The Palaszczuk Government has announced they will soon roll out a new system where commuters will be able to use their contactless debit or credit cards, smart phones and smart watches to pay for trips on public transport.

In a conference this morning, Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said the Palaszcuk Government will not leave regional Queensland behind, with current Go Card operators due to deliver the new system in 18 regional communities.

North Korea will return the remains of 200 American service members who died in the Korean War.

US officials have confirmed that President Trump requested for their return during his meeting with Kim Jong-Un.

The US DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency), reports there are an estimated 7,697 Americans unaccounted for from the war, with more than five thousand expected to be located in North Korea.

Distraught children separated from their parents in US detention centres can be heard crying in an audio clip released by ProPublica on Monday.

The eight-minute sound clip was recorded last week inside a US Customs and Border Protection Detention Centre and is one of a number of documents released in recent days showing the toll the detention centres is taking on children.

Government officials have banned journalists from using cameras or conducting interviews with the children who are kept inside locked 'cages'.

A Yorkshire terrier from Missouri in the United States is being hailed a hero after spending the night guarding a missing toddler.

After the three year old girl wandered away from home, her parents alerted authorities who began a widespread search overnight.

The girl was found the next morning after her loyal dog began barking to alert rescuers.

Italy’s Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, is drawing his attention to Italy’s gypsy community.

The interior minister, who recently sparked a multinational showdown by refusing entry to a Mediterranean Sea rescue boat packed with 630 migrants, told a Lombardy television station he wants to conduct a census or registry of Roma (locally known as gypsies) in Italy.

Salvini stressed the projects purpose wasn’t to identify individual Roma but to study the overall situation.

A Sydney man has died after spending 21 hours on a hospital floor after a stroke.

Alan Bugden visited Royal North Shore Hospital for a routine check up before collapsing in a toilet cubicle with a floor to ceiling door that prevented his escape.

He was found conscious the next morning but died from a blood clot in intensive care. Clot busting medication would have saved his life if he had been found by hospital staff hours earlier.

Telstra is set to slash more than 8,000 jobs as part of a $1 billion cost-cutting plan to simplify its operations and product set.

Telstra said the long term plan would be to see one in four executive and middle management roles slashed “to flatten the structure.”

Telstra chief executive Andrew Penn said the strategy, named Telstra 2022, would be implemented over the next four years.

Self-serve checkout technology that threatens Australian jobs is receiving increasing backlash from unhappy consumers.

Australian photographer, Ken Duncan said he is unimpressed after being told by a McDonald’s employee that he “will have to get used to [the machines] as this is the way that’s it’s going to be for everybody”.

Brisbane City Council will launch an international offer for companies to secure a contract to build the Brisbane Metro.

Council plans for the Metro to extend from Eight Mile Plains to the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital and west to the University of Queensland.

The $944 million project is fully funded and requires a company to design the vehicles and upgrade existing stations and tunnels.