The US said on Thursday it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, Canada, and Mexico, reviving fears of a trade war.

German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, said trade wars don't have any winners.

The US action takes effect at midnight, and Mexico, the EU and Canada are all expected to retaliate with tariffs of their own in the coming days.

Yesterday evening Italy’s Prime Minister Sergio Mattarella selected populist candidate Guiseppe Conte as his pick to be the country’s next Prime Minister.

A remote Northern Territory school has been reopened, after being cursed and closed for 13 days.

An overseas phone hacker has made more than one thousand calls to the triple zero emergency call service on Saturday morning, leaving some Australians waiting up to nine hours for a call back.

Several left-turn-on-red signs will be removed in Brisbane for not complying with newly enforced road rules.

Brisbane is facing its coldest start to Winter in twelve years, with minimum temperatures of eight and nine degrees predicted from today.

A 33-year old Honduran transgender migrant has died while in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The family of a Tasmanian man who died while waiting for a bed through the National Disability Scheme, believes his death was the result of the delayed delivery of vital medical equipment.

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.