1. WILD scenes have broken out in a US courtroom after a father tried to attack the man who killed his daughter.
Jamila was just three years old when she succumbed to injuries from blunt force trauma at the home she shared with her mother, and her mother’s boyfriend.
The Telegraph reports the incident occurred before the judge had sentenced the girl’s mother, Jasmine Gordon and her boyfriend Clifford Thomas, for the crime.
Jamila’s father Dwayne Smith had been asked to deliver a victim impact statement when he crossed paths with Thomas and attacked him.
‘Officers from Wayne County Sheriff’s Office quickly separated the pair as loud yelling erupted in the courtroom,’ the Telegraph says.
Smith was evicted from court and not allowed to return but will not face charges. The two killers were sent to prison for more than 10 years apiece.
2. RACING legend Bart Cummings, who was famous for his magnificent eyebrows, his dry wit, and for training a record 12 winners of the Melbourne Cup, will be honoured with a State funeral.
Bart died on Sunday morning. He was 87.
News Ltd reports that Bart died at the family homestead in Sydney’s northwest.
Flags at racecourses around the nation flew at half mast, and jockeys rode with black armbands.
A Cummings trained horse, Sultry Feeling, won at Rosehill Gardens just the day before Bart died; another two – — Midas and Muy Bien – won at Wyong.
3. SO, you design a computer game and sell it for $2.6 billion. That would make you happy, right?
Apparently not.
The creator of Minecraft, which may well be the most popular computer game ever, revealed his loneliness on Twitter over the weekend
Markus Persson, also known as Notch, who is Swedish, sold Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.7 billion last year. He used some of the money to buy a $100 million home in Beverley Hills.
Now that the business is sold, he finds himself spending a lot of time staring at his own reflection in the computer monitor, wondering what to do with his day.
“The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance,’ Markus said on Twitter.
He had been hanging out with friends in Ibiza and partying with famous people but “I’ve never felt more isolated”.
He doesn’t have to work, which means ‘I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.”
‘When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now,’ he added.
He wants to find a girlfriend, and he found a ‘great girl’ but she apparently got spooked by his lifestyle and went with a ‘normal guy’ instead.
4. WATCHING more than five hours of television a day or computer games can double your chance of dying of a stroke.
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper says the risks of sitting still for so long can lead to deep vein thrombosis, or blood clots, just like long-haul travel can.
The report is based on a Japanese study which tracked 86,000 men and women, aged between 40 and 79, for almost two decades.
‘Overall, those who watched an average of five or more hours of television a day had twice the risk of fatal clots than those who viewed less than two and a half hours a day,’ the report says.
The researchers from Osaka University presented their finding to the European Society of Cardiology. They shows men and women under the age of 60 are up to six time more likely to develop blood clots in the legs that prevent the flow of blood to the heart.
Researchers said binge watchers and computer geeks should follow the same guidelines given to those on long airplane flights: stand up, walk around, and drink plenty of water.
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