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在中国，被判刑的罪犯的孩子在法律上不被认为是孤儿。他们被家庭和社会抛弃，常常在大街上流浪，直到像“晨露联盟”（Morning Tears）这样的慈善组织找到他们

They are the forgotten victims of crime, cast onto the mean streets of some of the world's biggest cities.

In China, the children of executed criminals do not legally qualify as orphans. Spurned by their families, abandoned by the state, these children languish in the streets — unless charities such as Morning Tears find ...

The economic threat of falling birth rates.

We are now in the middle of perhaps the greatest demographic change in recorded history.

Early Inheritance Syndrome is tearing families apart — and it’s about to get worse, with aged-care reforms putting the family home in the balance.

Two women wanted to marry — one Texan (no gay marriage there), the other Australian (nor there). So how did the British help them tie the knot in Cambodia (not allowed there, either), even before the UK vote this ...

Chasing their slice of China's raging appetite, tens of thousands of Africans traders are settling uneasily in the ghettoes of Guangzhou.

Parents are promised that drugs like Ritalin will improve their children’s grades, mood and social skills. One mother explains the choice she made when her son was diagnosed with ADHD.

A timeline of development along the ‘hungry mile’.

How many millions can Beckham squeeze out of a few more matches?

When kids think being smart is not part of their identity, they fail. One indigenous educator’s story of school transformation.

Do we want to live longer if it just means more old age?

As an amateur Shannon O’Connell could have been a contender — but the pressures of motherhood have forced her to turn pro in a last-ditch attempt to make a career out of boxing.

In photos and audio interviews, a look of who supports the new wave of cruising.

Hanan Angalo works as a cleaner at a western Sydney school. In another life, she was “Mama”, the wife of Commander Yousif Kuwa of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army.

A Nepalese doctor and some cheap but revolutionary cataract surgery have given sight to a hundred thousand blind people in some of the world’s poorest countries.

At your service in Burma, President Obama: former political detainees are giving each other — and their customers — a real lift, via the Golden Harp Taxi Service.

When Gough Whitlam launched his election campaign in Blacktown 40 years ago, a nervous young photographer waiting in the wings captured a defining image of the man who would be prime minister.

In 1975 Abel Guterres took a chance, leaving East Timor for Australia. Meet the former tram driver who became East Timor’s ambassador to Australia.

Jane Goodall left secretarial school, moved in with the chimps and revolutionised the conservation movement. At 78, her field work is different — and more urgent.

As an opera singer, Emma Slaytor sang in Carmen and performed on stage with Joan Sutherland. Then she became a litigator, specialising in medical defence work.

Fresh out of the joint, disgraced media baron Conrad Black is charging his way through an image rehab tour, insulting everyone in his path.

Riding jubilee mojo and royal romance, Prince Charles visits Australia, a country still ultimately ruled by Buckingham Palace. What will republicans do?

There are some 300 butlers in Australia. Here is how three more were added to the service.

By accident, choice or fate some of us transform our lives completely. Today, meet Xiao Tang Qin who was a concert violinist in Beijing and now plays for customers of his Sydney dumpling shop.

In the Philippines, religious devotion is taken to extremes.

Astronomers at an observatory in Chile are transforming our understanding of the universe.

Abdulwahab Tahhan, 24, spent his whole life in Aleppo. Last month, Abdul decided he had to see the war with his own eyes. This is what he saw.

Shady politicians and dodgy bankers sent Ireland reeling from foie gras to 14 per cent unemployment. But there’s no change to the low-down and dirty cash economy of the Ballinasloe Horse Fair.

Ten years ago, Jemaah Islamiah perpetrated the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesian — and Australian — history. The suicide bombing of Bali’s Sari Club killed 202 people, 88 of them Australian. This is the story ...

As dementia tugs at the mind, what happens to a life, a home, a loving relationship? Watch, read and listen to the stories of couples living through the long goodbye. We invite you to share your own stories, too.

Two Melbourne-born campaigners say there are 1.4 billion reasons we must bring the number of people living on less than USD1.25 a day to zero.

Doctors still struggle to give critically ill patients the bad news and the pros and cons of treatment options.

Unfinished Seseña is the backdrop for the Spanish economic rescue being dreamed up in the European Central Bank.

Driving away with a job well done viewed through a ute's rear-view mirror, tradies, and their pay, have become the envy of the job market.

In the Iran of the Ayatollahs, he was a Jew, a writer, a doctor performing abortions, and eventually, reluctantly, a spy.

Julian Assange's Australian lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, has shot to notoriety in cases where technology and freedom of speech intersect.

The activist philosopher John Ralston Saul traces how we in the West became Walmart societies, with lots of stuff and not much substance.

A soon-to-be published biography recalls how the west’s iron-ore was won — by Lang Hancock. But what if the facts were embellished long ago?

Up to a million Indonesian women go abroad to work each year, promised secure work and financial stability. Does the reality match up?

In rural Wilcannia, seeds of hope and civic pride are being planted by an unlikely influx of new settlers.

A tiny Spanish village saved itself by turning into Smurftown. The alternative was Colonel Gaddafi.

Afghan politician and women’s rights defender Fawzia Koofi explains why she’s running for her war-torn nation’s highest office.

An Aussie epidemiologist, Carlton fan, and light-skinned Aboriginal man considers the strands that make up his modern indigenous identity.

São Paulo recently set a record — nearly 300 km of roadway blocked at once. No wonder some Paulistas choose to chopper in to work.

When 2,000 hives are poisoned in one night, it stings. On the trail of the slaughter leaving police and beekeepers baffled.

In quiet suburban Sydney, Mazigh Buzakhar discovered what it meant to be an Amazigh. In Libya, he was jailed for it.

What if optimism were a curse? What if the pursuit of happiness just made us miserable?  Here, we lay out the case for thinking the worst about life.

Seven News blundered by removing the Facebook post of Molly Lord's bereaved mum. But the "death knock" is as old as journalism itself.

After shocking deaths delivered with one blow, how does a community rightly respond?

Our reporter went to Libya to meet — in person at last — some contacts who’d bravely spoken to her amid the chaos of Gaddafi's last weeks.

Bollywood film star Aamir Khan is shaking up India with a TV juggernaut that airs the dirty laundry of one billion people.

Racist? Offensive? Rabble-rouser? Writer and economist Thilo Sarrazin discomfits Germans with his blunt take on what he thinks ails them.

Mervyn Bishop framed one of the best-known images of Australian history. Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer talks about the iconic moment.

The Australian Sports Commission on December 6 awarded this story about runner Josh Ross the winner of Best Profiling of an Athlete, Team or Coach. Congratulations to writer Paul Connolly.

It was easy to dismiss Lang Hancock as an old rogue. A prospector with some mad ideas.  But he was brutal when politicians wouldn’t bend to his will.

Before he was a year old, Bob Morgan had experienced what it was like to go from the top to the bottom of society.

What was it like to have two mums — or four? Listen to some adult Australians who grew up with same-sex parents, share their family memories.

What do you do when your daughter disappears in a country where young women are frequently abducted and sold into the sex trade?

Forty years after the tragedy, photojournalist Russell McPhedran recalls how he shot the world-famous image of a terrorist at the 1972 Olympics.

The discipline of bodybuilding represents much more than pumped-up muscle for one African nation — better health, a fair go and a robust democracy.

Italian comic Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has won 25 per cent of the vote in Italy's national election — and the political establishment isn't laughing. How did Italy's Michael Moore come to lead the single ...

Drug companies are racing to break the Alzheimer’s code and reap the profits. But now there is a radically different approach to dementia care.

The homecoming story of a boy convicted of people-smuggling and held in a maximum-security prison.

France has just joined the UK and New Zealand in legislating for marriage equality. How long until same-sex Australians can marry, too? Check out the story of Arthur and John, a couple on a long campaign trail.

Talk, talk, talk radio. Studs Terkel listened. Now, 100 years since the Pulitzer Prize winner was born, people are still listening to him.

A rural doctor faced with a massive public health problem — kids going deaf from ear infections — finds solution in a box of fruit.

A Greek magazine journalist — who’d been part of the high life — gives a very personal account of her beloved country’s economic downfall.

Somali pirates hijack ships, don’t they? Now, they’re targeting beachfront tourists on the idyllic Kenyan island of Lamu.

When jurors can surreptitiously snoop online, what chance do courts have to control the rules of a fair trial?

For a small band of foreign stuntmen, Thailand offers a high-stakes tradeoff: physical danger for a shot at celebrity.

The winner of the Sydney Peace Prize is a Zimbabwean government minister almost beaten to death in 2007.

Lawyers for young Indonesian people smuggler, thought to be a minor, to ask for royal pardon as government announces a review.

Rupert Murdoch swore to tell the “whole truth and nothing but the truth” to a British media inquiry this week. Did he?

Australia’s commemoration of defeat is as elemental to Australians as our terrain.

Anders Behring Breivik's slaughter of 77 Norwegians seems to have inspired a provocative German clothing shop. Should it be banned?

As Europe’s economic crisis puts pressure on the cost of everything, the squeeze is creating a potentially explosive problem.

Male feminists in Afghanistan make their mark in a country where violence and discrimination against women haven't been a top priority.

How did an Indonesian who may have been just 13 years old when arrested, get sentenced to a maximum-security prison for adults in Western Australia? Channel 10's 'The Project' has been investigating.

Senator Bob Brown's resignation as leader of the Australian Greens shocked Australia. What now for the party?

When someone is charged with insulting Thailand’s monarchy, they often go down without a fight. One woman is standing her ground.

Gibraltar has a reputation for stability. Some would say dull. Looking in vain for action on The Rock.

A lost soul in banking, Bronnie Ware found her life’s meaning, before it was too late, when she started listening to the dying. She recorded their regrets and began living without her own.

The shooting of an unarmed black youth in America's South has reignited the volatile debate over race and justice in the United States.

Istanbul hasn’t just survived the financial crisis – it’s kicked Europe’s butt to the curb, confidently asserting what it means to be a 21st century Turk.

Life expectancy in Glasgow’s inner eastern neighbourhoods is the lowest in Britain. But while they live, they go to Paradise.

Talk of war on Iran is getting looser and louder, in both Israel and the US. Middle East diplomacy expert Vali Nasr puts that talk in perspective.

Welcome to the world of pato – a gentleman’s game with a history of violence.

A high level military and political exchange suggests pressure for new military heroes might spring from Australian navy supporters.

Commandoes help rescue the internationally feted director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina who faces corruption claims.

In one corner of Bali, both the deaf and hearing speak the same silent language.

Who knew Che Guevara was Irish? Not many Irish did, until a struggling hamlet in faraway County Clare figured out a way to make a buck from him.

Fast disappearing or casting itself anew? Changing times in one of the world’s most iconic neighbourhoods.

When George Clooney came to Sydney, the Nuba population had his eye. War is afoot again in southern Sudan: Australians are playing a role.

For the first time, researchers have assembled a nuanced portrait of the lives of women and girls in Australia’s biggest city.

Not every media mogul has a staff that hacks phones. One of England’s most admired moguls has a staff made up of people who are homeless.

Some 60 years ago, an Australian POW decided on revenge. This is the unexpected fallout.

What do Charlie Chaplin, 654 Australians, grey nomads, Henry Lawson and a winter crime wave have in common?

Meet Paul Staines, the maverick mischief-maker who revels in upending British political reporting.

The death of 43-year-old Middle East correspondent Anthony Shadid has devastated people all over the world.

Mitty Lee Brown died this week in Sri Lanka. It’s likely that this was her final interview.

Refugees from the wreckage of what once was Yugoslavia carry their memories delicately as they find a peaceful life in Australia.

Millions of law-abiding Brazilians live amid criminality in shantytowns. Now, 20 of Rio de Janeiro's 1,000 favelas have been “pacified”.

They fled the horrors of Cambodia’s genocide in search of a haven in the US. Now scores of Cambodian refugees are being sent back.

Manal al-Sharif talks about the day she drove a car in Saudi Arabia (the last place in the world women are forbidden from getting behind the wheel).

Argentina became the first country in Latin America to recognise same-sex marriage 18 months ago. The sky hasn't fallen in. So what's the hang-up?

Every New York writer — really, every New Yorker — has their own New York story. Here’s what the magnetic city looks like from one transplant’s view.

Malcolm Turnbull lost the leadership of the Liberal Party two years ago. Some think he'll be back.

Moving to a new country is hard at the best of times. But moving to a new country that's being rocked by continuous revolution? That's... interesting.