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![Trees go up in flames outside Wade and Simone Horton's house near Kinglake on February 7, 2009. [ABC News] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201002/r509522_2747757.jpg "Trees go up in flames outside Wade and Simone Horton's house near Kinglake on February 7, 2009. [ABC News] (ABC)")
Black Saturday scars run deep
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Michael Vincent returns to Kinglake to find out how the community is recovering after Victoria's deadly Black Saturday fires.
![Two pensioners sit side by side on a park bench. [www.photoxpress.com: Julian May] (Unspecified)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201002/r508792_2738614.jpg "Two pensioners sit side by side on a park bench. [www.photoxpress.com: Julian May] (Unspecified)")
Australia's population predictions
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New figures show Australia will be forced to look overseas for more new citizens, as rising health and aged care costs threaten to drive the country into debt.
![More than 600,000 spectators watch the two weeks of Australian Open competition, in an event worth an estimated $US61 million to the country's economy. [Reuters] (Reuters)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201001/r503018_2670636.jpg "More than 600,000 spectators watch the two weeks of Australian Open competition, in an event worth an estimated $US61 million to the country's economy. [Reuters] (Reuters)")
Australian Open season
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The Australian Open attracts record crowds to Melbourne, in a competition described as the biggest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere.
![S'aoch village chief Mr Noi (left) and his son, Tuem are among a handful of people who are fluent in the 5,000 year old language. [Robert Carmichael] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201001/r501348_2652149.jpg "S'aoch village chief Mr Noi (left) and his son, Tuem are among a handful of people who are fluent in the 5,000 year old language. [Robert Carmichael] (ABC)")
Cambodia's endangered languages
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The future of Cambodia's local languages looks bleak with warnings 19 languages face extinction within the next 90 years
![Bollywood superstar and two-time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman from India takes in the view near the Sydney Opera House on January 14, 2010. Rahman will perform as part of the 34th Sydney Festival on January 16 to promote cultural harmony and understanding with the Indian community. [AFP] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201001/r498507_2622568.jpg "Bollywood superstar and two-time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman from India takes in the view near the Sydney Opera House on January 14, 2010. Rahman will perform as part of the 34th Sydney Festival on January 16 to promote cultural harmony and understanding with the Indian community. [AFP] (ABC)")
'Jai Ho!' diplomacy
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Tens of thousands of Australians packed out a free concert held by Indian musician AR Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer for the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
![Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, home to the 4,000-strong 1st Marine aircraft wing, is located right in the heart of the city of 90,000 people. [AFP] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201001/r497735_2614359.jpg "Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, home to the 4,000-strong 1st Marine aircraft wing, is located right in the heart of the city of 90,000 people. [AFP] (ABC)")
Base strains US-Japan relations
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The future of a United States military base in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa is creating tensions in the Japan-US relationship, and confusion in Guam.
![A placard at candle lit vigil in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where Indian student Nitin Garg was fatally stabbed. [AFP] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201001/r495501_2590986.jpg "A placard at candle lit vigil in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where Indian student Nitin Garg was fatally stabbed. [AFP] (ABC)")
Australia losing appeal
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As Australia works to repair its reputation as an education destination, new figures show student visa applications from India have fallen by 46 per cent.
![Builder works on post-tsunami construction at a refugee camp in Aceh. [Reuters] (Reuters)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r491247_2550524.jpg "Builder works on post-tsunami construction at a refugee camp in Aceh. [Reuters] (Reuters)")
Lasting ripples
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The sheer scale of suffering from the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 - which continues today - has forced new considerations for delivering aid.
![Young Muslim women walk near the Baiturrahman grand mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in September. [Reuters/Tarmizy Harva] (Reuters)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r490840_2546880.jpg "Young Muslim women walk near the Baiturrahman grand mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in September. [Reuters/Tarmizy Harva] (Reuters)")
Casting the stone
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Human rights groups in Indonesia are calling for intervention to stop a law that would see adulterers stoned to death in Aceh.
![Watery border. A fishing dinghy is moored by the shore of the Torres Strait island of Boigu, at the frontier between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [Australia Network: Jeff Waters] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r488099_2519170.jpg "Watery border. A fishing dinghy is moored by the shore of the Torres Strait island of Boigu, at the frontier between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [Australia Network: Jeff Waters] (ABC)")
Wide open frontier
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There are claims Australia's northermost border, fronting Torres Strait, is underprotected and 'porous'.
![A king tide breaches a sea wall on Saibai Island, Torres Strait Islands. [ABC] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r483123_2470503.jpg "A king tide breaches a sea wall on Saibai Island, Torres Strait Islands. [ABC] (ABC)")
Australia's sinking islands
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Residents of Australia's Torres Strait Islands say their pleas for climate change aid are going unheeded by the Federal Government.
![Developed countries also want to see strong commitments from two of the world's major polluters - China and India. [Reuters] (Reuters)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r480740_2447005.jpg "Developed countries also want to see strong commitments from two of the world's major polluters - China and India. [Reuters] (Reuters)")
China, India and climate change
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Pressure is mounting on both China and India to make strong commitments at Copenhagen, but just what will be expected of them is still to be hammered out
![Business leaders are divided on whether the ETS should have been passed, or further amended. [AAP] (AAP)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r480025_2439162.jpg "Business leaders are divided on whether the ETS should have been passed, or further amended. [AAP] (AAP)")
The economics of climate change
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As the political wrangling over Australia's emissions reduction scheme continues, many analysts argue that an ETS is too complex, ineffective and open to fraud.
![The Kyoto protocol, initially adopted in 1997, committed industrialised countries to cutting their emissions by 5 per cent from 1990 levels by 2012.[AFP] (AFP)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r479317_2432014.jpg "The Kyoto protocol, initially adopted in 1997, committed industrialised countries to cutting their emissions by 5 per cent from 1990 levels by 2012.[AFP] (AFP)")
A history of climate change
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Scientific evidence for man-made global warming began mounting in the 1980s, but the story from there is anything but simple.
![According to the research, the Arctic may be ice-free by the summer of 2030. [AFP] (ABC)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200911/r476036_2400881.jpg "According to the research, the Arctic may be ice-free by the summer of 2030. [AFP] (ABC)")
Climate change forecast
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An international panel of scientists studying climate data have found that some indicators show climate change is occurring faster than expected.
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