Almost 185,000 jobs have been created in Queensland since January 2015, with 4000 new full time jobs being created in February.

Data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the trend unemployment rate for February fell from 5.8% to 5.7%.

Facebook has confirmed it left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, after a security researcher posted about the issue online.

By storing passwords in readable plain text — as opposed to a scrambled form, which makes it almost impossible to recover the original text — Facebook violated fundamental computer security practices.

President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.

In a tweet, Mr Trump declared that the plateau was of "critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and regional stability".

The Federal Government is promising to invest $2 billion for a fast train service between Melbourne and Geelong if the Victorian Government matches that investment.

Daniel Andrews Government announced $50 million in last year's budget to look at the business case for the project.

Under the Federal Government's proposal, the trains would travel at an average speed of 160 kilometres per hour and take about 32 minutes, down from the current time of about an hour.

The chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission has called for the cancellation of a string of upcoming Australian shows by former Pantera frontman Philip Anselmo over his "neo-Nazi and antisemitic sentiments".

Currently in Australia with his band The Illegals, Anselmo is scheduled to play a number of gigs starting on Thursday in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Hobart.

Minister for Police and Minister for Corrective Services, Mark Ryan and Commissioner Stewart yesterday welcomed 76 new police officers to the Queensland Police Service, in an induction ceremony held at the QPS Academy, Oxley campus.

Graduating as First Year Constables, the new officers have completed 25 weeks of intensive training, preparing them for their new roles serving the community.

Mr Ryan said police perform a vital role in the maintenance of law and order, and public safety.

Work has begun to refresh Queensland’s Closing the Gap agenda including nine community workshops held across remote, regional and urban areas of the state to capture the priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, communities and organisations for the future.

Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Jackie Trad says the next step of the Closing the Gap agenda would place a greater focus on self-determination, and respect for culture and language.

Six people have been killed in a blast at a chemical plant in Yancheng, eastern China, local authorities say.

Thirty people were also injured in the explosion, which took place at about 2:50 local time at the plant run by Tianjiayi Chemical.

China's earthquake administration reported a tremor equivalent to 2.2-magnitude at the time of the explosion.

Images on social media showed a fireball exploding at the site, billowing clouds enveloping the area, injured people and damage to buildings.