Eddie the Akita (right) launched himself Louise Nelson, 33, (left) at the dog show in Birmingham last year as he was posing for photographs after passing the Good Citizen Dog award. His owner Lorain Ronis, 52, (inset centre) was found guilty of allowing the dog to be dangerously out of control in public in a hearing at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.

The N-Dubz star was convicted at Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London for hitting Savvas Morgan (right) at the event last year. Her assistant, Gareth Varey, was cleared of using threatening behaviour. Wearing a blue suit, white shirt and stillettos, she shook her head in disbelief as the verdict was read out and swore as she walked away from the dock. Earlier this week, a drugs trial against Contostavlos collapsed at Southwark Crown Court after the judge said there were 'strong grounds' to believe that undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood - known as the Fake Sheikh - had lied in the witness box.

Hundreds searched in January for tragic Mikaeel Kular (right), who lived in Edinburgh, before his body was later found in woodland 25 miles away in Kircaldy, Fife. His mother Rosdeep Adekoya (left) reported him missing - but had 'lost her temper' and beat him when he was sick following a trip to a Nando's restaurant. He was left with devastating internal injuries which took two days to kill him. Today it was revealed Mikaeel was returned to his mother's care just five months before she killed him after being taken from her for more than a year. Fife Council has launched a full investigation.

A loom band dress was sold for £170,000 last week on the online auction site. Now many more are hoping to make a quick fortune with their own creations from the elastic bands which include bikinis, crop tops and heels (pictured). However the value seems to be decreasing with the latest dress selling for just £155.

Butler Arthur Mellar, pictured, died after he was crushed in a lift shaft in the Grade I listed Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. The house was featured in the 1994 BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel Middlemarch (pictured inset).

Australian Mark Fahey has had a 40-year-fascination with North Korea and has visited the secretive state four times in as many years. During his visits he has been held up at gunpoint by angry soldiers, subjected to round-the-clock propaganda messages, which are played on speakers in the streets, and slipped away from his minders in the middle of the night to see the 'real' North Korea. Here the 53-year-old from Sydney reveals to Daily Mail Australia what life is really like under the iron fist of Kim Jong Un.

Corinna Schumacher is offering her husband's grey Falcon 2000EX private jet, capable of carrying eight passengers and flying at 920 km/h, for sale. Michael Schumacher, 45, lies mute and immobile in a Lausanne clinic in Switzerland with long years of therapy ahead of him as he struggles to get back some of his old life that was shattered when he smashed his head on to rocks on December 29 last year.

Concerned shopper Mel Fraser tweeted a picture of the skeletal dummy after spotting it in the shop window of the Glasgow branch. Wearing a bikini and printed trousers, the shockingly thin mannequin's ribs were clearly protruding. Ms Fraser tweeted a picture of the dummy to bosses at Primark who tweeted back, promising to look into the matter straight away.

Gavin Rumgay pulled up his trousers to reveal his stripey underwear after winning a crucial rally against Canada's Pierre-Luc Theriault yesterday. The 29-year-old's 'mankini' pose prompted a huge cheer from the home crowd and a laugh from the commentators. After coming back from two games down, he went on to win the game, sparking more wild celebrations. The nine-time national champion started rolling around on the ground before leaping up to dance to the Proclaimers' song 'I would walk 500 miles'.

Gatwick Airport has extra staff to deal with 77,000 departures today as school holidays begin in England and Wales with the mercury nudging 30C - but not everyone was so lucky. While girls jumped into the sea in Aberystwyth (left) and sun-seekers crammed the beach in Brighton (bottom right), Londoners were caught in a sudden shower (top right). Londoners are the most likely to jet off abroad this summer, but a third of people are more likely to 'staycation' because they are short of funds, and there was certainly no shortage of people enjoying the weather at home.

This pretty one-bedroom beach hut on Mudeford Spit near Christchurch in Dorset will set you back £270,000. It has a mezzanine deck which can sleep four, top left, as well as two sofa beds (bottom right) and a pull-out bed, so a maximum of ten can stay the night there and wake up to beautiful views (bottom left) across to the Needles and the Isle of Wight. But they'll have to venture into the dunes if they need the loo.

Israeli aircraft have struck 30 houses in the Gaza Strip today, killing a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group and two of his sons, as Palestinians called for a 'Day of Rage' following clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces late yesterday in the West Bank and in east Jerusalem. As further violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire.

At 5ft 8lb the full time mother, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, had an unhealthy BMI of 42 and even day-to-day activities could be a struggle.

Former teacher Emma MItchell, pictured, from Maidstone in Kent has ditched both the classroom and her clothes as she embarks on her career as a naked comedian at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

For years the painting (left) of the unknown soldier hung in Carmarthen County Museum in Wales but no one knew his name or if he survived the horror of the First World War.The identity of the soldier remained a mystery for decades until historians uncovered his identity after matching his picture to an obituary in a local newspaper. The soldier was identified as Second Lieutenant Paul Chancourt Girardot who died at the start of the war.

Student Henry Warren, 19, was taking pictures in fields near his house in Gwinear, Cornwall, when this mystery beast leapt out of the grass in front of him. Mr Warren, who managed to take a couple of frames before the animal fled, said: 'It was absolutely massive and hopping up and down like a large cat - there's no way it was a fox or a dog.' Despite the Government pronouncing the legendary Beast of Bodmin Moor a 'phantom' in 1995, there have been many reported sightings of the mystery big cat prowling the west country.

Sarah Molland, 25, was on a pubcrawl with friends when she came face-to-face with the huge roadside poster. Her pals had clubbed together to organise the £500 billboard in Cardiff city centre. The 24ft X 12ft billboard is based on the hit Russel Brand film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Ms Molland's best friend and maid of honour Rachael Coombs, 25, spent months plotting to put the poster up for the hen night for 15 girls in the Welsh capital.

California police are investigating after multiple families reported porcelain dolls that resemble their little girls were left outside their homes. As many as 11 California families from a gated residential community in San Clemente, Orange County have come forward to report finding the creepy dolls on their doorsteps. The mysterious person behind the creepy gifts has since been found by police, who say she had never intended to scare anyone.

Dressed in his usual white cassock and papal skullcap, the pontiff stunned Vati-canteen regulars when he strode into the cafe, picked up a plastic tray and queued for his food. When his turn came he opted for a plate of pasta without sauce and cod with grilled tomatoes, washed down with a bottle of mineral water.

The 38-year-old, promoted to Environment Secretary last week, revealed she joined her parents at to CND protests to the sound of chants of 'Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out'. The daughter of a left-wing academic dad and a Greenham Common mum joined the Lib Dems before becoming a Tory at university and being elected as an MP in 2010.

After the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union, more and more women were arrested for social disturbances. A new exhibition of their mugshots has opened. One of the woman is Mary Richardson (left wearing number 11) who looks like the Princess Royal (inset) Lilian Lenton (centre, number 12, who was force fed while on hunger strike in prison and became ill when food entered her lungs) and actress Kitty Marion (right) who became a militant suffragette when faced with the casting couch. She was sentenced to one month's hard labour for breaking a window in the Newcastle Post Office during a visit by Lloyd George.

The woman leaped onto a truck beside her car in the city of Tula, Russia, and started peeling off her clothes to prevent police from driving away. An onlooker caught her extraordinary pole dancing scene on camera. Anatoliy Aleksandrovich posted the video on the web saying: 'Look at how far some drivers go to stop their car being towed away.'

The rhyming note (left) was found inside a London Scottish Regiment kilt (top right), and suggested that the soldier who received it get in touch with Helen Govan, who lived in Glasgow. The item of clothing was bound for a soldier on the front lines, but never made it and was kept as an heirloom by a university academic, who recently rediscovered it.

Two-week-old Elleah-Jayne Knight-Holmes from Kidderminster won't have to worry about having female roles models to turn to as she grows up. She has, from left her mother, Katie Arens, 23, her aunty Amy Conway aged 27, her grandmother, Laura Wycherley, 45, her great--grandmother Glenda Brown, 66, and great-great-grandmother Jean Hore, 89. Inset are the family in 1987 when Amy was a baby and had a great-great-grandmother, Sarah, 100, inset far left.

Kelsey Buckley, 15, from Seacroft, Leeds, is pain free and walking on a prosthesis after having her leg amputated to treat bone cancer. The teenager was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2011, and underwent chemotherapy before doctors removed her tibia, replacing it with a metal prosthesis. But Kelsey suffered multiple infections leading doctors to conclude amputation was her only option. She said: 'After everything I had been through it was an easy decision to make.' Her twin sister Kara, said: 'My sister is an inspiration.' Kelsey is now pain free and is learning to walk with a prosthesis.

The images were taken by Austin-based Ajay Malghan for his project Naturally Modified. He thinly slices and flattens food between panes of glass and photographs them by manipulating the light shone from behind (pictured from top left to bottom right is bitter melon, tomato, broccoli, persimmon, corn and lettuce). Malghan said he is fascinated by the similarities he spotted between the food, space and the human body.

The high-speed goat was spotted in the back seat of a red Volkswagen Golf on the busy A55 outside Chester (pictured), sitting still in the back seat and staring out the window. The unusual sighting was captured by Chris Cousens, 29, from Hoole, Chester, at around 7pm on Wednesday. He said: ‘I had to look twice just to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.’

A new exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery in London explores the emergence and development of colour photography in the country in the years before and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. The Primrose exhibition - which takes its name for the Russian word for 'first colour' - shows how the earliest efforts to move away from black and white images came in the form of 'hand colouring' techniques, which saw water-colours, paints or dyes manually added to the monochrome images.