Selena Gomez and Nicola Peltz Beckham celebrate New Year's Eve with Brooklyn and friends
The model and Rare singer brought in 2023 wearing matching sparkling outfits.
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Defence Minister Richard Marles is preparing to make a decision on which nuclear-powered submarine Australia will run, saying they could be in the water sooner than expected.Canberra will decide between an American or British design as part of the new trilateral AUKUS agreement between the three nations.
The wait goes on for the world's leading surfers at the season-opening event in Hawaii, with competition called off for a third consecutive day.Six Australian women - spearheaded by defending world champion Stephanie Gilmore - and seven Aussie men led by world No.
Plastic straws, plates, cutlery and drink stirrers are now banned in Victoria as part of a bid to reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfill.Coffee cups, lids and standard plastic takeaway containers are not included in the single-use plastic ban due to concerns there are not enough viable alternatives.
NSW Labor says there's a crisis in community sport and is promising to increase funding for the sector if it wins next month's election.Labor is promising to increase Organisation Support Program funding to $5 million in 2023-24 and $10 million per year in the years after.
EPL leaders Arsenal have signed experienced Italian midfielder Jorginho from London rivals Chelsea on an 18-month contract.Financial details of the transfer were not disclosed but British media reported the deal was worth Stg 12 million ($A21m).
Australia has slapped financial sanctions and travel bans against members of Myanmar's military junta two years after the group seized power through a coup.Sixteen members of the military regime's governing State Administration Council have been targeted as key individuals responsible for the coup.
Australia's foreign minister has urged the United Kingdom to confront its colonial past in the Indo-Pacific as Britain pushes ahead with a tilt towards the region.In a speech to King's College in London, Penny Wong highlighted the deep links between the two countries, saying many Australians continued to also think of themselves as British after federation more than a century ago.
At "the centre of the universe" for Australian bitterns, the NSW foodbowl region known as the Murrumbidgee, rice growers and conservationists have become somewhat strange bedfellows.Some 3,500 hectares of privately-owned rice fields were four years ago quarantined to boost numbers of the secretive birds.
Russia has claimed to have captured a village just to the north of Bakhmut, a city it is trying to surround in a major push for what would be its biggest battlefield prize in Ukraine in months.A Belarusian volunteer fighting for Ukraine told Reuters from inside Bakhmut that Russian forces were shelling the city constantly and its troops were trying to encircle it.
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.