Prince William has arrived at the scene of the first Christchurch mosque shooting as he visits the city's survivors.

Joined by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the Duke of Cambridge on Thursday morning was greeted by Imam Gamel Fouda at the Masjid Al Noor, where 42 of the March 15 attack's victims were killed.

The Prince expected to give a speech for city's Muslim community, whose members were steadily streaming in during the morning.

North Korea reportedly insisted the United States pay $US2 million dollars ($2.8 million) in medical costs before releasing detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma in 2017, according to a report published by the Washington Post.

North Korea reportedly insisted the United States pay $US2 million dollars ($2.8 million) in medical costs before releasing detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma in 2017

The Liberal Party will put far-right senator Fraser Anning's party last on how-to-vote cards in almost every electorate across Australia.

Senior cabinet minister Mathias Cormann says Senator Anning's Conservative Nationals would be last except in seats which had "even worse" candidates running like white supremacist Jim Saleam at the May 18 federal election.

Senator Cormann told Sky News on Friday that other than that Fraser Anning is last in all of our seats.

Over 30 people yesterday were treated for suspected food poisoning after an Essendon Football Club lunch at the ANZAC Day clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The MCG has confirmed four guests were taken to hospital with gastro-intestinal symptoms after attending the president’s club function in the Olympic Room.

A highly successful Queensland Police Service initiative aimed at helping curb youth crime through early intervention and education has today launched on the Sunshine Coast for the first time.

Project Booyah is a multi-agency initiative targeting ‘at risk’ youth who are involved with criminal/ anti-social behaviour, substance abuse or disengagement from school and works towards giving them skills for life and employability through police mentoring, leadership, adventure-based learning and vocational pathways.

A young emu found wandering a Brisbane suburb is recovering well after almost dying in a lengthy surgery to remove nails, roofing screws and a tile from its stomach.

The Emu, affectionately named Leggy by rescuers, was captured by the RSPCA on Wednesday, with an X-ray revealing its perilous condition.

RSPCA chief executive Mark Townend said "Normally neighbours would report the keeping of Crown animals to authorities but it didn't happen in this instance. "But the key message the RSPCA wants to get out is you can't keep emus as pets.

An animal auction of a dead Florida man's estate is being headlined by one big-ticket item: the cassowary that killed him.

Mr Hajos, fell between the pens of his two cassowaries when at least one of the birds attacked him through the fence. He was found by rescue workers on the ground between the two pens, grievously injured, with an angry bird watching on.

"A couple of people from our crew had to dodge the bird themselves," Alachua County Fire Rescue's deputy chief Jeff Taylor said.

A United Nations expert on privacy has met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a London jail, saying that there are strong indications his privacy may have been breached while in the Ecuadorian embassy.

In late March Assange appealed to the UN that his privacy had been violated by the Ecuadorians.

The UN’s Special Rapporteur for Privacy, was scheduled to meet Assange at the embassy, but has since been held at the high security Belmarsh Prison in south-east London.