Alan Ainsley posted a simple but moving message announcing the death of his wife Louise Page, from Edinburgh, last Sunday. Followers to her regular blog charting her battle with cancer left tributes to her, led by photographer Rankin who she met as part of his 'Alive: In the face of Death' exhibition. He wrote: 'I can't even begin to express my love and admiration for her.'

Friends say Juliet Obasuyi, 43, was worried Michael Adebowale was turning against the family and wanted him to have 'spiritual guidance' before he radicalised himself. The 43-year-old was often left in tears after speaking to her son and would approach neighbours and friends for help.

It's a question that has worried countless animal lovers - cats or dogs? Scientists have used super high speed cameras to side firmly with felines, at least when it comes to lapping up water. The animals use their tongues like a whip to draw water into their mouths - but cats take in more each time, while clumsy dogs spill more than they drink.

Tens of thousands of fans have arrived to see Bayern Munich take on Borussia Dortmund in the all-German Champions League final at Wembley tonight. Just under 90,000 spectators will fill the home of football, including holders of 25,000 tickets officially sold to the fans of each club. But an estimated 100,000 more are reported to have travelled without tickets by air, coach, ferry and Eurostar. There were 500,000 applications from Dortmund fans alone. The game is underway this evening.

Matthew Clarke enlists 'full grown man' David Milchard to play the role of his two-year-old daughter Coco, and the resulting exchange makes for a hilarious video. At one point, Mr Milchard forbids Mr Clarke from talking to his wife. 'You can't talk to her right now because I'm talking to her right now,' he says threateningly. Later, he informs Mr Clarke: 'She's not your wife. She's the princess.'

Days after the brutal murder of soldier Lee Rigby shocked the nation, thousands lined the streets of York to welcome the 2 Signal Regiment upon its return from Afghanistan. The regiment's commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Colin Vaudin said he was 'humbled' by the huge turnout, which he described as 'testament to the character of the British people'. Supporters, many wearing Help for Heroes hats or t-shirts, cheered and waved Union flags as the troops marched through the city yesterday.

NEW Taxidermy animals can be sold for thousands of pounds, but these sad creatures - ranging from the slightly distorted to the outright creepy - are unlikely to ever become collectors' items. It takes a lot of imagination to imagine this seal (top right) ever in the sea or this hideous hyena (bottom right) and creepy bear (left) wondering through their natural habitat.

The life of Charles Peace has been laid bare by researchers, piecing together crime records as well as numerous newspaper stories about him at the time (pictured).Over 25-years Peace, the son of a one-legged lion tamer, carried out a series of burglaries across Sheffield, Manchester and London, shot at several police officers, killing one, as well as a neighbour. He also managed to escape from prison.

Canadian real estate broker Martin Lavoie (right), also known as MrWallStreet, insisted that he was 'not trying to be cocky' by sharing with the world photos of Lamborghinis and high-end timepiece, but rather that he wants to set an example for others. To get his point across that life has been treating him well, the ambitious 29-year-old has been supplementing his pictures with hashtags like #moneyneversleeps, #ARMANI, #wealth, #hedgefund, #fortune500 and #goldmansachs. Sadly, his Instagram account has recently been deleted.

The emergency operating room where doctors tried to save President Kennedy's life after he was shot has been broken into pieces and covertly stored in crates for years, guarded as if it were a state secret. As the 50th anniversary in November of the President's assassination nears, reporters went digging for the exact location of the broken tiles and medical equipment used on that fateful day.

After shivering through the coldest spring in 30 years, sun seekers across Briton flocked to beaches and parks today to make the most of the warm weather as temperatures soared to a balmy 19C. Despite the soggy start threatening a typical Bank Holiday washout this morning, the skies soon cleared leaving much of the UK to finally enjoy some sunshine, including dozens of tourists who flocked to Llandudno Pier in north Wales and the beaches of Sidmouth in east Devon (inset) to enjoy the warmer weather.

NEW Austrian Reinhard Kleindl, 32, tip-toed along a line strung between the U-shaped Tower 185 in Frankfurt to set a new world record for 'highlining' despite being scared of heights. Mr Kleindl said he was trying to set a new record for walking the highest urban highline, but no one was immediately available from the World Slackline Federation to confirm if this was a new record.

Newly released Foreign Office files kept secret since 1941 reveal details of the row that erupted when it emerged Captain Pierre Lablache-Combier, a 44-year-old French Naval officer working in Spain as a spy for M16, had divulged British intelligence to the Nazi-backed Vichy government. Sir Samuel Hoare (below right) sent a 'most secret' telegram (pictured left) to the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, advising him of the 'serious situation' and the threat that Lablache Combier could flee. When the traitor died after being hit with the butt of a revolver as Secret Service operatives tried to smuggle him to Gibraltar, Naval intelligence officer and future James Bond creator Ian Fleming (above right) issued an official report stating that Lablache-Combier was 'missing, presumed drowned'.

While boarding Marine One, the presidential helicopter, on Friday, Obama walked past a saluting Marine corporal and strode up the boarding stairs without returning the salute. The President, the military commander-in-chief, clearly recognized the gaffe but made it worse, coming back down the boarding steps for just a handshake - not a salute. The blunder came in the same week Obama appeared to break military protocol by forcing a Marine (inset) to hold an umbrella for him.

The iconic Souter lighthouse in South Tyneside is being restored to its former glory by a team of conservationists, who will spend all summer conducting a clean-up. These magnificent pictures show the tower in all its glory but also reveal the scale of the task faced by the team, who will polish hundreds of glass prisms and tackle the corrosion that has beset the structure since it was decommissioned in 1988.

German doctors have successfully treated cerebral palsy in a child with umbilical cord blood for the first time. The unnamed two-year-old was left in a vegetative state after going into cardiac arrest and doctors thought he would die. But just weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment, his symptoms had improved considerably and within months he could talk and move again.

The former Police singer's 16th century villa, Il Palagio, is 45 minutes southeast of Florence in the Chianti region. He bought the 900-acre estate 1999. Up to 200 guests will be able to enjoy the 900-acre estate's attractions which include a large swimming pool, a giant chess board in the garden, bee hives and its own, woods, lake and kitchen garden.

Sarah Collins Rudolph, who survived the bomb blast in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that killed her sister, has said she has forgiven the people who carried out the atrocity. 'Being bitter won't bring the girls back, won't bring my sight back. So I had to forgive because it was what God wanted me to do,' she said. Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley (l-r) were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Obama on Friday.

In the shocking footage, male and female students of Mergenthaler Vo Tech High School in Baltimore brawl cheered on by their peers, some altercations beginning in the classroom. In one video two girls rip out each others' hair pieces and throw each other against a wall while in another a boy grabs a chair from his classroom and hurls it at his opponent.

Fans of America's longest running cartoon show will be able to visit a new Universal Studios attraction in Florida based on the fictional town of Springfield. With an existing Simpsons Ride at its heart, the park will boast new additions including Moe's Tavern and Krusty Burger (inset), Lard Lad Donuts store and the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.