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WATCH: Best friends of 50 years go viral after one shares cancer journey

In a viral video viewed nearly 30 million times on Instagram, Diana Prince and Candace Eng tell ABC News about their lifelong friendship.

‘Makes Covid look like a tea party’: Australian food prices could rise for the next year, farmers warn

<p>Iran conflict could see shortages not just in fuel, but fertiliser and fossil fuel resins – used to make milk bottles</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Farmers say Australian consumers could pay more for everyday staples for the next year at least as a result of the US-Israel war on Iran.</p><p>But the CEO of dairy farmer cooperative Norco, Michael Hampson, says a six to 12 month disruption to food supply is likely a best-case scenario, depending on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/24/middle-east-violence-trump-claims-very-good-talks-iran">strait of Hormuz reopening</a> soon and global petrochemical supply chains beginning to stabilise.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar...

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Rubio to testify in friend's trial over Venezuela oil deal

<p>Secretary of State <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/rubio-trump-iran-israel-attacks" target="_blank">Marco Rubio</a> is scheduled to testify Tuesday in the federal trial of former U.S. Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.), a longtime political ally, friend and former housemate who's accused of secretly lobbying for Venezuela's government.</p><p><strong>Why it matters</strong>: The only-in-Miami trial sheds light on the unseemly world of shadowy, big-dollar foreign influence efforts in Latin America — and underscores how politically toxic Rivera has been to Rubio's career.</p><hr><ul><li>Rubio asked to be called as a prosecution witness after it became clear that Rivera's team planned to call him as a defense witness — a potential embarrassment for the secretary, three sources tell Axios.</li></ul><p><strong>Friction point:</strong> The timing of the trial comes at an extremely inconvenient time for the secretary of state. He's helping President Trump manage the fallout of the Iran...

Pittsburgh synagogue attack survivors talk about their friendship and healing journey

For StoryCorps, two survivors of the 2018 Synagogue attack in Pittsburgh talk about their friendship.

Operation Epic Fury: The promises and perils of AI warfare

It has been more than a decade since artificial intelligence and military experts were calling AI and autonomous weaponry “the third revolution in warfare,” after gunpowder and nuclear weapons. Now, with the joint U.S.-Israel operation in Iran, codenamed Operation Epic Fury by the U.S. and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel, we are witnessing the next stage of that evolution.