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In this bulletin;
- A murder investigation in Queensland over the death of a 10-year-old girl;
- Five people stabbed at a mosque in Türkiye;
- And in sport, Charlotte Kool leads the race in the women's Tour De France.
Police in Queensland have arrested a woman over the death of a 10-year-old girl whose throat was slashed at a home on the Gold Coast.
Police Inspector Lou Serafim says a relative called triple-zero after finding the girl at the home in Emerald Lakes in Carrara.
"We're treating the death of the 10-year-old girl as suspicious and investigations are currently underway in relation to the demise of the girl."
Reporter: "Can you tell us who made the triple-zero call?"
Lou Serafim: "The triple-zero call was made by a relative who was at the incident scene when they located the 10-year-old girl."
It's understood the relative who called the police was the girl's father.
Police have arrested a 46-year-old woman.
If you or someone you know needs support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 1800Respect on 1800 737 732.
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Authorities say five people have been injured in a stabbing attack in the city of Eskisehir in northwest Türkiye.
The Turkish interior minister Ali Yerlikaya says the incident occurred when an 18-year-old man, wearing a helmet and a bulletproof vest, began stabbing people in the garden of a mosque.
The man has been arrested by the local authorities, with local media agencies claiming he was influenced by video games.
A video captured by the assailant, and broadcast by Turkish media, shows him walking through the garden of the mosque as people attempted to escape.
Turkish police say they believe the man acted alone and that an investigation into the incident has been launched.
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Literacy and numeracy results in Australia's nationwide NAPLAN tests have held stable but so have academic gaps between different demographics.
Almost 1.3 million students across more than 9400 Australians schools and campuses took the national assessment program for those in years three, five, seven and nine.
Female students outperformed male counterparts in writing, with 73 per cent testing at "strong" or "exceeding" levels compared to 58 per cent of boys in year seven, while male students performed better in numeracy than female students.
The results also showed a higher proportion of Indigenous students needed additional support.
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Greece's worst wildfire of the year has eased after it burned for three days, thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests.
Hundreds of firefighters backed by fire engines and water bombing aircraft battled the blaze that broke out on Sunday near the village of Varnavas 35km north of Athens and torched homes, vehicles and swathes of bone-dry forest.
A charred landscape and heavily damaged properties was what many of the residents of Rapentosa and Varnavas returned to on Tuesday, after the flames reached the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday afternoon, prompting Greek authorities to issue a chain of evacuation orders.
Foteini Koukoulakou is a Rapentosa resident.
"First of all, let me tell you that we didn’t expect the fire to come this far. Where it started from is very far away, approximately 30-minutes away by car. Nevertheless, it came here, it was very fast, there was too much wind. The houses here were practically saved by volunteers, that is from neighbours who extinguished the fires on their own. This house there was greatly damaged and another one which was burned down. What else can we say? Now we’re repairing the damages."
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In cycling,
Charlotte Kool has beaten fellow Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes on the line to defend her leader's yellow jersey in the second stage of the women's Tour de France.
Kool made it two wins out of two in the eight-stage race as she passed Olympic road race silver medallist Marianne Vos before overtaking Wiebes just before the finishing line in a little over one-and-a-half hours.
She now has a narrow lead of 14 seconds over Anniina Ahtosalo of Finland in the overall race standings.
Starting in the Netherlands, the race heads south into Belgium and then through eastern France to finish on August 18 at the top of the punishing climb of the Alpe-d'Huez's famous 21 hairpin bends.
