Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill will sign an agreement to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative Infrastructure Program in a week-long official visit.

Alongside East Timor, PNG will be the second Pacific nation to sign to the agreement in a move that worries Australian officials.

Chinese loans make-up a quarter of PNG’s national debt, but PM O’Neill says the agreement is important for PNG to integrate into the global economy and that it’s unwise to simply sit back and let these opportunities pass by.

New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has given birth to a baby girl yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon, she announced the birth by sharing a photo of her and her partner, Clarke Gayford, with their daughter on Instagram.

The 37-year-old is the second world leader to give birth while in office, after Pakistan's then-prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, 28 years ago.

The Australian Bogong Moth is one of the first nocturnal insects known to researchers to use the Earth’s magnetic fields for long-distance migration.

The moths, which are only a few centimetres long, travel over 1,000 kilometres to alpine caves in New South Wales and Victoria and then back to their birthplace, to mate annually.

Scientists from Australia and Sweden published in the journal of Current Biology that bogong moths use the Earth’s magnetic fields as a compass to guide them on their annual journey.

Australia’s first treaty legislation was passed yesterday in Victorian parliament following two years of consultation with thousands of Aboriginal Victorians.

The Aboriginal Victorians Bill 2018 will create a representative body to help design the framework for treaty negotiations for areas of concern like recognition of historic sovereignty, how relationships should evolve, possible self-government and land rights.

The election for the body will be finished by mid-2019 and will be organised and voted on by Aboriginal Victorians.

Approximately 300 people have gathered outside Parliament House in Brisbane last night, to remember Melbourne woman Eurydice Dixon who was raped and murdered last week.

The vigil held five minutes of silence to commemorate Ms Dixon and other victims of gender related violence in Australia.

Vigil organiser Yolanda Robson said Brisbane women needed the opportunity to come together and see how many allies they had; as men and women flooded in outside Parliament house.  

Brisbane’s liveability survey reveals people love Brisbane’s weather and loathe its public transport system but can’t decide whether the overall quality of life is on the improve or decline.

Brisbane’s public transport ratings showed 434 residents believed it was “dire,” while only 73 survey respondents rated the city’s public transport system as “exceptional.”

When respondents were asked to list a feature of another city they would like to see in Brisbane there was a big push for trams, lights rail and overall better public transport.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, has been charged with fraud following allegations around falsified household expenses.

She allegedly had claimed there was no cooks available for use at their official residence, ordering outside catering that amounted to an estimated $97,000.

She denied the allegations but they come after a slew of investigations into corruption around Netanyahu which he claims as a ‘witch hunt’.

The remains of 200 missing American soldiers which were killed during the Korean War are in the process of being returned to the United States.

US President Donald Trump originally released a statement which said the remains had already been returned, but a day later corrected the statement.

According to US military data, approximately 7,700 American soldiers are unaccounted for, from the 1950-1953 Korean War.

The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that a Somali refugee on Nauru will be allowed to travel to Australia for an abortion.

The woman, who is 12 weeks pregnant has been on Nauru for almost five years and is a victim of female genital mutilation.

The government considered sending the woman to Taiwan, however Federal Court Justice Alan Robertson ruled that no Taiwanese Obstetricians or Gynaecologists were experienced in performing abortions on women with female genital mutilation.