7000 insects along with one of the worlds most highly venomous spider have been stolen from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavillion in the United States.

The thieves, on the 22nd of August, stole more than 40,000 dollars worth of insects, with police believing the heist to be an inside job.

The insectarium and police state that it’s difficult to track which specific creatures have been stolen as the thieves also stole the logs used to track the pavilion’s insects.

Victorias Admissions authority has warned schools to stop publishing misleading results following 2 elite private schools promoting inaccurate year 12 scores

The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre or VTAC has warned every Victorian school to publish accurate results as schools have inaccurately equated International Baccalaureate scores of 6 or 7 to VCE scores of above 40, placing this student in the states top 9 percent.

Uber will ban Australian and New Zealand passengers who posses a rating lower than 4, for a period of six months, in order to improve passenger behaviour.

Uber told the BBC that Australia and New Zealand had been identified as a place to bring in the rule, after receiving feedback from drivers. While same policy was introduced in Brazil earlier this year, this is the first time it will be rolled out in an English-speaking country.

A young northern hairy-nosed wombat has been captured on camera venturing from its burrow at a southern Queensland nature refuge.

The baby was born at the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge, near St George. Approximately 250 northern hairy-nosed wombats are left in the wild.

Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch says this birth is a cause for celebration, as this refuge was established 10 years ago to protect the species.

Environmental groups are appealing the use of baited hooks to the Queensland Government following the release of images showing 2 dead Hammerhead sharks attached to the hooks.

Both the Human Society International and the Australian Marine Conservation Society say the images, obtained off the coast of Magnetic Island, is proof that the government needs a new approach and new measures to prevent shark attacks.

At least 20 people have died and 70 have been wounded in a suicide bombing at a wrestling training centre and nearby carboming in the Afghan Capital of Kabul

Nobody has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks, but reports indicate the attack resembles the countries Islamic State group, which has been highly active in the past.

This bombings seem to have been targeted at the countries minority population of Shiite (she-ite) Muslims, a group Islamic state has been known to target.

An Emirates plane flying from Dubai to New York has been quarantined after roughly 100 people reported feeling ill with a cough and a fever.

The flight was quarantined at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, at a location away from the terminal so emergency officials could evaluate the situation.

Woolworths will trial a new ‘scan and go’ technology, which would do away with checkouts.

This technology, which is being trialled at a store in Sydney’s Double Bay, would allow customers to choose their products, scan the barcodes through their phone, then directly drop the items into their bags. For fruit and vegetables, special weighing scales will be used to display a barcode which can also be scanned and then feed the correct price into the app.

The Public Service union is planning a rally campaigning against South Australia's prison privatisation agenda which could result in prison lockdowns across the state.

This rally is in direct retaliation against the Liberal Governments plans to outsource management of the Adelaide Remand Centre.

This rally has caused the corrections minister Minister Corey Wingard to call for the Union to reconsider the move in a hasty Press Conference