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

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.

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.

Kath Pettingill, the woman police knew as Granny Evil and her family called Nanna Kath, died at a nursing home in Venus Bay, Victoria, aged 91. She had been living with dementia in her final years.

Six weeks after two enormous earthquakes tore through north-central Venezuela, the National Assembly put a number on the loss: 6,125 confirmed deaths, roughly 1,400 people still missing, and tens of thousands injured, according to the 3 August statement.

Thirty people are dead. At least 62 others are injured, five of them seriously, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region of Kumamoto Prefecture at approximately 4:27 p.m. Japan Standard Time on Tuesday, registering a maximum seismic intensity of 7 in Hikawa Town and Uki City.

The European Commission handed Google two separate infringement decisions on 23 July 2026, together carrying a total penalty of €890 million, the first fines ever issued under the Digital Markets Act.

Two firefighters died battling a blaze near Bordeaux airport and a third in Sicily, as wildfires across southern Europe drive tens of thousands from their homes in 40-degree heat.