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Uwe Neumahr’s The Writers’ Castle, translated by Jefferson Chase, is about the reporting of the Nuremberg war crimes trial in 1945-6. The title refers to a mock castle outside Nuremberg where most journalists lived and worked when not in the courtroom. (A number who didn’t get in wrote as if…

Consider this the opposite of a shopping list and stick to it for a clutter-free home post-holiday season

Rewilding is core to conservation efforts around the world. In Australia’s threatened but intact deserts, where do people fit in with the strategy?

FIVE Edinburgh-born women writers have been recognised with commemorative plaques and the donation of their books to 15 public libraries across the…

On the wooded hill above the Stan Terg lead and zinc mine in Kosovo, there is an old concrete diving platform looming over what was once an open-air swimming pool. Before the break-up of Yugoslavia, people who worked at the mine would bring their families here to swim, sunbathe on…

Twenty-seven native golden bandicoots have returned home to far north-west New South Wales, where they lived more than 100 years ago, until being wiped out in the region by rabbits, cats and foxes.

Meet the young couple living in one of the most remote areas in Australia, where the closest shops are a 12-hour drive away, all in the name of helping save our endangered animals.