The controversial South African artists Ayanda Mabulu has been arrested in Johannesburg for displaying a painting of the disgraced Afrikaner businessman, Markus Jooste, receiving oral sex from a black woman.

Markus had recently stepped down as CEO of global retail group Steinhoff a year ago after it was accused of accounting irregularities.

A spokesperson for Ayanda says “the painting has been inspired by the hold of white monopoly capitalism has had on South Africa”; police have not given a reason for Ayanda’s arrest.

Perth-based technology start-up OncoRes Medical has been recognised internationally for its work in attempting to improve the outcome of cancer surgery.

The Western Australian company was announced as one of three winners at the London held finals of a competition that identifies emerging startups across the globe.

OncosRes Medical is developing a surgical imaging tool that in essence turns what surgeons can feel into something they can see, creating a digital image of the tissue.

There are fears a plan to raise Warragamba Dam wall will put a vulnerable-listed bird at further risk.

The painted honeyeater was discovered by Australian National University researcher Ross Crates last week, where it had not previously been seen.

Mr Crates says that the bird is one of a number of threatened species that will lose its habitat if the dam wall is raised.

Adani has asked the federal court to throw out a legal challenge to its Queensland coal mine unless five traditional owners can raise $160,000.

The mining company has applied for a court order to secure potential legal costs if it wins against the W&J representatives who are seeking to overturn a crucial mine site land deal.

It has been proposed that if the security is not given within 14 days of the court’s order, the appeal will be dismissed with costs.

A Darwin shipping company has been fined $190,000 after the death of a deckhand who lost his grip and drowned in January 2017.

The company’s workplace practices posed an “obvious risk to death” according to the judge after it was found that workers were required to jump across a gap onto a tyre, before pulling themselves up by chains to get access to the wharf.

Outside court, the victim's partner said the Northern Territory should follow Queensland’s lead and introduce an industrial manslaughter offense.

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana's capital, Accra.

University of Ghana lecturers began a petition for its removal shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by India's former President Pranab.

The petition said Gandhi was "racist", because of comments he made about Africans and suggested that African heroes should be put first.

New Zealand's Justice Minister, has warned Google could face prosecution for naming the 26-year-old man accused of murdering British backpacker, Grace Millanel, via an email. 

The email said more than 100,000 Google searches had been made of the man's name nationally and the Minister says “Google is responsible for publishing information that’s been suppressed by a court”. 

A Google spokesperson told the New Zealand Herald they did not know about the suppression order, adding that Google trend alerts were automatically generated based on searches.

The University of Technology Sydney will open Australia's first Indigenous residential college to encourage more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into tertiary education.

Architects will consult Indigenous designers before beginning the construction of a $100 million building at a site near the Ultimo university, which is expected to open its doors within four years.

UTS aims to remove the barriers that have been hindering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' access to university education, such as cost and cultural isolation.

Above average sea temperatures forecasted in Australia’s Northern coast may cause widespread coral bleaching. 

A “Red Alert Level 2” has been put in place in the North Tiwi Islands, where sea surface temperatures have topped 33 degrees celsius. 

It is forecasted that all of the Territory’s coastal waters, apart from areas of the Gulf of Carpenteria, will be placed on a “Red Alert Level 2” by January.