RUSH HOUR: The stories you need to know today

A RAPPER caught with drugs at Justin Bieber’s mansion pays the price for party lifestyle and breaking a prison phone.

• Claims that missing wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be in the Bay of Bengal are worth following up, say officials.

• A train has derailed in the US forcing authorities to evacuate numerous buildings.

• A sinkhole that opened up in Queensland has forced the closure of the Bruce Highway.

• Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has reportedly been arrested over the murder of a widowed mother.

• School leavers will face an immediate­ six-month waiting period before they can apply for the dole in plan to be unveiled in the federal Budget.

• Rapper pays the price for party lifestyle at Justin Bieber’s mansion.

10am

That’s it for our Thursday morning live #RUSHHOUR news blog.

You can get across the stories you need to know today below, in the meantime all the latest headlines are right here on news.com.au. See you bright and early tomorrow morning.

9.45am

A note found in Kurt Cobain’s wallet referring to Courtney Love as a “b**** with zits” has been released for the first time since his death in 1994.

The brief, handwritten note states, “Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife,” and goes on to say, “even when she’s a b**** with zits and siphoning all [your] money for doping and whoring.”

The release of the note by Seattle police is the latest revelation to come out of the department’s decision to launch a review into Cobain’s death 20 years ago.

Romantic: Kurt Cobain’s note mocking his marriage to Courtney Love describes her as a “b**** with zits”. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

9.30am

China is advancing rapidly to overtake the US as the biggest economy in the world.

New data shows the leader of the world economy since the 19th century could possibly losing its top spot to the Asian giant from this year.

Growing ... a worker pushes a cart as he walks out from a construction site at the Central Business District in Beijing. AP Photo/Andy Wong

9.15am

The rise of superbugs is enabling long-treatable diseases to once again become killers, the World Health Organisation warns.

The UN health agency said the problem — stoked by misuse of antibiotics and poor hospital hygiene — has become a global emergency.

“Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill,” warned WHO’s assistant director-general for health security.

Killers: Superbugs could mean common infections could once again be lethal. Picture: Supplied

9.05am

The cause of Peaches Geldof’s tragic death was a heroin overdose.

According to The Times, an inquest into the 25-year-old’s death will be told today that Geldof suffered the same fate as her mother, Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose in 2000.

Family curse: Peaches Geldof died of a drug overdose. Photo: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

8.55am

Ukraine’s armed forces are on ‘full combat alert’ against a possible Russian invasion, Kiev says, as pro-Kremlin insurgents tightened their grip on the increasingly chaotic east of the country.

Ukraine’s acting President has admitted his forces are ‘helpless’ to control the unrest driven by pro-Russian activists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and that the goal now is to simply to contain it.

8.45am

The Long Island whiz kid who got accepted into all eight Ivy League colleges plans to attend Yale, he announced at a LeBron James-esque press conference on Wednesday.

Kwasi Enin, 17, of Shirley, chose the university because it has the best music program and offered the most financial aid.

Bright future: Kwasi Enin had his pick of eight Ivy League colleagues.

8.30am

An aspiring rapper arrested during a search of Justin Bieber’s mansion has pleaded no contest on Wednesday to felony possession of ecstasy.

Xavier Domonique Smith, who goes by the name Lil Za, was arrested in January after deputies said they found him with drugs while searching Bieber’s mansion for evidence in an egg-tossing vandalism case.

The 20-year-old was sentenced to three years of probation, has to complete a drug treatment program and was fined $1,000 for breaking a jail telephone while in custody.

Prosecutors are still considering whether to charge Bieber with vandalism.

Caught. Rapper friend of Justin Bieber sentenced over party drugs. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

8.15am

Residents of a small Canadian town are worried a dead 60,000kg whale that washed up on a boardwalk could explode any minute.

Apparently the rotting 25-metre blue whale is emitting a powerful stench and residents of the 600-strong village fear the build-up of methane gas caused by decomposition could cause the enormous mammal to burst.

Ready to blow? Residents concerned this whale could explode.

7.55am

British actor Bob Hoskins, known for his roles in films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died at the age of 71 following a bout of pneumonia, his agent says.

The gruff Londoner, who rose to fame in British gangster films in the 1980s and went on to have a long career as a Hollywood character actor, died in hospital on Tuesday night, his family said in a statement.

Actor Bob Hoskins has died. Photo courtesy of Disney.

7.40am

Argentinian police have detained a man in connection with the murder of New Zealand tourist Nicholas Heyward.

The man is being treated as a suspect, says Mendoza police chief Juan Carlos Caleri.

Suspect arrested for murder of Nicholas Heyward in Argentina.

7.30am

#Trainageddon is set to end in Melbourne but commuters will still experience some delays today. Here is a list of the latest cancellations.

Metro worked overnight to get services back on track after a fire — which is believed to have been caused by rats — damaged signalling equipment and caused two days of major delays.

Passengers hoping #trainageddon will end today. Picture: Nicole Garmston

7 .15am

School leavers will face an immediate­ six-month waiting period before they can apply for the dole under an “earn or learn” welfare crackdown to be revealed in the federal Budget.

Similar waits will be forced on all unemployed under-30s who have shown little effort to find work.

The Commission of Audit’s report into government spending, to be released today, is believed to contain harsh measures to clamp down on so-called dole bludgers.

7.05am

Three people have been killed during a knife and bomb attack at a train station in China.

China’s official news agency Xinhua described it as a “violent terrorist attack” and said attackers slashed people with knives and set off explosives at the south railway station in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.

79 people were injured and came on the same day that President Xi Jinping ended a visit to Xinjian in China’s far west.

Security personnel gather near the scene of an explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station. AP Photo.

Chinese paramilitary policemen stand on duty outside the Urumqi South Railway Station. AP Photo.

6.50am

A sinkhole that opened up in Queensland has forced the closure of the Bruce Highway.

The sinkhole south of Bowen was initially reported to be 2m wide but authorities this morning said it was now about 3.5m wide and 1.5m deep.

Workmen are trying to repair the damage but the highway will remain close until about noon.

The Queensland Police Service Facebook page labelled the hole a “sinkhole”, but photographs published on social media sparked debate about whether it was indeed a sinkhole or just a large pothole.

Is it a sinkhole or just a rather large pothole?

6.45am

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been arrested over the murder of a widowed mother who was abducted from her home in 1972.

Police long had been expected to question Adams about the 1972 killing of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old mother of 10 whom the IRA executed as an alleged spy.

Reportedly arrested for murder. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. AP Photo/Peter Morrison

6.30am

More than $180 million that Australia has donated to help strengthen the Afghan National Army has been subject to inade­quate US government oversight, including missing document­ation and poor record-keeping about the way the funds have been used.

The US Defence Department Inspector-General has warned in a report this might make international donors wary of future payments.

Australia is helping the Afghan National Army but where is the money going? AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini

6.20am

A train has derailed in the US forcing authorities to evacuate numerous buildings in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia.

Photos and video show several black tanker-like train cars derailed and extensive flames and smoke.

6.10am

Claims that missing wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be in the Bay of Bengal are worth following up, says retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston.

Adelaide technology company GeoResonance claims its sensor technology has found a plane in the Bay of Bengal, south of Bangladesh.

“It is certainly something that needs to be looked at and I believe it probably has been looked at,” the Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) told Sky News.

However, Air Chief Marshal Houston said he was sure the plane would be found off Western Australia. He said the search could take between eight months and a year.

Meanwhile Malaysia will reportedly release a preliminary report today on the plane’s disappearance.

Confident: Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston believes MH370 wreckage will be found off WA coast. Photo: MARIE NIRME

6am

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