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Iran's new security chief says the strait stays shut until the US ends the war, releases frozen assets and agrees a region-wide ceasefire. Brent pushed toward US$89 as the deadlock hardened.

Eli Lilly has placed Candace Parker at the centre of a new 30-second advertisement that debuted during Amazon's WNBA on Prime doubleheader coverage.

Colombian authorities confirm at least 224 dead and more than 3,000 missing from Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake, as rescuers warn the window for finding survivors is closing.

Reddit's second-quarter 2026 result looked strong on almost every line. Advertising revenue came in at $762 million, a 64% increase on the same quarter a year earlier, extending eight consecutive quarters of better than 60% revenue growth. Total revenue reached $805 million, up 61% year-on-year.

OpenRouter's traffic data does not leave much room for interpretation. Chinese-developed models in OpenRouter's daily top 50 grew from 5 in January 2025 to 20 by May 2026. That is not a blip. That is a structural redistribution of developer attention, across roughly 16 months.

The Default Market Offer is the number most electricity customers have never heard of, even though it directly sets the ceiling on what they pay. The DMO is a safety-net price rather than the cheapest plan available, and it acts as a reference price to help consumers compare market offers.

For 25 years, two buttons sat beneath the Google search bar: "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky." One of them is now missing from a live test running on the world's most visited page.

Alfie and Bailey were born in September 2024 and look, by all appearances, like any other floppy-eared beagle pups. What they are missing at the molecular level is the reason a New York biotech has spent years on them.

The first thing you notice is the curtains. Hung inside a fully furnished living room visible from the traffic crawling along Sunset Boulevard, they belong to a room with no door to the outside world.

One number should stop every would-be political operative in this country: $45,000. That is what Jarrod Davis's decision to skip a single line of text on a pamphlet ultimately cost him.

Demis Hassabis formally stepped back from running Google DeepMind on 5 August, appointed chairman of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet, ending more than a decade of direct operational control.

Westpac says mortgage applications have fallen 20 per cent since the May budget scrapped investor tax concessions, as third-quarter cash earnings slipped to A$1.8 billion and the bank tips investor credit growth to roughly halve in 2027.