China is planning to replace Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam with an ‘interim’ chief executive by March 2020.

Sources have reported that China will make the decision depending on the stability of Hong Kong as it is currently under violence.

In September, a recording revealed that Carrie Lam said she would resign if she could, however she later denied this.

An Indian pre-university college has been forced to apologise after an image showing its students wearing cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam went viral on social media.

The college administrator at Bhagat Pre-University college in Haveri Mr MB Satish said the cardboard boxes were used for an experiment to prevent its students from looking at their peers’ work and claimed that the students had consented to the practice.

The Christmas Island Detention Centre has cost taxpayers $27million since being reopened this year, despite holding just four detainees. 

The Morrison government recommissioned the facility in February, over fears of an influx of asylum seekers tied to changes to refugee medical transfer laws. 

Veteran corrective service officers have warned Queensland’s prisons are being been flooded with inexperienced recruits, which is contributing to the rapid rise in assaults on prison staff.

The warning comes after dozens of officers walked off the job in Townsville yesterday, following the violent assault of two officers this week.

Queensland Shadow Racing Minister John-Paul Langbroek, has condemned the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission for failing to take action on complaints, after the State Government announced an inquiry into the statutory body. 

The Commission was established by the State Government in 2016, but failed to take action on five separate complaints about Caboolture abattoir, Meramist, which hosted the abuse and slaughter of several former racehorses, as revealed by the ABC this week.

Workers at Brisbane’s coal terminal are preparing to take industrial action as they fight increased casualisation of labour and the contracting out of their jobs.

The workers, at Queensland Bulk Handling, which is owned and operated by coal company New Hope, will vote on industrial action over the weekend after nine months of meetings between company owners and union officials failed to deliver an agreement.

A Danish lighthouse has been put on wheels to move it away from an eroding coastline.

When the 23-metre (75ft) Rubjerg Knude (ROB - YURG  KA - NUDE) lighthouse was first lit on the North Sea coastline in 1900, it sat roughly 200 metres from the coast, but that distance shrank to six metres as the cliff it was situated on fell away.

Arne Boelt, (AR-NEH BOOLT) the local mayor, said many things could go wrong when moving the defunct building, but that it was the only way the lighthouse could be saved without being dismantled.

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has condemned Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a "thief" as he made his first visit to areas in Idlib (ID-LAYB) province recently retaken by Syrian government forces from Turkey-backed rebels.

His comments came as Syrian troops continued to deploy in parts of the north where they are supporting Kurdish forces to contain a Turkish invasion, according to the Syrian state news agency.