Bacteria that was found growing inside an international space station could be the key to human colonisation on Mars.

An offensive effort by Saudi-led coalition forces on the Yemen port of Hodeida [HODAYDAH] has been condemned by the UN Security Council.

South Australia will become the first state to abolish a mandatory reporting exemption for Church confessions.

A bipartisan deal being pushed to amend legislation to stop foreign interference in Australian politics and media is striking protest from charities.

TransLink is set to reclaim $6.7 million from Go Cards which have not been used for half a decade.

Mansfield families facing the biggest rate rise in the 2018-19 Brisbane council budget are warning the flow-on effects will be felt by their kids and local businesses.

A new United Nations report has warned that global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees by roughly 2040.

The report comes after the United States pulled out and weakened the Paris climate change agreement last year.

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that only “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in the world economy could prevent global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Australian born British gay rights activist, Peter Tatchell, has been detained by Russian Police and charged with breaking the law for holding a one man protest in Moscow.

Tatchell was protesting the human rights abuses of gay men in Chechnya, where dozens of men have come forward and spoken out against the use of torture in prison facilities.

He has been charged with violating Federal Law 54 and the Presidential Decree 202, which ban all protests around the Kremlin during the World Cup.