An Indian transgender couple have tied the knot in what is believed to be the state's first "rainbow wedding".

They have waged a lengthy battle to protect their rights and end discrimination with India's Supreme Court  recognising them as a third gender in 2014. 

The bride, Tista Das said they feel awesome to be able to celebrate their bond of love, liberty and the solidarity of their souls.

Security forces in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan have stormed the home of former President Almazbek Atambayev in an attempt to detain him.

Mr Atmbayev house was filled with his supporters, driving the special forces back, in a clash resulting in one officer dying from a gun wound.

Mr Atambayev has been accused of corruption, which he denies. Parliament stripped him of immunity in June.

Street artist, Luke Cornish,  found out his controversial Bondi Beach mural challenging Australia's asylum seeker detention system saying "Not Welcome to Bondi" has been painted over.

“It wasn’t the best way to find out,” he told SBS News, a day after Bondi's local government voted in favour of the temporary mural staying.

Mr Cornish, explained he wasn’t dismayed by the situation and would still continue to paint murals that caused conversations.

The Australian Privacy Commissioner is cautioning Facebook to learn from its mistakes and explain exactly how it will protect people's financial information when it launches its own cryptocurrency.

Facebook said its new cryptocurrency company, Libra, will allow money to be sent the same way as a text message.

Brisbane Airport flight paths will be changing and more flights coming and leaving with new $1.3 billion runways set to be finished by early next year.

Neil Hall from the Brisbane Airport Corporation says new flight paths will start in May next year, and wants people to be aware that the new runway will mean flights overhead in suburbs like Bulimba, New Farm and St Lucia.

The council are calling the Queensland Government to cancel a 15-year-old plans to clear six hectares of bushland at Stafford Heights where it wants to build an aged care centre.

However, on Tuesday night every Brisbane City councillor - LNP, Labor and Greens - unanimously voted no to granting this extension to the Queensland government.

The remnant bushland is diagonally across Rode Road from Brisbane City Council's Downfall Creek Bushland Centre and its network of walking trails.

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.