Новости за 26.03.2019

What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.

Wall Street's three major indices closed higher, giving Australia's market good lead.

UFC star Conor McGregor is under investigation for sexual assault in his native Ireland with the news coming just hours after his latest retirement.

Qualcomm says it's due billions of dollars in unpaid royalties on the iPhone as the two tech giants argue over the value of the chipmaker's patents.

Two restaurants owned by the Yianoulakis family in Mawson and Hawker were destroyed in separate fires on Tuesday night.

Australia's problems at the World Cup selection table are not limited to the imminent returns of star batsmen David Warner and Steve Smith.

The Australian under-23 side kept their hopes of a first Olympics berth since 2008 alive despite giving up a two-goal lead in Cambodia.

The plan was hatched after an investigation revealed a deep-seated culture of sexual misconduct in the London insurance market.

Plus, why 500 tonnes of sand is set to be trucked to Canberra.

Alphabet Inc's Google said it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

At a meeting of the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama, on Tuesday, Pence said NASA needs to achieve that goal "by any means necessary."

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Michelle Obama's reported $US60 million advance has paid off for its German publisher, with 10 million copies of the book sold since its release in November.

No re-imagining of Dumbo was likely to match the magic of the 1941 original, but director Tim Burton has given this impossible task his best shot, and the result is one of his more personal recent films.

A donation from someone with the surname Tarrant stood out to investigators probing a far-right leader's accounts because it was an unusually large amount.

Former president Barack Obama had a private chat with a group of freshman House Democrats on Monday evening and he had plenty of advice.

In a stunning reversal, Chicago prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges, citing just two factors.

The director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate revealed how the agency has worked closely with the military during Middle East operations.

Broadcasting Commission v Musicians’ Union, Fort Lytton guns and wandering cows.

The report by special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has turned out to be an anti-climax.

The accusations against Scott Morrison are starting to look like the real person he wants everyone to see is in fact not there.

Steve Dickson called on to clarify his remarks, made In a covertly filmed segment for Al Jazeera, about the powerful body overseeing Qld's corruption watchdog.

Queensland Health's integrated electronic medical record project was struggling to prove its worth in early 2015.

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The council has approved a procurement process for two companies to bring scooters on the streets for at least two years.