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A new $6million program aimed to keep teenage girls involved in sport has been announced just days before the Australian soccer women’s team take on China in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup semi-final.Camera IconThe Matildas are through to a semifinal. Credit: Jackson Flindell/The West AustralianSport and Recreation Minister Rita Saffioti announced the Game On, Girls fund on Sunday during the UWA Girls Invitational Tournament, a program which will be rolled out over four years to help clubs remove barriers that can see teenage girls drift away from sport.Clubs will now be able to receive grants of up to $5,000 to…

TAIPEI: Taiwan on Sunday (Mar 15) reported the return of large-scale Chinese air force activities around the island after an unexplained absence of more than two weeks that prompted speculation in Taipei as to Beijing’s motives.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, normally sends fighter jets, drones and other military aircraft around the island on a daily basis, with interruptions generally caused by bad weather.Taiwan’s defence ministry, in a daily update on Sunday morning, said it had detected 26 Chinese military aircraft, concentrated in the Taiwan Strait, over the previous 24 hours. It last reported that many…

NewsFeedVideo has revealed the Iranian Space Research Centre in west Tehran has suffered significant damage from Israeli-US strikes. The ISRC is Iran’s leading satellite and intelligence mapping research agency.Published On 15 Mar 202615 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Washington — One year ago, Rebecca Ferguson-Ondrey and Drew Ruby-Howe were abruptly terminated from their jobs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.They are among more than 300,000 workers to leave the federal government as part of cuts by the second Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.Ferguson-Ondrey said she did not cope well in those initial days.”There were a lot of tears, sitting my kids down and telling them that I had been fired from my job…That was really difficult to have those conversations,” Ferguson-Ondrey told CBS News.But it was a personal conversation between Ferguson-Ondrey and Ruby-Howe that led to a…

The Paparazzi: Once making big money, now a casualty of social media – CBS News Watch CBS News The Academy Awards are on Sunday night and Hollywood’s biggest stars will be under the watchful eye of the paparazzi. Barry Petersen reports that those who once made a lot of money for their shots are no longer.

Advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol in Austin Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.Austin American-statesman/hearst Newspapers | Hearst Newspapers | Getty ImagesThe companies racing to build the massive infrastructure needed for the artificial intelligence boom are facing growing backlash over electricity costs, as households and policymakers question whether data centers are driving up power bills.However, a recent report from SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor research firm, argued that the expansion of data centers is only part of the story, and claimed that market design and policy decisions play a greater role in these energy price increases than AI…

Greyhound racing participants will be compensated as an Australian state forges ahead with a landmark ban.

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his teenage daughter, observed a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, state media reported on Sunday (Mar 15), a likely response to ongoing US-South Korean military training that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that Kim watched the strike drill involving twelve 600mm-calibre, ultraprecision rocket launchers off North Korea’s east coast on Saturday.South Korea’s military said on Saturday that it detected about 10 ballistic missiles fired from North Korea’s capital region toward the eastern sea. South Korea’s national security council called the…

The far-right leader, whose persistent health woes are linked to a 2018 stabbing, endorsed his son to run in this year’s election.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoBrazilian far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, imprisoned for plotting a coup after he lost the country’s last election, is receiving treatment in an intensive care unit after being hospitalised with bronchopneumonia.The DF Star hospital in Brasilia said in a statement on Saturday that the 70-year-old was in a stable condition despite being diagnosed with worsening kidney function.Recommended Stories list of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Four suspected terror attacks have taken place in the United States since the Department of Homeland Security was defunded in a partial government shutdown last month, including one in the state of Michigan where Fox News Digital reached out to all the major Senate candidates if they support funding DHS.Republican Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says he would be a “Yes” vote to re-open DHS and told Fox News Digital in an interview that “we needed all hands on deck” when the United States engaged in “defanging Iran”…