NEW Darren Vann, who police say has admitted to seven murders around Gary, Indiana, almost killed ex-girlfriend Ceritha Grant by setting fire to her - shown here in this shocking police photo. When Ceritha met Vann his idea of a night out was to visit Barnes and Noble and read Harry Potter books.Vann was very clean living and didn't smoke, drink or take drugs. He locked Grant in their apartment for a whole week. 'The only time I saw him was when he brought me my three meals a day,' she tells MailOnline in an exclusive interview.In a jealous rage, Vann took her hostage and threatened to set fire to her and the apartment block.

NEW Video footage shot by people on the ground at different locations shows how the aircraft spirals out of control after the crash in Gangshan District in south Taiwan's Kaohsiung city. A Lieutenant Colonel piloting the jet ejected from the aircraft after realising he had lost control of the plane, but was killed upon impact.

Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered both ships on the ocean floor 30 miles from Cape Hatteras, the agency announced Tuesday. 'This is not just the discovery of a single shipwreck,' said chief scientist Joe Hoyt of the NOAA Office of Marine Sanctuaries expedition that made the discovery.

Jeffrey Fowle, 56, greeted the media with his wife and three young children outside their home in rural Miamisburg, Ohio on Wednesday morning. Mr Fowle had earlier landed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton after being flown in by the Department of Defense. He was met on the tarmac by his wife and elated children who rushed to hug him after having no idea that their father was returning home.

Apart from her ultra line-free forehead and suspiciously puffy face, she also had much lighter and patchier eyebrows than usual (right). Indeed, the lack of tweezing and upkeep might be considered the 'anti-Cara' brow, the exact opposite of the thick, well-drawn brows supermodel Cara Delevingne has become known for and made trendy. With her eyebrows filled in by Photoshop (center), Renee looks a bit more like her old self (pictured left in 2008).

The murderer appeared in court on Tuesday (left) as the jury was sworn in Phoenix, Arizona. Arias sat quietly next to her legal team and appeared to have had her hair cut to shoulder length and was wearing a new pair of glasses. Her defense lawyer warned the jury that it will see graphic evidence about the killing and relationship between Arias and victim Travis Alexander (below right).  The 34-year-old Arias was convicted of murder last year (top right), but the first jury was deadlocked on whether to give her the death penalty or life in prison.

After weeks hiding away at home as she battled acute ante-natal sickness, the Duchess of Cambridge last night dazzled in a floor-length powder blue evening gown. The Duchess looked to be sporting the tiniest of baby bumps in her figure-hugging outfit as she attended a black-tie awards event at the Natural History Museum. Kate, 32, who is patron of the museum, joined museum director Michael Dixon (pictured with her) to present the awards after meeting finalists and viewing an exhibition of their work. It marked a positive change from an appearance earlier in the day when the Duchess seemed quite peaky (left).

She has been labelled everything from a government spy to a pro-Bashar al-Assad mouthpiece to a Kim Kardashian wannabe. But Syrian-Australian blogger Maram Susli (pictured), who goes by Mimi Al Laham or 'Syrian Girl', says she is just a patriot 'dedicated to the truth'. The 27-year-old, who lives in Australia, has a large and like-minded following on social media where her YouTube videos have received more than 2.5 million views. Ms Susli says she speaks out on social media because she is dismayed by watching her birth country being destroyed. She is critical of Syrian rebels, ISIS and the United States. But her critics say she is a fame-hungry conspiracy theorist.

Mukpo, of Providence, Rhode Island, contracted Ebola while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman. The 33-year-old posted several tweets Monday concerning his struggle with Ebola and how he had 'no idea' how he contracted the virus. Mukpo also tweeted his support Tuesday to infected Dallas nurses Amber Vinson and Nina Pham as Pham's condition was upgraded to 'good.' At center, Mukpo is seen being wheeled into a Nebraska hospital after flying back to the U.S. from Liberia on October 6.

The Facebook COO and author of 'Lean In' has been living with her family at their new home in nearby Menlo Park, California for the past year. Sandberg and husband David Goldberg, CEO of survey Monkey, bought their Atherton, California home in 2004 for nearly $8million and profited more than $1million in this sale. The new owners are inheriting a home that has been visited by the likes of President Obama, Lady Gaga, Condoleezza Rice, Gloria Steinem and Michael Bloomberg.

New photos show the aftermath of a brawl involving almost every member of the Palin family (inset) that happened in Anchorage, Alaska, this past September. During the fight, a 'heavily intoxicated' Bristol Palin (who may appear on the right in a police photo) screamed 'who the f**k are you?' at the male host of the South Anchorage party her family gate-crashed last month before punching him at least six times in the face, according to the police report released today. Now police have also released photos they took on the scene after the incident occurred, featuring open wounds (left) on guests, raw knuckles, and the blood-soaked pavement.

A stay-at-home dad in Florida who shot dead two of his children and wounded a third (right, with their mother) before killing himself was in the midst of a nasty divorce from his wife and had told her to call if off or he would go after their kids. According to wife Cynthia Mohney's lawyer, David Mohney (left) told her on the morning of the murders, 'If you don't come back to me and stop the divorce, I will kill our children.' He then reportedly punched her in the mouth at their Port Orange, Florida, home, and added, 'If you're going to take my kids away, you will not have them and you will go through the rest of your life without children.' 

Misty Beaty of Iowa went to the hospital for stomach pains on Monday morning and hours later gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Briggs(right). Misty Beaty and Scott Steele (left) from Cedar Rapids had absolutely no idea that Misty was pregnant until the moment she gave birth to Briggs Beaty on Monday morning. It was especially a surprise for Scott who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer five years ago and was told he was sterile.

Sharon Budd, her relatives and medical staff appeared outside Geisinger HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania on Tuesday to speak about her incredible battle. Helped by two staff members, she grinned as she rang a ceremonial victory bell. The 52-year-old mother and breast cancer survivor plans to return home to Uniontown, Ohio on Wednesday. She was the front-seat passenger of her family's car as it drove through Danville on July 10 with her husband and daughter, when the rock crashed through the front window and struck her head. She suffered a crushed skull and brain damage and also lost her right eye.

NEW The elderly man can be seen stepping into the ring to spa with the confident professional, before a few hooks leave his young sparring partner collapsed against the ropes. Wearing a woolly jumper and tracksuit bottoms, the older man did not seem like a dangerous opponent at first glance, but after 16 seconds his adversary is on the floor.

U.S. Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton is accused of killing 26-year-old Jennifer Laude, whose former name was Jeffrey. She was found strangled at the Celzone Lodge, her head in a toilet bowl. Pemberton, 19, reportedly met Laude in a nightclub but didn't know she was transgender until they were alone in a hotel room.

A white-tailed eagle with a camera strapped to its back was released from the Eiffel Tower by its handler, flying over the Seine and down into the Trocadéro Gardens in the French capital. The stunt was organised by an organisation to draw attention to the plight of the white-tailed eagle which has been extinct from France for 50 years.

Pistorius, 27, known as the Blade Runner, was yesterday jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (right), 29, but could be out of prison in one-sixth of the time. The sentence has been criticised by some as too lenient and sparked calls for it to be increased. Miss Steenkamp's parents, June and Barry (centre), said they accepted the sentence and 'don't want revenge' or for the double-amputee (left) to 'suffer with his disabilities' while prison.

NEW They used check cashing businesses and a Newark restaurant to run a racketeering enterprise that reaped millions of dollars through loansharking and money laundering, New Jersey officials said Tuesday as they announced charges against 11 people. Pictured: Top left, reputed Genovese family capo Charles Tuzzo. Second left: Reputed Genovese soldier Vito Alberti, 55. Domenick Pucillo and Jennifer Mann. Bottom from left: Robert Spagnola, Vincent Coppola, Flor Miranda, and Abel Rodrigues.

NEW Residents spotted the blind chihuahua wrapped in a 'cocoon-like structure' made from duct tape that had been nailed to a tree in in Black Point Marina, southwest Miami-Dade County. Witnesses believe the male chihuahua, named Angel by Animal Services had been subjected to a voodoo-like ritual in the name of the Santeria religion, as the animal was surrounded by bones.

Helen Auer, from Cincinnati, Ohio, passed away peacefully at home last Wednesday at age 94. Just over a day later, she was joined by her beloved 100-year-old husband, Joe, who could not survive without her. The Auers married at St. Lawrence Church in Cincinnati in 1941, lived through Word War II, raised 10 children and witnessed the births of their 16 grandchildren, 29 great-grandkids and one great-great grandchild.

Stella Ralfini from London is using her expert knowledge between the sheets to give sex tips to frustrated twenty-somethings. Since becoming a Tantric sex expert in the 1980s, the mother-of-one has proved a huge hit with her clients. Now she is urging the younger generation, especially men, to read the Kama Sutra for sex inspiration - rather than top shelf magazines.

Dutch contractor Johan Huibers was inpired by a dream about a flood and decided to build the 23-metre high, 30-metre wide and 135-metre vessel. It took him three years to construct the gigantic structure. The Ark of Noah in Dordrecht city, the Netherlands is now open to the public,

With nearly half a million YouTube views, this video captures the crowd-pleasing moment that Stella the dog repeatedly leaps into a giant pile of leaves to retrieve her beloved toy in the US. Even though it's like finding a needle in a haystack, the determined and dedicated dog manages to retrieve the ball on every occasion.

NEW A nasty car crash involving three cars in Pennsylvania was captured on video by a cellphone after a man noticed the erratic driving of a woman in front of him. The offending driver, who was behind the wheel of a white SUV, was swerving all over the road on Route 21 in Uniontown, Fayette County, on Monday morning before making an improper left turn (left). She struck an oncoming car (center), which then ricochets into the third car filming the accident.

Staff Sergeant Maurice Fevold was just 21 when his plane was hit during the Battle of the Bulge, the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies. The plane's wreckage was not found until 2007, and it was only through recent DNA testing that Sgt Fevold's remains were identified after being recovered in 2012. This week a funeral was held for Sgt Fevold and he was given full military honors from the Iowa National Guard

Finn Beales, 36, from Wales, has accumulated more than 340,000 followers on Instagram thanks to his talent for capturing some of the world's most astounding scenery. For his Iceland collection he spent hours waiting to capture fluorescent Aurora Borealis, glaciers and exploding geysers in a country he described as 'like another planet'.

These are some of the amazing original sketches that outline key scenes of the original Star Wars movies. Among the moments featured are the moment Darth Vader tells Luke that he's his father, bottom left, Luke Skywalker's attack on the Death Star, top left, and his bid to take down an At At, right.

NEW Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, begins tomorrow, and across Asia preparations are being made, with bright colours, gold and even decorated dogs. The five-day celebration symbolises the victory of good over evil, new beginnings and light from darkness - and sees (clockwise from top left) children dressing up as Hindu deities, widows offer up prayers and light sparklers, dogs being decorated in bright powder in Nepal left, idols being painted in vivid colours and lanterns bought to decorate homes (pictured, middle).

Scientists are closer to dating the Shigir Idol, found in 1890 in Kirovgrad, Sverdlovsk region, in the Ural Mountains, which contains secret encrypted codes written around 9,500 years ago. The haunting Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids and was preserved 'as if in a time capsule' in a peat bog. Russian experts now say the remarkable relic contains encoded information on the 'creation of the world'. While the messages remain 'an utter mystery to modern man', the Russian academic said its creators 'lived in total harmony with the world, had advanced intellectual development, and a complicated spiritual world'. German scientists are close to a precise dating - within five decades. The results are likely to be known in late February or early March