Cheat sheet: Friday's news in 60 seconds.

Your speedy update on all the day’s stories, Friday, June 27 2014

1. Woman gives birth in the middle of heart surgery.

The Australian Women’s Weekly reported that a pregnant American woman gave birth during heart surgery. Edita Tracey, 35, was 8-months pregnant when she experience severe chest pain.

“The pain, it wasn’t sharp pain, it was just pressing,” Tracey said to Fox 29 News. At the hospital staff ran tests to find out the problem – which is when they realised that Tracey’s aorta had started to tear apart (the aorta pumps blood around the body).

As a result, Tracey was rushed to surgery with two teams working on her – one to fix her heart and the other to deliver the baby. The surgery lasted 9 hours to save both lives.

“When they put a mum under full-sleep anesthesia, that medication is now running towards the baby. So, I need to get to the baby as efficiently as possible,” High-risk obstetrician Dr. John Horton said to Fox 29.

Tracey’s husband Ken told media, “You think about the baby, this should be a joyous occasion. And now your mind goes right back, it goes right back to if she’s going to make it. The whole night was up and down.”

Both mother and baby survived the surgery. Doctors believe that the complication was due to a spike in Tracey’s blood pressure – known as eclmpisia.

2. Zoo kills bear and stuffs it to ‘teach kids a lesson’.

A Zoo in Switzerland is facing outrage from animal rights groups after it killed a healthy bear cub — and announced it plans to stuff and display it to teach children that “nature can be cruel.”

The baby brown bear, known only as Cub 4, was euthanised by the Dahlholzli Zoo in the Swiss city of Bern after his father mauled his sibling. The Zoo released images of the bear being put down.

Newspaper Berner Zeitungreported that the Zoo had received a flood of public comment after Cub 4 was killed.

A media release from the Zoo said that they considers it central to learning that animals are experienced in as natural a condition as possible, including contact with “animal materials” like hides, bones or fully stuffed creatures.

“An emotional experience takes priority, which brings nature closer to the children with all its facets — ‘nice’ or not — and makes them tangible,” the statement said.

3. Mother dies mysteriously two days after giving birth.

A UK family have been left devastated after a new mother has inexplicably been found dead in her hospital bed following a routine caesarean section birth.

The Oldham Chronicle reports that Lisa Parkisson gave birth on Saturday – but was found in a pool of blood in her hospital bed on Monday morning.

Her mother told The Mirror that Lisa had an emergency casearean and had complained of an excruciating headache during the birth. But hospital staff put it down to her high blood pressure and there was no indication that anything else was physically wrong.

“She was so, so happy, the happiest we had ever seen her with Zac in her arms. She was beaming,” Lisa’s mum Judith told The Manchester Evening News. “She was saying ‘just look at him, he’s perfect. I will have that memory of her for the rest of my life and that will be a comfort to us. “We want answers about what happened. She was a beautiful light, so funny, so warm, so kind and loved. And now that light has gone out,” Judith said.

Lisa’s partner Chris told the paper: “I loved Lisa so much and she loved me. I am numb about what’s happened…. We will always talk about her to Zac, he will know everything about his mum.”

Baby Zac is reportedly still at the hospital while the family deal with the tragedy, but is doing well.

Our thoughts are with Lisa’s family at this terrible time.

4. Jimmy Savile abuse claims.

Warning: This item contains descriptions of horrific abuse and may be distressing for some readers.

Macabre reports of UK entertainer Jimmy Savile interfering with corpses have emerged.

An investigation revealed claims that Savile, a hugely popular radio and TV personality who died in 2001, abused 60 people at the Leeds General Infirmary, Fairfax Media reports.

The claimed incidents, published in the investigation’s conclusion on Thursday, ranged from inappropriate touching to rape and involving victims from children to pensioners.

Investigators were also given “macabre accounts” of Savile “acting unacceptably” with dead bodies in the mortuary of the hospital.

In one case at a hospital in Leeds, where Savile worked for four decades as a volunteer porter and fundraiser, he fondled the breasts of a teenager through her hospital gown as she lay on a trolley following a lengthy medical procedure, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Savile also bragged about having jewellery that he had had made from glass eyes taken from the deceased, witnesses told investigators.

Savile had unrestricted access to the hospital through his work with its charity.

UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised to victims on behalf of the government for not protecting themfrom Savile.

“We let them down badly and however long ago it may have been, many of them are still reliving the pain they went through,” Mr Hunt said.

5. Second Action Plan to stop domestic violence launched.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has launched a $100 million Second Action Plan to stop domestic violence.

Mr Abbott said at the launch this morning there would be a “particular focus on stopping violence against in women, women from culturally diverse backgrounds and women with a disability” under the plan.

“This is where urgent action is needed and progress does need to be made,” he said.

The Federal Government is stepping work on a national domestic violence order (DVO) scheme under the plan, to strengthen the enforcement of the orders across the country.

The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women, Michaelia Cash, told ABC radio a national scheme will mean perpetrators will have nowhere in the country to hide.

“What we’re looking at doing is enhancing the protection for women who’ve experienced domestic violence in Australia and those women who then move to travel interstate,” Senator Cash said.

“We want to ensure that DVOs are recognised across jurisdictions. We’re going to now look formally at how we would implement it as Commonwealth, state and territory governments, so we can ultimately get to that position in Australia.

Senator Cash said the details of the plan are yet to be negotiated with the states and territories, and no timeframe had been set for the changes – although she was hopeful it would be in place within three years, the ABC reports.