Six large animals have died at South Africa’s largest national park after a devastating lightning storm toppled a power cable.

Park rangers discovered the two lions, two hyenas, a giraffe and a rhino who were all killed when the power line came down in Kruger National Park, which follow the deaths of four other large animals in the park in the last month from poachers.

The deaths of these animals are a significant loss to the park, with estimated rhino and lion numbers both falling below 2,000.

A polar vortex will bring a once in a generation cold snap to the US, with temperatures dropping as low as minus 53 degrees Celcius.

55 million people will experience temperatures below zero, and states of emergency have been declared in five states, with Chicago to be colder than Antarctica on Thursday.

President Donald Trump has used the extreme weather event to question climate change, tweeting “what the hell is going on with global warming? Please come back fast, we need you!”

Attorneys will be able to subpoena Kendall Jenner’s company and other modelling agencies that represent the models who promoted the Fyre Festival, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

Fyre Festival filed for bankruptcy when it could not pay its vendors and other creditors in July 2017, after the supposedly upscale, private-island experience devolved into chaos, failing to provide even basic necessities for concert-goers.

British politicians have voted on amendments to the proposed Brexit deal, asking the EU to replace the Irish border arrangement known as the “backstop”, in last ditch attempts at renegotiation.

Britain is required by law to leave the EU in two months and Prime Minister Teresa May says it is now clear  there is a route that can secure a substantial and sustainable majority in the house for a deal.

A new Productivity Commission report published this week has revealed one-third of mentally ill patients in waiting rooms are forced to wait unreasonably long times to receive care.

The report showed timely access to mental healthcare was at just 68 percent nationally in 2016-17, and in ‘semi-urgent’ and ‘non-urgent’ cases a patient could expect to wait more than two hours to receive the care they needed.

The families of former prime ministers Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies have slammed Clive Palmer for claiming the pair as being former leaders of his political party, the United Australia Party.

The original UAP was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945, and Palmer has claimed the two men as alumni of his party after renaming the Palmer United Party as the United Australia Party in 2018.

Health professionals are continuing to warn the state government that patients will be seriously harmed with the rollout of Queensland Health’s multi-million dollar integrated electronic medical record project.

Documented examples of the project damaging patient health include blood tests being labelled with the wrong data, patients being administered double doses of medications and cervical screening tests going missing.

Deloitte Access Economics latest business outlook reveals things are looking up for Queensland, with Sydney’s “stupid housing prices” seeing more people making the move up North.

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad says the report has highlighted the wave of interstate migration, especially from New South Wales.

Additionally, tourists are flocking to Queensland's beaches, cities and regions, with the longest period of sustained tourism since the 1990s.