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On 28 July 2026, Donald Trump told Fox News that the Strait of Hormuz belongs, in practical terms, to the United States Navy. Shipping registry data say something quieter and considerably more complicated.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has taken $654.3 million domestically in its first ten days of release, setting a new all-time record for any film at the domestic box office.

The RBA has held the cash rate at 4.35 per cent as ANZ warns Sydney house prices could fall as much as 14.5 per cent, the steepest decline since the early 1980s, with budget tax changes driving the downturn.

Headline inflation ran at 3.8 per cent in the year to June. That number is an average across the whole economy. What your business actually pays is driven by rent, insurance, wages and electricity, and each of those is rising at a different speed.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake, with its epicentre near the town of San José del Palmar in the department of Chocó, killed at least 111 people and left more than 1,000 buildings collapsed or severely damaged.

The most revealing detail in OpenAI's latest share buyback is not the dollar figure. It is who signed the cheque. When a private company of this scale buys out employees, the standard move is to bring in an outside vehicle, a Thrive Capital or a SoftBank, to underwrite the liquidity.

Search campaigns running automatically created assets or campaign-level broad match settings will be moved onto Google's AI Max from September, whether account holders asked for it or not.

The number that should be on every marketing team's whiteboard right now is 8. That is the percentage of visits in which a user clicked a traditional search result when Google served an AI-generated summary, according to a Pew Research Center browsing study published in July 2025.

The Pentagon has published 41 more declassified UFO files, taking its PURSUE archive to about 375 records from five agencies. Gulf of Oman gunship footage and a Bagram triangle report stand out; every case remains unresolved.

Russia hit Ukraine with about 1,900 drones, nearly 1,600 guided bombs and 144 missiles in a single week, Volodymyr Zelensky says, damaging more than 1,500 sites across 16 regions as Kyiv presses allies for faster Patriot deliveries.

Amazon's order confirmation email used to read like a tidy receipt: item names, product images, prices. Now it reads closer to a customs form filled in by someone who prefers not to commit.

Volodymyr Zelensky's estimate of North Korea's planned military contribution to Russia keeps rising. When Ukraine's president first raised the prospect of an expanded deployment, he put the incoming figure at 30,000 additional troops.