Bangladesh is planning to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island to treat heavy overcrowding in its refugee camps.

Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is currently the largest refugee camp in the world where some 730,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar have taken shelter.

The UN human rights investigator on Myanmar is deeply concerned about the plan, questioning the island’s habitability and saying it could create a new crisis.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has secured legally binding Brexit assurances from the European Union - that will prevent issues arising over the border between UK-aligned Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.

The new changes are a last ditch effort by May to swing the 116 additional MPs she needs to avoid a “no deal” scenario since the historic defeat of her previous proposal.

Seven precincts in the Gold Coast region are being evaluated as part of a multi-million dollar project to transform 140 hectares of the Spit into a brand new park.

“Ocean Park” is set to include light rail stations, super-yacht berths, and potentially an ocean cruise ship terminal.

Parts of the park are being eyed for commercial development, with a three-story height restriction to be put in place.

The rare ‘Ringo Starr’ cockatoo is facing extinction within a decade unless immediate action is taken to protect its habitat in Cape York, Far North Queensland.

Researchers fear that Australia’s Largest Cockatoo could soon disappear because of low reproductive success and large-scale habitat loss due to mining and land clearing.

Professor Robert Heinsohn from the Australian National University says at this rate the birds will have a couple of decades before getting to the point of no return if we don’t act now.
 

A new dinosaur species has been discovered in south-eastern Australia from a 125 million-year-old fossil.

Galleonosaurus dorisae was found along the Victorian coastline and is about the size of a wallaby. It was given its name because its jaw resembles an upturned galleon ship.

The herbivore is believed to have roamed the land that once lay between Australia and Antarctica, and is the fifth fossil to be discovered along the Victorian coast.

150,000 older Australians have taken advantage of the Pension Work Bonus scheme in the past 12 months.

The scheme allows pensioners to earn an average of up to $250 a fortnight from paid employment, without it impacting their pension entitlements. That threshold is set to increase to $300 a fortnight on July 1st.

The new financial year will also bring pensioners the opportunity to register as ‘self-employed’ as part of the scheme, allowing them to earn a bit of extra cash without worrying about how it will affect their pension.

A 51-year-old dive tour operator found himself in the jaws of a Bryde’s whale while snorkeling off the coast of South Africa.

Rainer Schimpf is an experienced marine conservationist and photographer who was taking footage of the whales in a feeding frenzy.

The whale caught Schimpf head-first around his waist while he was swimming in the middle of the sardine bait ball and quickly released him as it swallowed the fish in its throat.

Anger and desperation are mounting in Venezuela as the country faces its fourth consecutive day without electricity.

Schools and businesses have been indefinitely suspended as citizens scrabble to find food, water, fuel, and cell coverage amidst highly patch power access.

Self-proclaimed President Nicolas Maduro has blamed US-backed sabotage for the nationwide blackouts but his critics adamantly blame the incompetence and corruption of his government who are yet to provide a diagnosis for what is causing the outages.