As part of the goal, the airline will invest $50 million over 10 years to build a sustainable aviation fuel industry that will limit its net emissions from 2020 and double the number of flights offsetting carbon emissions.

Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas Group, said the 2050 target was “ambitious but achievable”.

An American submarine that was missing in the Second World War was rediscovered at the bottom of the East China Sea.

In 1944, the aircraft carrier "Grayback" and its 80 crew members were missing when they were attacked by Japanese aircraft.

After searching for military documents with the correct coordinates, an underwater exploration project found the submarine near the Okinawa coast in Japan.

The original coordinates were incorrectly translated and the numbers were missing.

The small country of the West African Gambia has filed a lawsuit in the United Nations Supreme Court, formally accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.

It is initiated by the International Court of Justice, which usually decides on disputes between States.

Last year, the United Nations issued a condemnation report on the violence in Myanmar, saying that military leaders should be tried for genocide.

The Myanmar government denied that its troops had committed such crimes.

The creation of subterranean national park may save a Victorian wetland that experts say will take 300 years to rehabilitate.

Water authority Barwon Water had been pumping water out of aquifers in Otways wetland, causing drained waterways, toxic soil, fish kills, increased bushfire risk, and a total destruction of habitat for platypuses and other wildlife.

A Pink Picnic held at Victoria Point in October has raised $16,100 that has been donated to Chicks in Pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Attended by 200 people, the event was organised by Clancy Follett-McDonald of the art group Creative Express and held in conjunction with Victoria Point state school's P & C.

Ms Follett-McDonald said “To me, the best part of the day was seeing a community come together. People just came and pitched in. I was overwhelmed by the community spirit and support.”

Mountain Blue Orchards has won an intellectual property court case after one of their blueberry varieties was appropriated by another grower.

The company will be paid $290,000 in damages by Jason Chellew, who was growing and selling the protected berry variety, called Ridley 1111.

This case has been one of the first under the new Plant Breeder’s Rights Act, setting a precedent for the importance of breeder’s intellectual property rights.

Nearly 200 aged care providers living with more than 50,000 Australian seniors face a serious risk of bankruptcy.

The peak national body for providers, Leading Aged Services Australia, has identified an alarming scale of the risk of collapse.

Its accountant flipped through the publicly available nursing home financial report for 2017/18 and found that 197 medical service providers were facing collapse.

LASA believes that the federal government needs to provide an additional $1.3 billion in funding before Christmas to enable them to make a living.

It has been described as the "Hollywood" of horses, and it's certainly a winner in the glamor stakes. But Qatar's Al Shaqab is more of a seven-star equine resort than a make-believe movie set. 

The multi-million dollar center of the capital Doha is Qatar’s luxury launch pad into equine excellence, from elite show jumpers to Arabian show horses and endurance racers.

In southern Vietnam, for the first time in 30 years, a picture of a tiny deer-like creature about the size of a rabbit was photographed in the wild, delighting conservationists who feared the species was extinct.

The Silverback Chevrolet, also known as the Vietnamese Mouse Deer, was recorded 25 years ago when a team of Vietnamese and Russian researchers obtained the dead Chevrolet from the hunter.