Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch a satellite into space to track rising sea level.

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifts off on November 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Its mission is to track the accelerating rise of sea levels which threaten the habitat of more than a third of the world's population.

The Northern Territory Supreme Court heard Michael Holden set 18 fires over 16 months between May 2018 and September 2019.

Michael Holden was a volunteer firefighter for five years with the Darwin River Volunteer Fire Brigade, he battled dozens of blazes to protect the community; however, the court heard some of the fires burned for several days.

Holden has pleaded guilty to setting these fires which threaten properties in the rural area burning the equivalent to 1700 soccer fields.

The controversial Community Development Program is set to resume this week but critics are calling to suspend the program.

It is estimated the programme disproportionately affects 80% of Indigenous people.

Member for Lingiari, Labor’s Warren Snowdon told NITV News the program needed a ‘radical’ change calling the program flawed.

With 10 days left of the Queensland State Election,  Brisbane Times reports, both major parties say the state election is about who voters trust more to get us out of the recession but experts are calling out both leaders.

Experts say, Annastacia Palaszuk and Deb Frecklington for failing to focus on who has been affected by the pandemic, the people.

A $3.6 million grant for a study into a coal-fired power station was granted before a key report was finalised

The study looks into the feasibility of a 1 gigawatt ‘high efficiency, low emissions’ coal plant in north Queensland.

The report found that an increase in dispatchable energy ‘could put downward pressure on prices’

In Nigeria a 24-hour curfew was imposed on the city of Lagos after a two week anti-police brutality protest.

For two weeks demonstrators have been holding protesting against a police unit known as ‘SARS’ a Special Anti-Robbery Squad, accused nationwide of kidnapping, harassment and extortion.

The governor of Nigeria wrote in a tweet as he announced the curfew, he was shocked how the #EndSARS degenerated into a monster.

The US Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google, claiming Google has acted unlawfully to keep its position in the market.

The lawsuit says that Google has nearly 90 per cent of all general search engine queries in the United States and almost 95 per cent of searches on mobiles.

The lawsuit was joined by 11 US states which marks the biggest antitrust case since Microsoft in 1998. 

A study showed two years after Australia’s latest and most effective medications come onto market, people in remote and low socioeconomic areas are 62 per cent less likely to receive it than those in the city.

The study followed all 1.2 million Australians treated for type 2 diabetes between 2007 and 2015.

Rural Doctors Association Queensland said they do not have specialists in rural areas who may have access to additional support these new medications may require. 

New Zealand has become the most diverse parliament with almost half of their MP’s identify as women and around 10 per cent are from the LGBTIQ+ community.

The votes are still being counted but its estimated New Zealand parliament will have 48 per cent women.

There are also 16 Maori, eight  Pasifika MPs, and 12 of the 120 seats have been won by people in the LGBTIQ+ Community.