Harriet Wran came from political royalty and he was a long-time drug user. They had been together two weeks before their love of the drug ice allegedly drove them to murder in a squalid public housing unit

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They came from different worlds - she a former premier's daughter who grew up in Sydney's well-heeled eastern suburbs (top right)) and he a long-time drug user living in a halfway house in Sydney's west. But Harriet Wran (left), 26, and boyfriend Michael Lee (inset), 35, known as 'Asia', were united by their abuse of the highly-addictive drug ice. The pair had reportedly been together for just two weeks when they, along with 29-year-old Lloyd Haines, allegedly entered Daniel McNulty's seedy Redfern public housing unit (pictured main) on Sunday and stabbed him to death in a botched $70 drug deal.

Harriet Wran is a 'sensitive, caring, sweet woman' who's battled depression and addiction for years: Friend says former premier's daughter's privileged background 'worked against her in life'

Addicted to ice and sleeping on the streets, Harriet Wran, the daughter of former NSW Premier Neville Wran has admitted to drug abuse and being penniless during her first court appearance today

An anonymous friend of Ms Wran, who is the daughter of the late and former New South Wales premier Neville Wran, said that the drug addicted 26-year-old's 'privileged background worked against her in life'. The source described Ms Wran as 'generous' and 'intelligent' and said she suffered from depression and anxiety as well as being a vicitim of her family's expectations.

'Man' on the moon mystery solved? Nasa claims the strange figure was just a 'scratch on the negative of the film'

What is this mystery figure on the moon? The image was spotted online on Google Moon by web user Jasenko

Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Houston-based space agency, believes the photo (pictured) was taken by one of the Apollo missions in the 1970s.

Wait… is that a UFO? 'Unidentified object spotted in Darwin' during Channel Nine news broadcast

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A grey, circular, unidentified object appeared behind Channel Nine's news anchor Jonathan Uptin on Thursday evening as he read out the Northern Territory's evening news bulletin.

'Depressed people should 'f*** off and kill themselves': Triple M bans KISS songs from station after Gene Simmons' 'd***head' suicide comment

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Just when you thought Gene Simmons can't get any more outrageous - the KISS rocker has said people who battle with mental health issues and addictions should kill themselves prompting an Australian radio station to boycott the band's music.

'I smoked heroin while pregnant': Mother's shame as she says she was powerless to stop $350-a-day habit she had for 10 YEARS

Former heroin addict Kay Shaw, now 32, continued to smoke the class A drug while pregnant with her third child, powerless to beat her addiction. She is pictured with her son Kenzie, two, who was born after she got clean

Kay Shaw, 32, from Northumberland, continued to smoke the class A drug while pregnant with her third child, a daughter Billie, who was immediately taken into care.

Tinder playboy Gable Tostee charged with the murder of tourist Warriena Wright, who plunged to her death from his 14th-floor apartment after meeting him on dating app

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Gold Coast bodybuilder Gable Tostee (left) has been charged with the murder of New Zealand tourist Warriena Tagpuno Wright's (right) death. The 26-year-old fell from Mr Tostee's 14th-floor balcony apartment (inset) last Friday. Mr Tostee reportedly met Ms Wright on dating app Tinder after she travelled to Australia for a friend's wedding.

Flash flooding, severe thunderstorms and a RUINED weekend... Australia's east coast to be smashed by heavy rain

Up to 60mm of rain expected in areas of NSW, Queensland and Victoria over the course of five days

Widespread rainfall in Queensland and NSW with expected 30 to 60mm of rain over the five-day event. The wet weather could also relieve Queensland's drought stricken farmers with some rain on the weekend.

UNEARTHED family album! Fresh faced Miranda Kerr's candid holiday pictures from six years ago are revealed

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She took time out of her busy schedule to wish her dad John Kerr 'happy birthday' on Friday. And now some pictures from Miranda Kerr's family album have been unearthed showing how happy and close the Kerr family are together.

'I'm sorry for the hurt': Joe Hockey FINALLY apologises for saying poor people don't drive

Apology: Joe Hockey, pictured in the studio prior to his interview with 2GB's Ben Fordham.

Now even Joe Hockey admits he blew it. The Treasurer this afternoon publicly apologised for suggesting the 'poorest people don't have cars or actually don't drive very far'.

Heartbreaking final photographs of Robin Williams: Frail star pictured at art gallery with his wife just a day before his suicide

The photographs showing a thin, stooped Robin Williams dressed in all black a day before his death were taken at a reception held at an art gallery near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The photographs, showing a thin, stooped Robin Williams a day before his death , were taken at a reception held at an art gallery near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. In one of the images, the 63-year-old comedian is seen mingling with other guests, with a slight smile on his lean face and his wife, Susan by his side. In another shot, the actor is pictured from behind looking stooped, his black short-sleeved shirt revealing bony arms. The pictures come after his wife revealed in a statement yesterday that the actor had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but was not ready to share the diagnosis with the rest of the world. She also added that his 'sobriety was in tact' as he struggled with depression and anxiety before being found dead at his home in California on Monday.

'I'm stunned': Michael J Fox responds to Williams' Parkinson's diagnosis calling the late actor a 'true friend'

Fox, who also suffers from the illness, took to Twitter Thursday to express his shock at the news that the beloved comedy actor was battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease when he took his life.

Fox, who also suffers from the illness, took to Twitter Thursday to express his shock at the news that the beloved comedy actor was battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease when he took his life.

Australia's first $40,000 PIZZA vending machine launches in Sydney... and it's so popular the owner is already planning more

Ordering your pizza is as easy as one, two, three ... minutes!

Australia's first pizza vending machine hits Westfield Chatswood with more to come. For just $12 and a three minute wait you can get your hands on a delicious pizza.

Bali murder suspect claims she's PREGNANT and 'had sex after killing her mother' and stuffing her in a suitcase...as videos emerge of lovers partying with mom's cash weeks before she was murdered

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Last month, Chicago socialite Sheila von Weise-Mack, 62, pictured bottom right, called police after learning that her credit card was being used without her permission at the Conrad Hotel (pictured inset) where it was discovered that her daughter, Heather, and Tommy Schaefer charged $1,000 (pictured together top right). The 21-year-old man was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Heather was also taken into custody but released. Mr Schaefer and Ms Mack, however, shared videos on Instagram account showing snippets from their stay at Conrad, (pictured centre, top left and bottom left). The couple are being held in Bali in connection to the murder of Mrs von Weise-Mack, who was found inside a blood-covered suitcase in the lobby of St Regis Hotel. In the latest development in Indonesia, Heather Mack has told police she believes she may be pregnant and has been taken to see a doctor.

'F*** my life': Children depicted hanging, slitting their wrists, crying behind bars and mocking Tony Abbott in shocking drawing to emerge from Nauru detention centre

The disturbing drawing was done by a 16-year-old child while living inside the Nauru offshore processing centre

A drawing done by an unidentified 16-year-old shows graphic images of a wrist being sliced open by a razor blade and bleeding, and stick figures hanging by nooses (top and bottom right). It depicts the hard life experienced by the child during their time in detention at the Nauru off-shore processing centre (left).

Breakthrough in case of unsolved murder mystery of woman stabbed to death TWENTY-FOUR years ago... as her children slept in the next room

Rita Caleo, 39, was murdered 25 years ago in the ensuite of her home in Double Bay, in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Today police say there has been a 'breakthrough'.

Mum of two young children Rita Caleo, 39, was stabbed to death at her home in August 1990. This morning - after 24 years - homocide detectives arrested a 42-year-old man was arrested at Sydney Airport.

Start playing with your food: A designer has come up with pretty much the best invention ever - chocolate LEGO

Chocolate lego design by Akihiro Mizuuchi.

Japanese illustrator and designer, Akihiro Mizuuchi, has combined the two things of everyones' dreams into one perfect product for an experimental design project.

Mile-high rollers! Inside one of three luxury private jets that cost James Packer $100 million... so he can bring in the big spenders

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Asian high rollers will escorted to and from James Packer's Melbourne and Perth Crown Resorts in swish new Bombardier Global Express XRS aircrafts. The casino giant upgraded its existing fleet of Gulfstream aircraft to three new jets worth $US100 million for its Asian VIP customers. Passengers will be offered a first-class food and drink service. The Bombardiers feature 15 seats, nine sleeping berths and are made up of Rolls-Royce engines which allows it to fly 6000 nautical miles without refuelling.

'Forget global warming... we should worry about global COOLING', claims Tony Abbott's controversial business adviser

Under attack: Maurice Newman (right) has claimed that the planet is at risk of global cooling not global warming. He is a business adviser to Tony Abbott (left)

Chief Business Adviser Maurice Newman claimed that the country was 'ill-prepared' for plummeting temperatures and dismissed scientific research that suggest the earth is getting hotter.

Ebola is 'vastly' worse than anyone first thought, warns World Health Organisation as America evacuates diplomatic families from affected countries

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The warning came from the Geneva-based organisation who added that extraordinary measures are needed to contain the spread of the deadly virus. It comes as the death toll from the condition has now climbed to 1,069 with most victims in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Pictured are burial team members in Sierra Leone preparing to bury another victim.

From producing films and fishing in Byron Bay to being stabbed in a drug deal gone wrong: Inside the life of Daniel McNulty, the victim in the Harriet Wran murder case

Daniel McNulty, 48, died after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times over a $70 drug deal inside his ground-floor apartment at Redfern, just outside of Sydney's CBD, on Sunday

Daniel McNulty, 48, died after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times over a $70 drug deal inside his ground-floor apartment at Redfern, just outside of Sydney's CBD, on Sunday.

Baby killer Keli Lane lose High Court appeal over the murder of her two-day-old baby Tegan in 1996

Keli Lane previously appealed her conviction for the murder of her daughter Tegan at the Supreme Court of NSW in 2010

Lane, 39, appealed today to the High Court of Australia to quash her 2010 conviction for the murder of two-day-old Tegan Lee Lane, whose remains have never been found.

Inside Lleyton and Bec Hewitt's Melbourne penthouse - complete with SIX bathrooms and on the market for $10million

Preview of Lleyton Hewitt's penthouse

Australian tennis superstar Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec (pictured centre) are taking another shot at selling their fully furnish penthouse in the heart of Melbourne for $10 million. The apartment features luxuries like a gymnasium (pictured top left), an extravagant indoor pool (pictured top right), plasma screen TVs in each room and soundproof glazing on its floor-to-ceiling all glass windows (pictured bottom left and right). The former world number one champion is believed to only stay at the St Kilda pad when he is in town to play the Australian Open tournament in January each year.

Teen gets eight years for metal pole spear attack on Liam Knight which left him with permanent brain damage and 'ruined his life'

The teenager has been sentenced to at least eight years was 16 years old when he arrived at party in Forestville in Sydney's north in January last year where Liam Knight was one of about 70 guests celebrating the 18th birthday of Harry Staples  when things went horribly wrong

The Sydney teenager who speared Liam Knight through the head with a metal pole has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison. Liam was one of about 70 guests celebrating the 18th birthday of his friend Harry Staples in Forestville in Sydney's north in January last year when things went horribly wrong. The then 16-year-old known as DS gatecrashed the party and scaled a high fence at the home and climbed onto the roof of a shed.

The perils of Twitter?: Sky News Australia journalist tweets that police are searching the home of Sir Keith Richards... not Sir Cliff

A Sky News Australia journalist got Keith Richards and Cliff Richard mixed up

As detectives swooped on Sir Cliff Richard's home, journalist Vanessa Trezise announced that Sky News had 'the latest on a police search of Sir Keith Richards home over alleged sex offences.'

'I'm nothing special': Beautiful bride who married winner of 'Punching Above Your Weight' competition says school bullies made her think she was UGLY

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Kate Cathcart, 24, revealed that school bullies left her doubting her looks during an appearance on ITV chat show, This Morning. She married Darren Donaghey, 29, at a ceremony at Matfen Hall in Northumberland on Sunday. The couple shot to prominence in March after Mr Donaghey won a Punching Above Your Weight competition because of the disparity in the couple's looks.

Terrifying footage of a boy scrambling to the shore in PANIC as a huge crocodile chases him through the water

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He took a dip in waters locals dare not swim in and that's where this swimmer in Sian Ka'an, Mexico, met a giant crocodile. This swimmer must be thanking his lucky stars after quick-thinking onlookers narrowly managed to rescue him from the jaws of a huge reptile. Thankfully, a panicked onlooker standing on a nearby bridge hurled an object at the creature, stopping the giant reptile's pursuit. A local, Manuel Cerrara, filmed the terrifying footage. He was quoted by Nine News as saying the boy was lucky the croc is fed regularly by tourists and fishermen. Otherwise the swimmer may not have been so lucky.

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'Man' on the moon mystery solved? Nasa claims the strange figure was just a 'scratch on the negative of the film'

What is this mystery figure on the moon? The image was spotted online on Google Moon by web user Jasenko

Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Houston-based space agency, believes the photo (pictured) was taken by one of the Apollo missions in the 1970s.

Never-before-seen images of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn filming their most famous movies revealed in incredible new book

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In Hollywood's golden age, photographers were often hired to come on set and take still images of actors during filming for promotional purposes. A new book Hollywood Frame By Frame: Cinema’s Unseen Contact Sheets, features some of these rare unseen contact sheets from some of the most famous films of the 1950s-1980s. Main picture, left: Audrey Hepburn during the filing of Breakfast at Tiffany's; top right, Robert De Niro rolling with the punches in Raging Bull; bottom, Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop.

Wannabe jihadist teenager allowed to leave Sydney airport on his brother's passport in security blunder similar to the one that let terrorist Khaled Sharrouf leave Australia last year

Another suspected jihadist has been able to leave the country using his brother's passport, in an embarrassing blunder for Sydney border security

A 19-year-old man from Kellyville in Sydney's west was able to leave Sydney airport last week on his brother's passport, boarding a plane for the United Arab Emirates. It is believed he was going to join jihadist fighters in the Middle East.

Shocking moment young man collapsed in internet café after being coward punched by total stranger

A man, known as 'John' was king-hit punch to the head by another customer at a Sydney internet cafe on Thursday night

A man was left with head injuries and a suspected fractured jaw after he was king-hit punch to the head by another customer at a Sydney internet cafe on Thursday night.

'ISIS want to impregnate Yazidi women and smash our blond bloodline': Fears grow for the 300 women kidnapped from Sinjar

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The minority sect is originally Aryan and has retained a fairer complexion, blonde hair and blue eyes by only marrying within the community. But in their furious bid to convert all non-Muslims, the Islamic State jihadists have vowed to impregnate the hostages. The movement around Qara Tappa suggests they are seeking to grab more territory closer to Baghdad despite being pounded by U.S. air strikes further north at Mount Sinjar where they had laid siege to tens of thousands of Yazidis. The ten-day stand-off appears to have finally been crushed after U.S. bomb drops and a fightback by Kurdish forces allowed nearly 45,000 refugees to escape, including these families who fled to Zakho (main and inset) in Kurdistan. Andreas Krieg, a Middle East security analyst at King's College London in Qatar, said it was likely IS would now focus its resources further south after losing momentum in the north between Mosul and Erbil. He told MailOnline: 'The Islamic State is coming under pressure and they need to show results to fuel their media machine.'

White Widow terror suspect 'has new face': Hunt said to have gone cold because she has had plastic surgery to evade capture 

The white widow: searching for Samantha

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Kenyan detectives admitted they were struggling to find fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite - but revealed she faces life imprisonment in the country when eventually caught.

Malaysia Airlines steward detained in France after 'sexually assaulting' an Australian passenger

French police have questioned a crew member following allegations by a female passenger of 'inappropriate sexual behaviour' on flight MH20 from Kuala Lumpur on August 4

French police have questioned a crew member following allegations by a female passenger of 'inappropriate sexual behaviour' on flight MH20 from Kuala Lumpur on August 4, the airline said in a statement on Thursday.

Let's go to the movies! Danny Cipriani takes Jasmine Waltz on a romantic outing to the cinemas

DANNY CIPRIANI TAKES JASMINE WALTZ ON ANOTHER DATE THIS TIME TO THE MOVIES \n\n***EXC ALL ROUND***\n\n***LUMINOUS PHOTOS***

They’ve been spotted together a handful of times recently, fuelling speculation of a reconciliation.

Alarming number of young women have used SANDWICH BAGS and cling film for protection as survey highlights misconceptions over contraception 

Bayer HealthCare have released results from a survey of 1,500 British women aged 25-34 that reveals a number of myths continue to exist around family planning.

50 Cent unveils range of headphones that monitor your heart rate - and NEVER need charging

The SMS Audio BioSport In-Ear Headphones (pictured) will debut later this year and were created the rapper's Florida-based SMS Audio firm, in partnership with Intel.

Two Amish girls, aged six and 12, who were abducted from their family's roadside vegetable stand found ALIVE

Six-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller, from northern New York, were reunited with their parents Thursday after running away from the two men who allegedly kidnapped them the night before.

Six-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller, pictured in an artist's sketch released by police earlier, both from northern New York, were reunited with their parents Thursday after running away from the two men who allegedly kidnapped them the night before. The abduction sparked a massive search involving forest rangers, U.S. Border Patrol agents and dive teams.

Man was already culturally diverse before he left Africa: Differences in stone tools hint at a variety of traditions

The tools discovered in the region between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia (stock image) were made in different ways, reflecting a diversity of cultural traditions.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's SWAT! Police dressed as superheroes surprise children with cancer by scaling hospital wall 

Young patients at Children's Hospital, Colorado, watched in astonishment as members of Aurora's SWAT team abseiled down the side of the building on Thursday.

Have an ICE stay! Luxury igloo hotel offers stunning views of the Northern Lights ... complete with saunas and a snow restaurant

The Kakslauttanen Hotel & Igloo Village, in Saariselkä, can enjoy the display surrounded by all the creature comforts of home in one of their specially-designed snow or glass igloos.

Proof that TRUE beauty lasts for ever: A year before her death, Lauren Bacall posed for this unflinching portrait. And, says SANDRA HOWARD, every line on her proud, defiant face is a lesson in how to embrace growing old

When I gazed at the extraordinary portrait of Lauren Bacall, writes SANDRA HOWARD, which was taken last year by British photographer, Andy Gotts, I was struck not only by the beauty still present in her face, but the defiance and wonderful ballsiness of the woman it belonged to. As she neared the end of her ninth decade, Bacall's beauty was still there: the bone structure, the formidable personality, the intense look in those soulful blue eyes that tells of love and loss.

New Zealand bodybuilder caught smuggling $100,000 of ecstasy mimic into his home country from China

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Steve 'The Ox' Orton was arrested late last year for importing illegal recreation drugs from China. In May he pleaded guilty to two charges, and was due to appear in Christchurch District Court on Thursday.

Russian government slams Julie Bishop's comments on aid convoy as 'absurd' and 'irresponsible'

Julie Bishop this week accused Russia of trying to shift people and equipment into eastern Ukraine  by claiming there was a humanitarian crisis in the area

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop this week accused Russia of trying to shift people and equipment into eastern Ukraine by claiming there was a humanitarian crisis in the area.

Aldi sales predicted to almost double in the next five years threatening Coles-Woolworths supermarket stranglehold

Aldi sales could double in the next five years, putting pressure on the Coles-Woolworths supermarket duopoly

Sales at the German discount supermarket chain are projected to increase from their current level of $5.3 billion to $9.3 billion by 2019 taking an estimated $250 million to $350 million of sales from each Woolworths, Coles and Metcash, which owns IGA.

Drug bust sees 49 people arrested on 160 charges including a mother who allegedly used her 12-year-old son as a drug mule

Drugs were seized from a home in Queensland

Police in Queensland carried out a huge drugs bust on Wednesday, seizing cannabis, meth amphetamines and prescription drugs from homes in Ipswich and Brisbane.

Revealed: How Arab playboys fly their supercars into London on cargo jets (for the trifling sum of $40,000)

The car owners, many of them Qataris, Saudis, Emiratis and Kuwaitis, will happily pay a small fortune - in excess of £20,000 - for their metal marvels to be flown around 3,000 miles each way. Qatar Airways is one such airline that ships supercars from Doha to Heathrow. Secured to the floor of their Airbus A330, the precious cargo can either be accommodated in a single row or in a side-by-side configuration (as demonstrated here with a Mercedes for the Dubai Airshow). The vehicles spotted in central London over the past few weeks often attract the attention of tourists and car enthusiasts, who are intrigued by the tailor-made versions of famous models from car manufacturers including Ferrari (bottom right), Rolls-Royce, McLaren and Lamborghini.

Horror in China as man who thought his wife was giving birth finds her dead and alone on hospital bed following birth of their son 

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Liu Hsiung asked nurses for updates on his wife after he was warned of complications at Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, in southern China.

Now armoured personnel carriers join the Russian aid convoy as shelling of besieged rebel city is stepped up

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Russian drivers (left) finally unveiled their cargo to waiting photographers, showing off bags of grain (bottom right) and tines of condensed milk. But the photocall also revealed that many of the trucks are carrying hardly anything - prompting excuses from the drivers. Ukraine has long been suspicious of Russia's motives in dispatching the convoy, which has been escorted by heavy military equipment as it approaches the Ukrainian border at Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, where it awaits inspectors from the Kiev government.

Stunning views, spectacular pools... and 296 bedrooms: Five star Gold Coast Sheraton Mirage resort and spa goes on the market for $170MILLION

For sale: Gold Coast's only five star beachfront resort for $170 million dollars, located just five minutes from Surfers Paradise and Sea World

An Australian company have listed the Gold Coast's iconic Sheraton Mirage Resort & Spa Gold Coast on the market globally after several unsolicited off-market approaches.

Town rallies around cancer-stricken shop owner who is being 'harassed' by a customer angered by sign asking for people with the flu to stay away

The woman placed the sign in the store and has copped criticism over it

66 year old Queensland antique shop owner, Veronica Reynolds has taken action against getting sick by putting up a sign asking customers not to share their germs. The

Hospital mistakenly 'kills off' 200 patients by sending death notices to their GPs

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A misplaced mouse-click has been blamed for more than 200 Victorian patients written off as dead, after Austin Health in Melbourne accidentally sent out death notices to their GPs.

One-armed weightlifter who lost limb in car crash with boyfriend can now lift a 95kg bar above her head - beating her old record when she had both arms

One armed weightlifter Krystal Cantu can now beat all her old records

Krystal Cantu, 25, from Texas, had her right arm amputated last year after the car she was travelling in with her boyfriend Daniel Cuate, 26, flipped over - crushing her limb. She found the courage to get back to her CrossFit training just three weeks after the accident and is now beating all her old records. The IT consultant would now like to compete professionally and said: 'I feel like I can conquer anything when I'm in the gym - I feel like I have super powers when I'm in there.'

Audrey Hepburn's fairest lady: How iconic star's globetrotting model granddaughter escaped becoming a 'Hollywood brat' and ended up on the front of Harper's Bazaar

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Emma Ferrer has made her debut on the cover of fashion bible Harper's Bazaar with her grandmother Audrey Hepburn's typical grace, in pictures that have made a splash around the world. The 20-year-old Florence Academy of Art student - pictured against an Italian backdrop - mimics Hepburn's iconic poses on the cover of the September issue

North Korea is so secretive you can't even see it from space! Nasa satellite image shows how Kim Jong-un's hermit state is invisible compared to its neighbours

Compared: Lights can clearly be seen in North Korea's surrounding countries of Russia, China and South Korea

This is the extraordinary image of North Korea almost completely in the dark, apart from a small amount of light coming from its capital city Pyongyang. Lights can clearly be seen in its surrounding countries of Russia, China and South Korea - where the capital Seoul just 35 miles from the border. The night image from the International Space Station is so clear thanks to the European Space Agency's NightPod, installed there two years ago.

Would YOU drive this 'car'? Tiny $7,500
Elio needs stabilisers to stop it tipping over - and reaches a top speed of 160km/h

The Elio (pictured) goes from 0-60 mph in 9.6 seconds and does 84 miles per gallon. Phoenix-based Elio Motors plans to start making the vehicles for the US market next autumn. More than 27,000 people have reserved one, and Elio hopes to make 250,000 cars a year by 2016. Because it has three wheels, the Elio is classified as a motorcycle by the US government. But drivers won't be required to wear helmets or have motorcycle licenses.

One-armed pilot lost control of plane as it came in to land because his FALSE ARM fell off

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File photo dated 20/11/12 of a Flybe Dash 8 at Birmingham International Airport, after a captain lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday August 14, 2014. The detachment, on a Flybe flight from Birmingham, came as the Dash 8 aircraft, with 47 passengers on board, was approaching Belfast City Airport in gusty conditions. See PA story AIR Arm. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

The detachment, on a Flybe flight from Birmingham, came as the Dash 8 aircraft, with 47 passengers on board, was approaching Belfast City Airport in gusty conditions.

Vintage Aussie stamps provide flashback to a bygone era

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Five popular ad posters from a bygone era are making a comeback in the form of postage stamps.

Fifty Shades Of Frozen: Mash-up trailer means you'll never be able to look at the Disney favorite in the same light ever again

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YouTube user Tranceart Violeta has taken the Disney smash Frozen to a very different – and kinky - by pairing the animation with the dialogue from the trailer for racy S&M; romance Fifty Shades Of Grey.

Mum and son find wooly mammoth tusks 22 years apart in the same Alaska river

Andrew Harrelson found a 12-foot fossilized tusk on Sunday in a bend of the Fish River near his home village of White Mountain about 63 miles east of Nome.

A friendship that’s a real Wiener: The disabled 500-pound lion and his unlikely Dachshund pal who have been inseparable ever since the cat was a cub

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Bonedigger the lion, rarely leaves the side of Dachshund Milo after they struck up an unlikely bond at the G.W. Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma. Bonedigger was hand-reared by zookeeper John Reinke, inset, who lost both of his legs following a bungee jump accident but has witnessed the pair's friendship blossom over five years.

 
   

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'Shocking' moment real-life superhero Phoenix Jones takes on the ice bucket challenge and then asks to be TASERED

Self-styled superhero Phoenix Jones, aka Ben Fodor, from Seattle, takes on the ice bucket challenge before being tasered and falling into a pool of freezing water. He pledges to donate $100 to help the fight against Lou Gehrig's disease before saying: 'Everything you can do, I can do it better.' The YouTube video has attracted more than 3,600 views. Celebrities including Justin Timberlake, Mark Zuckerberg, TV presenter Jimmy Fallon, Emmy Rossum and Mickey Rourke have all taken the plunge in recent weeks

'We know he wants us to be happy': Brother of boy fatally stabbed on playground gives heart-wrenching memorial speech

Brave words: Dani Verkerke gives a high five to her son Kameron Verkerke, 7 after he spoke at his brother Michael Connor Verkerke's memorial

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Gangnam cub style! Brown bear pictured working the reins and dancing to Psy hit

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The large predator was spotted doing the signature moves associated with the 2012 party plague in Katmai National Park in southern Alaska, U.S.. The bear managed to copy the routine of Psy, the South Korean rapper behind the Gangnam Style phenomenon, as it dried off by the river.

Bombed but not beaten: Amazing merged photographs show the damage done to Britain's streets during WWI air raids and how they look 100 years later

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The series of images, compiled by property website Rightmove, show the catastrophic effect the German air raids had on London's homes and businesses. In composite images (pictured), streets are pictured bombed-out and in ruin following German air strikes during the war and then again as they look today - rebuilt and restored. The rare photographs have been released by the property website as part of an interactive map to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War.

   

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