The escape of three baboons from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Tuesday night has put the spotlight on medical research being conducted in Sydney.

Victorians now have a four-bin system in a massive recycling overhaul for the state.

A male baboon scheduled to have a vasectomy was part of a trio of primates that managed to escape and were on the loose in a carpark near Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney’s inner west this evening.

AUSTRALIA’S competition watchdog has accused Mercedes-Benz of “potentially putting lives of drivers and passengers at risk” by failing to initiate recalls of cars with Takata airbags.

Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found - tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the sea floor roughly one billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.