The World Bank is in discussions with 30 to 40 countries about potential crisis aid to help them manage energy shocks and price increases triggered by the war in the Middle East, ​its president, Ajay Banga, told Reuters in an interview.

Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment. They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spending by wealthy countries, the climate crisis and childhood malnutrition. Continue reading...

Government report finds the country could be hit with more frequent and intense heatwaves, as well as damaging storms and cyclones

One of the biggest weather upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse

Will America decline into an irreversible fascist state?

More than 670 lenders, a record, shut down last year as Fitch says smaller players remain sector’s weakest part

The rogue AI agent entered a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application containing publicly available historical information and data on fires.

Authorities are working to determine whether the death of almost 60 birds at a popular lake in Bendigo is the result of H5N1 bird flu.

Experts report that glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year due to heat waves and low winter snowfall.

Generals’ and admirals’ positions will be cut as part of the defence secretary’s wide-ranging overhaul of the armed services

Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states

Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them.

Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies’ costly AI resources

OpenAI says dozens more third parties were affected by rogue agents bypassing website security controls, as new traces reveal days of attempts to access Australian health data.

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The ARIA Hall of Fame inductee spent 50 years in the music industry and also became a television presenter and youth advocate.

Shortage of biggest supertankers has more than doubled rates on key Middle East-China routes since late August

It’s the first time in recorded history that a sea turtle has nested on the West Coast. Scientists say it is the latest sign of warming ocean waters.

The digital extortion group known as ShinyHunters says it has stolen data about almost all of the FBI's current and former employees in an act of revenge against the organisation.

Parenting advocate Georgie Dent says rising childcare cost has pushed the overall burden to $36,500 a year and calls for more paid parental leave * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The cost for Australian families of raising two or more children has risen to at least $36,500 a year, according to new research, with the money needed to run a family increasing by 134% in two decades. Data released by advocacy group The Parenthood on Wednesday shows household income has only grown by 102% in the same period, with childcare costs making up 33% of the total cost of having children today. In 2003, the figure was 27%, according to the analysis by firm Connell Griffin. Continue reading...