Thursday's news in 5 minutes.

1. A 27-year-old married teacher is accused of repeatedly raping one of her teenage male students.

A 27-year-old teacher has been charged with two counts of third degree rape, after police allege she had a months-long relationship with a teenager while he was under the age of 16, WKYT reports.

Lindsey Jarvis, from Kentucky in the US, pleaded not guilty to the charges when she appeared in court this week.

Her husband of three years, Andrew, stood by her side and held her hand during the legal proceedings.

Jarvis was arrested last Friday after police found evidence on the victim’s phone that suggested the pair were in a “romantic relationship”.

According to the indictment, Jarvis sodomised the victim – whose current age and identity has not been released – in May 2016 while she was working as a middle school social studies teacher.

It’s alleged she had sex with the student again in June, before she resigned from her teaching position later in the month.

Police believe the relationship between the pair continued after her resignation, and after she got a new job at a primary school in a neighbouring county.

“It’s possible that the unlawful transactions happened to two separate counties,” Detective Steve Sparkman with the Versailles Police Department told WTVQ.

The school where Jarvis currently teaches, Veterans Park Elementary, has confirmed she is no longer an employee.

“While we cannot comment on individual personnel issues, we can assure families and community members that we are aware of the matter,” a Fayette County Schools spokesperson confirmed.

“Our personnel protocols in a case like this would call for placing an employee on administrative leave pending resolution.”

Jarvis was granted bail but has been ordered to have no contact with her alleged victim.

2. Imam avoids jail after performing marriage ceremony between adult man and 14yo girl.

A once “revered” Muslim cleric who married off a teenage girl to a 34-year-old man in Melbourne has been spared jail despite calls to lock him up to send “a message”, AAP repots.

Ibrahim Omerdic wedded the 14-year-old girl and the older man during a ceremony in Noble Park last September, telling the girl she must “obey” her new husband.

The 62-year-old was arrested in November and found guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court earlier this month of unlawfully solemnising the marriage.

Omerdic was sentenced to two months’ prison on Wednesday, but immediately placed on a two-year recognisance release order, meaning he won’t serve time in jail.

“You performed a marriage between a high school student and an older man,” magistrate Phillip Goldberg said in his sentencing.

“Whatever the view is elsewhere, in Australia marriage is between adults.”

Omerdic was an imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque but was later sacked and had his celebrant licence revoked after his arrest.

Video footage of the ceremony was previously played in court, showing Omerdic telling the girl it was her “duty to obey” her husband.

“If (he) is happy with something, do it,” he is heard telling the girl in the shaky mobile footage.

“If (he) is not happy with something, don’t do it.”

A male voice can also be heard telling the child’s mother and her betrothed: “She’s very young.”

Omerdic fought the charge, claiming the marriage was not subsequently formalised under Australian law. But the magistrate was satisfied the ceremony was completed and the marriage took place.

Prosecutor Krista Breckweg said the celebrant should be jailed in order to deter future child weddings.

“This offending involved a man marrying a child to an older man, knowingly,” Ms Breckweg said.

“There needs to be a message sent to the community that this will not be tolerated.”

The maximum penalty for Omerdic’s crime is six months’ jail or a fine of less than $1000, but the magistrate said the fine was inadequate for the seriousness of the crime.

Omerdic had previously had an “exemplary reputation” and was “revered” in his community, the court heard.

Defence lawyer Daniel Gurvich QC said the girl’s mother was at the ceremony, which was “not a pre-meditated criminal offence”.

“There was a degree of spontaneity, poor judgement and regret,” he said.

Omerdic did not speak as he left court but a woman with him said he did “nothing wrong”.

He must be of good behaviour for two years or else the two-month jail sentence could take effect.

3. Sydney man found guilty of recruiting a teenager to help him carry out a horrific attack on sex worker.

A Sydney plasterer who became fixated with a sex worker has been found guilty of recruiting a teenager to pour accelerant over her and set her alight.

Mohammed Ali Fouani, now 45, had wanted the Korean English student to be his girlfriend, give up her job and live with him.

He had pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and to recruiting a child to carry out a criminal act in March 2012 outside the Sydney brothel where the woman worked. But on Wednesday, the District Court jury found him guilty of the two charges.

The jury was told Fouani threatened to harm the teenager and his family if he did not carry out the attack.

The victim, who was engulfed in flames for 17 seconds, suffered burns to 45 per cent of her body and permanent scarring.

In his police interview Fouani said “it was beautiful, everything was perfect” when the woman agreed to stop working as a sex worker and become his girlfriend.

Fouani, who would spend up to $1000 for hours-long visits with the sex worker, said the woman told him she was going to tell her boss that she was quitting.

But she delayed her departure from the industry the day before she was injured, telling Fouani it would be hard to leave that week without letting her boss, who was also her friend, down.

Fouani said he didn’t like the type of work the woman did but had “accepted it”.

“I met her there and it was great money,” he said in the interview.

Judge Peter Whitford listed the case for a sentence hearing on September 22.

4. Adelaide diner charged with aggravated assault after biting a waiter over meal dispute.

An Adelaide woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly biting a waiter on the arm over an unpaid restaurant meal.

Police allege the 48-year-old woman was challenged by the waiter about not paying for her food as she left the inner-city restaurant on Tuesday night.

Footage obtained by 9 News shows the female customer and 19-year-old male waiter arguing and fighting on the footpath outside the seafood restaurant in Adelaide’s Chinatown.

Police believe the woman was challenged by the waiter when she left the restaurant after she refused to pay the full price for what she claimed was a “half serving of fish”.

“They gave me half the fish and asked me to pay the whole price. I told them I just told him that I pay half because they gave me half the fish,” the woman said.

The man required stitches, and will have to miss several weeks of work. The woman was bailed to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on July 26.

5. An iceberg the size of Bali is about to break off Antarctica.

One of the biggest icebergs on record is like a “niggling tooth” about to snap off Antarctica and will be an extra hazard for ships around the frozen continent as it breaks up, scientists say.

An area of the Larsen C ice shelf, about as big as the Indonesian island of Bali, is connected by just 13km of ice after a crack has crept about 175 kms along the sheet, with a new jump last month.

“It’s keeping us all on tenterhooks,” Andrew Fleming, of the British Antarctic Survey, told Reuters of the lengthening and widening rift, adding “it feels like a niggling tooth” of a child as it comes loose.

Ice shelves are flat-topped areas of ice floating on the sea at the end of glaciers. The Larsen C ice is about 200 metres thick with about 20 metres jutting above the water.

Big icebergs break off Antarctica naturally, meaning scientists are not linking the rift to man-made climate change. The ice, however, is a part of the Antarctic peninsula that has warmed fast in recent decades.

“There is no other evidence of change on the ice shelf. This could simply be a single calving event which will then be followed by re-growth,” Adrian Luckman, a professor at the University of Swansea in Wales, told Reuters.

His team reckons the ice will break off within months, perhaps in days or years.

The ice, about 5,000 square kilometres, will add to existing risks for ships as it breaks apart and melts. The peninsula is outside major trade routes but the main destination for cruise ships visiting from South America.

In 2009, more than 150 passengers and crew were evacuated after the MV Explorer sank after striking an iceberg off the Antarctic peninsula.

6. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned.

Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick has resigned under pressure from investors.

“I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,” Kalanick said in a statement to The New York Times.

On June 13, Kalanick went on indefinite leave amid criticism of his management style and following the death of his mother in a boating accident.

The San Francisco-based company he co-founded in 2009 has been trying reverse damage done to its reputation by revelations of sexual harassment in its offices, allegations of trade secrets theft and an investigation into efforts to mislead government regulators.

The Uber board said in a statement to the Times that Kalanick had “always put Uber first” and that his resignation would give the company “room to fully embrace this new chapter in Uber’s history.”

An Uber spokeswoman confirmed his resignation.

While building the world’s biggest ride-hailing service, Uber developed a reputation for ruthless tactics that have occasionally outraged government regulators, drivers, riders and its employees.

The company’s hard-charging style has led to legal trouble. The US Justice Department is investigating Uber’s past usage of software designed to thwart regulators.

Uber also is fighting allegations that it’s relying on a key piece of technology stolen from Google spin-off Waymo to build self-driving cars.

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