Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives.

The European Union’s newly announced Energy Commissioner will for the first time have the task of leading an EU housing division as well as dealing with more typical duties, such as seeking to lower fuel prices and implement green policy.

The European Commission wants to set up a fund to support strategic sectors, a document showed.

Vietnam is preparing for more flooding with a tropical depression forecast to strengthen into a storm as it heads to its central coast.

Almost one year since losing office, New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins has plunged further, with the support of just 12.6 per cent of Kiwis as preferred prime minister.

One in 10 men in NSW have had run-ins with police for domestic and family violence matters.

Former British TV news presenter Huw Edwards has been given a suspended sentence after admitting to making indecent images of children.

Facebook owner Meta is banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pointed to Labor’s strong record in job creation while defending his government’s economic record, following criticism from a lobby group for big business.

The US Secret Service says it is aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk’s on the X social media platform musing about a lack of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

A man suspected of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump was charged with two gun-related crimes in federal court.

Portugal asked the EU to send it more fire-fighting planes as at least 15 blazes raged in central and northern regions, including one that burned houses on the outskirts of the town of Albergaria-a-Velha.