Tuesday's news in under 5 minutes: January 13th 2015.

Today’s roundup of local and international stories in the news.

1. France on alert

More than 10,000 soldiers and 8,000 police officers have been deployed across France as the county is on high alert following three days of terror last week.

2. Supermarket terrorist on database

Amedy Coulibaly, who authorities say carried out the terrorist attack at a kosher market in Paris last week, has been in a U.S. terrorist database “for a while,” a senior U.S. law enforcement official says. The database is officially called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, known as TIDE reports CNN.

3. Hunt for Coulobaly’s partner

French police have carried out raids on an apartment rented by Amedy Coulibaly and his partner Hayat Boumeddiene who is on the run thought to be in Syria.

There investigators discovered ISIS flags, automatic weapons and detonators at an apartment rented out by Coulibaly, her partner and suspected co-conspirator reports France’s RTL Radio.

 4. Charlie Hebdo edition to feature cartoons of Prophet Mohammed

The Telegraph reports that Wednesday’s edition of Charlie Hedbo will feature cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

“Humour without self-deprecation isn’t humour. We mock ourselves, politicians, religions, it’s a state of mind you need to have.”

The edition will have a print run of one million and will be translated into 16 languages.

5. Adelaide murder

A man has been charged over the death of a Sydney woman, thought to be a sex worker who was murdered in Adelaide on New Year’s Day.

The man from the Adelaide suburb of Allenby Gardens has claimed he is innocent of the charges.

Chungaung Piao appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday charged with murdering 25-year old Ting Fang in a room on the 12th floor of the Grand Chancellor Hotel in the early hours of January 1 by cutting her throat.

The Advertiser reports that Ting Fang is a Chinese national who was living in Sydney. It is thought that she was working as a sex worker at the Hindley St hotel.

 6. Medicare changes

Little known changes that come into affect on Monday will see many of us paying for previously bulk billed appointments, and waiting times stretched out.

Medicare has until now paid $37.05 towards these “Level B” visits it will now pay $16.95.

The Australian Medical Association says the change, estimated to cut $500 million from Medicare in 2015, will prompt many doctors to stop bulk-billing shorter consultations.

Chair of the AMA’s council of general practice Brian Morton said many GPs were likely to stop bulk-billing and charge a fee for short consultations.

According to Fairfax Media he also says that it may mean GPs ditch the 10-minute appointments and instead see fewer patients on average a day.

 7. Teenager to face court over bashing video

A 14-year old girl will face court today after she allegedly was a part of a gang of two who brutally ambushed and attacked a 15-year old girl on the NSW Central Coast.

A video of the attack was shared over 50,000 on Facebook.

For more read this post here.

8.  US Central Command Twitter and YouTube feeds hacked by ISIS supporters

The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command was hacked overnight, with pro-ISIS messages on the account’s profile.

The profile’s image was replaced with a photo that includes the text “i love you isis.”

A U.S. Defense official told NBC News the Centcom Twitter account had “clearly been hacked.”

A post including images of what were apparently spreadsheets labeled as containing the contact info and home addresses of retired U.S. army generals was also put up.

For more read this ABC story here.

9. Fight over terminally ill daughter

A divorced couple in the UK are gaining media attention over a family dispute about their terminally ill daughter’s care after the teenager’s mother demanded that she be allowed to die.

Now aged 19, she has lived in a care home for two years.

The Shropshire Star reports that she has endured 40 bouts of pneumonia, constant seizures and is fed through a tube.

Her mother wants an end to the measures keeping her alive, but her stepfather who has raised Chantelle as his own since she was a baby, is keen for her to remain in the care of professionals and said her life was not beyond hope.

The Mirror reports that her mum, Tina Medini said that she wanted her suffering to end.

“It’s time to let my daughter die peacefully surrounded by her loved ones,” she said.

“This is end of life and doctors can do no more, except provide antibiotics.

“How many times has she been in hospital? Too many – and at one stage it was virtually every week.

“She is being made to exist. She is in pain. Her spine is crushing her lungs. We don’t want her kept alive to just exist.”

Her stepfather says that this is not an end of life situation.

“Chantelle’s illness means there will be continual ups and downs, but I do not accept this is an ‘end of life’ situation.” He said.

Chantelle suffered her first seizure when she was 18 months old and her parents were told she would never walk or talk. It took four years to diagnose Rett Syndrome as doctors initially believed she had cerebral palsy.

10. 15-month old boy dies after driveway accident

A 15-month old boy has died after an accident on the driveway of his grandmother’s home near Ipswich in QLD.

Nine News reports that the car involved was  “government owned and was on official business” at the home where the boy’s grandmother lives.

Police are investigating.

11. Snowmen condemned in Saudi Arabia amid concern they ‘promote lustiness and eroticism’

By ABC

A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, describing them as anti-Islamic.

Quoting from Muslim scholars, Sheikh Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.

“God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on,” he wrote in his ruling.

That provoked swift responses from Twitter users writing in Arabic and identifying themselves with Arab names.

“They are afraid for their faith of everything … sick minds,” one Twitter user wrote.

Another posted a photo of a man in formal Arab garb holding the arm of a “snow bride” wearing a bra and lipstick.

“The reason for the ban is fear of sedition,” he wrote.

A third said the country was plagued by two types of people: “A people looking for a fatwa (religious ruling) for everything in their lives, and a cleric who wants to interfere in everything in the lives of others through a fatwa,” the user wrote.

Sheikh Munajjid had some supporters, however.

“It (building snowmen) is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism,” one wrote.

“May God preserve the scholars, for they enjoy sharp vision and recognise matters that even Satan does not think about.”

Snow has covered upland areas of Tabuk province near Saudi Arabia’s border with Jordan for the third consecutive year as cold weather swept across the Middle East.

 A version of this story was originally published on ABC and has been republished with full permission.

12. This is one way to get revenge

A cheating husband has learnt in the worst possible way that bad guys come last.

“I had hunches that my husband was cheating so I followed him out on what he said was a ‘guys poker night’ to find him at a five-star restaurant cuddling up to this young blonde woman,” she writes.

” I have decided to sell it for a specific price of $20,000. I figured $20,000 is just enough for a return flight/accommodation to Europe so I can fondle with all the wealthy European men!”

With current prices for a similar car at the $200,000 mark it seems that revenge may just well be a dish best served cold.

13. Help for Disabled Sydney festival goers

A new app has been launched just in time for the Sydney Festival which will allow parents of disabled children to navigate the city area without concern.

A study found that 70% of parents of children with a disability avoid the city due to accessibility challenges.

The Association for Children with a Disability (ACD)’s app “Accessible Sydney”  is designed to be a resource on how to navigate city locations such as cafes, restaurants and attractions, through to everyday facilities like banks, toilets and ATMs.

14. Under 6’s warned about 3D movie

Children should not watch 3D movies or TV according to the Optometry Association who has told Fairfax Media that it could make the under sixes feel headachy, tired and nauseous, and that there could be an impact on their eyes in the long term.