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At least 57 people died and an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a single day, overwhelming a city of just 85,000 permanent residents.

Testing at CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness confirmed H5 bird flu in a silver gull found at Robe in South Australia on 1 August 2026, the first detection in that species in Australia. The result pushed the national tally of confirmed or presumed positive detections to 53.

Watch the new-orders line and you know where China's factories are heading before output figures arrive. In July 2026, that line dropped to 48.5, the weakest new-orders reading since 2023, and the headline manufacturing PMI followed it down to 49.2, the first sub-50 reading in five months.

The number that matters most from the Bank of England's latest meeting is not 3.75, it is three. Three members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted against holding Bank Rate, preferring an immediate rise.

Meta Platforms posted the strongest quarterly advertising revenue in its history, yet the share price fell before the earnings call had even ended.

The attacker's first move was almost invisible: a single message sent over Telegram. What followed was entirely machine-driven.

Total net sales came in at $109.42 billion, up 16 per cent on the same period a year earlier, and net income of $29.79 billion was up 27 per cent from $23.43 billion. By any measure those are exceptional numbers for a June quarter. The market's reaction was to sell the stock.

Audit reports were signed. Opinions were clean. And, on ASIC's account, the work behind those opinions either fell well short of professional standards or, in at least one year, left no trace in the files at all.

The numbers from Roebourne tell the story cleanly. More than 100 Yindjibarndi people gathered and voted as one: reject the $150.3 million, instruct the lawyers, go back to court. The Federal Court's compensation order, handed down on 1 July 2026, did not survive a community meeting.

Australia's Dolphins closed the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games with 37 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals, the biggest gold haul any Australian swim team has ever posted at a single Commonwealth Games.

Shell posted a quarterly profit of $9.84 billion, more than double the $4.26 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier, making it the company's second-highest quarter on record. The figures came out of Shell's second-quarter results webcast on 30 July 2026.

A charge sheet placing a sitting federal MP and the Crown's representative in the Northern Territory at the same public event, the same alleged incident, and the same Darwin courtroom date is not something Territory politics produces often.