A joint Queensland-China research centre will use 3D printing technology to repair ageing body parts.

QUT Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Margaret Sheil said that the research centre, which is a collaboration between QUT and researchers with the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai, will aim to manufacture biomaterials for bone and cartilage repair, skin regeneration and joint reconstruction.

A 7,000 year old “Spanish Stonehenge” has been exposed by the European drought, after being submerged for over 50 years.

The formation of 100 upright rocks is already showing signs of erosion, and many fear that this could be the final chance to save a a much-loved monument by many locals.

Over 43,000 people are now petitioning to preserve the ancient rock formation before water levels rise again, and are calling for the stones to be relocated into a drier position. 

The Queensland Government has been forced to remove shark control equipment set up on all North Queensland beaches north of Townsville, following a Federal Court decision last week.

The Federal Court announced that all sharks caught within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park must now be tagged, and released alive within 24 hours.

Skies have turned blood red in an Indonesian province due to a widespread forest fire, which continues to burn.

With over 73,000 fire alerts across Indonesia since early September alone, it is believed that many of the fires had been deliberately lit as a cheap method to clear land.

Victorian police have confirmed they are investigating two separate reports of strawberries being found with needles inside them in Melbourne's northern suburbs.

Skye Wilson-Wright was celebrating her 30th birthday on Sunday night with a strawberry-topped cake when she bit into one of the berries, bought from a Coles supermarket in Eltham, to find a needle lodged in the fruit.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged to work with tech giants and other countries to remove violent and extremist content from the internet.

The inland drought and lack of food in south-east Queensland have triggered the earlier migration of bats this year.

Bats are following the spring flowering season of north-west Queensland earlier than usual.

President of Bat Conservation and Rescue Queensland Jennifer Sullivan said the red-flying foxes population also shifted into later birth seasons.

In breaking news, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry of American President Donald Trump, stating that actions taken by the President had "seriously violated the constitution". 

The decision was made to launch formal proceedings after a growing scandal involving a phone call between Mr Trump and the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he allegedly asked the Eastern European leader to launch a probe into his presidential competitor Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter.