Tuesday's news in under 2 minutes.

1. Amanda Knox’s second trial for murder has begun in Italy, even though 26-year-old Knox remains in the USA. Knox and her ex boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have been accused of the murder of Knox’s former roommate Meredith Kercher, who was found in a pool of blood at the home they shared in 2007.

Knox and Sollecito served four years in an Italian jail for the murder, but their convictions were overturned in 2011 on appeal.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ordered a retrial because of the “numerous deficiencies [and] contradictions” that took place in the first trial.

On the first day of the retrial, the judge ordered a DNA test on the knife that was believed to be the murder weapon.

2. Julia Gillard has given her first Australian interview since losing the Prime Ministership. In a candid conversation with author and journalist Anne Summers, Gillard discussed her time at leader of the Labor party, what it was like to be ousted from her position, and what the future has in store.

Mamamia has compiled the best quotes from the evening here.

3. A boat carrying suspected asylum seekers landed on Christmas Island yesterday morning, with up to 80 people on board. Passengers have been moved to the immigration detention centre inland. The Government has not announced this arrival formally to the media, as per their new information blackout policy.

4. Prime Minister Tony Abbott is in Indonesia. Mr Abbott reportedly held a one-on-one meeting with Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday and described the talks as “very warm and constructive”.

Abbott said, “We had a very frank discussion about issues of sovereignty … and about issues of people smugglers. We are determined to end this scourge which is not just an affront to our two countries but which has so often become a humanitarian disaster in the seas between our two countries.”

5. A team of scientists from 13 countries – including Australia – are saying that the recent discovery of genetic variants that affect the chance of a person getting multiple sclerosis (MS), brings the profession one step closer to finding a cure for this debilitating disease.

Professor David Booth from the Westmead Millennium Institute, said that, “… What they suggest is that even though multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease, it’s damage to the brain that characterises it … It looks like susceptibility is mainly due to the variation in people’s immune response.”

6. A 37-year-old American man has been accused of injecting his 4-year-old son with heroine, among other restricted drugs. Eric Emil Lehtinen from Washington injected himself and his son on the day when his divorce from the boy’s mother was going to be finalised.

When the mother showed up at the house to collect her son, she was horrified to discover both Lehtinen and her son unconscious – the boy with a needle resting on his chest. The boy is currently in hospital, and it is not clear whether he will suffer longterm damage.

7. TV series Breaking Bad ended last night and the world collectively lost its mind. Were you watching?

8. In the recount for the seat of Fairfax, billionaire Clive Palmer is leading the LNP candidate Ted O’Brien by just three votes.

The recount was ordered by the Australian Electoral Commission after the first result showed a win by Palmer by just 36 votes.

It’s not known when the recount will be completed.

9. An Adelaide chiropractor has faced criticism after she reportedly posted a photo of herself giving chiropractic care to a baby who was less than one day old.

The chiropractor apparently captioned the photo with ““first chiropractic adjustment at just 5 hours old” but has since told News Corp she was simply conducting health checks.

It comes in the wake of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia denial that another chiropractor broke a baby’s neck. You can read more about that story here.

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