A positive story this morning - the world’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will pledge to $2 billion, of his estimated $163 billion to charity. 

Bezos made the announcement on Twitter after asking for suggestions on how to spend his fortune for good. 

The billionaire says the the donations will go towards non-profit organisations helping homeless families and towards a network of new, non-profit, pre-schools in low-income communities. 

A British pop star’s show in Shanghai saw young fans forcibly dragged from their seats by security. 

Singer, Dua Lipa, expressed solidarity with fans who were allegedly removed by security for waving flags in support of LGBT rights. 

Homosexuality is not illegal in China but has been increasingly censored by the Communist Party. 

Labor’s Candidate for the north-Brisbane seat Petrie, is under a corruption investigation over a 20 million dollar deal involving the Moreton Bay Regional Council. 

The council’s Manager of Strategy and Engagement, Corrinne Mulholland is said to be closely associated with the deal, and has faced criticism from opposition for remaining in her role while campaigning for the seat. 

Ms Mulholland says while she is currently on extended leave, she intends to resign when the election is called to comply with eligibility requirements.

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.