Yemen’s UN-recognised government has signed a Saudi Arabian-brokered power sharing agreement with separatists in the south of the country after months of fighting in the area.

The deal aims to create a new, cohesive government capable of challenging the Iranian-backed Houthi forces that control the capital, Sana’a, and the north.

The national fertility business, Monash IVF Group, which has branches in six Australian states claimed that their email system has fallen victim to a ‘malicious attack’, after false e-mails from the clinic’s account were sent out to patients.

A patient from the clinic believed the emails were sent from the company instead of scammers in the response of correspondence she had sent her clinicians about medical appointments at the clinic.

Data released under Freedom of Information Laws has shown that more than 120 girls under the age of 18 have been strip-searched by NSW police since 2016.

While the law allows police to strip search children between the ages of 10 and 18 when a parent or guardian is present in regular circumstances, it also lets them search a child without the presence of a parent or guardian as long as they think the circumstances are ‘urgent’.

Queensland Police have posted a $250,000 reward to try and break open an unusual missing persons case that has baffled investigators for six years.

Jason John Vance was last seen on October 24, 2013 in the Barakula State Forest, about 280km northwest of Brisbane, where it is believed he walked off into the forest and did not return while on a camping trip with two friends. 

Two devastated families have paid tribute to a young couple who fell to their deaths from a waterfall in far north Queensland.

Sherei Anderson, 32, and Simon Walker, 24, were reported missing in the Cairns area yesterday after failing to turn up to their respective jobs after a camping trip.

Their bodies were found yesterday afternoon at Kearney Falls in Gordonvale, where police believe the couple slipped and fell to their deaths after climbing the steep falls, which were closed at the time.

Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group who was recently killed in a US raid, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday.

The Turkish official said the 65-year-old woman known as Rasmiya Awad, is suspected of being affiliated with the extremist group, and is currently being interrogated.

Drug cartel gunmen have ambushed 3 SUV’s along a dirt road in northern Mexico on Monday, slaughtering at least three women and six children, two of which were 8-month-old twins.

All nine people involved in the day time attack were US citizens, and belonged to the extended Mexican-American LeBaron family, members of a breakaway Mormon community that settled in northern Mexico's hills and plains decades ago.

Documents detailing serious complaints about mistreatment and abuse of children with a disability by teaching staff, have been obtained by a disability advocate group under a Freedom of Information request.

Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) CEO Mary Sayers, says that reports of physical and sexual abuse across state insitutions were among complaints obtained by the organisaiton, as a Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability begins in Townsville this week.

Academics have warned that changes to competition law to shut down environmental boycotts could breach constitutional principles of freedom of political communication.

Professor Graham Orr from the University of Queensland has accused the Government of trying to target climate protests under the guise of market law.

Attorney General Christian Porter says that his proposed new laws, are designed to stop activist groups from promoting consumer boycotts against companies who have links to mining corporations