NEWS

The US state of Indiana is set to allow the commercial use of cannabidiol oil, a substance extracted from the Cannabis sativa plant.

The US judge who gave Brock Turner a lenient sentence is now facing recall.

Poland will now be able to jail people accusing the country of Holocaust atrocities.

Liberal Senator Jim Molan found it “deeply offensive” that people thought his reposts from a far-right British group were racist.

Liberal councillor Christine Forster married long-time partner Virginia Flitcroft on Friday, and his brother was there to wish them a happy union.

A Melbourne wedding venue has been forced to pay a couple $13,000 for turning their dream wedding into a “complete disaster.”

Amy Jayne Everett is more popularly known as Dolly, the young girl many Australians would recognise from Akubra Hats’ past Christmas adverts.

Trump would order "two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted” from the fast food restaurant during campaign stops, a book reveals.

Katie Quackenbush from Nashville, Tennessee, critically wounded 54-year-old Gerald Melton by shooting him twice and fleeing from the scene.

The suspected terrorist behind the Barcelona attack was shot dead by armed police on Monday.

The New Zealand Labour Party has fired back at Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for making “false claims” about the party.

The plight of baby Charlie Gard has been a focus of dispute between his parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Saudi Arabia is investigating a Snapchat video of a woman wearing short skirt in public. In the video, the woman, only known as “Khulood,” is shown walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir while wearing a miniskirt and a crop top, which break the Muslim nation’s strict dress code for women.

Josh Frydenberg has rubbished reports that the Australian government would introduce a new carbon tax that would see the prices of some popular vehicles increase by $5,000. The Environment and Energy minister said on Wednesday that the report was “beat-up.”

Racist Pokemon-style posters have popped up in Sydney. The posters are calling for prominent members of the Australian Muslim community, such as journalist Waleed Aly and Yasmin Abdel-Magied, to be caught and deported.

An Australian journalist’s blunt monologue about US President Donald Trump is going viral. Judging Trump’s performance at the just-concluded G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Chris Uhlmann said the American leader is incapable of leading his country, much less the world.

United Airlines is once again in hot water after a passenger complained that its staff forced her to give away her 2-year-old son’s paid seat for a standby passenger last week. Hawaii teacher Shirley Yamauchi said she had to hold her 25-pound child on her lap during the three and a half-hour flight because a staff didn’t care to be bothered about the problem.

A video has been released showing the last moments of a Brazilian bride before she succumbed to her death in a helicopter crash. Rosemere do Nascimento Silva was on her way to her wedding in Sao Lourenco da Serra in Sao Paulo when her helicopter ride crashed just kilometres from the venue in December 2016.

The New Zealand Parliament will formally apologise to men who had been convicted of homosexual crimes in the past. Justice Minister Amy Adams will move a motion on Thursday to apologise to those convicted of homosexual crimes under a law that was repealed in 1986.

Bali prison escapee Shaun Davidson has reportedly claimed he was in Dubai on a Facebook post. The Perth-born fugitive, who escaped from Indonesia’s Kerobokan prison on June 20 with three others, boasted that he was a “real life action movie star.”

An American teenager has been charged with manslaughter after killing her boyfriend in a YouTube stunt gone wrong. Monalisa Perez, 19, shot Pedro Ruiz, 22, apparently hoping that an encyclopaedia book could stop the bullet.

Qatar has been handed a 13-point list of demands to end the diplomatic crisis. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and other countries involved in the rift insist that Qatar sever all ties with terrorist groups, such as ISIS and Muslim Brotherhood.

A “Melania Makeover” is now being offered by a plastic surgeon in Houston after encountering so many people who want to look like US First Lady Melania Trump.

Pauline Hanson has said Australia needs “to get rid of” children with special needs from mainstream classrooms. The One Nation Party leader said kids are not competing in real life because autistic children are holding them back.

The Finsbury Park Mosque imam protected the suspect from being beaten by an angry mob.

Australian Shaun Davidson has escaped from his prison in Bali, Indonesia. The WA man, who was jailed in Kerobokan prison for using another man’s passport, is reportedly part of the four foreign escapees, which include a Bulgarian, Malaysian and an Indian prisoner.

One man was arrested after allegedly driving deliberately into a crowd of Muslims in North London.

Radio broadcaster Red Symons has apologised for asking fellow ABC broadcaster Beverley Wang if she’s “yellow.” He has admitted he came across as racist during the interview last week.

An explosion at a kindergarten in China left eight people killed and 54 injured. Police have identified one suspect in the blast in the eastern Jiangsu province in Fengxian County on Thursday. The 22-year-old male suspect is believed to have been killed from the explosion as well.