A woman has spoken out about the miraculous moment she discovered not only did she fall pregnant after months of trying to conceive but she was carrying five babies. Soon to be the mother to quintuplets, Kim, who wished to keep her surname anonymous for privacy reasons, was scheduled for an ultrasound on August 18 after experiencing unexplained bleeding. The 26-year-old woman, who is nearly 12 weeks pregnant, thought she was expecting twins after her blood tests revealed her hormone levels were higher than usual.

A Melbourne couple who flew three hours to New Zealand to have their marriage recognised hope that speaking out about the great lengths they endured to be wed will finally see same-sex unions legalised in Australia. Natasha (left of bottom right) and Sarah Dessmann (right of bottom right), both 29, were married in Queenstown on New Zealand's South Island on September 6 - their eight-year anniversary (left and top right). 'We both like to travel and we were floating the idea of going to New Zealand,' Natasha told Daily Mail Australia.

The Project co-host Waleed Aly (pictured) is not jumping on the social media bandwagon just yet as he believes sites like Twitter can 'infect your work', if you're not careful. Mr Aly, who became a permanent co-host of the program in January, said that using social media would worry him about offending someone with his opinion. 

The controversial deputy mayor of Auburn in Sydney's west, Salim Mehajer (left centre and bottom right with his wife Aysha on their wedding day), was re-elected in a council meeting on Wednesday night, despite fellow councillors urging his resignation. Fellow Auburn councillor Irene Simms (top right) was appalled by the result, while loud applause from Mr Mehajer's supporters broke out in the public gallery following the announcement.

Joanne Gould, 30 from Golders Green, London, put Jamie's Everyday Super Food recipes to the test for FEMAIL and finds that she makes a whopping £52 saving on her weekly shop, while still managing to eat healthily. On Day 1 Joanne spent £8.10 on three meals, which included a breakfast of muesli, fruit, yoghurt and seeds. On Day 2, the total cost of shopping was £12.50 and included Greek salad for lunch. Day 3's total cost was £9.25 with chicken and squash cacciatore for dinner, Day 4 cost £13.80 for three meals including a healthy chicken Caesar salad; the cost for Day 5 was £11 and included was a bland Bombay chicken dinner; Day 6 cost £13.67 and Joanna served pasta for lunch and on Day 7 Joanna spent £19.48 on three meals, serving griddled steak and peppers with tabbouleh rice for dinner.

Angharad Lovering, 38, from South Wales, flew to the Caribbean for a three-week holiday to meet Loric Bullock, 19, and says she knew it was 'meant to be' when she came back pregnant. Her new lover then proposed by text and despite having only met him once she accepted and took out a £3,000 loan to pay for his temporary British visa before marrying him last May. Despite the age gap and their unconventional courtship, she insists that they are the 'real deal' and 'doesn't give a damn' what critics think. The couple now live together in Cardiff with their son Tyrese, now one, and Angharad's daughter from a previous relationship, Daisy, 15.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Melissa 'La China' Calderon (pictured main and top and bottom right), described by her assassin boyfriend and second-in-command Pedro 'El Chino' Gomez as 'maniacal' and a 'control-freak', is said to have racked up more than 180 murders. The ruthless cartel boss is known for known for kidnapping her victims and dumping their dismembered bodies on their families' doorsteps. Mexico's most powerful female narco was captured on Saturday after El Chino traded information with authorities, including the locations of his girlfriend's secret burial sites, in exchange for a reduced sentence.

A gripping new book, called 'Children by Monsters', charts the often tragedy-stricken lives of the children born to the world's most feared dictators, tyrants' sometimes illegitimate offspring, who spent their lives in their father's shadows. There is the daughter of fearsome Romanian dictator Nicolae Causescu, Zola-Elena (pictured top left), who was jailed for 'undermining the national economy'. Russian dictator Joseph Stalin mocked his son, Yakov (pictured top right), when he tried to shoot himself in the head and missed. Frenchman Jean-Marie Loret (pictured bottom right), claims he is the son of Hitler conceived during an affair with his mother in WWII. And there is the story of how North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un (bottom left) succeeded his father instead of his two older brothers.

The 23-year-old from Middlesbrough advocates the low calorie diet - 1,200 calories fewer than the NHS recommend - in her new manual Holly Hagan's Lose 5 Pounds in One Week, written with personal trainer Ashley Lucas. Concerned users on Instagram have branded her plan 'unsustainable' and 'a terrible example to female society'. But her spokesman defends the diet, saying it's designed for 'people to lose a small amount of weight in a short period of time for a quick confidence boost'.

A Sydney comedy group has mocked people who wear activewear for everyday activities in a new parody video. Activities include drinking a Coke Zero (right), coffee with girlfriends (left) and doing 'literally nothing'. Donning brightly coloured fitness gear from visors to puffer vests, the all-female group participated in blasé non-active activities from getting a manicure to taking out the rubbish bins.

The world's most prestigious yacht show features the latest must-have accessories for wealthy owners, who can splash on everything from giant slides to helicopters. One of the toys with definite wow factor is the £1million Dragon personal submarine (bottom), which can reach depths of 400ft. For £4million, owners can buy their very own helicopter (top right) to travel directly from the airport to their yacht, or they can opt for the Marine Edition Mono (top left), a £500,000 sports car that was specially built for transport on a yacht.

The brothers are throwing their weight behind the ambitious project, which will see an entire street in Newton Heath, Manchester, rejuvenated for Armed Forces veterans. The pair joined presenter Nick Knowles and the BBC's DIY SOS team of builders, as well as hundreds of volunteers, in helping with the final stages of the build. Hailed as the DIY SOS team's 'most ambitious' project to date, the project has seem eight buildings undergo renovation plus the rejuvenation of the facades of 62 houses.

Destiny Mantia, from Lincoln County, Missouri, wrote a powerful open letter on Facebook, top right, after her husband Corey Mantia and son Parker, pictured with her, left, were killed by a drunk-driver. The 22-year-old family's minivan was hit by Shanna D Cook, who was under the influence of alcohol and swerved into their side of the road, killing herself and Parker at the scene, bottom right.

The wife, known only as Lisa, left the giant 15ft x 10ft message overnight for husband Paul to see on his commute. It read: 'To my cheating husband Paul. You deserve each other. When you get home I won't be there. Enjoy your drive to work! Lisa.' But thousands of other motorists also saw it as she put it alongside the busy Sheffield Parkway, a major commuter route into the South Yorkshire city.

Charley Wood, from Timperley, Greater Manchester, lost her mother, Lorraine (pictured right with her daughter) to ovarian cancer in 2006. Last year, test revealed Miss Wood had inherited the BCRA1 gene, which meant she had an 85 per cent chance of developing breast cancer. She decided to have a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery, undergoing the process in July. During her journey, Miss Wood decided to photograph herself and write a frank blog about recovering from the operation, which includes how she was unable to get her new breasts wet and had to wear cling film (she is pictured, top and bottom centre, showing drains attached after the surgery).

The teenager can be seen sitting on a chair at her home in Brazil and talking on her mobile phone when the creature suddenly lands on her lap (left, circled in red). Footage then shows the small lizard scampering off her legs and on to the chair before she leaps to her feet with a horrified look on her face (centre). She screams uncontrollably and hops up and down while still holding on to the phone which is plugged into the wall. With her arms flailing, she eventually drops the phone before sprinting off (right) to the safety of another room.

Queensland and New South Wales have been revealed as the states worst-hit by magpie attacks as councils around Australia take drastic action against the territorial birds during swooping season. This comes after a number of children in Gosford in New South Wales (including six-year-old Peter Adnam-Berry, pictured inset) were pecked in the eyes, and others in Queensland were left with cuts on their faces following swooping attacks this month. Some councils have resorted to culling particularly aggressive birds while others have erected 'magpie danger zone' signs to warn people of problem areas. In Queensland this year 970 magpie attacks have been reported, followed by 801 attacks in NSW and 686 attacks in Victoria.

A waxwork at Madame Tussauds (left) takes six months and $300,000 to complete with the rollercoaster of politics said to have left sculptors frazzled and exhausted. The museum is yet to decide if Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (top right) is worthy of his own wax figure. The museum decided not to commission a waxwork of Tony Abbott (bottom right) in September 2013 fearing his tenure would be short lived.

A snake catcher has waged a gruesome battle with a large snake which left him bloody and bruised. Locker Valley-based snake catcher Andrew Smedley was bitten by the formidable python 10 times during the punishing clash in a green house. By the time he had finally snared the serpent Mr Smedley had suffered an array of deep lacerations on his arms, prompting online accusations he should 'go back to snake catching school.'

A rare hand-coloured map of the world from 1862 shows how the Japanese misunderstood Australia's borders. The map, which has been acquired by the State Library of NSW, features blue and red-inked boundaries dividing Australia into sections that are very different from the state boundaries we see today. The blue area is meant to represent unsettled areas which have yet to be fully explored, while the red outline shows settled areas with known townships. But by 1862 most maps of the continent clearly had the borders around New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, so the Japanese were using incorrect information to teach residents about Australia during the mid-19th century.

Baby photographer Sandi Ford has captured the bond between tiny twins, who were laying together in their mother's wombs just days before they were taken. The tots were still so well bonded they could be posed together in perfect synchronisation and captured by London-based Sandi, 37, who took the pictures from her home studio. In the heart-warming collection of pictures, the babies are captured snoozing peacefully on super soft rugs and blankets.

A photo featuring Ingrid Wood and Ross Uebergang on their wedding day in Blackall in western Queensland has raised more than $16,000 for a rural charity after a social media campaign. In the week before their wedding, Ms Wood's family was forced to remove all of their stock from their 16,000 hectare property due to the financial strain brought on by the drought. Her family's plight and witnessing the severe effects the drought has had on the Blackall community inspired wedding photographer, Edwina Robertson, to raise money.

More than a century before Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox became household names, many men risked arrest for wearing women's clothes, while others became top female impersonators. The story of the first transgender woman Lili Elbe (left) has been immortalised in the upcoming Eddie Redmayne film The Danish Girl; Mormon leader Brigham Young's son became a female performer singing in a perfect falsetto between 1885 and 1900 (centre); while legions of other men either performed in drag, dressed secretly in women's clothes or risked shocking society by appearing in public in a dress (right).