Wetland bird hunters in Victoria will have a longer duck shooting season and can take home more birds under new rules. The Victorian duck hunting season will begin on 19 March and run for 83 days until 9 June, up from 56 days in 2024. Hunters can bag nine ducks a day, up from six,…
Donald Trump has said he finds it “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine and that Vladimir Putin “wants to end the war”, days after his administration cut off military assistance and intelligence to Kyiv. “I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And they don’t have the cards,” Trump told reporters in…
Australia’s new chief scientist has said he is open to the prospect of nuclear power playing a role in the country’s energy mix, but remained focused on forms of energy that were “available to help us right now”. On his first day in the job, Prof Tony Haymet said new energy-intensive technologies like artificial intelligence…
Can USC and UCLA women’s basketball make it deep in NCAA tournament? USA Today’s Jordan Mendoza believes that the women’s teams in Southern California can make a splash in March Madness this year. Sports Seriously LOS ANGELES — As Southern California closed in on a victory over rival UCLA, JuJu Watkins swatted a shot from…
Wellness advice abounds on social media: warnings about “toxic foods”, assertions that parasites are driving your sugar cravings, or claims about solving the “root cause” of bodily complaints with unproven remedies. “Wellness woo” appears in many domains, like nutrition, dermatology, parenting and psychology, says Dr Jonathan Stea, clinical psychologist and author of a new book…
Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal. The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains. As well as democratic governments,…