We’ve rounded up all the top news from around Australia and overseas – so you don’t have to go searching.

1. Leadership spill imminent

After a week of speculation it looks likely that there will be a spill against the Prime Minister leading the way for Malcom Turnbull or Julie Bishop to take over.

PM in crisis

“The discussion that we need to have” is the way WA backbencher Dennis Jensen described the beginning of the spill he instigated by telling the ABC’s 7.30 last night he no longer had confidence in the Prime Minister.

MP Warren Entsch then declared publicly last night that Mr Abbott no longer had his support too.

Cabinet minister Mal Brough also entered the debate saying that he only had “qualified support” for Mr Abbott.

The ABC reports that there are a “large group” of other MPs who back the revolt.

For more read this post here.

2. Three-parent babies approved

The UK has voted to become the first country to allow the creation of babies from three people.

Approved three-parent babies.

Overnight British MP’s voted in favour of the bill meaning DNA from two women and one man can be used in IVF.

Many are not in favour of the technique saying it is a slippery slope to genetically engineered babies.

For more read this post here.

3. Peter Greste on route to Australia

Peter Greste has boarded a plane on route back to Australia as he makes his way to a much anticipated family reunion he once again expressed his concern for his colleagues who remain in prison in Egypt.

For more on Peter Greste read this post here.

4. IS releases video of Jordanian pilot burnt alive

Islamic State has released a horrific video appearing to show Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh being burned alive in a metal cage.

Muath Al-Kasaesbeh

Muath Al-Kasaesbeh was captured when his jet crashed in Syria during a bombing mission against Islamic State in December.

The latest video comes days after footage emerged of the murder of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

US President Barack Obama said that if the video is confirmed as genuine, it would “re-double the determination” of the global coalition to destroy IS.

A Jordanian military spokesman has said that the video was recorded on January 3 – a month ago.

5. Adam Giles to remain Northern Territory Chief Minister.

By ABC

An emergency meeting of Country Liberals parliamentary members has confirmed Adam Giles is still the Northern Territory’s Chief Minister, one day after Willem Westra van Holthe claimed to have overthrown him.

Mr van Holthe was appointed Mr Giles’s deputy.

The announcement capped a frenetic day in Northern Territory politics following Mr van Holthe’s revolt on Monday night.

On Tuesday, Mr Giles refused to resign after losing the party room’s support, and there was speculation he could have a no confidence motion passed against him, triggering an early election.

The Country Liberals party room met on Tuesday afternoon for three hours in an attempt to resolve the leadership question.

The ABC understands that during the meeting speaker Kezia Puric and front bencher Bess Price threatened to split from the party if Mr Giles did not stay on as Chief Minster.

“There are challenges,” Mr Giles told reporters at a press conference on the steps of Parliament House in Darwin.

“Let’s not beat about the bush.”

“The community will be saying some negative things about what happened in the last 18 hours. We’ll deal with that.

“You deal with it you nip it in the bud you turn up tomorrow morning and you go to work.”

He said Mr Westra van Holthe will keep his current portfolios and John Elferink, who had been named Mr Westra van Holthe’s deputy leader on Monday night, would retain his ministerial role.

Mr Giles said all Country Liberal Party MLAs were happy with the outcome of the meeting but he would not say how the decision had been made.

“A week is a long time in politics and in the Territory, 18 hours is a long time.”

A version of this story was originally published on ABC and has been republished with full permission.

 6. Surprise Rate cut

The Reserve Bank has cut interest rates for the first time since August 2013.

At least someone is happy in the Liberal party

The RBA lowered the 2.5% cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low of 2.25 %

“This is good news for Australian families and it’s good news for Australian business,” Mr Hockey told reporters in Canberra.

 7. Gable Tostee name change

News Limited reports that Gable Tostee has changed his name by deed poll to Eric Thomas.

He has also changed his occupation on his Facebook profile to “Witch” at “Witch Hunt”.

 8. Authorities warn of potentially large-scale measles outbreak in United States

By ABC

Authorities are warning of a potentially large-scale measles outbreak in the United States.

The number of cases has passed 100, many of them traced to an outbreak that began at Disneyland in December.

Large scale outbreak

Authorities are tracking thousands of people in New York who shared a train with an infected college student.

Doctors are critical of the number of children not being vaccinated.

US president Barack Obama has warned parents to protect their children.

“The science is pretty indisputable, we’ve looked at this again and again,” Mr Obama said.

“There is every reason to get vaccinated and there aren’t reasons to not.”

A daycare centre in California has been closed after a baby enrolled in the program was diagnosed with measles.

The child is under one year old and is therefore unvaccinated.

More than a dozen infants enrolled at the daycare centre at Santa Monica High School have been placed under quarantine for three weeks, a school district official said.

The California Department of Public Health said that 92 cases of measles had been confirmed in the state.

More than a dozen other cases have been confirmed in 13 other US states and in Mexico.

A version of this story was originally published on ABC and has been republished with full permission.

9. Clinton enters vaccination debate

Future potential) presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has entered the vaccination debate in the US just hours after the Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said that parents should be granted some element of control over what vaccinations their children get.

10. Women drugged and raped in fake study

Police in Japan have arrested a 54-year old man for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting more than 100 women.

The women thought they were a part of a medical study. AAP reports that women responded to adverts seeking volunteers for “clinical research measuring blood pressure during sleep” over two years up to November 2013.

The accused, Hideyuki Noguch took the women to hotels and gave them sedatives. He then raped them and filmed the attack.

Police say he sold the footage to producers of porn films making more than 10 million yen ($110,417.50).

 11. Harper Lee to publish a second novel.

The sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set to be released by publisher Harper Collins- the first new work of Harper Lee in more than 50 years.

“Go Set a Watchman,” is a sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel – but was written by Lee before she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Exciting news

The 304-page book will be Lee’s second, and the first new work in more than 50 years.

“In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called ‘Go Set a Watchman,'” the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement

“It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’) from the point of view of the young Scout.

“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”

Set in the fictional southern town of Maycomb during the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman sees Scout return from New York to visit her father, the lawyer Atticus Finch.

 12. Suspended from school for threatening to make friends disappear

As far as school discipline goes this is seriously over the top. A nine-year old boy has been suspended from school in the US for threatening his friends with magic.

New York Daily News reports that nine-year-old Aiden Steward from a Texas Elementary School told one of his classmates that he had the “one ring” and could make him disappear, just like in Lord of the Rings movies.

He will make you disappear

The boy was suspended for the threat.

His Dad said he had just showed Aiden the movie.

“It sounded unbelievable. [He] didn’t mean anything by it,” Mr. Steward said. “Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly.”

“I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence. If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”