A US mother has been arrested for trying to sell her four-month-old baby in her local newspaper for $4000. Brittany Hill, 26, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested on Friday after a potential buyer of the infant got cold feet and contacted police. Hill’s landlords contacted police on the same day after they entered her apartment […]

The Humane Society has stripped a man of his bravery award after The Australian Women’s Weekly revealed he had been jailed for beating his wife. During a series of attacks, Paul Francis McCuskey kicked his partner Jeannie Blackburn in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. […]

A woman weighing 110kg has taken out the title of Miss Large Israel in the country’s annual ‘Fat and Beautiful’ contest – proving that big really is beautiful. Vered Fisher, 22, who served in an Israeli Army intelligence unit before vying for tiaras in beauty pageants, beat 15 other plus-sized contenders for the title last […]

A seven-year-old girl has woken from a coma after listening to her favourite Adele song on the radio, just minutes after doctors told her parents to say goodbye to their daughter. Charlotte Neve suffered a brain haemorrhage in her sleep in April. She was taken to Leeds Hospital in the UK where she underwent surgery […]

Nobody on the train would give my 84-year-old father a seat. Would you?

Benjamin Mee’s life has been made into a Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon — but the true story is no fairy tale. Here, Benjamin discusses what it’s really like to live at a zoo and how he coped with the devastating loss of his wife. When Benjamin moved his young family into their very own […]

A German groom has brought about an abrupt end to his wedding when he was caught cheating with a waitress at the reception. To make matters worse, he was caught by his new father-in-law. According to the story from Austria, which has emerged some months after the event, the pair snuck into the kitchen for […]

A Yorkshire Terrier has lived up to the reputation of dogs being man’s best friend by waiting for two days for his owner after he was accidently left at a truck stop in the US. Arkansas truck driver Michael Siau’s nine-month-old pooch Rambo jumped out of his owner’s truck when he stopped at a rest […]

Savanna Jackson might be just three years old, but that doesn’t stop her mother spending $4600 every month on fake tans and makeup. Lauren Jackson has defended her daughter’s extravagant beauty regime, insisting her monthly spray tans ensure the other pageant contestants don’t have an “unfair advantage”. “I just want her to have the best […]

A loyal farm dog has been hailed as a hero after he was found guarding an abandoned baby boy in Ghana, West Africa. The dog was discovered nuzzled against the two-week old child who was left wrapped in blankets under a bridge in the town of Winkongo after it was left there by its mother. […]