US actress Felicity Huffman says she intends to plead guilty to charges accusing her of participating in a cheating scam for elite US universities.

It is alleged that the equivalent of $21,000AUD was paid in 2017 to have her daughter’s exam questions corrected by William “Rick” Singer - the confessed mastermind behind the scam.

14 people of the 50 charged will plead guilty to charges including conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

A study involving a University of Queensland researcher has found that the presence of different strains of grass pollen in the atmosphere can help predict when hay fever and asthma is at its height.

A 71-year-old pilot has died after his light plane crashed in far north Queensland on Monday afternoon.

Authorities spotted the wreckage during an aerial search of the Herberton Range after the pilot failed to arrive at his destination in Atherton.

The Townsville resident was declared dead at the scene, 110 kilometers south-west of Cairns, and was the only person in the plane.

Labor has officially announced it will lift the Medicare rebate freeze if it wins government, prompting Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt to publish a series of tweets on the LNP’s achievements since being in government.

Hunt posted that GP bulk-billing is up nearly 4 percent from 82.2 percent under Labor, claiming that more patients are seeing their local GP without having to pay out of pocket costs.

According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, more than one million Australian families are paying more for their internet under NBN.

 With the initial promise of being more affordable than existing ADSL connections, the ACCC said that NBN is failing to deliver with faster broadband and with prices that are just as high.

ACCC Chairman Rodney Sims told reporters that they never meant to get into a situation where some consumers, in switching to the NBN, will be left worse off by paying more or getting less.

The British Military is being pressured to revoke the honorary appointments awarded to the Sultan of Brunei by the Queen after he ruled homosexuality punishable by stoning to death.

As Brunei’s head of state, the Sultan has made the ruling amidst an on-going reform to the nation’s Sharia-law based penal code.

He was awarded an honorary air chief marshal in the Royal Air Force by Queen Elizabeth II but is facing international hostility and boycotts for his actions.

Two Australian men have come forward to reveal they were interrogated by Chinese officials in regards to an investigation launched by Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The interrogators wanted to know more about Turnbull’s investigation into China’s influence in Australia and pressed for information about John Garnaut, the man appointed to lead the investigative team.

One of the men, former Chinese government official Yang Hengjun, has been detained in China since January and denied access to a lawyer.