Aussie the Blue Heeler (centre) had always been very protective of his owners Kai (left), seven, and Sophie (right), 10. But now their beloved pet is being remembered as a hero after he saved the two children from being electrocuted in a puddle in the aftermath of the New South Wales storms. Their family home at Caves Beach, near Lake Macqurie, had lost power so on Wednesday the children's mother Natalie Crane-Hayes decided take Kai, Sophie and Aussie for a walk in a nearby park. The park was full of large puddles and they didn't know it at the time, but the wild weather had caused a live power line to fall into one of the puddles, making the water live with electrical current. Five-month-old Aussie was walking just ahead of the kids and when he stepped into the first puddle he was killed instantly. Pictured inset is devastation on the Central Coast caused by three days of severe storms.

They're the frustrated parents whose picky kids refuse to eat their food for reasons as trivial as 'it's on the wrong plate'. But now the parents who can't persuade their stubborn children to eat are getting their own back - by posting pictures of their tantrums on social media with the hashtag #mykidcanteatthis. From toast that's too crunchy, to blueberries that aren't purple, to muesli bars that come in strange new packaging - the explanations their children give for why they can't eat their meals range from the silly to the downright irrational. Pictured from left: Children throwing tantrums because the pizza has 'red thingies' on it, the muffin is cut in half, and the drink bottle has a lid on it.

A diary hidden in the Australian War Memorial gives a cinematic account of the Gallipoli landing from the 'beautiful clear day' to the 'ghastly wounds' at Anzac Cove. Alfred Sutton, best known for allowing Private Simpson to carry out his heroic but unlawful acts rescuing the wounded on a donkey, reveals in a never before published account what went on at Anzac Cove and how British commanders sent young Australians into an insurmountable position saying 'you must fight to the finish. The whole world is watching'.

NEW The family of one ANZAC veteran were thrilled to receive news from a stranger this week that the soldier's war medal had been unearthed in an east Melbourne Park. Ashley Manzie was combing the park with his metal detector when he discovered a medal belonging to Frederick George Biddulph, who served with the 23rd Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipolli between 1914 and 1915.

Rhiannon Langley, from Melbourne, is keeping her 191,000 followers updated on her recovery from surgery (inset) as she tans by the pool (left and right), gets pampered and hits the shops. The 24-year-old social media star made headlines this week for sharing her plastic surgery 'journey' with fans on Instagram and Snapchat, even creating a special hashtag for the occasion.

A 27-year-old man arrested (centre) after fleeing a car with a woman's body in the boot is thought to have been living a secret double life with a girlfriend in Australia while he had a wife and children back in Fiji. Police are investigating whether the body found in the car on Wednesday in Bermagui, on the NSW south coast, is missing Canberra woman Daniella D'Addario (left). The 35-year-old and her boyfriend Josaia 'Joey' Vosikata (centre right), 27, were reported missing by her concerned family members in the ACT on Monday. Her friend has revealed: 'When she found out he had a wife and kids in Fiji she left him but then, unbeknown to us the reasons, she got back together with him.'

Wearing a blonde curly wig, red lipstick, a mauve skirt and wide brimmed hat, the man allegedly robbed the Taylors Hill store with a fake machine gun last month, police say. The 23-year-old Taylors Hill man was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of armed robbery. He was remanded in custody to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court at a later date. A police statement said that investigators were told the cross-dressing robber entered the service station on Taylors Road in Taylors Hill just before 7.30pm, confronting a female staff member and producing what appeared to be an imitation machine gun.

A male student accused of raping his classmate has sued Columbia University for failing to protect him against backlash and harassment.  Authorities rejected Emma Sulkowicz's case that Paul Nungesser, a German citizen, was a 'serial rapist' who assaulted her after class. Nonetheless, the case gathered international attention as Sulkowicz, a senior majoring in visual arts, publicly paraded her mattress in protest, calling for his indictment. 

The owner of five horses rescued from rising flood waters during this week's storm of a decade in New South Wales has revealed the amazing lengths her brother-in-law went to over six terrifying hours to save her horses. Steve Spowart (right) dived down into the freezing cold water to cut the barbed wire and free the horses that had become tangled in fences amidst the floods. The animals' owner, Sonia Sharrock (left), praised her 'absolutely amazing' brother-in-law, for his incredible feat, saying 'I don't know what I would have done without him and my sister'. 'Steve was cutting the wire, he had to dive right down into the deep water to cut it. It was really difficult and absolutely freezing,' Ms Sharrock told Daily Mail Australia. Ms Sharrock watched in horror as her stud farm in Woodberry, in Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales - one of the worst affected areas by the storm - rapidly flooded.

Bettie Jo, from Houston, Texas, tipped the scales at 47 stone (660lbs) but found it difficult to lose weight without the support of her husband Josh, she reveals on tonight's My 600lb Life on TLC. The 24-year-old (right) was housebound and unable to tend to her own needs and lived off a diet of fried chicken. Bettie Jo, who now weighs 35st 8lbs (500lbs) thanks to surgery, reveals on the show that Josh (pictured with her left) had become her 'caretaker' - helping her go to the toilet and into the shower, and putting powder between her rolls of flesh afterwards to stop her skin from chafing.

Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan (right) and Myuran Sukumaran (left) could face a firing squad within days after Indonesian officials sent letters ordering that preparations be made for their executions. Indonesia's head of General Crimes sent the letters to the prosecutors of 10 death row prisoners including Australians Chan and Sukumaran on Thursday. The Indonesian Attorney-General's spokesman, Tony Spontana, said the only thing left to announce is the execution date. The Australian Embassy has been summoned to Nusakambangan Island (inset) - where the executions will be carried out - on Saturday. Authorities in Indonesia give death row prisoners and their families 72 hours notice before they are executed, suggesting Chan and Sukumaran could face the firing squad as early as Monday or Tuesday.

Celebrity chef Curtis Stone has said it is up to parents to expose their children to a range of healthy food rather than complain when their kids prefer the likes of junk food instead. Stone and his actress wife Lindsay Price have two boys, Hudson, 3, and Emerson, 7 months (main). 'Someone said to me on a TV show in America ''but how do you stop your kid from eating hot dogs?'' I'm like that's pretty easy, my kid has never eaten a hot dog because it's full of s***,' Stones says. He was back in Australia to promote his new cookbook, Good Food, Good Life.

Three new women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, bringing his total number of alleged victims to 38. Janice Baker Kinney (top right), Marcella Tate (bottom right), and Autumn Burns (bottom left) held a press conference on Thursday morning in Los Angeles, California, to announce their claims. Their attorney Gloria Allred (top left), who represents most of Cosby's accusers, said the event was timed deliberately to damage sales for the comedian's upcoming shows on his nationwide tour.

The shocking images were taken in ISIS-held territory in the province of Homs and show the two accused men being savagely executed by up to four jihadis. Huge, bloodthirsty crowds are seen in the desert clearing where the group of executioners made a display of hugging the blindfolded couple (top and bottom left) and telling them they were forgiven of their 'sins', before pummeling them to death with hundreds of fist-sized rocks (main image).

Samuel Kvarzell (top left), Erik Naslund (top right), Eric Jansberger (bottom left) and Markus Asberg (bottom right) subdued an enraged homeless man who was viciously beating another rider on the train. They stopped the violence and held the attacker until the NYPD could arrive. The friends sprang into action after a frantic conductor yelled over the intercom: 'Are there any police officers on the train?'

Dusty the kangaroo was rescued by Ashley and Felicity Stewart, from Western Australia, two years ago and now the little joey believes he is one of the couple's dogs. Dusty rides around the property in the back of Mr Stewart's truck along with his dogs, Lilly and Rosie, sleeps with them on a dog bed, eats with them, asks for scratches, and even tries to sneak dog treats when he can.

Former model Jennifer Sky, 38, from Brooklyn, New York, claims models are being asked to stuff their underwear with sandbags so they can clock in at a 'healthy' weight because of the laws banning ultra-thin models in Europe. Earlier this month France passed new law that bars models from walking the runway if their body mass index is too low in attempt to company anorexia. Agencies who employ too-thin models face a fine up to $80,00 and six months in prison.

The photographs show female soldiers and fighter pilots in action among the ranks of armed forces around the world, including in Syria, Pakistan and North Korea. One image shows fighters from the Sawt al-Haq battalion (top right) of the Free Syrian army in Aleppo. Another shows female North Korean soldiers (bottom left) on patrol near the border with China. Pro-Russian rebels (bottom right) are also pictured in Donetsk, Ukraine, while another image shows US Army soldier Norma Gonzales (top left) waiting to be flown by helicopter to a base in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan.

The new Adam Sandler film ran into a huge problem on Wednesday when a group of extras stormed off the set. Native American actors appearing in The Ridiculous 6, a spoof of The Magnificent Seven that stars and was written by Sandler, left the set after they became offended by the script's jokes about their race and culture. It was so bad in fact that even the cultural adviser for the movie walked off the set.

A second spectacular blast from the Calbuco volcano (inset) in southern Chile has covered nearby towns and villages in a thick layer of ash (pictured). Yesterday's dramatic explosion was the first time the active volcano had erupted in over four decades, shooting ash and smoke over six miles into the air. There are now serious fears the ash could contaminate water supplies and cause severe respiratory damage to locals. 4,000 people have already abandoned their homes in the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt, 18 miles away from the source of the eruption which one local described as 'an atom bomb'.

A dominatrix who claims she shared a 'hot, deep kiss' with Prince Harry (inset) during his infamous party night in Vegas three years ago says she felt 'overdressed' when she saw him playing strip billiards. Carrie Reichert (pictured left and right), 43, who has previously said she kissed the Prince and has a pair of his underpants she hopes to use in a strip-tease show, has now written a book about the night.

While preparing to take ten GCSEs this summer at one of Britain's most elite girls' schools, Gabriella, from Godstone, Surrey (right), is wearing a tight corset in an attempt to whittle down her already tiny waist. Like many of her peers who also follow the corset trend, Gabriella's inspiration is not to emulate the upright posture of Victorian ladies who wore corsets so tight they'd faint and permanently deform their rib cages. Instead, she's using one to try to force her body into the same extreme hour-glass shape as her favourite celebrity Kim Kardashian, who has posted pictures of herself on social media using corsets to 'waist-train' her body to ever more cartoonish proportions. Pictured left, 27-year-old Joanna Costa, who wears a corset for up to four hours a day.

A series of images showing the heartbreak, brutality and horror of the Ebola virus as it tore through West African communities (pictured left) has taken the top prize at the world's largest international photography competition. The Sony World Photography Award winners were announced at a gala in London last night, where dozens of stunning photographs showcased people, communities and landscapes from around the world. Pictured top right is a pyrograph on Mount Kenya, while bottom right is a group of children playing football in one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Argentina.

Alondra Luna Nunez is back with her real family in Guanajuato, Mexico, now after a DNA test proved that she was not the daughter of Houston resident Dorotea Garcia. Garcia says she found Alondra after she traveled to Mexico in search of her daughter who was illegally taken from Texas by her father ten years ago at age four.

A rescue cat in Utah has become an unlikely mother to a litter of abandoned puppies. Video footage shows the friendly feline named Kit letting the four newborn Chihuahuas nuzzle her fluffy belly. The pups were apparently discovered in a discarded shoe box on Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Humane Society for immediate treatment.

While it emerged this week that an airport baggage handler in Seattle fell asleep on the job and wound up flying in cargo - on the other side of the country it appears there's no slacking to be had. NBC journalist Jeff Rossen filmed an airport worker at LaGuardia Airport in New York doing push-ups on the runway after loading up a plane. Footage shows the employee wearing his high-visibility jacket and gloves while performing the aerobic stunt. Even after his 12th push-up, the fitness-enthusiast shows no sign of slowing down.

The most popular cities in the world are often recognisable thanks to their world-famous landmarks. But what would these cities look like if they did not have their prized attractions? From Sydney without its Opera House (top left), to an Eiffel Tower-less Paris (top right), Rome without the Coliseum (bottom left) to Agra without the Taj Mahal (bottom right) could you recognise these cities without their icons?