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10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Happy Monday.

McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook was fired over a relationship with an employee McDonald's fired CEO Steve Easterbrook over his relationship with another employee. The company said in a press release that the executive was being terminated after he "violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with an employee."

Facing pressure from Amazon Prime, Target and Kmart are offering free delivery for members – but only for orders over $45 Wesfarmers owned Kmart and Target are partnering with Catch.com.au to provide free shipping if you sign up to the Club Catch membership program.

You can now watch ABC iview when you're overseas thanks to the broadcaster's new app ABC's streaming service iview can now be watched overseas without a VPN. It will available through the ABC Australia iview app for Android and Apple devices.

Aussies are ditching debit cards and going digital instead, as Apple Pay and Google Pay begin to take hold Australians are increasingly paying with eWallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, making almost a quarter of all retail purchases with the things. It establishes digital wallets as the second-most used payment method after credit cards, and comes as the expense of debit cards which have been relegated to third.

Scott Morrison told the mining lobby he wants to put a stop to 'indulgent and selfish' business boycotts of coal The Prime Minister has revealed he and the Attorney-General are looking to outlaw "indulgent and selfish practices" that threaten the mining sector and other environmentally-damaging industries.

Vegemite is now officially vegan – and it didn't even have to change its recipe Vegemite has been certified as vegan without needing to change its recipe. The Aussie spread has always been vegan but to coincide with World Vegan Day on November 1, it got an official certification from Vegan Australia.

Saudi Arabia officially kicked off Saudi Aramco's IPO, which could be the largest in the world Saudi Arabia approved oil giant Saudi Aramco's massive initial public offering on Sunday, Bloomberg reported. The company announced it plans to list shares on the local exchange in Riyadh.

Australia makes the list of the top 20 countries which ask Google to ban content Google received more than 115,000 requests for the removal of content from governments around the world between July 2009 and July 2018. Using data from the search engine, UK internet-research site Comparitech analysed all government content-removal requests received during that period, and ranked the countries by the number of requests made.

I spent a day following an Instagram influencer around New York City to see what her job was really like — and it was way more work than I expected Influencers have turned into household names in recent years, and the industry is now worth up to an estimated $US8 billion. However, people still struggle to understand what the non-traditional career consists of, so I followed an influencer around New York City for a day to offer people a better idea.

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