Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social media conglomerate is going through ‘a broad philosophical shift’ in response to criticism and new legislation.

The thirty-three-year-old internet mogul apologised in front of the US Senate Commerce and Judiciary for his company’s lack of preventative measures against data-mining company Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Allegations are being investigated into the defrauding of $1.3 million by Walking Wounded, a charity established to assist Afghanistan war veterans.

Veterans and their families expressed concerns that the money was not being used for its stated claims such as rehabilitation and counselling.   

A complaint was left with the Queensland Police Service in February about the charity’s founder, Brian Freeman.

NATO Ambassadors are describing attacks in Syria as ‘genocide’ in response to chemical weapons use in the country, resulting in world leaders to identify a ‘need to respond’ and lay blame for the attacks.

In response a US-drafted UN Security Council investigation proposal was voted on, but vetoed by Russia as they presented their own resolution that was later rejected by the UN.  

Talks are continuing over international concerns on intervention as the world waits to see if the US responds with military action.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has attacked a new project to reduce the size of the Menindee Lake in New South Wales.

The plan involves reducing evaporation in the lakes by shrinking them and letting the lakes run dry more often.

The project has been welcomed by irrigators to save water but is being met with resistance by local communities.

An authority trusted to manage the $266 million of support for the Hazelwood Power Station to transition away from coal-fired power generation is unable to provide information on how much money has been spent.

The Victorian State Government established The Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA) to manage the assistance fund after the Hazelwood power station was shut down last year.

Karen Cain, the spokesperson for LVA says while the entire $266 million had been allocated, it was impossible to say exactly what remained.

Tree clearing in Queensland is estimated to now be fifteen times more destructive to koala populations than urban sprawl.

World Wildlife Fund conservation scientist Martin Taylor found that of the more than 5,000 koala deaths caused by habitat loss from 2012 to 2016, 94% were outside South-East Queensland.

Taylor said the destruction of koala habitat is leading them closer to extinction.

Protesters gathered behind a Sunrise live broadcast of the Commonwealth Games on a Gold Coast beach this morning.

With no sound-proof glass or blinds, the presenters Samantha Armytage and David Koch, were forced to address what was happening behind them while live on air.

Before cutting back to the beachfront for a second time, the protesters shouted, “always was, always will be Aboriginal land”.

A human finger fossil found in the Saudi Arabian desert dates back to almost 90,000 years ago, about 30,000 years earlier than humans were thought to have migrated east of Africa.

Humans were previously thought to have migrated into Eurasia in a large wave around 60,000 years ago, but discoveries like this have changed this view.

Professor Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute says this discovery is a dream come true.