EU foreign ministers have called for an independent investigation after US claim Iran is behind the tanker attack in the Gulf of Oman.

At a meeting on Monday, EU foreign ministers showed strong support for an independent UN investigation and calls for more evidence with the UK relatively isolated in its support for the Trump administrations' line.

Education Minister Grace Grace will inspect land in Baringa where a new High School is due to be built by 2021.

The $115 million school will be built 500 metres from the Baringa State Primary School.

Announced in last week’s budget, it is one of three new schools to be built on the Sunshine Coast.

A prisoner has escaped police on his way to Bundaberg hospital for an injured hand.

The prisoner, Viva Dodd was in custody due to allegations of violent behaviour, however there are no concerns for public safety.

He is described as Indigenous, 170cm tall with a solid build, brown hair, brown eyes and several large tattoos including a dragon on his right upper arm.

The Australian Defence Force has redacted details of a document obtained by the ABC on ‘national security grounds’.

The document, which was obtained using Freedom of Information, confirmed there are two major projects on the Defence’s ‘concerns list’, including the MRH90 helicopters and the deployable Defence Air Traffic Management and Control System.

Lewd, homophobic and anti-religious slurs appear to have been exchanged by Victorian Liberal delegates at last weekend’s state council meeting.

A series of messages were published on social media app Jodel and despite being anonymous, were posted using the Liberal’s official state council hashtag and originated from Moonee Ponds, where the council meeting took place.

The scandal comes after Liberal party chiefs called on state council delegates to unite and clean up their acts.

Nurmuhammad Tohti, a well-known Uighur writer has died in a Chinese internment camp after he was forcibly picked up by state authorities last year.

According to a report by The Uighur Human Rights Project, a Washington-based reporting and advocacy organisation, hundreds of Uighur journalists, students and intellectuals are being taken by state-run internment camps.

China’s internment camps are being criticised by international rights organisations who accuse the government of violating basic human rights.

On Wednesday, Kenya’s high court ruled that rape survivors have the right to an abortion.

Kenya’s strict abortion laws in the past have driven thousands of women to go to dodgy clinics and untrained professionals.

Kenyan authorities have been ordered to pay almost $30 000 in damages to the mother of a teenage victim who died after a botched abortion

Bus and train ticketing via phones and plastic is set to be tested in regional Queensland.

Paying for transport via this system is currently used in London and being trialled in New York.

If successful it is set to be rolled out in regional Queensland later this year and will be the first time Queensland has a statewide public transport ticketing system.