The Global Story

The Global Story: Where the world meets America

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Can Apple cut ties with China?
Can Apple really end its made-in-China business model?
26 Dec 2025,27 mins
Is social media dead?
Is social media dead? Or is it just becoming something else?
25 Dec 2025,27 mins
The disgraced UK doctor behind autism misinformation
How a British doctor created the vaccine myth behind Trump's autism announcement.
24 Dec 2025,27 mins
Meeting settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank
Settler attacks in the West Bank have reached a record high, says the UN.
23 Dec 2025,26 mins
Is Trump looking for war with Venezuela?
As US-Venezuela tensions rise, we ask if President Trump is building a case for war.
22 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why K-beauty is everywhere
How South Korea became the world’s second-largest exporter of cosmetics.
19 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think
Australia reconsiders its gun control laws, following the Bondi Beach massacre.
18 Dec 2025,26 mins
What would it take for Putin to stop fighting in Ukraine?
President Trump says a Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’
17 Dec 2025,26 mins
The Bondi Beach massacre and the rise of antisemitic violence
Why some feared an attack like this was coming.
16 Dec 2025,27 mins
Why Trump’s Thailand-Cambodia peace deal unravelled
What happens when one of Trump's solved wars becomes unsolved?
15 Dec 2025,26 mins
The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law
12 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why the US says Europe is facing ‘civilisational erasure’
President Trump takes on the US’s traditional allies in a foreign policy upheaval
11 Dec 2025,26 mins
How Syria is rebuilding after the fall of a dictator
Since the Assad regime fell one year ago, how has life changed for Syrians?
10 Dec 2025,26 mins
Will a social media ban for Australian teens work?
The world’s first social media ban for under 16’s starts this week – will it succeed?
09 Dec 2025,26 mins
How the National Guard shooting accelerated Trump’s immigration crackdown
Trump has pledged to "permanently pause migration" from all "third world countries".
08 Dec 2025,26 mins
The Fifa-Trump bromance
Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport
05 Dec 2025,27 mins
How did a Chinese spiritual movement build a US media empire?
In the 1990s, followers of Falun Gong moved to the US and created the Epoch Times
04 Dec 2025,27 mins
Why has Trump pardoned Honduras’s drug trafficker ex-president?
Juan Orlando Hernández was jailed for helping smuggle cocaine into the US but is now free
03 Dec 2025,26 mins
The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
02 Dec 2025,26 mins
Whatever happened to Iran’s nuclear programme?
Six months on, what did the US and Israel's strikes on Iran actually achieve?
01 Dec 2025,27 mins
When popes get political
Will Pope Leo follow his predecessors in trying to influence global affairs?
28 Nov 2025,26 mins
Shein: How the fast fashion disruptor ran into real world problems
The inside story of Shein’s success, and the challenges it faces in its bid to go public
27 Nov 2025,26 mins
The international drama of Miss Universe
Miss Universe 2025 has been chaotic and scandalous - but will it win back viewers?
26 Nov 2025,26 mins
Can Trump’s Gaza plan turn a ceasefire into permanent peace?
Many sticking points remain unresolved in the US-led peace plan for Gaza.
25 Nov 2025,26 mins
The decision facing Zelensky
Ukraine’s dilemma: make concessions to Putin, or risk losing US support.
24 Nov 2025,26 mins
Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?
The US is skipping the G20 summit in South Africa over claims of ‘white genocide’
21 Nov 2025,31 mins
What is Sudan’s war really about?
Sudan's war has been described by the UN as “the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”
20 Nov 2025,26 mins
The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal
The true story of the man once described as ‘the high priest of the carbon club'
19 Nov 2025,26 mins
The Saudi prince's long road to rehabilitation
Can MBS reclaim his place on the world stage after global outrage of Khashoggi’s killing?
18 Nov 2025,26 mins
Is the world entering a new age of nuclear testing?
President Trump says US nuclear tests will take place "pretty soon"
17 Nov 2025,27 mins