1.A tip off from a member of the public has helped detectives identify a jacket found in the suitcase holding the remains of a little girl.
The online shopper noticed a jacket on EBay was identical to the jacket in the suitcase, alerting authorities who contacted the seller.
The jacket has been donated to the investigation, which Detective Inspector Greg Hutchins says is now one step closer to identifying the little girl.
“This is another piece in that jigsaw puzzle,” he told reporters.
“We are continuing to examine all the information in this case and each detail brings us a step closer to finding out who this lost little girl is and who took her life.”
The remains of the unidentified little girl were found on July 14 with clothes – including the jacket – in a weathered suitcase beside a highway near Wynarka in South Australia.
2.Who is more likely to end a marriage, the man or the woman?
If you’re thinking: man runs off with sexy secretary, you’re way off the ball.
A multitude of studies over the years suggests women are far more likely to pull the plug with the real danger years being just after the children have left home.
However, when it comes to non-marriage relationships – people who are dating, or living together – the picture is far more nuanced.
A new study shows that men are just as likely to break up a non-marriage as are women.
Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, says his study shows that women initiated 69 percent of the divorces in his sample group. In the not-married-but-together group, men initiated 50 per cent of break-ups.
Rosenfeld says it will “take a study with far greater depth of information than [this one] to fully understand why” women are more likely to call a marriage quits, although one reason may be housework.
That study found that “marriages in which the wife felt they were doing more than their share of the housework were especially likely to end in divorce,” Rosenfeld said.
Spencer Stone. Image: Twitter.
3.US president Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande have thanked three Americans and one British tourist for saving the lives of hundreds of passengers from a terrorist who boarded a high-speed train to Paris with a machine gun in his luggage.
While the details make it sounds like a plot from the latest blockbuster novel – The Terrorist on the Train – the threat was frighteningly real.
The ABC in America says President Obama personally called the three Americans involved in tackling the terrorist as he prepared to unload his weapon on a train hurtling between Amsterdam and Paris.
The train was packed with tourists enjoying the last days of the European summer.
By chance, two of the passengers were US military: Spencer Stone is with the US Air Force, and Alek Skarlatos is with the Army National Guard. They were travelling with a college student, Anthony Sadler. All three have been friends since childhood.
The Americans said they saw the shooter emerging from the train toilet with weapon and bolted down the centre aisle to tackle him to the ground.
Spencer was slashed with a box-cutter.
The three Americans managed to disarm the terrorist, and get him onto the ground. British IT expert British businessman Chris Norman also jumped in, saying: “My thought was, OK, probably I’m going to die anyway. I’d rather die being active.”
The suspected shooter is 26-year-old Ayoub El Khazani. He reportedly had a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a 9mm pistol, and a box cutter.
French President Francois Hollande called Barack Obama to thank him for the “exemplary conduct of American citizens who stopped an extremely serious attack.”
4.Could this be the ultimate Get-Your-Child-To-Sleep book?
A self-published picture book by Swedish author Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin has reached No.1 on the Amazon bestsellers list, after parents started raving about its sleep-inducing qualities.
“The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep” uses “psychological reinforcement techniques” to make young listeners doze off.
It features characters like the “heavy-eyed owl” and “Uncle Yawn” and “Sleepy Snail” and parents are instructed to yawn often and speak italicized words in a calm and slow manner.
Ehrlin, who is a behavioral therapist, told CBS: “The entire story is focused on getting the child to identify with Roger who will fall asleep in the end. The main goal is to keep the child focused on the goal of relaxation. One could say that this story is the verbal equivalent of rocking the baby to sleep.”
It is the first self-published book to top Amazon’s best-sellers list.
