In late 2025, Australia enacted a law prohibiting individuals under 16 from accessing social media. Australia’s world-first ban on social media accounts for children under 16 is “ill thought out” and imposes a “profound restriction on political debate”, a lawyer representing Reddit told the country’s top court during the first legal challenge to the legislation.Reddit…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A family business can become the centre of a bitter dispute when questions over ownership, financial decisions and control begin to divide relatives. In Wisconsin, a disagreement between a father and son over a family-owned car dealership continued for more than a decade, eventually leading to multiple lawsuits, allegations of misuse of…
Shahid served as the Maldives’ foreign affairs minister between 2018 and 2023 under former president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. During this period, he also became one of the country’s most recognisable faces in international diplomacy. Former Maldives foreign affairs minister Abdulla Shahid, was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor, the Maldives Police said on…
Netanyahu’s Likud party also seek to delay election certification Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he was open to forming a “broad national government” under his leadership, even as his Likud party sought to delay the official certification of last week’s election results over allegations of foreign interference.Netanyahu, however, indicated that any such…
In a significant ruling, a federal judge has mandated that Iowa officials allow the local chapter of the Satanic Temple to hold its holiday event. (Pic Credit: Oli London X handle) A federal judge on Monday directed Iowa officials to permit a local chapter of the Satanic Temple to organise a holiday event in the…
What began as a small $50,000 fundraising campaign to help tenants struggling to pay rent during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has grown into a $16.5 million housing support programme across the Atlanta metropolitan area. Jason Dozier, an Atlanta landlord and community advocate, started the emergency rent assistance campaign after seeing tenants in his own properties…
An Australian couple who once managed a vineyard in South Australia’s Riverland region have taken an unusual route after leaving the wine industry: restoring their land to its natural state. Their decision has helped create a potential refuge for the threatened regent parrot, a native Australian bird whose population has suffered from habitat loss. As…
What began as an ambitious conservation experiment in one of Australia’s most isolated landscapes has grown into a remarkable wildlife recovery effort. Nearly a decade after moving to a remote station in north-western New South Wales, ecologists Rebecca West and Reece Pedler are witnessing the return of native mammals that had disappeared from the region…
Scientists monitoring the waters off California have recorded an unprecedented rise in ocean temperatures beneath Monterey Bay, with readings reaching 64.72 degrees Fahrenheit (18.18 degrees Celsius) at a depth of approximately 200 feet on October 26, 2026. The measurement surpassed the previous record set during the powerful 1997 El Niño event, marking the highest temperature…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A family home can become the centre of a legal dispute when a debt incurred by one spouse puts jointly owned property at risk. In Nebraska, a couple faced the possible sale of their primary residence after a creditor sought to recover money owed by the husband under a commercial lease agreement….
