The genetically-blessed royals, who welcomed their first child together earlier this year, have opened up about the changes in their lives since becoming first-time parents.
“It’s amazing,” the brunette beauty told Sweden’s Svenskdam during a visit to Stenhammar Palace, situated just 120 kilometers south of Stockholm.
“He is very sweet and well-behaved,” the former reality television star revealed as she looked adoringly into her son’s stroller, where he napped peacefully, sucking on a dummy.
The new mum just can’t get enough of her sweet son.
When asked who the newborn takes after, mum Sofia quipped, “He’s a little mixture of both of us! And it’s different every day.”
And papa Carl couldn’t agree more! “The first time has been a shift, of course, but it is still absolutely amazing and wonderful,” he beamed to which Sofia agreed.
“Having children changes your whole life.”
The now family-of-three pictured taking their darling son for a stroll in the sun.
The new parents welcomed their sweet bub into the world on Tuesday April 19 at 6:25pm at the Danderyd hospital in Stockholm.
Just hours after he became a dad, the Prince spoke to reporters in a press conference at the hospital.
When asked if he had cried during the birth, he remarked, “Yes, actually. Of course. Couldn’t stop.”
“For me and my wife, this is obviously a great day with a lot of emotion,” he mused.
“Words cannot describe.”
The face of pure love!
After a few days spent enjoying the company of their new cherub, the oh-so-dashing Prince and his stunning wife revealed the name of their darling son.
An official announcement from the Swedish Royal Court confirmed that the mini-royal will go by the name of Prince Alexander Erik Hubertus Bertil, Duke of Södermanland.
The majestic name and title was announced by Carl Philip’s father, King Carl XVI Gustaf at a cabinet meeting on Thursday April 21.
Prince Alexander is set to be christened on the 9th of September in Stockholm’s Royal Chapel.
Australia is renowned for its venomous snakes, scary spiders and even painful plants – but the animals that pose the biggest risk to our lives might surprise you.
Between 2000 and 2010, there were 254 reported and confirmed animal-related deaths in Australia, according to the latest report from an online database of coronial cases.
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That’s probably not surprising, considering our country’s reputation – home to some of the world’s most deadly snakes, pretty scary spiders, plus some surprisingly venomous critters such as the cone snail, box jellyfish and blue-ringed octopus.
And let’s not forgot our most ferocious predators, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.
We even have a plant that, while not fatal, has a sting so excruciating it may have once been investigated for use in biological warfare.
These are the horror stories that spread across the globe and give our continent its fearsome reputation – however, the animals that really risk our lives are far more commonplace.
Horses and cows and dogs, oh my!
Back in 2011, Australia’s National Coronial Information System (NCIS) released its most recent report into the trends and patterns surrounding animal-related deaths in Australia, covering the first decade of this century.
Of the 254 confirmed and reported animal-related deaths during that 10-year period, horses, cows and dogs were the most frequent culprits, accounting for 137 deaths.
Horses (including ponies and donkeys) were the most ‘deadly’ animal in Australia, causing 77 deaths in 10 years, mostly related to falls. Cows (including bulls and cattle/bovine) accounted for 33 deaths – 16 by causing motor vehicle accidents, the rest by crushing, piercing or ‘unknown’. The majority of the 27 deaths caused by the third biggest killer, dogs, were from attacks, with those deaths mostly occurring in children under four years old and in elderly people.
Next up was our beloved kangaroo, which (indirectly) caused the deaths of 18 Australians from 2000-10 (mostly related to car accidents), followed by bees which killed as many people as sharks (16 each). Only at seventh and eighth place on the list do we encounter the notorious snakes (14 fatalities) and crocodiles (9 fatalities), followed by emus which caused 5 deaths, all indirectly from motor vehicle accidents.
Other deadly animals included fish, sheep, goats, camels, cats and jellyfish, which caused 39 deaths combined.
Almost three-quarters of victims were male and most of the deaths occurred either on public roads, in the home and on farms.
Shoot the messenger?
In case you hadn’t cottoned on yet, it turns out most of our perception of risk is somewhat out of whack when it comes to judging the likelihood of a deadly encounter with certain animals (what’s scarier, surfing near a river mouth at dawn, or visiting a friend’s dairy farm?).
“Our perceptions of the probability of an event has been shown to depend on its availability – how easily we are able to bring such events to mind,” explains Professor John Dunn, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology.
“Events appear on the news and/or are talked about because they are noteworthy, unusual, or dramatic. As a result, these kinds of events are more available and hence we overestimate their probability of occurrence,” he says.
John points to a 1978 study, in which participants were asked to predict the likelihood of dying from certain of causes. The authors were able to show that the subjects’ over- and underestimates of certain risks could be predicted based on how often those causes of death appeared in local news stories.
“If availability was related to the actual frequency of occurrence of the event then we would be well-calibrated – that is, our judgments of the probability of an event would coincide with their actual probability,” says John.
I was lying in bed one evening, while my husband was in the lounge. I checked my emails on my phone and one came through titled with only my husband’s name.
It was an email from a girl I knew nothing of. She said “a friend of hers” and my husband had been conducting an affair for the past 12 months. She sent pictures of them together in our hometown. There were pictures of love letters, and intimate texts where my husband cruelly compared our styles of lovemaking.
My world shattered.
We had been together for eight and half years. We had a son together, barely more than a toddler. We never fought, he was my best friend, and in the blink of an eye all of the dreams that I had for our lives together were smashed to shards that were slicing my heart.
I confronted him immediately whilst he sat relaxed on the couch. I asked him who this girl was. He didn’t deny anything. He couldn’t. The evidence was there, however he said that he had just ended the relationship and that was why she had done this. It wasn’t “a friend”, it was his jilted lover who had contacted me.
I cowered in a ball in a corner of the kitchen like a small child. I felt sick. There was a lot of talk that night but I just couldn’t make sense of it all.
Sleep was scarce as I lay in bed on the very edge of my side, not wanting to be touched by the man whom I had once wanted to be so close to.
I told him he was in charge of our son for the day and I left the house before the sun rose as I couldn’t stay there a moment longer. I had already planned to meet a friend for brunch so I walked and walked until it was a respectable time to call.
I arrived at her house and we talked and cried, and we talked some more. He had been so sorry, he was so devastated at the pain he had caused. It was awful to watch, but I couldn’t deal with his pain and sorrow, he caused this.
I had had suspicions that something was awry. We’d been living overseas for his work for a few years. We had planned this before we married – a romantic adventure to begin our lives. We had our son in one country, then moved to another and then again and he gradually grew more and more distant.
We had always had mismatched libidos but I was content with our sex life. He wanted it more than it was occurring but never really initiated anything to show that was the case, so he spent a lot of time watching porn and masturbating and I was ok with that.
When we arrived back in Australia he became quite secretive. He spent hours texting on his phone. I would ask whom he was chatting to and he would say work or a friend but guys don’t text banter for hours. It seemed odd.
He became incredibly protective of his phone and one day he left it in the bathroom while I was in there. I heard it vibrate. I looked on the screen and it was just initials of someone I didn’t know. I left the bathroom and handed him his phone asking if there was anything he wanted to tell me.
“Nope,” he said. “Nothing.” And I let it slide.
Although I was suspicious, I couldn’t put the link together. He was always either at home or at work. He travelled a lot with work so I couldn’t work out where he would have the time to carry on an affair.
The first time he did something to bend my trust was in the first year and half together. He left his Facebook account logged on and I had a snoop and I found some flirty and sexy private messages. I asked him about them and he said they were nothing; an old friend who was like a sister. It was “cheeky banter”.
The second and third time it happened I told him I didn’t want to live like this with him sending flirty messages as if he was a single guy. He always made it out to be nothing. Eventually, he made me think that I was the one with the problem for not being ok with it.
We had been having relationship issues for a little while when the hammer dropped. We were rarely intimate and I was trying to get us back on track after the birth of our child. I would put on sexy underwear and make a special evening but he suddenly wasn’t interested. He told me that he needed time and space in order to rekindle with me so he left for three weeks.
I later found out that he spent those three weeks with his lover, who had flown to Australia for the occasion. They had shacked up together in an expensive apartment downtown.
The email I was sent included photos of them sightseeing. Here I was thinking he was trying to sort his head out. It was devastating … and yet, I wanted to stay.
He convinced me the affair was over, and it was a terrible lapse of judgment that would never happen again. He stayed at a friend’s house for a week and a half because I needed space but he kept telling me we needed to be together to work it out. Could he please come home? He missed our son … what was I doing to our family?
We began counselling and I felt I was getting somewhere but he just wouldn’t open up. I was willing to try. I wanted my family to stay together if not for me, for our son. One day I thought we could make it, and the next I was so bereft I felt like I may drown in my tears. I felt like I was going crazy but I was grieving, and he was so manipulating.
Six weeks after the initial email I received a second email, this time without the façade of the “concerned friend”.
It was her.
“Please get your husband to stop messaging me and just leave me alone,” she said, with accompanying images of texts from him saying that they could still find a way to be together.
I was done. The tiny bridge of hope I had for our relationship had been burned and I needed to face reality. I took our son, and I left that day.
That was one year ago.
I recently received an email from myself from one year ago that I wrote with futureme.org. The woman writing that email was hopeful she could work things out as it was before the final email, and she was so scared about how her life would look if this marriage ended.
My life looks good. It looks different to how I planned but sometimes stuff just doesn’t work out, and the only way to survive is keep moving forward.
Hillary Clinton will not face charges for putting US national security at risk by sending personal emails containing highly classified information.
Hillary Clinton will not face charges for putting US national security at risk by sending personal emails containing highly classified information.
FBI Director James Comey says that while Clinton was “extremely careless” there was no “intentional misconduct”.
“No charges are appropriate in this case,” he said, despite the fact that “it was possible that people hostile to the US had gained access to her personal email account”.
A year-long FBI investigation found Clinton had sent or received 110 emails on her personal email server that contained classified information, despite being repeatedly warned the server was not secure and could be vulnerable to hackers.
Barack Obama yesterday urged Americans to support Hillary.
Clinton’s spokesperson said she was relieved the threat of criminal charges had been removed.
“We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the (Justice) Department is appropriate,” Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.
“As the secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved.”
People most vulnerable to a measles infection are infants under 12 months, who are too young to be vaccinated, and young adults who may not have had two doses of the MMR vaccine. Image: Getty.
The Department of Health has issued a warning of measles exposure risks across metropolitan Melbourne and some parts of regional Victoria, as a fourth case of the condition has been confirmed.
The cases are raising concern as those involved haven’t travelled internationally, indicating they’ve contracted measles locally.
Measles is said to be rare in Victoria as their widespread vaccines, and 94 per cent of Victorian children are fully immunised.
Last Friday, a young Victorian woman who travelled to Brisbane contracted the virus.
Measles is a highly infectious viral disease that can cause serious illness.
A rash usually appears three to five days after the first symptoms develop, and it can spread before symptoms show.
Victoria’s Acting Chief Health Officer Dr Finn Romanes says that people should be alert to symptoms like fever, sore throat, coughing and red eyes.
Children with both courses of the measles vaccine are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.
A specialist bat carer on the Gold Coast, Queensland, last week made an alarming discovery when she found 28 little red flying foxes pups on the ground at a known bat camp near Mt Ommaney.
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Alarmed by the number of ‘patients’, Trish rushed all 28 of the babies to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.
According to a statement from the Wildlife Hospital, it’s particularly unusual to see little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) with young so far south at this time of year, as they usually bear their young in the warmer northern climate.
It is thought that in this case, the baby flying foxes were unable to cope with the colder temperatures while their mother was searching for food, so they dropped from their tree roost suffering hypothermia.
“When the pups arrived, it was all hands on deck with the three vets and six vet nurses on duty quickly tending to each patient,” said Dr. Rebecca Millers, one of the treating vets on duty at the Wildlife Hospital when the pups were brought in.
“We administered warm electrolyte fluids, wrapped them in special ‘bat wraps’ and kept them in a cosy environment to bring their temperature back up,” she said, adding:
“Bat pups are soothed by dummies similar to human children so each of the 28 patients received their own comforting pacifier too.”
The pups were successfully treated and sent with Trish for further care at her specialist facility on the Gold Coast.
However, Trish has since contacted the Wildlife Hospital reporting that she’s discovered several more pups on the ground at the same camp, again attributed to the cold weather.
The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital stresses that bats are an integral part of the bush ecosystem, helping to pollinate various plant species.
If you come across a bat that needs help, contact the Wildlife Emergency Hotline on 1300 369 652.
They struck up a close friendship in the jungle during I’m A Celebrity! Get Me Out Of Here, so it’s no surprise they spent Independence Day weekend together.
Shane Warne caught up with Havana Brown in Las Vegas over the long weekend and has the Instagram snaps to prove it.
The 46-year-old King of Spin shared a photo of himself with the petite star and captioned it, “So good to catch up with this gorgeous girl @djhavanabrown such a cool person. We are going to rip up #Vegas tonight hahah.”
Watch out, Vegas. Shane and Havana’s in town!
The 31-year-old DJ also posted the same snap on her Instagram page and simply wrote, “This legend.”
In another pre-party snap, the cricketer posed alongside Havana and a group of friends.
“Look out #Vegas @djhavanabrown & this crew are going to party Aussie style !!!!!!!” he wrote.
Shane and his crew are ready to take on Sin City.
During their time together in the jungle, Shane confided in fellow castaway Brendan Fevola about his feelings for Havana.
“She is such a cool chick,” the father-of-three gushed. “She’s a great girl. She’s got such a cute little laugh and that too doesn’t she.”
But Shane will have to settle for staying in the friend zone when it comes to Havana, as she’s already engaged to her manager Vince Deltito.
Shane’s got game! Watch as he tries to score a date with Carmen Electra.
A Catalyst reporter has been suspended after a report about health problems linked to mobile phones and Wi-Fi was found to be inaccurate and sensationalised.
The ABC will issue an apology and a reporter will be suspended after its science program Catalyst after a report on the health effects of Wi-Fi breached editorial standards.
Catalyst reporter Dr Maryanne Demasi will not return to on-air assignments until at least September for the ‘Wi-Fried?’ segment that aired earlier this year.
In the episode, there were links to Wi-Fi networks and brain tumours, which a number of scientists found to be unscientific and sensationalised.
Rodney Croft, professor of public health psychology at the University of Wollongong, said at the time of the episode: “Given that radiofrequency emissions are one of the most heavily researched agents that science has ever assessed, and given that (contrary to Catalyst’s claims) no substantiated health effects have emerged, we can be very confident that the emissions are indeed safe.”
A review by ABC’s Audience and Consumer Affairs Unit (A&CA) looked into the case and found that it had breached the broadcaster’s editorial standards, finding many inaccuracies.
“While accepting the importance of investigating public health issues relating to safety of technology, A&CA concluded that the episode breached the ABC’s editorial policies standards on accuracy and impartiality,” ABC Director of Television Richard Finlayson said.
The episode (which has now been removed from the internet) favoured the view that mobile phones and Wi-Fi cause health problems, including brain tumours.
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