Steven Reed became the first African-American elected as mayor of Montgomery in Alabama on Tuesday. 

According to unofficial results released by the city, Mr Reed captured 67 per cent of the vote.

“It’s not going to be about the first. It’s not even going to be about the best. It’s going to be about the impact we make on the lives of others,” Mr Reed said. 

A new 3D printing lab in Melbourne could help develop bone implants to help people with traumatic injuries to the head, skull or face.   

Anatomics’ Lab opens this morning and will design implants for individual patients based on 3D CT scans that are malleable enough to allow surgeons to fit them to shape in the operating theatre. 

The printed materials will augment bone and integrate human tissue, which will help improve the efficiency of surgical practice. 

Organisers from Australia Cyber Conference in Melbourne pressured a speaker to edit his speech on Australia’s anti-encryption legislation. 

A partner with legal advice firm Ringrose Siganto, Ted Ringrose was told the original version of his speech was biased, stating the issues with a comparison between Australia’s encryption laws and China’s.

The organizers sent Ringrose an edited version, but he says he pushed back at the attempted censorship, and finally, he was allowed to present his talk as planned.

Brisbane hairdressers from the Sustainable Salons network are collaborating with Dresden Vision to turn empty shampoo bottles in a range of glasses.

The Sustainable Salon network collects and recycles pre-separated materials from salons.

Co-founder and managing director of the Sustainable Salons network Paul Frasca,  says so far they have rescued 89,900 kg of plastic from landfill.

Environmental groups traditional owners near Queensland’s channel country say they have grown increasingly concerned their waterways are under threat. 

The Queensland government promised to reinstate legislative protections for the state’s ‘wild rivers’ five years ago amid a proliferation of oil and gas drilling in the waterways. 

China’s State media has accused Apple of protecting Hong Kong protesters through a ‘poisonous’ app.

 Apple approved the app HKmap.live earlier this month, which displays the city’s police hotspots on a map continuously updated by users. 

People’s Daily criticised Apple for it’s ‘unwise’ and ‘imprudent’ mixing of political, commercial and illegal activities claiming it blatantly endorses protesting. 

“[The app] allows Hong Kong rioters to openly commit a crime while openly escaping arrests,” the People’s Daily said. 

Italian ministers, prosecutors and police chiefs have denounced a European court ruling that tough prison regimes for mafia bosses violate their human rights, warning the judgment will hinder the fight against organised crime across the continent.

On Tuesday, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Italy should reform its justice laws that if mafia inmates cooperate with investigations, they don’t have time off life sentences.

UNSW scientists have discovered a new purpose for graphene that could generate sustainable energy in municipal wastewater treatment plants.

Dr Rakesh Joshi says the team’s latest research identifies the substance as an energy source.  

“Our group’s latest research indicates that it is possible to use graphene to extract and refine methane to be recycled and reused as a source of energy,” Dr Joshi said. 

“We are working in close collaboration with Sydney Water to convert these findings into a retrofittable technology for wastewater treatment plants,” he said.