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1. Police have “several suspects” for murder of mother and daughter.

Nine News reports that police have “several suspects” in the investigation into the double murder of Khandalyce Kiara Pearce and Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson.

The mother and daughter went missing from Alice Springs in 2006 and the body of Khandalyce was found this year in a suitcase dumped on the side of a highway in South Australia.

Yesterday police announced a “significant development” in the investigation into the identity of that body occurred when a call came through on October 8 to Crime Stoppers, the 1267th call  “nominated Khandalyce as possibly being the little girl in the suitcase”.

“Investigators then located a witness who had seen Khandalyce and her mother at Marion Shopping Centre, Adelaide, in November 2008,” police said.

The mother of Karlie had reported her missing in 2009, but mysteriously withdrew the report five days later after being reassured her daughter was okay.

It has been confirmed that Karlie’s body was dumped 1100 km away from her daughter in Belangalo State Forest in NSW. It had been found as a “Jane Doe” in 2010.

For the latest developments read this post here.

2. Café bans “feral” children saying they no longer welcome children and parents who display “deplorable manners.”

A Sydney café on the North Shore have banned  ‘feral’ children from the venue due to their “disgusting” and “deplorable” behaviour.

Black Mocha Café in Turramurra have announced they have removed their playroom- set up for young children – after  they became appalled by rowdy, disruptive children who disturb other patrons.

“Black Mocha Café no longer offers a ‘kids playroom.’… Our café was designed with families in mind unfortunately so we have had to make a decision that is heartbreaking for both sides,” the owners of the café announced on Facebook.

Last year a newspaper review of the café called it a “paradise for parents” with its playroom allowing parents a break from their children.

The owners of the café have told The Daily Telegraph that the decision was heartbreaking but the situation became so dire they had to ask themselves: ‘do we want to keep the children or do we want to keep the café?’

The owners Mr and Mrs Osterberg say parents sit in the café for three hours after buying just one coffee, allowing their children to “break toys, draw on the worlds, and run and screech unsupervised around the café.”

Their decision has drawn praise from many on social media.

One man writing: “I find it totally incomprehensible how parents would act like this or let their children act like this. Surely these parents should show some form of responsibility for their children. Very much the “me” generation in these cases. “

3. Calls for the mother of a rape victim to be allowed to travel to her daughter’s side.

Warning: this item deals with sexual assault and may be distressing for some readers.

The 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Nazanin was allegedly raped in May this year. The ABC reports that Nauruan police do not dispute that Nazanin was sexually assaulted.

She was taken to Brisbane after her health deteriorated.

Her brother and mother told Lateline that the Federal Government needs to reunite them.

“As a mother, I cannot tolerate the suffering of my child. I don’t want to live,” she said.

She and Omid, Nazanin‘s brother are able to occasionally call the young woman who remains in care in a Brisbane hospital.

“She is a young girl being alone in hospital, she is scared and just always crying whenever we have a phone call,” Omid said.

“My mother, my sister, they are dying gradually, they are dying and we are really alone here.

The ABC reports that both Omid and his mother have attempted suicide due to their distress.

“All the doctors and trauma specialists and the psychologists, all of them are saying that the most important part of my sister’s medical recovery is she needs her mother, she needs her family to be beside her.”

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection told Lateline “The individual concerned has been receiving appropriate medical and mental health support and care,” it said.

“The Department takes allegations of sexual assault and criminal conduct very seriously and immediately refers them to the appropriate authorities for investigation.”

“The Department reviews all requests for family reunification on a case by case basis.”

For help: Lifeline 13 11 14. Kid’s Helpline: 1800 55 1800. DV and Sexual Abuse hotline 27/4: 1800 737 732

4. QLD hospital investigates the death of second child in a month after lack of beds.

The QLD Health Minister Cameron Dick has launched an investigation into the death of a boy who was waiting for emergency lung surgery at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital last month.

The 12-week-old boy was scheduled for life-saving surgery at the hospital in August but because of a bed shortage, was forced to wait for a transfer from Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. The child died on September 17.

His death comes just weeks after a 15-week-old baby from Maryborough requiring brain surgery died after the Mater Mother’s Hospital could not find her a required bed.

“She needs this surgery I can’t stand to see (her) weak and struggle any longer,” her mother wrote on social media, reports The Courier Mail.

“LCCH had (a bed) we got told then suddenly (we) don’t … I want to be a step closer for her to come home and meet her family.”

The baby girl was booked in for emergency surgery but was discharged and sent home the following day where she died soon after.

5. Disgraced NRL player Matthew Lodge faces New York court.

A judge has order the sacked NRL player to stay away from the women he allegedly stalked.

The court also issued “orders of protection” for two other victims, the man who came to the women’s assistance during Lodge’s alleged rampage, Joseph Cartwright and his wife.

The 20-year-old is accused of following the two women home to a unit block and telling them “this is the night that you die”.

He faces up to 25 years in jail for a string of offences, which include assault, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and first and second-degree burglary.

Fairfax Media reports that Lodge’s father assisted in the payment of $US20,000 ($A27,500) bail.

6. Children with severe drug-resistant epilepsy will be the first in Queensland to be treated with medicinal cannabis.

A trial at Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital next year will allow children with severe drug-resistant epilepsy to be treated with medicinal cannabis.

Health Minister Cameron Dick said yesterday in a letter tabled to parliament “[It is] an opportunity to show medicinal cannabis can be a safe and effective addition to existing treatments,” he wrote in the letter.

“As more information becomes available, I will be better placed to consider what is in the best interests of all Queenslanders, including the need for legislative change.”

7. Fertility treatment breakthrough.

Australian researchers have made a world first fertility breakthrough giving older aspiring mothers “good eggs.”

News Limited reports that a team from the University of Adelaide’s found haemoglobin was present in “good eggs” but missing from bad quality or “broken” eggs.

“The haemoglobin inside the eggs made them more efficient and looks like it alters the way the egg uses energy and the amount (it) needs to use,” Dr Brown said.

Australian law does not permit trials on humans reports News Limited but they have begun in Belgium, where it is not against the law for women to donate eggs for scientific purposes.

On trials on mice the researchers added the haemoglobin to bad eggs and then fertilised those eggs (via IVF). “We got more healthy embryos”, Dr Brown said. “We improved the quality of the eggs.”

“We know fertility starts declining at 32, and between 37 and 42 your eggs are in dramatic decline — and the ones you have left are of poor quality. Potentially this offers … an opportunity that might not exist now,” Dr Brown said.

“Prevention is better than cure … while we can attempt to repair a broken egg, we can’t replace them if you run out.”

8. Joe Biden will not run for presidential nomination.

Accompanied by President Barack Obama at the White House, he said that he came to the decision with his family as they “worked through” the grieving process following his son Beau’s death.

He said the grieving process “closed the window” of mounting a campaign and they are “out of time”.

“My family has suffered loss and sooner rather than later, when you think of your loved one, it brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. That’s where the Bidens are today, thank God,” he said.

His announcement ends months of suspense and removes a huge political obstacle for front-runner Hillary Clinton.

9. Hungarian journalist sacked for kicking refugees wants to sue one of them.

Petra László apologised last month, saying “something snapped in me” when she was caught on film tripping up the man, and kicking two refugee children while working on the Hungarian border.

However, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, she has said she plans to take legal action against Facebook for allegedly refusing to remove threatening groups on the site and deleting groups that supported her.

My husband wants to prove my innocence.

‘For him, it is now a matter of honour,’ added Laszlo.

10. Men feel threatened by intelligent women.

A study has found that while men say they like smart women – they are threatened by them.

A study to be published in the November edition of ‘Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin’ says that rather than find smarter women attractive, men are actively intimidated by the prospect of an intelligent partner.

They found that the men were more likely to declare their attraction to women who had performed better than them. “Men formed favorable impressions and showed greater interest in women who displayed more (versus less) intelligence than themselves,” the study authors wrote.

However when men were given an intelligence test and then informed that they were about to actually meet a woman who had performed better than them the men “distanced themselves more from her, tended to rate her as less attractive, and showed less desire to exchange contact information or plan a date with her.”

The key, according to the study, is that in the second scenario, the men felt threatened by the physical presence of a clever woman: “Feelings of diminished masculinity accounted for men’s decreased attraction toward women who outperformed them in the live interaction context.”

11. Help! The world is running out of Lego.

It’s a crisis of never before seen proportions – well if you are the parent of an eight-year old boy. The world is running out of Lego – right before Christmas.

The Telegraph reports that the company who make Lego have announced they cannot keep up with worldwide demand.

“It is really extraordinary and it has exceeded both ours and our customers’ forecasts,” spokesman Roar Trangbaek said.

He tried to reassure Lego enthusiasts “”We are running our factories at maximum capacity and will do everything we can to meet demand,”

The Telegraph reports that the company is building a new factory in Jiaxing in China, 100 kilometres from Shanghai, which is expected to be up and running in 2017.

Not soon enough Lego bosses. Not soon enough.

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