'Where is your mercy? We want to hear from you': Steven Sotloff's furious family confront murderers in Arabic as they pay tribute to a 'gentle soul' who 'tried to find good in a world of darkness'

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The family of Steven Sotloff, the American journalist slaughtered in Syria, have described their son as ‘a gentle soul’ who ‘tried to find good in a world of darkness’ in a statement on Wednesday. Spokesperson Barak Barfi, left, said Sotloff had been 'torn between two poles', keen to live a normal life but also 'pulled by the Arab world'. Sotloff was 'no war junkie', but someone who 'merely wanted to give a voice to those who have none'. Barfi also spoke in Arabic, daring ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to a debate on the tenets of Islam. 'I have a message to Abu Bakhur... I thought that Ramadan brought mercy, where is your mercy?' he said. Sotloff's devastated relatives including his mother Shirley, right, and father Art, center, emerged from their Miami home on Wednesday to pay tribute to their son by holding photos of him and his beloved Miami Dolphins.

Hedge fund billionaire 'bullied his wife into signing prenup' that would leave her with 1 PERCENT of his $5.6billion fortune

Under pressure: Anne Dias-Griffin, 43, claims her husband, Ken Griffin, 45, got her to sign the prenup limiting her share in divorce proceedings through 'coercion.'

Anne Dias-Griffin, 43, fired back with a counter petition on Tuesday at Kenneth Griffin, 45, who filed for divorce back in July while his wife was driving to the airport with their three children for vacation. At stake is Mr Griffin's large fortune, reported to be $5.6billion by Bloomberg. He founded the hedge fund Citadel LLC, which now manages $16billion of assets according to Forbes. Mrs Dias-Griffin is also seeking sole custody of the kids.

Female Democratic Party chair slammed for comparing Republican governor to abuser - saying he gives women 'the back of his hand'

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz  speaks to the news media at a gathering for supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, in Weston, Fla.  Rich later conceded defeat to her opponent Charlie Crist in the primary election for the democratic nomination for Florida Governor. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz made the controversial comments at a round table discussion in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Joan Rivers has been moved into a private room and is being 'kept comfortable' 

FILE - In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Joan Rivers attends an E! Network event in New York. Joan Riversí family said the comedian has been moved from intensive care into a private room, where she is ìbeing kept comfortable.î No further details were released Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, on Riversí condition. On Tuesday, the family confirmed she was on life support at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan after going into cardiac arrest last Thursday. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Her daughter Melissa gave the update in a statement on Wednesday as she revealed that her mother has been moved from intensive care.

A show of force: Obama lands in Britain aboard Air Force One before military chopper transports him to Wales where brand new UK warship is unveiled… and world leaders prepare to condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine

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HMS Duncan - the sixth-in-class of the Royal Navy's state-of-the-art Type 45 destroyers, which is one of the summit venues - has arrived in the Welsh capital.

Texas man accused of stabbing roommate for 'making too much noise during threesome with two girls he brought home on his birthday'

Police arrested Antonio Flores for allegedly stabbing his roommate multiple times for making too much noise while having sex with two women

San Antonio police arrested Antonio Flores Narcisso on Tuesday, four months after he allegedly kicked down his roommate's door and stabbed him repeatedly.

Caught on film: The moment woman, 52, was escorted off flight by three police officers after furious row with passenger who reclined seat to knit

Boca Raton, Florida resident Amy Fine, 52, was kicked off a Delta flight earlier this week when she got into an argument with another passenger. The older woman sitting in front of her reclined her seat to knit, accidentally hitting Fine in the head. Fine then went on a rant, causing the flight to land early in Jacksonville. Recently released footage shows three police officers escorting Fine off the flight. Stock image of Delta plane, inset.

Defiant businessman, 6ft 1in, whose fight over a Knee Defender forced his flight to divert speaks out to insist he will still use the device and reclining seats is 'rude'

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James Beach, 48, used a Knee Defender, inset, and fought with a woman seated in front of him causing his Newark-Denver flight to be diverted to Chicago last month. While he does admit he's embarrassed about the confrontation, he won't stop using the $22 gadget that attaches to a passenger's tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining. He just plans to be nicer about it - and insists that passengers who recline their seats are 'rude'.

The American mother who took her baby daughter to a birthday party 20 years ago - then vanished to start a new life in Australia... now she's been sent home to face kidnapping charges

Dorothy Lee Barnett, 53, was located and arrested in Queensland last year after she disappeared with her 10-month-old baby from South Carolina in 1994

Dorothy Lee Barnett, 53, (centre, left) was located and arrested in Queensland last year after she disappeared with her 10-month-old baby Savanna Todd (left) from South Carolina in 1994. Now, after 20 years on the run, she has been ordered to return to the U.S to face kidnapping charges. Ms Barnett was found by Australian and US police in November living on the Sunshine Coast with her daughter Savanna Todd (centre, right), now aged 20, living under the name Samantha Geldenhuys. Ms Barnett did not have custody of Savanna when she took her from her American father Benjamin Todd (right) to attend a children's birthday party and failed to return in 1994.

Stressed-out women are losing hair in their 20s: Third admit they had suffered thinning hair and blamed pressures of life and work

NEW A survey of 2,000 people found the average hair loss set in for men aged 38 with a third of women admitting to experiencing hair loss before their 30th birthday.

They're models but not as you know them: Women with body issues strip off to challenge 'increasingly soulless fashion world'

'What's Underneath' is an intimate new video web series which sees diverse women shed their clothes while answering tricky questions related to body image. Pictured from left: Model Melanie Gaydos was born with a rare genetic disorder called ectodermal dysplasia, which affects the hair, teeth and sweat glands, but is a successful model nonetheless. American Apparel model Jacky O'Shaughnessy, 62, says, 'I'm always going to be in a bikini. I don't care if my stomach's wrinkled.' Tallulah Willis, 20-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, also stripped down for a deeply personal interview and discussed her body dysmorphia and her battles with anorexia.

Smoking cannabis IS addictive: New study claims 40% of adolescents show withdrawal symptoms when they give up the drug

NEW Massachusetts researchers say adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for substance use disorder reported experiencing symptoms of withdrawal.

Recreational pot is bringing in two-thirds LESS tax revenue than the governor predicted

Proponent: Governor Hickenlooper (center) estimated tax income for the state at $100 million, but the legalization of marijuana has so far failed to be lucrative for Colorado

Colorado's tax revenue from its much-vaunted legalization of marijuana has fallen far short of estimates - in fact, the state is missing $21 million.

Can any wife ever forgive a husband who was secretly gay all along? Sarah still can't, 14 years after the confession that broke her heart 

After 10 years of marriage Sarah Bowles' husband Peter left her for a man. Her children lived in anguish as she refused to tell them the real reason he had left. Sarah, from London, says his confession led her to question everything she knew and she felt she had been used as a decoy, despite suspecting he might be gay for three whole years.

Wonky breasts are no joke: You get sympathy if they're too big or small. But there's another affliction that can ruin lives

Olivia Mullarkey, 32, (left) is haunted by her differing cup sizes and for Corrina Scarlett, (right) having children meant she couldn't have surgery through the NHS.

'This is my world': Tragic Facebook post by wife of British ISIS hostage that showed her husband and his baby daughter... two years before he was seized by terrorists

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Desperate efforts were under way last night to save the life of a British father threatened with beheading by jihadi fanatics. David Haines, 44, a married man with daughters aged 17 and four, was named yesterday as the hostage seen in a video of the murder of a fellow captive. Forced to kneel on the desert sand, the aid worker was warned he will die next. Although he was identified on the video in both Arabic and English as David Cawthorne Haines, UK media outlets did not name him, in line with a request from the Foreign Office. That situation changed yesterday when he was identified on websites and in newspapers around the world.

The Jihadi baby: Chilling picture posted online shows infant lying on ISIS flag next to Kalashnikov and grenades

The shocking image is the latest photo believed to have been posted by Islamist militants fighting in Syria and Iraq as part of their online propaganda campaign

Hagel reveals 'over 100 US citizens' are fighting alongside ISIS in the Middle East

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'We are aware of over 100 US citizens who have US passports who are fighting in the Middle East with ISIL forces,' Hagel said. 'There may be more. We don't know. 'We can't take a chance.'

Somali-American who died fighting for ISIS cleaned Delta planes at Minneapolis airport before he joined terrorist group

Abdirahmaan Muhumed, 29, had security clearances that granted him special access to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in his job with Delta Global Services.

Was ISIS hostage video inspired by Homeland's opening credits? Expert reveals how themes from popular culture are used to attract Western recruits

Top anti-terror expert Dr Andreas Krieg of the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London believes ISIS is copying popular TV shows to inspire new western recruits.

Lawyer and mom-of-one killed by train as she crossed the tracks 'wearing headphones and listening to music on her phone'

Shana Buchanan, 47, lives just a few blocks from the train station where she was killed Sunday morning. She leaves behind a 14-year-old son. A transit official said Buchanan crossed the tracks even though there were flashing warning lights and bells telling of the coming train.

World Health Organisation confirms that second Ebola outbreak in Congo is completely separate strain to the West Africa epidemic as death toll jumps to 31 

The WHO said that the outbreak in Congo was a
'distinct and independent event, with no relationship to the outbreak in West Africa'. Pictured is a clean-up operation in Bissau, West Africa.

Denise Richards reveals hackers tried to gain access to her files in bid to find naked snaps - backing up theory celebrity iCloud accounts were individually targeted

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Denise Richards has revealed that she was targeted by hackers trying to gain access to her iCloud account. She tweeted today that she had received over ten emails asking for her password and threatening to shut down her accounts if she did not respond. The actress said 'good thing I didn't send,' after Apple confirmed yesterday that the leaks were the result of a 'very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions'. It is not known if the messages were part of the targetted attack or simply 'phishing' messages sent to hundreds of users.

Horrifying moment six police officers shot a mentally ill man armed with only a pellet gun 80 TIMES 'until he had no face left'

Six police officers were placed on administrative duties pending an internal investigation of the Saturday shooting

NEW Six Texas officers who allegedly opened fire on 30-year-old Jose Walter Garza were placed on administrative duties pending an internal investigation. Mr Garza's family says he suffered from schizophrenia and could be disruptive when not taking his meds. But 'he wouldn't hurt anyone', they said.

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Mom killed her two young sons and then turned the gun on herself 'surrounded by her wedding pictures' on the eve of first anniversary to husband who left her

A woman and her two sons died Wednesday from apparent gunshot wounds in what police suspect was a murder-suicide in Springfield, Ohio. Johnson, 32, and son Daylan Johnson (right) were dead at their home when her estranged husband called police shortly before 8 a.m. Ayden Johnson (left) was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Police said the boys' father, 39-year-old Arthur Johnson, had gone to the home to pick up his sons and take them to school when he found his wife and sons. He called 911 and said there were 'wedding pictures all over the floor' at the scene. The couple's first wedding anniversary was less than two weeks away. Springfield Police Chief Stephen Moody said the two were separated but still parenting together.

Keep maxing your mobile data limit? Facebook's autoplay videos could be to blame for higher phone bills, website claims

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook mobile users are experiencing higher than usual data charges due to autoplay videos, according to research by London-based site MoneySavingExpert.

Do you spend more time texting than sleeping? How female students are using cellphones for an average of ten hours A DAY

The Baylor University study found that male students come close, spending eight hours a day fixed to their phones, with texting taking up most time, and 60per cent admitting they may be 'addicted.'

Bank that 'refused to give mortgages to black customers' by only opening branches in Buffalo's white neighborhoods' is sued by New York State

Redlining: The bank is accused of systematically excluding black areas from its lending area and making mortgage products unavailable to people in those areas, regardless of their creditworthiness

A bank purposely avoided giving mortgages to African-Americans by locating all of its branches outside black neighborhoods and advertising loan products to white communities.

Wisconsin 12-year-old who nearly died after being stabbed 19 times by Slender Man-obsessed friends returns to school three months later

'Slender Man' stabbing victim, 12, thanks  supporters for thousands of messages and $50,000 donations in newly-released photographs
A photo was released this week of the girl's hands holding a homemade card covered in purple hearts which simply read 'thank you'
She miraculously survived being stabbed 19 times by two classmates after a sleepover in Waukesha, Wisconsin last month
A family spokesman said she is making a slow but steady recovery and recently went to see a Disney movie with her dad
Suspects Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, also 12, were arrested and have been charged as adults with first-degree intentional homicide
The victim's parents have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for her medical bills and have received $50,000 as of this week


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The 12-year-old started seventh grade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday after last school year was cut short when she was lured into the woods and brutally attacked.

Spot the cheerleaders from the basketball players: Kentucky Wildcats team tower over their backers

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A photograph of the ladies from the Kentucky Wildcats college basketball team show them standing tall next to their cheerleader counterparts. The girls are all college students. In the photograph on the left, Alyssa Rice and junior Ivana Jakubcova, both well over six-feet, are seen towering over their cheerleading counterparts.

Could France sell off the Mona Lisa to pay its debt? 'Priceless' Da Vinci painting could make a dent in vast deficit

Selling the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece (pictured), which hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, could wipe off one per cent of France's debt, or around $2.3bn, it is claimed.

1,000-year-old Iraqi stew claims to be the 'ultimate HANGOVER cure'

The recipe for Kkishkiyya was found in a 10th century cookbook translated by Salem-based Iraqi scholar Nawal Nasrallah in 'Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens' and cures head and stomach aches.

E-cigarettes could act as 'gateway' to harmful illegal drugs raising the risk of addiction

Scientists at Columbia University have warned the devices raise the risk of addiction to substances including cannabis and cocaine, especially among the young.

CVS rebrands itself CVS Health and stops selling tobacco

CVS Caremark plans to stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores starting Wednesday - a move health experts hope will be followed by other major drugstore chains.

Desperate Russian grandmother abandons her six-year-old grandson at the supermarket because she could not feed herself let alone him

Eugene Kapustina, 61, was asked to look after her grandson Vova, six, by the boy's parents, who said they were going to look for work in a nearby town but never returned. Kapustina said she has spent all of her saving looking after the boy for a year, but can no longer afford to feed him. She then left him at the supermarket in the hope somebody would pick him up.

Minnesota police chief decapitates a five-year-old boy's pet chicken Carson and leaves its head outside their home

Cut down: Phoenix Turnbull lost his pet hen when an officer responded to complaints about about a 'chicken on the loose'

A police chief in Minnesota decapitated a boy's pet chicken and in a cruel mistake left the head outside the coop, where the owner's mother later found it.

Indian teenager, 15, becomes latest gang-rape victim as her body is found near railway track

The naked body of a girl, who tried to save her father from being beaten by locals for failing to pay for a rented tractor at a village meeting, has been found lying on railway tracks at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district.

After identifying the body, her father lodged an FIR against 13 persons at Dhupguri Police Station yesterday for "rape, murder and kidnapping" of his daughter, the police said.
 	
Jalpaiguri superintendent of police Kunal Agarwal and Additional superintendent of police James Kujur rushed to the spot last night.

The girl's family, from West Bengal state, believe she was abducted, raped and killed by village elders after she tried to stop them beating her father for failing to repay a loan on a tractor.

Judge orders attorney who 'fancies himself as the Matthew McConaughey of the Indiana Bar' to wear socks in court

Todd Glickfield hates socks and has a habit of appearing in court with bare feet stuffed into his shoes, but if he shows up again without socks on his feet in Indiana, he could face sanctions.

The mother who admits: I envy my daughters for being beautiful... because SHE was so plain as a teen

Shona Sibary, 43, pictured top left today and bottom left aged 14, seethes with an uncomfortable mix of pride and bitterness over the attractiveness of her daughters Flo, 15, and Annie, 13, right. 'I may have given birth to these two gorgeous creatures, but their adolescence will be a world apart from mine,' she writes here.

Starbucks refuses to let paramedic injured in the line of duty and her service dog Zero stay in store

Starbucks has apologized to a 24-year-old New York woman who said she wasn't allowed in a Rochester-area store because she had a service dog.

Man declared dead 20 years ago 'murdered his girlfriends 12-year-old daughter years later after re-appearing'

Records show the Las Vegas family checked into their hotel, and surveillance cameras show them entering the park. But they haven't been seen since.  

Suellen called her mother, Mary Woodburn, over that weekend. She told her they would be back by Monday, and if they weren't, Mary "should have something to worry about." We're not sure if the context of the message makes it as ominous as it sounds, but Mary would indeed have something to worry about. 

On October 8, hunters walking the woods outside Harrisonburg, Louisiana stumbled upon what appeared to be the remains of a young girl. Yesterday, police identified those remains as Lexis'. There's still no word on how she died or how she got to Louisiana, half a country of away of where she was supposed to be with her mother. 

Boyfriend Sanders, it should be noted, is an ex-con, though we're not sure what he was convicted of in the past. Suellen met him at the Las Vegas storage facility where they both worked. They were thought to be trav

Thomas Steven Sanders, who went missing in Mississippi in 1987 and declared dead in 1994, is now on trial for the 2010 slaying of his girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter.

Atkins or Weight Watchers? Doesn’t matter! It's sticking to the diet that counts, not the weight loss plan itself, study finds

Scientists at McMaster University in Ontario and the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto found little difference in weight loss between branded diets after 12 months.

Do you suffer OCD? If so you are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, study finds

A Danish study found adults diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder are more likely to suffer the mental illness, while children of parents with OCD are also more susceptible.

Man, 40, who brutally raped and murdered his high school classmate when he was 15 gets parole

The Oregon parole board announced its decision on Tuesday in the case of Conrad Engweiler (pictured) and set his release for next month. Engweiler has served more than 24 years for the rape, sodomy and aggravated murder of 16-year-old Erin Tonna Reynolds (left) in the Portland suburb of Beaverton in 1990. Miss Reynolds, who had survived cancer, was found murdered behind Engweiler's father's home on February 22, 1990. Below, her family, father Earl Reynolds and sister, Beth Greear, at a parole hearing for Conrad Engweiler in 2012. The family have pleaded that her killer be kept behind bars.

Revealed: The SIX steps to taking the perfect selfie... from the woman who has styled the world's most beautiful people

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Jane de Teliga has styled some of the most beautiful people in the world like Sophia Loren (right) Nicole Kidman and Australian model Megan Gale (top left) during her lengthy career as a stylist for magazines and newspapers around the world. The former style director of the Australian Women's Weekly says one of the things she used to tell the celebrities, sport stars, designers and prime ministers she photographed was to 'get over your ego'.

A college degree is still the best bet as grads break even in 10 years

Higher ed: Researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found that college graduates earn $300,000 more than high school graduates over their lifetime

Jaison R. Abel and Richard Dietz, economists at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, also found steady growth in total earnings over the last few decades.

Mother reveals her 'utter terror' after cop shot at her and her five children in their minivan during a routine traffic stop

Oriana Farrell was driving a vehicle carrying her five children, aged six to 16, when an officer fired three shots at them during in Taos, New Mexico in October last year. Ms Farrell said that she mistakenly drove away from a traffic stop for speeding, leading the officer to chase her down and try to drag her from the van. When he called for back-up, one of those officers opened fire on the family after she panicked and drove off in terror.

No boys allowed! Former Facebook employee launches a new social network just for women 

Women.com, a new female-only social network, hopes to offer a space where women can speak freely without the interference of men.

MMA fighter War Machine 'who brutally beat porn star ex-girlfriend' pleads not guilty to attempted murder and 30 other charges

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Jonathan Koppenhaven issued the plea on Wednesday during his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom, where he is accused of beating ex-girlfriend Christy Mack and her friend. The felony charges include counts of attempted murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. The judge ordered him held without bail.

War games: U.S. to send 200 combat troops to join military exercises in western Ukraine in a warning to Putin

US President Barack Obama and the Estonian President (not in picture) review an honor guard during an arrival ceremony prior to meetings at the Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2014. US President Barack Obama arrived in Estonia aboard Air Force One to meet Baltic leaders and reaffirm Washington's commitment to the security of ex-Soviet NATO members.       AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB        (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

The decision to go ahead with the Sept. 16-26 'Rapid Trident' exercise is seen as a sign of the commitment of NATO states to support Ukraine - which is not a NATO member - while not engaging Russia militarily.

Embarrassment for MTA as it misspells own name on new license plates

A license plate with the spelling error appears on an MTA fleet vehicle in New York. It's unclear how many license plates with the typo were printed

Observant onlookers spotted 'Metropolitan Transporation Authority' typed on the license plates of at least a few MTA fleet vehicles in New York in recent days.

Time to throw out the bread! A low-carb diet IS the most effective way to lose weight - and it cuts the risk of heart disease, too

According to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, cutting out carbohydrates like bread, pasta and alcohol is the best way to lose weight.

Is the 'hunger' nerve key to beating obesity? Interrupting signals telling the brain to eat boosts weight loss, say researchers

Researchers from the University of Minneapolis found that blocking the vagus nerve - which runs from the brain to the abdomen and regulates hunger - did lead to weight loss.

How aliens see us: Planet Earth, as viewed by International Space Station astronauts

US Astronaut Reid Wiseman and his German colleague Alexander Gerst, who are currently aboard the station, are prolific snappers - as these incredible snaps show. The pair have even developed their own styles, with Gerst preferring abstract patterns on the Earth's surface, while Wiseman favours storms and cities. These images show (top left) a cloud vortex, an irrigation system in the Mid-Western USA (top right), floods in northern India (bottom left) and a crater on the Earth's surface (bottom right).

Humanitarian of the year? Kim Jong-Un! Mocked-up GQ winners list circulated on Twitter as disbelief of Tony Blair's 'jaw-dropping' philanthropist of the year title escalates

The mocked-up GQ awards winners' list - a digitally altered version of the leading magazine¿s actual list - shows nine unlikely winners of some of its biggest awards and has been circulated heavily on social media

The mocked-up GQ Men of the Year awards winners’ list, which was posted on Twitter today, appears to have been prompted by Tony Blair being named Philanthropist of the Year at the London ceremony.

Could AI be closer than we think? Google begins work on super-fast 'quantum' chips that could think like humans

The new hire is part of a 'hardware initiative' to design and build chips operating on sub-atomic levels in ways making them much faster than existing processors

The California-based group said it has teamed up with physicist John Martinis to build quantum processors based on ground-breaking electronic material.

Spinach helps you lose weight by curbing cravings for sweet treats and junk food

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a spinach extract lowers food cravings by nearly 95 per cent and boosts weight loss by almost 43 per cent.

Eating junk food just makes us want to eat more junk food, study says

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A study performed by Australia's UNSW Science has shown the possibility of a link in obesity and not being able to go cold turkey off junk food.

It's a slam trunk! Six-year-old elephant Chuck shows he can shoot hoops as well as any NBL player (but he IS 13ft tall)

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Elephants aren't exactly the most riveting of animals to visit at the zoo, but Chuck the Asian pachyderm at the African Lion Safari zoo in Cambridge, Ontario, isn't your average mud-slapping mammal. He has actually become somewhat famous for his ability to effortlessly shoot hoops using his trunk. Footage that surfaced online of one of Chuck's 'slam trunks' quickly became this week's 'must watch' viral video. Chuck is believed to be the first third-generation calf born in North America.

It’s official - you look like your CAR: Drivers bear a striking resemblance to their vehicles, study claims

Researchers at University of Vienna say cars look like their owners (stock image shown). They found people could associate owners with the front of their vehicles.

In the eye of the storm: Watch the moment a tornado destroys a village in Russia from INSIDE the twister 

The video was filmed from inside a car in Bashkiria, Russia last year, but was released this week. Reports that it shows the eye of the storm have yet to be confirmed.

Foster mother arrested on child murder charge after three-year-old boy in her care died from a skull fracture and brain bleed

Mallory Krajian, 25, from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, has been charged with child abuse murder in the death of 3-year-old Andrew Prior, who died last week from blunt force trauma.

Girl, 15, without a license 'took her father's SUV for joy ride before crashing it and killing three teenage boys'

The unidentified girl, who may have been speeding, is now facing possible charges in the crash, which killed (from top) Shamus Digney, Ryan Lesher and Cullen Keffer, all 15, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Authorities say the driver, who has not been identified, hit a patch of gravel after driving the group back from breakfast and lost control of the vehicle. She, another girl and a fourth boy were treated and released from area hospitals.

Breakthrough hope for MS treatment as scientists discover how to 'switch off' autoimmune diseases 

Researchers at the University of Bristol have found a way of stopping cells from attacking healthy body tissue, and it is hoped the insight will pave the way for new treatments.

Five-year-old girl rescued after getting herself locked inside a washing machine on high speed 

A woman had tried to use the machine at Le's Washateria and told a manager it was not working properly.
The customer then moved to another machine before the child became trapped. It is unclear how the 5-year-old got inside or how the machine turned on.
?She was tumbling pretty fast in there,? said Vance Mitchell, of the Pasadena Police Department. ?One person walked by and said they saw something flopping around in there. They thought it was just a dress or something because it was moving pretty fast.?
The Laundromat owner says an employee had to use circuit breakers to stop the machine before first responders arrived on the scene.
The girl was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital for observation. Police say they do not believe she suffered life-threatening injuries.
There is no word at this time who, if anyone, was watching the child.

The bizarre incident took place at Le's Washateria in Pasadena, Texas, where police say the 5-year-old became trapped inside a running machine.

Ghostly rooms, crumbling staircases and faded tapestries: Eerie photos capture lavish Belgian chateau left abandoned for 20 years

Opulent: The drawing room is filled with antique furniture and an enormous tapestry fills the whole of one wall, while the chandelier hints at an opulent past

The haunting photos of Chateau de la Foret show decaying rooms still filled with opulent furniture and faded decor - as if the owners had only just left.

Tats not allowed: San Antonio cops forced to pay for their own tattoo removals after bosses ban visible body art

Visible tattoos on hands or necks are no longer allowed as part of a move to make the city department in Texas to appear more professional

Can any make-up really last 24 hours? That's what a new product claims. MARIANNE POWER put it to the test

Yves Saint Laurent's Fusion Ink Foundation claims to use space-age technology that makes it last for 24 hours. The high-tech base contains lipophilic acid, which is so absorbent it's used by Nasa to 'soak up' space dust so that it doesn't affect the outer casings of a rocket. The same substance also, apparently, sucks grease from the face, helping make-up last much longer.

Don't worry, it's not a gun! Cowboy-style HOLSTER that will keep your smartphone and wallet snug

The LD West holster holds you phone one side and your wallet the other. And it also can serve to allow everyone to secretly feel like a cowboy under their work suit.

Girl, 15, abducted and strangled to death before her body was dumped and set alight in 'random attack'

This undated photo provided by her family on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 shows teenager Dominique Allen of Indianapolis. On Tuesday, a coroner ruled the death of the 15-year-old was a homicide as the result of asphyxiation. Police said a man walking his dog found Allen's badly burned body in his backyard on the city's northwest side on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Family Photo)

Dominique Allen, 15, was last seen sitting outside her sister's house in Indianapolis on Sunday. Her badly burned body was discovered the same day in the yard of a house nearby.

No need for a harness! Daredevil leaps from 1,300ft clifftop with parachute fixed to piercings embedded in his BACK

A dramatic video shows Stanislav Aksenov carrying out the stunt and freefalling for two minutes from the 1,300ft-high cliffs surrounding the Lauterbrunnen valley in Bern, Switzerland.

Samsung unveils its Galaxy Note Edge complete with a CURVED side: Slick new 'ticker' feature displays notifications

South Korean-based Samsung has surprisingly revealed a curved phablet (shown). It beats Apple to the punch, who are apparently also planning curved devices.

Back in the game! Michael Sam suits up in his new Cowboy uniform after first openly gay NFL player is picked up by Dallas

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The first openly-gay NFL player ran drills with the Cowboys this afternoon after coaches picked him for the practice squad on Tuesday night. The decision by one of the league's most popular teams means that Sam's dreams of football stardom get another chance.

Bentley is written off by Cement Bucket Challenge: Russian music producer loses his $230,000 car after accident at construction site

Artur Shachnev parked his car too close to a Moscow building site when workers from a height of 50 feet 'accidentally' spilt seven tonnes of wet cement, which then dried on the vehicle.

Innocent brothers who spent 30 years on death row finally walk free: Men who were wrongly convicted of raping and killing 11-year-old girl cleared by DNA evidence

Two half-brothers today walked free from death row - thirty years after they were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.

Two half-brothers today walked free from death row - thirty years after they were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Henry McCollum, main images, and Leon Brown, inset, were cleared by DNA evidence yesterday, three decades after they were found guilty of the raping Sabrina Buie and suffocating her with her own underwear in North Carolina in 1984. Their alleged crime was even held up by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as an example of why he supported the death penalty. But on Tuesday McCollum and Brown's convictions were overturned after another man's DNA was found on a cigarette butt that was left near the crime scene.

   

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Boyfriend, 28, cycling across six states to propose to his girlfriend is stabbed to death by a homeless man while having a pit stop at McDonald's

Kevin Adorno was cycling from Maryland to Miami when he made a stop at a McDonald's in Vero Beach, Florida on Monday evening to charge his phone and get something to eat. But Rene Herrera Cruz, a homeless man, saw him talking on his phone and thought he was plotting to kill him - when in fact, he was speaking to his girlfriend, Elyse (pictured together left). She told police she heard the phone drop as Cruz repeatedly stabbed Adorno, leaving him to bleed to death. Before taking off on his journey in mid-August, Adorno had shared this map (right) of his planned route on Facebook.

Welcome to Laniakea, your home: Stunning new 3D map reveals gigantic super-cluster of galaxies that contains our own Milky Way

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 A stunning 3D map of the local universe spanning 500 million light years across has been created by scientists.
 
 Dubbed 'immeasurable heaven' it allows us to explore the Milky Way and other surrounding galaxies in more detail than ever before.
 
 They occur in groups - some containing hundreds called 'superclusters' - and are strung like pearls in a web of filaments with poorly defined boundaries.
 
 The map has enabled NASA scientists to find the boundaries of Earth's home supercluster by using computer simulations of galaxy distances and motions.
 
 They have named it Laniakea - Hawaiian for 'immense heaven' - in honour of Polynesian navigators who used knowledge of the stars to voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean.
 
 The region contains the mass of about 100 million billion suns, reports Nature.
 
 The team gathered data on over 8,000 dalaxies that surround us and then mapped each one's position and movement in space.
 
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Hawaiian researchers say the structure is 500 million light years across, and contains 100,000 galaxies and the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns.

Flying low! Algae-covered WWII warplane sunk off the coast of Turkey has become an underwater playground for divers

The 65-foot-long plane, which was used as a transporter for a Turkish paratroop regiment, was deliberately sunk in waters off Kas, Turkey, and has become an underwater playground for divers.

The psychedelic image from space that reveals just how big the Napa earthquake really was

Radar images from the UK's Sentinel-1A satellite have been used to map the biggest earthquake that has shaken northern California in 25 years. The images reveal the rupture is larger than previously thought.

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The US leader is to launch biting criticism of Vladimir Putin today in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, once part of the USSR, before he flies to Wales for the NATO summit opening tomorrow        

Anyone else feel a right doughnut? Babies bob about in the water at spa where they are also pampered with massages

Babies aged between two weeks and eight months are put in waterproof nappies and then fitted with a double-circle flotation device to support their head and neck at the spa in Houston, Texas. The floats allow the babies to move their arms and legs in the water as the bob and play for about 25 minutes. Parents are then guided through a gentle baby massage. The hour-long experience costs £40 and is becoming an increasingly popular way for mothers to help their children sleep.

Amicable divorce 'is just as damaging for children': Impact of a split on youngsters is same if couple remain friends or not 

The U.S. study published in the journal Family Relations examined 270 parents who split between 1998 and 2004 and found children of break-ups were more likely to have problems.

One that didn't get away! 78-year-old catches 350lb prehistoric sturgeon

Peter Starbuck, 78, from Oswestry, Shropshire, travelled to British Columbia to catch salmon, but stunned locals when he ended up reeling in a 350lb sturgeon. The giant fish was so heavy that it towed his boat for half an hour before the pensioner was able to pull his catch in.