A Qantas Boeing 787 flight from the US to Australia yesterday was the first ever flight to be powered by mustard seed-based biofuel.

Qantas International CEO Alison Webster says the biofuel blend is expected to decrease emissions along the flight path by 7 per cent, paving the way to sustainable aviation.

Qantas says their goal is to be running regular flights powered by biofuel by 2020, creating a new industry for Australian farmers.

Telstra customers across three Brisbane suburbs will not be able to call, text or use data for up to ten days following construction work being carried out at the Brookfield Shopping Centre.

Affecting the suburbs of Gaythorne, Mitchelton and Everton Park, Telstra customers will not even be able to call triple zero services, with devices not being able to access other operators’ mobile networks.

Two Indigenous groups are in the Federal Court today seeking an injunction to prevent the construction of the Adani coal mine.

The construction of the mine would extinguish the native title rights of the two clans over part of the proposed site in Central Queensland.

Lawyer for the two groups, Colin Hardie, says although a land use agreement was registered with the Native Title Tribunal, there is evidence the agreement is flawed because it was struck with people who are not the traditional owners

A controversial plan to utilise computers to mark National Naplan tests has been scrapped, following significant backlash from parents and various teachers’ unions.

While the decision was made in december last year,  it has only just been revealed by council statements over the Australia Day long weekend, with education ministers quietly ditching the plan for so-called ‘robot marking’.

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and The Boring Company, has sold 10 000 high-tech flamethrowers, worth $5 million, in less than 24 hours.

The project began as a tweet from Musk in December, who pledged he would start selling flamethrowers if The Boring Company sold 50 000 baseball caps.

The flamethrowers meet the legal requirements to be sold online in the US, having flames shorter than 3 meters, but in Australia it remains illegal to import or own a flamethrower. 

The deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe has stepped down following weeks of harsh criticism from President Donald Trump, just months before his planned retirement date of March 18th.

This follows an accusation against Mr McCabe in which President Trump accused the then deputy director of exerting influence on the FBI’s decision to not file charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her use of a private email server.

The exact reason behind Mr. McCabe’s resignation is still unknown.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency has said it will inspect all cryptocurrency exchanges after Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was hacked in the world’s largest cyber-heist on record.

Financial technology vulnerabilities were highlighted when $660 million worth of NEM cryptocurrency was stolen.

The Financial Services Agency have suspended all cryptocurrency trading except for bitcoin and has ordered improvement to cryptocurrency operations.

The Irish government has agreed to hold a referendum on whether to reform the country’s near-total ban on abortions.

Scheduled to be held in May this year, the vote will decide whether to appeal a constitutional amendment that outright bans the majority of termination practices.

Currently, abortion is only legal if a woman’s life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.

An Australian university student has triggered a review into US security protocols after noticing fitness app Strava’s activity heat maps may reveal sensitive information.

ANU Canberra student Nathan Russer discovered locations of and movements within US military facilities in the Middle East, as well as the supply highways US forces take through the countries.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has since ordered a review of Department of Defence security protocols.