Family day care shrinks as parents opt for centre-based care
Researchers are concerned family day care services might disappear in Australia as educators leave the sector feeling…
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Veterans sue government over 'mass and routine' medical data sharing
A new class action will allege the federal government breach privacy laws by sharing thousands of ex-ADF members'…
Read at source →Singapore launches new dating app — but not everyone qualifies
FirstDate is exclusively for public servants and comes as fertility and marriage rates fall in the city-state. Will it…
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Once a home for handmade, artists say Etsy's now overrun with AI
Global online marketplace Etsy is known as a home for the handmade, with Etsy proclaiming its mission to "keep commerce…
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Everything you need to know as Australian Test cricket returns tonight
Australia heads back to South Africa for a three-Test series for the first time since 2018 and the infamous…
Read at source →Katie Lynch wants to see AFL 'harness the momentum' of Pride Round
The Gold Coast Suns' Katie Lynch would like the power of the AFLW's dedicated Pride Round to be extended across the…
Read at source →Car burnt in driveway in Melbourne's south-east 14th this week
A police commander says it is believed the repeated arson attacks are linked to organised crime and appear to be an…
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Botswana's UNESCO wetlands offer lessons for Australia
What Botswana's pristine wetlands and waterways are teaching Australians about climate change, over-extraction and…
Read at source →Elective egg freezing costs thousands, but most women never use them
Experts say people considering freezing their eggs for non-medical reasons need more evidence-based information as most…
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How Madonna and Gandalf ended up on Troye Sivan's new album
A Madonna sample, a medieval castle party and Sir Ian McKellen in full Gandalf mode: welcome to Troye Sivan's new era.
Read at source →The duality of Australia's newest cricket captain Sophie Molineux
Eight years after making her international debut, the country girl from Bairnsdale is now Australia's cricket captain.…
Read at source →'Excruciating' pain and 'dead' tissue: The drug of choice for US executions
On paper, Tennessee's death penalty protocol looks neat. But experts say the drug used in lethal injection risks severe…
Read at source →Taiwan's return to nuclear power driven by AI hunger for electricity
Taiwan is considering abandoning its Nuclear-Free Homeland policy and restarting its last nuclear reactor, shut down…
Read at source →'Essentially unstoppable': How tobacco cartels funnel cash offshore
Australia's illicit tobacco trade has become so lucrative that criminal overlords have built a secret pipeline…
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Unless you're Hanson, migration can be a dangerous sinkhole
In the furious debate about migration policy, figures and justifications get easily lost in a quagmire of vocal…
Read at source →Friday news quiz: Exploding cans, rejected credit cards and dapper animals
Say what you like about the ABC news quiz, it's better than copping an exploding can to the face.
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How Australian mortgages compare to the US, Japan and South Korea
With most Australian mortgages being variable loans and interest rates at a 15-year high, experts weigh in on different…
Read at source →Botched execution survivor Christa Pike 'up and walking'
Lawyers say the convicted killer has got out of bed for the first time, but is still "somewhat foggy".
Read at source →Maduro and wife Flores face new charge of conspiracy to commit torture
The ousted Venezuelan president and his wife were captured by the US military at their Caracas home and taken to New…
Read at source →It took 10 billion years for this signal from the early universe to reach us
A newly discovered fast radio burst from 3 billion years after the big bang is among the most mysterious objects in…
Read at source →Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins court battle over search warrants
Police have been forced to accept warrants they used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes earlier this year…
Read at source →South Korea recalls ambassador as row with Ukraine escalates
Tensions between South Korea and Ukraine started escalating last month when Ukraine revealed it had transferred two…
Read at source →Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 76-year-old was honoured "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition,…
Read at source →Russian attack on bus stop kills at least 33 in Ukraine, officials say
More than 30 people were killed when Russia struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, near the frontline in eastern…
Read at source →Kids turning to chatbots to disclose online sexual victimisation
More children are turning to AI chatbots when they are sexually victimised online and the federal police commissioner…
Read at source →NT government departments hit by massive network outage
A massive network outage interrupted all government departments in the Northern Territory today, affecting services…
Read at source →Serial underwear thief's missing map teased link to child who vanished
An attempt to reopen an inquest into the disappearance of Mackay schoolgirl Marilyn Wallman failed in 1988 because…
Read at source →Matildas coach backs Mary Fowler's absence from friendlies
Coach Joe Montemurro has said the Matildas support Mary Fowler's decision to miss upcoming friendlies for personal…
Read at source →UK to continue 'vital services' after Jerusalem consulate ends functions
Britain says its nearly 200-year-old consulate in Jerusalem will remain operating at a smaller scale after Israel…
Read at source →Lethal injections are 'nothing like we think', expert warns
The botched execution of Christa Pike exposes the fallacy of lethal injections being the most humane method of…
Read at source →Mine backed by US, Australia and Gina Rinehart moves towards construction
After decades in development, a $1.8 billion rare earths mining project has finally seen ground broken in remote…
Read at source →NT environmental regulator has 'low confidence' in plan for outback data centre
The Northern Territory's environmental regulator says it has a "low level of confidence" in the current plan for an…
Read at source →Two more charged with murder over fatal house party attack
Two more men have been charged with murder over the death of a 21-year-old man at a house party south of Brisbane,…
Read at source →Apple's age-verification feature welcomed by Pornhub owners
The world's most popular porn site has returned to Australia after Apple introduced a new age-verification process…
Read at source →NASA Crew-12 astronauts return to Earth after 8 months in space
The team splashed down in a SpaceX capsule, after 237 days of conducting orbital research and lab maintenance on the…
Read at source →Kai Allen shines as Ford gets engine change for Bathurst
Kai Allen has fired the first warning shot ahead of Sunday's Bathurst 1000 with the fastest time across today's two…
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