Iranian president Hassan Rouhani dismissed negotiating with the United States as long as the Washington was reneging on the 2015 agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.

Mr Rouhani says America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran, and described the US call for talks as dishonest.

The prospect of sanctions has already hurt Iran's economy, with the rial currency falling this year and the Government cracking down on protests.

Brazil’s leftist Worker’s Party have nominated imprisoned founder Luiz Inacio da Silva as their presidential candidate for the upcoming election.

Presidential elections will be held on October 9, while da Silva remains imprisoned as part of a 12-year sentence for corruption.

The former president leads opinion polls currently, but is still awaiting a decision on whether he can run for the presidency.

Dozens of people have been injured in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka after protests over road safety turned violent.

Police allegedly fired rubber bullets and tear gas at student protestors and used batons to disperse the crowd, injuring around 115 people.

The protests were a response to the traffic deaths of two students, and marks the seventh day of major unrest in Bangladesh.

Violence in the Queensland prison system has reached a new high, with almost 3,000 jailhouse assaults recorded since 2017.

Overcrowded cells is regarded as a major cause of tension among inmates, as every high security correctional centre in Queensland is over capacity.

Debbie Kilroy of Sisters Inside says prison capacity is the wrong argument, and we need to look at the social issues pipelining people into prison.

A Brisbane vet has surgically implanted feathers into an injured Tawny Frogmouth, saving the bird from certain death, in a miraculous surgery.

The bird was found caught in barbed wire outside Jimboomba last week with little chance of surviving; however, through the process of ‘imping’ the bird was saved.

The surgery is not regularly practiced in Australia; however, the vet recently returned from Dubai where this is more common.

Woolworths have admitted to monitoring the activities of gamblers at a number of venues across their Australian Leisure and Hospitality group pokies arm.

Staff were instructed to note down descriptive information on customers, including what football team they support, in an effort to identify how to ensure customers stayed for longer at pokies machines.

ALH group have pledged to ensure disciplinary action is taken, and training would be boosted.

Calls to increase payments for those on Newstart have ramped up in South Australia, as a South Australian social services group compares the cost of a $75-a-week increase to that of a submarine.

Currently, unemployed single Newstart recipients receive $273 a week, or just below $40 a day.

South Australian Council of Social Service are calling on SA premier Steven Marshall to lobby Malcolm Turnbull for increased newstart payments, as the momentum builds in SA for better living conditions for Newstart recipients.

Indonesian officials are coordinating relief efforts for residents and tourists on Lombok after an earthquake left 98 dead and many more missing.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency says they expect the death toll to rise when the rubble of more than 13,000 houses is cleared away.

More than 10,000 people have already been evacuated from the island.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have signed a ceasefire and power-sharing agreement, ending the nation’s five year civil war.

South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, and the civil war fuelled by personal and ethnic rivalries broke out two years later.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced an estimated quarter of South Sudan's population of 12 million and ruined its oil-reliant economy.