Canberra has seen an increase of Bikie gangs, with the arrival of the notorious European outlaw motorcycle gang, Satudarah increasing the numbers of gangs to five.

Police raided a house in Belconnen on Friday afternoon, arresting a 30 year old man, identified as the president of the Satudarah.

The man has been remanded in custody, with charges of aggravated robbery, inflicting grievous bodily harm, making a demand with a threat to kill and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have been ridiculed after it emerged that all winners of an initiative designed to foster gender equality were all men.

Certificates and medals were awarded by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, in the categories of “best government entity supporting gender balance” “best federal authority supporting gender balance” and “best gender balance initiative”

The report found that by 2015, 135,000 Emirati women participated in the labour market, compared with just 1,000 in 1975.

The Singaporean Ministry of Health reported Monday that American fraudster, Mikhy K Farrera Brochez, has leaked the HIV-positive status of over 14,000 people.

The records belonged to 5,400 Singaporeans diagnosed with HIV up to January 2013 and 8,800 foreigners, including work and visit pass holders, diagnosed with the disease up to December 2011.

The leaked information included their name, identification number, contact details such as phone and address and HIV test results and related medical information.

It's been revealed some Queensland uniform shops are having to make larger clothes for obese students.

The Courier Mail reports some of the state’s children will wear uniforms specifically made bigger than 9XL when school returns this week.

Right now, 1 in 4 Australian children are obese, and the Australian Medical Association is warning parents to focus on getting their children active and eating a healthy diet to prevent the life-threatening disease.

From today, more than 6000 welfare recipients in the Wide Bay region of Queensland will start to receive their payments on a debit card.

It means 80 percent of their payments go onto the cashless card , which can’t be used for alcohol or gambling, with the rest put into their nominated bank account.

The idea is that it will help curb the huge amounts of money on alcohol, drug and gambling, however some welfare recipients believe it’s unfair to have someone managing their money and surveilling their finances.

Clive Palmer's recently released campaign gaming app, this app includes a feature allowing to track the location of users who have downloaded it to mobile phones with Google's Android operating system.

Tom West as the developer, he said the app had been downloaded more than 30,000 times since its launch two weeks ago.

The game was developed looks set to again draw attention to Mr. Palmer's regard for voters' privacy, following his party's mass text messaging campaign over the past month.

Melbourne researchers have embarked on a major trial investigating a promising new drug treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; a condition affecting 800,000 Australians.

N-acetylcysteine, also known as NAC, has shown great promise as medication for reducing PTSD symptoms;  after an initial trial involving two dozen US veterans saw a 32 percent improvement in their symptoms, compared to 3 percent given a placebo.

A Melbourne study will involve 126 participants with PTSD who have been resistant to other medications and treatments.

Wang Quanzhang, one of the country’s foremost human rights lawyer was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison for subversion of state power.

The 42-year-old went missing in 2015 amid a crackdown on activists and lawyers and is known for defending political activists as well of victims of government land seizures and police torture.

Doriane Lau, China researcher with rights group Amnesty International, called the verdict "a gross injustice."

The Pope is considering allowing married priests but enforces celibacy rule.

Pope Francis has definitively ruled out any chance that he would change the Roman Catholic rule requiring priests to be celibate.

He has stated that he is open to consider ordaining older married men in exceptional circumstances in remote areas with severe shortage of priests.