Refugees from the Idlib province are saying that Syrian rebels are keeping families captive in camps, and stopping them from fleeing the violence.

As Russian and Syrian forces prepare a final offensive against the rebel stronghold, they have created avenues to get the refugees out of the warzone.

Unfortunately, rebel forces won’t allow the thousands of men, women and children to leave, leaving them stranded in the line of fire.

Recent Changes in the US state of New York will now allow people who do not identify as male or female to change their birth designation on their birth certificates to ‘X’ as of Wednesday.

The new legislation allows people outside the male or female gender designations to change their birth certificates gender without an affidavit from a doctor or mental health professionals and allow parents to choose a non-binary birth designation for their newborns at birth.

Former Adelaide residents Lisa and Germayne Cunningham have pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in an Arizona court, including first degree murder and child abuse.

If found guilty, the couple with be faced with the death penalty over the death and abuse of Mr Cunningham’s daughter Sanaa.

Seven years old at the time of her death in early 2017, Sanaa was subject to abuse and neglect, with Child Services investigating the couple multiple times before she passed away.

The Hobart city council is planning on introducing Smart Bins into their city in an attempt to both modernise and help clean up the city

The Bins will be fitted with sensors that will relay how full the bin is and help city bin deployment, showing where wins are needed and where they are not and increase city safety by relaying whether fire are being started from cigarette butts or whether offensive smells are being caused from particular bins

The Brisbane Mater Mothers' Public Hospital is investigating the death of a woman died two days after being discharged from hospital last month, after giving birth.

It’s understood she suffered a suspected blood clot after having a caesarean delivery.

According to recent data from the Queensland Department of Education, almost 11 prep and year 1 students are suspended from school every day.

In the last school year, almost 3000 prep and year one students were suspended due to serious behavioural issues in the classroom.

To help ease the pressure on teachers, the Queensland Government introduced a teacher aide into every prep classroom across the state.

China has announced that it is scrapping three agencies responsible for enforcing family planning and the country’s strict procreation laws.

This is further indication the country may be looking to end its heavily enforced rules which disallow families to have more than two children without facing heavy fines.

This comes after a draft of the civil code dropping all family planning legislation, as well as the dropping of the notorious one child policy two years ago.

A 10-year-old boy in the United States has made a miraculous escape after a meat skewer pierced his skull, completely missing his eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels.

Xavier Cunningham ended up in this position after he fell from a tree house at his home in Harrisonville, straight onto the meat skewer. Insects attacked him, causing him to tumble to the ground.

Microsoft Australia and Vision Australia announced a new app yesterday that empowers people who are blind or have low vision to explore the world around them through a 3D audio experience.

Called Soundscape, this app uses location awareness to provide users with information (through speech and sound) about their surroundings, allowing them to build a mental map of what’s around them.