About 90 families from North and South Korea have wept and embraced as the neighbours held their first reunion events in three years for relatives wrenched apart by the Korean War for more than six decades.

Human rights activists are campaigning to save the life of the first woman to be sentenced to death over political activism in Saudi Arabia.

Average petrol prices have increased by 7% in the past 3 months, hitting a 4 year high in Australia’s largest cities, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's latest petrol monitoring report.

Australia's Rohingyan community have converged on Parliament House with a message for coalition MPs: The federal government has "blood money" on its hand and must cut off financial aid to Myanmar.

Several Ipswich fire crews this morning have returned to the scene of a large grass fire threatening many properties at Mt Walker.

The north and south bound lanes of the Bruce Highway near Mackay have been closed due to ongoing investigations into a car and truck crash that happened early this morning.

The launch of the new currency, the “sovereign bolivar”, has paralysed the country of Venezuela, with thousands of businesses closed and workers staying at home.