The latest engineers report on Sydney’s troubled Mascot Towers revealed a new issue with the cracking building which suggests it may be sinking.

The report provided to the owners’ corporation yesterday said it appeared the building was ‘moving in a downward motion’ and urged tenants to remove all possessions.

Owner of the building, Fabiano Dos Santos, bought the Mascot Towers only three months ago and says he fears the worst.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks yesterday with leaders in Saudi Arabia about countering the military threat from Iran by building a global coalition including Asian and European countries.

Mr Pompeo will face a tough sell in Europe and Asia, particularly from the nations still committed to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran rejected by President Donald Trump last year.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan to forgive all US student loans, freeing around 45 million Americans from debt that would normally take decades to pay off.

The proposal would see the loans paid off through a new tax on Wall Street transactions in a bid to ‘make a full and complete education a human right’.

When proposing the plan, Sanders argued ‘the American people bailed out Wall Street, now it's time for Wall Street to come to the aid of the middle class of this country’.

A Rockhampton undertaker has pleaded guilty to misconduct with regards to a corpse after leaving a still born baby’s body on the roof of his van and drove away.

The baby’s body fell onto the road on the sunshine coast after a van change over, and was later discovered by local road workers.

Undertaker Mr Bertrand has been fined $5000 for his total neglect but no conviction has been recorded.

A Fraser Island dingo advocate has called for more government action just days after tough new fines came into effect.

Fines for intentionally feeding of disturbing dingoes increased on Friday from $391 to $2088, however Cheryl Bryant from Save the Fraser Island Dingoes says it is still up to those on the island to do the right thing.

Ms Bryant says she believes more fenced areas are needed as well as a cap on the number of visitors to the Island.

Australia’s largest consumer advocacy group, CHOICE, is proposing a change to the algorithm used to score food products, penalising ‘added sugars’  that are not naturally found in foods.

When the alternative algorithm is applied to more than a dozen products, Health Star ratings of cereals like Nutri Grain, Uncle Toby’s Plus Protein and Milo, drop from four out of five stars to just one-and-a-half stars.

Two employees at the Lucas Heights Nuclear facility in Sydney have been exposed to radiation.

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology organisation said the facility stopped manufacturing the radioisotope Mo-99 after contamination was detected.

The radiation dose to the two workers was equivalent of a conventional radiation therapy treatment dosage.

The UN says tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters and family members being held in Iraq and Syria must be tried or released.

The IS strongholds fell in March and some 55, 000 people are being held, thousands of them being foreigners. 

Human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called on countries to take responsibility for their citizens and to take them back if not charged, however many nations have demonstrated reluctance to do so.

The International Olympic Committee voted 47 votes to 34, in favour of Italy’s joint bid to stage the event rather than Stockholm, Sweden. 

Skating sports and ice hockey will be held in Milan and most Alpine skiing events will take place in the resort of Cortina. 

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stressed his country’s desire to host the 2026 games, stating ‘if I am here today in front of you, it is thanks to the enthusiasm of all of Italy’.