Lucy Melo, the elephant keeper who was attacked by elephant Pathi Harn, aka Mr Shuffles, has opened up for the first time about the incident.

Thousands of people who have arrived in Australia by boat this year will now be allowed to live in the community, while their claims are processed. Under changes announced by the Gillard government yesterday, they will be paid around 90 percent of the NewStart allowance, or $428 a fortnight. They will also be entitled to […]

The NSW government has vowed to make adoption easier, for both parents who desperately want children, and children who desperately need safe, stable families. There were just 65 children adopted locally in 2011-12, a rise from 45 the year before. By contrast, there are more than 35,000 children living in “out-of-home” or foster care. Most […]

For three long hours on the afternoon of August 3, 2011, police officer Karen Lowden sat with Madeleine Pulver, neither of them sure whether the device strapped to the schoolgirl’s neck would explode. Here, Karen tells her story. When Karen Lowden took her two-year-old son, Lachlan, to his playgroup in early August, she was given […]

Relief has finally come for Sydney girl Madeleine Pulver and her family today as the man who strapped a fake collar bomb around her neck holding her hostage in the family’s Mosman home was jailed for at least ten years. Paul Douglas Peters was given a maximum sentence of 13 years and six months in […]

Nine-year-old Chloe has not had an easy start to life. Diagnosed with Herpes Encephalitis, a degenerative brain disease, at just 20 months old, the young sister of seven was given only a 50 per cent chance of survival. The illness, more commonly known as ‘cold sores on the brain’ destroys brain cells and as a […]

Twilight fans are sinking their teeth into the finale of the hit franchise, and chewing through their savings to do it! Ditch those plastic fangs from the $2 shop for the final instalment of the Twilight series, out now at Australian movie theatres. The hottest new Twihard accessory for viewings of The Twilight Saga: Breaking […]

Clinging to hopes of an early parole, Schapelle’s family is preparing for the celebrations. Schapelle Corby brought out a photo of her dream house to show her sister Mercedes on a recent prison visit. Ripped from the pages of a magazine, it was of an old-fashioned Balinese home surrounded by coconut trees.There wasn’t a fence […]

Xitclalli “Chilli” Vasquez is nine years old. She lives in Texas, loves her family, enjoys school, and hopes to one day become a doctor. Last year, Chilli’s hopes were all but dashed when a young drunk driver hit her mother’s car as they were driving from the local shopping mall where she had her hair […]

I married my wife because she was hot and I knew there was no way I should even have a shot with her – let alone a relationship. For some reason she really loved me and wanted to marry me. I didn’t want to lose her because I loved her body, her face, her breasts, […]