She famously collaborated with Coldplay on the hit track Princess Of China. And pop star Rihanna certainly looked like royalty as she arrived at the Chinese-themed Met Gala bash in New York on Monday night. The Bajan-beauty quite literally hogged the limelight in a huge yellow gown the left little space for anyone else on the red carpet.

Australian country singer Beccy Cole has spoken publicly of her long struggle to keep her sexual orientation secret from her loved ones and the Australian public. After being married for less than two years, Beccy and her then-husband, musician Mike Albeck, split in 1999 when their son Rikki was just six months old, leaving the country music sweetheart to face some hard truths that she had hidden from herself. Now, Beccy has found happiness with her partner, artist Libby O'Donovan (right), after first revealing her secret to best friend and fellow country singer Kasey Chambers (inset).

When the Kennedy family opened the door of their rundown one-storey home (bottom right) to an SBS film crew as part of the controversial new documentary Struggle Street, they hoped to show Australia the reasons behind their financial troubles. They live on a quiet street, made up of a mix of housing commission and privately owned properties, in Wilmott, 49 kilometres west of Sydney's centre, which they say is 'free from drug dealers and hoons'. 'I'm not out there robbing people. I don't drink or smoke. We're everyday battlers keeping our family together,' Grandfather Ashley Kennedy told Daily Mail Australia. 'We like living here, this area is nice. Of course there's riffraff but not everyone is off the rails or on drugs.' Ashley and Peta Kennedy (left and top right) are unemployed and have ten kids and eighteen grandkids between them. They get by on a $300 a week carer's allowance after Ashley suffered a brain injury after working as an interstate truck driver for 30 years.

UPDATED A menacing clown that terrified Melbourne commuters and left them feeling as if they were in a 'horror' movie is a 14-year-old boy - who is now in trouble with his parents. Commuters on their way to the city's Southern Cross Station were shocked on Saturday morning when the boy boarded the train wearing an angry clown mask, and began stalking through the carriages. 'It was like being in a horror movie,' one passenger said. It turns out the boy is learning circus arts on weekends and the train ride was a prank. Now, his step-father has told Daily Mail Australia he would 'have some words' with the youth about the incident. 'The mask is gone,' he said.

Melbourne father Sanjay Premkumar, 39 (pictured), was one of 200 men who took on the 'Tough Mother Challenge' over the weekend, and says he doesn't know how his wife hasn't 'had a breakdown' caring for their three children. In the lead up to Mother's Day, Alice Morell, founder of The Mother Movement, challenged Australian fathers to take on sole care of their kids for 48 hours, while performing at least 30 tasks throughout the weekend including: cooking, cleaning, birthday present shopping and outdoor activity playing.

A teenager in Montreal, Canada wrote her own answers to a sex ed quiz titled 'Objections to Condoms', offering her own clever and funny responses to prospective sexual partners who don't want to wear protection.

Landscape travel photographer William Patino (centre), from Wollongong (to left and right) south of Sydney, spent eight years working as a fridge air-conditioning mechanic before a holiday changed the way he viewed his life. The 27-year-old discovered his passion for photography and taught himself the tricks of the trade through trial and error and by reading the manual for his wife's SLR camera on the long-haul flight to Europe. Now, after being spotted on Instagram, he's being paid by tourism agencies to travel and photograph amazing locations such as California's Yosemite National Park (bottom right) and Nugget Point in New Zealand (bottom left).

There's nothing better than receiving a good old letter. Especially when it's written by a child. 'I'm sorry your abuot to die,' one boy wrote to his grandfather in hospital. One card tells Santa to 'take it easy', while another sends him a URL link. From brutal honesty to unflattering illustrations, these kids' literary masterpieces are too good not to be shared. (Clockwise from left) the note teacher Mrs Clark received from one of her pupils when she wasn't feeling well told her to 'go poop' in order to feel better; this child is feeling guilty about all the Sponge Bob cartoons they have watched - and donates some cash; a war veteran receives a car with the simple line 'Hitler you are a loser'; while this child wrote to his poorly grandfather to say how sorry he was that the elderly man was going to die soon - alongside a smiley face.

A young woman who died in a horrific head-on car crash near her hometown on the Sunshine Coast had been visiting family with her husband to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Jasmine Fielden (left and right), 26, was involved in a two-car crash on Yandina-Coolum Road at the Maroochy River on Thursday. Her husband Cody Fielden (centre), who she had been married to for five years and in a relationship with for eight years, paid a touching tribute to his wife. Mr Fielden said the couple, who grew up in the area near Coolum and Peregian Beach, had relocated to live in Karratha in Western Australia but were back in Queensland to visit family.

Sydney mother Marieke McPhail, 34, created an online network for couples seeking embryo donation, and it works just like an online dating service, pairing donors with potential recipients. After being told she wouldn't be able to conceive a child of her own, she researched and found embryo donation. Following the birth of daughter Zoe (pictured above with Marieke and father David), she has teamed up with embryologist Angela Ferguson to establish the 'Embryo Donation Network' to help other prospective recipients connect with donors, in what could be considered similar to a matchmaking service.

NEW Victorian residents have battened down the hatches as wild winds hit the state, as Mildura (main), Swan Hill (inset) and other towns in the northwest were blanketed by a massive dust storm. A vicious change created the storm that swept across the state shortly after midday, as wind speeds topped 100km/h. Locals shared pictures of the remarkable storm on social media, documenting how quickly the conditions turned, and left the sky an ominous shade of red.

In his first tournament since he got married, Andy Murray tied his wedding ring to his laces. The ring stayed safely in place on his trainer for more than three hours as he won the BMW Open in Munich. He is the first Briton to win an event ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals on clay since Buster Mottram in 1976, which the 27-year-old said was 'an honour'.

Captain Wales was dressed in work out gear with a group of soldiers at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Western Australia (left), in his latest sighting during his visit to the country. Prince Harry has been in Perth for the past six days taking part in training with Australian forces (top right) as he prepares to leave the armed services later this year. He left Perth later Monday (bottom right) bound for Sydney on the final leg of his month-long tour. It has not been all work in Perth for the prince, who has previously been spotted enjoying a football match and visiting local restaurants.

More than 24 critically endangered cockatoos were rescued by police after being found stuffed in water bottles for illegal trade. Smugglers had crammed the Yellow-crested cockatoos into empty bottles so they could get through customs at Port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya, Indonesia. But Indonesian Police discovered the birds, which can be sold for as much as £650 each, and cut them free so they could receive medical attention.

It took about six people (top and bottom right) and tranquilisers to wrestle the beast (left), who had eaten dogs and terrorised locals, from the banks of the Daly River - south-west of Darwin - near Mango Farm boat ramp. But with a high number of crocodiles lurking in the waters, it was just another day for people in living in the Top End, with crowds gathering to watch the spectacle. The Daly River Mango Farm caravan park's Margaret Ray told Daily Mail Australia said the crocodile had been spotted by fishermen near their ramp but had not caused her any trouble. 'When you live on the Daly River... you're sharing the space with them. Generally you have to try and live together,' she said.

Elton Simpson, from Phoenix, Arizona, has been named as one of the two gunmen opened fire on the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Dallas before they were stopped by a traffic officer outside. Investigators can be seen collecting evidence from near their bodies, center, on Monday morning. Simpson had been convicted of lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Africa five years ago, but a judge ultimately ruled it could not be proved that the was heading there to join a terror group. The second gunman has not been named shared an apartment with Simpson at the Autumn Ridge complex in Phoenix, which is now being searched by investigators. The shooting unfolded on Sunday evening as the American Freedom Defense Initiative held an event inside the building where caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were being displayed (pictured bottom right). Followers of Islam deem that any physical depiction of the prophet - even a positive one - is blasphemous.

Barbara Tatge, 55, of Tennessee was dared by her daughter to kiss a good-looking man while running the April 20 race. Tatge's daughter, Paige, began taking to social media last week to find the man who left an impression on her mum. On Sunday, she heard from the mystery man's wife in a letter who said the attention was fun but that the couple wanted to remain anonymous.

American host of The Today Show Savannah Guthrie, who was born in Melbourne, has returned to Australia for the first time since she was a little girl to present a special from Sydney. The 43-year-old glowed as she presented the show in front of Australian icons the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, and had some very Aussie experiences in the form of life savers dressed in tiny swimsuits and and cuddly quokka. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Guthrie also revealed she has found it tricky to shed the 20 kilos she gained during her recent pregnancy. 'My secret is don't look closely,' she said.

A 26-year-old mother in Mexico was recently arrested after authorities discovered she had stopped feeding her 3-year-old child (right). Guinerve Valentin (left) allegedly told police that she stopped caring for her youngest girl because her husband would not grant her a divorce or give her any money. The mother also had two older children, 4- and 5-year-old boys, who were found to be in good condition. All of the children have been taken from the mother, and the little girl is recovering.

Hospital staff in Victoria were shocked recently when an unusual patient crawled into the emergency department. CCTV footage from Western District Health Services in Hamilton, about 300km west of Melbourne, captured the moment when a curious koala casually strolled into the hospital.

Fatima Elomar was photographed leaving court this morning in Sydney covered from head to toe in a dark burkha with only her astonishingly-long eyelashes sticking out, right. Mrs Elomar's husband Mohamed was photographed himself holding the severed heads of two Syrian soliders, inset right, murdered by Isis in Raqqa.

A college student has been caught on camera as she allegedly tried to poison her two roommates. Hayley King (left), a 22-year-old University of South Carolina student was arrested in February after her roommates set up a hidden camera that seemed to record the young woman as she first spit into their food and then later sprayed it with window cleaner (right). This after the other two girls say the three had been fighting for weeks.

This is the moment a Chinese road rage driver dragged a young woman out of her car and gave her a savage beating - and claimed it was because she had scared his wife and child.  Lee Pan, 37, pursued Lu Yang, 28, for several miles after claiming she had cut him off on a motorway and frightened his family. After forcing her to the side of the road in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, he then pulled her out of her car and is seen repeatedly kicking her. 

An image posted to Reddit shows a letter allegedly sent by an Uber driver to a female student he once drove, quoting the famous line from film Notting Hill before making inappropriate comments about her physical appearance.

Italian artist Marco Grassi's portraits convey a sense of realism that cause many to take a second look. His pictures are so very detailed they appear to have a photographic quality to them. Grassi calls the style of his photoreal paintings 'surreal hyperrealistic.'

Prankster Dan Jarvis, 26, from Gravesend, in Kent, jumped from the diving platform at the London Aquatics Centre as Olympic medallist Tom Daley competed in the Diving World Series. Jarvis, who is part of an online prankster group, Troll Station, which puts its stunts on You Tube, was fined £90 under the Public Order Act.

The photos, on display at Austin gallery Modern Rocks, were taken by Kirk Weddle, the photographer of the original album cover. Weddle took the promotional photos just a month after Nevermind was released as the band was on the cusp of rock stardom. Weddle said the boys, on their day off from touring, were not excited to jump into the cold pool but were good sports and even brought in their instruments.

The Jal Mahal is an abandoned palace set in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur which is said to have been used as a royal summer retreat. Although the red-walled fort looks flat, it actually has five levels, with four being submerged under the lake. Now there are plans to transform it into an ultra-exclusive restaurant.

Whether it be with thousands of tourists queuing or soldiers parading in victory or defeat, Paris's most iconic landmarks are as recognisable today as they were when the city was war torn. A clever collection of composite images by French art director Julien Knez brings together scenes from 1940s Paris with peaceful pictures of the city we visit now. One image shows tourists gathering outside the Notre Dame Cathedral, where Nazi gunners once stood guard during the war.