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Instagram has made a major change for users.

Instagram just changed one of its biggest rules

Instagram has quietly rolled out one of its biggest profile changes in years, giving users the power to rearrange their grid for the first time.

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Research has shown how marriage can lead to unexpected health benefits ... but there's also a hidden catch.

Three health benefits of marriage ... and an important catch

Research now suggests that being married or being in a partnership could come with specific health-related benefits.

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The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is pushing to expand pharmacists' powers to prescribe medications. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Push to let pharmacists prescribe more drugs

Letting pharmacists write medication scripts could save $1 billion in health costs and free up 10 million GP visits a year, a report has found.

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Elon Musk is the face of SpaceX’s explosive growth it’s someone else who may be the real power behind the rocket giant.

The steady hand at SpaceX is not Elon Musk

Elon Musk is the face of SpaceX’s explosive growth but as the company heads toward a blockbuster IPO, it is someone else who may be the real power behind the rocket giant.

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Anthropic says an option to pause the development of artificial intelligence would be good. (AP PHOTO)

Anthropic urges AI pause, sees risk of losing control

Anthropic says artificial intelligence could soon improve without human intervention and wants to co-ordinate a way to pause development of advanced AI systems.

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Jesse Ridgway and wife Ashley announce the pregnancy.

YouTube star reveals decision to abort Down Syndrome baby

The YouTuber made the shock disclosure across his social media channels, sparking a wave of death threats. 

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Aussie GP reveals signs of silent killer after suffering heart attack at her desk

The silent killer with subtle symptoms not even a doctor recognised

An Aussie GP has issued a warning about the vague signs that could save your life.

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There are more than 300,000 medicinal cannabis users across NSW.

A major driving rule change is coming for cannabis users

A state government is paving the way for drivers to operate vehicles while under the influence of prescribed medical cannabis.

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Where do junior workers go if AI has taken over their jobs?

What happens when AI takes over these jobs?

JENI O’DOWD: There is no question AI can make life easier, but this unspoken risk puts entire generations at risk.

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A Labor senator has questioned Medicare 'cartel behaviour’ as the Albanese Government pushes roll out.

Labor alarm over Medicare ‘cartel behaviour’

A Labor senator has suggested some doctors in tight markets are engaging in ‘cartel behaviour’, acting together to boycott the government’s $8.5 billion Medicare scheme. 

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A Google-linked mosquito project has caused public outcry.

Fury over Google plan to unleash 64 million infected mozzies

Public outrage has erupted over an experimental Google-linked project to release 64 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes into the wild.

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Health workers disinfect a coffin containing the body of a man presumed to have died of Ebola at a hospital in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 25, 2026.

As Ebola spreads, scientists race to find vaccines

Health workers are rushing to provide supportive care in Congo and Uganda, hoping that some patients will recover on their own, while isolating the sick and tracing contacts of the infected.

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The state said the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, had engaged in negligence and violated Florida’s prohibition on unfair and deceptive practices.

‘Dangerous’: Florida becomes first State to sue OpenAi

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the lawsuit, the State said OpenAI had built ‘a dangerous online product’.

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Professor Paul Griffin said a Melbourne Ebola scare highlighted the importance of Australia’s preparedness for serious disease threats. (EPA PHOTO)

Melbourne Ebola scare puts Australia’s outbreak response to the test

The suspected arrived at the emergency department with symptoms consistent with the deadly virus.

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WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Major Ebola update as WHO sounds alarm in DR Congo

The head of the World Health Organisation is visiting the centre of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Brazil probes a suspected case.

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