Friday's news in under 5 minutes.

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

 1. Transfer of Bali 9 duo to be kept a secret.

News came through last night that Bali 9 duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be moved to their place of execution, the Nusakambangan prison complex.

“But we ask it to be as soon as possible.”

He has said the families of the two men would be notified before the transfer goes ahead, giving them the opportunity to visit for the last time.

“We will inform the families and inmates a few days before the transfer.”
Officials have to give prisoners 72 hours notice of their executions, earlier this week prosecutors said they would try to keep the transfers secret.

For more read this post here.

 2. Peter Greste colleagues freed.

The two Al Jazeera colleagues of Peter Greste have been freed on bail overnight.

Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were released on bail by an Egyptian court.

The case against them has not been dismissed.

At a court in Cairo, Judge Hassan Farid said the next hearing would be on February 23.

For more read this post here.

 3. Sydney terror attack suspects were “lonely.”

Details have emerged about the two men charged with plotting a terrorist attack in Sydney with Omar Al-Kutobi’s father, Ahmed telling that his son was lonely in Sydney.

He told me ‘life in Australia is so hard’. I told him, ‘You don’t remember when you said Australia is the best country in the world?’”

Ahmad said.

“Yes,” his son told him ”but it is changing.”

Al-Kutobi along with his housemate Mohammad Kiad, 25, faced court yesterday. It has been revealed that they had planned to kill a “blonde” haired “white person”.

They will reappear in court on a bail application on March 16.

 4. Lindt Café to re-open in March.

The Lindt Café will re-open in March with the Chief Executive of Lindt Australia Steve Loane saying they feel like it is the best thing to do.

The husband of Katrina Dawson who died in the siege in December told Fairfax Media that his family will visit the café.

“We often joked that Lindt’s best business decision was to open across the road from Katrina’s chambers and worried for Lindt’s business when Katrina was on holidays.” Paul Smith said.

“Although it will be difficult at first, we hope to be able in time to return to the Lindt cafe so that her children can continue to experience one of Katrina’s great joys.”

Lindt confirmed there will be a permanent memorial to the siege hostages.

 5. Former Aussie tennis champion allegedly told victim ‘rape is enjoyable’.

A court in South Africa has heard former Aussie tennis champ Bob Hewitt told a woman “rape is enjoyable.”

The woman told the court that 75-year old Hewitt raped her during a private tennis lesson when she was a teenager in the early 1990s.

“At a private lesson, he was quite jovial … we were discussing tactics, and he said to me: ‘Rape is enjoyable in all cases and if I rape you, you need to lie down and enjoy it’,” she said.

“I would try to pull away from him, he would get angry. I could feel him rubbing himself up and down behind me,”

Hewitt is facing two charges of rape and one of indecent assault during the 1980s and 1990s. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

If you need help contact a sexual assault support service .

6. Mum warns of dangers of batteries

A mother has pleaded for button batteries to be secured after her eight month old baby swallowed one and now faces years of recovery.

Amanda Hacche says her baby Devon may never talk or swallow.

For more read this post here.

 7. Ukraine crisis: Ceasefire agreed for February 15 after Minsk summit.

By ABC

The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the Minsk summit talks said.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said a general ceasefire would come into force from February 15 in Ukraine’s east, where Kiev was fighting pro-Russian separatists.

“The main thing which has been achieved is that from Saturday into Sunday there should be declared without any conditions at all a general ceasefire,” a visibly downbeat Mr Poroshenko told journalists after the talks.

Mr Poroshenko has been locked in talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and Germany at the presidential palace in Minsk since late on Wednesday.

“We have managed to agree on the main things. We have agreed on a ceasefire,” a visibly pleased Mr Putin told reporters.

“The second point that I believe to be extremely important is the withdrawal of heavy weapons from today’s line of contact for Ukrainian troops and from the line stipulated in the September 19 Minsk agreements for Donbass rebels.

Emerging separately from more than 16 hours of negotiations German chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the sponsors of the talks, differed with Mr Putin over the reasons they took so long.

Mr Putin accused Kiev of prolonging the talks, the culmination of a dramatic diplomatic initiative by France and Germany following an upsurge in fighting in which the separatists tore through an earlier ceasefire line.

Ms Merkel on the other hand, said Mr Poroshenko “did everything to achieve the possibility of an end to the bloodshed”, while she said Mr Putin put pressure on the separatists to agree to the ceasefire “towards the end” of the talks.

The deal offered a “glimmer of hope” she said, but big obstacles remained in the way of peace.

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

 8. Woman dies after dropping IPhone in bath.

A young Russian woman has died after dropping her IPhone in the water while she was taking a bath.

The Mirror reports that the woman was reading the Russian equivalent of Facebook.

Her Iphone was plugged in and charging at the time.

 9. Drunk or flirty rape victims often to blame.

A concerning study in the UK has shown that more than a quarter of the public believe drunk rape victim are at least partly to blame for their assault.

The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in the 16- to 19-year-old age group a startling 34% said a victim’s drunkenness made them “completely”, “mostly” or “a little” responsible.

46% said the same about a victim who had been flirting with their attacker.

More than 1/3 of respondees said that rape victims bore partial responsibility if they had been “flirting heavily” beforehand.

In the 25- to 34-year old age group 22.4 per cent said a victim’s drunkenness was to blame.

The Telegraph reports that the 55 to 59 age group were even less likely to be sympathetic to sex attack victims.

10. Facebook to allow account profiles to be ‘memorialised’ after a user dies.

Facebook has announced it will allow account profiles to be “memorialised” by introducing a “legacy contract” which will allow a person to nominate someone to take control of their profile after they die.

It means that once the social network has been notified of a user’s death, a designated trustee could post a message to appear at the top of the timeline as well as respond to new friend requests and change the profile and cover photos.

Until now, accounts were memorialised by Facebook and could still be viewed, but could not be accessed or edited by anyone else.

Facebook has placed tight restrictions on the legacy contract system, with users only able to name one person as a trustee of their account.

 11. Duchess of Cambridge shows off baby bump. (And does good work for charity).

The Duchess of Cambridge has attended a charity event in the UK – but all eyes were on her growing baby bump.

The Duchess has not been seen in public since a recent holiday. She is thought to be six months pregnant.

12. Students were pepper sprayed by police at a Sydney protest.

By ABC News

A group of university students protesting at a speech by Education Minister Christopher Pyne have been pepper-sprayed by police in Sydney.

Some demonstrators were pepper-sprayed when about 40 of them tried to enter the Sydney Masonic Centre just before 11:00am.

Police pepper-sprayed a number of the protesters who managed to get into the foyer of the building and were then escorted out.

Mr Pyne was inside the centre delivering a lecture to educator groups, after he released a report into teacher education earlier in the morning.

The group of protesters outside the building were demonstrating against university deregulation. ABC footage of the incident showed protesters surging into the building chanting “no cuts, no fees, no corporate universities”.

As they were removed from the building, they continued to chant: “This is not a police state, we have the right to demonstrate.” Ridah Hassan from the National Union of Students said the behaviour by police was disgraceful and the students should be able to protest.

“We were pushed by police and I was pepper-sprayed right in the face, my face is on fire,” Ms Hassan said.

Supporters poured milk over the faces of some of those injured by the pepper spray.

“Why can’t Chris Pyne face up to the fact that students are against his higher education reforms?” Ms Hassan asked.

“We are determined to fight them and we are going to come out on March 25 to protest in our numbers to make sure they’re defeated for good.

“This is an absolute disgrace by the NSW police.”

A male protester said the incident escalated quickly.

“I was maced in the face for demonstrating peacefully,” he said.

“It was confusing, but next minute, the police just maced us in the face, it was horrible and it still burns.”

This article originally appeared on the ABC and was republished here with full permission. 

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