Pope Francis has celebrated his first Mass since becoming the head of the Catholic Church. During the service in the Sistine Chapel, he warned the cardinals the Catholic Church would just become another charity without spiritual renewal. 

 

Victorian detectives are investigating a double murder in a remote farming community northwest of Melbourne. A family member found the bodies of the two men aged in their 60s on a property at Natte Yallock late yesterday. Investigators are still at the scene and they are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

 

The latest snapshot of Australia's youth shows they are getting fatter and using more drugs, but they're smoking less. The report finds nearly a third of young people are overweight or obese. More than half of them lead sedentary lifestyles. Eighteen percent use illicit drugs and teenage pregnancy rates are well above the international average.

 

A series of bomb and gun attacks on government buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 18 people. At least another 30 have been injured. The attacks happened near the heavily fortified green zone that houses several foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices.