Elon Musk’s SpaceX has received an endorsement from America’s top communications regulator to build a broadband services network using satellites.

The satellite broadband network will service Americans who live in rural or hard-to-serve places where fibre optic cables and cell towers currently do not reach.

SpaceX plans to launch one of its first experimental satellites this Saturday on their Falcon 9 rockets in California.

Fire crews in the New South Wales Hunter Valley are currently working to contain a bushfire.

Rural Fire Service Inspector Ben Shepherd says that the prevailing hot conditions nationwide and lack of significant forecasted rainfall means that the fire could burn for up to a month.

While the blaze remains contained in a remote area, travelling smoke and embers still pose a risk to other regions. Fire bans have remained in place across the state

More than 400 drivers were hit with infringement notices by parking inspectors during the Brisbane International tennis tournament  in January.

In just over a week a total of $25,956 in fines had been given out, with each individual fine being $63.

The parking restrictions that caught drivers off guard limited people to one hour of parking between 7am-10am, a strategy Lord Mayor Graham Quirk explains, intended to make it easier for residents to understand local parking restrictions.

The Goodwill Bridge’s slippery path has left many cyclists broken and bruised, despite $23,000 being spent to fix the slippery surface last year.

An upgrade to the path was reviewed in October 2017 when it was discovered that cyclists consistently lost traction on the newly applied  blue surface when it was wet.

Despite new slip-resistant works having been done, cyclists are still falling, and signs have had to be placed in the precinct to encourage them to dismount when crossing the bridge in wet weather.

New figures from a University of Sydney study show that almost 500 teens were hospitalised between 2012 to 2017 after playing at indoor trampoline centres.

While the most common injuries were sprains and fractures, nearly 20 percent of the study’s patients had serious spinal cord and head injuries, some causing permanent and lifelong disability.

Jacob Zuma has resigned with immediate effect as President of South Africa following order from his own ruling party the African National Congress.

The former President served nine scandal-ridden years in power.

But the ANC’s deputy secretary general, Jessie Duarte say that the resignation has provided South Africans with certainty at a time of severe economic, social, and environmental challenge in their country.

Domestic power usage in Iceland is set to be overtaken by the amount of power used to mine bitcoin.

Business development manager Orka Snorri Sigurbergsson says that electricity at mining data was taking up the nation's power resources.

The country’s population has seen an increase in new data centres keen to capitalise on the country’s near 100 percent renewable energy and cold climate.

An article by a Malaysian newspaper has caused outrage on social media, as the country attempts to deal with the growing influence of religious hardliners.

The article was published in the Sinar Harian newspaper and lists a variety of traits which readers can use to identify people who fall in the LGBTIQ community.

The list includes; masculine gay men liking to show off their six pack and wearing tight shirts while lesbians were described as man-haters.