Bunnings will be among the first Australian retailers to sell directly inside Google's AI Mode, letting shoppers research and buy without leaving the chatbot. It is a convenience for customers and a quiet handover of the storefront to Google.

Four of Australia's largest employer groups have asked the Senate to throw out Labor's plan to scrap the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount. A committee that began hearings Monday must report by June 22, days before the legislation's window closes.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Minotaur' took the A$60,000 Sydney Film Prize as the 73rd Sydney Film Festival closed on its highest-grossing run yet. For a film already carrying the Cannes Grand Prix, the win is less about the trophy than the road to audiences.

Former NRL and Fiji forward Kane Evans came out as gay on national television, the first high-profile man in Australian rugby league to do so since Ian Roberts in 1995. The 31-year silence between them is the part that should trouble the sport.

Australia has recorded its worst diphtheria outbreak since 1991 and its first death from the disease in nearly a decade, with most of the 245 cases in remote Northern Territory communities. A vaccine blitz has slowed it, but the gaps it exposed remain.

Three tiny fossil species from Queensland's Riversleigh deposits do not fit the marsupial family tree, and UNSW palaeontologists have proposed a new order, Keeunamorphia, to hold them. The find hints Australia's marsupials had several ancestors, not one.

Firmus is building a A$2.1 billion AI data centre outside Launceston that will draw up to 400 megawatts, on track to become Tasmania's single largest electricity user. The company calls it the world's greenest AI factory. The arithmetic is more complicated.

The Athletics were down a run with two outs in the sixth when the night turned, the way it keeps turning for them lately. Alika Williams tied it, Tyler Soderstrom doubled home the go-ahead run as a pinch-hitter, and Oakland beat the Rockies 7-5 in Las Vegas for a fourth straight comeback win.

Kevin Gausman carried a one-hit shutout into the late innings at Rogers Centre, the best version of himself the Blue Jays have seen all year. It bought Toronto nothing. Paul Goldschmidt found the first home run Louis Varland had allowed all season in the ninth, and the Yankees slipped out with a 3-1 win.

Paul Skenes set a career high with 23 swinging strikes and struck out 10 at PNC Park, the kind of line that usually ends in a win. Instead the reigning NL Cy Young winner took the loss, beaten by two second-inning home runs as the Marlins held on 4-2 and Max Meyer improved to 7-0.

Steven Spielberg's alien-encounter thriller Disclosure Day opened to $44 million domestic and $93 million worldwide, per Deadline, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter the director's strongest opening in 18 years and a definitive end to his recent box-office drought.

Vijay Sethupathi stars as a visually impaired beggar who transforms into a ruthless protector of slum communities in Puri Jagannadh's pan-India action drama SlumDog: 33 Temple Road, arriving in theatres on June 19 in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam.

Standing beside Emmanuel Macron in Nice, Narendra Modi declared that a country the world once treated as a buyer of foreign technology now intends to sell its own. The claim, made at the inauguration of Bharat Innovates 2026, is the cleanest statement yet of how the government wants its twelve years in office to be read: not as a story of catching up, but ...

The skies over Monday, June 15, 2026, carry one of the most electrifying signatures of the summer: Venus in Leo forms a precise sextile to Uranus in Gemini, igniting surprises in love, pleasure, and finances for every zodiac sign. This is not a quiet, introspective Monday. The energy crackles. The Cancer Moon, settling into its home sign after departing ...

The New York Times Connections puzzle for Monday, June 15, 2026, is Puzzle #1100, a milestone number that arrives with a grid worthy of the occasion. Today’s board pulls from four genuinely distinct domains: figurative language tied to lasting success, the vocabulary of getting dressed up, the ancient symbolism of the Chinese zodiac, and a botanical ...

Monday’s New York Times Wordle has arrived with a five-letter answer that sits squarely in every home cook’s vocabulary yet managed to slow down thousands of players before the grid resolved. Puzzle #1822, live now at the official NYT Wordle page, resets at midnight, and your streak is on the line. If you are here for calibrated hints, a difficulty ...

Vinnie Pasquantino swung at an inside pitch in the fifth, fouled it off his hand, and walked off with a fractured hamate. Surgery and roughly six weeks on the injured list now hang over a Royals team already buried in the AL Central.

Down to his last strike with the bases loaded, Ceddanne Rafaela drove in two and broke a 2-2 tie, sending Boston past Texas 6-3. The win clinched the Red Sox's first series at Fenway Park since early April, a rare bright patch in a 29-39 season.

Juan Soto thought he had cut the deficit to a run leading off the ninth. A replay review erased the home run, and the Mets never recovered as Atlanta closed out a 3-1 win behind Eli White's three hits.

Tamil actor-director Raghava Lawrence released a video asking fans whether he should enter politics, fuelling speculation that the Kanchana franchise star could contest the Trichy East bypoll on a TVK ticket from Chief Minister Vijay's vacated constituency.

Kim Kardashian attended Ariana Grandes Eternal Sunshine Tour in Los Angeles on June 13, calling the singer my baby on Instagram Stories alongside Emma Roberts and the post went viral, amplified by the thread connecting Kardashian and Grande through Pete Davidson.

Aryan Khan won Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue at the 7th Screenwriters Association Awards for his Netflix directorial debut The Bads of Bollywood, converting two of three nominations into wins while Aditya Dhar's blockbuster Dhurandhar went home empty-handed.

The New York Knicks ended a 53-year title drought Friday night, and the celebration cascading through Madison Square Garden carried a message for more than a dozen NFL fan bases that have been waiting just as long or longer. Whether the salary cap actually delivers on its parity promise is a different question entirely.

Steven Spielberg reveals on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast that he abandoned a fully-cast Porgy and Bess biopic starring Colman Domingo as the original stage Porgy then reunited with Domingo on Disclosure Day, now dominating the box office with a $44 million opening.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed Sunday that the Knicks' ticker-tape parade will begin at 10 a.m. near Battery Park on Thursday, June 18, ending with a Key to the City ceremony at City Hall the first concrete hour New York has had to plan around in 53 years of waiting.