Cheat sheet: Tuesday's news in 60 seconds.

Your speedy update on all the day’s stories, Tuesday, July 8 2014

1. Three-year-old boy stabbed to death in Adelaide.

The father of a three-year-old boy is in police custody after a little boy was fatally stabbed in Adelaide.

Police say the boy suffered numerous stab wounds and died from his injuries despite frantic efforts by ambulance workers and medical staff at Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

The boy’s mother had reportedly called police at about 8:25am to say her son had been taken by his father from their suburban family home, and that she had concerns for the boy’s welfare.

Police say the boy was allegedly stabbed at a house in Stepney, then driven to Athelstone where the father flagged emergency services down, saying he’d injured his son.

A 36-year-old Stepney man has been detained by police, News.com.au report.

The man has been taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital, and detectives haven’t spoken to him yet.

2. A father’s desperate plea: Where is my daughter?

The High Court yesterday granted a temporary injunction to halt the transfer of 153 asylum seekers, including 37 children, to Sri Lanka.

The Tamil Refugee Council reported that a father of one of the children is pleading with Immigration Minister Scott Morrison for information. The man, who has requested to be not named out of fear, asked Morrison to protect his 3-year-old daughter Febrina.

He said, "I am desperate to know where my family is. I can’t function at all not knowing. I know all of them would be in very big trouble if sent back to Sri Lanka. I want to plead with the Australian minister to stop our pain and let us know what he has done with all the kids and families on the boat. I ask him to be kind to these people. They are all very frightened. They cannot be sent back to Sri Lanka. Many of them will be tortured again and even killed. I cannot understand why a country like Australia would send people back to Sri Lanka, knowing they have been tortured there. Why would they do it?"

There is no word from the boat since June 28.

3. Verdict close on the Baden-Clay trial.

The trial of Gerard Baden-Clay is almost over. Tomorrow the jury will retire to consider whether Clay is guilty of murdering his wife Allison on April 19, 2012.

Yesterday, Defence counsel Michael Byrne QC posed a number of ‘what-ifs’, asking the jury to consider whether Allison Baden-Clay could have drowned, fallen or jumped from a bridge to her death. He added Baden-Clay had no motive to kill his wife, and reminded the jury that the defence’s expert psychiatric witness said there was a “high chance” Mrs Baden-Clay was relapsing in her depressing illness at the time of her death.

Crown Prosecutor Todd Fuller gave his closing address today and told the jury that dumping Ms Baden-Clay's body in an area that exposed her to the elements interfered with the evidence of her killer. Fuller also argued that Ms Baden-Clay was mentally stable and did not overdose on her medication.

4. Childcare centres aren't "needed" after 6:30pm.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that round-the-clock childcare is not needed according to a nationwide survey.

Less than 1% of childcare centres are open past 6:30pm, despite a call from PM Tony Abbott for childcare centres to provide greater flexibility for our 24/7 economy.

Samantha Page, head of Early Childhood Australia, said that parents aren't willing to pay for the extra staff costs associated with longer hours.

5. One pill for 16 years - the new contraception.

According to the Gates Foundation, this pill would be better than the current system due to women needing to take the pill at the same time every day to be effective or contraceptive implants that need to be replaced every 3 years.

The aim is to have the product on the market in 2018.

6. There is a new superhero in town.

Christchurch New Zealand has their very own real life superhero - Flat Man. After the earthquakes that devastated the city, Flat Man decided to provide food packages to those who needed them most. He now visits schools with the aim to inspire kids to be their own superhero.

Two people made a documentary about Flat Man that the Guardian and The Today Show have taken up.