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This new open-access tool connects global extraction sites with the ten key metals inside smartphones.

AI performers finding success are not disrupting the conventions of their genres, which may be why audiences have been more willing to accept them.

Learning more about the origins and ecology of our beloved houseplants can help them avoid the compost bin.

Iraq’s media landscape has undergone profound change over the past two decades.

Young people, the challenges of AI and European affairs are set to head the agenda of the pope’s first official visit to France, from September 25 to 28.

RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji’s Constitution Review Commission wants a new governance system for the country and the coup immunity provisions of the 2013 Constitution repealed. Its also recommending giving the Great Council of Chiefs constitutional recognition, scrapping the current electoral system, replacing the current parliamentary system, and pushing the military to focus on external defence.

Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has bluntly warned governments not to undermine public trust by “playing politics with our institutions”.

Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

A new flu jab offer for homeless people arrives just as the NHS bodies meant to deliver outreach face cuts and restructuring.

COMMENTARY: By Anish Chand in Savusavu In 2023, Fiji’s Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA) was scrapped, marking a significant moment for Fiji’s media landscape. A year later, at the PINA Media Summit in Niue, Fijian journalists spoke openly about rebuilding — of a media industry that was learning to find its feet again, reclaim its

Baptisms, schools, church services – how ordinary families navigated love and marriage across taboo lines.

Wednesday’s opening hearing was short and technical. But the commission signalled it is willing to act fast and extend its inquiry to the very top.