The American passenger, who does not have Ebola, was detained by four officers and taken to the airport's medical centre in Punta Cana as he declared: 'I ain't from Africa.' The remaining 255 people were forced to stay on board for two hours until he was cleared, despite airline staff insisting they believed it was a poor-taste joke.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Mulberry's fans include the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Eugenie. But this hasn't stopped the luxury handbag brand from becoming embroiled in an undignified row with the Royal Family after publishing a promotional image of its new collection hanging from the gates of Kensington Palace.

Melanie Griffith had no ordinary childhood. She is the daughter of famed actress and Hitchcock muse Tipi Hedren, began acting when she was just a toddler, and started dating Hollywood heartthrob Don Johnson was she was just 14-years-old. Also, her family had a giant pet lion named Neil.

They've been called a female Jedward, and Simon Cowell thinks they could be the most annoying girl band ever. But sisters Ruby (far right) and Jazzy King - Blonde Electra - are through to the live shows. They have one of the most audacious back stories in X Factor history. Their parents (pictured left) met in a sex commune but have taken a vow of chastity and live as brother and sister. And the girl group revealed their father is George Osborne's cousin.

Grinning with their friends as schoolboys, these are two of the men suspected of plotting to bring terror to British streets. Just three years ago Tarik Hassane and Gusai Abuzeid were 'happy-go-lucky' best friends at Westminster City School. Now the 21-year-olds are sitting in a high security police cell suspected of links to a violent conspiracy inspired by Islamic State fanatics. Scotland Yard has warned the men - and three others - that they face up to a week behind bars after they were held in a dramatic series of raids.

A studio flat in Streatham, south east London, is being sold for £99,950 - but it measures just 206 square foot, including the separate bathroom and entrance, and has only a microwave for cooking. Described as a 'bijou studio flat... with an open plan kitchen area' on the listing, the sellers admit that it could do with 'updating in parts'.

The number of manhole fires has increased from 34 in 2010 to 124 in the last year. Several people have been seriously injured in explosions including Cara Perrett, who suffered horrific burns when she was engulfed by a fireball while walking home in North West London in May 2012. The increase in the fires is thought to be the result of water leaking into electric junction boxes and causing faults in the cables which run underneath our pavements. (Pictured, a pavement explosion sets fire to a shop in Pimlico, main, and a manhole fire rages outside a home in Surrey, inset) .

Handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, 46, (left) revealed she 'fired herself' as CEO of her self-titled firm because the pressure of juggling her work with raising five children became too much. She took the decision to step down three years ago, replacing herself with former Harrods and Gucci executive James McArthur. The designer has five children aged 11 to 25, including Felix (second left) and Tia (right) with her 59-year-old husband James Seymour (centre), the company's financial director.

This month, an Australian film crew was filming in southern Ethiopia when they stumbled upon Ataye Eligidagne, 20, who has the largest lip disc in the world. The hardened clay disc is 59.5 cm in circumference and 19.5 cm in diameter. In recent times the Ethiopian government has taken measures to ban the discs, but they remain a prominent tradition amongst the Surma woman of the lower Omo Rover valley in Ethipoia.

Danuta Cross, 64, of South Cave, East Yorkshire pleaded guilty to harassing her neighbours who she claimed were jealous of her award-winning garden, pictured. Michael Copeman, defending, told Beverley magistrates’ court: ‘It is a very bizarre case... She has made complaints over a long period of time that she was being stalked. Whenever she is in her garden, the neighbours come out and stand at the side of the hedge and follow her about.’ 

Student Daria Radionova (pictured right) is selling her bling-on-wheels Mercedes CLS 350 encrusted with one million Swarovski crystals (left) just three weeks after it came to the world's attention. Bidding for the testament to pointless excess has reached £153,800, with 25 car enthusiasts of questionable taste vying for the chance to drive it home.

Albert Willis (pictured left), a Chelsea Pensioner, Beefeater Paul Cunliffe (centre), and Captain Joe Robinson (right), an officer in the Grenadier Guards, paid their respects to the fallen of the First World War at the Tower of London. The artwork, Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red, was created to mark centenary of the start of the Great War. It will eventually include 888,246 ceramic poppies to represent all British or colonial military fatalities of the conflict.

North Korea's state media, which usually chronicles Kim's whereabouts in great detail, has not made any mention of his activities since he attended a concert with his wife on September 3. A source with access to the secretive North's leadership said Kim hurt his leg while inspecting military exercises, playing down speculation over the 31-year-old's health and grip on power. However, new reports suggest his 24-year-old sister Kim Yo-jong, pictured left, who has already been identified as Deputy Director of the Workers' Party, has taken charge.

Mother-of-one Della Callagher (pictured, right) died after paying £39.95 for the four-course lunch at the Railway Hotel (inset) in Hornchurch, Essex, on Christmas Day 2012. She was among 33 people who fell ill following the alleged outbreak of food poisoning. The restaurant's former owner Ann McSweeney (left) and ex-chef Mehmet Kaya deny serving food that was unfit for human consumption.

Amanda Brewer (right), 25, an art teacher and shark enthusiast from New Jersey, took the dramatic snapshot (left) showing a great white with its razor-sharp teeth on full display with her GoPro camera in Mossel Bay off Seal Island. Brewer traveled to South Africa this summer to volunteer as a data collector for the animal conservation organization White Shark Africa.  

Many of the world's top airline's offer on-board bars, where, for a seat at a price, passengers can sit on comfy chairs at the bar or lazy on luxury sofas while having their favourite tipple delivered. From Virgin Australia's Boeing 777 business class bar (top left), and the Emirates Airbus A380 in-flight ounge (top right); to live sports events screened on Etihad (bottom right); and Korean Air's Celestial Bar (bottom left); as well as Virgin Atlantic offering on-board bars in all its aircraft (centre).

Brian and Susan Trost and their four children were forced to move out of the house in Weldon Spring, Missouri when nothing would kill the brown recluse spiders. The 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom property, which has prime views across the Whitmoor Country Club, never sold - but McCarthy Pest Control believes they can finally take care of the problem. The fumigators are now covering the home in a tarp (pictured and before inset bottom left) and pumping in poison gas in an attempt to kill the spiders, which have been there for at least seven years, stock photo inset top left.

Officers have linked the thief to 29 separate incidents in Devon and Cornwall over the last two years but are unsure if the suspect is a man, woman or a transvestite due to the varying disguises used. The offender, who police say has stolen thousands of pounds worth of fuel since starting the spree in Plymouth, Devon, in September 2012, always uses a disguise including fake number plates and a wig (circled). Police have managed to link the offences due to the same vehicle - a Vauxhall Zafira - being used every time but have now released CCTV images (pictured) of the suspect in the attempt of tracking them down once and for all. Witnesses who have reported the offender have also been left confused due to the disguises, with 19 describing the suspect as a woman, seven reporting a man and three suggesting the sex is 'indistinguishable '.

An amateur photographer was shocked when he found what appears to the the ghost of a condemned criminal, complete with a hangman's hood, in a photograph he took in some former prison cells. Nottingham's Galleries of Justice Museum houses a 15th Century jail, where prisoners were once hanged from the steps. And now James Pykett, 25, believes he has spotted the spirit of one of those who died there lurking in the shadows.

From eating a sandwich in an 1890s urinal (right), to throwing back a drink in WC, an old Victorian underground station toilet (left), it is now perfectly acceptable to invite a Friday night date to 'meet you in the toilet' in London.

The unbelievable scene was filmed by a motorist as he followed the lorry around two roundabouts in Thanet, Kent. As the towering vehicle turned on to the roundabout, it leaned treacherously to one side and appeared ready to topple over. The shocked driver who caught the moment on camera claims the lorry's tyres actually lifted off the road. The vehicle is operated by A-Skip4U and the firm has insisted that the skips did not exceed the legal height limit. They have also accused other motorists who were using their mobile phones of driving dangerously.

A graduate from Loughborough University created the 15-litre tank, (main image) which is packed with technology enabling fish, plants and bacteria 'to work together to create a balanced ecosystem'. The tank, called Avo, has a self-cleaning filter that ‘never needs replacing’. Avo features smart LED lighting that is optimised for plant photosynthesis and growth, which leads to clear water. It changes colour (pictured inset) at different times of day.

The concave design of 20 Fenchurch Street, better known as the Walkie Talkie, caused the sun to shine direct rays of light (top right) onto the street below (bottom right) and damaged several cars, including a Jaguar XJ. But workers have fitted the 37-storey building, which has been nicknamed as the 'Walkie Scorchie' by those who work nearby, with baffle grills called a 'brise soleil sunshade' to deflect the sun's rays (left).