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The baby's father Joe Barbaro is the cousin of gangland figure Pasquale Barbaro, gunned down along with Jason Moran in the carpark of the Cross Keys Hotel, in Essendon North, last year.

If this was a random act then, possibly, this wasn't the best baby to take.

A security guard moved to obscure Cheryl McEachran's view of Mr Barbaro as he glared and mouthed words at the accused couple through the five-minute hearing.

Defence lawyers Jane Dixon and Amanda Hurst asked the McEachrans be held in protective custody.

Kidnapping the baby of someone with, at the least, family connections to Melbourne's criminal element currently famous for a wave of public shootings isn't wise...

Doomsday asteroids will cease to be a threat within 30 years, according to Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool's John Moores University. Scientists were discovering asteroids so quickly that the chances of one hitting the Earth without warning were becoming minute, he said yesterday.

I see, if an asteroid hits with warning and wipes out civilisation it doesn't count as a doomsday asteroid because you saw it coming?

These days a dose of the flu means a dose of antibiotics and a few days in bed.

So when she's not vilifying muslims she's personally helping make antobiotics useless by using them when they do nothing other than help organisms evolve resistance to them. And advises others to do the same in a national daily.

Of course Big Pharma would love for our antibiotics to become useless - a whole new market for their treat but don't cure products -Albrechtsen's really going in to bat for them with this article.