Surveillance footage has shown that a body double of Jamal Khashoggi was seen seen leaving the Saudi Consulate on the same day of his alleged death.

Footage unearthed by CNN shows that a man wearing Khashoggi’s clothes was seen leaving the back exit of the consulate along with a member of the Saudi team.

The footage comes amid increasing pressure on Saudi Arabia to clarify what happened to Khashoggi.
 

A category 4 hurricane is likely to hit Mexico’s South-Western Coast later this week.
 

Hurricane Willa is expected to bring torrential rains, landslides, and flooding to the area, and the National Hurricane Center has called the storm "potentially catastrophic".
 

The hurricane is the second to hit the region this month following the US’ Hurricane Michael.

Queensland is set to become the world’s second largest gas exporter, according to the latest Deloitte Access Economic review.

The review predicts that Queensland’s liquified natural gas industry is set to take overtake the coal industry and take the state out of its current economic mining downturn.

In November 2017, the sector produced its first 1.1 billion export.  

A Senate estimates hearing has heard a P&O cruise ship spilled 27, 000 litres of food waste and grey water on the Great Barrier Reef marine park in August.

Deputy Greens leader Larissa Waters delivered Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s report, which had been supplied anonymously, and said the public had a right to know about such events.

Waters said cruise ship companies are less likely to take the issue seriously if they believe the public won’t find out about their pollution.

The $50 billion education gap between urban and regional areas could soon be reduced with help from travelling bush tutors and rewards for student effort.

In a report conducted by UNSW economic professor Richard Holden, $53 billion could be added to Australia’s annual GDP if investments were made into the education of rural and regional schoolchildren.

Head of the Gonski Institute, Adrian Piccoli, said the report was commissioned in order to “get decision makers to understand the economic consequences of having this gap”.

Information about Labor’s voter tracking system has been exposed by a simple Google search, with the software firm inadvertently leaking classified data across 2016 & 2017.

The figures detail how Magenta Linas carried out upgrades to allow the Labor party to store individuals’ beliefs about the same sex marriage survey.

The information was only removed from Google once the ABC alerted the software firm.

Border tensions have hit a new low between Italy and France as Italy accuses French border guards of dumping unwanted migrants inside Italian territory.

Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has condemned the action and  said Italy will ‘no longer be the refugee camp of Europe’, while French PM Emmanuel Macron called Italy’s hard line on migration ‘nauseating’.

French interior minister Christophe Castaner replied he wishes to improve border cooperation but that both countries need stronger measures against undocumented immigration.  

Croatia’s former Prime Minister has been convicted of war profiteering in the 1990s.

Ivo Sanader was found guilty of accepting just under half a million Euros in bribes from an Austrian bank while he was deputy foreign minister.

He was formally sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but the time will be absorbed into an existing sentencing he received for a similar offence in 2012.