The Cancer Council is calling on Queenslanders to show their support for Daffodil Day, by turning the state yellow and volunteering by selling daffodils.

Cancer Council Queensland CEO Chris McMillan says Daffodil Day is one of Queensland's most iconic events, bringing hope and joy into the lives affected by cancer.

Ms McMillan says the Cancer Council is seeking around 1200 volunteers to sell thousands of daffodils from 300 sites across the state.

Cave diving doctor Richard Harris from Adelaide was the last person to leave the Thai caves this morning and has been pronounced a hero.

The doctor’s life-saving efforts have been praised by Rescue Mission Leader Narong sak Oso tana korn  who stated Richard was ‘the very best’.

Richard was one of twenty Australians involved in the rescue and visited the caves daily to sign off on each boy’s health before they were evacuated.

In the United States, refugee families are being reunited following the release of children from immigration detention centres near the Mexico border.

A U.S.government lawyer has announced at least 54 children will be returned to their parents by the court-ordered deadline of Tuesday evening.

The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) has collected over $20 million USD in fundraising money donated on Facebook to be directed towards the immigration bonds of more than two thousand children who remain in shelters.

A plane crash in the South African capital of Pretoria has left one dead and twenty more injured.

The vintage plane was taking a test flight out of a small airport when it came down on top of a factory and broke into pieces, injuring two workers inside.

The plane was due to fly to the Netherlands later this week to be exhibited in an aviation theme park.

A journalist has been detained in Thailand for flying a drone into the flooded Thai cave where the soccer team were trapped.

The drone was caught flying ‘dangerously close’ to a rescue helicopter while capturing video footage of the cave evacuation on Sunday.

Northern parts of Queensland are experiencing a resurgence in outbreaks of Syphilis, with several babies now included in the death-toll.  

The disease was almost eradicated in the early 2000’s with only two cases reported in the state, however, since 2008 more than one thousand cases have been documented.

The outbreak started in 2011 within the Doomadgee community in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but has since spread beyond the state as far as Western Australia.

A school holiday program is targeting students and encouraging them to consider entering the mining industry.

The Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy recently concluded its program located in Mt. Isa which aimed to inform students about career prospects and the competitive advantage of entering the mining industry; amid nation-wide skill shortages.

As well as receiving hands-on experience, the students are tested for general aptitude as well as interest and proficiency in maths and science.

Motorists on Brisbane’s northside are paying more for their fuel compared to motorists on the southside, new RACQ data has revealed.

RACQ spokeswoman Lucinda Ross said the report found those on Brisbane’s northside were paying, on average, an extra 15c per litre compared to the southside.

Ms Ross said Brisbane motorists were charged an average $1.487 for ULP (Unleaded) in June, 1c cent a litre lower than May, but still more than all other major Australian Capital Cities.

An acclaimed Brisbane artist has been reunited with the man he credits saving his life 47 years ago, after he put a call out to find him in the media.

Robert Brownhall almost drowned when he was three years old during a day at the beach with his family near Bundaberg in 1971.

The artist said if another three-year-old boy names Dean Barry hadn’t alerted his parents, he would’ve died at Kelly’s Beach that day.