Haines critical after emergency surgery following 'attack', as 'hero' speaks

A family butcher in Ivanhoe, in Melbourne's north-east, was ransacked in an overnight heist, with an estimated $8000 worth of meat stolen.

The National Australia Bank has announced it will axe up to 2500 jobs over this financial year.

Students at North Sydney Girls High said the final mathematics extension 2 was not without its hiccups but were able to solve it.

The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm MiraclePlus and three related entities. Ding was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft in January. A federal judge subsequently...

The Saudi government has postponed its annual investment conference — known colloquially as “Davos in the Desert” — to next year, after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels carried out multiple deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Organizers at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute postponed the 10th edition of the conference, which was set...

Ricky Jefferies thought it was a car accident. Then he saw the knife.

The US and China are racing to secure concrete investment deals ahead of their leaders’ meeting in Shenzhen next month, even as both sides engage in a contest over leverage in extending their broad trade agreement. Multiple sources told the South China Morning Post that intense negotiations would continue in coming weeks, with Washington and Beijing still facing hurdles to finalising a complex package of institutional frameworks and economic agreements. The sources, who spoke on condition of...

Armed guards picked to patrol territory's parliament for the first time.

Indi MP Helen Haines is in a critical condition after she was allegedly struck by a car driven by a 43-year-old male driver outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, in north-east Victoria.

Citing national security concerns, the US government has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and any third-party services developed using the Chinese artificial intelligence model from their information systems. In a notice made public on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also barred agencies from acquiring DeepSeek products and services, including those developed by affiliated entities. The notice said that using the company’s products “may result in...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that the attack was deliberate. Haines remains in critical condition.