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Pakistan
SUMMARY: The Taliban have virtually taken over the North Western Frontier Province - the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
There has been an influx of jihadists entering Pakistan, making it a more popular destination for extremists than Iraq. And the 100 day old government in Islamabad, seems already paralysed.
Not so super
SUMMARY: The reality of what the global sharemarket downturn means to you and I is about to be spelled out in no uncertain terms.
Australia´s 10 million odd workers will soon start receiving their superannuation annual statements, documents that in recent years have trumpeted consistent double digit returns.
Yet in the financial year just ended we should prepare ourselves for negative returns, in excess of minus 10 percent in some cases.
But could this gloomy forecast might have a silver lining.
After years of excess a bad year like this could provoke us into better engaging with our superannuation - thinking more about the returns we get, who´s managing our money and importantly how much they´re charging us for the privilege?
Does the Murray-Darling have a future?
SUMMARY: There´s been more bad news on the state of the once mighty Murray-Darling.
Last week the Murray-Darling Basin Commission announced that last month´s inflows were the lowest on record for the month of June.
The federal government says it will spend billions on new projects, but unless the big dry breaks, is there much that can really be done to enliven the Murray Darling?
Lebanon
SUMMARY: Thousands in Lebanon have attended the funerals of eight Hezbollah militants returned to Lebanon from Israel.
Is this militant group going from strength to strength or is there a tendency to overstate their influence?
Chasing the Pope
SUMMARY: It´s World Youth Day, and depending on who you ask, anything between 125 thousand and six trillion catholics are in Sydney.
Catholics are close to a sixth of the world´s population and they form the largest religious grouping in Australia.
Paradoxically charting their progress this week, Australia´s smallest group - or close to it - the Chaser team from ABC TV
Film with Jason Di Rosso
SUMMARY: Jason reviews 'The Dark Knight' - the new Batman movie with Heath Ledger playing The Joker.
He also takes a look at 'Salute' - a documentary on Australian sprinter Peter Norman, the white man in the iconic Black Power salute image from the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
