She’s lauded as a trailblazer for being Italy’s first female prime minister, but in her youth she also praised Mussolini. As the Take Me to Your Leader podcast finds out, the answer is not so simple.

Mohammed bin Salman has been described as one of the world’s most dangerous millennials. He’s also been touted by some as Saudi Arabia’s progressive reformer. Who is Crown Prince Salman or MBS as he is commonly know?

Vladimir Putin grew up in "brute, almost Darwinian conditions". But his skills as a master manipulator would take him far.

If North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un meets an untimely end, these experts say there's one clear successor.

There's a body buried in the grounds of Windsor Castle whose real home is thousands of miles away. Since 2007, there have been calls for Prince Alamayu’s remains to be returned to Ethiopia.
 

From Indigenous culture to colonial times to modern celebrities, there's plenty to learn from and to celebrate in the long history of trans and gender diverse people.

What started off as a casually recorded folk song became a foundational entry in the Australian songbook.

The Federal Court has confirmed native title over more than 40,000 square kilometres of sea country in the Torres Strait region. 

While Jenny was trying hard to be a good Christian, she was hiding a secret shame — one that can be traced back to biblical times.

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.