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1. Police investigate links between SA skeleton and William Tyrrell.

Police are looking into whether the remains of a child found along a highway in South Australia could belong to missing NSW boy William Tyrrell.

Police say the remains do not appear to match the age of any missing children in SA, so police are expanding the investigation interstate.

Detective Superintendent Des Bray said William Tyrrell was one of many missing children being explored in relation to the case.

Superintendent said the victim whose remains were found would have been aged between two and seven at the time of death, but the gender and identity have not yet been confirmed.

He also said the child had died elsewhere, and is believed to have been brought to the area near the Karoonda highway in a suitcase between four and six weeks ago.

Related: A wish for William Tyrrell on his fourth birthday.

A motorist discovered the remains on Tuesday morning, only a couple of metres from the highway.

Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

“With hindsight, people who reflect on people who live near them, who perhaps are related to them, or acquaintances, if they reflect on their circumstances they might remember somebody who, with the benefit of hindsight, who has had a child disappear in what they may now think are suspicious circumstances,” Detective Superintendent Bray said.

“Those people should call CrimeStoppers straight away.”

Anyone with information is urged to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.

2.  Tech company offers breast milk delivery service.

Computer company IBM is offering new mothers in its workplace a breast milk delivery service.

From September, IBM employees and mothers travelling for work in the US will be able to pump the milk and have it collected and expressly delivered to their infant back home, Fortune reports.

The move echoes policies instituted by other tech companies in a push to retain female employees.

Last year, Google and Facebook announced they would offer its female employees the chance to freeze their eggs.

3. Man charged after leaving child in car.

A 35-year-old Sydney man has been charged after he was found to have left a child in his car while he attended a job interview.

The man allegedly left his two-year-old child in the car in a parking lot in Sydney’s north west around 10.45am on Wednesday, Sydney Morning Herald reports.

A pedestrian noticed the child and contacted police, who took the boy out of the vehicle.

Police intercepted the father when he returned to his car at 11.45am, and took him to Castle Hill police station.

The man’s charges of leaving a child in a vehicle and causing emotional distress carries a possible fine of up to $22,000.

4. Professional beggars are earning up to $400 a day in Australian cities.

A cohort of “professional beggars” are earning hundreds of dollars a day in Melbourne CBD, according to the Salvation Army.

The survey found some beggars are “organised” and not homeless, ABC News reports. Some even targeted and intimidated women and tourists as a tactic.

However, of the 135 beggars interviewed by the Salvation Army, only nine were found to be professional.

“We had one person indicate to us that he was raising in the vicinity of $300 to $400 a day or an evening and he was doing that on a regular basis,” Major Brendan Nottle from the Salvation Army said. “That was about six days a week, and so he saw that as a very profitable way of earning income.”

5. Flight attendant receives payout after being sexually assaulted on airline.

A former flight attendant has successfully pursued a compensation claim after she was groped and harassed by passengers, according to Mail Online.

Lauren Paris Michelle Curtin worked for Perth-based airline Skippers Aviation said she was inappropriately touched, and had food thrown at her while on the job in 2009.

She was subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after it was revealed she started throwing up on flights following her seven month stint as an air hostess.

Today the District Court of Western Australia rejected Skippers Aviation’s appeal and found Ms Curtin successful in her claim.

The value of her payout was not publicised.

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