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June 15, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThose who were eagerly anticipating the blockbuster trial where Kyle Sandilands goes up against his former employer ARN Media from October 12 may be disappointed.Well, that is if those in radio industry circles were to be believed heading into the weekend. Word is the parties have advanced negotiations and are nearing an agreement to settle Sandilands’ $85 million contract claim in the Federal Court. If all goes to plan, the settlement could be announced as early as this week.Kyle Sandilands…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe successful offering of Elon Musk’s SpaceX over the weekend has share markets bracing for the IPOs of two artificial intelligence megastocks – Anthropic and OpenAI – which will also need to raise unprecedented amounts of cash from the public.Musk’s rocket, satellite communications and AI conglomerate had the perfect debut on Saturday morning (AEST), closing at a 19 per cent premium to the $US135 ($191) that fresh investors paid for each share – including tens of thousands of Australian buyers.Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX,…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAVancouver: Hakan Çalhanoğlu, you are dismissed. Mike Grella, you’re up next. Nestory Irankunda is ready to make you eat your words, too.Irankunda has seen the clip of Grella – a former American player-turned-loudmouth pundit – repeating his name in jest, referring to him as Australia’s best player in an almost mocking tone.Australia’s Nestory Irankunda celebrates the win over Turkey.ETHAN CAIRNS/The Canadian PressThe implication being that, if he is their best player, the Socceroos are no good, and therefore will be no match for the…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALondon: US President Donald Trump has berated Israel for launching airstrikes on Lebanon that could wreck a potential deal with Iran to end months of war, highlighting the danger of retaliatory strikes by Iran to scuttle the peace talks.Trump called on all sides to “stand down” from the latest fighting in order to seal a pact that would bring peace to the region, amid hopes for a swift agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz and restore the global oil trade.A rescue worker checks…

June 15, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralian politics right now is operating in three worlds. Those worlds are separate – atmospherically and substantively – but are beginning to overlap. That intersection will dictate the coming months and possibly the next election.The first world is politics-as-normal. Despite the One Nation drama, this remains the central narrative: the throughline. It lies in actions rather than words: the government delivered a budget and is now fighting to deliver it. Despite feverish commentary, post-budget polling has not yet been calamitous…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATwelve people reportedly died in a plane crash on Sunday in Butler, Missouri, the state highway patrol posted on social media.The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the crash occurred near the Butler Memorial Airport.“At this time reports indicate all occupants (12 total) have perished,” the agency wrote in a post on X.Butler is about 60 miles south of Kansas City, Missouri.More to comeReutersSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.From our partners

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAt first glance, the news is shocking – the type of story that would grace the front page of a tabloid news outlet.The article claims West Australian shark attack victim Steven Mattaboni was on the phone with his wife just moments before he was attacked.The Facebook post exploiting Mattaboni’s death.Voice of AusThe story, posted by a website called “Luxury Blog” and shared by the Facebook page “Voice of Aus”, goes into detail about the alleged audio, and claims it is “now being reviewed by…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe federal government should shut down the current Indigenous Procurement Policy if ‘black cladding’ rorts that deny business to genuine Aboriginal enterprises are not addressed, according to former Aboriginal affairs minister Ken Wyatt.The former member for the WA federal seat of Hasluck believes legitimate Aboriginal-owned companies are losing out to ‘black clad’ companies setting up joint ventures with Indigenous partners in a cynical bid to qualify for and win Commonwealth contracts designed to encourage Indigenous enterprise.Former Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt.Dion Georgopoulos“If that is…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALondon: British troops have boarded a Russian tanker in the English Channel in their first operation to seize a ship in the English Channel, rappelling onto the vessel’s deck and storming its cabins in a pre-dawn raid.The commandos intercepted the ship in darkness on Sunday morning by dropping to its deck from a Chinook helicopter, supported by two Royal Navy vessels, a surveillance aircraft and other helicopters.The commandos intercepted the ship in darkness on Sunday morning by dropping to its deck from a Chinook…

Henry SamuelJune 15, 2026 — 1:27amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWARNING: Graphic contentA 21-year-old woman plunged to her death from a bridge in Brazil after staff allegedly threw her over the edge without attaching her bungee rope.Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was killed in front of horrified witnesses at the Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned railway bridge in Limeira, São Paulo, after workers launched her from a 40-metre drop in a “Superman” pose.Footage of the moments before the fall shows two members of staff carrying her horizontally by her…