6:24am: In the strange, lawless world of the UK journalism, Nick Miller reports that a new campaign is attempting to rid The Sun's 7 million readers of their daily dose of smut - otherwise known as the Page 3 Girl.
6:22am: In Japan, hundreds of survivors of the Fukushima nuclear crisis have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government as the country came to a standstill to remember those killed in the disaster two years ago.
Police officers Photo: AFP
6:19am: Moving to other big world news from overnight, New York's so-called "cannibal cop" has been found guilty of plotting to kidnap the young women he had fantasised about eating, after four days of jury deliberations in a US federal court.
Guilty: former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle. Photo: Reuters
6:14am: As for yesterday's disastrous suspension on the Northern Line, RailCorp has told the Herald they're at a loss as to how 300 metres of electrical wiring became entangled near Epping Station at 5.45am yesterday morning.
6:13am: In all things pope, black smoke has just billowed from the Sistine Chapel in Rome indicating that no pope has been chosen from the first vote.
No one expected the pope to be chosen in the first vote and the 115 cardinals will now vote twice each morning and afternoon until a two-thirds consensus is reached.
Black smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the College of Cardinals have failed to elect a new Pope on March 12, 2013 in Vatican City. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty
6:11am: A few problems on the roads at the moment:
At Ingleburn there is an accident on the Hume Highway near Campelltown Road.
Wires are down in Greenacre on the Hume Highway at Muir Road.
Traffic is building in Milperra and Prestons on the M5.
6:11am: After yesterday's disaster on the train network, CityFail says there are no disruptions on the city network this morning.
Buses replace trains between Lithgow and Mount Victoria on the Blue Mountains Line until Thursday and between Scone and Maitland and between Telarah and Maitland on the Hunter Line.
6:09am: On the front pages of the major papers:
The Age in Melbourne reveals that BHP Billiton is the subject of a joint US-Australian bribery investigation into the firm's dealings with foreign officials, including Chinese dignitaries wooed as part of a multimillion-dollar hospitality and sponsorship program for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Australian Financial Review reports that Australian media bosses have slammed the Gillard government’s wide-ranging changes to media rules, saying a new regulator to oversee print and online news content and a public interest test for mergers are unnecessary and a threat to free speech.
The Daily Telegraph carries a front page image likening Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to dictators like Stalin and Kim Jong-un for his attacks on press freedom.
The Australian says that Labor has infuriated publishers by proposing a new federal regulator to oversee press standards and rule on mergers, as part of a wider overhaul to be rushed through parliament, despite fears it could trigger a $4 billion television takeover.
SMH front page, March 13.
6:03am: On the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald, the Gillard government's long-awaited reforms to media laws appear destined to fail after it deferred a range of promised changes, refused to negotiate on those it did commit to, and gave Parliament just two weeks to pass the legislation.
6:00am: Good morning all. Phwoar, it's looking hot today.
It's going to be mostly sunny and 28 degrees in the city, a whopping 32 degrees in the west.
Peter Hannam asks the important question in today's Herald: What on earth happened to Autumn?
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