25 August 2026
Fully AI-generated music will be banned from Australia's ARIA music charts from Friday in a move to support human artistry.
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25 August 2026
The Ashes rivals are set to battle it out to secure the CSK batting coach's services ahead of the 2027 Test series.
25 August 2026
In her first media interview since the June incident, Leah Stewart, 34, says her thoughts while being bitten were of her one-year-old daughter An Australian woman who lost an arm after a shark attack at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has recalled the moment she came face-to-face with the “monster”. Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher and mother of a one-year-old daughter, was attacked by a large shark while on a morning swim at Coogee beach on 13 June.
25 August 2026
A German national and his partner have been ordered to stand trial in Darwin over their alleged role in an international operation to help a drug trafficker flee Australia.
25 August 2026
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. (Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
25 August 2026
By Renju Jose SYDNEY, Aug 24 (Reuters) - KPMG Australia, embroiled in scandal over the misuse of confidential client information, said on Monday it would cut about 5% of its workforce, affecting 27 ...
25 August 2026
The students, aged 13 and 14, are accused of assaulting the girl in an alleyway.
25 August 2026
In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”.
