Coal from the Latrobe Valley in Victoria will be converted to liquid hydrogen and exported to Japan in a world-first trial with $50 million in backing.

A Rwandan athlete, two Ugandans and possibly a Ghanaian have disappeared from the Commonwealth games, after eight Cameroonian athletes went missing last week.

A recent survey on the Great Barrier Reef has found that synthetic microfibres from clothing make up almost seventy percent of the pollution found there.

The US State Department has revealed that palestinian photojournalist Yaser Murtaja  who was killed by Israeli sniper fire at a protest in Gaza on the 6th of April had been vetted by US authorities as part of of an successfull application from his organisation for a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

This casts doubt on claims from the Israeli defence department that Mr Murtaja had been a high ranking member of the islamic fundamentalist group Hamas.

Crime is twice as high in Nairobi than the average in Kenya, crime victim Edwin Inganji and two friends James Chege and Marvin Makau also developers brainstormed how they could help make people safer.

They created ‘Usalama’ a mobile app that sends a distress signal when a user shakes their phone three times alerting emergency services of their location, as well as their next of kin, and every "Usalama" user within 200m.

The founders aim to bridge this gap between mobile-savvy Kenyans and emergency providers by adding more safety elements to the app.

The Turnbull Government has refused to ban live exports despite calls to stop the practice from NSW Liberal MP Sussan Ley.

The former Health Minister said it's “time to pick a date by which all live sheep exports must end, we can work with the industry and farmers to make this happen.”

Agriculture Minister David Littleproud however, said this is not going to happen as putting a “ban on the whole industry would only punish those exporters and farmers who have done no wrong,"

A newborn baby has been found on a footpath in inner Sydney last night, after a resident allegedly delivered the child near a grate.

It is believed a resident found the baby, believed to be two to three weeks old, on the footpath outside her home in Surry Hills, just before midnight.

Inspector Peter Eastman said the baby was taken to hospital in a stable condition, whilst police established a crime scene where the infant was found.

Brisbane-based jeweller Butterfly Silver is set to close all 19 of their stores in Australia including 13 in Queensland after falling into voluntary administration.

The company, which sells sterling silver earrings, necklaces and charms, is advertising a “closing down sale” online.

Neil Shilbury, from the consumer credit reporting agency, Equifax said, “Many of the industries seeing an increase in insolvencies, like retail, are also those facing disruption from new market entrants” such as Amazon.