On Saturday, singer Paul Anka (left) - who wrote the Frank Sinatra hit My Way - told how he was adopted by the Rat Pack and saw a side to Sinatra that was carefully hidden from the world. In the second of two extracts from his new memoirs, PAUL ANKA reveals his fascinating encounters with famous names during his extraordinary 55-year career. He says that he blamed himself for the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, right, because of his dealings with the Fayed family.

The Defense Department has released its picks for the best and most memorable images of 2012. The more than 40 images include U.S. soldiers, jets and other military machinery, amputees, citizens in foreign countries and stray dogs. While some of the images call for laughter and awe, others call for sorrow and solemn reflection.

Sherry West (left) said her 13-month-old son (top right) was walking well on his own and eight of his teeth had come in. But she also mourned the milestones that will never come, like Antonio's first day at school. De'Marquis Elkins, 17, (bottom right) is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said.

For many teenagers its the most magical night of their young lives, but it can come during some very awkward years. Especially if you were a teenager in the 80s, when big shoulder pads, hairspray, and mullets could be considered in-style.

A Brooklyn photographer has taken on an epic project to document a subject that could make even a hardened war journalist sweat - documenting the toilets of New York City's bars. Some are clean, some are covered in graffiti, and some are so filthy one would have to be in the throes of a desperate emergency to use one.

A white person is five times as likely to kill themselves with a gun than be shot by another person, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However for each African-American who commits suicide, five others are shot dead in the U.S. (top). The levels of firearm suicides for all races in the U.S. also varies widely across urban and rural states (below).

Ashley Owens says her math teacher at Powell County Middle School in Kentucky made her empty out the contents of her locker into her backpack and carry it from class to class. She said the teacher taped her locker shut so she couldn't use it and made her pile all of her books into her pack. Ashley's blue bag weight about 20 pounds - 'heavier than a big bag of dog food,' her dad says. Ashley weighs just 50 pounds - just more than twice as much as her book bag.

A two-mile safety cordon was set up amid fears the exiled tycoon had been murdered with radioactive poisoning. The alert had been raised when a paramedic’s radiation alarm was triggered as he left the £20million property after failing to revive Mr Berezovsky, whose body was discovered by a bodyguard on the bathroom floor. The estate, in Ascot, (pictured top right) was finally declared safe after an exhaustive search by experts in chemical, biological and nuclear emergencies. Last night police said the death of the 67-year-old tycoon (pictured left his former girlfriend Elena Gorbunova) was ‘unexplained’ and the cause still unknown.

PGA bad boy Sergio Garcia found himself branching out - literally - on the tenth hole of Bay Hill, Florida, when his golf ball landed in a tree. Instead of taking a drop, Garcia made like so many little kids during recess and climbed up the tree to take his shot, which had to be one-handed and backwards.

Sanele Mailela has said that he feels like a husband now that he is married. The schoolboy enjoyed a meal with his new wife Helen Shabangu, 61, and her family in the wake of the wedding. The couple wed after his grandfather contacted him from beyond the grave asking him to have a 'white wedding'.

A 20-foot fishing boat, pictured, from Japan was found washed up on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula on Friday which experts believe is debris from the 2011 tsunami. The blue and white boat arrived on shore after a 4,500 journey. Several pieces of debris from the March 2011 natural disaster have been found in that region of the pacific coast.

Fearless Brian Mosbaugh, a member of The Moab Monkeys, was pictured sitting and even lying down on the wire above the famous Brazilian city. Another member of the group was seen hanging thousands of feet attached to the wire by only an ankle strap. The group travel the world to take part in the extreme sport of highlining, in which people walk across wires fixed high above the ground or water.

A Glendale, California senior got quite a shock when his neighbors landed their Cadillac on the roof of his home Saturday night. According to passenger Galina Wynn, her husband, Robert, was taking the pair out to dinner when he lost control of the car driving down his steep driveway.

The U.S. has extended a deadline to dismantle a minesweeper ship that has been stuck on a Philippine coral reef for three months. Salvage crews with the U.S. Navy and Philippine Coast Guard began the complicated operation in February on the USS Guardian, removing the 225-foot-long vessel's funnel and its mast. The operation was expected to be completed by Saturday, a deadline that the crews could not make, prompting the U.S. to ask for more time to get the job done.

Yao Lu's 'New Landscapes' collection attacks China's environmental record by using photographs mounds of rubbish used for modern development, inset, to build photo-shopped images of beautiful scenery from the country's past, pictured. The Beijing artist, whose work is being exhibited in New York, 'superimposes the elegant past upon the troubled present'.

New Yorker Elyse Pasquale, 36, has sampled everything from sheep's brain at an Indian wedding to live shrimp in Copenhagen and snacked on starfish on a stick in Beijing. Her adventures, which have taken her to more than 60 countries, are documented on her blog Foodie International.

The photographs, taken by Expedition 33 crew as the International space station orbits the Earth, show the mesmerizing lights of (from top left, clockwise) Tokyo, Kuwait City, Baltimore, Maryland and Istanbul. Cities on the coast have the densest light by the water's edge while cities with major new development like in Kuwait are more grid-like.

Jake Moran was caught on camera refusing to share his ice cream with girlfriend Georgia Arnett in a hilarious crowd scene at Tuesday's Indiana Pacers game, pictured top left and right. The basketball fan clearly didn't want to share the mint chip ice cream despite a furious Arnett, bottom left. He eventually relented, bottom right, but not before the argument was caught on film by broadcasters.

Police sprayed tear gas at protesters as hundreds charged towards the Champs-Elysees avenue during the protest against a draft law allowing same-sex couples to adopt and marry. About 300,000 people - conservative activists, children and priests - took part to stop the bill. Christine Boutin, leader of the French Christian Democratic Party, was pictured lying on the ground in the Champs-Elysees, after being teargased by police during the demonstration.

An intrepid photographer, Antonio Ruiz, from Costa Rica positioned himself perilously close toward a crocodile, who was apparently hungry, and is lucky to still be alive. The incredible video was captured by Ruiz's friend David Clow in Rio Tarcoles in an area appropriately called 'Crocodile Bridge.'

Close-up images show the moment a cheeky baby polar bear crept up behind his mother and bit her tail to get attention at Moscow Zoo. The cub's ploy seemed to work and the mother bear got him back by tickling the baby's tummy. The images were captured by photographer Sergei Gladyshev.

The unnamed Sumatran tiger cub was born on February 10, and after passing her physical, has been allowed to have short socialization sessions at her home in the San Francisco Zoo. But her mother, Leanne, is careful never to let her prized cub out of sight.

The 19 whales were discovered stranded at Noordhoek Beach in South Africa this morning, pictured. Rescue workers hosed the mammals down, pictured right, in a bid to keep them alive.