Making sense of 2024

He's more ruthless than his father and more chilling than his grandfather, and his regime has been called a "model dictatorship". Meet North Korea's reclusive Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, and enter his world of missiles, murders, oppression and secrecy.

Journalist Jonathan Swan, who has been covering Trump for close to a decade, warns that the soon-to-be US president has been emboldened to take more risk — and little stands in his way this time.

One year on, Alyawarre woman and advocate Pat Anderson reflects on the vote against constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and The Voice to Parliament.

Believed to be the mastermind behind the October 7 attack on southern Israel, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza in October 2024. So who was he and how did he rise to power?

The former chief economic advisor to Bill Clinton and head of the World Bank delves into American populism and its roots in wealth inequality.

Russia's war on Ukraine is a breeding ground for testing new weapons, but are we in Australia prepared for any of this? And do we need to be?

He's leader for life, his word is final in the highly factionalised theocratic regime of Iran, and his influence extends across the flashpoints of the Middle East. Yet we know almost nothing about the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers touched a nerve when he suggested Australians should start having more kids, but does he actually have a point?

Team Australia returned home from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a record haul of medals. Some say a change in coaching regimes helped propel our athletes to success.

Swapping screen time for "real time" is the mission of a new popular club in the Netherlands. The Offline Club puts on events in cafes, churches and town halls, where people pay to leave mobile phones at the door.