Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has undermined the attempt of the President to dissolve parliament amidst political crisis in the island nation.

President Maithipala Sirisena shocked the nation by sacking parliament and calling for snap elections on Friday.

This has followed Mr Sirisena’s replacement of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister two weeks prior, in an act many are describing as unconstitutional.

CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and some of his aides, following the suspension of their journalist Jim Acosta’s press pass to the White House, after Acosta was involved in a verbal exchange with the President in a press conference.

The lawsuit alleges that Acosta and CNN’s first and fifth amendment has been violated by the ban, and seeks to restore Acosta’s access to the White House.

After months of negotiations, a draft text of the Brexit agreement has been agreed upon by UK and EU officials.

Intense discussions this week have led to the agreement of the draft, comprising a 500-page withdrawal plan with a statement about what the UK and EU’s future relationship will look like.  

While both sides are pleased with the draft so far, both the cabinet and Parliament are yet to agree to the plans.

The world’s largest humpback whale population is booming thanks to the Kimberley Region in Western Australia.

The success of Western Australia’s humpback whales appears to be a combination of good feeding grounds in Antarctica, coupled with a lack of natural predators in the Kimberley’s calving grounds.

It has been estimated the whale population is increasing at around 10 per cent per year, with anywhere from 35 to 45 000 currently on the west coast.

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has held an inquiry after the number of strip searches in New South Wales doubled in the past year.

The searches doubled from 560 in 2016 to 1100 in 2017, and in the first five months of 2018, 735 were recorded.

The inquiry looked into allegations that some members of the New South Wales police force have abused their strip search powers, with claims that Aboriginal children as young as 11 have been illegally strip-searched.

The Brisbane city council has announced a new pedestrian and cyclist bridge to be constructed in Indooroopilly.

The new Riverwalk will connect the suburbs of Kenmore and Indooroopilly to the University of Queensland, St Lucia and will be comparable to the Newfarm river walkway.

The proposed plan is designed to remove pedestrian and cyclist traffic from Radnor Street and provide a safer alternative for those travelling on it.

A new study has found young Queensland men are less likely to binge drink than their male parent and grandparents.

One in five adult Queenslanders drink at risky levels, with three-quarters of these being men, however, those between the ages of 18 and 29 have been bucking this trend.

Queensland Health chief psychiatrist and chief alcohol officer John Reilly said while a number of things may be influencing this trend, it indicates that the preventative health messages around alcohol are getting through.