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OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 prompts backlash in online communities for people with AI companions.

Bob Brown Foundation and Australia Institute accuse environment minister Murray Watt of condemning the Maugean skate to extinction

Informal waste pickers face temperatures as high as 70C (158F) in landfill sites and ‘breathe poison’, activists say.

The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, when the organisation described the killing of six Palestinian journalists in an Israeli air strike as “murder”, the word was a carefully considered choice.

Albanese signals he will revive plans to tax EV drivers as petrol revenues fall; study ranks which professions face the axe from new technology

From South Africa’s Cape Town to Manila in the Philippines and London in the UK, voices are raised in protest.

Economists worry that EJ Antoni’s nomination is largely political in nature for a historically non-partisan role.

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

Turkish FM hosts Syrian counterpart in Ankara; defence ministers sign military cooperation memorandum of understanding.

In areas where male health workers are unwelcome or mistrusted, female vaccinators have carved out a space to thrive.

A transit corridor pact signed by Azerbaijan and Armenia could be game-changing, according to several experts.