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Guzman y Gomez shares jumped as much as 20 per cent after the Mexican fast-food chain said it will exit the US market and refocus on Australia, in a move analysts called an A$40 million retreat.

Rex Airlines has cut 26 weekly services across its Victoria and Tasmania network, including reducing Mildura-Melbourne from 24 to 19 services a week. The airline cited soaring jet fuel costs and weak bookings; Sharp Airlines and Qantas have pulled regional routes earlier this year.

Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, Australia's most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday and charged with five counts of war crime murder.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen completed the first major burn of their 10-day lunar flyby mission Thursday, placing their Orion spacecraft into high Earth orbit.

Brent crude briefly touched four-year highs after Iran retaliated for Israeli strikes on its largest gas field with attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure.

On March 29, 2026, Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. For the first time in centuries, church leaders couldn't celebrate Mass there.

The Prime Minister's national address on fuel and the compromised gambling reforms reveal a government unwilling to intervene decisively in markets that extract wealth from the lowest income quintiles.

A landmark review of more than 100 global studies finds nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers. The financial and human costs are just beginning.