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Max 20. Partly cloudy.
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No reported delays on the Bendigo-Melbourne V/Line train.
Police have charged a 44-year-old man over the murder of a couple in Melbourne's north-west on Sunday night.
The husband and wife were murdered just metres away from their three young children in their Darling Street home, in Moonee Ponds.
Three would-be asylum seekers, including a toddler, were killed off the coast of Java on Monday when their wooden fishing vessel sank on the way to Christmas Island.
A spokesman for the Indonesian search and rescue agency said 27 others survived after their wooden boat was hit by big waves and broke up on the beach.
The tragedy happened at about 6am near the coastal town of Garut.
Some of the events you will see Addy journalists and photographers at today are:
The City of Greater Bendigo is holding a special “Let’s Talk Project Priorities” Forum at 7.30pm in the Bendigo Town Hall. All interested residents are invited to attend.
If today is your big day, happy birthday!
You share a birthday with US rock musician Meg White, US poet Emily Dickinson and Australian soccer player Josip Skoko.
1878 - Ned Kelly gang robs bank at Euroa, Victoria, of 2,000 pounds.
1902 - The original Aswan Dam, built by the British to control the Nile floods, is completed.
2012 - 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian apologise for a telephone prank linked to the death of British nurse Jacintha Saldanha. They had called the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was a patient and been put through to a nurse; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the international community of "deafening silence" in response to recent vows by the head of the militant group Hamas to fight on until the Jewish state is destroyed.
I bought some rocket salad yesterday, but it went off before I could eat it.
Got another joke? Any tips on what we should be heading out to today? Send it in to merran.reed@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Have a great day,
Merran