Researchers have discovered two drugs used during WWII could be used to prevent flu deaths.

One of the drugs was used during WWII to prolong the life of penicillin and the other was used as an antidiuretic.

The flu is becoming more drug-resistant but researchers believe the drugs could treat sufferers in the middle of severe and potentially fatal cases of the virus.

A couple who ran a supermarket in a small town in eastern France have lost their jobs after their trophy pictures from a safari hunt went viral.

The 2015 pictures show the couple posing over a dead hippopotamus, zebra, leopard and lion.

The Super U co-operative group's store in the Rhône town of L'Arbresle had seen calls for a shop boycott widely shared on Facebook.The group announced the couple were leaving with immediate effect.

The upcoming ban on climbing Uluru is causing an overflow of tourists and an 'influx of waste'.

Tourists are trespassing, camping illegally and dumping rubbish as they flock to Uluru to climb the rock before it is permanently closed on October 26.

The Anangu traditional owners have repeatedly expressed a desire for people to show respect to the rock's cultural value by not climbing it.

Australians are being rejected from accessing the National Disability Insurance Scheme because they have declined invasive surgery, advocates say.

To access NDIS, a person must have a permanent condition and there must be no “appropriate treatments” available that would likely cure their condition, including surgery in some cases.

But advocates say applicants deserve the right to decline invasive surgery, especially where they are expensive and might worsen the condition.

Climate change protesters are disrupting commuters in Brisbane city this morning, with ten minute bouts of ‘swarming’ to cause congestion.

In a live stream on Facebook, Extinction Rebellion’s Tom Howell says while disruption isn’t comfortable, it’s the only way to promote change and convince the government to address the mass extinction.

Hecklers told the disrupters "you might have got the day off work, but we didn’t."

The lifts and escalators at Brisbane's Central Station will begin to be replaced before Christmas and several of the platforms will be raised in a major three-year upgrade.

The work is part of the $65 million upgrade of Brisbane's busiest train station, announced in 2016 but delayed for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

More than 140,000 people catch a train to or from Central station every day.

Australia is again facing international pressure to improve its recycling measures.

Indonesia this week announced it would return 210 tonnes of Australian rubbish, the latest in a series of announcements by south-east Asian nations that they will not be dumping grounds for overseas waste.

Peter Shmigel, the head of the Australian Council of Recycling says governments could address the issue by funding new plants and introducing requirements for departments and agencies to use recycled material.

More than 20 countries at the UN Human Rights Council have signed a joint letter criticising China's treatment of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.

UN experts and rights groups says China is holding approximately  one million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention camps.

China claims that Uighurs are being re-educated in vocational training centres designed to combat extremism.