MP for Wagga Wagga Daryl Maguire has resigned from the Liberal Party and his role as parliamentary secretary for counter terrorism, corrections, veterans and the centenary of ANZAC after being caught trying to profit off the sale of a Sydney property to an overseas developer.

Secret recordings of Mr Maguire in conversation with Canterbury city councillor Michael Hawatt were aired at the independent commission against corruption, where the pair discussed what margin they would receive from the sale of the property.

Indian police have arrested 25 people after a man was lynched by a mob over suspicion of child kidnapping started by rumours on the messaging app Whatsapp.

The men were arrested in the Murder of 27 year old Mohammad Azam who was attacked with two friends who were critically injured by a 2,000 people mob in the country’s Karnataka state’s Bidar district.

Israel’s ruling party is proposing a new bill for Jewish-only communities that would allow for Jewish religious law to be implemented in certain areas and remove Arabic as the official language.

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest with critics arguing the clause is an effort to legalize housing discrimination.

Israel Democracy Institute, Amir Fuchs said the problem of the bill is to change the balance more into a Jewish state and less of a democracy.

Brisbane’s first vertical school, Inner City North State Secondary College, is set to be completed by 2020, with experts calling it a solution to the city’s unprecedented inner-city population growth.

The seven-story building will be constructed on St Paul’s Terrace and Brookes Street, at the site of the former Fortitude Valley State School.

A new policy launched by Education Minister Grace Grace to ensure all state schools will offer girls shorts or pants as uniform options has come under fire.

Queensland’s State Opposition leader Deb Frecklington has criticised the six-month delay before girls can opt for the new uniform options.

Minister Grace said the change would not be introduced until 2019 to give schools time to ensure they had a supplier in place.

An opt-out period for Australians who don’t want their medical records stored on the national medical database will begin to keep online my health records safe.

Security experts warned no online database could protect against all possible threats, and healthcare data was an attractive target.

Australian digital health agency’s Steve Hambleton said after October 15, there would be a month of auditing who was in and who was out.

People with chronic pain and pregnant women could see their private health cover costs increase under reforms announced by the Federal Government.

Health Minister Greg Hunt announced a new tiered system of minimum hospital treatments covered by private health insurance policies, the tiers would include four bands of coverage including gold, silver, bronze and basic.

US President Donald Trump is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki later today, in a summit with little of the agenda known to the public.

Although, President Trump has confirmed he will aim to improve the relationship between Moscow and Washington, along with asking Mr Putin to extradite 12 Russians who have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into foreign election interference.  

President Trump said he goes into the meeting with low expectations.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has warned Brexit may not happen at all due to continued attempts to undermine her plan to leave the EU.

Ms May also revealed in a BBC interview US President Donald Trump had advised her to sue the EU.

The warning comes after both the Brexit secretary and foreign minister resigned from their positions, calling Ms May’s leadership into question.