Northern Ireland's Parliament is still without government after 850 days.

Since the resignation and death of the former deputy first minister Martin McGuiness in 2017, a replacement has still not been agreed on.

Dr Jamie Dow, Northern Ireland expert at Belgium’s University of Leuven says federal budgets are now being administered by civil servants who lack the authority to draft new ones.

A meteor the size of a ‘small car’ was sighted in South Australian and Victorian skies last Wednesday according to NASA.

It is the second to land in Australian borders this week, after a meteor lit up the sky in purple and shook windows near Alice Springs on Monday.

Astronomer David Finlay, who manages the Australian Meteor Report Facebook page, said the event was the biggest he’d seen in the four years of running the site.

Ongoing errors in opinion polling has created a ‘parallel universe’ in Australian politics according to experts.

Labor Party veteran pollster John Utting says Malcolm Turnbull might still be prime minister if Labor hadn’t been favoured so far ahead in the polls.

Mr Utting says they would randomly call landlines in the past, but a move to online polling has made assessing public opinion more difficult.

A confirmed local case of Dengue fever has prompted a full outbreak response in Rockhampton.

Central Queensland Public Health Unit and Regional Council warn residents near the patient’s house to take precautions.

Mayor Margaret Strelow says the health authorities will begin investigation in the affected house and surrounds.

Kenilworth Dairies will conquer new markets and create up to 24 jobs thanks to grant funding from the Queensland Government.

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development, Mark Furner, says Kenilworth Dairies is one of 15 businesses in Queensland to receive a Rural Economic Development Grant to help fund the expansion of their business.

Mr Furner says the well known Sunshine Coast dairy producer will use the funding for establishing their own bottling plant.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged with 18 new charges.

The US Justice Department is charging Assange on a new indictment accusing him of receiving and publishing classified information including confidential sources.

The indictment says that Assange’s actions risked serious harm to the United States by publishing names of people who helped the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s party the BJP has been re-elected for another term in India.

The BJP won 274 constituencies, reaching the 272 that it needed to claim a majority.

Modi’s re-election highlights India’s shift towards populism, with the Prime Minister’s campaign being heavily based on Hindu Nationalism.

Anthony Albanese becomes the only candidate for Labour leadership after frontbencher Jim Chalmers withdraws from the race.

Mr Chalmers announced on Twitter that he would enthusiastically support Mr Albanese and will work tirelessly to give Australians the Labor Government they need and deserve.

Mr Chalmers said the decision was carefully made and had concerns that leadership would be difficult while raising his three young children.