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Food allergies, particularly in children, can be inconvenient and distressing. And global trends show that allergies differ country to country – with peanut allergies being more common in Australia, the UK and the US, and less common in Asia. Jane Lee speaks to Jennifer Koplin, an associate professor from the University of Queensland, about how factors such as genetics, migration and pets in the home are contributing to our growing understanding of food allergies in children

Donald Trump and Joe Biden took to the debate stage in Atlanta, Georgia for their first head-to-head of this year’s presidential election campaign. Jonathan Freedland and Nikki McCann Ramirez of Rolling Stone look at who did better on the night Biden struggles to land lines as Trump lies in first presidential debate

More than 20 years after Amber Haigh’s disappearance, two people stand accused of her murder – one of them the father of her child. Both have pleaded not guilty. Bridie Jabour speaks to Ben Doherty, who’s reporting on the trial. They discuss what we learnt about Amber Haigh’s life, the prosecution’s case against a married couple, and the defence’s counterargument that the case against them is weak and based on degraded memories from disapproving members of the community.

Australia is about to become the first country to ban the sale of vapes outside pharmacies. But the so-called ‘world-leading’ laws came after Labor compromised in a deal with the anti-prohibition Greens. Bridie Jabour speaks to deputy editor Patrick Keneally and the head of news, Mike Ticher, about getting the balance right on vaping reform

Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission will soon wind up its formal hearings, with its final recommendations to the state government due next year. As a number of other states plan their own truth-telling processes, Yoorrook’s chair, Wamba Wamba and Wergaia elder Prof Eleanor Bourke, speaks to Jane Lee about how the conversation on Indigenous Australians is changing, and the value of truth-telling

Julian Assange has been released from a British prison to seal a US plea deal. The WikiLeaks founder is due to be sentenced at a hearing on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, before returning home to Australian soil. Foreign affairs and defence correspondent Daniel Hurst tells Nour Haydar what led up to the release and what happens now