Australian farmers are expected to be benefited, following a discovery of heat-resistance crops from NASA.

This follows a 2013 discovery from NASA scientists of a new way to measure fluorescence in plants.

Australian scientists have continued this research in Narrabri, New South Wales and are now using state-of-the-art technology to further develop hardier crops.

Slum residents in Argentina have gotten their own TV news hour made by, and for, them.

The programme is an attempt to represent some of the 700,000 people living in slums in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, many of who are Indigenous people.

The news program, titled Mundo Villa, is anchored by young hosts who aim to discuss everything from the presence of drug trafficking to slum town culture.

Prince Charles has found himself in the middle of an Australian republic debate after Paul Keating told the British Press he was certain Prince Charles would support Australia leaving the monarchy.

Publicly, both Prince Charles and the Queen have stressed it's up to Australians to decide whether to follow the republic path.

Prince Charles will be at the Old Government House with the Queensland premier at 12:50pm today before taking a walk in the Botanic Gardens and visiting the Lady Cilento Hospital.

The United Nations says 34 people may have been killed on Sunday in attacks in Nigeria.

The attacks were carried out by Boko Haram in the Nigerian state of Bornio, an area which has been in conflict since 2009.

The UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, Yassine Gaba, says attacks in the northeast of Nigeria are causing innocent civilians to suffer daily.

The Western Australian Department of Corrective Services has been conducting a review into how an indigenous woman was left to give birth in her jail cell last month.

Despite pressing the alarm for assistance, the woman gave birth after medical or custodial staff failed to arrive.

The woman who was thirty six weeks weeks pregnant has since been released on bail from Bundyup women's prison while an inquiry was launched.

A Rockhampton man has threatened to sue 3 companies for $2.4 million after losing the tip of his finger in a work related incident.

It was alleged the man was requested to assist in the removal of a track frame from a dozer which was supporting a crane.

The claim also outlined if the correct equipment had been available, the man would have been in a safer scenario.

The families of the four people killed in the Dreamworld ride accident will receive answers as the coronial probe began this week.

The inquest examined the circumstances around the 2016 deaths of the four people who were killed when the Thunder River Rapids ride malfunctioned and flipped.

The families have waited over a year for answers and the inquest took its first steps with a procedural hearing in which dates for giving evidence were likely to be set.