Rod McGuirk

Associated Press

Strengthen Your Manufacturing Sales Resiliency

Strengthen Your Manufacturing Sales Resiliency

September 24, 2026

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.

SpaceX's Supersized Starship Launches Into Orbit for the First Time

September 28, 2026

Public demonstration of a large invisibility cloak, showing the cloaking structure being positioned around a tree before an audience. This demonstration, where this portion of the tree disappeared at microwaves, was arranged and witnessed by radar boffin Dr. Eli Brookner and the IEEE Phased Array Conference participants.

Beyond Harry Potter: What Real-World ‘Invisibility Cloaks’ Can and Can’t Do

September 22, 2026

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Aurora Outlines 2030 Vision to Scale to 30,000 Driverless Trucks

September 25, 2026

Is Your Shop Floor Ready for the AI Era?

Is Your Shop Floor Ready for the AI Era?

Join the live discussion with experts specializing in AI, analytics, and the future of manufacturing operations.

September 28, 2026

Earth moving equipment work at the site of Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek iron ore operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, June 17, 2014.

Miner Reveals $6.2 Billion Carbon Plan

The company is the world's fourth-largest iron ore producer.

September 20, 2022

Greenpeace Wins Australian Court Case Against Power Company

The Greenpeace campaign used AGL's logo as an acronym for 'Australia's Greatest Liability.'

June 8, 2021

In this Oct. 12, 2020 photo, a worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo.

Largest Meat Producer Getting Back Online After Cyberattack

The cyber breach could contribute to already rising meat prices.

June 2, 2021

Protesters rally outside the Rio Tinto office after the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites in Perth.

Rio Tinto CEO Leaves

The mining giant concluded there was "no single root cause or error that directly resulted in the destruction of the rock shelters."

September 11, 2020

In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, a Qantas 737 plane maneuvers behind another 737 parked at a gate at Sydney Airport in Sydney. Qantas on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2019, said it had found cracking in one 737, following calls from the US Federal Aviation Administration for all airlines to check their fleets of the aircraft.

3 Boeing 737s Grounded Over Cracks

The hairline crack was found in one of eight bolts in the so-called pickle fork assembly in each of the three planes.

November 1, 2019

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Woman Deported Over Smuggled Pork

Countries remain fearful of the African Swine Fever plaquing much of Asia.

October 15, 2019

This Jan. 12, 2019, photo captured by a Mobile Phone Detection Camera and released by Transport for NSW shows a driver using a mobile phone while driving in Australia. Australian state New South Wales is attempting to persuade the public to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, Australia’s most populous state was the first jurisdiction in the world to use such technology to punish drivers distracted by social media, text messages or phone calls. The government intends to roll out 45 Mobile Phone Detection Cameras across the state by December, he said.

New Technology Can Catch Drivers on Phones

Road safety experts are alarmed at the growing prevalence of accidents involving drivers using smartphones.

September 23, 2019

VW to Pay Up To $87M For Scandal

The exact amount will depend on how many owners of the affected 100,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda diesel vehicles join the class action.

September 16, 2019

Empty shelves, normally stocked with strawberry punnets, are seen at a Coles Supermarket in Brisbane. Public fears about sewing needles concealed inside strawberries on supermarket shelves have spread across Australia and New Zealand as growers turn to metal detectors and the Australian government launches an investigation to restore confidence in the popular fruit.

Needle-in-Strawberry Scare Spreads

Sewing needles concealed inside strawberries on supermarket shelves have spread across Australia and New Zealand.

September 17, 2018

In this May 24, 2018, photo, Jiang Hui whose mother was on board the missing Malaysia airplane MH370 speaks to journalist about Texas-based company Ocean Infinity's search in Beijing, China. Australia said Tuesday that it was holding out hope that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would one day be found, as the last search by Ocean Infinity of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean where the plane was believed to have been lost was scheduled to end Tuesday.

Co. Hopes to Search Again After MH370 Fail

Ocean Infinity said the search would soon end after covering more than 143,000 square miles of remote ocean floor.

May 29, 2018

In this May 23, 2013 file photo, a banner is displayed at a Ford dealership in Sydney. Ford Motor Co.’s Australian subsidiary was fined 10 million Australian dollars ($7.6 million) by an Australian court on Thursday, April 26, 2018, for mishandling customer complaints about faulty automatic transmissions in thousands of cars.

Ford Fined for Mishandling Complaints

The Federal Court ordered the $10 million penalty for "unconscionable conduct."

April 26, 2018

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims talks about a compulsory recall order of 2.7 million cars fitted with defective Takata air bags, in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Australia issued a compulsory recall for cars fitted with defective air bags in an effort to lift the auto industry's mixed efforts to fix the fault blamed for multiple deaths around the world.

Australia Makes Takata Recall Mandatory

It's an effort to lift the auto industry's mixed efforts to fix the fault blamed for at least 23 deaths around the world.

February 28, 2018

Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull walks in front of military trucks during a visit to Thales Underwater Systems in Sydney, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. The government announced a new strategy to boost Australia into the ranks of the top 10 defense industry exporting countries within a decade through arms sales to liked-minded nations and with safeguards to keep weapons out of the hands of rogue regimes.

Australia Focuses on Defense Exports

The push to increase Australian defense manufacturing jobs came after General Motors Co. in October became the last automaker to quit building Australian cars.

January 29, 2018

In this Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018 image made from a video provided by Westpac Little Ripper, a yellow flotation device is dropped from a flying drone toward two teenagers caught in a riptide in heavy seas off the Australian coast. A flying drone has dropped the flotation device to the pair in what officials describe as a world-first rescue. They were about a kilometer (0.6 mile) from lifeguards who were about to start training with the new drones, equipped with a camera, rescue gear and six rotors.

World's First Drone Rescue Saves Two Teens

The kids were caught in a riptide.

January 19, 2018