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Christa Pike, convicted of murdering classmate Colleen Slemmer, remains in critical care, her lawyers say. A federal court has blocked another execution attempt.

Five others were injured during the live-fire exercise in the Northern Territory. Defence has not disclosed the cause; Defence and coronial investigations will follow.

About 1,800 people had been taken into custody by 1 October and about 170 students injured, as teenagers protesting teacher shortages and decaying buildings set fires at schools in Nantes, Marseille and Paris.

Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory stay on standard time, leaving Brisbane an hour behind Sydney until clocks return in April.

Two off-duty pilots landed the jet safely in Saudi Arabia with 174 people aboard. Flydubai has suspended all Israel flights pending investigation.

The withdrawal makes way for a $4.3 billion Apache replacement program, while a 2024 request from Ukraine for the grounded aircraft remains unresolved.

Total child deaths across the state reached 452, with those in the protection system dying at more than one and a half times the average Queensland mortality rate.

At least 82 workers died at the al-Zaraa site in West Kordofan on 16 September, and a second cave-in near the Egyptian border claimed 10 more lives four days later.