Tensions are high in Burkino Faso with tyre burnings and government building pillaged by protestors after police fired tear gas to disperse crowds. 

The protests which are calling for the country’s president to resign, are angry at the government’s inability to stem terrorism linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. 

The Queensland Government is being criticised for its transparency on its progress towards its renewable energy targets. 

An Auditor-General report criticised the State Government for its lack of detail on how it will reach its fifty percent renewable energy target by 2030.

The Central Highlands region of Queensland experienced flash flooding last night, causing great damage to residents' homes. 

In the past forty-eight hours, the catchment experienced an average of a-hundred-and-fifteen millimetres of rain, with areas such as Theresa Creek receiving up to two-hundred-and-seventy millimetres of rain.

Aus Music T-shirt day hit a new milestone this year, raising more than half a million dollars in donations to help music workers in need. 

The day of awareness was held last Friday and has so far generated a record five-hundred-and-forty-thousand, six-hundred-and-four dollars to help those in the music industry including artists, artist managers, crew and music workers.

An accident in a Siberian coal mine has killed at least 52 people, including six rescuers, in one of Russia's worst mining disasters

About 285 people were in the mine when smoke spread through the ventilation shaft forcing them to the surface

Turkish police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of women protesting against male violence in Istanbul.

Saber Astronautics and Axiom Space have agreed to facilitate Australian astronauts’ future participation in missions to the International Space Station.

Saber Astronautics plans to use this agreement to build up interest with human space flight and space-based research.

Despite worker shortages caused by COVID, Queensland farms produced the same amount of fruit last year as they did in 2019.