Canberra looks likely to commit to a car-free day next year, joining cities like Paris, Mexico City and Jakarta in closing off the city to vehicles for World Car Free Day.

The Conservation Council wants the ACT Government to commit to a car-free day before the next election. 

Some have criticised the move saying 20,000 commuters will be affected. 

Since the city moved to 100 per cent renewable-sourced electricity, the vast majority of its emissions have come from transport — nearly all private vehicles.

In Breaking News, Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced his resignation.

Mr Morales, was in power since 2006, and declared the winner of presidential voting on October 20 by a narrow margin. It gave him a controversial fourth term.

But the opposition said there was fraud in the vote count, and three weeks of street protests ensued, during which three people died and hundreds were injured.

The Swiss-based GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative, or Geoglam, have used satellite images to disclose how drought has damaged crops around North Korea- with the main harvest provinces estimated to have produced a below-average output.

Irregular rainfall and low reservoir levels during Summer have led to a worsening of the nation's overall food situation- with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation stating that poor harvests in September resulted in 10 million people needing urgent assistance. 

The Brisbane City Council has proposed 5 new bridges for the city but their efforts to complete the Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade have casted doubt over their plan. 

The Lord Mayor says the bridges will be green, including a proposed Kangaroo Point pedestrian bridge between Thornton St and Edward St in the city.

Labor’s Patrick Condren has slammed the announcement after Kingsford Smith was delayed by a year and costs blew out by at least $47 million.  

The RACQ says Petrol prices in Brisbane are still the highest of capital cities. 

The recent price hike is being blamed on a shorter price-cycle, which saw October’s average fuel price for regular unleaded at 154.9 ($1.54) a litre.

Motorists are recommended to shop around before filling up, with the largest retailers usually the first to put up prices while many independent fuel stations keep their prices lower for longer. 

The Federal Government  has announced strengthening legislations which will allow the Australian Communications and Media Authority or ACMA, to access and block illegal betting websites.

This is a response to an abundance of citizen complaints that the sites refuse to pay out, with the Government estimating that up to $400 million is spent on illegal gambling websites annually.

The Bureau of Meteorology stated that despite better fire conditions today due to an influx of moisture brought in by a sea breeze, this coming Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to see severe and extreme ranges in fire behaviour.

Seven fires, located near Yeppoon in the Central Queensland have been severe, with warnings issued for people to leave.

Seven pro-democracy politicians have been arrested in Hong Kong as thousands gathered at a memorial service for a student killed during a rally.

Police said three politicians were detained on Saturday and charged with obstructing the local assembly during a raucous May 11, meeting over the now-shelved China extradition bill that sparked five months of protests calling for democratic reforms.

Germany has celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that divided East and West Germany, with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanking Eastern European neighbours for spurring on the peaceful revolution.

The toppling of the wall, which separated the Communist-ruled East from the capitalist West in Berlin for nearly three decades and became a potent symbol of the Cold War, was followed a year later by the reunification of Germany in 1990.