It's that time of day again. Forget the news, forget the rain. Lose your Friday morning coffee plans. It's time to apply all of your energy to the below nine letters. Can you get it? Send your answers via email or Twitter.

Cathy Wilcox's cartoon in today's paper. Follow Cathy on Twitter to see more of her work.  

Carlton will not interview caretaker coach David Teague or talk to him about the prospect of taking the senior coaching position until the season’s end.

Adelaide have made one of the biggest AFL selection statements of recent years, dropping Eddie Betts less than a fortnight after he kicked six goals in a game.

Australian NBA superstar Ben Simmons has jumped on board with a new documentary about Adam Goodes to ensure the story of the AFL great's battle with racism will be spread around the world.

And lastly in the injury ward, Lance Franklin has suffered a setback in his comeback from a hamstring injury, but Sydney have not ruled out the superstar forward returning this year to play his 300th game.

These days, we're always told to be in the present, live in the now. Appreciate all the things we have, not have not.  

But perhaps nothing hits that message home more than knowing we all came close to experiencing the wrath of 30 times the energy of Hiroshima's atomic blast yesterday.

Science reporter Liam Mannix's exclusive story looks into the once-in-a-decade event where a 100m wide asteroid came close to hitting Earth, and how scientists almost missed it.

Daniela Huepe has uploaded this stunning silhouette of a pink sunrise from outside her window this morning. Send your Friday morning pictures via email or Twitter.

Water crews are attending the scene of a burst water pipe on the corner of Langslow Road and Wells Road in Aspendale Gardens. If you're travelling through here on the way to work, allow extra time - but also send us some pics via email or Twitter.

Police have released images of a man who used a large cardboard box to steal designer bags from a CBD hotel worth $200,000. 

The man entered the Little Collins Street hotel, used a swipe card in the lift and selected all floors which eventually gained him access to a privately owned apartment on the higher floors. 

He was in the apartment for about 30 minutes before leaving with a small suit case and the box stuffed with stolen handbag loot. 

Ever nabbed a sneaky extra potato? Or upgraded your nuts by pressing a different button? Although most of us would never steal, there's been a surge in shop-lifting driven by the rise of self-serve checkouts, causing retailers to lose more than $3.3 billion a year to light-fingered customers.