After a long, difficult labour, Claire Keer was exhausted but also full of anticipation, waiting to hear her newborn’s cry. But there was only the rhythmic bleep of medical machinery and the rustling of doctors and nurses as they cut the umbilical cord and swaddled Zach. Otherwise, silence.
‘I went into an absolute panic, thinking: ‘Why can’t I hear my baby?’ recalls Claire, who is now 41.
‘Then, to my horror, when Zach was passed to me I could see
There is something about the phrase ‘summer bride’ that conjures up a sunshine-dappled day of romantic promise. Even so, for willowy divorcee and widow Ann Lesley Smith, the day she becomes the fifth Mrs Rupert Murdoch will inevitably come with additional pressures.
And for all the accomplishments of the one-time police chaplain from California – who likes to talk of her ‘humble beginnings’ and how she ‘defeated the odds’ – the chances are that by the time the invitations go
Johnny Depp was at the bedside of legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck shortly before he passed away and has been left ‘totally devastated’ by his death, it is understood.
The rock star, who just weeks ago finished touring with the actor, died ‘peacefully’ on Tuesday aged 78 after contracting bacterial meningitis.
His family shared the heartbreaking news on his Twitter page along with a picture of the star on stage with his trademark shades and guitar.
The former Yardbirds star
An Australian building inspector who posts scathing assessments exposing tradies’ dodgy workmanship is receiving death threats.
Zeher Khalil, 40, has been threatened several times since he started posting videos in May pointing out the mistakes and shortcuts taken by tradies in the residential housing sector, mainly in Melbourne.
To back up his many claims that tradies failed to comply with minimum standards, Mr Khalil, Site Inspections’ chief inspector, shares meticulous and unflinching video breakdowns of the flaws in each property.
A former stripper who’s had 22 surrogate babies with her millionaire husband revealed she is facing an uncertain future after he was arrested for money laundering.
Kristina Ozturk, 24, who lives in Batumi, Georgia, spent more than €168,000 on surrogates between March 2020 and July 2021, and spends more than €90,000 a year on 16 live-in nannies.
She had one child from a previous relationship when she met her husband, Turkish businessman Galip Ozturk, 57, who owns the bus company
A single mother-of-four who would would wake up drenched with sweat every night before she was finally diagnosed with terminal colon cancer has died after a 14-month battle against the disease.
Sarah Langlands, 35, made headlines in March after revealing she wanted to head to Thailand for her ‘final shot at a cure’ so she could watch her kids grow up after doctors told her western medicine couldn’t keep her alive.
But it appeared the ‘holistic’ approach offered at the
Hundreds of devastated mourners have held a candlelit vigil to pay their respects to schoolgirl Charlise Mutten after her body was tragically discovered in a barrel.
Friends, family and fellow students of the nine-year-old congregated outside the front gates of Tweed Heads Public School on the Gold Coast on Wednesday night.
Many of the young mourners held candles as they stood outside the gates adorned with countless bunches of flowers, pink balloons, cards and photos of Charlise.
The schoolgirl’s body
A woman who was proud of a ‘super-cute’ heart-shaped freckle on her face was horrified to discover it was skin cancer – and is now urging people to wear sunscreen.
KayIa Mailer, a stage manager and secretary from Portland, Oregon, had a tiny freckle on her left cheek from the age of 12. Over the course of 15 years it transformed into a perfect heart shape.
But the unique beauty mark, which people regularly complimented and thought was a tattoo,
