Plus: The generation reshaping the Chinese Dream, and the science behind Tetris's defeat
| | | | | | | Hello. Today we take a look at nearly 900 pages of newly unsealed court documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his connections. More documents are expected to be released in the coming days. In China, correspondent Laura Bicker speaks to young people struggling to find jobs about their hopes for the future. After a teenager beat Tetris at its own game, a scientist explains how the seemingly impossible feat was achieved. And Down Under, Crown Prince Frederik's ascension to the Danish throne has been celebrated for giving the country as the first Australian-born Queen Consort, Princess Mary. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Epstein's ties to royalty, business, politics | | | | Prince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein. Credit: News syndication |
| | A first tranche of a much-hyped trove of court documents relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been released. The documents mention more than 100 people, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, in connection to Epstein, who was added to a sex offender registry after a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor and was later accused of sex trafficking involving underage girls. The inclusion of the names in the court documents does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing. Many names in the documents are mentioned in passing as part of various legal proceedings. There were no bombshell revelations, but the documents reveal some bizarre details, including Prince Andrew posing for a picture with a puppet bearing his image. Read about the high-profile people mentioned in the documents. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | AT THE SCENE | Beijing, China | | A new generation's Chinese Dream | | Recent graduates in China are struggling to find jobs, with more than one in five people between the ages of 16 and 24 listed as unemployed, according to the latest official figures published in August. The way this generation handles a future they did not prepare for will shape the fate of the country. | | | | Laura Bicker, China correspondent |
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| | At a recent jobs fair in Beijing, smooth-talking recruiters were mostly offering low-skilled jobs, such as assistants to sell insurance or medical equipment. "I think the difficulties are just temporary. People with real capabilities will find jobs," insisted a 25-year-old masters graduate who along with his partner had just moved back from Germany. "The world's future is in China," he said. Recent graduate Tianyu, who studied software engineering, seemed less sure of that. He said that although his skills were "hotly sought after", there were too many graduates with a similar resume. "So it's not easy to find a job." |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | Reopening a historical wound | | | | Relatives of the disappeared - those kidnapped by the military regime - want answers about their fate. Credit: Getty Images |
| | A proposed law in Uruguay would allow military officers who committed human rights abuses during the 1973-1985 dictatorship to serve out their sentences at home. The legislation has reopened a debate about accountability for the crimes committed by the military regime, which included taking babies away from women political detainees. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Tetris? Completed that | | A cognitive scientist on how a teenager achieved the "impossible". | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | The next King of Denmark's wife is the daughter of Scottish immigrants to Australia. Princess Mary, born Mary Donaldson in 1972 at a small hospital in the Tasmanian city of Hobart, will become the first ever Australian-born Queen Consort on 14 January, the date her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, formally succeeds his mother, Margrethe II. Here's the story of how a chance meeting at a pub in Sydney during the 2000 Olympic Games blossomed into a royal romance. |
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