18-year-old Tommy Lamb has been on the road for over 100 days, making his way from Manchester in England through Europe and Asia in the hope of making the start of the third test in Adelaide.He's travelled 16,000 kilometres without taking a plane, relying on trains, buses, boats, motorbikes and hitch-hiking. Along the way he lost and found his passport, had a serious motorcycle accident and he's now stuck in Singapore looking for a boat ride.He has just one rule — to play cricket in every place he stops.
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Australia's biggest social experiment: a ban on social media for under-16s
Next week, Australia will become the first country in the world to ban social media accounts for users under 16, a rare bipartisan move, with both sides of government backing the legislation in an effort to curb the harmful impacts of social media on young people.Under the new rules, children under 16 will be barred from creating or maintaining accounts on platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, Threads, X, Kick and YouTube.How will it work, what parents, teens, and platforms need to know ahead of the ban.
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Governor-General Sam Mostyn "there is so much good in this country."
Sam Mostyn took up the role of being the Governor-General in Australia in July last year, and she’s only the second woman to perform the role. Nick Bryant caught up with Governor-General at her official Sydney residence, Admiralty House, to discuss her role at a time of polarisation, the importance of service, accusations that she is "woke" and how care has a deep and resonant place in our Australian identity.
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Mass prisoner release in Myanmar ahead of sham elections this month
Myanmar's late-December elections are unfolding in what UN rights officials describe as an atmosphere of fear, violence.Ahead of that poll, which has been widely dismissed as an attempt by the military junta to obtain legitimacy, the country has released and dropped charges against more than 8-thousand people, many of them political detainees.But there's no sign of freedom for any of the country's top democratic leadership, including the former leader Aung San Suu Chee.
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Military build-up off Venezuela as US security strategy pledges "lethal force to defeat drugs cartels"
The Trump administration has released an updated National Security Strategy, which warned, among other things, that Europe faced what it called "the stark prospect of civilisational erasure." The new strategy document also pledged to use "lethal force to defeat drugs cartels" which it said would replace the failed law enforcement-only strategy of the last several decades.It is the use of lethal force against alleged drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean that has dominated US politics this week.Meanwhile, the US military build-up off the coast of Venezuela continues, with more ships stationed there since the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s. What does all of this mean for the people of Venezuela?
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