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Australian Influencer Khiana Smith Fights for Life in Bali After Contracting Meningitis

Khiana Smith, a 23-year-old fitness creator from Australia's Gold Coast, is still in a Bali hospital with a severe brain infection. Her family hopes doctors will clear her to fly home in about a week.

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Chrishell Stause and G Flip Confirm Split After Four Years

Chrishell Stause, a star of "Selling Sunset," announced Monday that she and the Australian musician G Flip (Georgia Claire Flipo) have separated. Stause, 45, shared the news in an Instagram video, saying, "G and I are now longer together," and asked that people "treat this public separation with love and respect for each other."

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Australian Lawmaker Helen Haines Critical After Deliberate Vehicle Attack in Wangaratta

Independent federal MP Helen Haines is in critical condition after being hit by a car outside her electoral office in Wangaratta, Victoria, on Monday. Police are treating the strike as possibly deliberate.

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Air India Expands Australian Routes and Fleet While Perth Remains Unconnected

Air India will lift its Melbourne-Delhi and Sydney-Delhi services from daily to 11 times a week, the carrier's global head of sales, Manish Puri, has announced. The expansion is part of a wider widebody deployment the airline is planning across the United States, Australia and Europe.

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How Commercial Models and Patient Demand are Reshaping Medicine and Creating New Risks

Medicine in Australia is increasingly being shaped by what patients demand rather than what doctors recommend, according to an article published Sunday by The Conversation.

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Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food Reaches 115,000 People Through Cooking Education

Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food programme has reached more than 115,000 people in the UK, Australia and the US since its launch in 2008, according to the chef's foundation.

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From $100 to $5 Million: How Bianca Monley Built a Meal Empire

Bianca Monley quit her job as a waitress in October with $100 to her name and a Bondi apartment, setting out to start a meal delivery service. The Australian, then 21, began by cooking for 10 gym friends.

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Troye Sivan Releases New Album 'She's the Best' Blending Club Life and Longing for Love

Troye Sivan released his fourth studio album, "She's the Best," this week, a 12-track collection he has described as a "musical diary" split between the club scene and the solitude of searching for love.

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2026 Nobel Prizes in Science Awarded for Sci-Fi-Like Discoveries in Physics, Medicine, and Chemistry

The 2026 Nobel Prizes in physics, physiology or medicine, and chemistry were announced Friday, recognizing work on cosmic neutrino detection, light-controlled brain cells, and the chemistry of mirror-image molecules.

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2026 Nobel Prizes: Optogenetics, Neutrinos, and Chiral Chemistry

This year's Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, and chemistry were announced Friday. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to biophysicists Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin and Georg Nagel of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, along with neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, for foundational work on optogenetics, a technology that uses light to activate specific cells such as neurons.

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2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Breakthroughs in Asymmetric Synthesis and Chirality

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work on chirality, the property that lets molecules exist as non-superimposable mirror images, like left and right hands.

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Ampol to Acquire Evie Networks for $225 Million to Expand EV Charging Network

Ampol has agreed to buy electric vehicle charging operator Evie Networks, the fuel retailer announced on Thursday. The company plans to acquire 100 per cent of Evie, whose legal entity is Fast Cities Australia Pty Ltd, for $225 million.

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From Prison to AI Billionaire: Firmus Hits $44B Valuation

Firmus Technologies will list on the Australian Securities Exchange on October 23 at a valuation of US$30 billion (A$43.7 billion). The West Australian reports it as the second-largest IPO in Australian history and the fourth-biggest anywhere in the world this year.

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Stopover Options for British Travellers Heading to Australia

British travellers flying to Australia have new stopover options, including visa-free entry to Chengdu, China, starting this year. The city offers flight connections to Sydney and Melbourne.

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New Delhi Traffic Chaos Ahead of BRICS Summit

New Delhi has ground to a near-total halt as security forces deploy across the capital ahead of the BRICS summit starting Saturday. Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel have erected barricades and established strict checkpoints throughout the city.

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NFL Week 1 TV Schedule: 2026-27 Season Opener and International Game

The 2026-27 NFL regular season begins on Wednesday, September 9, opening with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots.

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LA Rams and 49ers Charter Qantas A380s for Historic Melbourne NFL Game

The Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers arrived in Melbourne aboard chartered Qantas A380 jumbo jets ahead of the first regular-season National Football League game played in Australia.

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Nvidia Plans Major Data Centre Expansion in Australia to Meet AI Demand

Nvidia announced a plan to more than double Australia's data centre computing capacity through a partnership with local firms. The initiative involves collaborating with Firmus, CDC, NEXTDC, and AirTrunk to build up to 2 gigawatts of artificial intelligence-related capacity by 2027.

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