The World Today

The Crown Resorts staff detained in China on alleged gambling crimes could remain in prison for more than thirty days without being charged. The Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has spoken publicly for the first time about the arrests and says consular officials have spoken to two of the three Australians under arrest. Meanwhile, two of Australia's biggest gaming companies Tabcorp and Tatts are pressing ahead with a merger that could control 90 per cent of total betting in Australia.

The US President Barack Obama has attacked Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election is rigged against him. Mr Obama has urged the Republican candidate to 'stop whining'.

The third and final presidential debate will take place tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Bill Whalen, has worked for several Republican campaigns and says while he thinks this debate might be a draw, it could also be an opportunity for Donald Trump to get back in the game.

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every year, and only 50 might be left by 2050 as a generation of elders die. A new foundation hopes to capture the languages and songlines and is looking to the corporate sector for help.

The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory will today hear from community members and young people from Tennant Creek, as it continues its series of community meetings this week. At earlier public forums in Alice Springs, some Indigenous residents raised concerns about the failures of the child protection system.

In India, in the 1970s, there were hundreds of thousands of children each year who were killed or paralysed by the polio virus. Now, there are none. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is aiming to eradicate the virus altogether by 2019. On World Polio Day a group of international NGOs has held a breakfast at Parliament House in Canberra, to urge the Australian Government to restore the $80 million of funding over four years, it promised in 2014. Polio survivor Ramesh Ferris was a speaker at the event, and he spoke to reporter Peta Donald.

The newly elected Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike has been trying to prevent a cost blowout as the city prepares to host the 2020 Olympic Games. She's suggested alternatives should be found for some planned venues.

Share prices are being held around record highs in many markets due to aggressively low interest rates from central banks. Citi's chief global equity strategist Robert Buckland warns that once inflation rises and central banks start lifting interest rates, many share markets could be in for a steep drop. However, he does not anticipate that the Fed's expected rate rise in December will trigger such a massive sell-off, and he does not think inflation will take off in the short term.

Overnight, 20 Sydney pubs were transformed into classrooms, as lecturers took their lessons to the streets. The quirky event was part of the international 'Raising the Bar' series, designed to improve the content people consume, while better connecting academia with popular culture. In coming weeks, more events will be held around the world. Pub goers say they're pretty chuffed by the idea.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly rejected claims in an Amnesty International report that Australia's treatment of refugees on Nauru amounts to torture. Amnesty says most children don't attend school, assaults are rife and mental health problems are widespread. Labor says serious abuse on the island needs to be investigated. The Greens have labelled Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton the 'minister for torture' and hope the report is a game changer in the debate about offshore detention.