Liana France has become the youngest female to represent Australia at a winter Paralympics, placing 15th in women’s giant slalom standing.

The US Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings after Pete Hegseth’s staff deem his photos “unflattering”. 

War overshadowed this week’s International Women’s Day, despite various events and activities hoping to ignore the global realities of escalating conflict, displacement, climate change and growing risks of gender-based violence on women and girls internationally.