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Here's what Trump's victory means for Ukraine, Middle East, and China

On the war in Ukraine, Trump is likely to try to force Kyiv and Moscow into at least a ceasefire along the current front lines

US election: What time do polls close and when will the results be known

There is no set national time for voting to begin on the morning of November 5. Most states will begin voting at 7am in their local time, with others starting as early as 5am or as late as 10am

Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris: How each can win race to White House

The final New York Times/Siena poll shows Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris leading by a very small margin or tied with Republican former President Donald Trump in all the swing states

Here's what Trump, Harris each need to secure victory in US election

While there is no clear favourite to win, there are several critical factors that will driving voters' decisions on Election Day

Musk's social media posts have a sudden boost since July, new study reveals

Shortly after Musk endorsed Trump's presidential campaign, there was a statistically anomalous boost in engagement with his X account

Climate may keep changing long after humanity hits net-zero emissions

Global greenhouse gas emissions hit record highs in 2023. At the same time, Earth experienced its hottest year

Two major US newspapers refuse to endorse Trump, sparking democracy debate

At stake is whether the United States remains a functioning democracy or descends into a corrupt plutocracy

Israel, Iran playing dangerous game that will be impossible to contain

Though Tehran has played down the extent of the damage, the Iranian regime has not ruled out a response

Here's how US presidential elections will affect economy, stock market

Both sides have outlined radically different visions of America's economic future, with major implications for the rest of the world

South Africa amends guidelines to allow genetically modified children

Heritable human genome editing has long been hotly contested, in large part because of its societal and eugenic implications

Stalking rates high in Australia as 4% women, 2% of men suffer: Survey

Stalking rates have remained stubbornly consistent despite the same ABS survey showing reductions in the rates of intimate partner violence and general violence over the past decade

Immunotherapy was meant to defeat cancer but what happened to great promise

This works because cancers have fooled the body by using its own natural safety switches, or checkpoints

4,300 tonnes of space junk and rising: Satellite breakup adds to woes

The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around the equator

Microplastic pollution is everywhere even in exhaled breath of dolphins

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet: on land, in the air and even in clouds

Electric car sales slump as misinformation holds back potential buyers

Factors or combinations of them could help explain the slump like governments axing incentives, concerns about safety and depreciation, and misinformation

Earth might warm by 2C or 5.5C, narrowing it would just be a distraction

Measuring long-term climate sensitivity is central to future predictions, but we are already seeing the effects of warming across the world with extremes in weather, even at the low end of the range

Here's why Iran's leaders could lose everything in direct war with Israel

The strike marked a dramatic shift in Iran's calculations following weeks of escalating Israeli attacks on the leaders of its proxy groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, and their forces in both Gaza and Leban

XEC now in Australia. Here's what we know about this hybrid Covid variant

The latest variant to make headlines is called XEC. This omicron subvariant has been reported predominantly in the northern hemisphere, but it has now been detected in Australia too

Data centre emissions witness growth: Is AI or climate change to blame?

Three of the biggest tech companies, Microsoft, Google and Meta, have reported ballooning greenhouse gas emissions since 2020

Sri Lanka's new president faces uphill battle to revive debt-ridden economy

IMF agreement has prioritised the interests of Sri Lanka's creditors, who hold 37 per cent of the country's outstanding foreign debt, and has instead shifted the burden onto working-class Sri Lankans