The Queensland Police are currently responding to a bomb threat at the Supreme Court building in Brisbane’s CBD.

The building on George St was evacuated at 9am this morning, with investigators still unsure whether it was either through technology or a person in the building.

The police have been investigating since 9:30.  More info is still to come, with police still treating it as highly serious.

A constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka has deepened after President Sirisena temporarily suspended Parliament, a day after firing the prime minister.

Mr Sirisena fired the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with the former president Rajapaksa late on Friday in a move cheered by Rajapaksa's supporters but described as a coup by opponents.

Zimbabwe is experiencing their worst economic crisis in a decade.

Nearly a year after the downfall of dictator Robert Mugabe, the country is spiralling into the turmoil new President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to avoid.

Zimbabweans are now sleeping in petrol queues and spending hours lining up for basic food, in the hopes stores will open and be well-stocked. Some shops have been shut and police have been called to prevent people from swarming the doors.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch visits Kerry Stokes during his Australian visit in August, saw the two discuss the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull, with speculation now about a deal between Murdoch’s News Corporation and Stoke’s Seven West Media.

Bankers proposed the idea which Foxtel, partly owned by News Corp, could merge with Seven instead of News Corp itself.

This could combine the two into a business with a significant advertising presence, 2.8 million subscribers and $4 billion in revenue.

A YouGov Galaxy poll by the Sunday Telegraph has outlined 80% of  Australians want asylum seekers transferred off Nauru and are in support of the government accepting the offer from New Zealand.  

Support for the resettlement deal with New Zealand was strongest amongst millennials, with half of all voters believing they would be more likely to vote for the coalition.

This comes after Liberal MP Julia Banks suggested the government use the deal to remove asylum seekers from Nauru.   

A new report into public oral health care has found tens of thousands of Queensland children have rotten teeth by school age.

The data, released by Queensland Health, looked at 130,000 children aged between five and 14 who accessed publicly funded dental care in 2016/17.

Queensland Health director of oral health services Dr Peter Osborne said children were not getting the best start in life and urged parents to get dental checks sooner.

The $1 billion West End development, known as ‘West Village’ has officially opened its doors this weekend to its first residents.  

More stages of the development are planned for 2023, where nine residential buildings and around 1200 apartments are expected to open.

The project gave designer Fleur Hartigan room to reinvent the display suite and public spaces within West End.

Events for the West End community are proposed, with new shops and restaurants being provided alongside the construction.

Ethiopia has elected their first female president.

The election of Sahle-Work Zedwe, a former diplomat, has been enthusiastically greeted in the country and beyond, raising hopes among advocates for gender equality in the conservative country.

The 68-year-old was unanimously approved by the Ethiopian parliament on Thursday to replace Mulatu Teshome, who resigned unexpectedly a day earlier.