Just a few days after footballer Diego Maradona’s death, the Argentinian police investigated his doctor, Leopoldo Leuque in search of elements that would prove potential medical negligence.

The footballer died of a heart attack last week, just a month after he undertook a brain operation in which Dr Leuque was involved in.

The search order was requested by prosecutors in the affluent Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro and signed by a local judge, but the prosecutor's office provided no information on what prompted the investigation.

63 international students from Japan, China, Hong Kong and Vietnam are the first cohort to touch down in Darwin since March this year.

The group will be immediately transferred from Darwin to the Howard Springs quarantine facility where they will undergo 14 days of hotel quarantine. 

The Northern Territory Government arranged a deal with the Federal Government and Charles Darwin University (CDU) in September, to fly the students to Darwin with the university chartering the flight and paying for the quarantine.

A coalition of more than 110 stakeholders, including the former first and second Chief Justices of the Family court, is calling on the Parliament to vote against the merger of the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court that the federal government proposed.

Eminent jurist and former Chief Justice, the Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC, said the proposed merger will undermine the integrity and the specialisation of the Family Court and could lead to undesirable outcomes for children and families.

Visitors to Fraser Island have been told to evacuate this morning, with conditions worsening as a fire continues to burn across the island. 

Fire crews have been battling the blaze for over six weeks, while the fire has burnt over 74,000 hectares of land. 

Guests at KingFisher Island resort will depart the island by 10:30am today, with the resort to remain closed until December 13. 

TransLink will introduce a new app mid-December that should inform travellers about capacity on the state’s public transport to improve social distancing.

As more people head back to the office, it’s becoming trickier to spread commuters out on public transport and this new app should enable them to see a forecast of available capacity  on all bus, tram, train and ferry services across south-east Queensland.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey said the tracker is one way to give people confidence that their next trip will be safe.

Dozens of farm workers have been killed in Nigeria on Saturday in a suspected Boko Haram attack that took place in a rice field only a few kilometres away from Maiduguri, Borno state Capital.

The attack happened the same day as the first local elections in the region since Boko Haram’s insurrection in 2009 and would confirm their role in the attacks, according to an auto defense pro-government group leader Babakura Kolo who was present during the victims’ rescue.

The UN didn’t mention the djihadist group in its press release and no one has yet claimed responsibility.

Firms across the Asia Pacific Region are looking to reduce their supply chain reliance on China, and bring manufacturing back to domestic operations.

The latest Asia Pacific CEO survey, conducted by Westpac’s institutional arm, found that out of 113 chief executives surveyed, two thirds had experienced significant supply disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic. 

The survey shows that over half (57 per cent) of firms surveyed have begun the transition to onshore supply and manufacturing.