Almost 30 per cent of large companies paid no tax in 2024-25, an Australian Taxation Office report reveals, resulting in the corporate tax amount payable dropping by $8.2 billion from the previous year.

Bear known for sitting in solitude won tournament celebrating the animals’ ability to eat large amounts of fish A chunky ursine called Backpack has out gobbled a challenge from an outsized female nicknamed the Dancing Queen to waltz – or rather waddle – off with the Fat Bear Week title at Alaska’s Katmai national park. Backpack, a 20-year-old quiet giant known for sitting in solitude for long periods on his rock on the Brooks river, won by barely 5,000 votes in the public tournament celebrating the brown bears’ ability to eat as many fish, Alaska rangers announced. Continue reading...

At least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group.

Demand for Scotland’s most famous export has slumped, with industry facing job cuts and closures

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Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.