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1. 58-year old man pleads guilty to raping schoolgirl in brazen daylight attack.

Warning: This item deals with rape and may be distressing for some readers.

A 58-year-old man who filmed schoolgirls secretly from his home in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwoood has pleaded guilty to raping a teenager and taunted her throughout the ordeal.

Christopher Bahen, a former factory worker and cleaner, had been drinking up to 16 litres of wine a week and watched schoolgirl porn regularly before the September attack last year reports News Limited.

CCTV footage from a nearby property tendered in court showed Bahen chased his victim armed with a knife.

He tackled her to the ground, threatened to kill her and raped her at knifepoint in front of startled witnesses in broad daylight.

In a victim impact statement read to the County Court his 17-year-old victim said she was afraid for her life.

“I felt like my life was going to end,” she said.

“I didn’t believe what was happening. I was terrified. I was afraid for my life. (I) seriously thought I was going to die.”

Bahen, pleaded guilty to a single count of rape.

The court heard he was a virgin who had never had an intimate relationship, and lived with his parents until his mother died in 2005.

“I got very drunk. I’m ashamed of what I did. I know it was very bad,” he said.

“I attacked a young woman. Its illegal … abhorrent.

“I deserve to be (in prison). You can’t do what I did and expect to get off scot free.”

His sentencing continues.

2. Prosecutor: Germanwings co-pilot feared he was going blind.

French prosecutors have said that the co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps feared that he was losing his eyesight, and some of the many doctors he consulted felt he was unfit to fly.

Speaking overnight, Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin told reporters in Paris that doctors didn’t report their concerns to Andreas Lubitz’s employers, however, because of German patient privacy laws.

Mr Robin said the investigation so far “has enabled us to confirm without a shadow of a doubt … Mr. Andreas Lubitz deliberately destroyed the plane and deliberately killed 150 people, including himself.”

Mr Robin couldn’t confirm whether Lubitz’s vision troubles were real or imagined reports TV2.

Mr Robin met with families of victims yesterday and updated the media on the investigation into the March 24 crash, which killed all 150 people aboard.

3. Former NRL player Ben Ross breaks arm live on TV.

He didn’t break a leg when he appeared on live TV but he did break an arm.

Former NRL player Ben Ross has broken his arm during a live arm wrestle with former NRL star Wendell Sailor.

Appearing on the Nine Network’s Footy Show last night Ross’s right arm is heard to audibly pop and scream out in pain before the hosts went to the break to call an ambulance.

Ouch!

Ross was rushed off to hospital and it was confirmed later he had broken the humerus in his right arm.

A shocked Wendall Sailor tweeted his apology to Ross later in the evening.

4. Bus driver sacked after special needs student left on a bus for 5 hours.

The driver of a bus that transports special needs students to school has been sacked after a 17-year old student was left on a locked school bus for more than five hours last week.

The Melbourne bus company, Crown Coaches, sacked both the driver and a supervisor after the incident.

The 17-year-old fell asleep on his way to school and was left inside the bus at their depot just after 9am.

The student was not discovered until the driver got on the bus for the return trip at about 2.30pm to pick the students up from school.

Principal of the school, Bulleen Heights Susan Merjan said the school “deeply regrets” the incident and has put in new measures to ensure it does not happen again.

5. Baby abandoned at Melbourne Tram Stop.

A 31-year-old man from Caulfield South, in Melbourne, has been charged with recklessly endangering life after witnesses allege he left a baby at a tram stop on in Glen Huntly after 10pm on Wednesday night

The man will appear in court again on September 10.

6. Baby blues begin before pregnancy.

A study in The Lancet has shown that nine in 10 women with the “baby blues” had similar mental health problems long before becoming pregnant.

Researchers from the The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute say the study challenges the common belief that symptoms of depression during or after pregnancy are due to hormonal changes.

The study looked at 1000 women, aged between 14 and 29, for the presence of mental health problems on nine occasions over a 14- to 20-year period before conception.

Pregnant women were then assessed in their 32nd week of pregnancy, eight weeks after birth and at the time of the child’s first birthday.

AAP reports that the study, published in The Lancet, found that 85 per cent of the women who suffered perinatal depression had a history of mental health symptoms before they conceived.

“Women who suffered from problems with depression and anxiety in adolescence through to young adulthood have a greater than one in three chance of having high levels of perinatal depressive symptoms,” the authors said.

“For the great majority, perinatal depressive symptoms are best considered as a continuation or recurrence of problems beginning well before pregnancy.”

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7. Rupert Murdoch’s son to take over at 20th Century Fox.

Rupert Murdoch is to step down as the CEO of 20th Century Fox and hand control over to his son reports CNBC before the end of the year.

James Murdoch, 42, would be assisted by his older brother Lachlan, 43, in what sources told CNBC would be a partnership atop the company.

A source says “James will have the primary role in running Fox while Lachlan will take on a broader strategic role from his co-chairman position.”

20th Century Fox have confirmed that succession will be on the agenda at the next board meeting.

Fairfax Media reports that Mr Murdoch will remain at the company as executive chairman while Lachlan will moving from Australia to Los Angeles to become co-executive chairman.

8. Lord of the Rings legend Sir Christopher Lee dies.

Sir Christopher Lee, one of the best known British actors whose career as a film villain stretched from Dracula horror to the Lord of the Rings, has died in a London hospital after suffering respiratory problems at the age of 93.

Best known, recently for his role as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy his career spans nearly 70 years including playing Scaramanga in James Bond and the evil Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Tim Burton, the director described him as “a true legend”.

“Christopher has been an enormous inspiration to me my entire life. I had the honour and pleasure to work with him on five films (Sleepy Hollow, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows),” he said.

9. Man dies after car key battery fails.

A man and his pet dog have died in the US after becoming locked in his car.

Texas grandfather James Rogers, 72, died of heat exhaustion alongside his dog Leia when the battery failed in his Corvette and the car failed to open.

KTLA reports that he had been to a waffle restaurant and when he returned to his car found himself locked in, unable to operate the horn, windows or door locks.

A low battery can cause the locks to seize up.

There is a manual release on the driver’s side that allows occupants to bypass the battery, according to owners’ manuals but Mr Rogers was unaware of the release.

The man had left his phone in the restaurant so was unable to call for help as he struggled to get out for four hours.

When employees of the restaurant spotted him firefighters were called but Mr Rogers and the dog were already dead.

Police said that as the door locks in his 2007 Chevy Corvette are completely electric it appeared the battery cable came loose while the pair was inside the car. With no power, the doors would not unlock.

10 Schools dropping winners and losers in favour of everyone-get a-ribbon.

There are fears that a generation of children will grow up unable to cope with disappointment after being brought up with no expectations of winners or losers.

News Limited reports that a number of football codes and schools are now playing scoreless games with no grand finals, no winners, no losers.

One NSW primary school has even stopped giving ribbons at sports carnivals – instead every child receives one who participates.

News Limited reports that Northbridge Public gives all pupils from Kindy to Year 2 participation ribbons instead of first, second and third. While many other schools now award for all places up to eight in races.

Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg told The Daily Telegraph the current culture was ‘harming’ kids.

“Where is the incentive to achieve and get better when you take away the ability to win and lose, you are taking away the capacity to develop resilience and the ability to overcome, face and be strengthened by adversity,” he said.

“I think we run the risk of raising a ‘marshmallow’ generation and doing them no favours — we are condemning them to an adulthood characterised by anxiety and fear.

“No one gets a ‘participation degree’ at uni — you have to put your head down and earn it.”

 11. Airlines to shrink the size of luggage.

The world’s major airlines could soon be changing their requirements for carry-on luggage.

Working with airlines and aircraft manufacturers including Boeing and Airbus, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), a trade association, unveiled a new best-size guideline of about 55 cm tall by 34 cm wide by 19 cm deep.

This is slightly bigger than the 48cm x 34cm x 23cm size Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia allow on domestic Australian flights but smaller than the 56cm x36cm x 23cm maximum size Qantas and Virgin allow on international flights.

Eight major international airlines have already decided to adopt the new rules: Air China, Avianca, Azul, Cathay Pacific, China Southern, Emirates, Lufthansa and Qatar. “We’ll certainly be announcing more big carriers,” said Chris Goater, a spokesman for the transport association.

Bonanza time for baggage manufacturers.

12. Princess Charlotte sleeps through the night says Grandpa.

It could be because she is a Princess or it could be the boasting of a proud Gramps but one-month old Princess Charlotte sure is the envy of mothers groups throughout the world today with news she sleep through the night.

Proud Grandpa, Prince Charles, told guests at a Clarence House tea party he hosted with the Duchess of Cornwall for pilots and aircrew who fought in the Second World War that Princess Charlotte already sleeps through the night and it was much easier on mum second time round.

Don’t speak too soon Charles she is only one month old.

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