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1. Woman goes to hospital with cramps, comes home with baby

A New Zealand woman, booked in for a hysterectomy after experiencing cramps, has been surprised with a baby boy born at 32 weeks.

Rebecca Oldham, aged 25, had three scans, two blood tests and six pregnancy tests to try to explain severe abdominal cramping. She was admitted to hospital in November last year to have her ovaries removed but doctors instead discovered a 4kg baby.

Doctors woke her and told her the news before performing an emergency caesarean according to The NZ Herald.

“I am so glad they woke me and told me I was going to have another baby,” Oldham said.

“Even though it was short notice it was better than waking up and being handed a baby.”

An investigation is now underway to see how the pregnancy was missed.

Her and her partner already had a 20-month-old girl. She has since been told the stomach pains she had been experiencing were probably because the baby had lodged tightly along her back.

2. Newborn babies shipped to Christmas Island

Fairfax Media report that at least five two-month old babies and their families have been moved in the early hours of the morning to Christmas Island detention centre.

The report says that the families were given no notice before being moved at 3am from Adelaide’s Inverbrackie detention centre last week.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that 20 asylum seekers in family groups had been transferred. Over the weekend the Minister announced a announced a $2.6 million educational package for school aged children in the island’s detention centre.

3. Fast food restaurant refuses to serve little girl

A three year old girl in the US who’s face was injured in an attack by pitbulls has been asked to leave a KFC outlet as they said she was “scaring the other diners.”

Victoria Wilcher’s family posted the incident on a Facebook page designed to document Victoria’s recovery from her injuries. “Does this face look scary to you? Last week at KFC in Jackson MS this precious face was asked to leave because her face scared the other diners.”

Victoria was attacked by three of her grandfather’s pitbulls earlier this year. He had to shoot two of the dogs to get them to stop their frenzy.

After the post went viral KFC wrote that they were looking into the incident as they did not tolerate disrespectful beaviour.

4. Mum of boy who died from meningococcal speaks

The mother of Ryder Manulat who died last week from meningococcal disease has told News Limited that she would have had her two year old vaccinated against the disease if she had known there was a vaccine available for strain B – of which Ryder died.

Ryder was born with Down syndrome and had a heart problem. “

With his condition we would have vaccinated for B strain if we’d known,” she said

The childhood vaccination schedule has a vaccine for strain C not the B strain.

News Limited report that the vaccine has not been funded under the National Immunisation Program due to its cost, long-term effectiveness and relatively low incidence of strain B. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee are now considering the inclusion of the 4CMenB vaccine on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) at its meeting next month.

5. Measles alert

Queensland Health have issued a measles alert after an infected child flew into Brisbane on Air Niugini flight PX25 from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Monday last week.

The girl attended two northside general practices, one in Chermside Shopping Centre and the other in Albany Creek, in the past week. People who may have been near the unwell child are asked to contact their local Doctor or emergency department by phone.

6. California Whooping Cough epidemic

Meanwhile in California the Department of Public Health has announced that whooping cough has reached epidemic proportions.

Nearly 3,460 cases of pertussis—whooping cough—have been reported to the California Department of Public Health this year, with over 800 cases reported in the past two weeks. More cases have been reported so far this year than in all of 2013.

7. Toddler put in paddy wagon

Outrage over the weekend at a toddler – still in nappies- placed in a police paddy wagon.

News Limited report that police were called after reports were made that the 15-month old child was in danger having been being ‘belted’ by its 15-year mother.

A photographer then captured the image making waves around Australia.

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8. Iraqi forces fight back

A televised news conference by an Iraqi security spokesman has confirmed that Iraqi forces have killed 279 militants in 24 hours in a major militant offensive.

The defensive against ISIS comes after US secretary of state John Kerry said US assistance to repel the militant advance, would only work if Iraqi leaders overcame deep divisions.

On Saturday the US moved an aircraft carrier into the gulf.

Meanwhile  ISIS  have posted graphic photos online that appear to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldier-  photograph posed over the bloodied and mutilated corpses of the slain soldiers appeared first on Twitter. Their authenticity has now been confirmed.

The New York Times reports the group boasted on Twitter that it had killed as many as 1,700 soldiers, which, if true, would make the weekend’s executions one of the worst atrocities in the region in the past few years.

9. Key to a happy relationship

A study by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows that the key to a successful relationship is to see your partner through rose coloured glasses.

“Individual partners feel happier when their spouse or partner has a “shinier” view of them than they have of themselves”

 10. Woman canyon death

An English tourist in her 20’s  has fallen to her death from a canyon in the popular Kings Canyon tourist track in the Northern Territory’s remote Watarrka National Park some 450km south west of Alice Springs.

11. Salon to charge screaming kids extra

A hairdressing salon in Adelaide has created a furor with a sign saying, “Screaming kids will be charged accordingly”.

The Jaggered Edge salon displayed the sign for a fortnight before a war of words on their Facebook page forced them to take it down.

The sign also said that parents should not force their kids to get a haircut. Parents of children with autism vented their anger over the offensive sign.

“Don’t you know some children have high anxiety over haircuts and possibly other issues?’’

The sign was removed over the weekend and the salon posted a statement in justification.

“We most certainly did not aim to discriminate or offend anyone. This sign is not aimed at special-needs children at all.”

They said that it was “nerve wracking “ to cut a child’s hair when they were screaming “So we are then put in the position of cutting a child’s hair that is distressed an causing anxiety to ourselves whilst putting everyone’s safety at risk. When we are put in that position and its takes 30 – 45 mins then yes I’m sorry we are going to have to charge a little extra.”

12. Frances Abbott tenancy battle

The daughter of the Prime Minister, Frances Abbott has been involved in a legal battle over a tenancy agreement she broke after Australian Federal Police declared the apartment unsafe.

Ms Abbott withdrew from the agreement three days after she signed the one-year contract.

The Herald Sun report that the apartment’s owner a “single mother recovering from cancer” took the case to VCAT seeking compensation for the lease break after it took eight weeks to find new tenants.

The AFP assessed the apartment and found it unsafe. According to The Herald Sun Ms. Abbott’s bond was returned and most of the first month’s rent.

13. Casey Kasem dies

US radio personality Casey Kasem, who lent his distinctive voice to the character Shaggy in the Scooby Doo cartoons, has died at 82.

14. Nurse suspended after injecting botox

A nurse in NSW has been suspended after administering Botox to customers without a prescription, Fairfax reports.

The NSW Civil  and Administrative Tribunal  found Rosalie Piper, who worked at clinics in Epping and Collaroy, guilty of professional misconduct last week.

It suspended Piper’s license for three months.

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