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- Early autopsy finds evidence consistent with drowning in death of Canadian backpacker in K'gari
- Suicide bomber kills at least 7 at a wedding in northwest Pakistan
- Mitch Marsh to lead host of Australian cricket internationals in The Hundred
An autopsy on the body of a teenager found dead surrounded by wild dingoes at a Queensland tourist spot has found physical evidence consistent with drowning.
Nineteen-year-old Canadian backpacker Piper James was on a holiday in Queensland's K'gari when she went for an early morning swim on Monday and never returned.
A spokesperson for the Coroners Court of Queensland said the autopsy has found physical evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites, but that the process is expected to take several weeks.
They added that pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death.
A tourist ban on the island was ruled out, but rangers are warning of heightened dingo activity in the area.
At least seven people have been killed at a wedding in northwest Pakistan, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest.
Twenty-five others have been injured in the attack which took place on Friday, at the home of Noor Alam Mehsud, a pro-government community leader in a district in Khyber Pakhutunkhwa province.
Police chief Adnan Khan said officers transported the dead and injured to a hospital, where some of the wounded were listed in critical condition.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
However, suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who are also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP and have carried out numerous attacks in the country in recent years.
The group is separate from but allied with the Afghan Taliban.
Australians are preparing for a range of weather extremes this long weekend, with heatwave and fire warnings and a tropic cyclone on track for landfall.
Residents along the northern West Australian coast are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Luana's forecast landfall as a category two system.
Heavy rain, flash flooding and destructive wind gusts up to 155 kilometres an hour are expected as the windstorm crosses the coast.
Inland heatwave warnings have been issued in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and southern Queensland.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Senior Meteorologist Sarah Scully told Channel Nine these conditions could break temperature records.
"With this particular developing severe to extreme heatwave event there is the potential for record heat to be broken through particularly parts of the Mallee district, northern parts of Victoria, on Tuesday, but also as well through western and inland parts of New South Wales. But it is expected to be very hot, as you mentioned, today across the area. There is a weak cold front, or trough, that will push into coastal areas."
The United Nations Human Rights Council has demanded the Iranian regime end its brutal repression after a deadly crackdown on protests killed thousands.
The council voiced alarm about the unprecedented crackdown, with aid groups estimating between five and 25 thousand have been killed in recent weeks.
With 25 votes in favour, the council decided to extend and broaden the mandate of independent investigators gathering evidence on rights violations in Iran.
UN rights chief Volker Turk says they believe Iranian authorities are carrying out mass arrests in the country.
“The killing on the streets of Iran may have subsided, but the brutality continues. The violent repression of the Iranian people does not solve any of the country’s problems. On the contrary, it creates conditions for further human rights violations, instability and bloodshed.”
And in cricket, Mitch Marsh will lead a host of Australian cricket internationals in England's marquee white-ball tournament, The Hundred.
National T20 captain Marsh is one of six Aussies who've been named for the 100-ball-a-side men's event in July and August, while there'll be 10 in the women's tournament, headed by returning Hundred champions Annabel Sutherland and Phoebe Litchfield.
The eight teams, boosted by major investment particularly from India, confirmed their direct signings and retentions on Friday.
With 16 Aussies in the first 60 named, there are more Australians than any other nation, apart from the British hosts.
