NEW AFL star Tom Hawkins' new wife has told how she felt 'violated' after thieves stole her couture wedding dress and luxury car just days after the couple tied the knot. The Geelong Cats forward, 27, married his childhood sweetheart Emma Clapham in a lavish ceremony on the Bellarine Peninsula, south west of Melbourne, on Saturday. But their wedding car went missing from outside their Newtown home on Tuesday morning with Ms Clapham's two beautiful Sonia Capalazzo gowns inside it. She took to social media to issue a desperate plea for help to track down the dress and car.

Turning your back on a cheeky toddler can end in hours of cleaning - just ask these parents. The global Instagram page Kids Are The Worst shares photos of the incredible messes children make in the house, from creating snow angels out of flour on the kitchen floor (right) to covering their entire body with ketchup (inset). One boy went as far as to steal with mother's sanitary pads, only to stick them all over the wall. Here FEMAIL shares the cringe-worthy, yet hilarious, moments that every parent can relate to.

NEW From the photographs the world sees of celebrities so soon after they have given birth, it would be easy to think that having a baby doesn't do much to the overall shape of your body. It would be even easier to assume that the fitter and healthier you are, the less pregnancy will take its toll on your stomach. Which is why these incredibly honest and inspiring photos Stephanie Rothstein Bruce (inset), from Flagstaff, Arizona, have gone viral and are all the more surprising - they show a bodily experience that is similar to most women's (right). And it's not always pretty. The elite athlete's experienced diatstisis richti - separation of the abdominal muscles - during her pregnancy (left).

A man who was doused in petrol and set alight by a stranger when he was just six-years-old has revealed he has forgiven his attacker for leaving him with horrific burns to 70 per cent of his body. Jandamarra O'Shane (pictured left with son Raupena and right), now 25, from Cairns in Far North Queensland, was attacked by Paul Wade Streeton, then 26, on October 10, 1996 after he walked into the little boy's (inset) school playground, tipped fuel over his head and set him on fire with a cigarette lighter. Mr O'Shane, who is now a father to a six-year-old son, said he often thinks about the traumatic event and has developed an 'understanding of what his mother went through that day.'

As Lindt cafe gunman Man Monis (pictured, right, inside cafe) grew increasingly jumpy and erratic during the siege, he told his hostages (pictured left holding an Islamic flag up to the cafe window) that he was putting them on a points system for good or bad behaviour. 'If they did the right thing they would attract points. But if they were not honest that would count as debits against them,' Counsel assisting the inquest Sophie Callan said on Tuesday.

Kiel and Emma Moore-Jone (left) were halfway through unpacking into their newly-bought family home in Waikanae when they learned the property was severely contaminated with methamphetamine. The young family, including daughters Rosie, 3, and Ally, 2 (inset, right) have been forced to move in with relatives after being advised the house needs $40,000 work to be decontaminated - none of which they will be compensated for. They have started campaigning to raise awareness about the importance of of drug testing before buying or renting a home.

Joe Fontana, a mechanic from Ballarat, Victoria, has posed for a photograph (main) next to a handcuffed man just moments after ramming him off the road for allegedly stealing his pickup truck. Mr Fontana says he chased the alleged thief for 17 kilometres in his boss's car (inset) before running him off the road and making a citizen's arrest while he waited for police to arrive.

Victorian teen Edward Bourke (pictured), 15, has his own investment portfolio and uses the profits to fund his conservation and political causes. The proud conservative and monarchist helps fund and organise campaigns on climate change awareness, genealogy and lion preservation. Recently he's started a website to promote presidential candidate Donald Trump - who he says is misunderstood by Australians.

Many parts of your body are not there because you need them. Instead they are there because your animal ancestors did a new video from Washington-based Vox explains. From your ears to your tailbone, your body is its own kind of history book, filled with secrets to your evolutionary past. This includes the palamaris longus, a muscle in the forearm that not everyone has (pictured).

The woman was travelling from Sydney on a Newcastle-bound train last Thursday at 11.30am when she noticed the man in front of her trying to allegedly push his phone under his seat. The victim, who was wearing shorts, said she had fallen asleep with her knees up and woke to find the man allegedly trying to film her. Newcastle Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia they are investigating the incident after Ms Portener reported it and gave them the footage she had filmed on her phone.

The risk of contracting serious and life-long diseases like HIV or Hepatitis can be high when getting a tattoo abroad, particularly in Indonesia where an estimated 660,000 people live with HIV. That is unless you keep your wits about you and ensure you're dealing with a parlour that observes strict health regulations around tattoo safety. Since a man from Western Australia was believed to have contracted HIV from getting a tattoo in Bali in 2012, tourists have been more aware of the serious health risks unsafe tattoos pose. But, would you know the right questions to ask or signs to look for to determine if the tattoo parlour you walk into is above board?

The singer's Instagram followers suggested the 34-year-old had photoshopped a section of the photo, to make her toned torso even more svelte. Pointing to what looks like an irregularity in the edge of the pool Britney is laying on, one fan commented: 'The gap in your back should be stone, not water. Bad photoshop.'

Wellness blogger Jessica Sepel, 26, from Sydney, has revealed how she maintains her glowing skin and hair. Her top products include Rosehip Oil, Kora Organics Daily Hand Cream and Jojoba Oil. She also uses apple cider vinegar to heal and treat her acne, makes Greek yoghurt and avocado face masks and drinks smoothies with chia seeds to ensure a skin glow. Ms Sepel also avoids processed and packaged foods and all refined sugars.

A young boy and girl (pictured) are heading home from school on March 8 in Melbourne when they are caught on camera placing rocks and debris on railway tracks, hoping to derail an oncoming train. The school children begin to walk away but the object falls off the steel tracks and they quickly place it back on the track before running out of the way as the train approaches. Within seconds a metro train nearing the station hits the object, sending it flying into a nearby pile of rocks, flicking them up onto the train wheels and track.

The shooting occurred about 4.30 a.m. Sunday at a Mobil gas station on the city's west side and was captured by Project Green Light, a partnership between Detroit police and local gas stations that sends high-definition surveillance footage straight to police headquarters. The footage shows the female suspect - the only woman in the group of men - get a gun from a blue Dodge Charger and hide it down her skirt (inset left). Seconds later, the woman approached the second car, a Grand Prix, and fired multiple times, striking the driver repeatedly (main). Miraculously, the shirtless man survived the attack, and the woman is now in custody.

Talented baristas are adding a touch of colour to their morning coffee. Latte artists are using food colouring to create incredible rainbow designs, and Melbourne barista Seongwon Cha is leading the way. The 2015 World Latte Art Champion used black, blue, red and yellow colouring to create a colourful butterfly (left), much to the delight of his Instagram followers. The trend has seen baristas add colour to create cherry blossoms (right), birds, ferns and cartoon characters (inset).

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Ever wondered what human flesh tastes like? One man decided to find out by getting a small chunk of flesh surgically removed from his leg. And the result, he says is somewhere between pork and lamb, with a smell that 'similar to beef and ale stew.' A gruesome video shows journalist Greg Foot (left) having a piece of muscle taken from his calf, before processing it in a lab. The analysis in Nottingham revealed the muscle contains similar fibers similar to those found in both chicken breast and some cuts of beef. Using the aroma from his flesh sample, Foot then made a replica burger using lamb and pork (bottom right).

A mother has opened up about the terrifying last moments she heard her daughter plead for her life over the phone as she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered by her stepfather. Kate Salinger (inset and left, with a young Sam) was at home in Lake Macquarie, NSW when her husband of nearly 10 years and her daughter Sam (pictured main and right) went to the movies on the night of the sickening attack in 2003. Sam was just 14-years-old when she was driven into bushland where she was repeatedly raped before the vehicle she was travelling in slammed into a rock at high-speed in a murder suicide.

The new phone range will see the iPhone SE going on sale in Australia at $679 for the 16GB model and $829 for the 64GB version of the iPhone SE. The smaller iPad Pro will start at $899 for the 32GB model in Australia, while those who need more storage can go for the $1049 128GB model, or fork out $1399 for an enormous 256GB of storage. Orders begin on March 24 and shipping starts on March 31.

Aussie boxer Lucas Browne, who beat Ruslan Chagaev in March to become WBA world champion, has failed a drugs test conducted immediately after that title fight. The 36-year-old's urine sample came back with traces of banned performance enhancer Clenbuterol, although Browne claims he 'doesn't understand' the positive reading.

Anti-duck hunting protesters have laid dead ducks outside Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' office, continuing a 30-year tradition. The dead ducks included some protected species that were shot on the opening weekend of duck season on Saturday and Sunday. The protesters are calling for duck shooting to be banned in Victoria.

The designers of the new-look Socceroos and Matilda kit have scored a shocking own goal, according to fans. The all-yellow Nike kit the teams will wear in upcoming World Cup and Olympics matches has been unveiled in Adelaide. It has been slammed by supporters on social media who've likened it to a banana but is the 2016 version really as bad as some of its predecessors, including the infamous technicolour design of the early 90s?

A young woman who lost her husband to cancer has revealed how she suffered crippling morning sickness the same time she was grieving his death. Casey Johnson (pictured left with late husband Brett and son Jack), 27, from Brisbane, discovered she was pregnant (inset) with her second son as her husband Brett (left), 34, was being treated for Ewing's sarcoma - an aggressive bone cancer - for the third time. He tragically lost his life on January 15 and Ms Johnson said she manages to not be an 'emotional mess,' as watching he son Jack, two, reminds her of her late husband each day.

Papaw Kenny Harmon - a retired union iron worker - finally got to sit down and eat with all SIX of his grandchildren for Sunday dinner in his Oklahoma town. The 'sad grandpa' prompted an outpouring of emotion after his granddaughter Kelsey Harmon posted a snap of him eating a burger by his lonesome. Accompanying the grim-faced photo of Kenny, she wrote: 'Dinner with papaw tonight... He made 12 burgers for all six grandkids and I'm the only one who showed. love him [sic].' Her brother, Kaleb - the eldest of Kenny's grandchildren - was actually a late show, arriving after the tweet. Kenny reveals the reason the other four grandkids didn't show up, wasn't teenage angst or a family row but their forgetful father. 'My son Ryan just plain forgot,' explains Kenny. I wanted everybody to be there but I don't get upset about things.'

A hilarious Twitter account shares pictures of the worst bootleg items and cheap rip-offs on sale. Funny versions include, clockwise from top left: 'Star Wart' dolls; Knie sliders, using an anagram of Nike and the companie's Swoosh; a Baet Simpson T-shirt; Winnie the Pooh with human teeth; Ill-Tempered Birds pencil toppers; and a Toy Story set called 'Boy Space'.

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT A video of a python swallowing a poodle whole after the owner fed it to the reptile has emerged. The footage, filmed in China, and posted online on March 18, has caused outrage in the country, with internet users voicing their anger. However some users have defended the owner saying that the video showed part of the food chain in action.

The 302ft (92m) long Airlander 10 (pictured) - part plane, part airship - was floated in a First World War hangar in Bedfordshire. Photographers struggled to capture the whole length of the aircraft, which is around 50ft (15m) longer than the biggest passenger jets, ahead of its inaugural flight next month. The fully assembled craft's motors and fins are pictured left. The length of the Airlander is pictured top right, while the aircraft's rear is bottom right.

Rescuers have provided a new life for many adorable Sumatran orangutans - who have had to be taken away from their natural habitat because of the risks of palm oil plantations. The glorious apes can be seen holding hands (left), being nursed by their rescuers (top right) and even fed by bottle (bottom right).

A wild herd of elephants has been causing havoc in the Bardhaman and Bankura districts in West Bengal, India, where it has killed four villagers and injured two others. Prakash Boyra, 40, died after one of the elephants threw him into the air with its trunk and then trampled him. Images filmed by fellow villages show the man being flung into the air like a rag doll by the huge animal, who slams him back onto the floor as people look on horrified and helpless.