Attorney-General Christian Porter has said it is now next to impossible to remove Australians caught in Turkey's invasion of Syria.

At least 66 Australian women and children are being held at Kurdish camps in northern Syria as the region withstands an invasion from Turkish forces. 

Mr Porter has described the region as an unbelievably dangerous place, and says the government will not put Australian’s lives at risk to extract the people left in the camps.

A pro-democracy campaigner in Hong Kong has been stabbed in the neck while handing out leaflets for a demonstration. 

Police say they have arrested a 22 year old male over the incident. Passers-by tried to stem the bleeding before the teenager was transported to hospital.

Hong Kong has been relatively calm in the past two weeks after violent protests ignited by the introduction of colonial-era emergency laws.

The US government banned imports of rough diamonds from Zimbabwe earlier this month over concerns that forced labour was being used in the African nation's mines.

Zimbabwe has dismissed the allegations. Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana says the US has no evidence of this, and that Washington has been "misinformed or misled".

The Marange mining region in the east of Zimbabwe is estimated to have one of the world's richest diamond reserves and is a vital revenue earner for a country in a dire economic straits. 

Boris Johnson needs to sell his last-minute Brexit deal to MPs before a crunch vote, as he returns from Brussels in a "very confident" mood.

The Prime Minister said there is a "very good case" for MPs to vote in his favour in what is expected to be a dramatic and historic House of Commons showdown on Saturday.

Mr Johnson has urged parliamentarians to "come together and get this thing done" after EU leaders approved the deal before the key summit began in Brussels on Thursday

Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in north-east Syria and will allow Kurdish forces to withdraw.
 
In return, the US will withdraw the sanctions on Turkish officials that President Trump announced earlier this week.
 
After more than four hours of talks at the presidential palace in Ankara on Thursday, US Vice President Mike Pence said “Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria.”
 

An afghan doctor has died in Brisbane after being transferred to Australia from Manus island two years ago.
 
The 32-year-old man is believed to have taken his own life and is the 13th death of a person sent to Manus Island or Nauru by Australia under its offshore immigration system.
 
A spokesperson from the Department of Home Affairs says they “extend [their] sympathies to the individual’s family. To ensure [they] respect their privacy, no further information will be released.”
 

Anglican churches around Australia have declined to agree with Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies’ comments suggest same-sex marriage supporters to leave the church.
 
Mr Davies said same-sex supporters should abandon the church in an address to the 52st Synod of the Diocese of Sydney.
 
He says his“own view is that if people wish to change the doctrine of our church, they should start a new church or join a church 0more aligned to their views – but [to] not ruin the Anglican Church by abandoning the plain teaching of Scripture.”
 

Photographer George Hirst is transforming curbside items into art.
 
Mr Hirst, who co-runs media production company Cranky Curlew has a background in visual art and has found art within lamps, beds, fridges and washing machines that have been discarded on sides of roads.
 
He says "The way people put things randomly together can be fantastic and it's not at all premeditated.”