Disasters don't respect borders, and China's strict control of Tibet could make them worse

Last week's disaster in the Himalayas did not respect borders, but information flows at a trickle between Nepal and China controlled Tibet and, critics like Dibyesh Anand, a professor of international relations at Westminster University, say has exposed a deeper problem when disaster strikes.More than seventy thousand hopeful African migrants swam to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in late July, spurred on by false rumours online of a new open door policy. Now Spain’s Prime Minister is accusing Israel and Russia of using the event for payback and to sow division in Europe. A major retrospective of Australia's most renowned artists, modernist Margaret Preston goes on show at the National Gallery of Victoria this Friday. Born in Adelaide in 1875, Margaret Preston helped to forge a uniquely Australian modernist style - with bold and distinctly coloured renderings of local landscapes, native flora and fauna. The exhibition's curator Beckett Rozentals lifts the veil on this collection.s.