Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust with three separate cases.

In a televised speech, Mr Netanyahu said the police aren’t after the truth and called for the country to “investigate the investigators”.

Israel’s attorney general Avichai Mandelblit said, "law enforcement is not a choice. It is not a matter of right or left. It's not a matter of politics”.

More than £84,850 has been raised to support the families of the 39 Vietnamese people who died while attempting to enter the UK.

Despite Vietnam's government offering loans to relatives, families of the victims said this will only leave them further in debt. 

Pham Ngoc Tuan, brother of one of the victims, said, "we already had to borrow so much money, we had to mortgage what we had. I don't even know if we can borrow any more."

Fuel prices in inner Brisbane suburbs are at record heights.

The RACQ is warning motorists that the cost of unleaded fuel is at an all time high in Brisbane’s inner and western suburbs.

The average cost of unleaded fuel rose to an expensive 173.1 cents per litre which smashed the previous record of 169.4 cents per litre from October last year.

The University of Queensland has found a stool test that measures protein can reduce the number of patients undergoing colonoscopies, reducing costs for individuals and the health system.

University of Queensland researcher Dr Yoon-Kyo An says levels of the calprotectin protein in poo can differentiate between gastrointestinal diseases.

Arsonists may have been responsible for Victoria’s first Code Red fire warning in a decade.

More than 140,000 homes and businesses lost power across the state as the grass fires threatened towns and forced families to evacuate.

Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said, "we had to lock down the state, we had to put it into a total fire ban, in order to minimise the risk of having major fires.”

Sydney’s water restrictions have been raised to Level 2 as the regions dams deplete.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has fast-tracked the restrictions in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra regions as water levels depleted faster than expected.

The restrictions will take effect from December 10 and apply to water use outside the home, with people required to use buckets when watering their gardens and washing cars.

Australia’s key maritime exercise with Indonesia commenced yesterday in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Exercise New Horizon 2019 was designed to improve the ability of the Royal Australian Navy and Indonesian Navy to work together at sea.

The Commander of Navy’s Maritime Task Group, Captain Andrew Quinn, said the relationship between the two is positive and focused on a wide range of security-related matters.

The US-China trade deal became even more complicated by a decision of US Congress to approve two bills aimed at supporting human rights in Hong Kong after months of unrest. 

The House overwhelmingly approved the bills yesterday, a day after the Senate passed them on voice votes.

China has threatened to take unspecified, “strong countermeasures” if the bills are signed into law.