RCMP veteran Kevin Vickers (left and top right) has been hailed a hero after putting a swift stop to the attacker's gunfire after he shot dead a soldier and then stormed the building on Wednesday morning. A CBC News still (left) shows Vickers holding the gun and walking through the House of Commons' moments after taking down the assailant (bottom right). Despite working for the RCMP for three decades, relatives said the incident was the first time in his career that Vickers had ever shot anyone. After his lengthy police career, Vickers started the role as the House of Commons' head of security in 2005.

NEW A dramatic new video captures the moment Canadian gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau arrived at Parliament yesterday. The Muslim convert is seen jumping out of his car while holding a gun as terrified bystanders frantically free from the man, who had just killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial and would be shot dead himself just minutes later. The video was released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a news conference where it was also revealed that the troubled 32-year-old may have been a dual citizen with Libya.

Senior Constable Paul Topham told an inquest that police tried hard to arrest Greg Anderson (pictured, right), 56, who killed his 11-year-old son Luke (pictured, top left) with a cricket bat and knife on a Victorian cricket oval on February 12. Senior Constable Topham said Mr Anderson was likely to kill his son and his efforts to have him locked up were undone by the courts. Luke's mother, Rosie Batty (pictured) told inquest police said they could not help her if her former partner tried to kill her and Luke.

This image, issued by Indian police, shows the bodies of James and Alex Gaskell slumped on a hotel bed surrounded by sleeping pills, anti-depressants and empty bottles of cough syrup. Readers may find it distressing, but the Mail is publishing it, with the bodies pixellated, in the hope it will serve as a warning against the horrific dangers of casual drug use. Police say the couple - both teachers with first-class degrees - died of an overdose in their locked room near the Taj Mahal. Mrs Gaskell's stepfather, Greg Pyke, said the couple may have taken their own lives in despair after being 'continually smacked in the face' by the country's shocking levels of poverty.

Kym Hall (bottom left) started designing her vintage-inspired shoes from her Perth home just nine months ago and she's already landed an opportunity many designers would dream of. The 38-year-old was initially just asked to send a pair of strappy heels to talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, but now her designers will feature in the $80,000 celebrity gift bags for next year's star-studded Oscars and Emmys. Ms Hall, who started her business Jakki so she could work from home to take care of her five-year-old son, said she has a list of people she'd like to see in her designs including the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary. 

Princess Mary of Denmark has opened up about her late mother Henrietta, who died when the royal was only 25-years-old. In an emotional interview with Australian Women's Weekly magazine, Mary, 42, revealed her mother taught her some important life lessons, including to be 'independent', to 'trust herself and to believe in myself'. 'I would love to have more time with my mother,' she said. 'She is part of me.' Mary married Crown Prince Frederik in 2004 and the couple have four children - Christian, Vincent, Josephine and Isabella.

Gillian Relf, 69, from Kent, regrets having her son, Stephen, 47, because he was born with Down's Syndrome.
'While I do love my son, and am fiercely protective of him, I know our lives would have been happier and far less complicated if he had never been born. I do wish I'd had an abortion. I wish it every day,' she writes here.

A two-storey property used as a set for the Australian television show, Underbelly, will be put under the hammer on Saturday. Once a dairy factory, the 1908 warehouse located in Richmond in Melbourne, Victoria, has had a stunning town-house makeover that hopes to see the property sell for $1.1 million plus. The property was last sold in 1999 for $487,000. Current owners Corrine and Nigel said it is common for film makers to 'come knocking on the door every so often'.

When a local doctor in the town of Segarcea, in south-eastern Romania's Dolj County, tried to warn people he was suffering from the disease, he was threatened with a lawsuit by the man's mother. Doctor Cornel Stanciu, their family physician, knew that Daniel was HIV positive and tried to make his health condition public after the 24-year-old had a relationship with his daughter.

An unearthed Loaded magazine from August, 2000 shows playful and flirtatious side to serious actress, who was made an honorary dame by the Queen earlier this month (left). The reissued chat also reveals why the star is nearly always dressed in all black. In the interview Angelina said: 'I don't see sex as this horrible dirty thing. If I spent enough time with someone I could find them attractive, even an Englishman.'

The pint-sized property in Islington, north London, is a fifth of the size of the average new build but still crams in an open-plan kitchen, living area, bathroom and bedroom. Described by estate agents as 'unique', the cosy home - which has its front door underneath the bed - went on sale for $500,000 last month and has now been snapped up after receiving an astonishing amount of interest. The house is on the highly sought-after Richmond Avenue, one street away from Tony Blair's former house on Richmond Crescent, and the new owners will be forced to walk across the kitchen worktop before balancing on narrow steps, to make it to the 7ft 7ins x 5ft 8ins airborne 'bedroom'.

At Rick's Cafe, on Jamaica's Negril coast, you can watch the skilled locals, as well as tourists, take their respective leaps of faith. The bar enables some to build up Dutch courage before making the leap. The video taken by one brave local shows the spectacular views and steep drop before he plunges into the waters below holding his GoPro.

Sacha and Cedrique, who brand themselves the Lifehunters, attended an organic food convention in Houten, Holland where they were to present their delicacies. The problem is, that they don't even own a restaurant or have a menu of organically sourced foods, so they decide to play the ultimate prank. 

McKamey Manor, in San Diego, California, has been described as the world's scariest haunted house, and regularly reduces grown men to tears. More than 24,000 people are on the manor's waiting list, but no-one has ever made it through a tour, which can last up to eight hours. Guests are drenched in fake blood, tied up, forced into cages of snakes and made to eat rotten eggs, and must sign a waiver before entering.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ex-wife of former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, appeared on The Five to discuss the GOP's 'war on women' crisis. When Guilfoyle's fellow panelist Greg Gutfield suggested that married, older women tend to vote Republican because 'with age comes wisdom,' the 45-year-old former California prosecutor and one-time lingerie model launched into a tirade calling out younger women for their perceived ignorance.

Illusionist Sam Powers has conquered his fear of sharks to stun passing ferry passengers, at McMahon's Point in the shadow of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to levitate last year's Big Brother runner up and model Jade Albany almost two feet above the water. The whole experience left the 24-year-old model shaking saying 'Sam put me in some sort of trance, I've no idea how he did it' Sam is about to join the largest magic show on earth called 'Illusionists 2.0', currently on world tour

Jamey Shields (right) faced Duncan Willis, 27 (centre), who killed her mother Katherine Hawley, 58, after marching to her Michigan home in a fit of rage thinking she had reported him to child welfare officers. Left: Sarah Baker who was sexually assaulted by Willis. Baker, whose seven-month-old daughter and two seven-year-old boys were in the house during the sustained attack said: 'My whole world has been rocked.' Willis was sentenced to a term of life plus 202 years on Wednesday for the murder and brutal attacks in Mecosta County in 2013.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: June Churchill was beaten and stabbed while being held prisoner for 3 days by her husband David Churchill (inset). She was taken to hospital (left) and still has scars following the attack where she was stabbed and repeatedly beaten (right). Insurers have refused to pay after Churchill ended the ordeal by torching their £230,000 Merseyside home.

In a series of spectacular images, an ISIS militant (bottom left) appears to stand firm as the hillside erupts into flames (main image) after the terror group's black flag is obliterated by a vast ball of flame. The images have emerged as American and Arab jets launched fresh attacks on ISIS positions in the north of Kobane - with pyrotechnic tracer ammunition lighting up the night sky and coalition warplanes destroying ISIS-held buildings with a barrage of air-to-surface missiles. 

An American photographer and reporter have documented unseen parts of North Korea during an unprecedented week-long road trip through the countryside and cities. Poor rural farmers, children fixing potholes (bottom right), playing football (left) and teenagers enjoying a picnic on the beach (top right) are some of the sights captured in the stunning photo feature.

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Baker, 32 from Surrey, had gained weight ever since her teens as she is a self-confessed lover of food. She said: 'I love food, I love Italians, Chineses, Mexican, Indian. I always ate dessert, that was the pleasing part of the meal.' But after giving birth to her son, her weight ballooned (as seen in the two left-hand pictures) and one day she was shocked to find she was breathless when bending down to tie her shoelaces. She went to a GP who confirmed that her BMI, which before she became pregnant was formerly classed at 'morbidly obese' at 43, was now 'off the scale'. She decided to join the LighterLife weight loss programme and in less than a year had lost more than nine stone (as seen in the right-hand picture and inset). Now, at a slim size eight, she has achieved her goal of looking elegant while driving a horse and carriage, one of her hobbies. She can also finally race around after her son.

It shows a man get hopelessly trapped beneath a heavily weighted barbell that nearly chokes him to death before he's able to escape. The clip, which has spread across the online fitness community and beyond, has been held up as a warning of the dangers of dodgy equipment after the bench's badly designed safety bars fail to catch the falling weight. The video begins with a man in a gym lying back on a bench. Above him an Olympic-grade barbell is racked and loaded with a rather hefty 140kg worth of plates. It is unclear where the video is filmed.

Charlotte Rowlett, 23, from Sheffield, was living in fear at school so took up karate to protect herself from vicious attacks from other students. Tripped up, spat on and even kicked, Charlotte originally started karate (bottom right) as a means of self-defense. Having now become a mixed martial arts expert, she turned her hand to pageants and was thrilled to be crowned Miss British Empire South Yorkshire 2014 and Miss Sheffield Galaxy. To marry her two hobbies, Charlotte has to abstain from fighting properly for around six weeks before a beauty contest to avoid getting any unsightly bruises or cuts, but says competing has boosted her confidence.

Arizona business coach Phillip Lechter (left inset) says his brand-new iPhone 6 (left) bent in his pocket and caught fire, leaving with him with second degree burns to his thigh (right) and hip. He says the accident happened earlier this month when he was in a rickshaw accident which caused the phone to bend in his pocket. Apple has since replaced the phone, but he wants the tech company to pay his medical bills.

The celebratory pictures show off the curves and glowing skin of confident ladies up to 36 weeks pregnant who have all been photographed naked.

The Langenberg Wildlife Park near Zurich admits it does not have sufficient space for all its wild boar and deer, so the surplus exhibits are being served up at the visitor's restaurant. Just metres from where the animals once frolicked in fields and forest land, visitors can enjoy dishes such as braised wild boar, venison in cognac sauce, boar sausages and wild deer carpaccio. The park admits killing and serving 49 deer and 10 wild boar since 2012 despite having resettlement projects for other animals.

Graeme Ross, 39, from Whishaw, Glasgow, would sometimes eat three take away meals for a single dinner. His weight rose to 18st 9lb and was so unfit he could barely climb the stairs (left). Determined to make a change he began exercising and changing his diet. But it was when he was introduced to bodybuilding at the gym that he really began to transform his physique. Now eating a strict regime of six small meals a day and training extensively has seen him lose a staggering 6st to go on to compete professionally as a body builder (right)

Holding a bottle in one hand, the guide was filmed as she told tourists exactly what she thought of San Francisco's Chinatown. She said: 'F*** your parades, f*** your dragons, f*** your noise. The tour guide even warned potential residents against moving there, despite it being the cheapest neighbourhood in the city. In the video posted to YouTube by a German tourist, the guide got the occasional laugh from the group and even managed to pull a chorus of 'F--- Chinatown' as the bus headed into a tunnel.

They say you should never work with children and animals, but this hospital visit proves they are a winning combination. Baby animals paid a special visit to sick children at a Melbourne hospital. For National Children's Week, a squad of cute and cuddly native wildlife were brought into Melbourne's Monash Children's Hospital to put a smile on the faces of the sick children in the wards.

Chi Fang, 42, had spent the evening drinking with friends in his home city of Wuhu in eastern China's Anhui District when his wife called and ordered him to come home immediately.  Leaving the pub as quickly as he could, Mr Chi decided to take a quick route home, passing over a bridge that would usually shave several minutes off his journey and potentially spare him a confrontation with his furious wife.