News brief: Big stories of the day

Five Indians were among the 50 people killed in a terror attack on Al Noor mosque in Christchurch in New Zealand, the Indian high commission said Sunday.

At least 42 people were reported dead and over 20 got injured in floods that hit Indonesia's Papua on Saturday, news agency AFP reported citing Indonesian officials.

Steve Smith and David Warner have been welcomed back into the Australian fold with "hugs and cuddles" at a team meet-up in Dubai, and said it was like they'd never left.

Rioters looted and torched shops and businesses on the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Saturday, on the 18th weekend of French "yellow vest" protests, characterised by a sharp increase in violence after weeks of dwindling turnout.