Thousands of students will walk out of school on Friday to join School Strike 4 Climate marches across the country.

The planned protest will be the organisation’s first since before the pandemic, with rallies planned in most capital cities, along with regional centres and country towns. Brisbane’s rally will be held from 1:00pm in King George Square.

The events on Friday are aimed at the Coalition’s inaction on climate policy, with protestors set to call on greater investment in renewable energy and protection for First Nations communities and Country.

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Two African American men wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in the United States in 1983 have been awarded $US75 million in compensation.

The two men, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, were exonerated in 2014 after DNA evidence linked a convicted murderer to the crime.

The City of Logan Volunteer Awards were held over the weekend, with locals and organisations being recognised for their continued service to the community.

Among the winners was not-for-profit The Muslim Charitable Foundation in Woodridge, who took out the Davida Steele Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Organisation for their work with homeless and disengaged youth.

Melanie McKenzie, founder of Harrison’s Little Wing, was also recognised with the Spirit of Logan Award for her work supporting people who have experienced prenatal or postpartum child loss.

The appeal hearing against the 2019 Supreme Court decision for the class action involving Queensland flood victims is scheduled to begin in New South Wales today. 

The New South Wales Court of Appeal will hear the appeal lodged by Seqwater, one of three defendants identified in the class action lodged in 2017, who was found to have contributed to the loss and damage suffered by the plaintiffs as a result of the negligent operation of the Wivenhoe and Somerset dams during the January 2011 floods in South East Queensland.

The trial is set to run for just over two weeks. 

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Three residential buildings in Gaza have been destroyed by an Israeli air assault over the weekend in another escalation in the deadly war between Israel and Hamas.

42 people were killed in the pre-dawn attack on Sunday, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza to 181, including 52 children, the Gaza Health Ministry reports.

In a televised address after the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled there would be no end to the fighting.

A project by NASA is looking at how to effectively water plants in space. The space agency is a step closer to working out how to feed astronaut crews during long-duration missions, that could last anywhere between weeks and years in space.

Providing adequate hydration to plants' roots has proved an issue in zero gravity, with the NASA team trialling using hydroponics, meaning no soil was needed for the plants.

Officials in Denver have confirmed no injuries were sustained by the pilots and passenger of two planes that collided in mid air despite one plane suffering severe damage to its tail section.

The planes collided while coming in to land at a local airport. One pilot requested an emergency landing after the right engine failed without realising the plane had been almost torn in half. The second pilot and passenger deployed a parachute system to return safely to ground.