The Federal Government has signed two new agreements to release potential COVID-19 vaccines in Australia next year.

The agreements will see Australia receive 40 million doses of a vaccine developed by Novavax and an additional 10 million doses developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

A Victorian Member of Parliament was among the hundreds of people fined by Victorian Police for taking part in Tuesday’s anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne.

Liberal Democratic MP David Limbrick says the group should have been allowed to protest, despite Victoria’s ban on large gatherings in response to COVID-19.

Ethiopia could be on the brink of civil war after Prime Minister Ariy Ahmed sent troops into the Tigray region in the north of the country.

Mr. Ahmed made the order after a reported attack on the army by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

The United States has today formally withdrawn from the Paris Agreement after President Donald Trump announced his intentions to do so in 2017.

189 countries remain committed to the agreement, which requires countries to set their own targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Pet parrot alerts owner of Brisbane house fire before smoke detectors, both escaping uninjured.

Resident Anton Ngyuen was alerted by his pet parrot, Eric, calling Anton’s name and saving them from the fire.

The house in Kangaroo Point was engulfed in flames, and an investigation is underway

The damages from Queensland’s Halloween hailstorm climbed to $110 million and will continue, insurers have warned victims of potential scammers.

The hailstorm left 95,000 households without power and some Ipswich residents saw tennis-ball sized hailstones.

Thousands of small and medium-sized business have been using QR ‘quick response’ codes for COVID-19 tracing but privacy and cybersecurity experts are sounding their alarms on personal data concerns.

Europe’s COVID-19 cases reach over 11 million infections and 285,000 have died, Austria and Greece are the latest to impose lockdown.

Greece shut down major cities and Austria went into partial lockdown joining Belgium, France, Germany and Ireland in re-imposing lockdowns.

American’s are lining the streets to vote and election analysts Anthony Green is reporting live results, putting Joe Biden ahead in polls with 203 electoral college votes to Trumps 97.

In the lead up to today, Americans have been warned the early votes and mail-in votes may skew early optics of who is likely to win.