Sunday's News in 2 minutes

Police raid Malaysian Airlines MH370 Pilot’s home

Police are investigating the Pilot and Co-Pilot of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 after the Malaysian Government confirmed yesterday that the flight was deliberately interfered with. According to British Media reports police are investigating that Captain Zaharie Shah hijacked his own plane, after it was revealed that Shah had a history of political activism.

Co-pilot Fariq Abdul is also being investigated. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement yesterday that the search for ‘MH370 has entered a new phase’ that may bring us ‘one step closer to finding the plane’. Read the full statement here.

Two children killed and three injured in SA car crash.

A five-year old boy and fourteen-year-old girl were killed in what is being described by Fairfax Media as a ‘horror car crash’ in South Australia yesterday. The Toyota Torrago, that was being driven by a 31-year-old woman reportedly overturned and rolled into a paddock where it caught alight. Three other children, aged between 7 and 10 were also in the car, and were taken to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital with serious injuries. The woman, who is believed to be the mother of the five children, was taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital where she is in a serious but stable condition.

Tasmania and South Australia take to the polls

The Liberal party has come out on top in Tasmania overnight but appears to be falling behind in South Australia after both states took to the polls yesterday. Tasmania’s Premier Elect Will Hodgman has broken 16 years of Labor rule and has told Tasmanian’s to be prepared for change. However South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill is ‘hopeful of keeping power’, after what was expected to be a ‘landslide’ for Liberal’s failed to materialise.

Three people dead as Crimea votes

Three people were killed in Ukraine yesterday after protests broke out about the looming Crimean referendum against Russian and Ukraine. The people of Crimea who are mostly Russian, take to the polls today to decide whether or not they want to join Russia after MPs declared the area’s independence from Ukraine earlier this month.

Man with 45kg Scrotum dies

Wesley Warren Jnr, the Las Vegas man who became famous in 2013 for campaigning to get surgery on his 45kg scrotum has died after suffering two heart attacks. Warren, who suffered from a condition known as scrotal elephantiasis, went public with his condition at the beginning of last year to raise money to receive surgery.  Scrotal elephantiasis is usually caused by a mosquito-spread infection.

 Six cyclists injured in Sydney crash

Six cyclists were injured in the Sydney suburb of Mascot this morning after a 4-wheel drive vehicle ran into them. Five of the six cyclists were taken to St Vincent’s hospital with serious head, limb and spinal injuries. The 4WD’s bonnet and windscreen were crushed, and one bike was split in half. Police are currently speaking to the driver involved.