A Brisbane mother is the first woman to run for the Lord Mayor of Brisbane in the 2020 election.

Kath Angus has been preselected by the Greens and is a breastfeeding advocate, educator and parent, running against current LNP lord mayor Adrian Schrinner and Labor candidate Rod Harding.

Alongside her bid will be several other women preselected by the Greens, who hope that the diverse group will win seats from the LNP.

Queensland residents are chipping in and providing their tank water supplies to assist firefighters, despite above-ground water supplies being scarce due to a lack of rainfall.

The town of Stanthorpe suffered major water shortages due to drought and the fires that reached the area on Friday.

Dams in the Southern Downs region ran out of water prior to the outbreak of the bushfires- with many residents providing access to their own water sources as a means to aid the firefighting effort.

The Federal government is allocating an additional $15 million to clinical trials prioritising ovarian, cervical and fallopian cancer research, in order to improve survival rates for women across the country.

Over 2000 Australian women  pass away as a result of gynaecological diseases each year.

$20 million was provided for general ovarian cancer research at the start of this year.  

South Korea is one of the countries facing the ageing problem. Women born in South Korea in 2030 are projected to be the first to have an average life expectancy of over 90.

A group of Korean women in their 70s finds new freedom in the "cheerleading team," which mixes cheerleading and aerobics.

The seniors say Cheerobics is a stress-reliever which makes them happy.

Cheerobics becomes a popular activity for South Korean seniors who are just retired.

A Chinese businessman has cloned his beloved cat Garlic at a commercial pet-cloning company in Beijing-based Sinogene. The company has already cloned more than 40 dogs — at a cost of about AU$78,000 each.

Yu’s cloned cat, born July 21 with the same white-and-grey skin pattern as Garlic, cost him more than AU$50,000. It was the company’s first successful cat clone.

Sinogene says it hopes to use its technology for public good, such as the possibility of cloning endangered giant pandas or South China tigers.

Chandrayaan-2 (Moon vehicle 2) entered the Moon's orbit on 20 August and was due to land on the lunar surface a little after midnight India local time (18:0pm) on 7 September - a month after it first shot into space.

Contact was lost at the moment before the lander was expected to touch down at the lunar south pole.

The orbiter has since discovered the lander on the lunar surface, but scientists have yet to be able to connect with it.

An unvaccinated child who has returned to Byron Bay, was reported to have contracted measles whilst on a trip to New Zealand- sparking fear of an outbreak as health authorities note that one in three children in the New South Wales town are not vaccinated.

The potential outbreak was noted after the child had already visited Suffolk Park shopping areas, Harvest Deli and Bakery in Newrybar and Elements Resort and Spa, while infectious- having developed symptoms four days after returning to Australia.