Australia could create thousands of jobs and transition workers out of the fossil fuel industry if wind towers were produced at home, a research group says.

A senior Hezbollah official has eluded an Israeli assassination attempt in Beirut, three security sources say, as Israeli strikes there killed 22 people and the United Nations said its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon were in growing danger.

A stepson has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his stepfather in Melbourne’s northwest.

Deepfake political advertisements with videos pretending to be the prime minister or opposition leader will be allowed at the next federal election under contentious recommendations from an AI inquiry.

Hurricane Milton whirled into the Atlantic Ocean after ploughing across Florida, where it had whipped up a barrage of tornadoes and caused at least five deaths.

A forensic science lab that sparked two inquiries will receive millions in funding from the Liberal National Party as part of an election pitch to address a backlog of cases.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedies to break up Google’s search dominance could weaken its main profit engine and stall its advances in artificial intelligence, even though an outcome may be years away, analysts said.

California reported a third human case of bird flu on Wednesday in a dairy worker who had contact with infected cattle and said the state identified two more possible cases in people.

Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday. He was 86.

Saudi Arabia narrowly failed on Wednesday to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, a blow to Riyadh’s efforts to boost the country’s rights reputation abroad and four years after it was rejected in a 2020 bid to join the 47-member body.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday its fighters had pushed back advancing Israeli forces in clashes along the border, including in a village where Israeli troops had been filmed hoisting an Israeli flag.

Cyber security reform proposing mandatory standards for smart devices and reporting requirements for some businesses “strike the right balance” and puts Australia on the path to learning from past incidents.