Tuesday's news in under 5 minutes.

A wrap of the latest news and biggest stories from Australia and around the world.

1. PM only consulted Angus Houston on knighthood for Prince Phillip

There is unhappiness within the Liberal party ranks after news that the Prime Minister only consulted Air Chief Marshal Houston about awarding Prince Phillip an Australia Day Knighthood.

Air Chief Marshal Houston was the only other person knighted yesterday. The PM also only consulted the Chairman of the Council for the Order of Australia and Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on the appointment of Angus Houston.

The Australian reports that Liberal MPs said the decision was made without discussion with the party room.

According to the ABC one minister said “There is an old saying that when you are in a hole you should stop digging”

“Well, we’ve just punched through the Earth’s crust.”

Mr Abbott stood by the decision yesterday describing Prince Philip as an “eminently suitable recipient” for the accolade.

“Prince Philip has been a great servant of Australia, he’s been a great servant of all the countries of the Commonwealth.”

For more read this post here. 

2. Bali 9 duo not to be executed for at least a week

Nine News reports that Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will not be executed at least for another week as Australia fights for clemency to be granted to the two young men.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney-general, Tony Spontana, said that the executions of the six drug offenders last week are still being evaluated.

“Evaluation on the first execution implementation is predicted to be finished this week,” he said

“After the evaluation of the first executions is finished, then we will prepare for the second round.”

Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 33, have had their pleas for presidential clemency rejected and are on track for the firing squad.

Prime Minister Abbott has said that the men are reformed and deserving of mercy.

 3. Winter Storm Juno

The US is facing the biggest winter storm to hit the northeast United States.

New Yorkers have stripped supermarket shelves bare stocking up for the historic “nor’easter”, dubbed Winter Storm Juno.

It is expected that the storm will affect more than 29 million people.

 4. Jon Venables joins online dating site.

One of the killers of two-year old James Bulger in 1993 has joined an online dating site.

Jon Venables was released after serving eight years for the murder of James Bulger, now under a new name he is seeking out women online.

For more read this post here.

 5. Greek PM sworn in

The new Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras has been sworn in overnight after his party took more than 36% of the vote in the weekend’s general election.

The 40-year old is the youngest Greek PM in 150 years and wore a blue jacket and white shirt without a tie taking a civil instead of a religious oath, pledging to “always serve the interests of the Greek people”.

 6. Robert Allenby reportedly ran up $US3400 strip club bill

Reports that Aussie golfer Robert Allenby ran up a $US 3,400 bar tab at a Honolulu strip club the night he claims he was bashed, robbed and abducted.

GolfChannel.com says that multiple witnesses have claimed that after he had dinner with friends at the Amuse Wine Bar in downtown Honolulu he went to Club Femme Nu, described as an adult entertainment club.

Allenby was there until around midnight with “a group of friends” and ran up a $US3400 bar tab, according to the report.

Allenby suffered facial cuts and bruising to his face and claimed he was hit in the face with a fist or baseball bat and robbed after being stuffed in the boot of a car.

A homeless man says Allenby fell and hit his face on a lava rock and was “blitzed” out of his mind.

Allenby is due to give a press conference later today.

 7. Museum piece damaged by teenager

A $300 000 colonial era lounge on display at a museum has been damaged after a teenager mistook it for a place to sit.

The Sunday Tasmania reports that the 17-year old was visiting the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery when he plonked down on the prized Hamilton Inn Sofa for a rest.

“The legs of the sofa were damaged when the visitor sat heavily on it,” TMAG acting director Jennifer Storer said

“The (male 17-year-old) visitor was unaware of museum protocol and was sincerely apologetic.”

The 1810 sofa has been removed for urgent repairs.

 8. Church of England’s first female Bishop

The Church of England’s first female bishop – Libby Lane – has been consecrated at a ceremony in the UK.

But not all were happy with her appointment, when the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu asked the congregation if it was their will that Rev Lane was ordained a protester interrupted the service shouting: “No. Not in the bible” .

It comes months after the General Synod formally adopted legislation allowing women bishops.

Speaking at the time her appointment was announced, the mother-of-two hailed the moment as “significant”saying “I’m the first, but I won’t be the only.”

 9. French court won’t allow these names for French babies

Sacrebleu ce est un scandale!

A court in France has forbidden two sets of parents from naming their two, unrelated, daughters Nutella and Strawberry.

The first girl was born in October last year. Her parents wanted to call the baby Strawberry however a court has said that this would leave the child open to mockery, especially as in France the term ‘back your strawberry’ is used as slang for ‘move your backside.’

The second baby girl was born in November last year and was obviously so delicious her parents decided to name her after their favourite spread according to France.com.

So Nutella she was, but a court refused to grant her the name, saying it was nuts to allow a baby to be named after chocolate spread.

The court said the name would leave Nutella open to teasing.

Nutella has now been renamed Ella, while Strawberry will go by Fransine, very close to the French word fraise – meaning strawberry.

Sweet huh.

 10. Twitter storm over Miss USA

Backlash over Miss USA’s comments in the weekend’s Miss Universe pageant.

While the event was won by Miss Colombia Twitter is focused on Miss USA for her answer to a question regarding terrorism.

Miss USA, Nia Sanchez aged 24, was asked what message she would send to global terrorists.

She told the judges “As Miss USA I can always spread a message of hope and love and peace.”

Nice. Reassuring. Words to be proud of right?

Not according to Twitter who mocked her answer

“Miss USA Offers Miss-Congeniality-Style World Peace Message To Terrorists”

“No confirmation yet to the rumor that Miss USA will be crowned as 0bama’s new Sec of State”

 11. Students asked to bring tablets to school

As school resumes for the year parents are expressing concerns over the Bring Your Own Device program that many schools, especially in Queensland run.

One mum told ABC news that it impacted upon her own families screen time.

“”If there’s going to be increased screen time at school, I have to decrease that at home, so anything we’ve been doing, any TV, any playing on the iPad currently would have to be reduced,”

Milton State School principal Paul Zernike told the ABC that those concerned about the cost of the device could have assistance from the school.

“There’s only going to be probably a very small proportion of those that will not bring their own device – in fact, one or two,” he said.

“Generally the response has been very positive from parents.

“They see this as the way forward for their children and learning.”

He said having a strong grasp of technology was vital for students.

“If we don’t actually move forward with this we are going to do the children a larger disservice,” he said

The Smith Family estimates parents face a minimum $700 spend on school necessities for each child to get them ready for school.

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