12 August 2026
The Australian-listed company says the deal will create a larger trans-Tasman audio, digital and entertainment business.
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12 August 2026
Officers – correctly – may not have fully unzipped the bag containing the lifelike doll to avoid destroying evidence, one expert says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates New South Wales police on Sunday were called to Oallen, a town near Goulburn, after two members of the public found a suitcase containing what they believed to be human remains, dumped on the side of the road.
12 August 2026
The death toll from Monday's quake continues to rise, as rescue teams race against time to find survivors under the rubble.
12 August 2026
Nathan Birch, the head of property management firm Blink, which manages close to 7,000 rentals across the country, suggested some of the fear surrounding AI taking jobs off hardworking Australians was ...
12 August 2026
Prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul calls for tighter gun controls and ‘decisive penalties’ after nine dead in school shooting Thailand has suspended firearms licences after last week’s deadly school shooting , as the bodies of the teenage attacker and the grandparents he killed were cremated. The prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he had ordered the interior ministry and police to stop issuing licenses to possess, purchase and carry firearms, and called for “tighter controls and decisive penalties”.
12 August 2026
Our reporter Genevieve Glatsky, who is based in Colombia, witnesses the rescue of a buried earthquake survivor in the city of Cali.
12 August 2026
Officials say that every property connected to the Ohakune supply should now have tap water again, although there could be some small outages while small leaks are fixed.
12 August 2026
"We're going back to work and we're moving on": Having survived a second confidence vote, Luxon left the podium without taking questions.
