We’ve rounded up all the biggest stories from Australia and around the world.
1. Taiwan plane crash
At least 25 people have been killed when a passenger plane in Taiwan clipped a bridge overpass soon after take-off and plunged into a river.
16 survivors were rescued, including a two-year old boy from the TransAsia Airways plane’s wreckage that was strewn across the Keelung River.
As the rescue operation continued into the night, a crane lifted the rear and central sections of the plane from the water, with one body retrieved from inside. The front part, where 17 people are believed to be trapped, was still in the water.
Many of the passengers were mainland Chinese tourists. Officials have said they were now “not optimistic” about finding survivors reports CNN.
A recording thought to be the final message from the cockpit reveals the desperate crew shouting “Mayday! Mayday! Engine flameout!”
Dramatic amateur video footage showed the TransAsia ATR 72-600 hit an elevated road.
2. Peter Greste return
Australian journalist Peter Greste has returned to Brisbane in the early hours of this morning after being jailed in Egypt for 400 days.
As his feet hit Australian soil and he was reunited with his family he said
“This is a moment I’ve rehearsed in my mind four hundred times over the last four hundred days”
“Egypt has an opportunity to show that justice does not depend on your nationality,” he said. “If it’s right for me to be free, it’s right for them to be free.”