Speed limits of 30km/h could spread wider across Australia as one state hits the gas on more trials on busy local roads.

Queensland police have shot dead an alleged domestic violence perpetrator who was armed with a firearm at a home north of Brisbane.

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan take years to process and are unrelated to the war with Iran a source familiar with the ​matter said.

Officials ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the Los Angeles ‌suburb of Garden Grove on Friday due to a failing chemical tank that was likely to either leak or explode, possibly releasing toxic vapor into the air, first responders said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio lands in India on Saturday on a mission to shore up a partnership battered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s renewed ​engagement with
New Delhi’s rivals Pakistan and China.

An explosion at a dry dock in New York City’s Staten Island killed one ​person and injured 36 others on Friday, ‌as the blast occurred while firefighters were on the scene responding to a fire and attempting to rescue ​two people who were trapped, officials said.

Eight ​people were confirmed ‌dead and 38 remain trapped underground after ​a coal mine ​accident in northern China’s ⁠Shanxi province, state ​news agency Xinhua ​reported on Saturday, citing local emergency management authority.

The United States has seen some progress towards a deal ​with Iran but more work is required, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, while Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the two sides’ differences were deep ‌and significant.

Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying her ​husband had been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and that she was stepping away from her role to help ‌him.

Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers said on ​Friday, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape.

The United States ‌arrested Adys Lastres Morera, the sister of the executive president of GAESA, a sprawling conglomerate of ​military-run businesses, Secretary of State ​Marco Rubio said on Thursday.

The U.S., Japan, Australia ​and India will ‌hold a meeting of foreign ministers of ​the ‘Quad’ grouping ​in New Delhi on ⁠May 26, Japan’s ​foreign ministry said ​on Friday.