More than 90 people have been killed and at least 160 people have been injured in India in dust and rain storms.

North Korea is expected to release three American prisoners, as a gesture of goodwill to the  US- North Korea summit due to happen in a few weeks ahead.

Rare Australian species could face extinction as one third of jobs are to be cut from the Environment Departments threatened species monitoring program.

A Telstra phone cable has been cut by an unknown party causing triple-0 outages across the country.

Water taxis and city-sight tour boats could begin operating along the Brisbane river from next year, with the delivery of on-water transport hubs one step closer.

The Queensland government has passed laws restricting farmers’ rights to clear vegetation from their properties.

A new blood test has been developed to uncover peanut allergies in the United Kingdom.

In the UK, nut allergies are currently diagnosed by pricking the skin with a needle coated with the allergen, and if this test proves inconclusive increasing amounts of allergen are ingested orally, until a reaction does or doesn’t occur.

This new blood test positively identified peanut allergies at a significantly higher rate than both these methods, and researchers estimated that its adoption will reduce the number of highly stressful “oral food challenges” by 65%.

Japanese Scientists have discovered how to make a alcoholic beverages from wood.

Researchers from Japan's Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute who have been experimenting with the unconventional ingredient, obtain sugar for fermenting by grinding tree bark into a paste, then extracting the sugar with chemical processes.

The beverage made by this process is similar to rice wine, Japan’s favourite alcoholic drink, and it’s creators hope to have it commercially available by 2021.