White House teleprompter operator on unpaid leave after alleged bets on Trump speeches

Ofcom concerned TikTok’s age verification is ineffective, leaving some exposed to posts on suicide, self-harm and pornography. TikTok is under formal investigation over concerns…

NBC and CNN stayed away from White House speech, while Fox News, MS Now, CBS and some ABC affiliates aired it. The US’s largest television stations split on whether to air Donald…

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Adelaide-based Olympian was banned from driving for five years over Melissa Hoskins’ 2023 death. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates. Get our breaking news…

Boarding of M/T Wen Yao in Gulf of Oman comes as expanded airstrike campaign hits five bridges in southern Iran. American forces boarded a ship in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday as…

Australian government says it is ‘deeply frustrated’ and will continue to press for ‘real charges with teeth’ over deaths of Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles. Follow our…

Banner refers to Falkland Islands conflict in 1982. UK business secretary calls for Fifa investigation. The Argentina players celebrated their World Cup win over England with a…

Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39m. The data of millions of commuters was…

Country begins 42-day countdown to outbreak being declared officially over, as numbers continue to rise in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda has started…

State attorneys general from a dozen states, including California, New York and Washington, filed a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros.…

Thousands of people have been told to leave more than a million acres of wilderness as wildfires spread

Third round of arrests linked to independent bookshops widely regarded as clampdown on dissent in territory. Hong Kong authorities have raided two bookstores and arrested five…

Lettuce from one supplier is being removed indefinitely "out of an abundance of caution", the company says

Officials report power outages, attack on train station in Bandar, as Iran says Hormuz won't return to pre-war status

President Trump’s social media platform announced plans Thursday to sell Wall Street firms early access to its “most market-moving” posts. Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG), the…

Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed

Worse-than-expected figures for three months to June come amid concerns over lopsided economy. Business live – latest updates. China has posted worse-than-expected growth figures…

Apple said in a Friday lawsuit that OpenAI’s nascent hardware business is “rotten to its core.”

The UK has appropriated its last working steelworks following fears its former Chinese owners would shut it down

Neill died in Sydney on Monday, with his family saying his death was 'sudden and unexpected'

President Trump cast American elections as under siege Thursday night, describing a system riddled with vulnerabilities that hostile foreign actors and unauthorized immigrants are…

Nothing does more for your ego than realising you can make a better decision than a bot with all of human knowledge at its digital fingertips. I am not, by nature, an early…

Telstra outage hit ‘approximately 45%’ of calls and data, CEO tells Senate inquiry. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. Pauline Hanson has been called…

We got our first feline hero in 1971 when Matthew Flinders’ heartfelt tribute to his pet Trim was discovered. In 1872, the city of Melbourne hosted its first cat show one year…

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage. We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a…

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment. Every…

PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian data. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates.…

The lovefest from Musk’s conservative fans completely overlooks the unscrupulous tactics behind his immense wealth. For 12 glorious days in June, Elon Musk experienced something…

Around the world, climate-sceptic parties are exploiting floods and fires to make political capital. Without urgent changes, this deadly spiral will continue. Recent unprecedented…

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Woman in her 60s was riding on popular cycling trail in northern NSW when she ran over the two-metre-long eastern brown snake, one of the world’s most venomous. A woman in her 60s…

This live blog has been paused. The Lebanese foreign minister, Youssef Raggi, said Lebanon has made a decision to “end Hezbollah’s military presence” and that decisions on war and…

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health. Leer en español en Quinto…

As US water wars rage, a tributary of the Colorado River faces unprecedented pressure. Visitors worry how long this aquatic ‘relict’ will last. On an early morning in mid-May, a…

A layoff and a leap of faith convinced Katie Teixeira she had what it takes to run her own business. In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned…