Singapore has announced that it will implement a carbon tax at the start of 2019, to further contribute to efforts in reducing greenhouse gases.

The tax will begin at 5 Singapore dollars per tonne of greenhouse gases and will only apply to facilities producing more than 25,000 tonnes of greenhouse emissions per year.

According to Singapore’s government, the proposed carbon tax will also  benefit the nation in its effort to make the country more competitive in international markets.

All Gold Coast beaches remained closed today, having now been closed for three consecutive days, due to dangerous conditions caused by Tropical Cyclone Gita.

Conditions remained dangerous all along the South Queensland coast, with nineteen people rescued from the swell yesterday on the Sunshine Coast.

Surf lifesavers urged people to stay out of the waves, but that’s not deterring some surfers who say these are some of the best surfing conditions they have seen.

A cow set for slaughter has escaped by ramming a fence and swimming to its own private island on Lake Nyskie in Poland.

The cow’s owner gave up capturing the animal after the cow ran from handlers on its way to being loaded onto a truck and proceeded to repeatedly swim off into the lake.

Calls for the cow to be shot has led one local politician to offer to save the ‘hero cow’ from death. 

Online rental homes company, Airbnb, has cracked down on its rental homes that have been turned into ‘pop-up brothels’.

After reports of temporary brothels appearing across British tourist resorts and sites, UK MPs launched an inquiry into the scandal.

Airbnb say they are working with anti-trafficking charity, Polaris, to train its staff and stop potential exploitation.

The echidnas at Sydney's Taronga Zoo helped authorities in their attempts to trace illegal shipments of the world's most trafficked mammal, the pangolin.

Ecologists in Sydney were hoping the Australian creatures could help out their fellow anteaters, whose scales were made of the same substance as the echidna's quills.

Thanks to the echidna's donation of their quills, researchers have mastered reading the chemical record inside the keratin and are now able to identify the diet of the animal the quills or scales belonged to.

Australian dentists have become increasingly frustrated with performing tooth extractions on children as young as two years old.

The National Child Oral Health Study said sugar is to blame and tooth decay is the most prevalent oral disease in Australian children.

Dr Beaumont of the Royal Dental Hospital said that early prevention and education about hidden sugars in food and drink is key to stopping what can be a distressing experience for a young child.

The value of Brisbane taxi licenses has dropped by 80 per cent over the last three years due to increased popularity of Uber services.

In 2014, taxi licences sold on average for more than half a million dollars and have now dropped to an average of $113 000 (one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars), according to Queensland Government open data.

The fall in value is attributed to the introduction of Uber to Brisbane in 2014 and legalisation in favor of ride-sharing services in 2016.

Heavy rains in the Mozambique capital of Maputo have triggered a garbage mound collapse, killing 17 people according to Radio Mocambique.

Half a dozen homes have been destroyed, and residents have evacuated the area in fear of another collapse.  

Authorities continue to search through the debris for survivors.