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A cold front is pushing a line of storms across south-east Australia. Melbourne and eastern Victoria had rain and lightning on Saturday morning. A stronger band

A Senate inquiry is looking at why Australia still allows a weedkiller called paraquat. Independent senator David Pocock set up the inquiry. He questioned the h

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Antigua and Barbuda for a meeting of Commonwealth leaders. He will talk with King Charles III and the leaders of the UK an

Erin Patterson lost her appeal against her murder and attempted murder convictions on Friday. The Victorian court of appeal also raised her sentence. She will n

The usual group photo at the start of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting was cancelled. The meeting was held in Atlanta, in the United States. Australia, the UK

Former senator Rex Patrick has won a small but important step in a long fight for secret files. On Friday, a tribunal ruled that parts of a hearing must be held

Police in Madagascar have shut down 13 scam centres run by Chinese groups. The raids happened in August and September. Officials say 148 people have been sent b

SBS News asked an AI assistant called Gemini whether using AI makes people smarter. Gemini said yes. It claimed AI acts like a "bicycle for the mind" and frees

Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil on a private jet after losing Sunday's presidential election. He flew through Argentina and Ecuador before landing in Florida on We

Australia's statistics agency will change the weights in its inflation basket in January. The basket is a list of goods and services that typical households buy

Police fired tear gas in Paris and Lyon on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people marched across France. They were protesting about the cost of living and

At least four Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Saturday, even though a ceasefire has been in place for more than a year. Israeli shelling hit the Nuseirat re

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, called a US move to open talks a positive step. But he said there are no plans to meet US officials yet, eight months i

The Sámi are an Indigenous people whose homeland, Sápmi, runs across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia's Kola Peninsula. A border fixed between Norway

At least 290,000 people have been forced from their homes in Yemen since fighting flared up again in August. The UN's aid office says the number is still rising

More than 5,000 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, government data shows. It is the country's deadliest outbreak ever.

Riot police were sent to Poland's Constitutional Court in Warsaw during a stand-off between the government and the court's top judges. The justice minister ask

Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has put his ministers and other senior officials through military training. Photos he shared show him taking part in exer

Spain is mourning after a train crash near Toledo killed at least 69 people. Two trains collided on the high-speed line south of Madrid. Wreckage was spread alo

Nearly 200 countries met in Yerevan, Armenia, for two weeks to talk about protecting nature. Early on Saturday, hours after the deadline, they agreed the main p

Oleshky residents had been without food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.

Two analytics firms say they have robust intelligence pointing to a North Korean state-backed group as the likely culprit.

OpenAI has reportedly cut the size of its latest funding round. The company had been expected to raise $30 billion, then $25 billion, ahead of a planned public

TikTok is adding more features that go beyond short videos. This week it launched a restaurant guide called Must Eat, built from more than 40 million posts and

A TechCrunch reporter took Apple's new iPhone Duo on a five-day holiday, plus her own iPhone 17 Pro Max as a backup. By the end, she did not want to switch back

The investors who put money into venture capital funds say business is booming, but they are also uneasy. Many have piled into the same two companies: OpenAI an

Nvidia is in talks to back billions in loans for an AI data centre that Nscale is building in West Virginia. The site would serve Anthropic. Anthropic has sign

Salesforce has agreed to buy Rune Technologies for $375 million in cash and stock. Rune builds AI software that helps the US military predict supply needs and m

Ollie, an AI assistant built around privacy, is shutting down on November 6. Its co-founder and CEO, Bill Lennon, shared the news on X. The app connected to em

Hackers stole about $6.3 billion in crypto from Binance customers. It is believed to be the largest crypto theft ever. The company's CEO now says 90 per cent of

Nintendo has named 1 November the first Pikmin Day. The company shared the news in a short video hosted by game creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The video included ne

Meta is selling a small AI pendant called the Muse Charm for the holiday season. It has a soft face and talks to Meta's AI helper. Verge writer Sean Hollister d

Microsoft has added new features to test versions of Windows 11. The changes are in builds released to Windows Insiders, who try early software. Players in Xbo

Best Buy is adding a $100 gift card to preorders of Apple's new MacBook Pro. The laptop comes with a touchscreen and a new display Apple calls PROLED XDR. The

The Verge asked rapper and actor Vic Mensa about the tech he uses every day. His answer was simple: the Voice Memos app on his phone. Mensa says every song and

This is the 150th edition of Installer, a weekly column by The Verge's David Pierce. Each week he lists the gadgets, apps and shows he is trying. This week's p

Two well-known indie games, Celeste and TowerFall, have been removed from Xbox's digital store. Their creator, Maddy Thorson, said the move supports the BDS boy

Square Enix has pushed Final Fantasy 14's next expansion, Evercold, from January to February 2. Preorders open on November 4, and buyers get early access from F

Yacht Club Games says its new game, Mina the Hollower, saved the studio, at least for now. The game sold more than 500,000 copies within a few weeks of launch.

A PC Gamer writer listed the ten scariest role-playing games he has played, plus one he is still too afraid to try. The list mixes old classics with newer indie

PC Gamer readers voted Alien: Isolation the scariest game on PC. The 2014 game puts players on a space station with one alien that hunts them. Amnesia: The Dar

The makers of Outlast talked about a scene they almost cut because it felt too extreme. In it, a character watches something terrible and is mocked for watching

PC Gamer spoke to a researcher who studies games through politics and social science. He explained how players behave in Arc Raiders, a game where teams fight a

HBO Max released a surprise episode of It: Welcome to Derry on Halloween. The show posted the news on Instagram with a short clip. The 30-minute special is cal

Andy Cohen and the Bravo network have settled a lawsuit from former Real Housewives star Leah McSweeney. The deal was announced on Friday. The terms are private

Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan has been taken to hospital after a medical emergency. The band cancelled two shows this weekend because of it. The gigs were set

Two very different films are fighting for the top spot at US cinemas this Halloween weekend. One is Clayface, a DC superhero film from Warner Bros. The other is

Indian film director Sanjay Gupta has died at 57. He died on Friday after a fall at his home in Mumbai. The news was confirmed by his friend and fellow directo

Comedian Alex Edelman says the Kennedy Center in Washington is no longer a place for most comics. He wrote about it in a guest column for the New York Times. E

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Reserve Bank keeps cash rate unchanged as inflation remains within target band.

CBA, Westpac, NAB and ANZ pass on rate changes to variable mortgage customers.

Australian shares reach record levels driven by resources sector strength.

AUD slides past $0.65 USD as commodity prices soften and rate differential widens.

Australian retirement savings pushed higher by robust equity and property market performance.

Sydney and Melbourne auction markets soften as affordability constraints bite.

Network Rail has warned that engineering work will disrupt trains for 10 days over Christmas. About £152 million of work is planned while services are quieter.

Avanti West Coast paid more than £20 million in delay refunds to passengers this summer. It paid £9.3 million in just four weeks to 25 July. That is close to i

Passengers on the MV Odyssey were told they had seven hours to leave the ship in Cambodia. The cruise was sold as a never-ending voyage around the world. Villa

US stocks fell sharply on Friday, led by technology shares. The S&P 500 lost 1.8 percent, the Nasdaq dropped 2.84 percent and the Dow fell 1.09 percent. The se

A Guardian columnist argues that Britain's housing crisis cannot be fixed without changing taxes. He says policy still treats property as a way to build wealth.

Investors are reducing bets on growth because they worry that the US economy depends too much on AI. The Financial Times reported the shift on Saturday. The co