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Oil prices soar more than 9 per cent as the US president threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. Follow the day’s financial news and insights from our specialist business reporters on our live blog. Disclaimer: This blog is not intended as investment advice. Tue 14 Jul 2026 at 7:43am Tue 14 Jul 2026 at…

A teenage boy has been charged and is expected to face court today following an alleged stabbing at a Far North Queensland high school. Police were called to Trinity Bay State High in the inner Cairns suburb of Manunda just before noon yesterday after reports a 15-year-old had suffered a wound to his abdomen following…

An investigation has found the former president of a New South Wales football club awarded his own companies more than $450,000 worth of construction work in an apparent conflict of interest. James Savage, 61, is the former president, director and chief executive of the Erina Rugby League Football Club (RLFC) on the state’s Central Coast,…

A 45-year-old man has died after being pulled from a burning caravan in Central Queensland overnight. Emergency services were called to an address on Monaco Drive in Zilzie just after 10pm over reports of a caravan on fire. A neighbour pulled the man from the caravan and he was given CPR, but the 45-year-old died…

Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog. It’s great to have your company here early this Tuesday morning! I’m Josh Boscaini joining you live from Parliament House in Canberra, here and ready to bring you all of today’s federal politics news. In some news around today, the eSafety commission says Australians have made…

After his crushing Wimbledon defeat to Flavio Cobolli, life has picked up for Alex de Minaur, who was in despair after last week’s fourth-round loss. On Monday morning AEST, while Jannik Sinner was beating Alexander Zverev in the men’s final, he married British number two Katie Boulter near the English midlands village in which she…

Pocketable point-and-shoot cameras are having a serious moment. New and old models are selling out, with most camera manufacturers struggling to keep up with demand. The Fujifilm X100VI, a very popular camera on social media, took me five months to receive after placing my pre-order. As NBC Select’s tech reporter (and a photography enthusiast), I…

The RACQ has warned of a return to the “unfair” unleaded price cycle in south-east Queensland after some stations hiked petrol prices by as much as 30 cents in the last week. While the average price for unleaded petrol in Brisbane was 172.1 cents per litre on Monday, RACQ economic and affordability specialist Ian Jeffreys…

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Ukraine and nine other countries will form a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, utilising Kyiv’s experience in fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion for over four years. “Our goal is to build a shared ballistic missile defence capability for Europe,” the 10 nations said in a statement in Paris at talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…