Human rights groups are urging Australia to stop arms sales to countries involved in the Yemen war as the civilian death toll rises.

The world was appalled by the Sa’ada bus attack in August 2018 where a United States-supplied bomb killed 40 boys on a bus in Yemen; but since then more than 335 children have died in the fighting and almost 600 have been injured, according to new figures by the United Nations.

Pakistan has announced plans to expel India's top diplomat and suspend trade with its neighbour, deepening a row between the countries over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Indian-administered Kashmir has been on lock-down since the Indian government decided on 5th of August 2019 to strip the region of its special constitutional status that let state of Kashmir to make it its own laws.

The Himalayan region of Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, but they each control only parts of it.

The Australian dollar has hit a 10-year low against the US dollar, after New Zealand's central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates by half a per cent.

This is the lowest level for the Australian dollar against the US Dollar since March 2009, during the economic fallout from the global financial crisis.

CommSec's chief economist Craig James said the lower dollar would come as a relief for the Reserve Bank of Australia and other economic policymakers, even if it may be a headache for Australians travelling overseas.

South Australia wind-farms are undergoing legal proceedings launched by Australian Energy Regulator over a state-wide blackout in 2016.

The AER is claiming the companies failed to comply with performance requirements to ride through major disruptions and disturbances and breached the National Electricity Rules.

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor said the legal action could test whether electricity market rules are "being enforced".

James Cook University scientists have discovered a drug that increases survival after internal bleeding, by slowing biological time. 

The trauma drug increases survival to three days after major haemorrhage, compared to 20 hours for those who haven’t been treated with the drug.

The research is funded by the US military, and the drug is being developed for resuscitating severely wounded soldiers in remote locations. 

The US president, Donald Trump, has tied  the two shootings in Ohio and Texas to mental illness and video games.

Mr Trump, while speaking to press, said we must stop the glorification of violence in our society, this includes gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018, reportedly played violent video games up to 15 hours a day.

An image of an African American man being led by police on horseback has gone viral and sparked outrage toward the Galveston Police Department.

The Police Department identified the man as Donald Neely who authorities said had been arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing.

Galveston police chief Vernon Hale apologise to Mr Neely for the unnecessary embarrassment.

A new database of scientific experts is made up entirely of women, with hopes to change the voice of STEM expertise in media.

Currently only one in four STEM experts quoted in Australian media are women.

Frances Separovic from the Australian Academy of Science said to tackle big problems we need to have  different cultures, different genders and different educations working together.