Former Gold Coast Sergeant Rick Flori has been found not guilty of misconduct after admitting he leaked CCTV footage showing fellow officers bashing a handcuffed man in custody.

A Salvadoran woman was freed from prison after serving 10 years of a 30-year aggravated homicide sentence after aborting her stillborn child.

South Africa’s new President was sworn in last night, just two days after the previous president stepped down.

As the number of flower imports have risen, it has also created a thorn for local rose growers who have been struggling to compete.

Travellers could be in for a slow day at airports, with protests set in motion at all major airports today, aimed at introducing split shifts across the airport industry.

A man has been taken to hospital after he was injured when a bolt of lightning struck the ground near him in Esk, west of Brisbane as severe storms ripped through Ipswich, causing widespread blackouts on Thursday.

The RSPCA has released CCTV footage of a dog trapped inside a garbage truck, west of Brisbane.

The Greens and Labor in the Senate have blocked the Federal Government’s proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

The changes would have reduced the amount of water being returned to the environment in Queensland and New South Wales and instead seen that water used for further supplying irrigation farming.

The move by the Senate could jeopardize the fragile political agreements that make up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan with New South Wales and Victorian governments from both sides of politics threatening to pull out of the plan.