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A team of scientists has won a $600,000 grant from the government of Australia to continue their work merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.

USS Canberra (LCS 30) has arrived in Sydney, Australia, ahead of its one-of-a-kind commissioning on Saturday which will see the Independence-class vessel become the first U.S. warship to enter service while in a foreign port.

An Australian man and his dog were discovered by a tuna trawler off the coast of Mexico after spending three months drifting helplessly around the Pacific Ocean.

Australia announced Monday it will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to help ensure the uninterrupted flow of military and humanitarian aid into Ukraine. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) asset will be based in Germany.

Germany announced Monday it is sending sending elite troops to Australia as part of joint drills with some 30,000 service members from 12 other nations. The first-time deployment underlines Berlin’s increased focus on the Indo-Pacific as tensions with China build across the region.

A minister in Australia’s left-wing Labor government wasted no time in sneering at Donald Trump Jr. on Thursday after the son of the former U.S. president canceled a planned speaking tour Down Under.

Australian Prime Minister criticized Hong Kong authorities over their pursuit of two pro-democracy activists who live in Australia.

The Australian government passed an emergency bill last week to block the construction of a new Russian embassy on land near the Australian Parliament building.

Russia has gone to Australia’s highest court challenging the power of the federal government to tear up Moscow’s lease on a prime block of Canberra real estate where it had begun constructing a new embassy.

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces a 28-day ultimatum from Australia’s internet safety watchdog to take decisive action against what it considers online abuse and “hate speech,” or face daily fines of $475,000.

A TV celebrity chef has told vegans not to consider dining at his restaurant in Perth, Australia, saying negative reviews from fastidious plant eaters were putting his very livelihood at risk.

The Essendon football club in Australia is actively considering replacing the bomber aircraft it has used as a logo in various forms since World War II.

Nine Egyptian men, alleged to be people smugglers, have been arrested after a migrant boat capsized off Greece, leaving hundreds feared dead.

Australia’s Parliament prevents Russia building new embassy citing threats of espionage and political interference.

Australia’s venerable and widely-read Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Friday apologized for articles published in 1838 that defended colonists accused of murdering dozens of Australia’s indigenous inhabitants.

Australia and the U.S. are reportedly discussing gifting 41 retired Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets to Ukraine, helping fulfil part of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s relentless global quest for air combat assets.

An Australian surfer accused of a naked, drunken rampage in Indonesia apologised for the incident Wednesday and said he is looking forward to being sent home and giving his mother a “big hug.”

Australian left-wingers are alarmed by a May 30 poll showing that most Australians favor caps on migration “until [Australians] have sufficient affordable housing.”

Slow ticket sales for soccer’s upcoming Women’s World Cup in co-host New Zealand are worrying organisers with Kiwis swerving the opportunity of seeing all pool games of defending champions the United States being played on local soil.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape said on Tuesday that a security treaty with Australia has been delayed due to “certain wordings and provisions.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday sneered at news of an expanded security agreement between the United States and Papua New Guinea (PNG), describing President Joe Biden’s snub of the island nation as “proof the U.S. is not taking ties with Pacific Island nations seriously.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a raucous 20,000-person stadium event in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday evening – a warm welcome to the Hindu nationalist leader in response to his decision to visit the country anyway after Joe Biden canceled a stop there.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received an enthusiastic welcome in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, including his PNG counterpart touching his feet in a traditional Indian gesture of respect to elders.

White House reporters assigned to President Joe Biden’s travels in Japan and Australia may have lost money because he chose to cancel the final part of the trip, according to a report.

The future USS Canberra (LCS 30) will join the U.S. Navy active fleet on July 22 with the service’s first international commissioning ceremony destined to be held Down Under on the waters of Sydney Harbor.

An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that even though a planned meeting of the Quad alliance was canceled because President Joe Biden pulled out at the last minute, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fellow Quad member India will still visit Australia next week and hold all of his scheduled events, as well as a bilateral meeting with Albanese.

China’s state-run Global Times had a field day on Wednesday, mocking President Joe Biden for canceling his trips to Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG).

The White House on Tuesday canceled President Joe Biden’s planned trips to Papua New Guinea and Australia, which were to have taken place next week on his way home from the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

The Eurovision Song Contest will hold its final competition on Saturday, pitting 25 of the continent’s most musical countries – and Australia, for some reason – against each other in an increasingly unsuccessful bid to prevent them from going to war.

Australians are nothing if not resourceful. Just ask the woman who was rescued by Wodonga police in the southern state of Victoria after wandering lost and alone in outback bushland for five days.

In her latest stunt, far-left Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe held an anti-Coronation event on Saturday in protest the British Royal Family.

U.S. President Joe Biden is nowhere to be seen as leaders from across the world gather for the Coronation of King Charles III.

A search and rescue for an Australian fisherman was called off after authorities found human remains in two crocodiles spotted upstream from were he was last seen.

Police in Australia have issued an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) to a woman after several people online reported her for opposing the inclusion of a male player in a women’s soccer league.

Australia’s left-wing Labor government announced a nationwide ban on recreational vaping Tuesday. At the same time it is tightening other e-cigarette laws in a huge crackdown on the tobacco industry as it tries to drive teenagers away from smoking in any form.