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Selena Rollason, a mother-of-four from Brisbane, is Australia's Birth Photographer of the Year. She shares with FEMAIL a series of photographs capturing the emotion of childbirth. One image shows the agonising moment a couple meets their baby boy for the first and last time after he died away during childbirth (left). Other images show a child mid-birth showing just the head before the rest of the body has emerged from the womb (top right), and a mother whose daughters were conceived 10 days apart due to their mother's rare hormonal condition (bottom right).

A group of men thought to be a stag party has been photographed in Benidorm dressed as Jimmy Savile, Osama Bin Laden, Oscar Pistorius, Rolf Harris and Saddam Hussein, which shocked fellow guests. The men are said to have told other guests they were 'the Offenders', and were there to offend.

A record £1billion was recovered from thousands of offenders who were brought to justice for wrongly claiming welfare over the last 12 months. The Government pays out a whopping £172billion in benefits to around 20million people every year. Among the 5,000 convictions of benefit fraudsters over the last year was Amanda Barrymore, who claimed thousands of pounds in jobless benefits despite making a living out of her apparent 'psychic' ability to communicate with the dead. Another was 54-year-old Ann Grigor, who was seen driving at speeds claimed she was wheelchair bound, blind and needed round-the-clock care. Ann Grigor, 54, claimed she was blind, wheelchair bound and needed round-the-clock care, claiming around £23,000 in disability benefits for 10 years.

Australia has rung in the New Year with seven tons of fireworks making Sydney's Harbour Bridge 'rain purple' in a tribute to the late singer Prince (top right). Around 1.5 million revellers surrounded the harbour to join in the festivities. Two hours later, Japan ushered in 2017 in style (bottom right), with thousands packing the streets of Tokyo and releasing balloons into the air in celebration of the New Year. Tonga and Samoa in the Polynesian Triangle were among the first places in the world to see in 2017 on Saturday. Auckland, in New Zealand, followed ringing in the New Year at 11am GMT (bottom left). Five hundred kilos of fireworks were blasted from the city's Sky Tower in just five minutes. And fireworks exploded above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year's celebrations (top right).

Jon Ronson sent out several tweets (inset) last night in a rant about not receiving any 'f****** MBE'. The author (main) of The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Psychopath Test said that 'time is running out' for him to be honoured because he is 'getting old and dying'. He went on to take aim at BBC broadcaster Jonathan Agnew who was awarded an MBE for his years as a cricket reporter. His messages were sent out to his 157,000 followers as the New Year's Honours were being announced.

These pictures show the shattered remains of what was once one of the most magnificent cities in the Middle East. The ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud has been reduced to rubble by Islamic State, who were forced out of the famed archaeological site in November. The terror group was driven out by Iraqi forces, but left behind scenes of devastation, with much of the ancient Assyrian city destroyed.

Armed police are lining the streets of London ahead of tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations, where hundreds of thousands of revellers are expected to pour into the capital for the fireworks display. Officers with guns lined the streets outside Buckingham Palace at the changing of the guard. Around 3,000 officers will be on duty across central London on New Year's Eve, both within and outside the ticketed areas to prevent crime and disorder and keep everyone safe. Metropolitan Police say there is no specific intelligence informing their plan for December 31.

Rangers' striker Kenny Miller has placed his three-bedroom flat in Hamilton, Scotland, on the market just a year after he bought it as he and his family get ready to move into another new home. The three-bedroom home is on the market for £185,000, and features ample living space with a reception room and space for eating in the kitchen, as well as an en-suite and a family bathroom. The Millers are set to move again as the home they have built for them comes to completion.

John Green (main image) spent four days in hospital after the attack - but meanwhile two of his neighbours found Staffordshire bull terrier Rio dumped in a wheelie bin (wheelie bin) on his road in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. People started speculating that the dog had been stabbed, but Mr Green has become frustrated and insists he does not know how the pet ended up in the bin, as he had been in the Hull Royal Infirmary. He added that Rio had been a 'beautiful' pet for ten years but had to taken out when he suddenly turned.

Princess Diana and George Michael held true superstar status and it was this empathy for how crazy their lives were that drew them to one another as friends, says her former chef Darren McGrady. George was gay, of course, but there has long been speculation about the nature of the pair's relationship and how far it went. 'She loved his sense of humour. She felt relaxed with him,' McGrady said.

From drinking at a £20,000-a-table club in New York to sailing off the French coast with 32 beautiful women, the Rich Kids of Instagram tell MailOnline how they are spending New Year's Eve. They include businessman Benedict Kusay and his seven best friends, who extended an open invite 'gorgeous women' to join them for a night of champagne, dance music and 'fireworks' aboard their rented yacht in Normandy. Spanish blogger Mon Rovi is retreating to a ski resort for the rich and famous in the Pyrenees, where she expects her champagne-fuelled friends to be 'dancing on the tables'. Toy empire heir Kev Kouyoumjian will spend the night at a £30million villa in Aspen with his family and Czech fashion blogger Barbora Ondrackova is jetting off to Abu Dhabi with her boyfriend.

The cute video shows the dog patiently waiting at the door for his owner and making an impressive leap to give him a hug the minute the key turns in the lock. The excited pup then nearly knocks the man's glasses off as he covers him in smooches.

Dr Farida (left) has spent 2016 delivering babies in perilous conditions in east Aleppo (right). Every day she walked to work with her eight-year-old daughter by her side to keep her safe. A desperate food shortage led to her raising chicks for eggs in her neighbour's empty apartment (inset). Many questioned why she stayed when her skills could have landed her a job elsewhere but Dr Farida was clear: 'I have to help people, not forget and run away.' Her incredible bravery led to her colleagues describing her as having 'the strength of 1000 men'. Now her hopes of carrying on working in Aleppo have been dashed after President Assad's army and allied forces, bombed Dr Farida's house and hospital out of operation.

Seven of the mammals were seen cutting through the water together in a synchronised display in west Cornwall. Delighted mum-of-two Shona Potter caught them on camera as she walked along the beach at Gwithian on Wednesday afternoon. Shona, 41, a chef from nearby Hayle, said: 'There were lots of people taking photos. I've never seen dolphins before. It was amazing.' They showed off their skills alongside a man in a kayak for around ten minutes before disappearing.

The 76-year-old says she is without an income, unable to travel or pay for basics including food after the Wildenstein family trust fund that made her monthly payments of around $111,000 dried up. Before, Wildenstein - pictured top right during a new interview with Daphne Barak, and bottom right in court - had been widely regarded as being one of the wealthiest women in the United States after securing a $2.5million (£2 million) divorce settlement when she split from ex husband Alec Wildenstein, inset. But now she claims she is destitute and says she has no money to pay for anything.

Video captures the exact moment a four-wheel-drive rolled into the deep waters near Fraser Island, north of Brisbane on Saturday morning, leaving a group of backpackers devastated. No one was in the car at the time of the incident, but the group lost their phones, debit cards, passports and valuables. The bridge at the back of the ferry appears down in the video and a spokesman for Manta Ray Fraser Island Barges said they were investigating the incident.

Saparman Sodimejo, also known as Mbah Gotho, has an Indonesian ID card that purports his date of birth is December 31, 1970. He celebrated his birthday with his living relatives in the Seragaen district of Central Java. Attending his party were his grandson Suryanto and wife Suwarni, with their children Erika Kurniawati and Anisa Kurniawati, among other younger surviving relatives. He has, unsurprisingly, outlived all 10 of his siblings as well as his four wives, the last of whom died in 1988.

The photos are in a new book on the animals featuring work by 65 of the world's top wildlife photographers. The likes of Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Michael Poliza have combined for the project in aid of conservation. The images were on display at La Galleria Pall Mall in London earlier this year. Founder Margot Raggett said she decided to start the project after reading a quote by Sir David Attenborough. He had asked: 'Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?' But Ms Raggett said: 'My response to Sir David's question was an emphatic "No".' Pictured: Elephants (clockwise, from top left) at Amboseli National Park in Kenya, Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa, Victoria Falls in Zambia, Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana and Kwazulu Natal in South Africa.