Boeing is taking a $4.9 billion hit to cover the costs of the grounding of its 737 Max aircraft after two deadly crashes. 

The charge is set to wipe out profits when the world's biggest planemaker posts quarterly results next week.

In a statement, Boeing says its "best estimate at this time" is that the 737 Max will return to service in the last three months of this year.

Gazeta Poska, a Polish conservative newspaper will distribute “LGBT-free zone” stickers with their next issue, the stickers will show a black cross over the pride flag.

A preview of the sticker was posted on the newspaper’s Twitter feed and it will be included on the next week edition, the weekly publication openly supports the conservative governing party PiS.

US ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, expressed her concern about the stickers promoting hatred and intolerance.

Yang Hengjun, the Chinese-Australian writer who has been detained in a Beijing jail for six months, has been moved from surveillance to criminal detention. 

Hengjun is expected to be charged for endangering the state security by the Beijing National Security Agency.

He could either be charged, released or his detention extended. 

Former High Court Chief Justice, Murray Gleeson, says a new voice to parliament for Indigenous Australians would be a positive step.

Mr Gleeson said A body that has the capacity to speak to the parliament on behalf of Indigenous people should be of advantage to parliament and, through it, the nation.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison does not support a constitutionally-enshrined indigenous advisory body but favors some form of recognition of Abroiginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the constitution.

The Queensland government has granted the XXXX brewery a 15-year extension to its licence in a move that will protect the historic Milton site from repeated nuisance complaints.

State Development Minister Cameron Dick announced the moved on Thursday, saying the approval would give the business certainty to operate within its existing limits.

The 15-year exemption under section 267 of the Planning Act protects XXXX from repeated nuisance odour and noise complaints from neighbours, based on its current approved operations.

The Brisbane City Council and State Government are in a stand-off over the potential sale of multiple bushland sites across the city.

The Palaszczuk Government has offered to sell Brisbane City Council 39.3 ha of bushland at Nathan Carseldine, Oxley and Yeronga at a drastically reduced price to preserve for “future generations”.

A man has set a Japanese anime studio on fire in Kyoto, there has been at least 33 casualties and dozens injured.

The 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto Anime Studio on Thursday morning and started the fire with petrol, he was later detained and taken to the hospital with injuries.

Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe offered his condolences and described the incident as dreadful. The event was catalogued as one of the worst mass casualties incidents in Japan since World War II.  

United States President Donald Trump says a US warship has destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, after the aircraft threatened the ship by flying within 900 metres of it.

Trump says the USS Boxer took defensive action when the drone ignored multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship’s crew. 

Trump says this is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison clarified during the Bush Summit in Dubbo, New South Wales, that the $3.9 billion dollar drought-proofing kitty won’t affect the infrastructure budget. 

The Future Drought Fund legislation will be on the government’s agenda when parliament resumes next week, giving farmers hope that the summit might help with regional Australia’s necessities.

Mr Morrison reaffirmed that no project within the infrastructure plan would be affected when the Building Australia Fund gets repurposed for future drought projects.