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Singer Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex over their use of private jets after stories in the media criticised them.

The judge overseeing Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel collapse trial wants to know how much money the liquidators' backers stand to make if they win.

Britain's parliament needs to be recalled immediately to discuss Brexit, the opposition Labour Party's finance spokesman John McDonnell says, after leaked official documents forecast possible food, fuel, and medicine shortages.

Two years before a Gold Coast mother was allegedly murdered by her husband, she told her neighbour to go police if she didn't return from an overseas trip because he would have killed her.

Australia is being urged to stockpile munitions and redirect military resources from the Middle East to guard against rising Chinese strength.

Queensland's first driverless bus will hit the road on an island off Brisbane later this year at a sedate 20km/h.

A high school basketball jersey that once belonged to former president Barack Obama has sold at an auction in Dallas to an anonymous buyer for $US120,000 ($A177,000).

Icelandic officials, activists and others have said goodbye to what once was a glacier, with poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change.

An elderly man has died after a hit-and-run accident outside of a hotel in central Queensland.

A newborn Queensland baby is fighting for life after allegedly being assaulted by his father.