10 August 2026
Australia scrutinizes China-linked investors in Northern Minerals, jeopardizing US funding for critical rare earths.
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10 August 2026
Nour Haydar speaks to Guardian Australia’s media correspondent Amanda Meade to unpack the opening week of the criminal trial of veteran broadcaster Alan Jones ...
10 August 2026
On the one hand, starting a business is easy. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), as of June 30, 2024, there were 2. 6 million actively trading businesses acros ...
10 August 2026
Mitsubishi is adding an intriguing new EV to its line-up, though it won’t be sold in the United States. Revealed in Australia as the ASX VR-e, this low-slung hatchback is a re-badged Foxtron Bria, and ...
10 August 2026
Drought and wildfires intensify across continent, while tropical storms bring heavy rain and disruption to east Asia Europe live – latest updates High pressure has dominated central and eastern Europe in early August, breaking temperature records across the region. Austria recorded a high of 41. 2C (106. 2F), while Slovakia reached 42. 2C.
10 August 2026
Singapore-listed Uni-Asia Group has doubled its handysize newbuilding programme in Japan with a second 40,000 dwt bulker. The company has signed an agreement with Nihon Shipyard and an affiliate for the vessel, which will be built by Imabari Shipbuilding and delivered between the fourth quarter of 2029 and the first half of 2030. No price …
10 August 2026
Norwegian offshore seismic vessel player Shearwater Geoservices has received two separate letters of award from India’s ONGC. Each represents a large offshore 3D seismic survey offshore India. Combined, the two projects add approximately 15 vessel months of backlog. The awards, which will utilise two of Shearwater’s high-capacity 3D vessels, include a nine-month project offshore India’s …
10 August 2026
Omaha resident Natalie Thorpe’s 3-year-old tested high for lead as a baby. Thorpe’s yard has enough lead to be risky but not enough to qualify for government cleanup. Rebecca S. Gratz for ProPublica Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on environmental cleanup, more than half the yards in a section of Omaha, Nebraska, that used to surround a lead smelter still have enough contamination to cause high blood-lead levels in kids, according to tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica. The findings were consistent across the city’s older urban core — in the historically Black neighborhoods north of downtown, the predominantly Hispanic areas to the south and the more white and affluent areas in midtown.
