Common diabetes drug could spark knee-pain breakthrough, study finds
A new study has uncovered another benefit of one of the country’s most commonly prescribed medications for diabetes – joint pain relief. More than six million scripts for metformin are written each year, mainly to treat type 2 diabetes. Researchers at Monash University led a study to see whether the safe and inexpensive tablets More...
Donald Trump privately concedes ending Russia Ukraine is harder than he thought
Five days before his 100th day in office – and 93 days since his own deadline passed for resolving the conflict in Ukraine – President Donald Trump is frustrated his efforts to broker a peace deal between More...
China denies any suggestion it is currently in talks with the US over tariffs
China has denied any suggestion that it was in active negotiations with the administration of US President Donald Trump over tariffs, saying that any notion of progress in the matter was as groundless as “trying More...
China quietly rolls back retaliatory tariffs on some US-made semiconductors, import agencies say
China appears to have quietly rolled back retaliatory tariffs of 125 per cent on some semiconductors made in the US, according to details provided to CNN on Friday by three import agencies in the southern technology More...
Luigi Mangione heads to court to face federal charges as prosecutors file notice they’ll seek death penalty
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to appear in federal court on Friday to enter a plea on charges of stalking and murder. The court appearance More...
National leaders condemn booing at Anzac Day dawn service
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denounced the cowardly behaviour of hecklers who interrupted Welcome to Country acknowledgements at Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne and Perth today. Victorian dignitaries, More...
Man arrested after teenager fatally shot at NSW beach carpark
A man has been arrested after the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the NSW city of Newcastle. Ekam Sahni died after he was allegedly shot in the chest at the Bar Beach carpark about 11.40pm on Wednesday. About More...
Body of man found in water at Cape Schanck on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula
Emergency services were called to a beach off Boneo Road at 9.45am and carried out a search of the ocean. The Victoria Police Air Wing found a man unresponsive in the water. The man, who has not been publicly More...
Woman airlifted to hospital after workplace accident in Victoria
Paramedics were called to the BlueScope facility at 10.20am and called an air ambulance to the scene. A Country Fire Authority spokesperson confirmed an industrial accident had occurred but did not have More...
Defence minister recalls walking in footsteps of veteran grandfather
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has described the moment he walked in the footsteps of his grandfather, Percy Pearce, who fought in the Battle of Pozières in 1916. Marles More...
