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Thirteen people have been killed in a head-on crash between a church minibus and and a pick-up truck in Texas, officials in the US state say.

Update: 9:15am - A 67‑year‑old woman from the UK stunned doctors after they found 27 contact lenses stuck in her one eye while preparing her for a cataract surgery.

UPDATED: 9:24am - Papua New Guinea's Ombudsman Commission has obtained an interim court order to extend the deadline for the return of election writs to Monday, to give those electorates not yet declared more time.

UPDATED: 5:28am - Pakistan’s Parliament will meet on Tuesday to elect a new prime minister after the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif.

UPDATED: 7:36am - A relative of villagers in Indonesia's Papua region caught up in a fatal police shooting says they're calling for the police to take responsibility for the incident.

UPDATED: 7:11am - Isaia Vaipuna Taape was last week sworn in as one of two MPs for Vaitapu, which was held by former prime minister Apisai Ielemia.

UPDATED: 6:54am - Irma weakened slightly Friday but remained a dangerous and deadly hurricane taking direct aim at Florida, threatening to march along the peninsula’s spine and deliver a blow the state hasn’t seen in more than a decade.

Updated: 7:15am - The Delhi high court dismissed on Tuesday the transit anticipatory bail plea of Honeypreet Insan, the absconding aide of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Updated: 8:06am - The Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied as an undergraduate has removed her portrait from public display and placed it in storage, in a move that follows international criticism over her role in Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis .

Updated: 7:40am - Hopes that 44 crew members of a missing Argentine navy submarine may be alive rose when the defence ministry said the vessel likely tried to communicate via satellite.