A protest by prisoners at the Capricornia Correctional Facility has ended today, with Queensland Corrective Services Staff confirming that the prisoners in question are now off the roof and back in their cells.

Syria has executed 24 people for deliberately starting devastating forest fires that destroyed leader Bashar al-Assad's ancestral home of Latakia.

The huge fires burned for nearly a year and caused tens of millions of dollars of losses in cultivated plots of mainly citrus, apples and olive trees across the coastal provinces.

South Korea successfully launched its first domestically manufactured rocket yesterday.

The rocket was launched from the Naro Space center in Goheung and successfully reached its target altitude but failed to deliver it’s 1500kg dummy payload into orbit

A Queensland mother who nearly died after a hysterectomy is the latest incident in a series of complaints leveled against Mackay Base Hospital

Two days after being discharged from hospital following the keyhole surgery, she was found collapsed on the kitchen floor of a friend's house

A parliamentary inquiry into the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission's (CCC) fraud investigation into Logan City Council has heard the committee could recommend parliament terminate the head of the watchdog, Alan Macsporran

Submissions to the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee from Jonathan Horton alleged that Mr MacSporran had not ensured the CCC acted impartially, independently, and fairly at all times.

Victoria has ended its lockdown and curfew today as the state records another 2198 cases, and 16 deaths

The restrictions were officially lifted at 12am last night as the state reached its 70% double vaccination milestone

Buckingham Palace says the Queen is in good spirits after spending a night in hospital earlier in the week.

The hospital visit follows the cancellation of The Queen’s planned trip to Northern Ireland this week, a decision made on the advice of her doctors

The Queen has since returned to her duties at Windsor Castle