wednesday newstrip

A man found savagely beaten to death had previously fallen foul of the law for setting his pet balls on people • metal bar falls mysteriously from sky wiping out entire populations in northern Australia • Julia Gillard is atypically grim in a superhero film that's as serious as the genre gets • odd eviction letter sent to Melbourne grandmother • dwarf crocodiles have met their match as artificial lighting at night interferes with chemicals in the body • Ecuador never intended to facilitate Krypton's famous orphan in his flight from Hong Kong.