Tuesday's news in 5 minutes.

1. A dad has been killed in front of his two children while buying them a puppy.

Father murdered in front of kids while buying puppy from Facebook ad. https://t.co/LZKvoxf1Jv pic.twitter.com/38Jj0BDKjL

— NBC4 Columbus (@nbc4i) June 12, 2017

A Florida man was murdered in his own home while trying to buy a puppy for his children, aged 4 and 8, according to NBC 4.

Scott Bowman responded to a Facebook advertisement last Wednesday from a man claiming he was looking for a new home for his dog. The man insisted that he deliver the puppy directly to Scott’s home.

When Scott invited him in, the man seemed “drunk and volatile”. The two men started arguing, which turned physical when the man refused to leave the home, where Scott’s two young children and fiancée were at the time.

Scott’s fiancée Chelsea Bowman said her daughter witnessed the man hold a gun to Scott’s head, who was able to turn the gun on the stranger and shoot him in the arm.

The man then shot and killed Scott in front of his family.

“[My daughter] was going ‘You shot my dad! You shot my dad!'” Chelsea told Action News Jax.

“I said ‘Run! Go get help’. I said ‘Baby, baby, please,’ trying to wake him up.”

The man is yet to be arrested following Scott’s death.

“I’ve lost everything,” Chelsea said.

“I want to know why this guy is not behind bars. Why he’s still allowed on the streets.

“He’s a homicidal maniac. It was a brutal, cold-blooded murder in front of my children and my self.”

Scott’s two children ran to neighbours screaming for help after their father was shot.

“They were just terrified and just kept repeating, ‘My dad, there’s blood everywhere’,” neighbour Julie Wood said.

2. Parents of murdered Brisbane toddler told police ‘multiple stories’ to explain her horrific injuries.

Cops allege father of Maddilyn-Rose Stokes changed his story after toddler’s death https://t.co/aInCrTEnFv pic.twitter.com/veBpyE1jED

— The Courier-Mail (@couriermail) June 6, 2017

The father of a Brisbane toddler, who died from untreated burns, gave police multiple stories about the cause of his daughter’s injuries, at one point implying her older sister played a role, court documents show.

Shane David Stokes, 30, and Nicole Betty Moore, 23, are charged with torturing and murdering two-year-old Maddilyn-Rose Stokes.

She died in hospital on May 25 after paramedics found her unconscious at her family’s Northgate townhouse, several days after she was burnt. Court and police documents have shown Stokes made varying statements to police about how his daughter was hurt, AAP reports.

He initially said Maddilyn was standing in the bath with both hot and cold water taps running and the plug out when he left the room to go to the toilet on May 22.

Stokes stated she started screaming 30 seconds later but he didn’t return until three to five minutes after, finding her sitting under the hot water while her five-year-old sister stood beside the bath.

Rather than seek medical help, the couple researched burns online and treated their daughter with aloe vera gel and bandages.

Three days later they phoned emergency services after the toddler stopped breathing. She was taken to Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital where she died that night.

A hospital pediatrician, burns specialist and forensic pathologist found her injuries were not consistent with Stokes’ story.

“Further, the injuries are consistent with Maddilyn being held in a standing position under water in excess of 60 degrees celsius for a period in excess of 30 seconds,” court documents said, adding she would have survived had her parents earlier sought medical help.

Moore also gave differing statements, initially telling police she’d heard Maddilyn scream and ran upstairs to find Stokes holding her out of the bath water.

She later said she’d gone upstairs to find Stokes in the children’s bedroom after he called her name.

Mobile phone records showed the pair had researched burns treatments on May 20, two days before the date Stokes told police his daughter was injured.

Stokes and Moore later admitted they’d lied about when the burns had occurred, fearing they’d get into trouble.

Stokes said he’d washed Maddilyn in the bath on May 20, a version that was consistent with her injuries but which he later retracted.

During a brief hearing in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday , Magistrate Jason Schubert authorised an order allowing officials to examine Moore for signs of burning or scalding that would either support or discount statements made to police.

3. A Facebook post has cost a man his life in Pakistan, after he was handed a death sentence for blasphemy.

Pakistan man handed death sentence for online blasphemy https://t.co/qrmu3OgylK pic.twitter.com/WoUfLpEbmh

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 12, 2017

A man has been handed the death penalty after he allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook in the first case to involve social media in Pakistan, Al Jazeera reports.

Thirty-year-old Taimoor Raza was convicted of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, a capital crime punishable by death in the Muslim-majority country. It’s believed the man made derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad, his wives and companions.

The man was arrested as pat of a crackdown against blasphemy on social media by the country’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. He was arrested after he played blasphemous and hate speech material on his phone at a bus stop, leading authorities to confiscate his phone.

The material found on his phone led to his conviction.

“An anti-terrorism court…has awarded him the death sentence. It’s the first ever death-sentence in a case that involves social media,” public prosecutor Shafiq Qureshi told Reuters.

According to Al Jazeera Italy, at least 71 people have been murdered in Pakistan in connection with blasphemy allegations since 1990.

4. A study has revealed that nearly a third of the world is overweight.

Almost 30% of people in the world are obese or overweight https://t.co/Yr6ZHYVUIv

— TIME (@TIME) June 12, 2017

Nearly a third of the world’s population is obese or overweight and an increasing number of people are dying of related health problems in a “disturbing global public health crisis”, a new study says.

Some four million people died of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other ailments linked to excess weight in 2015, bringing death rates related to being overweight up 28 per cent on 1990, according to the research released on Monday.

“People who shrug off weight gain do so at their own risk,” said Christopher Murray, one of the authors of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, AAP reports.

In 2015, excess weight affected 2.2 billion people equal to 30 per cent of the world’s population, according to the study.

Almost 108 million children and more than 600 million adults weighed in as obese, having a body mass index (BMI) above 30, said the research that covered 195 countries.

More than 60 per cent of fatalities occurred among this group, the study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington found.

BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by their height in metres squared, and is an indication of whether a person is a healthy weight.

A BMI score over 25 is overweight, over 30 is obese and over 40 is morbidly obese.

According to the World Health Organisation, obesity has more than doubled since 1980, reaching epidemic proportions.

Obesity rates among children were increasing faster than among adults in many countries, including Algeria, Turkey, and Jordan, the study said.

5. Australia Zoo set to debut the first of 13 koala joeys to the public today.

Australia Zoo hopes animal lovers will go nuts for its latest addition – a koala joey named Macadamia. #9News https://t.co/DbZsrJlJM5

— Nine News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) June 12, 2017

Australia Zoo hopes animal lovers will go nuts for its latest addition – a koala joey named Macadamia.

The infant male was the first joey of the season and is set to make his public debut on Tuesday after spending his first months in his mother Willow’s pouch.

When he was born, Macadamia would have been about the size of a kidney bean before opening his eyes at 22 weeks, AAP reports.

The wide-eyed grey bundle is now out of his mother’s pouch and clambering up her hide.

He should be fully independent about his first birthday.

After Macadamia, Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast has welcomed 12 other joeys this season.

6. Trump’s ‘travel ban’ faces another blow from a second US appeals court.

Another US appeals court keeps Trump’s travel ban blocked >> https://t.co/HQizjPcaSa pic.twitter.com/EQH1nnAWzl

— KEPR Action News (@keprtv) June 12, 2017

A second US appeals court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority countries, largely upholding a lower court’s decision.

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was reviewed a March ruling by a Hawaii-based federal judge that blocked parts of Trump’s order. The ruling came after a separate court, the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, on May 25 upheld a Maryland judge’s ruling blocking parts of the order.

The Trump administration on June 1 asked the US Supreme Court to block the Hawaii and Richmond rulings and revive the ban.

Hawaii federal Judge Derrick Watson blocked a March 6 executive order barring travellers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days while the government put in place stricter visa screening. Watson also blocked a directive that suspended entry of refugee applicants for 120 days, as well as other instructions for the government to study tougher vetting procedures.

The 9th Circuit on Monday upheld the block on Trump’s travel ban and a cap on refugees, AAP reports.

However, the appeals court vacated part of the injunction in order to allow the government to conduct internal reviews on vetting.

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