Websites and apps including Canva, Snapchat, Roblox and Amazon itself are coming back online after a major outage hit Amazon Web Services late yesterday, disrupting internet services for millions of users worldwide.
The S&P/ASX 200 Index rose almost half a per cent to 9032 points yesterday, led by the bourse’s biggest company, the Commonwealth Bank, which jumped 2.6 per cent. Westpac and NAB rose by one per cent, and another financial, QBE, surged by nearly four per cent.
Independent candidates with the biggest financial backing did not always get elected at the May federal election, and Climate 200 and individual donors provided a record $27 million into independent community campaigns.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has raised concerns about the reliability of sun protection testing from a well-used British laboratory, with several popular brands not achieving their advertised SPF 50 rating.
Suspected space debris has been found burning near an outback West Australian mine site. Authorities don’t know where it came from, though they are confident it wasn’t from a domestic aircraft.
French police are searching for four suspects believed to have stolen royal jewellery of “inestimable” historical value from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday night.
