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Leap Second Faces Its End as Timekeepers Meet at Versailles

Mei Chen / October 12, 2026

The world’s timekeepers are meeting in France this week, and ABC News reports they are expected to vote on abandoning

Kwame Nkrumah / October 12, 2026

Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday that doctors had found an early, well-localised nodule on his lung, and that he

Mei Chen / October 11, 2026

A judge in Ensenada, Baja California, has found three men guilty of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and

Kwame Nkrumah / October 11, 2026

Nikon has disqualified the winning entry in its Small World in Motion competition, a contest for video recorded through the

Mei Chen / October 8, 2026

Kenya has recorded the first Ebola case in its history, after a Kenyan man who had travelled from the Democratic

Kmart’s $89 Anko camera glasses no longer appear on the retailer’s website. On the same day, Wednesday 7 October, Privacy

North Melbourne has named Fremantle assistant coach Jaymie Graham as its new senior coach, choosing him to succeed four-time premiership

Mei Chen / October 6, 2026

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for

Mei Chen / October 3, 2026

Updated 11 October 2026: The driver, who was formally refused bail at a first court appearance, was granted bail at

Queensland police seized 558 non-compliant e-mobility devices and issued more than 2,400 traffic infringement notices to riders in the first