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New mum Zara Phillips has found herself at the centre of a fashion firestorm, with style critics blasting her “unflattering” outfits at the Cheltenham races. The 32-year-old royal – who gave birth to her first child just eight weeks ago – attended the races on Tuesday and Wednesday and fell foul of fashion critics on […]

Put your knitting needles down! The penguins of Phillip Island officially have enough jumpers. The Phillip Island Penguin Foundation issued a call to action to knitters worldwide last week, asking for penguin-sized pullovers for animals injured in oil slicks. The plea quickly went viral and within days, the foundation had a whole shipping container packed […]

A 44-year-old father of three, Brett Peter Cowan, has been found guilty of the murder of Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. A 12-person jury sitting in the Queensland Supreme Court returned its verdict at 2.13pm today after 7 hours and 25 minutes of deliberation. Daniel’s parents, Denise and Bruce Morcombe, and Daniel’s twin brother, Bradley, […]

Malaysia’s military believes the missing Malaysia Airlines flight changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait, off the west coast of Malaysia, hundreds of kilometres from the jetliner’s last position recorded by civilian authorities. In another puzzling discovery, the search for the missing Boeing 777-200ER is now approaching its fifth day with no sight […]

Distressed relatives of passengers on board the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines flight are claiming they have made calls to the mobile phones of their loved ones, which have dialled and rung before disconnecting. As the world continues to wait news of what happened to the Boeing 777 flight, carrying 239 people, which seems to have […]

Oscar Pistorius repeatedly vomited, retched and sobbed as he heard graphic details of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s injuries on the sixth day of his murder trial. The disgraced Paralympic champion vomited into a bucket provided him to by the court and cried loudly as the forensic pathologist who conducted Steenkamp’s autopsy described the damage done […]

The cameraman who witnessed Steve Irwin’s death has spoken about the Crocodile Hunter’s last moments for the first time. Justin Lyons was filming Irwin for a new documentary entitled Ocean’s Deadliest when he was attacked by a giant sting ray. “Stingrays are normally very calm – if they don’t want you to be near them, […]

The previously unheard of group sent an email to journalists across China on Sunday that read: “You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as pay back,” but the message provided no details of what brought the flight down. Malaysia’s acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters he doubted the […]

As the search continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, which disappeared over the ocean somewhere south of Vietnam while on route from Kula Lumpur to Beijing during the weekend, most reports have concentrated on the possibility of terrorism. But there are also many other possible reasons why a fully laden plane carrying […]

Penguins might survive in some of the coldest places in the world but the ones who call Phillip Island home are in dire need of a helping hand to stay warm. The Penguin Foundation, a charity based on the small Victorian island, has issued a global callout to knitters, begging them to send in tiny […]