AFL great dies using voluntary assisted dying laws

Australian Football League (AFL) player and coach Robert Walls has died aged 74, after using voluntary assisted dying laws. Walls – a Carlton Football Club legend – won three premierships with the team as a player and one as coach, and later became a media figure and pundit. He was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, … Read more

Georgetown academic freed from immigration detention

Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An … Read more

Why Delhi could not stop IMF bailout to Islamabad

Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News, London & Archana Shukla, BBC News, Mumbai BBC Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $1bn (£756m) bailout to Pakistan – a move that drew sharp disapproval from India as military hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours flared, before a … Read more