Thursday's news in just two minutes.

1. Thousands of Australians are expected to turn up to dawn services around the country and at Gallipoli today to remember fallen servicemen and women. Extracts from the letters of and diaries of WWI veterans will be read out during the service at the National War Memorial in Canberra. This year marks the 98th anniversary of the ANZAC forces’ first landing at Gallipoli during WWI.

2. The ex-boyfriend of a woman who was found dead in her Sydney apartment earlier this week has reportedly fallen to his death from the balcony of a Queensland hotel room. Police were trying to get into Elliot Coulson‘s room when the incident occurred. Coulson’s ex-girlfriend Kate Malonyay‘s body was found in her Mosman apartment on Monday afternoon after she failed to turn up to work. Police have said the 32-year-old’s body could have been in the apartment for at least four days.

3. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he can’t guarantee when the Coalition’s proposed changes to paid parental leave would be introduced should his party win the September election. Speaking to the ABC’s Leigh Sales last night he said: “We can’t finalise the timings of these initiatives until we’ve seen the pre-election fiscal outlook and I fear that that will be much worse than the Government is currently letting on… My hope is that we’re able to introduce a paid parental leave at the same time as we have an offsetting of the company tax cut.”

4. An off-duty policeman who left his daughter in the car while he went to the pub has been fined $500. The girl was reportedly left in the car for at least 45 minutes before she was seen by passers-by who raised the alarm. The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge of leaving a child in a motor vehicle. It’s understood the man’s position with the police force is also under review.

5. Footage of a 14-year-old McDonald’s burger that looks almost identical to what it did on the day it was purchased has gone viral in the US. Utah man David Whipple said he bought the burger in 1999 and planned to keep it for a month to see what happened. But David forgot about the hamburger and only found it in a coat pocket recently. He told presenters on TV show The Doctors that he couldn’t understand why the burger hadn’t decomposed in all that time.

Responding to the story, McDonald’s said: “In the example of cooking a McDonald’s hamburger, the patty loses water in the form of steam during the cooking process. The bun, of course, is made out of bread. Toasting it reduces the amount of moisture. This means that after preparation, the hamburger is fairly dry… When left out open in the room, there is further water loss as the humidity within most buildings is around 40 percent. So in the absence of moisture or high humidity, the hamburger simply dries out, rather than rot.”