U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday asking federal government agencies to dedicate more resources and investment into research, promotion and training on artificial intelligence or AI.

Under the American AI Initiative, the administration is directing agencies to prioritize AI investments in research and development, increase access to federal data and models for that research and prepare workers to adapt to the era of AI.

NASA is planning to take the “next giant leap in deep space exploration” as it looks to send astronauts to the moon who are able to stay there.

The space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, called for American firms to help develop human lunar landers - “reusable systems for astronauts to land on the moon” he said scientist have been given a mandate by the President and Congress to return to the moon for the first time since 1972.

Officials have issued a warning over a text message scam, with recipients receiving a message claiming a emergency has occured and urgent action is required.

When recipients call back the unknown number, they are often played an abusive recording. Scamwatch has said that while no financial loss has been reported, many may find the content of the recording distressing.

Police have advised recipients of the text to not reply and to block the number.

Laws introduced in the Queensland Parliament this week will see child killers spend more time in jail, as the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council found the sentences for the manslaughter of a child were inadequate and did not reflect the vulnerabilities of children.

Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk says the legislation would expand the definition of murder, with many offenders being convicted of manslaughter rather than murder due to a difficult in establishing intent.

Young Aboriginal people in WA’s northernmost region continue to take their lives after a spate of suicides prompted one of the states biggest inquests alongside findings that community services in the region may need to completely change.

Of the thirteen Indigenous people who died over a three and a half year period in Kimberly, five were aged between ten and thirteen, including two sisters.

Sydney is losing out on close to $16 billion a year due to its underdeveloped night-time economy, according to economic analysis

The city’s night-time economy, which is currently valued at $27 billion a year could be worth $43 billion, Deloitte Access Economics says in a report published by Sydney Morning Herald.

It found Australia’s night-time market represents 3.8 per cent of the domestic economy, compared to six per cent in the United Kingdom

A scientific review of insect numbers suggest that 40% of species are undergoing “dramatic rates of decline” around the world.

Researchers say that some species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, are likely to boom because of warmer conditions and because many of their natural enemies, which breed more slowly, will disappear.

American missionary Richard Daschbach, who founded children’s shelters that have operated for more than two decades in Timor-Leste, has been expelled from his Catholic congregation after admitting to sexual abuse of minors.

Media reports about the allegations have shocked the country, one of two predominantly Catholic nations in Asia along with the Philippines.