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A 27-year-old drug dealer who admitted to having sex with a dog will await her sentencing behind bars. Jenna Louise Driscoll  fronted the Brisbane District Court on Friday after pleading guilty to bestiality and three drug-related charges in August. But Driscoll's sentencing has been reserved after a judge said bestiality acts were 'repulsive and goes against order of nature', 9 News reported.

The wife of Tarek Assaad, brother of slain hitman Hamad Assaad, pushed the reporter outside a Sydney court after her husband was denied bail for allegedly being caught with a gun and almost 30 rounds of ammunition in raids yesterday. Sky News journalist Amy Greenbank received a cut above her eye and leave blood running all down her face as Ms Assaad (inset) clashed with the media as she left the court.

Tradesman Ash Atkin-fone has been hailed a hero after he rushed to help victims of explosion at a Commonwealth bank in Melbourne's southeast, just before 11.30am. The tradie had been laying pipes in an alleyway across the road when he heard the explosion, followed by the screams of a child coming from the Commonwealth Bank on Springvale Road. Mr Atkin-Fone entered the smoke-filled bank with fire extinguisher from a nearby Optus store a as people were evacuated from the back exit.

A man, 21, (pictured, inset) allegedly doused himself in accelerant, set himself alight and triggered an explosion at Springvale's Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne's southeast on Monday at 11.30am, injuring 27 people. CCTV footage (main) shows a man, believed to be the offender, walking past Asmara Cafe with an empty plastic container to a service station and returning with it full of liquid. He was seen heading toward the bank just six minutes before the explosion.

Victims trapped inside a bank after it was set alight were seen pressing their blackened faces up against the glass as they choked on thick plumes of smoke. Witnesses helplessly watched on with buckets of water in hand as desperate victims of the Commonwealth Bank attack in Springvale, in Melbourne's south east, on Friday appeared as if they were suffocating as flames lapped against their feet. One man said a 'maniac' had stormed the building and blown up an ATM by setting himself ablaze, while another said he left a trail of flames behind him after dousing the carpet in gasoline.

He lives a lifestyle envied by many, strutting the catwalk for Tom Ford and Versace while spending his down time cavorting with the most beautiful women in the world. So how did 19-year-old Jordan Barrett go from the son of a convicted drug dealer to being dubbed the fashion world's new 'it' boy? In 2013, Jordan's father Adrian Barrett, 54, and his de facto partner Allison Cale, 34, were sentenced to eight years' prison after being found guilty of eight-drug related offences, including trafficking in dangerous drugs

Year 12 students (left) from across Australia have begun heir annual pilgrimage to party hot spots around the country (Queensland pictured right and inset) and overseas as the month-long Schoolies festival gets underway. School leavers from Queensland will officially kick off the party on Saturday, which runs over three weeks from November 19 to December 11.

The man was texting his girlfriend Jackie while she was away on a 'solo' trip in Atlanta, and she began to strip for him before taking a shower. That's when he saw the unfamiliar striped suitcase in the corner of a picture. The man demanded Jackie give him her room number, and then found out the room was under her boss' name.

The 'bright, intelligent' girl aged 14 from London was diagnosed with cancer in August last year and died a month ago after all treatment options failed with the wish to be cryogenically frozen. The teenager, attracted by the promises of cryogenic websites, was convinced that if her body was frozen it would one day give her a 'chance to be cured and woken up'. High Court Judge Mr Justice Peter Jackson has now ruled that her mother - who approved of her daughter's dying wishes - should be allowed to decide the fate of her body, which is currently being held at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan.

A photograph of twin boys who were born prematurely and taken hours after one of them passed away aged seven days old is the first and last picture their Australian mother has of her babies together. Connor (left) and Levi (right) were born at 25 weeks after being affected by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, with Connor only surviving for seven days. The twins' heartbroken parents photographed them together shortly after Connor's death.

A six-year-old autistic boy burst into tears during his school's Thanksgiving play after a teacher snatched the microphone away to stop him saying his line. Heartbreaking phone footage captured by the boy's parents, Kent Squires and Amanda Riddle, shows their son, Caleb, looking visibly distressed on stage. Caleb was playing a turkey in the production at Nutter Fort Primary School in Harrison County, West Virginia, and was ready to say his line, 'gobble gobble'. But he did not have a chance to speak and was instead seen screaming 'Oh no' when the teacher took away the microphone, before sobbing in front of the audience.

A Brooklyn actress committed suicide during a modeling trip to Peru, authorities said on Thursday. Lisa Lynn Masters (left in 2004 and top right, with husband William Brooks) was found dead inside her room at the Nuevo Mundo hotel in Lima shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Peru 21 reports. Employees at the hotel had found the 52-year-old dead inside the room's closet, official said, after she'd hanged herself with her skirt. Masters has had roles on shows including Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (bottom right), Gossip Girl and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Rebecca and Chris Judd have opened up their doors for Today's Lisa Wilkinson and in a sneak peek at the interview to come, they reveal a little more about their newborn twins. Bec - who gave birth to baby sons Tom and Darcy on September 29 - revealed just who's the oldest out of the two. 'Tom's [the oldest] and biggest by one minute,' the lifestyle blogger told Lisa before revealing their exact time of birth.

This video shows the revolting moment a KFC customer found maggots wriggling around inside his chicken. Reinier Marco had just got home after purchasing the fast food from a KFC store in northern Melbourne when he made the grim discovery. In a video he posted online, Mr Marco zooms in on a group of larvae squirming around on his chicken drumsticks. To make matters worse, it appears as if he only found the infestation after biting into his meal. KFC claimed the maggots came into contact with the chicken after Mr Marco bought the food.

She's just weeks away from giving birth to her second child. And Australian actress Teresa Palmer has given a very intimate and honest account of her first birthing experience, when she and husband Mark Webber welcomed their son Bodhi, two. The 30-year-old revealed on her blog Your Zen Mama that her water broke when she and Mark were having 'special time', admitting: 'We were both very shocked!'

The photographs show an contemporary tribal community near the Brazilian-Venezuelan border the circular shack-like structure is understood to be home to about 100 people. Some of them can be seen wearing little clothing, leaning on sticks and appear to be staring in amazement at the photographer overhead. About 22,000 Yanomami live on the Brazilian side of the border, and at least three groups have no contact with outsiders.

An Australian woman has given birth to one of her twin babies at only 24 weeks, and is still pregnant with her other child four weeks later due to a rate phenomenon. Danielle Paull (right with husband Matthew), started having contractions at 19 weeks, before giving birth to daughter Sadie (stock image) five weeks later. In a rare occurrence, she is still pregnant with the little girl's brother, who she is hoping to carry to full term.

Speaking at the Texas Conference For Women at the Austin Convention Center on Tuesday, the international human rights lawyer, and wife of George Clooney, said she had concerns about America's reputation under the Donald. She noted that Trump's comments during his campaign, 'that there should be a religious test imposed on entering the U.S. or the fact that there should be state-sponsored torture or that families of suspected terrorists should all be killed - all of those things are violations of international human rights law and the values that underlie that.' The 38-year-old wife said America's reputation as a country with a strong human rights record and high moral standing was at risk. 'I think there's some concern from abroad as to, "Are these things actually going to happen?", or is the U.S. going to lose some of the moral standing that it has internationally.'

An accomplished historian from Manhattan whose failed marriage was thought to have driven her to suicide last month actually took her life due to a mysterious condition known as misophonia. Joyce Cohen, a journalist who says that she corresponded with Michelle LaMarche Marrese (left) in the months before her death, says that the condition wreaked havoc on her personal and professional life. Marrese had posted Facebook messages (inset) indicating that she was distraught over her crumbling marriage to Michael Marrese (seen with Michelle on the right).

The depraved couple, named only as Jim and Justine, were convicted and sentenced in the US in 1996 for the incestuous attacks on their teenage daughter Amanda. In a harrowing episode of the television show Dr Phil, the victim, now in her 30s, confronted her mother, revealing how their abuse wrecked her life. Amanda was plied with alcohol and given rewards for submitting to their demands. A tearful Justine moaned that she had 'made poor choices' and admitted: 'I hate myself'.

An LA-based model has bared her birthmark in a series of stunning photos to show 'imperfections;' are what make you beautiful. Paige Billiot, 24, featured in a lingerie campaign for Curvy Kate, the port-wine stain on her face accentuated with gold glitter (left and right). Ms Billiot started the body-positive movement the Flawless Affect to redefine beauty and change how society perceives flaws. In the past she has outlined her birthmark (inset)

A 'vertically challenged' grandmother from the US has accidentally fallen head over heels into her grandson's cot when trying to put him down to sleep (above). The hilarious incident was captured on a baby monitor camera, and saw the woman using a step to try and lean far enough over the cot railings. However she goes too far and falls headfirst into the cot.

Celebrity women have stopped being a prettier but normal version of you or I, and started pulling the sort of faces not out of place with top-shelf material, says Sarah Vine. Pictured clockwise from left, Madonna, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Karlie Kloss, Rita Ora, Daisy Lowe and Elizabeth Hurley make the most of their pouts and tousled hair to smoulder in social media photos. Where they go, teenage girls will follow, says Sarah Vine.

A video from a local driver has revealed the devastation to roads in New Zealand after the destructive earthquake there - with one man shown walking over a huge rupture in the road. Irrigation worker Asher Trafford was able to drive along the seriously damaged road near the town of Kaikoura, north of Christchurch, in the South Island. Here he filmed a local nonchalantly walking over a part of the road wgich was shifted a metre higher than the rest.

The appalling video taken inside an eighth grade classroom in Baltimore shows the white female teacher calling her mostly-black students 'stupid' and 'idiots' who are destined to get shot. Baltimore City Public Schools spokeswoman Edie House Foster said in a statement Thursday that the science teacher at Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School was fired after the video was posted to Facebook by a parent of one of the students on Wednesday. The video has been viewed online more than one million times and has sparked shock and outrage from the foul language used by the staffer. At the end of the video the teacher is heard saying: 'You have the chance to get an education. But you want to be a punk a** n****r who is going to get shot. You're stupid.'

Iranian asylum seeker Mojgan Shamsalipoor accepted her Year 12 certificate to a standing ovation on Wednesday evening following her release from detention after a two-year battle. Mojgan Shamsalipoor was just 18-years-old when she escaped an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man in Iran and travelled to Australia by boat in the hopes of seeking asylum in 2012. Her chances of pursuing an education were dashed in 2015 when she was placed back into detention, but following her release on a bridging visa in September, she could finally accept the certificate herself.

A fast-moving object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments before its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. In the footage from the ISS channel uploaded to YouTube by user ColdPyro , a white speck can be seen emerging from the darkness just above Earth's horizon. Right before the 'UFO' travels out of view, the feed cuts to a grey screen, followed by a statement asking users to 'please stand by' due to technical issues.

A man who is accused of repeatedly punching a female bus driver in the head on a Melbourne service demanded the 57-year-old continue towards his destination. Just moments before boarding the bus, police believe the same man attacked a woman in an unprovoked attack and is seen on CCTV footage charging towards the female to push her to the ground. However this incident has not been reported to police.

Three healthy short-beaked echidna puggles have been a cause for celebration at Taronga zoo. The adorable trio are the first echidna births in 29 years at the Sydney zoo and have been keeping their keepers occupied since they hatched in August. The trio which were being carried around in their mother's pouch have now been placed in their nursery burrows after they opened their eyes and began to develop their characteristic spines.

A pregnant zoo keeper have found a unique way to show how big her unborn daughter is week to week by posing with a range of animals that weigh the same as her baby. Jennifer Dew, from Ohio in the U.S, found apps that compare babies to fruit and vegetables confusing, and decided to do her own comparison, posting the photos on social media. So far she is 34 weeks and has posed with a rat (top left), turtle (top right), cockatoo (bottom left), and bushbaby (bottom right).

Since the viral craze began, thousands of people have tried to film the best version of the Mannequin Challenge. But one video seems to have knocked all others out of the park - and the main star is a dog. The hilarious footage shows a Boxer, named Boston, washing the dishes, baking cakes, and chilling on the sofa eating Doritos - all while staying perfectly still. He also sits at a table wearing a miniature cowboy hat and plays the Xbox. The pooch from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his video have gone viral on social media with more than 170,000 retweets and 220,00 likes just on Twitter but with even more accumulating on Facebook. His proud owner Ryan Thomas hopes his prized pooch will follow in the footsteps of celebrities including Michelle Obama and Blac Chyna who have taken on the challenge. Mr Thomas has even tweeted Ellen DeGeneres in a bid to get Boston on the show.

There's nothing worse than being awoken from a deep sleep. So no wonder this snoozing koala was in a grumpy mood when his slumber was interrupted by a squawking currawong. An all-Australian battle ensued as the loud bird continually pestered the furry marsupial, who was less than impressed. In the video - taken by Phil Harrison near Mount Murray, New South Wales, on Monday - shows the currawong sneak up on the sleeping koala and peck at his fur. It is possible that the bird is trying to nick some of the koala's fur to line its nest.

Only 16 of 25 famous XKSS convertibles were completed when nine cars earmarked for export to North America were lost at Jaguar's Browns Lane factory in Coventry in 1957. Six decades on these nine 'lost' vehicles have been built at last (below). But you'll need £1million to buy one - although it is still considerably cheaper than an original XKSS (above), which is likely to cost more than £10million. The 'new' streamlined XKSS sports car is based on the original plans and will be the template for nine lost 'leaping cats' to be brought back to life, with deliveries to super-rich customers starting next year. Each car will take a craftsmen roughly 10,000 man hours to complete and include 2,000 rivets, with all the measurements in traditional imperial rather than metric form.

Crumbling buildings, rotting wood and mossy buildings - what was once a thriving place of industry and entertainment is now decaying slowly each day.  These photographs show Birnbeck Pier, on the North Somerset coastline at Weston-super-Mare, in its current state. It was built between 1864 and 1867 and provided tourist attractions, such as a water slide and fairground rides, to the Victorians for many years. The Grade II-listed pier, known as the Old Pier, was also a major transportation link, with scheduled steam ship services arriving from and departing to destinations including Cardiff, Minehead, Ilfracombe and Lundy Island. The last of these sailings, by the MV Balmoral, took place in 1979.

As these photos demonstrate, so long as you've got a decent fur coat, the first snow brings with it endless fun, certainly in the case of this frolicking horse, top left, rolling panda in China, top right, lounging polar bear in the Arctic, bottom right, a baby elephant at England's Whipsnade Zoo, bottom left, and a highly enthusiastic canine, inset.