Jo Shintah (left) was due to leave on a dream holiday the day after was torn from her car at the Gold Coast's Pacific Fair shopping centre (right) earlier this month. The 61-year-old, who featured in the hit film 'Strictly Ballroom', has been remembered in a touching tribute from friends and family two weeks after she tragically died.

Amber Heard recorded her husband Johnny Depp allegedly throwing a wine glass and bottle at her. The actress, 30, has since denied leaking the video - seemingly taken on her phone in their kitchen without Depp's, 53, knowledge - to news website TMZ. The domestic incident between the married couple - who are currently locked in an ugly divorce battle - is said to have occurred before May 21, 2016 when Depp is accused of giving his wife a black eye by throwing an iPhone at her head.

She was born into a billionaire family who live their life in the public-eye. Now, Francesca Packer Barham has opened up about how she maintains privacy despite being a public figure. Speaking to Vogue Australia, the 21-year-old explained once an individual accepts their position in community, it becomes easier to pick and choose what becomes public knowledge and what doesn't.

A police officer said he was 'heartbroken' when he found a seven-year-old boy trying to sell a teddy bear on the street in order to eat for the first time in days. Officer Steve Dunham (inset) took the boy to Subway - but it wasn't until two other officers appeared at his home in Franklin, Ohio, (left and right) that they realized he had been living in a home filled with garbage, cat urine and liquor bottles. Parents Tammi and Michael Bethel, who told police they didn't realize their son had gone missing, have been charged with five counts of child endangerment each.

Daniel Fitzpatrick, a 13-year-old from Staten Island who took his own life after being mercilessly bullied by former friends, has blamed his school for not helping him in a heartbreaking final note (inset). Daniel
(right) hanged himself in his family's attic on Thursday, and was found by one of his older sisters. Daniel said he was constantly bullied, and was upset at teachers who were supposed to help him for 'doing nothing'. His father (left, holding a picture of his son) posted an emotional video on Facebook on Saturday as he struggled with the loss of his son. 'I hope the memory of what you did to my son is burned in your memory for the rest of your life and you suffer as much as he has suffered under your bulls**t,' Mr Fitzpatrick said.

NEW As the swimming events come to an end in Rio, Femail has taken a look back at the competitive swimwear worn by Australia's greatest Olympians in the past century. In 1912, Olympian Fanny Durack (left) wore a simple one piece to bring home gold in the 100m freestyle. In the '70s, the introduction of elastane saw Shane Gould compete in a firm-fitting one piece (second left). In 2008, full-body suits saw athletes like Bronte Barratt (second right) cover up. While today's Olympians bring it back to wear it all began with suits that extend from the shoulder to the knee (pictured right is Bronte Campbell in Rio 2016).

Almost $40million of taxpayer money has been used to fund the Australian swimming program over the past four years. The program has produced countless promising swimmers, including new hero Mack Horton (main) who was one of the relative few Australians who have won gold in the pool in Rio. the Campbell sisters (top right), Cameron McEvoy and Emily Seebohm. While the Australian swimming team have enjoyed some success in the Rio pool, some of the biggest names have failed to deliver, including the Campbell, sisters Bronte and Cate, Cameron McEvoy (top right), Emily Seebohm (bottom right) and Mitch Larkin. 'It's not about winning at the Olympic Games, it's about trying to win,' highly-fancied Bronte Campbell said after swimming fourth in the 100m freestyle. 'The motto is ''faster, higher, stronger'', not ''fastest, highest, strongest''. Sometimes it's the trying that matters.' But the old adage 'it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game,' might not quite cut it with the Australian public. The taxpayer contributed $40million to fund Australian swimmers over the last four years, which makes it by far the wealthiest of Olympic sports.

Rio has been hit by empty stadiums (left), long queues, security threats and a green dive pool - and now even the volunteers (file photos, right) are staying away, organisers have admitted. The shambles of this year's Olympics in Brazil continued today as the Maracana appeared half empty for the track and field events where Usain Bolt appeared in the 100m heats. But organisers have today admitted that the volunteer situation requires some 'fine tuning' - as only 20 per cent of helpers have actually shown up in some venues. Organisers are having issues with staffing Olympic venues with volunteers, who signed up and accepted their freebies at the start and never came back.

Rio's Olympic chiefs today admitted they have run out of ideas on how to make the diving pool blue again - and have decided to change the water altogether. The water will be drained and replaced, a spokesman said Saturday. The first event to be held in the newly refilled pool will be synchronized swimming on Sunday. Mario Andrade, spokesman for Rio's organizing committee, said that despite several attempts to bring the water back to its usual blue, the pool has stubbornly remained green.

A furious Australian women's water polo coach Greg McFadden (inset) slammed officials after one of his players was punched in the face in their match against Brazil, but no action was taken. McFadden let rip after Stingers player Hannah Buckling was punched in the face (main, bottom right) during their emphatic 10-3 win over the hosts (top right). 'She's [Buckling] swimming and the centre forward turns around and clocks her in the jaw,' he said.

The first US Olympian to wear a hijab during competition, fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad (left and right), has won a bronze medal along with her teammates in the women's team sabre event. Muhammad came to the Rio Games determined to show the world that Muslim-American women can excel in sports and she will return home to New Jersey with proof that she was right. The U.S. routed Italy 45-30 to clinch third place Saturday and the first women's medal in fencing for the Americans in Rio.

NEW Sydney teacher Stephanie Maber (left, right), 23, suffers from a disease that causes abnormal growth of the hands, feet and face. Acromegaly is a pituitary disorder in which the body produces extra growth hormones. The rare disease causes gigantism and affects up to 80 Australians a year. Ms Maber has praised the subsidy of a life-changing drug to treat the disease that normally costs $50,000.

Last week saw the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge enjoy yet another low-cost holiday, this time a ten-day break at a charming 16th Century chateau in the South of France, courtesy of communications tycoon Michael Green. It appears to be the latest in a string of freebies provided by a willing and very wealthy network of friends and acquaintances in Switzerland, Barbados, Mustique and other desirable locations around the globe. Among those who have opened their doors are the owners of the Jigsaw fashion chain, a hedge fund millionaire, fellow Royals and the late Duke of Westminster. The Cambridges are hardly short of money. Prince William has a personal fortune estimated at around £20 million. But as royal author and editor of Majesty magazine Ingrid Seward says: 'The fact is, people are bending over backwards to host the Cambridges.'

While people are advised not to work with friends or family, these BFF business partners are proof that it can be done - and done well. Here, FEMAIL chats to the most successful best friend duos about how their business came about and how they balance their relationship. Included are the besties behind leather goods company The Daily Edited (inset), the colourful sisters behind blog How Two Live (left) and the successful friends behind coffee skincare business, Frank Body (right). Also included are the founders of The Goodnight Co, the friends of Open Agent and the twin sisters who founded PR Group.

NEW Thousands of people have taken to the streets for Sydney's iconic City 2 Surf, but not everyone was looking for a place on the podium. For some, it was all about the (wacky) fashion. Superhero costumes like Batman (left) were popular, as were animal onesies with one man ditching shorts and a singlet for a cow costume (right). Two men used the race as a chance to dress as unicorns, and ran the 14km stretch wearing the inflatable designs (inset). Here Femail looks at the weird, and wonderful, characters from this year's event.

This is the moment an innocent man was detained by police, accused of being 'off his chops' on drugs. Josh Bavas was pulled over by police outside a Bunnings hardware store in Oxley in Brisbane's south-west. Mr Bavas, who works as a journalist for the ABC, was detained on Saturday, police suspecting he was under the influence of drugs. One constable (left) told his partner (right), 'he's off his chops on something.' Mr Bavas, who said the only thing unusual about his condition was that he had a cold, was not in possession of any drugs and was released without any further police action. A Queensland Police spokesman said they were aware of the footage.

He previously denied reports of a feud with Sonia Kruger. But International TV star Darren McMullen has slammed his former The Voice co-host, weeks after she made controversial comments about banning Muslim immigration in Australia - saying the bubbly TV personality knows very little about Australian history.'Let's be honest, all us white folk are visitors in (Australia) and came off the boat at some stage for a better life,' the Scottish-born star said.

NEW Sydney vet Alex Tinson (inset) was headhunted in 1988 to breed champion racing camels (pictured) for the President of the United Arab Emirates. Mr Tinson took the offer, intending to stay for just two years. He opened a hi-tech breeding centre and used IVF to speed up the breeding process and treadmill studies to find ways to make the camels faster. Almost 30 years later, he hasn't looked back.

Former Olympian Matt Shirvington and his author wife Jessica are making a THIRD attempt to sell their luxury Mosman home. The retired Australian sprinter, 37, is listing the property through McGrath Estate Agents with a September auction date, according to The Daily Telegraph. Matt and Jessica first tried to sell their family home almost four years ago in September 2012 - after purchasing it for $2.5 million in February 2008

A hairstylist at M&M; Friseure Salon in Germany shared the hair-raising technique on social media - and it's gone viral after surprised viewers were left amazed with the result. The stylist begins, L-R, by pulling her hair into ponytails, uses wax to make it stand on end before slicing it horizontally. The finished result has left the internet astounded.

The X-rated footage shows the naked holidaymakers gyrating on a stage of a nightclub during a UV paint party in front of cheering revellers in Magaluf, on the Balearic island of Majorca. The events are popular at the holiday resort, which is frequented by many Britons every summer, and attract hundreds of party-goers. The explicit footage is the latest to show yet more debauchery in the Spanish resort known by British holiday makers as 'Shagaluf'.

Today, the name of that immense region - one-and-a-half times larger than the entire continent of Europe - evokes the horrors of Stalin's Gulag (former ruler pictured inset), the network of forced labour camps that were largely concentrated there. But it was used as a penal colony long before the Soviet era, and the brutal and dehumanising conditions imposed there under the Tsars led Dostoevsky to describe his four years in a Siberian prison camp (executioner, left) as like being in 'a world all of its own . . . a house of the living dead'. The 'crime' of Dostoevsky and the other men whose lives were spared that day was to have called for social reform in Russia. Exile was a well-known means of dealing with dissenters but, as revealed in a harrowing new book, many other innocent people were dispatched to Siberia simply because slave labour (prisoner, pictured right) was needed there.

Kathleen Steele, who once appeared on the show 'I'm Pregnant and...55 Years Old', is facing charges in the death of her infant daughter. She was previously under investigation for an incident involving the young child. In July, when Steele gave birth to her daughter of the same name, child services were called in for an incident at a hotel. Steele said she tripped while going down stairs during a fire alarm at the hotel. She said the infant fell out of a carrier and hit her head. Investigators found no signs of abuse but were set to do a follow up appointment on August 1, which Steele had rescheduled to Wednesday. Steele's 13-day-old daughter died two days before that appointment, after Steele's oldest son, took his sister out of her car seat and began beating her to make her stop cryings, according to Sheriff Bob Gualtiari, while Steele spent nearly 40 minutes in a store, leaving the kids in a car.

Community midwife Christine McDermot was 27 when she delivered baby Tom Archer after he was born in 1987. She grew close to the family and kept in touch with Mr Archer when he moved from Lancashire to Edinburgh to become a copper. So when Mrs McDermot retrained as a registrar and Mr Archer proposed to girlfriend Katie Black, he asked her to travel 250 miles to officiate at his wedding in Fife. Now the 56-year-old can boast to not only watching over Mr Archer as a baby, but also telling him: 'You can now kiss the bride'.

A dog (left circled) trapped at the bottom of a 15-metre (50 feet) deep dry well can be heard whimpering from relief as she is rescued in a heartwarming video. Affectionately named Ruby, the three-minute video shows the small black and brown dog being rescued by volunteers from Animals Aid Unlimited (right) near Udaipur, in India, after hearing her desperate cries. Even though the team have 'no idea' how Ruby, a village street dog, could have survived such an incredible fall the volunteers said they were glad they could be of help.

A playground in a Toronto, Canada, park was revealed this week to be smeared with peanut butter. Mother Sarah Bolton (pictured left) noticed the peanut butter at Dufferin Grove Park on Wednesday morning. She says that it 'must have been at least three jars of peanut butter'. A Parks, Forestry and Recreation spokesman said parks staff removed the peanut butter from the playground equipment.

The annual meteor shower is the result of particles falling from the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower is at its peak this weekend, when there also happens to be a darker sky than usual. Nasa has said the rate of meteors has doubled, with around 200 shooting stars per hour, meaning the chance of catching a glimpse of the shower is greater this year. Pictured is the sky lit up above the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland.

Ted McDermott was filmed singing Quando, Quando, Quando as his son drove him around in his car in Blackburn - and the adorable video has since gone viral with thousands of online views. Mr McDermott, 79, was diagnosed with dementia in 2013 following a long career as an entertainer, performing for the public in pubs and clubs. His recent carpool karaoke sessions with his son have helped raise more than £30,000 for the Alzheimer's Society.