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The launch of Meta's artificial intelligence tool has generated a wave of confusion among users as the AI bots descended upon familiar social media apps and began interacting with real people. Here are five quick questions on what the new tool means for users.

A tabloid newspaper executive has told the jury in Trump's criminal trial how he worked to kill stories that could damage the former president's 2016 election campaign.

While promoting her new film The Idea of You, actor Anne Hathaway described as 'gross' previous practices she's been subjected to involving chemistry auditions where she had to kiss a long list of potential co-stars, one after the other.

The Voyager 1 probe has resumed transmitting usable data after months of spouting gibberish.

Student protests in the US over the war in Gaza intensify and expand, with a number of encampments now in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New York University.  

Humanity's most distant spacecraft — which fell silent in November — is once again sending status reports after NASA engineers working with a two-day communication delay devised a software fix for a failed computer chip.

A former newspaper publisher outlines how he bought and buried negative stories about Donald Trump, and the former president's lawyer is chastised by a judge, as the "hush money" criminal trial continues in New York.

US publishing executive David Pecker told the court he published positive stories about Trump and suppressed negative ones.

The former US president says the criminal case against him is giving president Joe Biden an 'unfair' advantage in the presidential election campaign.

When women pick out a sports bra they're probably not thinking of their knees, but surprising new research shows there's a link between breast support and serious knee injuries.

During the 1972 election campaign, Gough Whitlam promised to lift the lid on Pine Gap and share its secrets. Ultimately, as prime minister, he was left out of the loop.  

Maggie Rogers's Fleetwood Mac-inspired third album is one of the best new releases you should wrap your ears around this week.

An album recorded just months before Johnny Cash began his acclaimed American series of releases has been unearthed from the archives and will be released this June.

Prosecutors in New York have told jurors Donald Trump corrupted the 2016 election.

New York prosecutors have accused the former US president of a conspiracy to 'corrupt' the 2016 US presidential election.

Sydney-born Katherine Bennell-Pegg is breaking barriers to become the very first qualified astronaut under the Australian flag.

The ASX 200 has ended higher on Tuesday after Wall Street's three major stock markets all finished higher overnight, while Crown Sydney has been allowed to keep its casino licence.

From her early childhood well into adulthood, Susannah Breslin was studied by US researchers who became like parent figures to her. She has mixed feelings about the study's impact on her life.

Zendaya plays a tennis star cut down in her prime in Challengers, but that's just the beginning. The newest film from Luca Guadagnino looks at lust, betrayal and manipulation. 

The former president's defence argued it was not a crime to pay someone to keep quiet about false allegations.

Why are rap's biggest names fighting? And why is that good business for everyone involved? Here's your answers.

The former US president travels from Trump Tower to the New York City Criminal Court for the first hearing of his trial over hush money claims.

The former US president says legal proceedings in his hush money trial are affecting his election campaign.

A prosecutor lays out the "Trump Tower conspiracy", the former president's lawyers argue he's "cloaked in innocence", and a former titan of tabloid media educates jurors on chequebook journalism at the historic hush money trial in New York. 

The head of Israeli military intelligence, who last year accepted responsibility for the failures that allowed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, has resigned, the military says.