More than 44 Indian soldiers have been killed and many more injured in the deadliest attack in Kashmir in two decades

A suicide car bomb struck a convoy of police vehicles about 20 kilometres from the capital city.

Video of the attack showed the smouldering, wreck of a vehicle, and bodies thrown across the road.

Italy has rejected a record number of asylum applications, with 24,800  refused in the last four months.

The rejections were up 25% on the previous four months, from June to September 2018, and coincide with the bringing into law of the Salvini decree on immigration.

This decree suspends the asylum application process for individuals considered to be “socially dangerous” and also removes permission to remain for some of those denied formal refugee status but who are unable to return home.

Greens MP Michael Berkman wants Queensland children to travel on public transport for free as an effort to bust congestion.

Berkman claims “free public transport for every kid in Queensland, from Brisbane to Cairns, would cost just $56 million per year; just for context, the government will spend $2.5 billion this year on roads.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey says the government already subsides public transport across south-east Queensland by more than $1.9 billion a year”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will visit the regional Queensland town of Cloncurry today to see first hand the devastating flood damage.

The Prime Minister’s day is expected to start with a community breakfast before he flies out to drop fodder for surviving cattle.

North-Queensland’s floods have caused death, disease, and heartbreak for farmers and residents.

Agriculture minister, David Littleproud, says two accounts of foot-and-mouth disease were confirmed by Australian Animal Health Laboratory in meat products declared and seized at airports.

Biosecurity experts assert the break out of foot-and-mouth disease could cost Australia’s livestock industries $40 - $60 billion.

Australia currently remains free from foot-and-mouth disease but Victorian Farmers’ Federation president,, says the detection proved a greater investment was needed in biosecurity at all levels of government.  

Indigenous Australian and Indian dancers have united for a performance to highlight the threat of climate change, which is set to premiere at the Perth Festival.

The show’s creator and director Mark Howett described the performance as a call to action saying people connected to sacred lands are at the forefront of the impact of climate change.

Those involved in the project have been on a three-year journey, travelling multiple times between desert Australia and tropical India.

European aviation giant Airbus has said it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of orders from airlines.

Barely a decade after the 500-plus-seat plane started carrying passengers, Airbus said in a statement that key client Emirates is cutting back its orders for the plane, and as a result there is no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production.

The decision could impact up to 3,500 jobs and already cost the plane manufacturer 463 million euros in losses in 2018.

Thirteen same-sex couples across Japan are taking legal action against the government, demanding the right to get married.

They are suing for symbolic damages, arguing that being barred from marriage violates their constitutional rights.

While Japan does not allow gay marriage, surveys suggest there is strong support for same-sex marriage