Taiwan has blamed China for what it calls "grey zone" warfare, which is designed to pressure the island without direct confrontation, and psychologically wear down locals ahead of an invasion.
The reforms of the 80s and 90s, often sentimentalised by people who weren't there, came about through a mixture of policy intelligence and political rat cunning.
Prosecutors in the Russian-controlled part of eastern Ukraine said the Melbourne teacher had been found guilty of participating in an armed conflict as a mercenary.
The case of a child sex offender who was on the run for three decades has led to revelations of links between paedophiles who worked at a Queensland Catholic school.
Some kids had never seen a puddle until the Millennium Drought broke. The decade-long dry spell sweeping Australia delivered more than cracked earth, it changed our relationship with water.
