A beaming Jacinda Ardern has been photographed with her young family at the commissioning of a new $100million ship for New Zealand's defence force.

Mother-of-three Elenor Proctor, 36,worked as a teacher and Ofsted inspector. But the addict turned to crime so she could buy heroin and crack. She was jailed at Manchester crown court.

Brisbane man Jesse Dearlove got a tattoo (pictured) of a sausage on a piece of white bread with tomato sauce and 'Bunnings' text on his left forearm last month.

Regardless of whether the cigarette was alight or not, those who are caught littering in public places in Australia's capital could face the fine.

AFP officers executed a search warrant at the ABC's Ultimo headquarters, in Sydney's CBD, on Wednesday.

Tamicka-Jane Page Catlin-Smith appeared in Bundaberg Magistrates Court via videolink from her jail cell this week as she plead guilty to 12 charges.

Australians planning to hit the road this long weekend are being advised to shop around to find the most affordable petrol stations, with prices expected to skyrocket ahead of the long weekend.

The Port Hedland Lock Hospital, in north Western Australia, was a house-of-horrors for Aboriginal people in the 1900s and it is to be placed on the state's heritage listing as a reminder of the dark past.

Fans (pictured) eager to cop the new all-black version of the Yeezy 350 V2 were seen in queues outside sneaker stores in Sydney and Melbourne ahead of their 8am Friday release.

Children living at the caravan park in Auckland, New Zealand have been described as 'the most vulnerable kids' who get 'no favours whatsoever'.

The bodies of Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, her daughters, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and Sarah Lynn McWaters were found in the woods of Bear Brook State Park in 1985 and 2000. A third child was also found there.

Christopher Kwan Chen Lee was in found guilty of professional misconduct and suspended for six weeks by the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal for making disrespectful comments.

Last night a huge firework display lit up the skies over northern France at the end of a moving day of D-Day celebrations. People in period dress and WWII uniforms danced on the beaches of Normandy.