Saturday afternoon saw dangerous thunder, hail storms and damaging winds in Brisbane, striking the Gold Coast, Noosa and parts of Gympie, Scenic Rim, Redland City and the Sunshine Coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns Queenslanders of flash flooding, large hailstones and destructive winds up to 125 km/h with heavy rain as the storm moves north.

Far right protesters used smoke bombs and pepper spray against trans-rights activitists in Kiev on Sunday.

Police assisted activists by directing them into a nearby Subway station and blockading it from protesters.

Organisers of the march say the attack demonstrates an increase in far right radical aggression in Ukraine.

Homophobia is still commonplace in Ukraine, where Pride marches have only recently become legalised.

The future of Google News is uncertain as the EU threatens a ‘link tax’ for news stories.

Vice president of Google News, Richard Gringas, says he’s deeply concerned about the proposals which are designed to help struggling news publishers when their stories appear in search results.

In 2014 the Spanish government attempted to charge Google for use of news sites and the company responded by shutting down Google News in Spain.

Queensland massage parlours are more frequently offering illegal prostitution, causing hardship in the licensed brothel sector.

Prostitution Licensing Authority chairman Walter Tutt says the proliferation of false massage parlours is a contributor to the decline in licensed brothels, with the end of June seeing just 20 licensed brothels.

Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy focus on youth issues in the final week of the state election campaign, with promises of a free dental care and a proposed a boot camp to discipline non-violent juveniles, respectively.

The Premier promised free dental coverage for state school kids if it wins next weekend's state election, with the scheme costing $396 million.

Greenslopes resident Jean Kruck is protesting potential tree clearing on Stephens Mountain behind Greenslopes hospital, in an effort by city planners to increase city views in the area.

On Tuesday night, Brisbane City Council approved the Coorparoo Neighbourhood Plan, which entails protecting five hectares of Stephens Mountain, and it drew 421 submissions.

Brisbane City Council has requested citizens’ metadata from telecoms companies, prompting calls of "Big Brother" from the council's Labor opposition.

According to the telecoms industry, the BCC is among more than 100 bodies making thousands of requests for details of numbers called by phone users, their location, the length of calls, email addresses and other information telcos are obliged to keep for two years under national security laws passed in 2015.

Indigenous women in Canada allege they were coerced into sterilisation, according to a class action lawsuit filed this week.

The women say their fallopian tubes were tied, burned, or cut in public hospitals when they were unable to give sufficient consent.

Amnesty International has announced it will lobby the UN committee against torture to increase pressure on the Canadian government to act on the breach of human rights.

US president Donald Trump has refused to listen to audio tape of the murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, while saying the killing was “vicious”.

In an interview with Fox News Sunday, president Trump told presenter Chris Wallace: “I don’t want to hear the tape, no reason for me to hear the tape.”

The Fairfax media name may outlive the proposed 4 billion dollar takeover by Nine Entertainment.

Former chief executive of majority Fairfax owned real estate site, Domain, Antony Catalano, has made a last minute bid to block the merger.

In a letter to Fairfax chairman, Nick Falloon, Mr Catalano offered to acquire up to 19.9% of Fairfax Media.

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance support the block, saying the merger will reduce coverage of public national interest.