The majority of Brisbane councillors have rejected a call by Moorooka councillor Steve Griffiths to urgently repair a list of damaged and unsafe local footpaths.

Griffiths introduced the motion yesterday to publicly release a list of the damaged footpaths, but all LNP councillors, including mayor Graham Quirk, rejected the call to action.

The motions comes after a 69-yr old women broke her wrist after falling on a damaged Durack Street footpath.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised to thousands of victims of institutional child sex abuse in a Federal Parliament address broadcast nationwide yesterday.

Morrison said the nation had failed the children and parents who experienced trauma which had been “hiding in plain sight for too long”.

“I believe you, we believe you, your country believes you.”

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The Labor Party says it will agree to the Coalition’s proposed New Zealand travel ban if it will break the political deadlock and get children and their families off Nauru.

Shadow immigration minister Shayne Neumann says the ALP will come to the table if Prime Minister Scott Morrison can guarantee acceptance of New Zealand’s long-standing offer to resettle the asylum seekers.

Neumann also says the “lifetime travel ban” Morrison intends to impose on resettled asylum seekers should only apply to one cohort.

Special forces have been deployed by the Nigerian government to northern Kaduna, following communal violence which killed dozens of people.

President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the deployment on Sunday after violence broke out earlier in the week between Muslim and Christian communities.

At least 55 people have been declared dead in the Kasuwan Magani area Kaduna, with Buhari condemning the incident in a series of tweets.   

Hundreds of protestors gathered in the Jordan capital Amman on Saturday, demanding constitutional reform and parliamentary democracy in the country.

Led by the “National Follow-Up Committee’, the pro-reform group rallied against corruption and policies which they claim have “brought the country’s economy to its knees”.

The protestors grievances are against the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah the 2nd, who the public has accused of promoting “corrupt” officials.

Thousands of Honduran migrants whose trek toward the United States has triggered a series of tirades from US President Donald Trump resumed their long march after crossing a river into Mexico.

Donald Trump says "full efforts" were underway to halt the caravan's progress toward the United States.

Nevertheless, around 3,000 people were marching in the caravan on the Mexican side, according to an estimate from a federal police commander whose forces were closely monitoring the migrants' progress.

Two space satellites are currently on their way to Mercury, with an organisation known as BepiColombo under- seeing the operation.

Both European and Japanese scientists worked together on the idea, being launched out of South America on Friday.

It is hoping that the satellites will be able to address key concerns of Mercury and its iron core, which represents 60% of the land mass. It is expected to take seven years to reach Mercury, with the operation being monitored from Germany.