The Commonwealth Bank has been accused of misleading customers with junk insurance policies and under reporting the numbers affected.

The problem was identified by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in 2011, yet the bank continued selling the insurance policies.

64, 000 customers, mainly students, pensioners and the unemployed, are being repaid for credit card insurance they will not be able to use.

The first doctor to diagnose HIV in Australia has died.

Dr David Cooper started Australia’s first clinical HIV research studies and went on to research the disease for 30 years.

St Vincent Hospital CEO Anthony Schembri  says few clinicians “have transformed the health landscape in such a significant way.”

An airstrike on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta has killed 15 children sheltering in a school.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Russia is suspected to have carried out the Monday night raids.

Russia says it is helping the Syrian government defeat rebels in the area but has denied carrying out airstrikes against civilians.

13 million of people in The Democratic Republic of Congo are in need of humanitarian aid with ongoing political turmoil, malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.

The UN security council says humanitarian needs caused by conflict have doubled over the last year.

$1.7 billion is required this year to address the humanitarian needs in the the DRC, this includes the issue of 4.5 million internally displaced people.

According to the World Bank, climate change will cause over 140 million people to migrate before 2050.

The World Bank said this migration does not need to be a crisis if action is taken now.

John Roome, a senior director for climate change at the World Bank, said governments need to reduce their emissions, incorporate migration into development planning, and invest in further data and analysis.

Uber has suspended tests on self-driving cars after one of their vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday night.  

The vehicle was in fully autonomous mode when the accident occurred.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company was working with local police to investigate the accident.

The statement that Indigenous Australians were part of the flora and fauna act before the 1967 referendum has been called out for being a popular myth that originated from the 1970s.

Throughout campaigns of the 67 referendum, the statement was meant in a metaphorical way to emphasise how indigenous people were treated like animals.

The validity of the statement was investigated by the fact-checking program which ABC’s runs in partnership with RMIT University.

The Victorian bushfire alert downgraded on Tuesday morning as firefighters stopped the spread of the fire.

The full scope of the devastation was yet to be revealed, however up to 18 homes, 42 dairy and machinery sheds and hundreds of livestock have been confirmed lost.

The Country Fire Authority said people should continue to stay informed and monitor conditions.

Brisbane cyclists who have claimed to be injured or had their bikes damaged after slipping on the goodwill bridge have received compensation from the department of public works.

The department had received complaints from 18 people in the last 12 months since the bridge was repainted.

Donald Campbell from the Department of public works said the bridge is not up to standard and it is “perplexing’ that the resurfacing was not able to replicate the non-slip properties of earlier coatings.