A six year old child has fired a loaded handgun found in the couch of an IKEA store in Indiana.

The gun had been misplaced and wedged between the cushions after its owner sat down on the couch.

Sergeant Tom Weger from the Fisher’s Police Department says upon the firing of the gun, “the gun owner quickly identified himself … and fully cooperated with the investigation”.

Author of ‘China’s Great Wall of Debt’, Danny McMahon, says China’s eerie ghost cities are a ‘symptom’ of the countrys' economic troubles and housing bubble.

There are currently over 64 million empty apartments in China, with many people buying the properties as an investment with no intention of ever moving in.

Experts say Australia is missing out on billions in potential short-term health savings which could come with tougher greenhouse emission targets.

Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Sydney, Tony Capon suggests the energy and transport sectors alone cost Australia at least $6 billion a year in heath problems.

University graduates earning $730 a week will have to start repaying their student loans from Sunday after the Turnbull Government signed a deal to reclaim $250 million in higher education debt.

The bill passed on Tuesday requires graduates to repay at least 1 per cent of their student debt once they start earning $45,000 a year, reducing the threshold from $56,000.

Brisbane City Council has revealed burials, pet registration and parking is going to become more expensive per the 2018-19 schedule of fees as part of the budget.

From Monday to Friday, parking in the Brisbane CBD will cost motorists $4.90 an hour, which is an 11 percent increase compared to the previous year.

Registering your pet in 2018-19 will be met with a 2.5 percent increase, and purchasing a lawn grave at a council-owned cemetery has increased by $758 to $4465.

New bridges for vehicles to cross the Brisbane River are unlikely to be built, with Lord Mayor Graham Quirk saying pedestrian and public transport projects were the focus of the future.

The Lord mayor revealed that building river crossings was becoming more difficult at his State of the City address on Tuesday evening.