TransLink data shows on any school day almost 4000 students don’t pay their bus fares, costing an extra half a million dollars more annually than three years ago.

The number of students evading fares has tripled over just the last two years, correlating with a 51 per cent drop in revenue from Gold Coast school bus services over the same period.

Bus drivers are not allowed to refuse service to students, leading to Queensland bus drivers recording 1.53 million fare evasions in the last financial year, almost double the previous year before.

New Zealand will hold two minutes of silence tomorrow, marking one week since 50 people were killed in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said tomorrow’s commemoration will also include the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast nationally on TV and radio, and that plans are under way for a further memorial service next week.

A hidden spycam ring in South Korea has been accused of secretly filming 1600 hotel room guests and live-streamed the footage online.

South Korean police have so far arrested four men accused of using the hidden cameras installed in TVs, wall sockets and hairdryer holders.

The devices were found in 42 rooms at 30 hotels across 10 South Korean cities.

Police said there was no evidence showing the businesses were aware of the privacy breach.

David Leyonhjelm's former chief of staff is filling his Senate seat, after the former senator stepped down to contest the NSW state election.

Duncan Spender, who founded the Liberal Democrats, will be filling the federal upper house seat in Canberra.

He will be sworn in the next Senate meeting on April 2.

Tropical cyclone Veronica has intensified to category three as it heads towards the Western Australian coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the forecast track has some uncertainty but there is potential for severe tropical cyclone impact along the Pilbara coast over the weekend.

People near Mardie and Pardoo, including Port Hedland, South Hedland, Wickham, Roebourne, Point Samson, Karratha and Dampier are being warned to prepare for cyclonic weather.

The Brisbane City Council has found that U-turn signs have too many words on them, with simpler signs being trialled across the city.

The trial is set to replace the current ‘U-turns prohibited sign’ with image-based signs at six locations across the city.

Infrastructure chair Amanda Cooper said the new signs aim to reduce the amount of illegal U-turns which can cause traffic accidents and increase congestion.

Blockbuster movie Godzilla vs Kong is coming to Brisbane.

Filming is currently taking place at the Gold Coast, with shooting set to move to Wickham Terrace at the end of March.

A presentation to the Brisbane City Council Infrastructure committee this week stated the shoot will take place in the evenings, and will involve smoke, simulated weapons and armoured vehicles.

The film is set to be released in 2020, starring Hollywood actors Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgard and Eliza Gonzalez.

A Danish legislator was ejected from parliament after a fellow female colleague said her baby had no place in Parliament.

Danish politician, Mette Abildgaard detailed the experience in a post on Facebook, writing that Denmark’s first female speaker of Parliament, Pia Kjaersgaard, reproached her on Tuesday saying that her baby was ‘unwanted’ in Parliament.

The incident has united many legislators across political lines against what they said is an outdated and unwarranted action, some demanding an apology from the speaker.

Kazakhstan has sworn in a new interim President less than 24 hours after their previous President of thirty years suddenly resigned on Tuesday.

65-year-old Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will now serve the rest of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s term until April of next year.

President Tokayev immediately moved to rename Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to Nursultan in a tribute to the former President.