Defamation law expert Professor, Barbara McDonald, said the majority of #MeToo cases in the US would never be made public in Australia due to our strong defamation laws.

Statistics show the percentage of people leaving Brisbane for interstate has increased by almost 60% since 1996.

The number of abandoned cars at Brisbane Airport has doubled so far this financial year.

Russia and Israel have reportedly reached a deal which will allow Syrian forces to take rebel territory in southern Syria.

The condition of the deal is for Iranian troops to not participate in the offensive, and in return, Israel will not stand in the way of any Syrian regime offensive along the Israeli and Jordanian border.

Southern Syria is of concern to the United States, which last year brokered a "de-escalation" deal with Jordan and Russia that has largely contained the war near the frontier with Israel.

The Organisation of American States has accused the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity.

The panel of experts said the regime was involved in multiple murders and 12,000 cases of imprisonment and arbitrary detention, as well as torture, rape, political persecution and enforced disappearances.

"It is incomprehensible for the cases of torture to continue in the American continent," said Manuel Ventura Robles, the former judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Scouts Australia will officially join the national redress scheme for child sex abuse today as one of the non-government organisations involved, following the Catholic Church’s support yesterday.

Other organisations, including the Salvation Army and the YMCA, are also expected to commit to the royal commission's recommended scheme.

Survivors from all institutions will receive up to $150,000 compensation, alongside counselling.

A large collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities have been uncovered during a clean-up of a Sydney home.

Rosemary Beattie, the owner of the collection, recalls the oddity of being shown what was supposably a mummified cat during childhood visits to her grandmother's house.

The collection has been donated to a university archaeological museum, and it is believed some objects date back to the first millennium BC.

Results from an RACQ investigation say that Queensland drivers are ignoring the most basic of our road rules.

Coming to a complete stop at a stop sign is the most common rule Queensland drivers ignore.

More than 9000 drivers in the last 12 months were fined in the state for disobeying stop signs, with 3000 more drivers ignoring other fundamental rules.

Suspended Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli has been banned from going within 100 metres of the Ipswich City Council offices under new bail conditions.

Mr Antoniolli is fighting seven fraud offences, and appeared in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday after breaching his bail conditions.

Antoniolli is the second successive Ipswich mayor charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission as part of its investigations into southeast Queensland councils.