West End residents have voiced their concern to Brisbane City Council after plans were submitted for a 12-storey unit complex.

In a letter to the council, residents said the size and scale of the development will be a blight on the West End community and is a clear over-development. 

The proposal, submitted at the beginning of the year, plans to demolish an existing warehouse and office buildings by developer, Crown Group. 

Australian immigration officials have forcibly deported an Iraqi asylum seeker, even though he awaited a federal court case, scheduled for next week.

Lawyers attempted to get a legal injunction to prevent the deportation, but were prevented from communicating with him before the plane took off.

This latest deportation follows more the deportation of more than 10 Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Tuesday, with some of these men awaiting court challenges after more than six years detention in Australia.

Australia will miss Paris Climate Targets by 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide under the current trajectory, according to NDEVR environmental data.

Emissions have hit record highs for the third consecutive year, despite ongoing reassurance from politicians that Australia is on track to meet target.

The report cites the continued rise in emissions due to stationary and fugitive energy emissions, as well as transport emissions with use of diesel fuel increasing.

Israel’s Tel Aviv will host the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, snubbing an attempt by the Israeli government to host the event in Jerusalem.  

The announcement follows the Middle Eastern nation’s victory in the song contest earlier this year. 

The event is expected to be controversial in the face of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Isreal over its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. 

A rockslide on the Greek holiday island, Zakynthos, has injured seven tourists. 

A large slab of rock crumbled off the 200-metre cliff face at Navagio beach, smashing into the shoreline below and overturning several boats. 

A Czech family of four were caught in the slide, and the mother hospitalised with a fractured vertebra. 

Facing an April 2019 election, the fate of Indonesian President Joko Widodo is unknown as the country’s economy reaches lowest lows since the 1998 currency collapse. 

Political risk analyst Kevin O’Rourke said polls show voters have strong concerns with the rising food prices, with the Federal Government needing to import 2 million tonnes of rice this year alone. 

A category two cyclone has made land in the US state of North Carolina, with as much as one metre of rain expected.

Hurricane Florence is expected to move inland through Saturday as more than one million people evacuate the coasts.

The predicted path of the storm, which was blowing at 165 kilometers per hour on Thursday night, will see it pass over ten million US residents.

Volkswagen has announced the iconic Beetle car will be discontinued from 2019.

The Beetle, or Bug, has been produced by the German car manufacturer since 1938.

The move comes as VW is looking to refocus on electric vehicles and larger, family cars.

Former Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma has won Liberal preselection for the Wentworth by-election on 20 October this year following the resignation of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The six hour voting session came down to two male candidates despite suggestions from Prime Minister Scott Morrison as well as high profile women MPs that higher female representation in the party should be prioritised.