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25 August 2026

The weight of an infertility diagnosis in your teens

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The weight of an infertility diagnosis in your teens

We spoke with Laura about the weight of finding out you're infertile as a teenager, and the roller-coaster of having renewed hope snatched away as an adult. These are her words. At 16, everyone around ...

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25 August 2026

Sydney shark attack survivor describes moment she came to face-to-face with ‘monster’

In her first media interview since the June incident, Leah Stewart, 34, says her thoughts while being bitten were of her one-year-old daughter An Australian woman who lost an arm after a shark attack at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has recalled the moment she came face-to-face with the “monster”. Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher and mother of a one-year-old daughter, was attacked by a large shark while on a morning swim at Coogee beach on 13 June.

Source: The Guardian WorldOriginal source