For the residents, it’s one of the most successful experiments ever undertaken in creating a community from scratch. | Continue reading
New Zealand has taken a major step in its plan to get its smoking population under five per cent by 2025, with the move meaning many children will never be able to legally buy cigarettes in the country. | Continue reading
Days after little Cleo Smith was miraculously found “alive and well” after a horrific 18-day disappearance, attention is turning to the incredible police work that reunited her with her family. | Continue reading
Commonwealth Bank will be the first major Australian bank to offer customers the ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency directly through its app, with the move “reimagining banking” it said. | Continue reading
Microsoft has revealed it will shut down LinkedIn in China later this year in a surprise announcement, citing the nation’s “challenging” regulations as a potential cause of the exit. | Continue reading
Aussies will be able to pay for their groceries at Woolworths and Coles by scanning a QR code, with the new option rolling out into stores before Christmas. | Continue reading
Sweden and Denmark have temporarily hit pause on the rollout of Moderna jabs for younger people, amid reports of possible rare cardiovascular side effects. | Continue reading
An all but abandoned mobile phone app that was once hailed as the “ticket” to life free of restrictions has again come under fire for its cost. | Continue reading
Whistleblowers on Wuhan’s Covid frontline have lifted the lid on what was really happening in the city as Covid-19 first exploded, casting serious doubts on China’s version of events. | Continue reading
Welcome to our coverage of NSW’s Covid-19 situation. | Continue reading
She has millions of adoring fans. She’s worth billions of dollars. But Beijing has all but erased actress Zhao Wei from history. And they won’t say why. | Continue reading
Australians have a reputation around the world as knowing how to have good time and being obsessed with sport — so it perhaps isn’t too surprising that our athletes have been known to party hard at Olympic Games over the years. | Continue reading
The world’s most transmissible Covid-19 strain has found its way into Australia – with worrying research revealing it may be even more infectious than the Delta variant. | Continue reading
A massive fire has erupted in the Gulf of Mexico after an gas pipeline reportedly ruptured. | Continue reading
A country that has been one of the world’s most successful at combating Covid-19 has announced it will soon fundamentally change how it manages the pandemic. | Continue reading
Two Egyptian female TikTok artists have been given a total of 16 years jail time for encouraging women to use the social media platform to earn money. | Continue reading
EVERY hour, the government takes a million dollars worth of cold hard cash — a mix of five-dollar notes, $10s, $20s, $50s and $100s — and shreds it. | Continue reading
They might be one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, mostly because of their reputation as ferocious man-eaters (thanks Jaws). | Continue reading
The medical regulatory agency has launched an investigation after eight cases of a rare illness that can leave patients paralysed were diagnosed in Australians after they had the AstraZeneca vaccine. | Continue reading
The blockage of the Suez Canal by the container ship Ever Given is estimated to have cost the global economy some $13 billion. | Continue reading
This technology is bananas. | Continue reading
Footage has surfaced of the Trump family in a celebratory mood shortly before violence erupted in Washington DC and their supporters stormed the Capitol. | Continue reading
It’s a grim time of year to be living in Sweden. | Continue reading
China’s savage trade war with Australia has brought a string of industries to their knees – but now, it appears the feud has also spectacularly backfired for Beijing. | Continue reading
Byron Bay’s Mayor has warned the worst is yet to come for the town’s decimated beach — saying there’s a big king tide coming tomorrow and some “really gnarly weather” on the way. | Continue reading
An unprecedented data leak has revealed how alleged Chinese Communist Party members have embedded themselves inside some of the world’s biggest companies, including defence contractors, banks and pharmaceutical giants manufacturing coronavirus vaccines. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered its second rocket mishap in days as the new Starship prototype collapsed on its launch pad. | Continue reading
THERE is a new theory on why men go bald and it all has to do with gravity. | Continue reading
A David and Goliath legal battle between American burger giant In-N-Out and Australian upstart Hashtag Burgers has landed back in court for round two of a meaty trademark dispute. | Continue reading
A Gold Coast woman has had her account blocked by Facebook after she innocently searched for a local eatery. | Continue reading
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies. | Continue reading
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies. | Continue reading
Aerospace giant Boeing will, for the first time, design and develop its military aircraft, including unmanned planes, outside of the United States after signing a historic deal with the Queensland Government. | Continue reading
Did China trick the world into committing economic suicide? | Continue reading
A virologist who fled China after studying the early outbreak of COVID-19 has published a new report claiming the coronavirus likely came from a lab. | Continue reading
The departments for transport and cyber security in Australia’s biggest state are investigating how tens of thousands of people had images of their driver’s licence leaked online, and have so far blamed a private company for the breach. | Continue reading
Four brothers are facing up to 20 years in jail after being accused of scamming retail and tech giant Amazon for millions of dollars over two years, allegedly openly discussing how they would “f**k Amazon” in family WhatsApp group chats. | Continue reading
Tech giant Google has unleashed a “scare campaign” on millions of its Australian users today, sensationally claiming free services, search results, and users’ income and personal data could be put at risk if it is made to pay for the news it uses. | Continue reading
The chairman of the company that probably made the device you’re reading this on thinks China’s days as the dominating force in electronics manufacturing are “done”. | Continue reading