Kenyan police have been accused of committing the majority of sexual violence reported during last year’s opposition protests over election results, says the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

The report says sexual assault was used as punishment in certain areas, with both opposition and ruling party neighbourhoods targeted, in over 200 cases.

Kenya’s national police said it rejects in totality the reports ‘sensational, preposterous, assertions’ and urged anyone sexually assaulted by an officer to report this for investigation.

The body of the US missionary killed on the remote North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean is yet to be recovered.

John Chau was killed by the ancient Sentinelese tribe while attempting to convert the hunger-gatherer tribe to Christianity.

Calls are mounting for Indian authorities to abandon efforts to recover Mr Chau’s body as activist groups argue for the tribe to be left alone.

Australia’s first HIV home-testing kit has been approved by the regulator, in a move that has been welcomed by health advocates as a key weapon in the fight to eradicate the virus.

Health Minister Greg Hunt will announce the approval of the kits by the Therapeutic Goods Administration on Thursday morning.

AIDS organisations have been lobbying for home testing, which is already in use overseas, as they regard stigma as the final frontier in prevention and treatment - particularly for those living in the regional and rural areas.

Parts of Queensland Performing Arts Centre may be demolished to allow the construction of a new 1,500-1,700-seat theatre.

Ahead of this year’s budget, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the $150 million performing arts venue would be built at the Playhouse Green at South Bank, and that part of QPAC’s existing fabric may need to be demolished to provide the new theatre “appropriate dimensions”.

The cost of renting in Brisbane is the cheapest it has been in six years, but it is still “extremely unaffordable” for pensioners and young people, a report reveals.

The latest Rental Affordability Index (RAI) shows the cost of renting in many parts of the Queensland capital has eased in the past 12 months, with the average household spending 24 per cent of their income on rent.

Despite the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students failing to close, groups from north-east Arnhem Lands are taking control of remote education.

Education advocates have gathered in Darwin for a national conference aiming to improve Indigenous education strategy in the face of declining school attendance rates.

Leaders from the Arnhem region say the answers to their education problems relate to traditional language and the need for greater emphasis on traditional knowledge.

A Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies has paused the trial following international outcry.

Geneticist He Jiankui defended his work on Wednesday saying he had successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born to a HIV positive father.

While the procedure is a potential fix for inheritable diseases, it is extremely controversial within the medical community as it has the potential to eventually alter the entire gene pool.

Southern India’s only transgender candidate in state elections has gone missing, and there are fears she has been kidnapped.

Chandramukhi Muvvala, who is also an activist with the Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samti, a local advocacy group for hijras – or transgender women – which campaigns against transphobic violence, disappeared minutes after she left her home on Tuesday morning on her second day of campaigning.