The family of a 33-year-old woman wept with relief after a jury found her not guilty of stabbing to death her American fiancé in the neck with a kitchen knife in their western Sydney home during a heated fight after she ended their engagement. The jury found Marcela Castaneda (right) had acted in self defence when she punctured US aviation engineer Gregory Peck's (left) heart in an argument which ended their violent five year relationship.

Woody Allen has revealed he thought his controversial relationship with wife Soon-Yi Previn was 'just a fling' when it started in 1992. The prolific director, now 79, has been in a relationship with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, 44, for 22 years.  Breaking his intense privacy in a rare interview with NPR's film critic Sam Fragoso, Allen describes in detail why 'the dynamic worked' between them, insisting the age difference 'didn't seem to matter' - 'It seemed to work in our favor actually.'

Ferrero Australia has confirmed a nationwide shortage of Nutella, thanks to the current craze for restaurant and cafe desserts based around the sweet spread. With Nutella in short supply until the next shipment arrives from Italy, FEMAIL reveal where to quickly get your fix before Australian stock runs out, from a Nutella pretzel milkshake in Canberra (top left), to Nutella bombs in Melbourne (bottom centre), and Nutella-infused cronuts in Brisbane (bottom left and right).

Photos of the bizarre techniques being used to avoid the footplate at the end of escalators have emerged from China. A Facebook video shows people leaping and jumping (left), keeping their children away from the metal plate (centre) and using sticks (right) to check the foot plate is intact before getting on. The reaction comes after video footage emerged of a Chinese woman falling to her death through an escalator footplate in a shopping mall on Monday.

A giant dead rat has been found inside a computer at the front counter of a Subway store at Chermside Westfield, Brisbane. Food hygiene investigators at the store also found numerous cockroaches and fined the business $20,000. Meanwhile, roasted Ducks were discovered hanging unprotected over a basin next to an 'unclean wall and posters' at a Chinese restaurant, Beijing House, in Brisbane.

NEW Great explorers like Sir Douglas Mawson owe much of their fame to Frank Hurley's (inset) work but the photographer responsible for stunning images from World War I trenches and Antarctic expeditions (seen above) died a lonely man.
Hurley's extraordinary and controversial life has been told in a novel by author Tim Griffiths. He calls him 'Forrest Gump with a camera' because he turned up at major events across the 20th century.

Officials are examining debris found washed up on a beach on Reunion island east of Madagascar (illustrated on map) to determine if it is related to doomed Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The two-metre-long piece of wreckage, pictured, which appeared, to be part of a wing, was found by people cleaning up a beach. Xavier Tytelman, an expert in aviation security, said it could not be ruled out that the wreckage belonged to MH370, which vanished without trace in March last year.

CCTV footage from inside a towing company at Nambour, 100km north of Brisbane, shows puzzled employees reacting as they felt tremors from an earthquake that hit off the Fraser Coast at 9.41am. Footage shows a group of workers standing around the reception desk talking as a rattling sound starts to echo through the room. The surprised workers look around before one of the men yells out in shock: 'It's an earthquake'. Security cameras from another section of the office captured one employee getting out of his chair and stopping suddenly to feel the tremors.

The friend of a father, who died in a horrific caravan gas explosion along with his two young children, has revealed the chilling conversation just days before the tragedy. The bodies of Charlie Hinder, 39, his four-year-old son, River and seven-year-old daughter, Nyobi were found inside a caravan in the front yard of a home in Mount Isa, north-west Queensland.

Kordale Lewis, 26, and Caleb Anthony, 27, from Atlanta, Georgia, who shot to fame in 2014 after posting a photo of them doing their daughters' hair in the morning, have announced their split as Caleb blasts Kordale for 'disrespecting' him in lengthy Instagram post, which has since been removed.

He was named Cecil after Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate, having first been spotted in 2008 at a place called White Man's Watering Hole inside Zimbabwe's famous Hwange National Park. But he was tricked earlier this month into leaving his sanctuary. Pieces of meat had been left just outside the boundary of Cecil's territory, where no hunting is allowed and anti-poaching patrols operate. Cecil picked up the scent and followed the trail, leaving his pride of two lionesses and six cubs inside the park. It proved a fatal mistake.The so-called King of the Jungle is pictured main, while the American dentist who paid £32,000 to Zimbabwean guides in return for the chance to kill Cecil is inset. Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst (top left) and local landowner Honest Ndlovu (bottom left) allegedly assisted him.

Sophie Guidolin, from the Gold Coast, knows how it feels to have thousands of strangers criticise you while pregnant. The fitness star, now 32 weeks pregnant, has defended Bridges, who mysteriously deleted a video of herself lifting weights while pregnant from her Instagram account. Sophie remarked to Daily Mail Australia: 'Wouldn't it be nice If we could celebrate the fact that a respected woman is dispelling some of the myths around remaining active during pregnancy?'

Trying to cover facial flaws can be stressful, and chances are you have been doing it all wrong. Melbourne-based make-up artist Heidi Hamoud says orange and green concealers (left) work best to cover uneven skin tones to achieve a flawless foundation look (top right). The vlogger says that orange work to correct discolouration in skin with blue and purple undertones, while green counteracts the red of blemishes.

The photographs, taken from the Instagram account 'Average Parent Problems', offer a glimpse into the challenges parents face when raising their little ones. Put together by mommy blogger Ilana Wiles of Mommy Shorts, it aims to help parents laugh at the so-called 'problems' kids create. Because if they don't, she says, they might just cry themselves.

Hayley Mitchell, from the Gold Coast, weighed 110 kilograms at her heaviest, but after being devastated by how she looked at a friend's wedding (left), she took control - losing 50 kilograms. The mother-of-three had struggled with her weight her whole adult life but determined to make a change, Mrs Mitchell swapped her takeaway food for protein and vegetables and hit the gym, losing nearly half her body weight in 19 months (right).

The graphic was compiled by Truth Theory, a blog run by a former pharmacist who goes by the name Niraj, based in the US, and includes a seven-stop breakdown. It reveals that in the First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100 per cent of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing you to keep it down. While at 60 minutes, as the rave inside of you dies down you'll start to have a sugar crash.

The 14-foot beast was first spotted at the weekend when it went after a poodle. After eating several small animals it was blasted with a shotgun in Warren County, near Jonesburg. Relieved residents have been gathering to view its carcass after it was put on display by local mom Pauline Horstdaniel, whose husband shot the animal.

Its streets and homes have featured on TV sets around the globe for 30 years. But now fans of iconic Australian soap Neighbours explore the set in person, with the TV show listing its famous homes for rent on Airbnb as part of a special promotion. The special listing offers a winner and a friend the chance to stay in Erinsborough, the fictional Melbourne suburb where the series is set, for five nights - hosted by actor Alan Fletcher, who plays Karl Kennedy (inset).

Police found the shocking diaries of a killer after arresting Tatiana Samsonova, 67, pictured, who was caught on CCTV carrying the body parts of an elderly victim in plastic bags. They contain details of how she dismembered victims and scattered their body parts all over the city in St Petersburg. They have since found diaries in three languages detailing a series of brutal murders over two decades which police are now cross-referencing with unsolved cases.

The four-time All-Star, who enjoyed a glittering career before descending into alcoholism and losing his $100million fortune, is currently working as a barista at Starbucks (inset) in North Kingstown, Rhode Island - but is training to manage one of the chain's stores. He thanks Starbucks CEO and chairman Howard Shultz - the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics (now, the Oklahoma City Thunder) when Baker played for them - for the 'excellent' opportunity. 'In this company there are opportunities for everyone. I have an excellent situation here at Starbucks and the people are wonderful,' he said. Pictured: Baker is seen playing for the Seattle SuperSonics during a game against the Houston Rockets in Texas in 1998 (right), and arriving at court after being charged with drunk driving in July 2007 (left).

The ever-so adorable Darren and Phillip (left) are social media star thanks to their obsessed owners. Known as the Blueboys, the English Staffordshire terriers have almost 40,000 followers on Twitter and more than 5,000 fans on Facebook. Both runts of the litter (inset) - only weighing about 16kg which is small for their breed - the fluffy duo are now having the last laugh as their besotted masters, Jennifer McLean and fiance Lachlan, has turned them into foxy fashionistas by dressing them up in baby clothes and capturing some seriously precious, and at times hysterical, moments (right). The Queensland couple bought Darren from a breeder four years ago, then adopted Phillip from a family friend a year later - and the cute canines have proved to be anything but camera-shy.

A recording surfaced on Wednesday showing wrestling legend Hulk Hogan making racially-charged remarks to his then-imprisoned son, Nick Bollea, over a Florida jailhouse phone (right: Hogan is pictured alongside his wife or daughter) in 2008. In the latest tape, Hogan apparently tells his then-17-year-old son: 'You and me been sitting on some serious phone, phone dialogue here n***a'. Hogan (pictured, left, with his son in 2009) then notes that his use of the slur means that Bollea is his 'best friend'. 'N***a, n***a, that means, that means you (are) my best friend,' he appears to say. The recording was released in 2008 by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and reemerged online this week. It comes just days after Hogan was fired by WWE over racist comments he made in a 2007 audio tape.

Elderly Japanese men and women who were just schoolchildren when the Enola Gay annihilated their city by dropping the nuclear device, recall the events of that horrifying day on August 6, 1945. Shigeko Sasamori, now 83, (left) described her appearance as 'monstrous' after she was caught in the blast. Takashi Tanemori (right) was a seven-year-old playing hide and seek when he found himself buried in the burning wreck of his school building after a sound that almost 'split his skull'.

Zoë Wescott, 30, and her husband Taylor, from LA, were matched on the dating app shortly after Zoë got out of a relationship. The couple knew almost immediately that they'd eventually get hitched. Taylor proposed after three months. But though Zoë was 'confident as hell' about her decision to tie the knot with him - even after such a quick courtship - she still feared the judgement of others.

An Australian rower has been ruled out of this year's World Rowing Championship after a cycling crash in Italy caused him severe grazing and a busted collarbone. Alex Lloyd (right) suffered severe injuries (left) while training with fellow teammates around the northern Italian town of Varese on Tuesday. National selectors are still due to make a decision on who will replace Lloyd.

The 28-year-old mixed martial arts fighter revealed that she purposely packed on the pounds before posing for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2015 Issue earlier this year because she wanted to flaunt her natural curves. The professional athlete, who recently revealed that she once struggled with bulimia, explained that 'took a lot of time' for her to to develop a 'healthier relationship' with food and her weight.

Youngsters are taught how to push their tiny bodies through the pain barrier at the summer school in Bozhou, Ahui Province. These amazing images show them hanging from horizontal bar (bottom left), holding stretch positions (main image) and balancing on their hands (bottom right). Children with special physical capabilities are selected specially for the camp during the summer holiday. China is known for picking out youngsters with promise in any sport and sending them to training camps like these.

A groom ditched his shoes and tie as he transformed into the hobbit, Frodo Baggins, for his Lord of the Rings wedding day. Will Grant, 28, who's a big fan of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel, convinced his wife-to-be, Amy Gander, 33, to turn their garden in Woolacombe, North Devon into Middle Earth for their big day. They rowed to a pond (top right) where a man dressed as Gandalf took their vows (pictured left) and a well-trained eagle delivered the wedding rings. It took Will and Amy six months to plan their magical nuptials, which took place on July 4. They even created a website to give guests (bottom right) some costume inspiration. It advised attendees to bring weapons but to 'keep safety in mind'. 'If you have a bow and arrow, please leave the arrows at home to avoid the temptation of ring them,' the description read. While Will, a plumber, went as Frodo Baggins, Amy dressed as the ethereal blonde character, Galadriel. Their fantastical setting was decked with hobbit holes, an enchanted forest and a wooden entrance with the carved inscription 'speak friend and enter' based on the Gates of Moria.

As if dangling from the top of a 400-metre building was not enough, one fearless thrill-seeker has taken the human flag trend to new heights. Brave Abudi Alsagoff, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, climbed 200 flights of stairs to the top of the 101 Marina in Dubai, to perform what is fast becoming the bizarre fitness craze of the year.

The baby hippo is seen standing on its hind legs before it clambers on to the back of a bull and propels itself into the herd of adults wallowing in the mud (pictured main). Gavin Udal, who photographed the determined hippo at Lake St Lucia in Zululand, South Africa, said the calf (pictured inset) was seeking shelter from the chilly weather - and protection from nearby predators.