Tuesday's news in under 5 minutes.

1. Police investigating Chloe Campbell’s abduction take DNA samples from friends and family.

The police have taken DNA samples from 20 people to aid their search for Chloe Campbell’s abductor. The 20 individuals include family and friends of the Campbells, and Detective Inspector Bruce McNab says that all have been given voluntarily.

The police also collected fingerprints and footprint samples. McNab said that the police were pursuing various avenues of investigation, despite speculation that the abduction was drug-related. Click here for a summary of the Chloe Campbell case to date.

2. Brian Harradine dies at 79.

The longest serving independent senator in Australian history, Brian Harradine, has died at 79. The former Tasmanian senator, who served from 1975 to 2005, died in his home yesterday. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

3. Whooping cough vaccine losing its effectiveness.

There are concerns that the whooping cough vaccine may be losing its effectiveness after a new study from NSW researchers found that the bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated to more easily overcome the targeted vaccine.

Mutated bacteria caused almost 80 per cent of whooping cough cases examined in the study. These specific mutated bacteria stopped producing partactin, which is one of the proteins targeted by the vaccine.

Peter McIntyre, one of the authors of the study, said, “Immunisation is still the best and only way to protect against the most extreme cases of the disease … but the effectiveness is waning and the bug mutation could be contributing to the vaccine wearing off faster.”

4. Former teacher – and convicted sex offender – asks his victim to pay his legal fees.

A former teacher who was convicted of indecent assault against a student is now asking that his victim pay his legal fees – which total almost $20,000.

The teacher, Neville Gilbert Betteridge, worked at Blue Mountains Grammar School in the 70s and abused a student – Mark Wurth – during this time. In 2004, Betteridge was convicted on two counts of indecent assault.

Later, Mr Wurth pursued further compensation and reached an out-of-court settlement with the Anglican Church Diocese. Now Betteridge’s lawyers have written to Mr Wurth asking that he pay his former teacher’s – and former abuser’s – legal costs.

Mr Wurth told the ABC, “I was just [saying] ‘You’re joking, you know, like when does a victim pay a perpetrator’s costs?… Then it got into the legalities of the whole thing and I just found it traumatising again, that he’s demanding I do that.”

“It feels very similar to how I felt when he was abusing me as a kid,” Mr Wurth continued. “I got no control. I’m just made to do what he says, in effect. There’s nothing I can do.”

Betteridge’s barrister Paul Glisson has said that his client is legally permitted to seek costs under part 42, rule 19 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005.

5. Prosecution accuses Oscar Pistorius of lying during cross-examination.

Oscar Pistorius, 27, was accused during cross-examination yesterday of lying about his sequence of events, on the night he says he accidentally shot Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel argued that Pistorius’s version of events does not add up – citing the fact that Reeva Steenkamp had undigested food in her stomach when she was shot, which may contradict Pistorius’s story that they had been asleep for hours.

Nel argued, “It’s the state’s case, Mr Pistorius, that she wanted to leave and that you weren’t sleeping, you were both awake… There was an argument.” Pistorius denied the assertion.

The prosecutor also called Pistorius’s sequence of events “so improbable that it cannot be reasonably possible”, and accused Pistorius’s displays of heightened emotion in court over the past few weeks as fake.

“Mr Pistorius, you’re not using your emotional state to escape, are you?” Nel asked after a breakdown. “You’re getting frustrated because your version is improbable and you’re getting emotional,”

Last week, Reeva Steenkamp’s sister spoke to the media and called Pistorius a “disgusting liar”.

6. Environment minister Greg Hunt has said that coal will be a main energy source for “decades and decades”.

Environment minister Greg Hunt says coal will be a main energy source for “decades and decades”. Rather than cutting the use of the coal, the environment minister says that greenhouse gas emissions will be “drastically” reduced using technological developments.

This comes after the third report from the IPCC working group yesterday which said the most effective and affordable way to tackle climate change would be to stop investing in fossil fuels and instead invest in renewable energy.

Hunt told Sky News, “Coal will be used for decades and decades more… but what I do think will change is the emissions from it and that is the critical thing.”

The environment minister further explained his position saying, “What I think will happen is this… we will be able to use coal and gas in a dramatically more efficient way, with dramatically lower emissions… that will happen over the coming decade as we make real progress, including cleaning up our brown coal power stations, with drying gasification and capturing, not for storage… but capture and reuse.”

7. Body found that may be that of missing French tourist.

Lhorme, 30, parked near the Head of the Bight Whale Watching Centre at Nullarbor Plain on Saturday night. The body has been found at the base of a cliff on South Australia’s far west coast.

The police revealed on Monday, “We can confirm that the body of a woman has been found at the base of a cliff near Head of Bight… The body is yet to be formally identified.”

8. Sydney man arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman as part of “black magic”.

A 49-year-old Sydney man has been arrested for allegedly indecently and sexually assaulting a woman while on the job as a spiritual healer specialising in “black magic”.

The woman visited the man’s business twice in 2002, when she was 27. It is alleged that the man indecently assaulted her on both occasions and sexually assaulted her as part of a “spiritual healing technique” on one occasion.

9. Closure of car manufacturing industry could cost 200,000 jobs.

A new report has indicated that the closure of car manufacturing in Australia could cost $29 billion in lost economic output and nearly 200,000 jobs.

Victoria, as a car-making region, will be the hardest hit when Ford, Holden and Toyota stop car manufacturing. The study reports that almost 100,000 jobs – direct and indirect – could be lost in the state.

10. Explosions in Nigeria kill 71 people.

Two explosions at a bus station in Nigeria have killed 71 people and injured 124 others. The bombs went off at the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital during the morning commute when the buses were crammed with passengers.

Abuja national police spokesman Frank Mba said, “We have a total of 71 dead and 124 others injured. [The wounded] are receiving treatment at hospitals within and around.” It is believed that the Boko Haram terrorist network, a group that has been threatening to attack the capital, may be responsible.

11. Bodies of seven dead infants found in home in Utah.

Huntsman’s estranged husband found a dead body of an infant in their garage, and upon investigating police found six others. The estranged couple have three older daughters together.

12. Man dies after completing London Marathon.

A 42-year-old man has died in hospital after collapsing at the finish line of the London Marathon. The man, who has not been named, was given medical attention upon completing the race but was pronounced dead at hospital.

The organisers of the London Marathon have said they wish to “express their sincere condolences” to the man’s family.

13. Body found 12 metres up tree – suspected to be man missing for over three years.

A body has been found 12 metres up a tree at a golf course in Dorset, The Club at Meyrick Park. More shocking is that the body is suspected to be that of 21-year-old Jurij Sliachtecov, a Lithuaian man who went missing three years ago.

Sliachtecov was reported missing in May, 2011, and inspired a large missing persons search at the time. His body was discovered at the golf club when a dog dragged a decomposed human hand from the undergrowth nearby the tree.

14. Rebels in Ukraine refuse to surrender.

Towns in east Ukraine were preparing for violence early this morning after a 9am deadline for rebels to surrender elapsed.

Pro-Russian militia groups have refused to lay down their firearms and have taken over buildings in at least 10 cities in Ukraine’s east.

Tensions in the area are running at an all-time high and Britain’s ambassador to the UN has worryingly claimed that satellite photos show large build up of Russian forces at the borders. The US has also told the UN Security Council that it is considering further sanctions against Russia.

15. Every male student to hand over DNA for police investigation.

Last September, a 16-year-old girl was raped at a school in La Rochelle, France. The lights in the school bathroom were turned off so that the girl could not see her attacker. And now the police are taking unprecedented action to find her rapist.

All 527 boys or men – students and teachers at the school alike – have been asked to provide samples of their DNA for testing. The prosecutor handing the case said that anyone who refused to participate would be considered a possible suspect.

Local prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle said, “Nobody has objected and the samples have been taken in a calm and orderly fashion… To say this is a first, does not automatically mean it is not a legitimate operation.”

Some groups in the community have raised concerns that the test violates the rights of the boys and men at the school.

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