The latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared over 42 days after the last victim recovered.

It was the ninth outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo in a decade.

This outbreak reached Mbandaka, a river port city of over a million people, which raised concerns it could quickly spread through West Africa.

Farmers and producers are coming up with their own solutions to phase out single-use plastic, but hope the market will drive demand for plastic-free options.

Paul Crock is in discussions with European companies that are looking at plastic alternatives, and he has even floated the idea of casings for meat, similar to what you would find on the outside of a sausage.

In breaking news this morning Fairfax and Nine have announced they will be merging.

Nine will be the dominant partner, with its current shareholders holding 51.1 per cent of the merged company's shares, and the current Nine chief executive and chairman leading the combined firm.

Fairfax will contribute three directors to a board of six.

The 2017 Queensland Rural Debt Survey report reveals total rural debt in Queensland was $17.24 billion as of the end of last calendar year.

Of the 16 industries captured in the survey, the three major rural debt holding industries included beef, cotton
and sugar, which held $11.72 billion, and was in line with the relative size of the industries in the state.

Real-time fuel prices will be available to Queensland motorists' within six months, with the state government confirming it will launch a two-year trial.

From December this year, price alterations will be seen on apps and websites within 30 minutes of the change being made at petrol stations.

The announcement comes as data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows fuel prices have risen 7.4 per cent during the past quarter and 16.6 per cent during the past year in Brisbane.

A newly discovered dinosaur may be re-writing China's geological history, according to a recent finding of new giant sauropod, Lingwulong shenqi lived in the north of the country about 100-74 million years ago.

At this time, East Asia was thought to have split from the supercontinent Pangaea, but Lingwulong may be evidence that that was not the case.

Officials have announced South Sudan's warring leaders have agreed to share power once again in the latest effort to end a five-year civil war.

The agreement initialled on Wednesday will be signed on August 5, Sudan's Foreign Minister Al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed said.

President Salva Kiir will lead South Sudan's government during a transitional period and armed opposition leader Riek Machar will return as first vice-president.

Researchers have found that inexpensive magnets can reduce the number of sharks caught in fish traps and increases the amount of fish caught.

University of Newcastle marine ecologist Vincent Raoult said researchers experimented with small magnets on fish traps to create an electromagnetic field over trap entry points, with the hope of deterring sharks.