Today's headlines include:

• A Perth man has been charged after being accused of throwing a device “designed to explode” into a crowd of January 26 protesters.
• Severe heat in Melbourne has forced the Australian Open (AO) to suspend play on all outside courts.
• An independent inquiry will explore whether there was a “missed opportunity” to prevent six deaths after a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park.
• And today’s good news: The first cancer lab in space will focus on experiments that can’t be performed on Earth. 

Reporting with AAP.

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