Russia complained to Facebook and Google that the ads they spread "interfered" with the country's elections.

These ads are seen on social media and on the web, and Russia is conducting local elections this weekend.

Russia's national communications regulator Roskomnadzor said that technology giants Google and Facebook allowed political advertising in Sunday's regional elections, despite being asked to ban such propaganda.

A bad haircut causes a 16-year-old to break a Guinness World Record for the longest hair on a teenager.

16 years old Nilanshi Patel had her hair-cut at 6 and she hates it. She decides to grow her hair out as long as she could. 

It’s now 5 feet, 7 inches, the longest hair on a teen in the world. It takes about 30 minutes to dry and an hour to brush every day.

Proposed construction plans for a four-line Sydney Metro network, with up to 39 new railway stations, have recently been unveiled to the public- depicting changes that would provide new cross city rail connections and new stops in Sydney's west.

This map has been released a week after the Victorian Government's issuing of $50 billion plans for a suburban loop line in Melbourne, where six new stations will be constructed.

Major supermarket chain Woolworths has stated that over 350 kilograms of their unsold bread will be sent to Tribe Breweries to be converted into limited edition Loafer pale ale.

This course of action intends to promote sustainability, divert excess food from being delivered straight to landfill and to aid local food rescue partners to assist Australians being impacted by food insecurity.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are using sticky notes to spread their message.

Throughout the city, these notes have become a lasting symbol of protesters' resistance and solidarity, and protesters have been opposed to what they call the dictatorship of the Chinese government during the past 14 weeks.

Protesters say this is the latest in a series of measures to erode individual freedom and to enforce China’s own state of dictatorship.

British Airways has started a two-day strike, almost all fights have been grounded and thousands of passengers were disrupted in a dispute over pay.

The airline is part of the International Aviation Group (IAG), which canceled 1,700 flights to and from London Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Monday and Tuesday before British Airways first ever pilot strike.

Australians who travel on Qantas codeshare flights across Europe are also mostly to be impacted by the industrial action.

A  Mermaid Waters resident is assisting in removing the rubbish from the Gold Coast beaches.

As she cleans, Jennifer Schultz sifts through the debris trying to find shells and fossils, but says "it shocks me sometimes the amount of trash I'm finding". 

The Griffith Centre for Coastal Development is also involved in cleaning up the beaches, running a BeachCare program for the community.

A Rohingya family now living in Brisbane is one of many to be torn apart by the refugee crisis.

Robi Alam and his family were part of the UN Humanitarian Intake into Australia in 2010, but other family members were not so lucky.

While 19-year-old Mr Alam is a Queensland University of Technology student, soccer player and fast-food worker, his cousin of a similar age lives in the Nayapara Refugee Camp in Bangladesh with few opportunities.

James Cook University has been instructed to pay $1.2 million in compensation to a fired professor.

Marine physicist Peter Ridd, who made several dismissive comments about institutions such as the Australian Institute of Marine Science and colleagues, was fired in 2018.

The Federal Circuit Court Judge, Salvatore Vasta, found his termination to be unlawful, as JCU’s enterprise agreement protected his comments above the university’s code of conduct.