A convicted murderer serving a life sentence who is suffering from inoperable cancer has been granted parole so that she can die outside prison walls. Kristina Joy Fetters was just 14-years-old when a jury convicted her of stabbing her 73-year-old great aunt, Arlene Klehm, to death while attempting to rob her house in Polk County, Iowa in 1995. Fetters had escaped a mental institution for juveniles in Des Moines with another girl earlier in the day.

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walker and friend Roger Rodas only got into the car after an unnamed worker failed to park the car four times at the end of a charity event in Valencia, California, a witness told MailOnline. Paul and Walker jumped in, decided to take it for a spin. A minute later they were dead. Witness Eduardo Luna told MailOnline that Roger's 8-year-old son was driven to the scene and could be heard screaming: 'My day, my dad, he's dead'.

With a smile on his face and a cheeky glint in his eye, Fast and Furious star Paul Walker gives a toast to his brother Caleb on his wedding day - little more than a month before his fiery death. But poignantly, this was to be the last family wedding Paul, 40, would attend - and a stunning album of pictures by Chard photography give a glimpse at the close-knit family who are now grieving the actor following his death in a car crash on Saturday.

Cile Precetaj, 40, of Detroit, Michigan, was ordered to report for deportation at Detroit Metro Airport at 10:30 a.m. today for a flight back to her native Albania, after receiving a letter from authorities Monday. However, in a desperate bid to buy time, she deliberately missed her flight, instead staying at home with her family around her. She will now likely be taken to jail as the authorities organize another flight. Meanwhile, her lawyers are fighting to keep the hard-working mom in the country she's called home since 2000.

Downton will be ITV's big weapon in the traditional battle for Christmas Day viewers with BBC1, starting at 8.30pm and going head-to-head with the corporation's soap EastEnders. ITV gave a tantalising peek at this year's Downton special, set six months on from the end of the recently completed series four.

Melinda Moulton, from Huntington, Vermont, was one of 200 people to take part in the 3Squares Challenge, which saw her living on just $36 a week of food. Opting to try and eat as healthily as possible, Ms Moulton resorted to cheap foods like yogurt for breakfast, two handfuls of peanuts for lunch and lentil stew for dinner, all of which left her unsatisfied. 'I don't know how people do it,' she said. 'I am hungry a lot.'

Maria Kang, (left and top right) 32, from Sacramento, California, appeared on CNN on Saturday along with Chrystal Bougon, (bottom right) a plus-size lingerie store owner who she slammed last week for launching a 'selfie' photo campaign promoting 'real beauty'. During a live TV showdown between the two women, Ms Kang insisted that she was not a fat-shamer, but said the ladies depicted in Ms Bougon's photo gallery 'are not how real women look like or should look like.'

The haunting apparition was spotted as workers put the finishing touches to New York's £437million museum, built in memory of the 2,977 victims. The 30-foot girder forms the centrepiece of the state-of-the-art memorial, near One World Trade Center, which is not yet open to the public.

James Perriello (right), of New Hampshire, said he was 'very angry' the night he killed his wife, 42-year-old Natalie Perriello (top left), after she told him about her tryst with a younger man (bottom left) who had been her elementary school student. The husband initially told police on April 26, 2012, he went into the bedroom with a gun to scare his wife and that it accidentally went off when she tried to grab it.

A part-time artist is attracting controversy for his photos in which petite white women are draped around his neck as scarves. Nate Hill, 36, is a self-described performance artist. The New Yorker's latest stunt, titled Trophy Scarves, is intended to draw attention to the social complexities surrounding mixed-race relationships.

David Lee Edwards, a convicted felon from Ashland, Kentucky, bought a $1.5million mansion (right), dozens of expensive cars (lower right) and even a Lear Jet after he won in August 2001. But drug addiction and his free-spending ways left Edwards and his wife Shawna (seen with Edwards at their wedding, left) broke and living in a squalid storage unit contaminated with human feces within five years. In the end, Edwards' first wife and her husband drove him from Florida back home to Ashland. He died in hospice care Saturday at age 58.

Angela Steinfurth (pictured top left) and her ex boyfriend Steven King II (pictured bottom left), of Ohio, will both remain in jail after pleading guilty to the killing of 18-month-old Elaina Steinfurth (right). Steven King II, 24, told a Toledo judge that he had found the girl injured in her bedroom and that he tried to resuscitate her, before smothering her to death and putting her body in a box.

A 17-year-old shopper told police that a woman 'poked her in the eye' in Annapolis Mall in Maryland sparking a massive melee that was caught on camera by a man in the store. The footage apparently shows a woman punching the teenager before launching herself at the girl, with the help of a friend. Staff were eventually able to separate the women, but now police are hunting for the two suspected attackers.

The latest map of America's most prolific swearers has been compiled using data gathered from 600,000 phone calls over the past year - and the Buckeye State comes out on top. The Marchex Institute analyzed data from phone calls that people make to businesses where customers are informed they are being recorded such as banks and insurance firms.

The dramatic battle was caught on camera at the world famous 'Tiger Canyons' in the Londolozi private game reserve in Pretoria, South Africa. The clash erupted after one of the tigers delivered a vicious blow to the neck of its rival. Believing it to be dead, the tiger released its opponent from its jaws but instead of the fight coming to a grizzly end, the two broke out in a second, even more savage struggle.

Residents in a Slovakian town make a shocking discovery this week as they awoke to the city river flowing bright red. The river in Myjava, a small municipality on the border to the Czech Republic, had changed color over night and turned into 'blood' with superstitious residents fearing that the change in color could have a sinister reason or be caused by 'evil'.

The ornate gold and white gown, right, designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, features sequins, crystals and pearl beads and was worn by Diana, left, on several occasions, including the premiere of James Bond film The Living Daylights. It was sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions in London for $160,000, including buyer's premium, having been estimated to reach between $80,000 and $110,000. There was a huge amount of interest from the US but a museum based in another overseas country made the successful bid.

Renata Shamrakova, pictured today, appeared at Manhattan Supreme Court where she was ordered to repay the $821,000 by December 19. Shamrakova embezzled the money from financier Todd Meister, Nicky Hilton's ex, while working as his personal assistant in 2011. In March, the former PA confessed to taking out two American Express cards in Meister's name and spending $900,000 traveling to Aruba, Canada, France and Italy.

Michelle Rowling (left) was found fatally stabbed in her St Louis, Missouri apartment 5 days after she posted a Facebook message (bottom) warning her friends that she might die. It was reportedly in reference to Montrell Cooper, 25 (right), who had been released from jail, where he was locked up for assaulting her in August. He is now being sought as a person of interest.

Another oil spill has bee reported in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, piling pressure on the Government to develop tougher legislation to deal with oil companies. The spills, some of which are caused by theft and others by decrepit infrastructure, devastate the mangrove swamps found along the Delta, home to some of the planet's rarest wildlife. They also badly affect local trades, as many people who live along the rivers rely on fishing as their main source of income.

Bagpipes were played and police officers lined the streets in New Jersey this morning for the funeral of 10-year-old Michael Feeney, who died from cancer. 'I lost a partner today,' Ridgewood police chief John Ward said after the funeral of Michael, who had been made an honorary police chief. The schoolboy was well-known in his hometown, where he had been standing for office in his school elections and had been due to switch on the Christmas lights this week.

Edward J. 'Babe' Heffron, 90, the former Easy Company private from New Jersey, whose World War II experiences were chronicled in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers has died. Mr. Heffron served as a machine gunner with the Second Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division from 1941 to 1945. He fought in some of the major conflicts of the European Theater - Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands and the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium - and used his stories as fodder for a memoir. Heffron was portrayed by Scottish actor Robin Laing (inset).

It was during his first ever scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, that Hendric Carlstrvm captured this stunning shot of a blue humphead wrasse, who appears to have been startled. The Swedish-born diver said: 'As I got really close, I thought I would swim alongside it, which was when the picture was taken.'

The mystery man, who was wearing a fake beard and a bandanna while robbing a Fifth Third Bank in Ocoee on Friday afternoon, managed to get away. Witnesses saw the man show a small handgun under his shirt while he demanded money from one of the bank tellers before running away. Florida police are now on the hunt to locate the suspect.

It was known as the 'Noble Experiment' but when prohibition came to end 80 years ago there were few who missed it. The 14-year ban on making and selling alcohol gave rise to a shady period of booze smuggling and speakeasies, where those in the know could still enjoy a drink. The ban also gave rise to the cocktail, as bartenders came up with new mixes to sweeten the taste of the poor quality alcohol being served.

Sick of having her personal space invaded on packed public transportation, an industrial designer in Singapore has developed a plastic spike-covered piece of armor to keep fellow passengers at bay. While the spikes wouldn't cause any real harm to anyone who comes in contact with them, the damage is all aesthetic, according to creator Siew Ming Cheng.

These Soviet structures, built some time in the 1960s, have the appearance of satellites but are covered in mirrors, leading to speculation about their true purpose. One theory is that they were early experiments with solar technology, another is that they were used as part of a military project. The most bizarre is that they could have created a superheated point of light which could then have been used to cut materials such as asbestos without producing harmful dust.