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Ebola has now now spread to Goma – a city of 2m people.
The US hit the debt ceiling in March and is expected to run out of ways to get around the new $22 trillion limit by September. An economist explains why the ceiling is a dysfunctional relic.
Western civilisation and Islam are sometimes seen as diametrically opposed. Yet Islamic cultures have contributed much to the West, in language, philosophy and literature.
Cold water shock explained.
Sjögren’s syndrome has no cure. Here's how it affects the body and what the future might bring for people with this challenging autoimmune disease.
India heads to the polls in April and May for the world's biggest democratic exercise. Why the world should be watching this election.
Legally, a person can obstruct justice even if he committed no other crime – though it is harder to prove. It all depends on the intent behind pressuring investigators, say, or firing an FBI director.
India and Pakistan have been fighting for control over Kashmir, an 86,000-square-mile territory in the Himalayas, for seven decades. But the people of Kashmir have their own political goals too.
The term initially focussed on the intersection between race and gender, but more recent uses have extended to include
sexuality, gender diversity and disability.
Murray Valley encephalitis virus is a rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus. Here's what you need to know about it.
But questions remain on how well a scheme to provide victims with information about abusive partners is working.
Ministers were found in contempt of parliament on December 4 for not publishing the full legal advice on the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Irritable bowel syndrome causes abdominal pain and constipation or diarrhoea. These symptoms overlap with other disorders, so it's important to get the correct diagnosis and then the best treatments.
What role do EU institutions and the parliaments of 27 member states have in agreeing the next steps of the Brexit process.
Born into late-16th century Papal Rome, Gentileschi transcended the path of utter obscurity that was the lot of her female peers to become one of the most famous painters of the day.
There is still a lot of misunderstanding about what being transgender means and how it relates to drag.
The Romantics - including poets William Blake and William Wordsworth - lived in the 18th century, but their passionate ideas about imagination and nature are still influential today.
Tasmania's Aboriginal languages were decimated during the state's colonial violence. But members of the original community have reconstructed a language, palawa kani, which is now being used more widely.
Tongue-ties are used in Australian horse racing but are banned in most other horse sports.
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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
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Departmental Lecturer in Law and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Professor of Dermatology, University of Melbourne
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Merlin Crossley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW
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Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
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Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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