It gave Israel a reputation for getting hostages back no matter what, but can they pull it off this time?

How did Ahmed Yassin go from a spiritual leader running a charity, to the co-founder of the ferocious political and paramilitary group Hamas?

In 2021, a doctor and pastor met with his friends in Florida allegedly to arrange the overthrow of the Haitian president. Now Kenya is being sent in to help a country plunged into chaos.

On the evening of Friday, September 16, 2022, Elon Musk was stressed. He was being asked to make a decision that he thought would change the fate of the war in Ukraine.

When Robert Goddard thought he'd figured out how to get humans into space in 1920, the press called his ideas "absurd". Now, his ideas about rocket propulsion will help us create a petrol station on the Moon.

How did Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk become the proprietor of one of the most in-demand products in the world?

When David Attenborough was touring China in 1979, he asked a question about population control. Transcripts show it was one of the first mentions of the One Child Policy to Western media.

The world's attention is on Ukraine, but a wave of coups in West Africa could lead to all out war between Russia and the West.

The best microchips in the world are made by TSMC. How did it become so important?

How did a country, once among the wealthiest in the world and uncomfortably similar to Australia, totally lose control of its economy?

Donald Trump has been charged after trying and failing to delete CCTV evidence of farcical and allegedly criminal behaviour. How was he brought undone by a bunch of boxes?

One of the top leaders in the Russian Army, Sergei Surovikin, has not been seen since the mutiny against the Kremlin last month. At first it seems odd, but it turns out General Surovikin is not who he seems.

Ten elite army and navy personnel on board an Australian Army MRH-90 Taipan helicopter are rescued from the water after the chopper ditches in Jervis Bay, after a "textbook response" to a loss of power.

Today's climate experts were in awe when the ABC played them quotes from one man in the early 1970s on the climate crisis and how it could be averted.