The hypnotic spirals were discovered February 18 spread across Anderson Creek, a 200-metre-wide tributary of the Tennessee River in north Alabama.

The US stockmarket has so far digested a surge in Treasury yields, but some investors are worried that a continued ascent could prove more problematic.

US officials are being urged to throw their support behind the former finance minister Mathias Cormann for the OECD’s top job.

As the coronavirus upended life across the globe, jobs evaporated on a scale not seen in Australia for almost a century. Close to 900,000 jobs were lost between February and May. Wylie Miller was performing on a cruise ship when the pandemic plunged him into poverty.

The first comprehensive study of Indigenous water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin shows a “shockingly low” level of ownership, a legacy of ongoing dispossession.