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.

The Project Officer James Gullison says that volunteers last year collected 500 kilograms of rubbish.

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.

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.