Paul Carter-Young, aged 21 months, (left) got into difficulties at the family home in Rossendale, Lancashire (right), as he splashed about in the bath and popped water balloons unsupervised. His mother Kelly Young, 36, had left him momentarily unattended after becoming distracted folding bedsheets and clothing in a different room. Police fully investigated the death and found no suspicious circumstances, confirming the boy was 'absolutely loved' by his parents. The East Lancashire coroner returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest into his death this week.

Mark Simmonds (left, with wife Lizbeth), the MP for Boston and Skegness, resigned on Monday complaining his income did not cover the cost of renting a Westminster flat big enough for his family. But the 50-year-old already owns a seven-bedroom grade-II listed house with a heated swimming pool (right). Mr Simmonds has claimed more than £1.7million in expenses since becoming a Tory MP in 2001.

Zelda Williams, 25, (pictured with her father as a child left and in 2011 right) made an appeal to her 169,000 followers to report two users on Twitter who sent the image to her account. She wrote: 'I'm shaking. I can't. Please. Twitter requires a link and I won't open it. Don't either. Please' (bottom right). The image has since been revealed to be a fake which was digitally altered to look like Robin Williams. Furious Twitter users were quick to respond to Zelda to show her their support. Later Zelda deleted the tweet but explained how she planned not to delete her Twitter account.

Abby Ashcroft (pictured left on the night out), 28, was eight months pregnant and on a friend's hen do when she was denied entry to Manchester's Club Liv (main picture) for not wearing high heels. Despite her explanation that she didn't want to because she was pregnant, she said a female staff member holding a clipboard told her: 'Fortunately when I was pregnant, I was still able to wear heels. You can't come in.'

The 29-year-old cracked jokes and raised a laugh as he had to retrieve his speech when it blew away at the announcement of the biggest British military sports team ever assembled from wounded, injured or sick servicemen and women. As the paper blew away, raising laughter from the audience, Harry was forced to retrieve it, joking: 'No blowing from the left, thank you.'

The 61-year-old former boxing manager, who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title, admitted her 'two lives' drove her close to suicide. She retired from boxing last autumn claiming she had fallen out of love with the sport but it has now emerged that Maloney walked away to begin preparing for a new life as a woman. 'It was probably when I was three or four I knew I was different,' she told ITV's Daybreak.

Attackers cut off two of the doctor's fingers and hacked at her ovaries and womb in a revenge attack after she left work at a hospital in the city of Zamora in Mexico. Police believe the attack is linked to the death of a baby boy, who the gynaecologist delivered stillborn, with relatives of the baby's mother the prime suspects in the case.

Jackie Sheaks, of Columbus, Ohio, said the sheriff and Child Services paid a visit to her home after someone saw the prank photos of her granddaughter on Facebook and made a complaint.

Darren Donaghey, 29, married beautiful blonde hairdresser Kate Cathcart, 24, during a ceremony at Matfen Hall in Northumberland this weekend. Mr Donaghey, from Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, was crowned 'Punching Above Your Weight Champion' earlier this year for the comparison between him and his stunning partner. Mr Donaghey said he's used to getting abuse about how he managed to impress gorgeous Kate, his partner of eight years. Above, the couple are pictured cutting their wedding cake (left) and gazing into each other's eyes (right).

The sickening image (left) was taken in the city of Raqqa - the capital of ISIS' self-declared caliphate - and uploaded to the social media site along with caption 'Chillin' with my homie or what's left of him.' (inset) The photograph shows former rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, (right) holding the decapitated head while standing in Raqqa's central square - the same location where a seven-year-old son of Australian jihadist Khaled Sharrouf was seen holding a different severed head earlier this week.

Families from the Yazidi sect are receiving food, water and medical treatment at shelters in Turkey and Syria (above) after being driven from their town by ISIS a week ago. Their gruelling route to freedom is one of several the sect has taken after they were sent scattering to the four corners by the insurgency, which has trapped around 30,000 others on Sinjar Mountain with no food or water. Some have been forced to pay smugglers their life savings to take them across the border into Turkey, sometimes wading through the Tigris River and tip-toeing through minefields, it was revealed today.

Robbie Gemmell (left),17, originally told police officers that he was a passenger in a Peugeot 205 that crashed on a single track road in near Tyninghame, East Lothian, in November 2013. The accident claimed the lives of Dunbar Grammar School pupils Jenna Barbour (top centre),18, David Armstrong (bottom centre),15, and 16-year-old Joshua Stewart (right).

Pedro Bravo, 20, (main) asked Siri ‘I need to hide my roommate’ on the day that his friend Christian Aguilar (top left) was kidnapped, strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Levy County, Florida, say police. Siri (inset) replied saying: ‘What kind of place are you looking for? Swamps. Reservoirs. Metal foundries. Dumps.' They had argued over Bravo's ex-girlfriend, Erika Friman (bottom left). Detective Matt Goeckel from Gainesville Police also said that Bravo used his flashlight nine times on the night that Aguilar was killed. Medical Examiner Dr Martha Burt has ruled out natural death, suicide and accidental in the case.

Only 6,000 tourists visit the Communist country each year and British photographer and filmmaker Rob Whitworth was one of them, as he was granted permission to make the movie. The 32-year-old from Norwich, who is currently based in Shanghai, China, got the backing of North Korean travel company Koryo Tours to make the video which is presented as an invitation to explore the hermetic city.

Youtube user Wowforreal posted a video showing the strange figure that can be seen on Google Moon. The most likely explanation for the sighting is a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia. Wowforreel said he started investigating the shadow after receiving an online tip from another web user named Jasenko. ‘An irregularly shaped dark spot he noticed on Google Moon looks like it could be a cast shadow from a massive standing object, or figure,’ Wowforreeel told UFO Sighting Daily.

Ariadna Thalia Sodi Miranda - known solely as Thalía - has taunted fans for years with the suggestion that she had two ribs removed to make her waist thinner. Last week, the 42-year-old reignited the rumour by mentioning it in an interview. Now, the performer, who has a strong Filipino fan base, has posted another video - of her ribs apparently pickling in a jar. The teasing vine shows her gasping as she sits on a sunny balcony with the jar on a table in front of her. Thalía, a mother-of-two, has been dubbed both the 'Queen of Latin Pop' and 'Queen of Telenovelas [hispanic soaps]' during her prolific career as a singer, songwriter, actress, author and entrepreneur.

The unnamed female Megallanic penguin (pictured right) was hatched in May in Sea World, California. She was conceived using semen that had been frozen then thawed (pictured left), and is now 12 weeks old. She was being hand-reared at the centre's Penguin Encounter nursery and has now joined naturally-born chicks (pictured inset). Researchers are hoping to use artificial insemination to increase the genetic diversity of penguin species.

Created by designers in Monaco, the X R-Evolution yacht is designed to give its owners privacy so they could stay in floating 'bungalows' by the beach (shown in the main image). Different modules such as the bungalows can be towed long by the vessel (pictured top inset). It is currently a concept but could be built for millions of pounds. The design features a giro system to keep living quarters level and an inflatable walkway to connect the yacht with the beach, as well as an airy layout (pictured bottom inset).

The Chase Nature Reserve in Dagenham, London, which is home to 190 species of bird, has been likened to a 'war-zone' since the travellers left the site. The group had been camping in the 113-acre park illegally for a week before they were evicted on Friday August 8.

Office worker Hannah Page, from Taunton, Somerset, has spent £8,000 on what has been called the nation's biggest 'trout pout'. Miss Page had the equivalent of 3.5 tablespoons of dermal filler injected into her lips in 16 procedures which she admits were 'extremely painful'. Despite having the cruel jibes 'trout pout' and 'Barbie' yelled at her, the 22-year-old insists: 'I love my lips. They are the best in Britain.' Pictured: Miss Page today (left), before her surgery (top right) and as a child (bottom right).

Ukraine said it would prevent the vehicles (main image) passing through a 60-mile stretch of rebel-held border because they had not been certified by the Red Cross and had provided no information on exactly what they are carrying or where they are heading. According to Russian media reports, the white lorries left Moscow this morning carrying up to 2,000 tons of aid - ranging from baby food to sleeping bags - and are now heading for eastern Ukraine. Before they left they were blessed with holy water by a Russian orthodox priest (inset).

French photographer Antoine Bruy has spent years travelling across Europe capturing men, women and children who have joined the so-called 'back-to-the-land' movement. Leaving city life for mountain ranges including the Carpathians and the Pyrenees, they pride themselves on surviving 'off the grid' without access to running water, electricity, central heating - and certainly no supermarkets. Among the people he met was a German man called Peter who has been living in Ramounat in The Pyrenees (left) for the last 30 years. He moved there with his wife and children, but they left decades ago. Others included (clockwise from top centre) an English woman called Kate who built her own composting toilets after travelling to a remote area of Spain on a donkey 20 years ago, a lover of the Good Life who swapped city living for a teepee, two girls bathing in washing up tubs in Romania and a mathematics student called Vincent who has been living in the Pyrenees for the last seven years.

Legal secretary Lisa Harman, who lives with her mother and stepfather in Hornchurch, Essex, admits she never wears the same outfit on a night out twice. Amazingly, Lisa has never been in debt - despite spending around three quarters of her salary on clothes - and has a special filing system so she can keep track of payments.

Madeleine Cornish, 22 - who appeared in the MTV reality series Baby High - was arrested on a cruelty to animal charge in Kentucky after leaving her puppy in a house without food or water for three weeks while she moved. Police allege she then dumped Benson in an attempt to avoid getting into trouble. The dog, who is only six-months-old, weighed a shocking 30 pounds when he first got to an animal shelter for treatment. Staff did not expect him to survive, however he has gained a lot of weight and is slowly getting better.

Thousands of people flock to the region of Tamil Nadu in south India every year to undertake the painful practice which leaves dozens seriously injured, prompting fears about its safety. Many wince in pain, while others - apparently in a meditative state or simultaneously praying - barely flinch as the rock hard fruit is smashed over their skull.

Public Safety Officer Jason Gates pulled over a woman for running a red light in Kalamazoo, Michigan, then saved her life after seeing she was choking on a sausage and biscuit sandwich. Dashcam footage shows the woman sobbing and then embracing the officer after he gave her a few blows to the back. Officer Gates said: 'I just feel like I did what I'm paid to do. I'm glad for her that I happened to be there.'

Acid attack survivor Rupa, from Uttar Pradesh, has posed for a fashion photo shoot with her friends and fellow survivors, all wearing clothes she designed herself. Rupa, Rita, Sonam, Laxmi and Chanchal have all been the victims of horrendous acid attacks and have spent years hiding their faces - until now. Pictured left, Laximi, 24; right, designer Rupa and Rita Saini, 19.

The amazing moment was witnessed by French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie, 39, just five metres underwater on a dive in the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba. Having calmed the shark, the stunning images show Jorge gently grasp its body and turn the predator so it is upright.