Recent articles from publications based in Australia.
The American mood is turning dark, and Republicans are likely to pay the price at the midterms
The Conversation Australiaby Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney·4d ago
For the White House, the midterm elections are always agony. They are always a referendum on the president.
Singapore launches new dating app — but not everyone qualifies
ABC News Australiaby Libby Hogan and Patrick Martin·4d ago
Government-funded "date quests", a pioneering matching algorithm and a platform only available for public servants.
Once a home for handmade, artists say Etsy's now overrun with AI
ABC News Australiaby Ebony ten Broeke·4d ago
In short: Etsy users across the globe are reporting an influx of AI-generated products on the online marketplace, including copied work.
South Africa vs Australia Test series, everything you need to know
ABC News Australiaby Simon Smale·4d ago
Australia is back in South Africa for one of the most eagerly anticipated Test series in recent history.
Police fire tear gas at barricaded Paris school demo
PerthNowby Staff Writers·4d ago
Police fire tear gas at barricaded Paris school demo Students have barricaded a high school in northeastern Paris with rubbish bins before police moved in with tear gas as protests across France...
Katie Lynch wants to see AFL 'harness the momentum' of Pride Round
ABC News Australiaby Marnie Vinall·4d ago
The Gold Coast Suns' Katie Lynch says Pride Round comes at exactly the moment needed every season.
Botswana's UNESCO wetlands offers lessons for Australia
ABC News Australiaby Bill Ormonde·4d ago
In one of the planet's most pristine wetlands a small boat weaves through floodwater. Armed with binoculars, bird books and cameras, budding ecologists scour their surrounds, surveying for...
US charges Maduros with torture in new indictment
PerthNowby Staff Writers·4d ago
US charges Maduros with torture in new indictment US prosecutors have charged ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiring to torture political opponents and...
Pocket piston 2.0 updates the art of combusting fire out of thin air
New Atlasby C.C. Weiss·4d ago
The Aviator's Ember proved one of the more unexpected pieces of outdoor kit we looked at in 2025.
How Madonna and Gandalf ended up on Troye Sivan's new album
ABC News Australiaby Courtney Fry·4d ago
Troye Sivan has felt the rush and isn't slowing down anytime soon. His fourth album, She's The Best, has pushed the 31-year-old singer-songwriter further from his YouTube roots and deeper into the...
Elective egg freezing costs thousands, but most women never use them
ABC News Australiaby Lauren Roberts·4d ago
In short: Only one in four women from Australia or New Zealand who freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons return to use them, according to a study.
US says war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate
PerthNowby Staff Writers·4d ago
US says war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Russia's war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate and the United States will keep working toward a...
Supercapacitor cement is key to buildings that store their own power
New Atlasby Ben Coxworth·4d ago
In the not-too-distant future, a building's emergency lighting, fire alarms, sensors and other features could be powered not by fuel-burning generators or bulky battery packs, but by the actual...
How Australian mortgages compare to the US, Japan and South Korea
ABC News Australiaby Ahmed Yussuf·4d ago
As interest rates started to rise earlier this year, Andrew Clifford decided he needed to protect his family from being stretched any further.
'Essentially unstoppable': How tobacco cartels funnel cash offshore
ABC News Australiaby Danny Tran, Olivia Jenkins, and Alex Turner-Cohen·4d ago
How Kazem Hamad, the 'Commission' and other tobacco cartels send black market profits offshore In short: Cartels are using sophisticated networks to send cash from illicit tobacco sales in...
Taiwan's return to nuclear power driven by AI hunger for electricity
ABC News Australiaby Libby Hogan·4d ago
For a decade, Taiwan phased out nuclear power, replacing it with natural gas and renewable energy. Now the government is preparing to reverse course.
'Excruciating' pain and 'dead' tissue: The drug of choice for US executions
ABC News Australiaby Brianna Morris-Grant·4d ago
On paper, Tennessee's death penalty protocol looks neat. At 10am on the day of the execution, four syringes are prepared inside the lethal injection room. Two of them contain saline solution.
The duality of Australia's newest cricket captain Sophie Molineux
ABC News Australiaby Brittany Carter·4d ago
The everyday version. Quiet, composed, down-to-earth. Calmly answering questions, even the difficult ones, unfazed.
Big political donations have hit $7.4m this election year. Are the rules tight enough?
The Conversation Australiaby Timothy Kirpal Kuhner, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau·4d ago
With polling day still a month away, large political donations declared in 2026 have reached about NZ$7.4 million, already surpassing the total for 2023.
UK police arrest two men near Molesworth air base
PerthNowby Staff Writers·4d ago
UK police arrest two men near Molesworth air base UK counter-terrorism police are investigating after two Latvian men were arrested near a Royal Air Force base in Cambridgeshire in the early hours...
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