The ruling closes a tax 'loophole' that could have cost the government billions of dollars as more employers adopt hybrid work models, with employees working partly or fully from home.
In late 2025, the United States shocked the world by suspending global health aid, leading experts to predict 700,000 additional deaths annually, primarily among children. This prompted the US to propose unusual bilateral health agreements with developing countries, which have drawn criticism for being exploitative.
"Lowering speeds does reduce fuel consumption, especially at highway speeds, because aerodynamic drag increases rapidly as speed rises. A reduction of around 10 km/h can realistically lead to fuel savings in the order of 5-10 per cent, depending on the vehicle and driving conditions."
Korea Zinc, which it described as one of the world's largest smelters, is in talks with major US technology firms to recycle data center waste and extract rare earth. The move comes almost one year to the day after China announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing.
The energy minister, Chris Bowen, acknowledged fuel supplies could face further pressure but ruled out a cut to the fuel excise or rationing fuel purchasing. Bowen said he had cut fuel companies' minimum stock obligations to about 2.2bn litres of diesel and 700m litres of petrol respectively, freeing up about 500m and 300m respectively to be directed towards regional Australia.
They're spending millions and millions of your taxpayer dollars basically to gaslight you about what's going on. It just is basically a way for the government to brag about stuff that they're not actually doing yet. The money spent on the advertisements would have been better used towards improving infrastructure in the north or other projects that are in dire need of funding.
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the "bioleaching" technology. AWS will also be providing "cloud-based data and analytics support," helping to optimize Nuton's mining process. Nuton's bioleaching method uses naturally-occurring microorganisms to extract copper from low-grade ore that would otherwise be too expensive to mine,
After nearly a decade spent transforming Endeavour Mining into one of the world's ten largest gold producers, de Montessus is returning to what has long defined his career: building scale, discipline and credibility in frontier markets where volatility is the rule rather than the exception.
Tribeca Global Natural Resources reported a sharp turnaround in performance for the half-year to 31 December 2025, moving from a loss a year earlier to revenue of $118.6 million and profit after tax attributable to members of $69.5 million. Earnings per share rose to $0.90, net tangible assets per share increased markedly, and the board declared a fully franked interim dividend of $0.05 per share.
A former UK Labour minister supported a campaign to undermine the Rudd Labor government's proposed mining super profits tax in Australia, a document published in the latest tranche of the Epstein files reveals. Lord Peter Mandelson, once one of British Labour's most powerful figures, was sacked last year as the UK's ambassador to the US over his links with the disgraced financier, rapist and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This week, Mandelson resigned from the Labour party altogether as further revelations in documents released by the US Department of Justice show the pair's close links, even after Epstein was convicted of child sex offences.
A former miner at the site told The Associated Press there have been repeated landslides because the tunnels are dug by hand, poorly constructed, and left without maintenance. "People dig everywhere, without control or safety measures. In a single pit, there can be as many as 500 miners, and because the tunnels run parallel, one collapse can affect many pits at once," Clovis Mafare said.
Critical Metals ( NASDAQ:CRML ) shares rocketed 32.6% higher yesterday after the company announced the first assay results from its 2025 drilling program at the Tanbreez rare-earth project in southern Greenland. The results confirmed additional high-grade intersections across the Fjord Deposit and Upper Fjord areas, building on prior drilling success. The stock has now surged approximately 158% year-to-date in 2026 as investors bet on the project's advancement toward a pilot plant launch targeted for May.
With the price of a single ounce of gold now currently hovering around $4,700 (right around its all-time high), the question of course is whether it's too late for investors to dive in. I'm of the view that this momentum rally is probably warranted. That's in part due to the underlying fundamentals of gold and its overall market capitalization relative to stocks (which is still low, despite its recent rally).
Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said. The operation was backed by Interpol, the EU and Dutch police specialising in environmental crime. It involved more than 24,500 checks on vehicles and people across remote border areas and led to the seizure of cash, unprocessed gold, mercury, firearms, drugs and mining equipment, Interpol said.
Rare earths are rapidly evolving into a strategic asset class as nations strive to reduce reliance on China, which retains overwhelming dominance in mining and refining capacity. Driven by surging demand from critical industries and heightened government intervention, the market infrastructure is maturing to meet the challenge. A pivotal milestone in this evolution is the CME Group's plan to launch rare earth futures contracts.
