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Glenda Kwek is an AFP correspondent, Australia and former writer for the Business Day.

Firefighters have managed to control some of the fires in Australia.

Fire-hit Australia gets $1.4bn recovery fund as troops deployed

Firefighters joined by fresh teams from the US and Canada were taking advantage of rainy and cooler conditions to tackle out-of-control blazes

Millions of people in India’s capital started the week Monday choking through eye-burning smog, with schools closed, cars taken off the road and construction halted. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

Millions in Indian capital endure ‘eye-burning’ smog

A poisonous haze envelops New Delhi every winter, caused by vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from agricultural burning

Australia’s opposition is set to anoint Anthony Albanese as its new leader, hoping to win back the working class.(AFP)

Australia election stokes mistrust in opinion polls

Australia’s ruling Liberal-National coalition claimed a shock victory in Saturday’s election

New Zealand has about 1.5-million privately owned firearms. (Reuters/Jorge Silva)

New Zealand bans assault weapons within days of massacre

Initial public reaction was positive in the still-shocked country, where hundreds of people turned out for a second day for funerals in Christchurch

Women embrace near Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Reuters/Jorge Silva)

Tensions rise over burials of New Zealand shooting victims

New Zealand officials said at least one body would be returned Sunday night, and that all 50 should be back with their families by Wednesday

Australian banks admitted to failing customers and vowed to ‘reset’ their industry. (William West/AFP/Getty Images)

Inquiry refers scandal-hit Australian banks to watchdogs

The wide-ranging Royal Commission was called in late 2017 as public outrage mounted over allegations of dodgy financial advice

The 100 metres world record-holder scored his first two goals in professional football on Friday. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)

Bolt offered contract with Malta football club: reports

The 32-year-old previously tried out with clubs in Germany, South Africa and Norway to no avail

Professor Terry Hughes of James Cook University, who leads the surveys of bleached corals, cautioned that while some damaged coral regain their colour within several months, more badly damaged reefs can take a decade to recover. (AFP)

It’s not that bad! Science, tourism clash on Great Barrier Reef

Every year, more than two million snorkel-wielding tourists head to Australia’s famed coral ecosystem, generating revenues of $4.3-billion

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was sue​d for misleading investors by failing to disclose climate related risks in its 2016 annual report.

‘Judgment day’ looms for Australia’s scandal-hit banks

A decade ago the sector was lauded for emerging unscathed from the global financial crisis and avoiding the risky investments that doomed their peers

The 65-year-old Bert van Marwijk

‘He can achieve great things’ – van Marwijk gets Australia World Cup nod

The Dutchman, who took the Netherlands to the 2010 World Cup final, had been one of the leading foreign candidates to take on the coaching stint.

People whose relatives were aboard flight MH370 kneel and cry in front of the media near the Malaysian embassy in Beijing after they scuffled with police who stopped them from entering a road leading to the embassy.

Expert behind new MH370 search hopeful of find within a month

The search relies on a multitude of evidence and analysis that has allowed scientists over the past four years to zero in on likely crash sites.