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The US housing market handed buyers a blunt reminder in June 2026: the median existing-home price hit an all-time high of $440,600, marking the 36th consecutive month of year-on-year price growth. Prices rose 1.8% on June 2025 and set a new record.

The US State and Justice Departments have placed a combined bounty pool of more than $100 million on eight leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known by its Spanish initials CJNG.

Small business borrowers pay about three percentage points more than the headline cash rate, and most of that gap has nothing to do with what the Reserve Bank decides on the day.

Colombia's transition periods have rarely been quiet, and this one is noisier than most.

Sydney homeowners had a costly July. Cotality's national Home Value Index dropped 0.7% in July 2026, the largest single-month decline since December 2022, with Sydney leading the fall at 1.4% for the month.

Every time a property changes hands in Australia through a digital settlement, there is a very good chance one company processed it.

Traditional search engines crawl the web, index pages, and hand users a ranked list of links. LLM-based search engines work differently: an AI agent takes a query, breaks it into sub-queries, retrieves a small set of documents, and synthesises a natural-language answer with in-text citations.

The world has licensed Ebola vaccines. None of them work against the strain currently killing people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For four days, the fire west of Athens had the upper hand. On the fifth, the wind dropped. Greek firefighters exploited that lull to strengthen containment lines around the seaside resort of Porto Germeno and bring multiple fronts under control.

SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2026, a 92% increase on the same period a year earlier, the largest revenue figure of any company in a debut quarterly report as a public company.

Two days after releasing her eighth studio album, Ariana Grande pulled out of one of the most anticipated West End productions in years. Empire Street Productions confirmed on 2 August 2026 that Grande will no longer appear in the Barbican's revival of Sunday in the Park With George.

When the federal government spends nearly $100 million on a website, Australians who rely on that site for flood warnings, planting decisions and flight safety have a reasonable expectation it will work better than what it replaced.