EDITORIAL: Home buyers are focused on their finances stretching over the short game, pay packet to pay packet.

A Labor frontbencher has been named as part of Time magazine’s list of ‘the world’s most influential rising stars’ for her role in Australia’s digital agenda.

Anthony Albanese has conceded Australia must play the long game on housing supply issues as Budget changes to limit negative gearing and CGT discounts to new builds will not solve the problem overnight.

The last US soldiers have left Iraq, ending a 12-year mission US President Donald Trump has called ‘a very expensive excursion into hell’.

Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.

THE WASHINGTON POST: The Trump administration has sought to reassure a skeptical public that it can embrace the technology — and trust the industry to police itself.

‘They seemed so happy and full of hope. I could never, ever have imagined that it would become my final memory of them.’

The man could not be saved, despite a woman’s desperate efforts.

The 34-year-old primary school teacher was left with extensive injuries after being attacked by a 4m great white.

Oliver Curtis is set to become an AI billionaire when Firmus lists at a $43.7 billion valuation, but fund managers are questioning whether the company’s huge growth prospects justify its price tag.

With the $16 billion Scarborough LNG project off northern WA near complete, Woodside is now focused on a busy offshore development schedule in the US and Mexico.

Another big four bank has vowed not to shut any of its branches in regional Australia until at least 2030 amid ongoing criticism of the nation’s biggest lenders over widespread closures.

The beloved Fijian report has had a refresh, but it’s devotion to the sea remains gloriously unchanged. 

Actor Pia Miranda, who shot to fame in Looking for Alibrandi, finds the perfect collision of art, appetite and authenticity in Italy’s Renaissance city.

Maybe it’s pheromonic, or maybe it’s because we’ve already drunk the equivalent of a tokkuri of sake, but our brief, boozy brush with this city has us convinced that we’re in for a good time.

EDITORIAL: Home buyers are focused on their finances stretching over the short game, pay packet to pay packet.

AARON PATRICK: Flight 1703’s survival is a warning that security measures designed to defeat terrorism after the 9/11 attacks may need to be reconsidered.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Pat Cummins does not need to play every match, but two ODIs since the 2023 World Cup is not enough for the captain of a rebuilding side.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safety testing, but that OpenAI ignored the advice.

Explosive allegations involving seven men at an elite US university have reignited a case that prosecutors previously declined to pursue.

Meghan Markle is rumoured to want to narrate her husband Prince Harry’s documentary about his late mother Princess Diana, which is thought to be released on the 30th anniversary of her death next year. 

The Bruce Almighty star revealed he tied the knot with his ‘sublime companion’ just seven months after they made their first public appearance together.

Cathy Ames steals, lies, cheats and kills, the epitome of the fallen woman. But in this new version of classic tale East of Eden, Florence Pugh gives dimension to someone so easily loathed.

Huge investments in AI data centres are adding to inflationary pressures and competition for debt investors, potentially keeping bond yields, interest rates and mortgage costs higher for longer.

For WA’s mining crowd, Bindi Raye looked like the ultimate FIFO fantasy - but there was one big issue.

JENI O’DOWD: Somewhere along the way, good intentions have become endless expectations that feel more like an obligation than respect.

In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy case, experts explain why some mental health struggles can remain hidden behind a ‘mask of coping’. WARNING: Sensitive content

A painfully accurate impression of a certain type of male flirting has gone viral.

Nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo: Protein is genuinely having a moment, but with the supermarket aisle full of options, here’s how to make the right choice.

Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham says the club’s ‘Pullman Five’ players ‘strenuously deny the allegations’ being investigated.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Pat Cummins does not need to play every match, but two ODIs since the 2023 World Cup is not enough for the captain of a rebuilding side.

Brisbane triple-premiership coach Chris Fagan has informed the club he will depart the Lions, just days after its grand final victory over Fremantle. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a flydubai copilot who stabbed his captain in an alleged attempt to crash the aircraft ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.’

UK police say they have arrested a 27-year-old dual citizen in London while a second man has been questioned under caution in a probe of an air base incident.

Unsettling new details have emerged of the Omani co-pilot accused of a terrifying bid to plunge a passenger jet and all 174 on board into the Saudi desert.