Boeing’s manufacturer has warned hundreds of its 737 planes, including 159 of its troubled 737 Max jets, may have faulty parts on their wings.

One batch of slat tracks, which are the moveable panels built into the planes wings to provide extra lift during takeoff and landing, were found to ‘have a potential non-conformance’.

Boeing warned all airlines that operate 737's to check their slats, and the Federal Aviation Administration will issue a directive to make Boeing’s jet checks mandatory.

Johana Medina Leon, a transgender woman seeking asylum, died after pleading for medical help in US custody on Saturday.

The 25 year old from El Salvador died in hospital in El Paso, Texas after she complained about chest pains during her month-long detention.

The incident sparked renewed claims of medical neglect and human rights violations by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Snow falls in Queensland’s granite belt this morning as wind gusts lower the temperature.

Pictures of snowflakes falling near Stanthorpe on the Southern Downes have emerged after a wind chill caused the temperature at Toowoomba to fall to -5 degrees at 6:00am and -4.4 in Applethorpe at 6:30am.

Senior Forecaster Sam Campbell told the ABC possible wind gusts of up to 55km/h today will keep temperatures low in south-east Queensland.

On Sunday, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner pledged to ‘green our suburbs’ as a part of council’s upcoming budget.

The budget is set to include $22.8 million on planting and maintaining trees across Brisbane, $107,000 on planting jacarandas in Bulimba, St Lucia and New Farm as well as $15.4 million to council’s bushland acquisition program.

However, Brisbane City Council’s opposition leader Peter Cumming dismissed the pledge as ‘nothing new’.

News Corp Australia plans to implement a widespread round of targeted redundancies in the next few days, including 55 editorial positions.

Executive Chairman Michael Miller has publicly warned that long-term employees who lack digital skills in the newsroom would be leaving the company.

Management held meetings across departments yesterday following press interviews in which Mr Miller said the company would have to downsize to remain profitable and they were looking for ‘new skills’.

Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, will visit Colombo in Sri Lanka today, with a bid to stop asylum seekers and people smuggling at the top of his agenda.

A spokesperson for Mr Dutton, said his purpose was to implement the interests of ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ and to discuss counter terrorism matters.

It comes after a boat carrying 20 Sri Lankan asylum seekers was intercepted off Australia’s coast last week.

Security forces stormed a protest camp in Khartoum, Sudan's last Monday, killing over 30 people.

The protests were apart of a widespread anti-government movement in Sudan.

The violence on Monday is likely to deal a blow for hopes to re-start talks on a negotiated settlement over who should govern in a transitional period after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April.  

Thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have vanished or been killed in Canada over the past few decades have been identified as part of a ‘Canadian genocide’, according to a leaked report of a national inquiry.

The report, titled Reclaiming Power and Place includes the testimonies of over 1400 family members and survivors as well as 83 knowledge-keepers, experts and officials.