Poor weather conditions and heavy snowfall has covered Paris has forced the Eiffel Tower to close.

The dangerous weather and ice on the roads has set off high-level orange alerts in twenty-eight french departments and is causing major travel disruptions in France’s northern half.

Meteorologists said snowfall accumulation could reach 10 centimeters by the end of the day.

Amnesty International has labelled the Chinese Government’s brazen and outrageous contempt for fair trial and other human rights ‘ludicrous’ after their admission that Hong Kong-Swedish dual national, Gui Minhai is again detained and faces criminal charges.

Gui Minhai is a Hong Kong bookseller who went missing from Thailand in 2015. He later appeared in Chinese custody without apparent charge and was not released until two years later in October 2017.

A series of cruel wildlife attacks on Western Australia’s South Coast that left pelican’s stabbed, turtles hung and hooked, and a seagull skewered.

While authorities have not ruled out that some of the incidents could have resulted from human littering, the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions is investigating whether the injuries were deliberate or malicious.

Victorian councils could start feeling the effects of China’s ban on recycling imports, as waste collection firms begin to put a stop to their services.

The state government has been in discussions with waste collection companies and recycling processors to find a solution, after the Chinese ban on low-grade and contaminated waste was imposed on January 1st.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned mobile phone users to avoid returning missed calls from overseas numbers, in the hope that consumers will avoid being scammed.

The ACCC’s deputy chair Delia Rickard said the consumer watchdog hotline received 50, 000 reports of similar scams in 2017.

Ms Rickard said scammers make their money by enticing people to call back a premium number similar to those used by psychic hotlines and phone sex lines.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling on Adani to prove its finances, and show that the multi-million dollar project is meeting its targets.

The criticism follows Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten accusing the mining heavy weight of promising ‘fake jobs’ to the north-Queensland public.

Ms Palaszczuk said the project’s finances needs to stack up, just the same as any other resource company, and hopes the promises of jobs is forthcoming.

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.