Your speedy update on all the day’s big stories: Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Rolling Stones cancel Australian shows
The Rolling Stones have officially cancelled their first Australian concert in Perth. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are set to return to New York after Jagger’s girlfriend, L’Wren Scott, tragically died this morning of an alleged suicide. Frontier Touring Company released a statement this afternoon saying that “The Rolling Stones concert in Perth will not be going ahead as scheduled….ticket holders are asked to hold on to their tickets until a further update is available.” The fashion designer and former model was found dead in her Manhattan apartment at around 1 am. Jagger was shocked by the news and will return to the US after spending just two days in Perth, where the band were supposed to perform as the start of their tour of Australia. Jagger’s daughter, 22-year-old Georgia May, arrived in Sydney this morning, ready to walk the runway for Camilla Franks, but is now preparing to return to New York.
Reeva Steenkamp’s mum flees the courtroom
Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has run out of a South African courtroom on day eleven of Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial. June
Vaccination skeptics stripped of charity status
The Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network have had their charity registration taken
Campaign for mum diagnosed with cancer as she gave birth
Jenna Hinman, 26, is seriously ill in hospital after being diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer a few minutes after she gave birth to her twin daughters. Hinman was hospitalised on March 3 when she started to find it hard to breathe. At 30 weeks
Courtney Love has found Flight MH370
Singer Courtney Love, 49, took to Twitter and Facebook yesterday sharing an image (below) that she's doctored to point out what she believes to be the missing Malaysia Airlines flight wreckage and oil slicks in the ocean. The ocean area Love shows in the image is close the Pulau Perak, a Malaysian island. She captioned the image: "I'm no expert but this does look like a plane and an oil slick. It's like a mile away [from] Pulau Perak, where they last tracked it...but what do I know?"