Shannon Molloy

5 days ago | news.com.au | Shannon Molloy

A fitness enthusiast who creates large scale digital sketches using GPS and a run tracking app copped a messy surprise after completing his latest creation. Peter Mitchell spent most of Friday running and jogging to a specific set of coordinates along a stretch of remote sand dunes near Sandy Point, about three hours from Melbourne. After five hours and some 15 kilometres of distance covered, his epic drawing of football legend Lionel Messi was complete.

6 days ago | news.com.au | Shannon Molloy

When a Chinese court handed Cheng Lei a prison sentence for trumped-up espionage charges, she quietly calculated how old her two young children would be when she saw them again. Teenagers, she realised, in a harrowing moment that almost broke the Australian’s will. “My kids were very painful to think about,” Cheng recalled. “I didn’t know if I’d ever see them again.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Shannon Molloy |Natalie Brown

A Queensland mum posted a series of chilling messages on social media about her battle against “the system” just days before allegedly stabbing her three-year-old daughter to death. Lauren Flanigan, 32, was charged with the murder of her child Sophia at a property in Moore Park Beach in regional Queensland on Monday night. “Police located a three-year-old child in the front yard of that address,” Acting Superintendent Brad Inskip said.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Shannon Molloy

The Pentagon has released a blockbuster advertisement declaring an end to ‘wokeness’ in the military and reminding America’s enemies of its new global agenda. Narrated by President Donald Trump and his troubled Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, the 90-second clip features action-packed vision and soaring music. Conservative news outlets praised the ad, which rolled out on social media earlier today.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Shannon Molloy

It was an energetic one-minute dance routine inspired by a blockbuster film franchise before a major international tournament match that was meant to be a bit of fun. And it was, with the Australian men’s netball team, the Kelpies, nailing their moves to NSYNC’s classic hit Bye Bye Bye on the court at the World FAST5 Championships in Christchurch last October. A clip of the dance went viral, viewed millions of times across the globe, before finding its way to the darkest parts of the internet.