If an earthquake similar in size to the 5.9 magnitude tremor that hit Mansfield last week was to strike directly beneath Melbourne, more than 1400 people could be killed or injured and $163 billion worth of building damage sustained. Modelling for the Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre forecasts a magnitude 6 quake striking under the […]

A MUM has spoken of her heartbreak after her one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare condition that will gradually turn her body to 'stone'. Lexi Robins from Hertfordshire was diagnosed with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), which is thought to affect just one in two million people. The ultra-rare genetic disease gradually replaces connective tissues, […]

Gabby Petito case: Dispatch recordings show Utah police were told male struck female Dispatch recordings show Utah police were told a male struck a female. A missing Florida woman was found dead in South Carolina two days after being reported missing. Sheridan Wahl, a 21-year old woman from Florida, was on a trip to visit […]

Fears are growing for a 26-year-old woman who has been missing for almost a week. Penka Petkova, who has friends and police searching the streets to find her, is described as a "very petite brunette with a Bulgarian accent". She was last seen in her flat in east London by the mates she lives with […]

Don’t miss a thing by getting the Daily Star’s biggest headlines straight to your inbox! An experienced skydiver was killed when his head slammed into his pal’s thigh during a jump. Hilmar Backer tragically lost his life in the freak accident in Delmas, South Africa. Despite having done over 680 jumps before and always making […]

A MUM tried to murder her son years after breaking his leg when he was a four-week-old baby, a shocking new report reveals. The young boy from Teeside was viciously assaulted by his mother as she tried to kill him last summer. It came after no “recognisable form” of police investigation was carried out when […]

SABINA Nessa's family today visited the scene where the primary school teacher was murdered to look at hundreds of tributes left in her memory. It comes as a 36-year-old man was arrested around 3am this morning at a home in East Sussex on suspicion of Sabina's murder. A woman, understood to be Sabina's sister Jebina, […]

BANK of America has warned of a scam that targets customers using the Zelle app as thousands across the US have lost money to the fraudsters. The scammers target victims by sending out a text message posing as Bank of America and issuing a fake "fraud alert," saying a $3,500 transaction has been attempted on […]

THE LOCALS of Llanwrtyd Wells, the UK’s smallest town, woke up to the sights, sounds and scents of a Bavarian wonderland this weekend – as the entire village was turned into an Oktoberfest-style party. Designed in partnership with the director of the Bavarian National Museum, Florian Seidel, residents were treated to oompah bands, processions and […]

A MAN is terrified because his mysterious eight inch spider has gone missing. Jim Dodds, 53, has been constantly checking under pillows for the two weeks since the arachnid vanished. He had it trapped in a plastic box in his garden after wife Helen, 51, found it there in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. He said after it […]