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When an electoral officer helps police arrest a popular politician, her life begins to unravel. Her boss would spend more than a decade in prison, but she loses her job, and is even eventually admitted to a mental health institution. Now she’s asking: could he have been stopped earlier? Reporter Tynan King investigates.

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Since Michael Brosowski launched it 21 years ago, the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation in Vietnam has rescued around two-and-a-half thousand people who’d been trafficked into forced labour, brothels and more recently scamming operations.

In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French military, was falsely accused of selling secrets to Germany.  Over the next five years, Dreyfus languished in prison on Devil’s Island while his wife and brother waged a battle to clear his name that divided France and riveted the world. A new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair is focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.

There's been an unexpected intersection of AI ethics and a feud between rappers. It's happened in the latest outbreak of a long-running dispute between two of the biggest names in rap, Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

Bird flu or H5N1 has expanded its reach across new species and regions over the last 2 years and scientists are concerned about the implications of infections in dairy cows, seals, and humans. Australia is the only region not yet affected by the strain, but could it reach our shores if things continue on this trajectory?