The immediate future of one of Australia's big four aluminium smelters has been secured by a government support package following months of uncertainty.

The incoming Greens leadership will look to their UK counterparts for inspiration as they echo pledges to ‘replace Labor’ and right-wing popularity grows.

We need a leader to stand in front of the country and reassure us through words and actions.

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.

Australian property values could fall by almost double the level of the early 1980s when there was a year-long recession - wiping more than $140,000 from a typical home and a lot more in Sydney.

The trial over the murders of Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson has ended abruptly, with their parents making an emotional plea to hear the verdict before flying home.

Clothes, furniture and umpiring gear with blood stains were found in a bowling club skip bin after allegedly being dumped by a police officer accused of murder.

Private credit was sold as a way to earn high, steady income while avoiding the risk of shares. Now rising rates, falling property values and a rush for the exits are exposing the risks regulators warned about.

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.

Claimants in Madagascar allege wastewater containing uranium, lead and other metals was discharged from a Rio Tinto mine into waterways used for drinking.

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.

We need a leader to stand in front of the country and reassure us through words and actions.

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

Like a headmaster caning a schoolboy for something he did not do, the Reserve Bank of Australia has hammered home loan borrowers again by taking the cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.6 per cent.

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.

A speech pathologist has been indicted for allegedly firing a rifle at the home of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky while they were at the property.

Verity might want you to consider multiple truths, but there’s only one truth here: this is a bad movie.

Macklemore's comments about Palestine have resonated with fans, with his Free Palestine tour selling out immediately.

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.

Switzerland's Gianni Infantino has formally lost support from his home nation for the FIFA presidential election next year.

Star Penrith halfback Nathan Cleary has claimed the cherished honour that had long eluded him, the Dally M Medal, in comfortable fashion.

KIERSTEN DUKE: Phoenix Crossland made a mistake. The NRL judiciary has dealt with it. It’s time the online mob did the same and left him alone.

The horrifying moment was captured during a reporter’s live-cross about a separate child killed by a car.

The second officer of flydubai’s FZ1073 smuggled a small knife on board and used it to stun his captain before attacking him with an axe stored in the cockpit for emergencies, according to a security expert.

The trial over the murders of Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson has ended abruptly, with their parents making an emotional plea to hear the verdict before flying home.