- US job losses mount with a 23,000 drop in July and significant downward revisions to prior months.
- Chinese electric cargo vans priced below $50,000 are disrupting Australia's commercial vehicle market.
- A Queensland minister's office said it would stop calls from a domestic violence victim after criticism.
- Marriage rates have fallen from 5.5 to 5.3 per 1,000 adults, with sharpest drops among those aged 25 to 34.
- Les Kiss retained the previous Wallabies squad but added new starters for his Saturday debut in 36-degree heat.
- A 4.9 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed one person when an exterior wall collapsed.
- Tree lobsters, presumed extinct, have recovered since three survivors were found in 2001, with thousands now breeding in zoos.
