Islamic State have released a new decapitation video, threatening America for the second time and urging the Kurds to break from their alliance with the West against the caliphate. The chilling video shows footage of 15 Kurdish soldiers all dressed in orange boilers suits (main picture). It then cuts to one of the prisoners kneeling before three masked jihadists (right), who warn America to cease its support of the Kurdish people. They warn they will continue beheading more of the prisoners if America and the Iraqi Kurdistan continue to work together, before unsheathing a knife and killing the kneeling prisoner. The terrifying execution comes just hours after 300 captured Syrian soldiers were executed in the desert (inset).

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberley Wallwork, from Lancashire, would watch in despair every night as her son Oliver scratched his skin until it bled and then cried in pain. 'He would scratch his skin red raw (top right, inset) and wake up screaming every night - he was understandably incredibly grumpy,' says Kimberly, 26. 'This had been happening for two years and as a family, we were at our wit's end. As a mother, I felt helpless, exhausted and despairing. 'It felt like we'd tried everything.' It was only through sheer chance that she stumbled across a skincare range online which, to her relief, has cleared up her son's skin almost completely (bottom right). For the first time ever, four-year-old Oliver can now swim, sleep through the night - and his parents' life has improved too. It comes as a new poll revealed that 72 per cent of parents said their children with eczema have troubled sleep and 35 per cent said this then affected their behaviour at school.

New research suggests that a 'caretonoid' glow from eating fruit and veg such as melons, carrots, pumpkin, spinach and broccoli gives a more attractive skin glow than a suntan - and actually signals health to potential mates. Scientists digitally enhanced images to show the golden 'cartenoid' glow that can be achieved through a diet high in fruit and vegetables (pictured in the middle). This was rated as more attractive than images digitally enhanced to show the changes in skin colour achieved through tanning (pictured right).

Christopher Buckner, 20, and her brother Timothy Savoy, 25, admitted to having had sex three times in a tractor trailer parked outside the Countryside Baptist Church, in Effingham County, Georgia, after watching The Notebook. Buckner and Savoy were arrested and charged with incest, aggravated sodomy and prowling, according to Sheriff's Office.

Playboy covergirl Brandi Brandt (right) has been jailed for more than three years for conspiring to import cocaine on planes bound for Australia. Brandt, best known for her failed marriage to Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx (left pictured with Brandt), was involved in a brazen US-Australia cocaine importation syndicate that hid packages of the drugs in toilets on passenger planes bound for Sydney in 2007.

YouTube user Julie Bresnan has uploaded a cringe-worthy video of her unknowingly licking bird poo from the top of her ice cream. Standing in front of the beautiful Mission Bay beach in Auckland, New Zealand, the video 'Licking bird poo and wearing it too :(' shows Julie talking to the camera before taking a lick of her ice cream coated in bird poo.

Kate Malonyay's ex-boyfriend bashed, strangled and killed her before impersonating her to make it look like she was still alive. It is believed Elliot Coulson killed the 32-year-old Sydney finance worker in her Mosman home after she had unearthed he was a compulsive liar who falsely claimed his twin brother had died in a car crash.

It is often said that if you buy property in a prime inner-city location you are sure to see a healthy return on your investment. But a new analysis of house prices across Australia shows that it is often the cheaper locations in middle-ring and outer-ring suburbs that see higher rates of house price growth. A report compiled by property investment website hotspotting.com.au identified the suburbs around Australia where homeowners have seen the best returns on their investment over the past 10 years. Pictured clockwise from top left are properties for sale in the best performing suburbs in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth.

A broken union. Health Services union boss Kathy Jackson says her fling with barrister was just a 'charity shag'. The HSU whistleblower has also likened the investigation into her alleged misuse of funds as 'judicial gang rape'

Police have launched a 'major investigation' to find five-year-old Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken without consent from hospital by his parents. Ashya, who was being treated at Southampton General Hospital, is described as needing round the clock care and there are 'serious concerns' for his life if he is not found today. Officers said his parents - Brett King and Naghmeh King (pictured with Ashya) - boarded a cross-Channel ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg at 4pm yesterday with Ashya's six siblings. CCTV shows Ashya's father leaving the hospital with him around 2pm yesterday.

Former Bombers great Mark McVeigh took on a convincing nanna role of 'Spike Doubtfire' to get his own back with the younger players in the Essendon AFL side. McVeigh, who retired two years ago at just 33 after 232 games, decided to get his own back with the young lads who used to give him grief about being one of the old boys in the club.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Claire Hawker, 30, from Reading, had been recommended the cosmetic surgeon in Prague by a friend. She had wanted bigger breasts for almost a decade as while one was a 34B cup, the was other a C (image left, centre) - and both began to droop following the birth of her daughter, Jasmine, when she was 17. Ms Hawker was initially delighted with her new figure. But just days later after returning home, her size G breasts started leaking a brown discharge and her skin suddenly burst open (inset). After being rushed to hospital, surgeons warned the mother-of-two she would die if the implants were not removed immediately.  'I was told they were too big and they'd ripped open the skin around them, which had become infected,' said the mother-of-two. 'The surgeon said I was the fourth person he'd seen that week who'd been the victim of botched cosmetic surgery abroad.' She has since had corrective surgery to reduce her chest to a 34E (right).

Caroline Roberts, now 59, suffered an appalling 12-hour ordeal at the Wests' hands but says she still feels guilty about what happened to other victims. Although she reported the attack to police, the couple were only fined £50 each when the case came to court, leaving them free to go on and kill at least 10 women over the next decade.

Jennifer Hawkins' apartment at Bondi in Sydney, is expected to be snatched up for at least $1.1 million when it is actioned off in September, a month after she sold her North Curl Curl Mansion alongside her partner Jake Wall. Complete with elevated ocean views and sitting within walking distance of Australia's most famous beach, the 30-year-old Australian model first bought the 92 square metre apartment back in 2007 for $895,000.

Kids do the darndest things, we show you some of the funniest pictures of kids getting stuck in funny situations. From getting stuck in a toilet bowl to getting trapped in an arcade game and even the cliche of being wedged in between railing bars. Here are some of the better efforts, courtesy of our friends at the Today show.

The U.S. Coast Guard's ship tracking system showed no position for the United Kalavrvta (pictured left and surveillance of the deck, right) on Thursday, which was carrying one million barrels when it went missing 60 miles off the coast of Texas (inset). The vessel's disappearance is now thought to be the latest development in a high-stakes dispute between Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan over the right to export oil. Several other tankers transporting disputed oil from Iran or Kurdistan have switched off their transponders before unloading their cargo - making their movements extremely difficult to track.

The original 5,000 images were taken by a Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte, who died in 1984 and since been digitised by photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu from 2013. It was the photographer Jane Long's fascination with the post war images and their subjects, that prompted her to give each character a story through her new series 'The Dancing with Costica'.

The worker was eventually hauled on to an 11th floor balcony in Guizhou province, southern China, by firemen and police officers after the 40-minute ordeal. The boy admitted to police that he had cut the rope with a knife because the workers were drowning out the noise of his cartoons on TV. The boy's father rushed home from work and apologised to the man, offering him a new rope as compensation.

It's a dramatic way to make your point, but this brand manager decided to prove he believed in his cleaning product by eating off the floor of the Subway in Toronto after using it. As horrified commuters look on, he tucks into a pasta dinner and even uses a piece of bread to wipe up all the sauce at the end.

Johannes Schrieber, 26, and brother Daniel, 28, from Frankfurt, Germany constructed a 1,100lbs human catapult out of wood and old bicycle tubes, after raising more than £700 through crowdfunding to make their 'budget flight' dream come true. The contraption fires a person of average height and weight a distance of 40ft, sending them about 16ft into the air.