The first monsoonal rains of the year have flooded parts of the crowded Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, raising fears for nearly one million refugees.

For several years now, the ‘Mums 4 Refugees’ group have been supporting asylum seekers and refugees on Manus island and Nauru.

Jennifer Riordan was the first victim of a US commercial aviation accident since 2009, after a Southwest Airlines’ plane engine exploded over Pennsylvania this Tuesday.

Investigators said the broken fan blade was suffering from signs of metal fatigue, the same issue blamed for engine failure on a Southwest flight in late 2016. 

The company opposed a recommendation to inspect its’ fan blades after the initial incident, clashing with the Federal Aviation Administration over the decision.

Australia’s Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, has issued a directive to troops that bans the wearing of ‘death symbols’.

Several symbols were specifically prohibited because of their violent, murderous, and vigilante symbolism, including the Grim Reaper, the Skull and Crossbones, Spartans, and the Phantom or Punisher.

General Campbell said the wearing of these symbols was arrogant, ill-considered and that it eroded the ethos of the Army.

A Bundaberg recycling centre that employs 27 people with disabilities says their jobs are on the line because it cannot find a buyer for its product, after China has declared they will no longer take Australia's waste.

Scientists have confirmed mass bleaching on the great barrier reef in 2016 has caused irreversible damage, radically altering the ecosystem.

A report released on Wednesday says nearly one-third of the reef’s coral was killed when ocean temperatures spiked as a result of global warming.

Experts warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trajectory, the reef will be unrecognizable, threatening not only the lives of thousands of species but the tourism industry in Queensland as well.

Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, had reportedly “actively cooperated” with the Nazi euthanasia program.

Findings about Dr Asperger were published on Wednesday in the journal of Molecular Autism after eight years of research which included the examination of previously unseen Nazi-era documents.

A Chilean man believed to be the oldest in the world has died aged 121.

Celino Villanueva Jaramillo, born in 1896, died in hospital after complications from falling out of his bed a week earlier and puncturing his lung.

The centenarian has not been formally recognised in the Guinness World records due to being unable to properly verify his birth, however his Chilean ID card puts him four years older than the Guinness-listed oldest person.