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Israel's Prime Minister has assured a rescued hostage of Israel's commitment to free all the remaining captives.
Israeli special forces recovered 52 year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi from a tunnel in the southern Gaza strip, in what the military says was a "complex rescue operation".
He was transferred to hospital and his condition is stable.
Mr Alkadi spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone from his hospital bed:
"Thank you, thank you, but mostly I want you to hug your family and I want you to know that the whole nation of Israel embraces you, and also the others, we will bring them."
ALKADI: "Thank you. May it be God's will. Thank you very much."
At least 40,000 people have been killed since the start of Israel's military campaign following the October 7 attack by Hamas.
Australia's southeast is being battered by strong and damaging winds, with gusts of up to 130 kilometres an hour.
SES Victoria's Chief Officer of Operations Tim Wiebusch has told Channel Nine there have already been 500 requests for assistance already.
There are also currently gale force wind warnings in place for parts of the New South Wales coast, including the Illawarra, Batemans coast and Eden coast, and strong wind warnings in place for the Sydney, Byron and Hunter coast.
Mr Wiebusch says winds are expected to pick up again this afternoon, with an advice message currently in place for across the southern districts of Victoria and along the coast.
"As this cold front crosses the state, we've seen, as you said, wind gusts up to 130 kilometres an hour on the alpine range, but even this morning along the southwest coast, wind speeds of up to 124 kilometres an hour, and we're expecting that to become more vigorous as the day goes on. We'll see a bit of a lull in Melbourne this morning before winds pick up again this afternoon and this evening."
Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher says the cap on international students is a return to more sensible pre-pandemic levels.
The government has introduced a limit on international students coming to Australia next year, down to 270,000 from current levels of around 500,000.
Minister Gallagher says there has been enough consultation with universities.
"We've seen pressure not only on universities, but with numbers of people coming to the country. We've had to look across the immigration system to look at what's going on. There was a big influx more than had been expected in international education, and we need to manage that."
Alzheimer's disease could soon be detected by GPs using a small, handheld device developed by Australian experts.
Monash University engineers have developed the first-of-a-kind finger-prick blood test to detect the hallmark protein in early Alzheimer's before symptoms progress.
It use sensor technology to detect ultra low concentrations of disease markers in blood in minutes.
Alzheimer's, a debilitating and progressive neurodegenerative disease, affects up to one-in-10 Australians over 65 and three-in-10 Australians over 85.
It's the second leading cause of death in Australia, according to the Australian Alzheimer's Research Foundation.
