The useful idiot of awards season has been around for 80 years now – but how have they survived so long?

Neither jail nor exile to Hong Kong has stopped Han Dongfang, a former Tiananmen Square protest leader, from championing workers’ rights. “If you’re born stubborn, you go everywhere stubborn.” ...

The raging bushfire has burnt through land the size of Singapore. But one tiny glimmer of hope was spotted from the sky. An Aussie shopper going about their business this morning claimed he came ...