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Wall Street has risen as wage growth data indicated that the Federal Reserve's aggressive approach to taming inflation is taking hold ahead of a decision by the central bank while gains on the Dow were limited by weak earnings updates.US labour costs increased at their slowest pace in a year in the fourth quarter as wage growth slowed, bolstering expectations of the Fed slowing the pace of its interest rate increases.
Interest in electric vehicles is rising in Australia and Baby Boomers have become the most likely generation to buy one of the next-generation vehicles, according to new research.The survey of 1040 Australian drivers found electric cars had become the third most sought-after vehicle in Australia in 2022, after family and economical models, with older drivers narrowly overtaking Gen Z to become the most likely group to buy one.
A new glowing medical material is being touted as a promising alternative to mesh implants and internal stitches.Researchers at Melbourne's RMIT University developed the antimicrobial suture material using a combination of iodine and tiny nanoparticles called carbon dots.
A review of potential alcohol bans to address surging youth crime in Alice Springs will be presented to federal and territory governments after tough takeaway restrictions were put in place.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles last week on new measures to curb anti-social behaviour in the red centre.
Former Liberal minister Alan Tudge will testify on his involvement overseeing robodebt to the royal commission examining the scheme.Mr Tudge, who was human services minister between 2016 and 2017, will be the third former minister to be questioned at the inquiry into the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery program.
Australians have one more reason to roll up their sleeves in February, with a free designer bandage given to those who donate blood for cancer patients.Fashion designer Camilla Franks has teamed up with Lifeblood to create the limited edition bandage ahead of World Cancer Day on Saturday.
Welfare advocates are putting a spotlight on the federal government's planned tax cuts for the wealthy, urging them to be scrapped in favour of lifting the rate of JobSeeker and other support payments.Anglicare Australia has released its submission to the government ahead of the May budget, renewing its call to lift the rate of JobSeeker and other key payments.
The role of the central bank, supermarkets and energy companies in the cost of living crisis will be scrutinised at a parliamentary hearing.The Senate committee on the cost of living will hear from the Reserve Bank, Woolworths, energy companies and welfare groups on Wednesday.
Cardinal George Pell's body will lie in state at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral as child sexual abuse survivors tie ribbons on the fence to remind the public of clergy abuse.The 81-year-old former archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney died in a Rome hospital last month from heart complications following hip surgery and was given a traditional cardinal's funeral by the Vatican at St Peter's Basilica.
What Australians believe are the best actions they can take to reduce their carbon footprint are not necessarily the most effective.A report from investment manager Australian Ethical, drawing on research by the UTS Business School and Lonergan Research, shows how people could better use their time, money and energy.
Dressed in high-vis and working on a roof, Meliha Birkett is the one per cent.She is one of roughly 65 female roof tilers in Australia, among 6500 people employed in the trade.
Less than two months out from the NSW elections, the chronic teacher shortage remains a pressing issue as students and teachers go back to class.A fresh parliamentary inquiry is starting hearings on Wednesday into why there are more than 3300 teaching vacancies across the state.
The housing market fell another one per cent in January, with the major cities still leading the downturn.CoreLogic's home value index shows ongoing resilience in regional areas despite fewer people moving out of cities, and the massive pandemic upswing in the regions eroding much of the affordability advantage.
The Greens have renewed a call to ban coal and gas company money going to political parties and to impose a $1000 cap on donations, ahead of the release of the latest data.The Australian Electoral Commission will on Wednesday release the 2021/22 financial disclosure returns from parties, candidates, donors and organisations such as unions.
Lebanon will adopt a new official exchange rate of 15,000 pounds per US dollar on February 1, central bank governor Riad Salameh says, marking a 90 per cent devaluation from its current official rate that has remained unchanged for 25 years.The shift from the old rate of 1507 to 15,000 is still far off the parallel market, where the pound was changing hands at about 57,000 per US dollar on Tuesday.
Italian embassies all over the world are at risk of anarchist attacks linked to the case of the hunger-striking Alfredo Cospito, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says.Cospito, 55, is an Italian anarchist who has been on a hunger strike for more than 100 days to protest against being jailed under the strict "41 bis" isolation regime.
Pope Francis has landed in Democratic Republic of Congo for a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the vast central African country, which is rich in minerals but where millions are displaced and live in poverty.Francis is the first pope to visit DR Congo since John Paul II in 1985, when it was still known as Zaire.
The United States will impose further sanctions on Myanmar, according to a US Treasury Department statement seen by Reuters, marking the two-year anniversary of the coup in partnership with US allies.The US will impose sanctions on the Union Election Commission, mining enterprises, energy officials and current and former military officials, according to the statement.
Distraught relatives have thronged hospitals in Pakistan's Peshawar to look for their kin a day after a bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people, mostly policemen.The attack, in the Police Lines district, was the deadliest in a decade to hit the northwestern city near the Afghan border and comes amid a surge in violence against the police.
Thousands of ambulance workers in England will carry out fresh strike action on February 10 in a dispute over pay and staffing, the UNISON trade union says.They join ambulance workers in other trade unions who plan to stage several walkouts in February and March following an earlier wave of strikes both this month and in December.