The rescue effort continues in Taiwan as 67 people remain missing following the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit on Tuesday night leaving 7 people confirmed dead.

The popular tourist city of Hualien where the quake hit is home to about 100,000 people, with about 40,000 homes left without water and about 1,900 without power since Tuesday.

5 magnitude aftershocks could rock the island nation for the next two weeks.

DNA research performed on Britain’s oldest, almost complete human skeleton has revealed the man who lived in England’s southwest over 10,000 years ago had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair.

The skeleton which has been nicknamed Cheddar Man was unearthed in 1903 from the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset county.

The findings suggest the lighter skin pigmentation now seen as typical of Britons is far more recent than previously thought.

A damning report from the Closing the Gap Campaign Steering Committee accused the Federal Government of effectively abandoning its policy to reduce inequalities in health, education, and employment between Australia’s First Peoples and non-indigenous Australians.

The report indicated six of the policy’s seven key measures for inequality were not ontrack to be addressed by their 2020 target date.

Rangers in the Kuitpo Forest, in Kangarilla, South Australia have spotted a Southern Brown Bandicoot for the first time in nearly 4 decades.

The small marsupial grows to roughly 30 centimetres, and is found on southern fringes of Australia’s coastline where their populations have dwindled due to deforestation and growth in predator numbers.

A vote by the Logan City Council has seen their CEO sacked, with seven votes supporting her termination and five against.

Although no reasons were given publicly the decision comes after a matter listed in the Industrial Court involving CEO Sharon Kelsey and Logan City Council.

The council has said its decision was in relation to Ms Kelsey’s six month-probationary period after which it was decided that she would not be appointed CEO.

New Tourism Industry Codes of Practice mean ‘at risk’ tourists on the Great Barrier Reef will be forced to wear life jackets and must swim with a partner.

The new industry code also requires all reef-bound tourist boats to carry an automatic external defibrillator.

The policy changes come after a horror 2016 for tourism operators, with a total of 10 deaths on the Great Barrier Reef through the year.

Buckle your seatbelts, the world’s first passenger drone has made its maiden voyage, taking off from a South China City.

Being able to carry one passenger weighing up to one hundred kilograms, the electric powered EHang 184 drone can fly for 23-minutes at sea level at a speed of 100 kilometres per hour.

Before making its first public flight, the entirely automated machine was tested one thousand times.

Banishing any reference to “Polish Death Camps”, Poland’s President has signed off on a new law banning the perceived mislabelling of historical holocaust sites.

Because of the new law, the commonly used term will be outlawed, and it will be made illegal to accuse Poland of any involvement with the Holocaust.

But many people disagree with the law as it will mean it will be illegal for Holocaust survivors to give evidence that includes Polish citizens.