Thursday's news in 5 minutes.

1. Dad who threw his seven-month-old son off a bridge gets 70 years behind bars.

A Connecticut father who killed his seven-month-old son by throwing him from a 27-metre high bridge has been sentenced to 70 years in prison.

According to the New York Daily News, 23-year-old Tony Moreno received the maximum sentence for the crime, which he was found guilty of by a jury in February.

Moreno threw his son, Aedan, off a bridge into the Connecticut River in July 2015, after a period of “strained relations” with the little boy’s mother, Adrianne Oyola, 20.

Adrianne had recently refused a proposal of marriage from Tony, and the pair had settled on custody details for their seven-month-old son just days before his death.

In text messages presented in court, Tony told Adrianne that their boy was dead and that “soon he would be too”. He had followed his boy off the bridge, but survived the fall.

Little Aedan’s body was found two days later, downstream from where he had been thrown by his father.

“The utter depravity of the crime, a father killing his infant son, speaks for itself,” Middletown Superior Court Judge Elpedio Vitale said during sentencing.

Aedan’s mother said she faces the “nightmare” of losing her son every day.

“Every time I wake up, I pray the nightmare will be over and my son will be in my arms,” she told the court.

“I won’t see my son grow up. You took my whole world in front of me. You took my life.”

2. Arrest over one-punch assault on surgeon and father-of-two at Melbourne hospital.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned by police after a Melbourne surgeon was bashed at the hospital he worked at.

The Mill Park man was arrested following a public appeal from police.

Heart surgeon Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann was named as the victim of the one punch assault at Box Hill Hospital.

It is understood an argument broke out between the men after the surgeon asked a man to stop smoking near the entrance to the hospital.

Dr Pritzwald-Stegmann – a father of two – was rushed to Alfred Hospital in a critical condition and underwent emergency surgery.

An Eastern Health spokeswoman said the man’s family has requested privacy after the “terrible incident”.

The Australian Medical Association condemned the attack, saying violence has become a common occurrence in hospitals.

3. US President Donald Trump expected to ‘quit’ Paris climate deal.

US President Donald Trump will announce his decision on whether he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal “very soon”.

Responding to shouted questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he had been hearing from people on both sides of the issue, but he declined to indicate whether he had made up his mind.

“I’m hearing from a lot of people, both ways. Both ways,” Trump said, AAP reports.

Earlier on Wednesday, White House officials cautioned that details were still being hammered out and that, although close, the decision on withdrawing from the 195-nation accord – agreed to in Paris in 2015 – was not finalised.

Trump, who has previously called global warming a hoax, tweeted: “I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days.”

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump was working out the terms of the planned withdrawal with US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, an oil industry ally and climate change doubter.

Under the pact, virtually every nation voluntarily committed to combat climate change with steps aimed at curbing global emissions of “greenhouse” gases such as carbon dioxide generated from burning of fossil fuels that scientists blame for a warming planet, sea level rise, droughts and more frequent violent storms. It was the first legally-binding global climate deal.

A withdrawal would put the United States in league with Syria and Nicaragua as the world’s only non-participants in the Paris agreement.

Trump has said the accord would cost the US economy trillions of dollars without tangible benefit.

Trump refused to endorse the landmark climate change accord at a summit of the G7 group of wealthy nations on Saturday, saying he needed more time to decide.

The United States is the world’s second-biggest carbon dioxide emitter behind China. A shift away from coal to cleaner-burning and cheaper natural gas in recent years has cut US carbon emissions to near 30-year lows, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

4. Fears after a third attempted child abduction in Sydney in less than a week.

A Sydney mother has told a man who attempted to abduct her three-year-old daughter he doesn’t deserve to live and should hand himself in to authorities.

NSW Police say a three-year-old girl was playing in Pioneers Memorial Park in Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west, on Tuesday evening when a man approached and spoke to her.

“This Indian looking man came up and started talking to my child, and my child turned around and she pointed to me and next thing, he just turned around walking in the other direction,” the girl’s mother told the Seven Network on Wednesday.

“I ran over and just basically grabbed my child back, pushed him and his reply to me was he thought she was lost.”

The mother says the man should hand himself in “and get what’s coming to you – you don’t deserve to live”.

Police are investigating whether the man may be behind another attack nearby, AAP reports.

A five-year-old girl was approached by a man of Indian appearance in Glebe on Saturday morning.

The man indecently assaulted the girl before running off when the girl’s screams alerted her mother, police say.

In both cases, the males were described as being of Indian appearance, about 170 centimetres tall and wearing a t-shirt and tracksuit pants.

Detective Inspector Gavin Beck told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday the police will explore any possible link.

“It’s just an example of parents being alert of what’s appearing around them and, in this case, that’s what the parents have been doing,” he said.

Another mother had the fright of her life when a man attempted to abduct her 15-month-old toddler in Sydney’s southwest last week.

The boy was in the children’s play area at Macquarie Street Mall in Liverpool on Thursday when a man in his mid-40s picked him up and began walking away.

The toddler’s mother – who again had been nearby watching her son – yelled and ran towards them to save her son from the man.

He was described as being of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance.

5. Dreamworld in mourning as their oldest tiger dies from kidney failure.

Dreamworld’s oldest tiger, Sita, has died after suffering kidney failure, AAP reports.

The Gold Coast theme park has announced the 18-year-old tiger has been put down on medical advice after she stopped being able to eat because of the illness.

Sita was one of the four cubs born on Tiger Island in 1998 that were dubbed the “Awesome Pawsome” along with Rama, Sultan and Taj.

Rama is now the only one of the four still kept on Tiger Island.

Dreamworld’s life sciences general manager Al Mucci said Sita will be remembered as a conservation hero for wild tigers, AAP reports.

“Sita has been a phenomenal ambassador for the plight of the endangered wild tiger, with contributions from her tiger walks and guest photos going directly to funding tiger conservation efforts throughout the world,” Mr Mucci said on Wednesday.

Dreamworld says the park’s Wildlife Foundation, founded a year before Sita’s birth, has raised over $2 million for endangered tigers worldwide.

Mr Mucci said while park staff were understandably saddened by the news, they remained focused on preserving a future for wild tigers.

“We cannot let one of the world’s most iconic predators become extinct in the wild,” he said.

6. Urgent Valium recall after fears of suspected product tampering.

Valium tablets are being recalled amid fears of suspected product tampering, AAP reports.

The recall notice issued by Roche applies to its five milligram tablets, which come in a 50-tablet blister pack, with the drug maker advising anyone with these tablets to return them to a pharmacy for a refund and to arrange an alternative medication.

The notice, issued in consultation with the Therapeutic Drugs Administration (TGA), says it’s feared the packs could also contain paracetamol codeine tablets, BTC Rosuvastatin 10mg tablets and Apotex-Pantoprazole 40mg tablets which may have serious health consequences.

Police are investigating the possible tampering, however Roche says it’s not believed to be widespread.

Roche says that all tablets or capsules in the packet should be identical and any product names on the blister packs should match those on the external packaging. People who notice any discrepancies should talk to their pharmacist.

No other doses of Roche Valium and generics of diazepam are affected, Roche says.

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