Australians stranded in the Middle East are being urged to wait for airlines to issue tickets before heading to airports, as a possible flight from Dubai to Sydney may depart; Israel has sent troops into southern Lebanon and ordered residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate, as Iran-backed Hezbollah declared it was ready for an “open war;” KIIS afternoon host Kent 'Smallzy' Small has stepped in to host the breakfast radio show, telling listeners “the show must go on;" Dark skies are rapidly disappearing, with artificial light pollution now so widespread that more than a third of the world’s population, about 2.8 billion people, can no longer see the Milky Way from where they live.

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