After a harsh 18-day ordeal all twelve boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a treacherous cave in northern Thailand.

The remaining four boys and their soccer coach were brought to safety on Tuesday evening, deemed a “miracle” by many Thailand locals.

Aged 11 to 16, each of the boys, with no diving or swimming experience, were guided out by a pair of divers in three days of high-stakes operations, which claimed the life of former Thai Navy Seal Saman Kunan on Friday.

Catastrophic floods in Japan have killed at least 155 people, deemed to be the country’s worst floods in 36 years.

Despite 7 million residents being told to evacuate on Sunday, more than 60 people are still unaccounted for this morning, with many citizens facing health risks from a lack of water and high temperatures.

The Japanese Agency of Meteorology has said as much as 10 centimeters of rainfall per hour fell on large parts of south-western Japan.  

Woolworths, IGA, ALDI, Campbells and other independent grocery stores have been instructed by the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to pull varieties of frozen vegetables from their shelves due to fears they could be contaminated by listeria.

Scientist Gary Kennedy from the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology said the recall was a necessary but cautious as the risk of illness was only present if frozen vegetables with listeria were consumed uncooked.

A Sydney-based school is leading the nation in getting rid of plastic and advocating for responsible behaviour.

Students from St Mary's Catholic School in Manly spend several lunchtimes a week parading the grounds collecting rubbish.

The student’s findings are then uploaded from their iPads to Litterati, an app which tracks the type of waste being dumped and hot-spots.

More than 160,000 bees now call West End home after Bee One Founder Jack Stone installed four beehives on top of the Westpac Bank building on Boundary Street.

Mr Stone started the company to educate Brisbane’s inner-city population about the importance of bees in the global food system.

The bees are apart of a “green installation” at the $2 billion West Village development and is hoped to collect over 160 kilograms of honey from the harvests a year.

The first harvest of honey from the West Village is scheduled for October.

Work has begun to demolish the Queensland Government Landcentre building located in Woolloongabba.

This project is the second largest scheduled demolition in recent years for Brisbane, and will make way for infrastructure necessary to Cross River Rail.

Heavy demolition work will not begin until September, including the removal of the South Brisbane Dental Hospital.

Mosquito trials in far north Queensland have produced advantageous results with 80 percent of a dengue fever spreading mosquito wiped out.

CSIRO research director Dr Paul De Barro has heralded the results as promising for efforts to eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes from urban areas.

The project is set to end in far north Queensland with planned trials overseas.