Friday's news in under 5 minutes

1. Pyne meets Ministers

Education Minister Christopher Pyne will meet with his State counterparts today after announcing earlier in the week that the Government will dump Labor’s Gonski school funding model. Pyne said he would honour funding for 2014 but beyond that, new deals will be negotiated.

NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia Education Minsters are angry over his move, and all insist that agreements for funding over the next six years were signed off under the previous government and must be honoured.

2. 14-year-old Krystal Muhieddine is missing. Here’s how you can help.

Police in Sydney say they have serious concerns for a teenage girl who has not been seen for more than three days. Krystal Muhieddine left her home at Hunters Hill in the city’s north-west about 5:30am Tuesday. The 14-year-old did not tell her family where she was going and they have not heard from the teenager since. For more on this please read this post – and share it to help find Krystal.“Missing Krystal Muhieddine. Can you help?”

3. School bans shorts

A NSW primary school has banned girls from wearing shorts and made the wearing of dresses mandatory. Bathurst Public School recently edited its uniform policy, deleting the summer shorts option for girls and leaving only the tunic.

A parent who has recently moved from the US told the Western Advocate

“I thought we moved to Australia and it’s the 1950s still”

4. Single Mothers should surrender kids

A conservative Christian leader in the US says single moms should surrender their kids to Christian homes with two parents.

Right Wing Watch reports that Southern Baptist leader Richard Land is calling on single mothers to put up their kids for adoption so that Christian households with two parents can raise them.

5. Asylum seeker court case

An asylum seeker family with a sick newborn baby will today appear in Brisbane court to find out whether they will be sent back to Nauru.

Latifa, her husband and her three children are Myanmar nationals from the Rohingya ethnic group. The family made headlines when the premature baby was separated from his mother three weeks ago.

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 6. Greenpeace activist

Australian Greenpeace activist Colin Russell, who was among 30 people arrested over a protest against Arctic oil drilling, has been granted bail by a Russian court.

7. Toddler car death

A grandmother in Canada has been convicted of ‘failing to provide the necessities of life’ after her grandson died because she forgot him in a sweltering car.

In a case eerily similar to one in Perth where a father forgot his toddler was in the backseat of his car. The 56 year old grandmother Leslie MacDonald, forgot to drop her two-year old Grandson at daycare. She left him in the backseat of the car all day in 30-degree heat.

At one stage, MacDonald, who is deaf, moved her car but didn’t notice the boy in the back, which had heavily tinted windows.

It wasn’t until 5pm when she went to pick him up she was told he had never arrived. The toddler had died.

 8. Gittany girlfriend

The Australian Women’s Weekly reports that Rachelle Louise is now planning on writing a movie script about the case.

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9. Peaches could face police

Peaches Geldof could face a criminal investigation after she named two women who allowed their babies to be abused by disgraced rock star Ian Watkins.

Peaches posted the names of two women involved in the case on Twitter.

10. British millionaire sexual assault case

A British tycoon accused of forcing a woman to perform oral sex on him on Bondi Beach told her he had a lot of money and if she told the police it wouldn’t go anywhere.

Gregory Cox is facing two charges of having sexual intercourse without consent with a then-21-year-old woman. He has pleaded not guilty.

 11. Christmas Ban

A school in the UK has banned students as young as 4 from mentioning Christmas until December as the headmistress says it is too early and is distracting the pupils.

In Brief:

The United Nations atomic agency says it believes North Korea is testing its old Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

Joe Hockey will be asked to give a guarantee to stand behind Qantas’s debt.

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