► DARWIN, NT: An Australian woman is fighting for life after becoming the first local victim of a global airbag recall crisis that has left drivers with gruesome injuries and affected millions of car owners. Read more.

►WAGGA WAGGA, NSW: A Wagga resident has called for large dog owners to consider using a muzzle in the wake of a vicious dog attack which left a family forced to watch their cat die in their arms. Read more.

►BENDIGO: “Imagine what it is like to be told you can’t have this choice [to go out after 10pm] because you are disabled, and make no mistake this is what it says. This is our government forcing our disabled citizens to be out of sight, out of mind. This is discrimination.” Read more.

Harry Styles is heading to Australia for his first solo world tour. But just over 4000 fans will be able to see him perform here. Read more.

What does it look like in your neck of the woods today?

► The head of the NSW Police Sex Crimes Squad recently warned a NSW Parliamentary inquiry into human trafficking that exploited overseas workers were slipping through the cracks because there was now no way to identify – or stop – underground brothels. Read more.

► Labor has referred Pauline Hanson's One Nation to Queensland authorities amid claims the party has breached electoral rules. Read more.

► Multinational gas companies will soon sell an annual $50 billion worth of Australian liquefied natural gas to foreign markets, but the nation will have to wait more than a decade for any revenue boost and some projects will never pay a cent in tax for the resources they extract.​ Read more.

► North Korea unsuccessfully test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday from a region north of its capital, Pyongyang, South Korea's military said, defying intense pressure from the United States and the reclusive state's main ally, China. Read more.

► Nairobi: Women are likely to be elected for the first time to some of Kenya's powerful governor positions after making historic gains in party primaries this week, experts said, heralding a political breakthrough for the patriarchal society. Read more.

► About half of the 675 immigrants picked up in roundups across the United States in the days after President Donald Trump took office either had no criminal convictions or had committed traffic offences, mostly drunken driving, as their most serious crimes, according to data obtained by The Washington Post. Read more.

Jeff McCloy, the larger-than-life personality who dramatically won, and then lost, Newcastle’s lord mayoralty between 2012 and 2014, has remained a highly visible figure in the city’s political scene since he resigned in the heat of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s inquiry into political donations made before the 2011 state election.

From interventions about the controversial light rail route, to challenging the ICAC in the High Court of Australia, Mr McCloy has lost none of his famously forthright nature.

But since the conclusion of ICAC’s Operation Spicer investigation, which found Mr McCloy “acted with the intention” of evading laws about the disclosure of political donations and the ban on donations from property developers, the question being asked in some circles is: would he ever run again? Read more.

On this day …

► 311 Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persercution of Christians in the Roman Empire

► 1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America

► 1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical "All the Year Round" (weekly installments until Nov 26).