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NEW The Australian Federal Police's Acting Commissioner Neil Gaughan (left) has denied his law enforcement officers had set out to intimidate journalists or 'raid' homes and newsrooms. He fronted the media, a day after it sent officers into the ABC's Sydney studios. His press conference also occurred two days after the AFP spent seven hours searching the home of Canberra-based News Corp political editor Annika Smethurst (right).

Paralympic hero Dylan Alcott has found love with Melbourne sexologist Chantelle Otten.  According to The Daily Telegraph, the 28-year-old athlete met Chantelle, who is married but separated, at a book signing for his autobiography two months ago.  The couple have been splashing their romance all over Instagram in recent weeks, with the glamorous brunette dedicating several gushing posts to her new boyfriend.

A savvy mother has revealed how she cooked up 74 meals for less than $100 in just three hours - and revealed how you can do it too. Kaitie Purssell (left and right), 28, from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, regularly shares snaps of her incredible meal prepping sessions as well as tips and tricks for shaving hundreds off your grocery bill. Kaitie's latest giant meal prep saw her make 74 meals for only $1.27 per serve.

A disability pensioner who was assaulted by her neighbour in an underground car park (left) claims she lives in constant fear and 'basically like a hermit' after the attack. Rewi Michael Borell (right) attacked 36-year-old Emma Martin, when he saw her smoking in the basement of their apartment complex in Southport, on the Gold Coast on November 12. The New Zealand born 44-year-old was filmed punching, kicking and screaming at Ms Martin by a distressed friend, who repeatedly asked him to stop in the footage.

An Australian woman has been slammed on social media after she decorated her home with designer gift bags placed in Kmart frames. The images, posted anonymously to a 'Kmart Roast' Facebook page, show small gift bags from leading brands such as a Tiffany, Dior and Chanel hung on the wall in wooden frames. Within moments of the photos being posted, thousands took to Facebook to 'roast' the woman for her 'utterly trashy' design idea.

Erika Murray, 35, is charged over the deaths of two of the three dead babies. They were found in a closet in the insect-infested Blackstone home in 2014. Four living children, aged from five months to 13-years-old, were also removed. Neighbours say the property was full of 'dirty diapers, fleas and maggots'. Images from the house show piles of trash filling rooms and squalid conditions. It took clean-up crews 90 hours spread over four days of work to clear out Murray's house before heavy machinery was brought in to raze it to the ground. A judge is now deciding the case after Murray pleaded not guilty.

A mother-of-five has been inundated with thousands of requests on social media after sharing a snap of the $12 seat belt covers she created for children who have disabilities The cover is designed to alert authorities to children's health issues or disabilities in an emergency and was inspired by her Natalie's own daughter who has a cochlear implant. Natalie Bell, from Victoria, shared her life-saving creation on her page Personalised by Nat on Wednesday after being inspired by her daughter and the post has since received 61,000 likes.

She is set to welcome her third child with cricketer husband David Warner in just a matter of weeks. And Candice Warner looks set to give birth in England, after she was seen checking in for a long-haul flight at Sydney Airport on Wednesday. The heavily pregnant WAG, 34, was joined by her two daughters as they travelled to London to support David, 32, during the ICC Cricket World Cup. 

A young woman has revealed how it cost her $20,000 to leave her boyfriend, because they were in a de facto relationship and had lived together domestically for two years or more. Tara Leach, from Albury, New South Wales, wasn't married to her partner, but when the relationship started falling apart, she was shocked to find out her boyfriend was entitled to take half of what she owned. 'I didn't realise the complexity of it,' Tara said.

Charmaine McLeod, 35, was killed along with her children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, Wyatt, 4 and Zaidok, 2, (right) when her car collided head-on with a truck on a Queensland highway on May 27. Ms McLeod's sister Katie Harris is now advertising all their possessions for sale (left) as she prepares to bury the family wiped out in the fiery crash. Photos of the items for sale showed four children's bikes, a toy car, and a $100 dining table piled high with CDs and boxes of other goods. The crash, three hours from their Hervey Bay home, is being treated as a suspected murder-suicide after a handwritten note was found 200m from the scene.

A distraught woman has spoken out about the gut-wrenching moment she accidentally burned down her father's home after she left a scented candle alight in her bedroom. Gemma Kelly, from Perth, said she was gone from her room for a brief moment doing her laundry when the fire started. The 26-year-old said they have lost everything after the ferocious blaze ravaged her family's uninsured property on the night of April 10. The mechanical engineer and her father, 55, tried desperately to save their home with a garden hose before fire crews arrived at the scene within four minutes.

Chloe Nunkerilowana Quayle, 24, from Parramatta, took to Facebook on Sunday to open up on her addiction that she once believed would consume her forever. The mother-of-three highlighted the effects of her drug use by sharing before and after photos in an emotional post which has now gone viral.

An Indigenous rapper has explained why Advance Australia Fair is offensive to Aboriginals in response to the boycott of the anthem by a string of State of Origin stars.  Adam Briggs, who performed on stage at Suncorp Stadium in Queensland ahead of game one on Wednesday, revealed why he thinks the national song 'sucks'.  'I want to help you understand what the Australian anthem sounds like when black fellas listen to it,' he said on a video posted by The Weekly before the game. Eleven New South Wales and Queensland stars refused to sing the anthem before the series opener.

In an adorable video posted to Facebook on Tuesday, little Kingston is having a full conversation with his father - Detzin Pryor - as the two watch television. 'Only this child!! Having a full-fledged conversation with Daddy and Daddy is just as bad,' said the boy's mother, Shanieke Pryor, in the video that has been viewed more than 11million times.

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley (right) has reignited an eight-year-old feud with his former mentor Mick Malthouse (left) after he was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame. Malthouse, 65, was inducted to the AFL Hall of Fame on Tuesday night but Buckley, 46, was not happy about it. The Collingwood Coach called him 'rat cunning' and a 'master manipulator' on SEN on Wednesday. Media personality Malthouse was surprised by his former assistant coach's comments in a separate interview on Thursday.

Pictures of 16 people arrested on drug charges show quickly substance misuse can change appearances. They were charged with possessing meth, heroin, marijuana and other substances. At age 21, the woman on the left was arrested for drug posession in Florida (inset). By the time she was was 29, her face had paled and become puffy, her eyes became red, and scabs developed all over her face from years of cocaine and heroin use (main). The man on the left got many facial tattoos and burst a blood vessel in his right eye by the time he was arrested 27 (main) for possessing meth. He appears drastically different from the time of his first arrest at 19 (inset).

TOM LEONARD: Jay-Z, 49-year-old husband of pop star Beyonce, (pictured together centre) grew up in a grim, violence-ravaged housing project in Brooklyn. Shawn Carter - to give him his real name - shot his brother when he was 12 (top left as a child) and was dealing crack cocaine by the age of 13. He seemed destined for a life of crime and prison. Instead, he is now feted by U.S. presidents and business moguls. He has endorsed brands including Mercedes (top right) to amass his fortune, which includes his $88m Bel Air home (bottom left). He has won praise from Obama (pictured together bottom) as an inspiration for young African Americans.

Death-defying swimming pools are apparently set to become the latest architectural trend in central London. That's according to a firm that has designed the world's first 360-degree infinity pool, which will sit on top of a 55-storey, 722ft (200m) skyscraper called Infinity London. The 600,000-litre pool features see-through acrylic sides and a transparent floor, so people below will be able to see the swimmers far above. Swimmers will access it through a rotating spiral staircase based on the door of a submarine, rising from the pool floor when someone wants to get in or out.

Donald Trump and his wife Melania, who moved on to Ireland this afternoon before going to France tomorrow, joined the monarch and Prince Charles to speak to some of the 300 Second World War veterans who fought on the Normandy beaches 75 years ago. As they posed for the final photograph at the D-Day 75 commemoration event in Portsmouth (bottom right), the President told the Queen: 'It was a great honour to be with you' and Her Majesty replied: 'I hope you come to this country again soon'. Mr Trump was heard saying: 'Great woman. Great, great woman' as he and Melania went to board his Marine One helicopter. They flew to Southampton Airport (left) before being taken to Shannon (top right) in Ireland by Air Force Two. Hours earlier the Queen paid tribute to 'my generation' after another British veteran received an ovation from the monarch and Mr Trump as he described his 'mates who didn't come back' from France.

A Queensland party waitress who wanted to look 'perfect' decided to get breast implants six years ago but has since had them removed after the whole left side of her 'went numb'. Nat Alexander (pictured), who is based in Hervey Bay, shared her eye-opening story on Facebook, detailing how she suffered a range of disturbing symptoms doctors couldn't explain before attributing them to her chest enlargement.

Vashon Flowers, 46, inset right, from Michigan, was sitting in the court charged with the murder of his wife Jamie Thomas-Flowers, inset bottom right, when her son, London Thomas, ran towards him in an attempt to attack him. Thomas jumped over a barrier and sprinted towards him. A number of police officers prevented the man from reaching Flowers and he was soon overpowered and led from the courtroom in handcuffs.

American medics treat a wounded man on the beaches on June 6, 1944 (top left), Rangers rest in a German defensive position at Pointe du Hoc they captured during the invasion (bottom), and reinforcements come ashore after the initial fighting (top right) in these fascinating images that have been rendered in colour for the first time. D-Day saw tens of thousands of Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy and drop from the skies in an attempt to break into Hitler's 'fortress Europe'. Despite failing to achieve a single key objective on the first day of fighting, they gained a toe-hold on the European mainland which they used to drive the Nazis back to Berlin, where they were crushed by the Russians.

The Olympic skier's wife Morgan, 32, shared the clips on Instagram on Tuesday. Their youngest, Easton Vaughn Rek, can be seen in a pool with a teacher learning a program called the Infant Swimming Resource's Self-Rescue. The program teaches infants to float in water until help arrives. In April, Morgan cried 'tears of hope' as they began teaching him this 'life-saving skill.' Last June, the couple lost their 19-month-old daughter, Emeline Grier, to a tragic pool accident in which she drowned.

A San Francisco man who landscaped a giant swastika into his front yard pavement claims is not a tribute to Nazism even though it is the exact symbol adopted by Adolf Hitler's regime.Steven Johnson, (pictured inset), from El Sobrante, sparked outrage after placing the swastika in front of his home on Lindell Drive, with neighbors claiming it represents all that is wrong in American modern society.Johnson insists the swastika, which is large enough to be visible from aerial views, is not the same sign adopted by Adolf Hitler's fascist regime and some white supremacist groups.'It's a Tibetan sign that's way back before swastikas were invented,' he told ABC7 reporters.He was then asked if he was Tibetan, to which Johnson reportedly answered, 'I could be.'Johnson then claimed:  'I own this house I'll put what I want. It ain't none of your guys' business.'

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, once said that Chernobyl was 'perhaps the real cause' of the state's collapse. At the very least, the explosion in Reactor 4 on the night of April 26, 1986, (inset) hastened the end of the 'Evil Empire'. The blast emitted more than 400 times the amount of radiation into the atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Estimates of the numbers who died in the aftermath vary between 4,000 and 93,000, many of them children. More than 300,000 people were evacuated from a contaminated area covering 1,000 square miles and much of the 'dead zone' is still a no-go area. But an acclaimed new TV dramatisation of the disaster (pictured, engineers try to stabilise the reactor by pressing the AZ-5 failsafe button) and the months that followed has revealed the scarcely believable levels of incompetence, irresponsibility and cost-cutting that combined to create a perfect storm.

Oeds de Boer, 20, flew from the Netherlands to surprise Marybel Lindsey, 18, (together right) at her prom in Nashville. The pair had met while he was an exchange student at her high school in Tennessee. To surprise Marybel, Oeds dressed in an all-white tux and held a handmade sign to stand on a bridge (inset), behind his long- distance girlfriend and her friends while they posed for a prom photo. When a shocked Marybel (left) was shown the picture it took her a few seconds to realize Oeds was really there to surprise her.

Jeannette Kupfermann argues that it's time for the U.S. First Lady (pictured) to be judged on her own terms. She believes it's unfair to claim that Melania, 49, has failed to take up the altruistic mantle of her predecessors. She argues President Trump's personality colours his wife, who married him while he was no more than a real estate magnate. Jeannette says it's sexist to expect Melania to bring her husband in line and questions the real reason many have failed to warm to her.

The clip, taken in Tennessee, shows the pair lying down unaware of the danger. 'Don't move. There's a rattlesnake right next to you', the officer warns the couple. Deputy Adam Sisk tells them to roll away from the snake, guiding them to safety. The man jumps up leaving his partner behind and she moves slowly towards Sisk. The video was posted on the Maury County Sheriff's Facebook page on Friday. Deputy Sisk is understood to have given them a ride home after the incident.

Madonna (pictured left with daughters) is glad Harvey Weinstein (right) sexual misconduct allegations 'finally' came out decades after she claims she had to 'put up with it' and claims around the same time Donald Trump (inset) constantly called her when she used his Florida home for a photo shoot. The 60-year-old worked with Weinstein on her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare where she called her then-boyfriend, Warren Beatty, a 'pussy man' and demonstrated oral sex on a water bottle. She her message 'not allow men to objectify you, to objectify yourself' was perceived as controversial at the time, meanwhile 'Harvey crossed lines and boundaries and was incredibly sexually flirtatious and forward with me'.

Bizarre footage has emerged of a BMW dangerously stacked on top of a car shell while being towed along an busy expressway. Kayla McLeod was driving along the Port River Expressway in Adelaide's northern suburbs when she spotted a Toyota Kluger towing a heavy but peculiar load. The trailer was loaded with the wreckage of a 3-series BMW sedan precariously stacked on the shell of a Toyota LandCruiser four-wheel drive.