Fast food chain Mcdonald’s is profiting off the fat of China’s booming economy.

And like China’s GDP, the burger company’s sales growth rate is also recording double-digit figures.

But on the flip side, obesity is also on the rise.

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The Burrup Peninsula in the rugged north-west of Western Australia is home to some of the oldest rock carvings in the world, dating back tens of thousands of years.

But the area is also enormously rich in other resources, and energy giant Woodside Petroleum wants to strip away some of the rock artworks to build a plant as part of its Pluto gas project.

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