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Elon Musk has stirred up fresh debate after making a blunt comment about Australia’s future population trends. The tech billionaire reacted to recent figures showing a continued decline in Australia’s fertility rate. His remark, calling Australians ‘an endangered species,’ quickly spread across social media and triggered a wave of criticism. Many users pushed back, saying…

Image via @marlon3lg and @jakepaul / Instagram A football tournament has sparked an unlikely social media feud between Twitch streamer Marlon Lundgren Garcia and boxing star Jake Paul. It escalated rapidly across X and Twitch, with the two influencers going back and forth. Essentially, the drama began a few days back when Marlon hosted an…

The United States has consumed large quantities of advanced missiles and interceptors during its military campaign against Iran, triggering internal concern that a prolonged drawdown could complicate Washington’s ability to respond quickly to a future crisis involving China and Taiwan, according to multiple US officials and new strategic assessments.The issue has emerged as one of…

US President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his claim that prescription drug prices had been cut by more than 100 per cent, a mathematically impossible assertion, while defending what he described as a “different way” of calculating reductions.Speaking at an event announcing a deal with drugmaker Regeneron, Trump said his administration had reduced…

Rob and Lucy Davies’ dream home extension turns into “nightmare”, ends in arrest/Image: BBC What began as a routine home extension for a UK couple turned into what they later described as a “nightmare”, leaving their house damaged and both of them briefly in police custody.Rob and Lucy Davies, a couple from Basildon in Essex,…

Surveillance footage from the early days of the war shows chaotic scenes inside hospitals in Tehran as air strikes hit nearby areas.Video, released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society recently, captures medical staff scrambling to evacuate patients during the bombardment. In one clip, a nurse is seen carrying three newborn babies to safety, while in…

Pakistan’s military said on Friday that security forces killed 22 alleged militants during clashes in the country’s northwest earlier this week, while a 10-year-old child also died in the exchange of fire near the Afghan border.According to a statement issued by the military’s media wing, “a joint military operation was conducted by security forces and…

The US State Department has announced a reward of up to $10 million for information on Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, also known as Abu Alaa al-Walai, the leader of the Tehran-backed Iraqi armed group Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), which Washington designates as a terrorist organisation.In a post on X on Friday, US officials said they…

Iran lawmaker on Peace talks in Pakistan A member of Iran’s parliamentary national security and foreign policy committee, Mahmoud Nabavian, has criticised recent negotiations with the United States held in Pakistan, calling the decision to raise Tehran’s nuclear programme a “strategic mistake.”In a video clip shared from an interview with SNN TV and later posted…

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal govt.The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalise marijuana for medical or recreational use…