A new tech start-up business has developed a way to count the number of fruit on trees at a rate 6000 times faster than a human could.

The device, dubbed the Cartographer, utilises a combination of satellite information and a specialized camera mounted to a quad bike to develop mapped data that can be compared year by year.

It is hoped that the data will give farmers in-depth information about the quantity and distribution of their crop from its flowering stage through to its harvest.

Thailand’s election results are facing further delays as allegations of cheating continue to sprout from both parties.

The election results were originally expected on Sunday night, mere hours after the polls closed, but the Election Commission has now announced final results won’t be ready until Friday.

This is the nation’s first democratic election since the 2014 military coup.

On Saturday, A Viking Sky Cruise Ship stranded off the coast of Norway was towed to shore after facing harsh conditions, leaving many passengers traumatized.

Carrying 1373 passengers and crew, The Viking Sky struggled against heavy seas and engine trouble when it issued a mayday call. Out of these,  479 passengers were airlifted to land by helicopters facing wind gusts up to 69 kilometres an hour.

After docking, the Viking Ocean Cruises Company confirmed all of the passengers and crew on the ship were safe.

The police presence during Brisbane’s 2014 G20 summit may have justified violence in the eyes of some protesters, according to recent research from the University of Queensland.

At least 6000 Queensland police officers were involved in the security operation for the international summit, making it one of the largest peacetime police operations in Australian history.

The vast police presence was credited with keeping the protesters in check, especially compared to other G20 events elsewhere in the world.

The Queensland Government has announced it will be taking back control of its prisons after a report in December revealed the extent of corruption and assaults within the system.

The Crime and Corruption Commission’s report found that prisoners were being treated inhumanely due to overcrowding, with Queensland jails at 125% capacity.

The cost of the move is estimated to be $111 million over four years.

Senior One Nation figures have been secretly recorded asking for millions of dollars in political donations from the NRA and Koch Industries by Al Jazeera Journalists.

Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff James Ashby and One Nation’s Queensland leader Steve Dickson were involved in several meetings with pro-gun lobbyists last September during a trip to Washington.

The meetings were covertly recorded by a journalist posing as a gun lobbyist and included conversations about seeking political funding and how to spin gun massacres against gun control advocates.

A new CPR machine trialed in Sydney has saved a man’s life after he went into cardiac arrest on Monday afternoon.

Mark Sackley collapsed during a work meeting inside the Department of Defence in the Sydney CBD, and paramedics on the scene were quick to try out a new device known as the Lucas machine.

Doctor David Roy, a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, said without the machine, Mark would likely not have survived.

Passengers on a British Airways Flight had a small change of plans on Monday when their flight from London to Dusseldorf landed in Scotland by mistake.

British Airways say that a paperwork mishap was the core of the blunder, as the wrong route was submitted to air traffic controllers.

However, the plane and passengers were all in safe hands as the pilot, crew and air traffic controllers all believed that Scotland was the plane’s intended destination.