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This is the empty backyard where the body of a newborn baby was dumped inside a bloodied plastic bag. The baby, possibly born prematurely, was discovered by homeowner Dan Petrovic (left) when he went into his yard in Stockton, north of Newcastle, on Tuesday morning (right). Mr Petrovic and police have no idea how the infant ended up in the Church Street yard, but investigators fear the mother may have 'panicked and thrown the bag over a fence'. On Wednesday morning, Mr Petrovic's house and yard remained a crime scene and he was not allowed back in. Police are still desperately searching for the mother, and probing medical centres and hospitals for clues, while a post mortem is carried out on the baby's body.

Getaway star Catriona Rowntree (pictured) has revealed the unusual way she likes to fit in her daily exercise while travelling around the world. The Australian-based TV host has 'mastered the art of shortcuts' when it comes to staying fit, particularly as she juggles being a mother to two young boys, living on a farm and weekly long-haul flights.

A former Miss Australia state finalist who is facing 21 years in jail in the US for assaulting a flight attendant on a long-haul flight has lost her bid for a new trial. Melbourne-based model Adau Akui Atem Mornyang is set to be sentenced in the US District Court in Los Angeles next month.  'Defendant's motion for dismissal of the indictment or, in the alternative, a new trial is denied,' US District Court judge Cormac Carney ruled.  

A masked raider was caught on camera smashing a service station door with an axe before walking barefoot over the glass and leaving empty handed. CCTV shows the man approaching the shop in Townsville on Tuesday at 11pm.  He hit the glass doors of the business several times with a mattock, a type of axe, before they broke.

Health-crazed consumers have been blamed for the failure of popular doughnut chain Krispy Kreme to conquer the Australian market. A video by YouTube channel Cheddar on Tuesday featuring an examination of why the US-based franchise has been unable to succeed in Australia. Krispy Kreme opened too many stores to suit the demand in a country where people followed a 'low-carb fad that permeated diet culture in the late 2000s', the video claimed.

Married at First Sight's Elizabeth Sobinoff continues to flaunt her dramatic weight loss, months after she was fat-shamed by her 'husband' Sam Ball on their wedding day. And on Tuesday, the 27-year-old bizarrely used her shrinking frame to draw attention to her ongoing feud with former co-star Cyrell Paule, 30. The outspoken reality star showed off her slimmed-down physique in a photo shared to Instagram - but when fans asked for her 'weight loss secrets' she replied that the trick was 'getting rid of toxic people'.

Pia Miller seems to have a lot on her mind. The former Home and Away star appeared rather downcast during a solitary stroll in Clovelly, Sydney on Sunday, June 2. She looked glum and introspective while strolling along the headland, occasionally glancing down at her iPhone screen.

Two brothers who allegedly bashed a transport cop shaved their heads to avoid detection, a court has heard. Officer Chris O'Neill (inset), 60, was kicked, punched and left with three fractured ribs near Melbourne's Heyington train station on Saturday. Police released a CCTV image (right) of Jay Stephens, 20, and his younger brother Isaiah, 18, as they searched for the culprits. When police raided their boarding house in Malvern East on Monday, the boys climbed out a window and ran before they were arrested, a court heard. The boys' father Jared Pilgren (left) supported them in court and slammed police with a scathing Facebook post.

NEW A popular art gallery has defended its curator's decision to include the works of a known paedophile in a new exhibition. The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane this week debuted an exhibition by the late Margaret Olley. The exhibition examines her life and work, and includes works of and about her from her friends and acquaintances while she was still alive. Queensland's flagship art gallery opted to include the work of problematic artist Donald Friend, a self confessed paedophile.

The Duchess of Cambridge led the glamour as the Royal Family joined the Queen (inset right) for the first day of Royal Ascot today. Elegant in a blue lace creation by Elie Saab, Kate, 37, beamed as she caught up with Zara Tindall (left and right), 38, and Princess Eugenie, 29, at the Berkshire racecourse today. The royal carriage procession this afternoon marked the official start of the annual five-day racing festival.

Meal preps have become wildly popular among foodies everywhere. Super organised home cooks are now preparing meals in large batches, with ready-to-go breakfasts, lunches and dinners sorted for the entire week. But MasterChef Australia star Poh Ling Yeow said this doesn't have to be the case. 'You don't have to cook all complete meals,' Poh told Daily Mail Australia. Here, the ambassador of Crock-Pot shared her culinary tips to meal prep like a professional chef, the one go-to ingredient she uses to lift any dish and her top five winter kitchen pantry staples.

The Byron Bay hostel where a Belgian backpacker was staying before he vanished has been slammed for taking three days to report him missing. Theo Hayez (left), 18, was staying at the WakeUp! hostel (right) when he disappeared on the night of May 31. He was last seen leaving the Cheeky Monkey's bar about 11pm before his phone emitted its final signal near cliffs by the town's lighthouse a few hours later. Mr Hayez was supposed to check out of his room on June 3 but hostel staff did not report him missing until June 6. Inset: Rescuers look for him on Tuesday

Dramatic footage has been captured of a truck trying to fit underneath a bridge and hitting it, causing glass and debris to fly off onto an adjacent car.    In the dash cam footage taken from the car traveling next to the truck, the top of the semi trailer can be seen hitting the bottom of the bridge. The impact caused an entire wall of the truck's cargo to come loose and fly off, smashing into the car driver's windshield. 

Christopher Moriarty, 42, was filmed scolding a man who had allegedly tried to make a pass at a girl wearing a school uniform. He stepped in to defend the teen after the stranger complimented her appearance and asked her for her age. Footage of the incident showed the two men arguing in the back of the 433 bus from Balmain to Central during the morning commute on Tuesday. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Mr Moriarty said he felt compelled to speak up for the teen because he thought the older man was being a 'massive creep.'  

Donald Trump's first official campaign rally of 2020 opened up much the way his 2016 candidacy ended - with his audience chanting 'Lock her Up!' in a slam on former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. The president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, invited the criticism when she wound up an arena of supporters. Husband Eric, who spoke after her, had a crowd of more than 20,000 screaming, 'CNN Sucks!'. 'He loves this country and we, as a family, love this country. We're going to fight like hell', Eric said. Donald Trump Jr. mocked Joe Biden before the rowdy crowd that waited in the heat and rain for hours. 'He gets up on the stump. It's so stupid,' he said, claiming the ex-VP has four-person crowds.

Frances Abbott, the daughter of former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, has shared a rare photo and her thoughts on 'self-love' on Instagram after moving to the United States in October, 2018 with her husband Sam Loch. The image shows the 28-year-old, who lives Newport, Oregon, with her Olympic rowing champion beau, wearing a black one-piece swimming costume and grinning with her arms widespread on Newport Beach. Hours later, the yogi posted a cryptic follow-up snap with a simple quote - 'I am loving awareness' - and a caption that discussed her feelings on self-love and the challenge of loving herself and others.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared unsteady and was shaking for around a minute as she stood in the midday sun in Berlin on Tuesday. She was welcoming Ukraine's new president Volodymyr Zelensky (both pictured), whom she greeted to her office with military honours. Merkel's whole body visibly shook and she pursed her lips as she tried to contain the situation as she stood with Zelenskiy in the 28C (82F) heat while a military band played their national anthems. But following the anthems, Mrs Merkel seemed better, walking quickly along the red carpet with Zelenskiy into the building, pausing to greet the military band and taking a salute.

A downcast and doleful Anderson Cooper watched as his mother's coffin was taken from an Upper East Side funeral home and loaded into a hearse ahead of her burial service. The CNN host was joined by his ex-boyfriend Ben Maisani as he took care of funeral preparations for Gloria Vanderbilt earlier in the day, a little over a year after Cooper revealed he had split from his partner of almost a decade. Not seen however were Vanderbilt's two sons from her second marriage to conductor to conductor Leopold Stokowski: Leopold Stanislaus 'Stan' Stokowski and Christopher Stokowski. Cooper had spoken in the past about this day, and in one heartbreaking passage from his memoir explained: 'My father died in 1978, when I was ten; and my brother, Carter, killed himself in 1988, when I was twenty-one, so my mom is the last person left from my immediate family, the last person alive who was close to me when I was a child.'

A photograph of a man taking up three seats on a packed train, forcing other commuters to stand, has sparked controversy over whether or not he was in the wrong. The hoodie clad passenger was pictured sleeping across an entire row of chairs in a peak hour Sydney train on Tuesday, while other travelers struggled to find an empty seat. The image was posted on social media platfrom Reddit, receiving mixed reviews with some rushing to his defence saying he most likely fell asleep while the train was empty.

The dramatic video posted to social media shows a massive great white swim up against the stern of a 31-foot Bertram sport boat as it was sailing 30 miles from Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey. 'We've fished for sharks a lot and never seen anything like that,' the boat's captain, Jeff Crilly, said. 'We were amazed by how big it was.' Crilly, 31, is the owner of Big Nutz Required II. He estimates that the length of the shark was more than half the size of the boat. 'It was harder to guess the weight because we had nothing to compare it to, but it was probably about 2,000 pounds,' Crilly said.

A collision at a roundabout has divided social media users over who was in the wrong.  Dashcam footage was shared of the collision which occurred at the Henderson Road exit roundabout in Ingleburn, south-west Sydney, in April. The driver with the dashcam is in the left lane approaching the double-lane roundabout, while there's a red BMW in the right lane. 

Eric, 22, from Reading, pictured left, thinks the elderly are 'lifeless' and 'smelly' but is proven wrong when he goes to stay with cool pensioner Raymond for two days, who teaches him a few things. Eric loves wearing make-up, enjoys a lie-in every morning and spends most of his time on the couch on his phone (top right), treating his family home like an all-inclusive hotel. For now he's happy with his life of leisure, having all his meals prepared by his mum - but after spending 48 years with Raymond in this week's Old School for Lazy Kids, it's all change for Eric when the 79-year-old puts him to work, teaching him how to cook and iron (bottom right).

A shocked woman has returned to her car to find a massive python making itself at home inside the engine. Jodi was at Valla Beach, northern New South Wales, on Tuesday when she was warned a giant snake had slithered under her car and disappeared inside. She refused to get in the car due to her fear of snakes, and quickly called friend Francesco Vellozzi to help. They phoned for a professional snake wrangler, and Mr Vellozzi videoed parts of the hour-long effort to capture the snake.

A parent captured the unlikely outburst while filming the ceremony at a school in the US. After the teacher welcomes the guests, one foul-mouth student declares: 'Shut the f*** up!' Shock ripples through the room as the teacher asks the boy if he needs to leave. Without hesitation the troublemaker replies: 'No, b****!'

The woman can be seen standing in the central reservation of a busy road as she is jeered by men before she is brutally hauled across the road by her ankles in the city of Rasht, Iran. A crowd appear to be in a stand-off with the woman before a few men approach her, with one grabbing her around the head and forcing her to the ground. The victim can be heard shrieking as men laugh in the background. According to Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad she was set upon because her head was uncovered and she was dancing.

Toby, who lives with his owners Chris Lardner and Georgina Price in Gloucestershire, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which makes his skin saggy, giving him a permanently grumpy look. Georgina (left) and her partner Chris adopted him from the RSPCA after he was rescued from a hoarder's home, and despite his disgruntled appearance (right), he loves to play (inset).

'Portraits of No Man's Land' is a collaboration between Google Arts & Culture and researchers at Durham and Royal Holloway universities. Researchers present visually-driven stories that transport viewers to such formerly disputed territories as the WWI front lines (left) and the Cyprus buffer zone (top right, with a 3D model of a plane grounded in such bottom right)

Shane Brown and his friends, from San Diego, California, were swimming in the crystal-clear waters off the west coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on June 5 when they were joined by the cephalopod. It wrapped its tentacles around the legs of Sammy Heath, 30, as she floats in a shallow part of the Pacific Ocean.