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If the world is to transition to a climate-compatible future, much will turn on new innovations in clean energy and whether they can be deployed at a large scale. This is especially critical for emerging economies.

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TSB Bank, a major UK operator owned by Spanish banking group Banco de Sabadell, is closing one-third of its branches.

With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump.

Australia Post says it is looking to fill more than 4,000 casual, part-time and full-time roles as it gears up for the Festive Season.

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack announced on Friday that people from New Zealand who hadn’t been in a COVID “hotspot” for a fortnight will be allowed into NSW and the Northern Territory without quarantining.

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Items were discovered when officers searched a package sent from China which was labelled as containing a display shelf.

The Australian government has released a series of manufacturing industry policies in the lead-up to the October 6 budget.

“Leaks” from No 10 to the Sunday Times published on September 27 about the anointing of Charles Moore and Paul Dacre as the next chairs of the BBC and Ofcom may have been intended to distract the British public from the government’s performance on COVID-19.

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Walk around any town or city this autumn and you will find a range of shuttered businesses next door to others which have continued to operate during the pandemic. Some have responded rapidly with agility and creativity throughout 2020, enabling them to keep going and even excel at what they...

Although a vaccine could be the ultimate solution to curb the COVID-19 pandemic and stop future ones, it will not be 100% effective. If it is anything like the flu vaccine, it will most likely be slightly more than 50% effective.

City identifies six key areas where outdoor dining will be heavily promoted to help get the hospitality sector back on its feet.

The European Commission recently announced it would aim to cut emissions by the bloc by as much as 55% against 1990 levels until the year 2030.

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Pandemic opens up opportunities for the country in high-value manufacturing and new strategy is designed to take advantage of that.

Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September. This year it measures just 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) – the second-lowest value in the 42 years since satellites began taking measurements.

In 2018 a team of Italian scientists announced to the world that there was a lake on Mars. Using satellite radar data, the team detected a very bright area approximately 20 kilometres across located about 1.5 kilometres deep under the ice and dust of the south polar cap.

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New Zealanders are polarised on climate change policy, according to a recent Stuff/Massey University survey of 55,000 readers.

In 2019 more than 9 million international tourists injected an estimated A$47 billion into the Australian economy.

Entertainment giant says its theme parks and other ‘visitor experiences’ have been heavily affected by closures and health requirements.

To bring COVID-19 under control a vaccine needs to be available to every nation, rich and poor – and it needs to happen quickly.

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Melbourne-born performing star who sung the female anthem I Am Women and other hits has passed away in Los Angeles.

Officials from the UK and the EU are meeting at a crunch point in the negotiations for a future free trade agreement.

COVID-19 has left women, more than men, economically disadvantaged through unemployment, underemployment, lowered incomes, less secure work, greater household and family demands, and increased risk of domestic violence.

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A leaked source code can make it easier for cyber criminals to find and exploit weaknesses and serious security flaws (such as bugs) in a program. It also makes it easier for them to craft malware (software designed to cause harm).

Amid the chaos, Trump and Biden did address some key questions in the presidential race on issues like COVID-19, racial justice, the economy, public safety, the Supreme Court, climate change and, of course, Trump’s taxes.

A UK company that offers to send topless or naked cleaners to your home is making a clean sweep in the market.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a place name few in the West will recognise. But this small, unrecognised mountainous state with a population of about 150,000, is now the site of deadly ongoing clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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Social distancing and Public Health Order requirements will curb the number of people allowed on Australia’s most famous beach.

“No Cash Accepted” signs are increasingly common in Australian shops, thanks to COVID-19. Even before the the pandemic struck, though, we were well along the cashless path, with demand for coins halving between 2013 and 2019.

One component of animal health that largely reflects the surrounding environment is the microbiome, the consortium of microbes now known to aid in food digestion, regulating the immune system and protecting against pathogens. The species of bacteria that make up the microbiome are primarily recruited from the environment.

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An A$800 million JobMaker Digital Business Plan has been released this week to support economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19.

The role of the UN is to provide a space for countries which often don’t agree to take limited collective action. The UN’s main bodies include the General Assembly, with a seat for each member country, and the smaller Security Council for responding to threats to peace and security.

Global ride-hailing giant has been appealing a decision by London’s transport regulator to refuse it a licence extension.

The pandemic has reached a grim milestone: one million people have now died of COVID-19, according to Worldometers.

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Ten crew members from a bulk carrier anchored offshore have now tested positive after being quarantined in the WA town of Port Hedland.

Organ transplantation is a time-sensitive operation. The time between when an organ is harvested and when it is transplanted, known as “cold ischemia time,” has a significant impact on whether the transplanted kidney will be a success or lose its function.

As the US presidential election debates approach, how much to tax the rich will be one of many areas of disagreement between the two candidates.

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Childcare will reopen to all Melbourne families this week, as the Australian government’s latest childcare support package comes into effect.

The decision to suspend aid to Ethiopia comes after almost 10 years of regional and international efforts to mediate the dam dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia. Almost 60% of Ethiopians do not have access to electricity.

Large-scale drugs lab was hidden at a unit complex. Gold bullion, silver, drugs, ammunition and large quantity of cash seized.