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

1. South Australian family of five die in car crash in India.

A South Australian mother, her three children and her sister have died in a horrific car accident in India on the weekend.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed that Anamika Dutta, 45, her daughters Neetika and Pipasa, aged 12 and 15, and her sister Sonia, 25, died at the scene.

Dutta’s son, Tirvijai, 20, died in hospital a short time later.

The family were reportedly on their way to a picnic when one of the wheels of the car blew out and it careened out of control on Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh.

Anamika’s husband Rupendra Dutta and her father N K Paliwal survived the crash and are still in the hospital.

Rupendra Dutta runs a restaurant in Adelaide.

2. 33-year-old charged with murder of baby girl.

A Sydney painter from Liverpool will appear in court today charged with the murder of his baby daughter.

The man had originally been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, causing grievous bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm after the eight-week-old died following an alleged assault in November.

On the morning of the incident police were called to the apartment in Liverpool, where they found the little girl unconscious and suffering from severe injuries to her head and body, after being rushed to hospital she was placed on life support but died four days later.

Yesterday he was charged with her murder.

3. Tributes to David Bowie.

As the world adjusts to the news that David Bowie, 69, has died after an 18-month battle with cancer  fans have expressed their sorrow throughout the world. In New York a floral tribute to him has begun to build up outside his Manhattan apartment and a second tribute at his childhood home in the UK.

A street party has begun around the corner from where Bowie was born with hundreds singing and dancing tributes to the star.

Around the world fans have expressed their sadness at his passing and their gratitude for his life.

Meanwhile there is speculation about the meaning of David Bowie’s final album, released just days before his death to coincide with his 69th birthday, which has been described as the rock icon’s “parting gift”.

Producer Tony Visconti described Blackstar as Bowie’s “parting gift”.

“He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn’t, however, prepared for it,” Visconti posted on Facebook.

4. Oscar Pistorius appeals against murder conviction.

Oscar Pistorius is to seek an appeal against his conviction for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

His manslaughter verdict was overturned last month and a murder verdict introduced in its place.

Overnight the athlete’s defence lodged papers at the Constitutional Court, urging a review of his murder conviction.

He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.

5. Family of one-punch victim disappointed that alleged attacker freed on bail.

The family of Melissa Abdoo, the Mount Isa bar manager hospitalised after a one-punch assault outside her workplace on Saturday night, have expressed their horror that her alleged attacker was freed on bail.

Yesterday electrician Boy Allan Page appeared in Mount Isa Magistrates Court charged with causing grievous bodily harm while adversely affected in a public place.

Magistrate Stephen Guttridge released him on bail subject to multiple conditions including that he must not consume alcohol nor contact the victim or visit any licensed premises.

Melissa Abdoo’s partner Jason Weckert told said he was disappointed by the decision.

“I’m sick in the gut, for them not to pull through and do what they said — it’s one punch — that’s what it should be classed as, it is just cowardly,’’ he told Nine News.

“They’re not doing the law, this ain’t the law.

“It’s crap.

“The community will sort it out.”

6. Couple charged after severely malnourished girl found in home.

Police have removed a severely malnourished four-year-old girl from her parents care after she was found emaciated in their home in Nowra in NSW.

The four-year-old girl was found after a tip off by a member of the public who was concerned for the girl’s welfare.

Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse Squad started an investigation into the incident.

A 25-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man were both arrested on December 31 and charged with failure to provide for a child.

The girl was taken to hospital where she is receiving treatment for severe malnutrition.

They couple were granted conditional bail to appear at Nowra Local Court on January 18 but the girl and her one-year-old sister have been removed from the their care.

7. Paramedic call outs for kids left in hot cars rising.

Victorian figures show the number of children being left in cars on hot day has risen, rather than fallen.

Ambulance Victoria figures show paramedics were called to 225 cases of children left in cars last month.

The Age reports that on one particularly hot day, that hit 37 degrees there were 13 call outs.

The latest figures far exceeding the 161 call outs a year ago in December 2014.

In Victoria parents who leave their children unattended in a car can face fines up to $3700 and six months’ jail.

8. Aid convoy enters besieged town of Madaya in Syria.

The UN has said that an aid convoy has begun entering the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya with enough food to last 40,000 people for a month.

The residents of Madaya have been trapped there for six months by a government blockade and have received no aid since October.

The UN reports of people have been dying of starvation.

9. Police force feed 40 bananas to a suspected gold thief.

Police in India have gone to unusual lengths to get some evidence from a suspected thief.

The 25-year-old suspected thief denied stealing a gold chain from a woman in a Mumbai fish market last Wednesday, so police had him undergo X-rays. When the tests showed up a chain-like object sitting in his stomach they gave him an enema to obtain their evidence, but it didn’t produce the goods.

Doctors recommended they do surgery to extract it, but police decided they’d get it out of him by forcing him to eat bananas.

“He was fed more than 40 bananas throughout the day,” declared Shankar Dhanavade, a senior inspector with the Mumbai police.

“Eventually, the chain was found.”

For the squeamish don’t worry he said, “We made him wash and disinfect it.”

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