Oil prices were trading nearly 2% higher on Monday after the U.S. attacked ‌an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz and drew retaliation from Tehran, as their conflict extended into its sixth month.

The attorney-general has defended Labor’s decision not to crack down on the import of smart glasses, instead calling on businesses and local councils to step up enforcement.

Hundreds of staff at Australia’s oldest university are set to walk off the job amid concerns over artificial intelligence.

A man who stabbed his romantic rival to death genuinely believed he got away with murder for two decades after police inaction, a judge has found.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Sunday introduced measures to address rising living costs and support businesses, including restoring ​higher quotas for subsidised petrol and diesel purchases, as well as more funding ‌for schools and small traders.

Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in Kathmandu to discuss the risk of such disasters.

Skinny culture is trending again, according to the internet.

U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran’s ​Larak island on Sunday, a U.S. official said, marking the first ‌known American strikes on Iran since late July.

Iranian leaders are acknowledging the economic toll of war with the U.S., with the supreme leader urging the government to ​address the hardship and the president saying foreign trade has shrunk by a third due to the American sanctions and blockade.

A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated ​women’s human rights but did not meet the legal definition of genocide, two expert reports concluded on Friday.

Italian opposition parties have denounced an attack on press freedom after state broadcaster RAI removed a veteran journalist as presenter of its flagship investigative programme, while government allies have welcomed the move.

At least 37 people were killed after a Russian drone attack ‌on a Kyiv-area ammunition depot sparked a detonation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, vowing to punish suspected negligence in the second such incident in two months.