For time-poor parents and over-indulged kids, Dr Karyn Purvis has a simple formula to connect with each other, writes Caroline Overington.

He was the first person she'd ever loved.

Janis Thompson has always known there was a terrible family secret hidden somewhere. She just didn’t know what it was.

Here are some of the craziest/weirdest/funniest things that have happened behind closed doors.

She’s taken an emotional step in her cancer battle.

New details in the case have emerged.

He liked it so he put a ring on it!

When doctors said there was no cause for alarm after her baby girl was born with a head shaped like a football, a Queensland mum knew she had to take matters into her own hands.

Heart-stopping.

Each year, thousands of animals are mistreated and abandoned and, more often than not, it’s happening in your neighbours’ backyard. So what do you do when you see it in real life?