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The UK and EU have just resumed negotiations over a post-Brexit deal on free trade. Major stumbling blocks over issues like road haulage, fishing rights and state subsidies will need to be ironed out.

Video game developer Epic’s massively popular “battle royale” game Fortnite was removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store last week.

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The Chinese industry body claims that the market share of Chinese wine has fallen from about 75% to just under 50% over the past four years.

UK research finds the ‘pressure cooker’ environment of lockdown saw a marked increase in violence by young people against their parents.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday the Australian government has signed a letter of intent to procure the University of Oxford’s vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.

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Fashion retailer G-Star Raw has failed to find a buyer for its Australian operation and all stores will now close.

A new format for compressing video, called Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC), at first glance might not seem to be the most exciting or profound change to influence humanity.

Resource allocation procedures or triage plans help to work out who gets that bed, ventilator, or vaccine if and when the system comes under significant strain.

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Joe Biden would be well known worldwide. He was President Barack Obama’s second-in-command for eight years and sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, chairing it for several years.

Instagram is a social media platform where users post photos with captions, with an estimated one billion active users around the world.

The pair, aged 19 and 22, allegedly sneaked out to attend a party in contravention of WA’s isolation regulations.

Less than three months out from the presidential election, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has become the centre of a political storm.

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The US President seemed to be trying to draw parallels between the pandemic situation in New Zealand and the United States.

Scott Morrison said the vaccine would then be manufactured here and provided free of charge for all Australians.

The UK government has begun a trial of its new, revamped COVID-19 contact-tracing app for England.

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Politics, like everything else in American life, is being reshaped by the pandemic and by technology. Democrats will hold almost all of their 2020 nominating convention virtually.

WATCH: From the heart Covid-19 message by Prince Charles to Victoria recounts time spent there as a school boy, and salutes essential workers.

Australia-wide, home ownership levels have fallen from 70% to 65% in the last 20 years and home equity levels have fallen from 80% to 75%. Younger workers have been completely priced out of the major cities.

Death Valley in California just recorded a temperature of 54.4-degrees C. If verified it may set a world record.

The decision to delay New Zealand’s 2020 general election to 17 October, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, was partly about voter and candidate safety and partly to allow parties to campaign fairly.

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Kids lose Lego pieces all the time. This one was gone for two years – until it turned up in a surprised youngster’s nostril.

World Health Organisation (WHO) and a large number of international experts have urged Russia to conduct more testing to ensure the vaccine’s safety before using it.

Latin America is now the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fastest spread of the disease in the region’s cities follows a pattern of contagion that is anything but arbitrary.

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After official visits to 3,000 people meant to be self-isolating found more than 800 not at home, the government instituted the largest on-the-spot fine in the state’s history – A$4,957 for defying a stay-at-home order (and up to $20,000 for going to work knowing you have COVID-19).

Tradespeople and others in licensed occupations would find it easier to work across state and territory boundaries next year under a plan being developed.

Ongoing outbreaks in Australia, new outbreaks in New Zealand and election uncertainty are all factors.

The sector has many of the downsides but none of the benefits of market competition. They are not in control of their own destiny.

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Former Sydney-based realtor gets intensive correction order for mishandling $187 500 of client funds.

After cancelling exams on March 18, the government confirmed that the bedrock of the process for awarding grades would be teacher assessments, placing every student in every exam centre in rank order for each subject.

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In recent years, the notion of an insect apocalypse has become a hot topic in the conservation science community and has captured the public’s attention.

Bureau of Statistics visitor arrival figures show 28% drop for 2019-20. Decline in student arrivals even more dramatic.

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Large 200 000-panel solar farm will create significant financial and energy savings. Equivalent to decreasing coal usage by 60 000 tonnes.

The world produces around 359 million metric tons of plastics each year. Nature cannot address the amount of their disposal at a speed fast enough to prevent harm to living beings.

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The first case in a chain of infections is popularly called “patient zero”. However, “patient zero” is not a very precise term.

In this recession, unlike in previous ones, governments have chosen to help pay salaries to keep workers in work rather than pay unemployment benefits when they laid off.

Freedom of the press is enshrined in Hong Kong’s Basic Law but has suffered in recent years from political and economic pressure and resultant creeping self-censorship, which is reflected in the territory’s poor recent performance in press freedom indices.

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New Zealand’s biggest city must remain on Level 3 lockdown for another 12 days, Prime Minister announces.