US President Donald Trump has acknowledged his son, Donald Trump Jr and other campaign officials, met with Russians in 2016 at Manhattan’s Trump Tower to get information on opponent Hillary Clinton.

President Trump says the meeting was totally legal and happens all the time in politics, despite the President previously saying the meeting was exclusively about American policy on adopting Russian children.

The deadly Ebola virus is suspected to have killed as many as 33 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thirteen cases of the virus have been confirmed in the North Kivu province and neighbouring Ituri province, with another 30 cases probable cases registered.

The World Health Organisation has released $2 million to help fund the DRC’s response to the latest outbreak of the virus, this is the tenth outbreak since 1976.

A $36 million renovation of Queens Plaza is underway attracting high-end retailers such as Camilla, Dior and Aje to open stand-alone stores in 2018.

The renovation will include the remodelling of level one to include new tenants and two new restaurants.

Queens Plaza centre manager Pamela Wakefore says they are pleased with their progress and look forward to welcoming new level 1 retailers over the coming months.

The Queensland Government has given the go-ahead to commence construction for a specialised youth housing service in Townsville, with contracts awarded to a local builder and a local support provider.

Based on the internationally recognised Youth Foyer model, the Townsville Youth Foyer delivers evidence-based early intervention by providing secure housing and professional support for up to 40 vulnerable young people at any one time.

Sky News Australia has apologised for an interview it had with far-right nationalist Blair Cottrell, saying it was wrong to air the interview.

The former United Patriots Front leader was on the Adam Giles Show for a studio interview, speaking with the former Northern Territory about winding back immigration.

Last September Mr Cottrell was found guilty of inciting serious contempt for Muslims after he and other far-right nationalists uploaded a video of a mock beheading to protest against the building of a mosque in Bendigo.

Last Thursday Victorian police raided the homes of 17 former state Labor party campaign staff, who were arrested and interviewed with no charges laid.

Former Labor campaign organiser Jake Finnigan was one of the 17 but the only one to report being strip-searched and placed in a holding cell.

The raids occurred after the police’s decision late last month to launch a criminal investigation into Labor’s misuse of taxpayers’ money to pay campaign staff, dubbed the “Red Shirts” affair.

A vintage Swiss military plane, saved by a national fundraising campaign, has crashed into a mountain in the Alps, killing 20 people onboard.

Chief executive of the airline, Kurt Waldmeier says it was the worst day in the 36-year history of JU-Air. We have all suffered a very great loss.

Authorities were informed of the crash 50 minutes after the aircraft had taken off from Locarno’s Magadino airfield with five helicopters were deployed in a search and rescue mission.

Right wing Patriot Prayer held a rally in Portland, Oregon culminated in a police charge on counter-protestors with batons drawn and use of stun grenades and rounds containing pepper spray.

Counter protestors including labour and community groups, followed at a distance through neighbouring streets with the charge happened on Southwest Columbia Street after claims protestors were throwing missiles at their lines.