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Your speedy update on all the day’s big stories: Tuesday, March 25 2014

Malaysia Airlines texts families to tell them loved ones are dead.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia has confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean and sank to the bottom, carrying its 239 passengers. Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement last night in Kuala Lumpur that intelligence from British satellites and investigators showed that MH370 is likely to have “ended” in the southern corridor of the ocean. The company has been under fire today after it was revealed that families of those on board found out about their loved ones’ likely death through text messages that read: 

‘Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean. As you will hear in the next hour from Malaysia’s prime minister, new analysis of satellite data suggests the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean.

‘On behalf of all of us at Malaysia Airlines and all Malaysians, our prayers go out to all the loved ones of the 226 passengers and of our 13 friends and colleagues at this enormously painful time.’

Reeva told Oscar: ‘I’m scared of you’ weeks before death

The dramatic trial of  Oscar Pistorius has revealed another level of the Paralympian's relationship with model Reeva Steenkamp, after text messages between the two unveiled just how scared she was of his temper. The court heard that Steenkamp sent Pistorius a message around three weeks before he shot her dead. The message read: 'I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me.' Another text read: 'I can't be attacked by outsider for dating u and be attacked by you the person I deserve protection from.' Pistorius still claims he shot Steenkamp by mistake through a toilet door when he though she was an intruder. The trial continues.

Advertising ban for baby formula?

NSW premiere supports finger-scanning of students

NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell has said he supports schools that chose to use fingerprint scanning technology to track their