AI vaginas, customisable personalities and fake bruises: the sex doll market is booming. Does it matter how the dolls are treated?
As the sex doll industry grows and AI changes the products available, what does it mean to engage in any kind of relationship with a woman-shaped thing?
Australia could make social media algorithms optional and follow UK ban on pornography depicting strangulation
Social services minister says social media was playing a role in the increase of sexual violence among teenagers
Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to 3,000 as bad weather hampers search
Nepal requests foreign ⁠help in identification and storing of bodies, DNA testing and rescuing people from tunnels
Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 41 Australians still missing
The walls of teaching hospital in Nepal fill with pictures of unidentified victims as authorities collect DNA samples and plan burials before morgues fill up
August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake
August reporting season shows how consumers are responding to cost of living pressures and how retailers are responding
Statins can safely cut risk of heart attacks or strokes in healthy people aged over 70, world-first clinical trial shows
Australian-led trial finds low risk of side effects from common cholesterol-lowering medication for otherwise healthy older people
Ukraine war briefing: Nuclear plant has lost power and running on generators, UN watchdog says
Russian-occupied plant has only 10-day diesel supply on site for generators; Kyiv investigates deadly attack on warehouse. What we know on day 1,649
Sydney man Nava flew to Nepal thinking his wife had been found. Crushingly, ‘the search goes on’
Sumi Adhikari was near the Gyirong border crossing between Nepal and China when catastrophic floods struck. Her family waits in hope
Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 per week – one quarter the cost of caring for a child
Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’
A love letter to the A380, the retiring behemoth that takes Qantas travellers back in time
Quiet cabins, spacious configurations and those hallowed stairs: the Airbus superjumbo has become a favourite of many travellers – and will be missed
Fire in California’s Big Sur region doubles in size overnight, forcing evacuations
Plaskett fire has swept through more than 5,900 acres in Monterey county and remains un-contained, says Cal Fire
Hannah Ferguson: ‘I’m not Zohran Mamdani, I’m not that cool. But that’s the bar I want to set’
She’s written two books, launched a progressive media firm and plans to dethrone the prime minister – all before she turns 30. What is she about?