British counter-terrorist command have responded to the delivery of three improvised explosives sent to major transport hubs in London, where they defused the devices.

The small devices were posted to Heathrow Airport, Waterloo train station, and a smaller municipal airport in London, where they caught fire when opened, but all were disarmed within hours.

Mayor Sadiq Khan, thanked the division of counter-terrorist police for their “swift action to keep Londoners safe”, as transport authorities remain on the lookout for any more suspicious packages.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services is welcoming a historic intake of female recruits.

Today, the QFES Minister Craig Crawford met with 32 firefighter recruits, including 11 women, training to graduate from the ‘Queensland Combined Emergency Services Academy’ this year.

Minister for Women -  Di Farmer says it has been difficult for women to break into male dominated industries in general, but this recruit course shows the tide is turning. She says seeing woman bearing down barriers, especially in employment, is cause for celebration.

Deadly copper wires were found set up at neck height across a popular dirt bike track on the Gold Coast.'

This comes after a similar incident in Gympie, in which a dirt bike rider was knocked off his bike by a high-tensile wire.

The wires were found on Sunday night in Upper Coomera by four men, who came back the next day to remove any hazards they had missed. The track is on private property, but has long been popular with dirt bikers and four-wheel drivers.

Health experts are issuing a warning to Australian fast food retailers, after reports find that some meals aimed at children have more than the daily recommended sodium intake in a single portion.

The report, released by the George Institute for Global Health, found nuggets and fries were the major culprits, with a six pack of Hungry Jack’s nuggets shown to contain 108 percent of a 4-8 year old’s daily recommended dietary intake.

Concern is growing for the future of mining in the Hunter Valley region after warnings that the global investment market is shifting.

A report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has unveiled that over 100 major financiers have withdrawn from thermal coal projects in the last five years.

The Hunter Valley is driven by the coal mining industry, with 9,000 jobs on the line across the 40 different mines in the region.

The British women's jail is set to open its first transgender prison wing which has the capacity to house up to 355 inmates.

This move follows the prosecution and lifetime sentence of a transgender woman who sexually assaulted two inmates while housed in a female prison in 2017.

The Ministry of Justice says prisoner safety is their biggest concern and any decisions made aim to manage the risks of each offender.

A large-scale study published by the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen has found no link between measles, mumps, or rubella vaccines and autism.

The researchers examined all of the 650,000 children born in Denmark between 1999 and 2010 to find no increase in autism cases among those given the vaccines even if a child has pre-existing susceptibility to the disease.