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Vic has worked as a photo editor for more than 15 years, spending the last five at news.com.au as picture editor. She got her start working in the odd world of a paparazzi photo agency before moving into photo editing at women’s magazines Woman’s Day and NW, followed by working in digital news for the launch of Daily Mail Australia. She has no problem telling the difference between the Olsen twins and can name more Kardashian family members than she cares to.

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Health Problems

***ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY*** **CONTACT NETWORK PIC DESK FOR PRINT RIGHTS** Must credit Caters News/Picture Media PIC FROM CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: Jannine after the operation with her hayfever tablets after she was misdiagnosed with hayfever and not cancer.) A beautiful mum has had parts of her face removed after severe nosebleeds which were misdiagnosed as hay fever turned out to be cancer. Pretty Jannine McHaffie, 25, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, had her upper teeth, pallet bone, top right jaw, and parts of her cheek bones removed after being diagnosed with adenoids cystic carcinoma. The brave full time mum was diagnosed with the rare cancer, which affects the salivary glands, six months after finding a strawberry sized tumour in her nose. Now Jannine is back home recovering after surgeons removed a bone from her leg to rebuild the missing facial features. SEE CATERS COPY.

‘My GP said my cancer was hayfever’

JANNINE McHaffie had to have half her face removed after doctors realised they’d made a mistake: her hayfever was cancer.

Mobile Phones

**ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY*** **CONTACT NETWORK PIC DESK FOR PRINT RIGHTS*** 22nd Feb 2015: Murat Mustafa, 10 years old, from Kobane takes a selfie. He remembers vividly the day his village was attacked by the ISIS, seeing them arriving, heavily armed. With his family, he left the house in a hurry and headed to the border of Turkey. There, they were loaded into trucks and brought to a refugee camp in Suruc. All the way he was crying, scared and worried about his house. Remembering makes him cry again. His father has gone back to see for himself and told him everything is destroyed. But, there are people returning, and the town will be built again. When given the smartphone and asked to take a selfie, a smile appears in his eyes, a light of optimism, thinking about his future return to Kobane. (Photo by Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images)

The young lives torn apart by IS

YOUNG Syrian refugees were given smartphones and asked to take a ‘selfie’ and share their stories, revealing how IS had destroyed their lives.

Travel Stories

***ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY*** **CONTACT NETWORK PIC DESK FOR PRINT RIGHTS** Must credit Caters News/Picture Media PIC FROM MATT AND JESSICA JOHNSON / CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: Jessica Johnson in her bikini on the island of Bermuda.) A young couple decided to quit the rat race and gave up their jobs to sail around the world - despite never having set foot on a sailing boat before. Matt and Jessica Johnson, both 32, decided to give up their American Dream and purchased a boat in 2008. After practising for three years, the due were finally ready to set sail and drift into the sunset. Matt quit his job as a sales manager at a car dealership and Jessica left her insurance firm career and the pair set sail, leaving everything they knew behind. Wanting more company, they decided to adopt a cat from a no-kill shelter in 2012 and Georgie the cat has been with them ever since - including 13 different countries. SEE CATERS COPY.

‘I quit my job and sold everything to travel’

STUCK in a life of monotony and longing to break free from the rat race, Jessica and her husband made some huge sacrifices for the chance to travel the world. Now they’re living it up.

Animals

PIC FROM CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: The snake is pictured with the porcupine in his stomach ) - This greedy python has bitten off more than he could chew when he perished after swallowing a prickly PORCUPINE. The bloated 3.9 metre African rock python was found by a mountain biker, lying next to a cycle track at Lake Eland Game Reserve, near Port Shepstone. The unlucky pythons eyes were clearly bigger than his belly when he sized up his last supper, and he was found with his innards punctured by dozens of needle-sharp quills from the 13.8kg porcupine. SEE CATERS COPY.

Python bites off more than he can chew

THIS greedy python thought it struck the mother lode when it stumbled across a lunchtime snack. However, it soon learnt all was not as it seemed. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES

Celebrity Style

A model presents a creation for fashion house Vivienne Westwood at the Men Spring-Summer 2016 Milan's Fashion Week on June 21, 2015. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS

Breaking Bad star makes catwalk debut

BREAKING Bad star RJ Mitte has made his catwalk debut, modelling an ‘interesting’ outfit for Vivienne Westwood in Milan.

Babies

**ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY*** **CONTACT NETWORK PIC DESK FOR PRINT RIGHTS** Must credit Worldwide Features/Barcroft Media/Getty Images ***EXCLUSIVE*** STOCKPORT, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 21: Katalina Martin's seen with her newborn Quads Sofia, Roman, Aston and Amelia on June 21, 2015 in Stockport, England. A BRITISH mother has given birth to naturally conceived quadruplets - in an ?incredible? case never heard of before by experts. Not only did mother Katalina Martin, 28, manage to fall pregnant with four babies - but they EACH came from a different fertilized egg. There are only three or four sets of quadruplets born each year in the UK - and it usually occurs when one or more embryos split in the womb, creating sets of twins PHOTOGRAPH BY Worldwide Features / Barcroft Media UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.com

Why these quadruplets are one of a kind

A BRITISH mother has given birth to naturally conceived quadruplets – in an ‘incredible’ case never heard of before by experts.

Asia

The ‘rainbow caves’ of China

FEAST your eyes on what could be the world’s most colourful cave, which welcomes visitors at 240 metres under the surface of the Earth.

Babies

***ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY*** **CONTACT NETWORK PIC DESK FOR PRINT RIGHTS*** Must credit Caters News/Picture Media PIC FROM CATERS NEWS - (Pictured: Vicki and Chris Hutchenson and baby Ava) Meet the baby girl who was saved from a life-threatening condition by a MR MEN book. Tiny Ava Allen wasnt expected to survive after being born 14 weeks premature, with a rare lung condition, and needed an emergency operation to stand any chance of pulling through. Doctors warned her worried mum, Vicki, 20, that no child as young as Ava had ever survived the surgery - but as baby Ava lay recovering from the op, her mum began to read her a Mr Men book - and was amazed as the sound of her voice steadied her daughters heart rate. Ava Allen, now nine-months-old, has fought against all the odds to still be fighting fit today but her mum Vicki and dad Chris Hutcheson, 21, think its all down to the Mr Men. Vicki, 20, from Horley, Sussex, said: All I wanted to do was pick her up and cuddle her, she was so small and fragile, but she was too small to hold. SEE CATERS COPY

Mr Tickle saved my daughter

MEET the baby girl who was saved from a life-threatening condition by a Mr Men book.

Celebrity Selfies

Kate Hudson flaunts hot bikini bod

KATE Hudson has posted this photo of her insanely fit bikini body to her Instagram account while holidaying in Greece.

Sports Life

Blessed to welcome our son, Tobias, into the world. Born June 1st, 7.9 lbs. and 21" Long. He is named after his great grandpa Tobias meaning "The goodness of God." Adam and I so in love with our lil guy and are stoked to share life with him! #stokedmomma Photo: @TimmyHamilton bethany hamilton baby.JPG

Shark attack surfer gives birth

SHE survived a near fatal shark attack losing an arm when she was only 13, then rose to the top of the surfing circuit. Now Bethany Hamilton has given birth.

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