Europe

Barnaby Joyce has blamed “union thugs” for the shock resignation of Annastacia Palaszczuk over the weekend.“I think we know why she has gone — the union thugs have got in there,” the Nationals MP told Seven’s Sunrise on Monday morning.The…

NSW motorists using toll roads will be limited to racking up a weekly toll bill of $400, if they want to benefit from the $60 cap – a key election promise of the Labor government before it won the state election in March. During the…

Australia, the United Kingdom and America will deploy advanced artificial intelligence to track and surveil submarines in the Asia-Pacific as part of a larger AUKUS-led collaboration to contain threats to democracies in the region,…

One HSC subject has been identified as a clear marker of a private school education in Australia – and it might not be what you think.NSW Department of Education and NSW Standards Authority data, compiled by Nine newspapers show Engineering…

Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a $US1 billion lawsuit over his role in promoting non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.NFTs are digital assets with unique identifiers that indicate…

A tech conference has been cancelled after its founder was accused of faking women speakers’ profiles with AI, in a scandal described as one of the strangest to rock the developer community. DevTernity is a bumper conference for software…

The ranks of the Reserve Bank are set to be bolstered following the appointment of a top official from UK’s central bank.Following a 31-year stint at the Bank of England, Andrew Hauser, who has most recently led the markets division, will…

Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is expected to pay fines totalling $US4.3 billion ($6.6 billion) and its chief is planning to step down, a US media report said on Tuesday.In a deal with US authorities that could allow…

It is an inherent characteristic of social and political elites that they treat populists with either fear or scorn: Scorn when they are considered unthreatening and fear when the threat inevitably becomes real.But what is most remarkable…

Geert Wilders, a far-right, anti-Islam Dutch politician who wants to ban mosques and deport illegal immigrants, has won the Netherlands election in a political earthquake that will be felt across Europe.Exit polls on Wednesday suggested the…