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The Tour de France has cut 44 kilometres from its final stage, with the police who would normally line the route redeployed to the wildfires burning through the country's south-west.

A rented van was driven into the crowd at Berlin's Pride celebrations, killing one woman and injuring 29. Police shot the suspect dead in an allotment garden after a citywide manhunt.

Tech stocks dragged the Australian sharemarket higher on Monday, with Xero and WiseTech surging while cheaper oil pulled Santos and Woodside to the bottom of the board.

IMAX Corporation posted total revenue of US$102.8 million in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% rise on the same period a year earlier, according to the company's earnings release.

Beijing has lodged a formal protest after Brussels named 14 Chinese companies in its latest round of Russia sanctions, and is threatening countermeasures against European firms.

Fabricated images of American strikes on Iran's main oil terminal reached millions, posted by the US president himself. None of the attacks happened.

Pauline Hanson's bid to overturn the finding that she racially vilified Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has failed, with the appeal bench standing by the ruling on her 'piss off back to Pakistan' tweet.

Your Google Business Profile ranking used to be the scoreboard that mattered. That scoreboard now has a rival, and it is winning by a wide margin.

Website owners can finally see how much of their Google traffic comes from AI answers, and the new numbers explain where the missing clicks have been going.

OpenAI has launched a beta self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT, allowing advertisers to register, set budgets and bids, upload creatives, and launch and manage campaigns directly through a dedicated portal.

Agentic commerce works simply enough. A shopper asks an AI tool to find and buy a birthday gift within a budget, and the agent handles the rest: browsing, comparing, transacting. The appeal is obvious.

Google's Scalable Cluster Termination System terminated 50,000 coordinated channel clusters comprising 130,000 channels of synthetic spam generators over a six-month period.