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Tony Abbott accepts new special envoy job
Drought crisis causes dog surrenders to rise
Controversial north-west Brisbane neighbourhood plan to be implemented
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Bees swarm hot dog stand in Times Square
If you don’t like bees you better buzz off now because thirty thousand bees have swarmed onto the umbrella of a hot dog stand in Times Square.
Police shut down the street and a beekeeper was called who vacuumed the bees into a bucket.
It is not known what attracted the bees to the umbrella.
Puerto Rican death toll of Hurricane Maria revised
Officials in Puerto Rico have revised the Hurricane Maria death toll from 64 to 2,975 people.
Governor Ricardo Rossello accepted the new findings and said he is giving an order to update the official number of deaths as soon as possible.
The latest findings were made in a report by researchers from George Washington University.
The storm, which struck the US island territory in September 2017, has left Puerto Rico struggling to repair its infrastructure and power grid.
‘Epidemic’ of trauma withdrawal syndrome affecting children on Nauru
At least 30 children on Nauru are suffering from trauma withdrawal syndrome, according to a report released by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
The rare and life threatening mental disorder causes bodies to shut down and can include complications such as organ failure and brain damage.
Psychiatry expert Louise Newman from the University of Melbourne says this epidemic is indicative of how traumatic the situation has become on the island.