A fight broke out at Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria, California on Wednesday, and six students were arrested. Students who witnessed the fight say it got out of hand after a Sheriff's deputy punched a teen girl in the face (video of the incident was posted online, above). Dozens of police officers responded to the incident, and a helicopter circled overhead at one point, as the school was sent into lock down.

Kevin Cotter, 41, from Arizona, was crushed when his wife of 12 years walked out in 2009, taking all her possessions except the white silk gown. When he asked her to take the dress back, she refused and told Kevin to 'do what the f*** he liked with it'. So he did - and for the last four years he has come up with a series brilliant ideas and filled a book with them.

Up to three more feet of snow will pile on beleaguered Buffalo today as a second storm hit western New York, bringing with it dangerous thundersnow. As much as eight feet could pile up by the time the storm passes. Authorities have already been waging a losing battle to clear away the incredible mounds and the the additional wintry blast will make it even harder for the region to return to normal life. Dozens of truckers and other motorists remain stranded the New York State Thruway, a vital highway between western New York and the rest of the state. Two stretches of the expressway, totaling 46 miles, remain closed because they are still packed with snow two and a half days after the storm first hit.

The duchess, whose fortune is estimated to be worth in excess of £500m, is Spain's richest woman. Twice-widowed, she raised eyebrows in 2011 when she wed Alfonso Diez (right), her third husband who was 25 years her junior. A relative of Winston Churchill, the duchess, pictured top left with her daughter Eugenia, shared toys with Queen Elizabeth while living in England as a girl. Pictured bottom left is the Duchess after marrying Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artacoz in 1947, a wedding considered the last great feudal wedding in Spain.

Ruslana Korshunova (left) was found to have committed suicide by jumping from a Manhattan building. She was a member of a Russian cult called Rose of the World. MailOnline can reveal that its leader Vladislav Novgorodtsev and his wife Tatiana are living a lavish lifestyle of holidays which inlcudes posing in a Ferrari (right), apparently in Monaco, and in front of a yacht in St Tropez, in the south of France. Novgorodtsev had claimed the cult had been closed down after the model's death but MailOnline found it seemed to be business as usual.

Michael Phelps' (right) proclaimed girlfriend Taylor Lianne Chandler (left) has just made a shocking admission. In a post on her Facebook, Chandler is revealing she was actually born a boy, and named David Roy Fitch at birth. As a teenager however Chandler went on testosterone blockers and had her name changed and then, in her early twenties, underwent corrective surgery to get rid of her male genitalia.

A picture has emerged which apparently shows Frank Ancona, 'Imperial Wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights' at a pro-Darren Wilson demonstration in Ferguson, MO. The group on the left, of KKK members, has been matched by 'hacktivist' group Anonymous, to pictures of a pro-Darren Wilson demonstration. They claim three KKK men are

Haifa Wehbe (pictured) was appearing on a live episode of Arab Star Academy, a pan-Arab TV music talent contest, donning a figure-hugging long black dress with revealing sheer panels. More than two million people watched the seductive performance and many women took to social media to criticise Wehbe for her racy choice of outfit. Commenting on footage of the performance on social media, many wrote 'scandalous' with one YouTube user writing: 'Art has limits and you, Haifa, have crossed the line'. Most of the negative reactions on social media came from women in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Carla Ferrigno, wife of The Hulk star, is coming forward to say the comic legend tried to sexually assault her in 1967 when she was still in her teens. The former Playboy bunny was 'picked up' by a nice looking guy at the airport who asked her for a date and suggested he introduce her to his friend, Bill Cosby. Carla says Cosby tried to ply her with drinks and forcibly kissed her at his home while his wife Camille was present in the home. .She never told Lou about what happened because 'I didn't think my husband needed to know. I'm coming forward. One more nail in the coffin'

Although George Travis' beloved wife of nearly 50 years passed away last year, she is never far from his side. Every day, the 88-year-old widower from Shreveport, Louisiana eats his breakfast at the same restaurant and places a photograph of his wife, Billy Mae, on the counter. 'I bring her with me everywhere I go,' he told KSLA . 'I never go anywhere without my precious wife.' The couple met on a blind date nearly 50 years ago and were inseperable. She passed away in July 2013, aged 83.

Blake Bortles (left), a rookie quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, has split with his long-time girlfriend Lindsey Duke (right) and more people may have heard of her than they have of Bortles.The beautiful, blonde model was profiled on ESPN and has since seen a surge in her online following to rival that of her NFL bound beau.During the NFL draft Duke's name showed six-million results on Google. Bortles search championed 225,000 results and while it's an impressive number it pails in Comparison to Duke's.

When Jay Leno invited Cpt Ethan LaBerge, from Kentucky, for a ride in a shiny muscle car, the soldier had no idea that he would walk away from the experience as the owner of 2015 Dodge Hellcat. LaBerge, who has been severely wounded in Afghanistan, became the subject of Today Show's 'Shine a Light' segment featuring Mr Leno, which aired Wednesday.

The winning shot of a rare Asiatic cheetah (pictured) was taken by a trap owned by the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) in the Naybandan Wildlife Refuge in South Khorasan Province. The society was awarded £3,000 ($4,700) prize money as part of the BBC Wildlife Magazine Camera-trap contest. More than 877 images made the final cut, which were then judged by a panel of wildlife and photography experts. Other winning entries included a black rhino snapped in Zambia, a red fox in London and a European lynx feeding on its prey in Switzerland.

James Tyrwhitt-Drake from the University of Victoria in Canada has created a high-definition video of planet Earth from space (animation shown). In it Earth is seen rotating with the sun sweeping across the surface. He used images from a Russian weather satellite to make the 4K video. Elektro-L satellite sits above the Indian Ocean at a height of 25,000 miles. Every 30 minutes the satellites takes a 121 megapixel image of Earth. The images are used for scientific purposes to observe the planet.

With the holiday season right around the corner, children will be opening plenty of new toys. A Boston-based group has released its annual list of the toys parents should avoid giving. World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H) released its '10 Worst Toys' list, which it has done every holiday season since 1973. The list chronicles the organization's choice for the most dangerous toys on the market.

Jonathan Michael Hearn (right) and Sabrina Limon (left with her husband) were both arrested on Wednesday for the murder of her husband, 38-year-old Robert Limon. Mr Limon, a rail worker with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, was shot multiple times in his upper body on August 17 inside the building where he worked in Tehachapi, California. After his death his wife, with whom he had two children, expressed her grief on her Facebook page, calling him an 'AMAZING man' who 'will never be forgotten'.

The polar bear was forced to make a retreat away from the frenzied sled dog who was baring its teeth and growling after approaching the animal in the Canadian town of Churchill. The incredible moment was captured on camera by Italian photographer Alberto Panizza, who says the dog went into a frenzied survival mode when it saw the large bear approach him.

Alaska-based Rachel Munger gave her husband Dale the surprise of his life when she came up with an innovative way to tell him that she was expecting - and recorded it for all to see. After opening a package containing hints about the good news, Dale's delighted face caused such hilarity that it has now been beamed around the world.

A family from Alabama have spent the last 30 years building a fairytale castle in woods in the state. Mosher Castle, the Fairhope home of artist Dean Mosher and his wife, Pagan, is one of Alabama's most unusual residences. The fanciful house comes with spires, a turret and a moat and drawbridge. It serves as both a studio and a home.

Android Asuna was a star attraction at Tokyo Designers' Week showcase earlier this month and she is one of a series of geminoids, as their inventor dubs them, that are ripe for commercialisation. Hyper-human robots that can read the news (pictured) and act as receptionists have already been made. Their creators believe that within a decade fully independent androids will exist that can walk, talk and 'think' by themselves. Experts are also predicting that a future where people have sexual relationships with androids are not so far-fetched.

The remarkable observations were made by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which found an eerie alignment between enormous interstellar objects called quasars. Quasars are galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centres. They shine more brightly than all the stars in the rest of their host galaxies put together. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances stretching billions of light-years (artist's impression pictured). The researchers estimate that the probability that these alignments are simply the result of chance is less than one per cent.

Peggy Sue Evers,right, married Don Fulton from Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2013 after convincing him that she was Grammy-winning bluegrass singer Krauss, left. She then drained Fulton's life savings and got him to sign his $245,000 home over to her. On January she pleaded guilty to theft by deception and was sentenced to eight years of probation and ordered to pay $73,000 in restitution. An arrest warrant was issued for Evers in September after she missed a court date for violating her probation. She was arrested at a New Mexico motel in October, where she was registered under a false name, and returned her to Arkansas.

Ana Pedraza and Rafael Lopez feed their half-dozen pet hutias coffee (pictured top left and right), rum, vegetables and crackers and claim the giant rat-like creatures make for wonderful companions. The Cuban couple, who live about 25miles east of the capital Havana, saved a hutia they found languishing on the roadside about five years ago. After adopting it, they found it a mate and have now bred a small family which travel with them across the island on car journeys (bottom left).

Storm chaser Mike Hollingshead from Nebraska has captured incredible photos of 'bubble clouds' in the sky (shown). Known as mammatus clouds, the amazing structures form behind storms. They take the appearance of hundreds of little balls caused by turbulence within a cumulonimbus cloud. While most clouds have flat bottoms, mammatus have round pouches that are caused by sinking air. 'They look even more amazing when there is good sunset light on them,' explained Mr Hollingshead.

Oxford fitness plans to host a pair of two-hour races on the machine in Santiago, Chile. The giant machine it is 5 meters high, 3 meters wide and 6 meters long. During the race, speed increases in increments of just over half a mile per hour all the way up to roughly 10 miles per hour, or a 6-minute per mile pace - until just one runner is left.

Brian Finke, from New York, documented America's oldest federal law enforcement agency by following their daily lives as they transport criminals, protect witnesses and track down some of the most dangerous fugitives in the United States. He called the experience his own version of the TV show 'Cops'.

A new map of 151 countries has revealed exactly which parts of the world deliver long and happy lives for their citizens, within the environmental limits of the planet. And the results may surprise you, with Costa Rica, Colombia and Vietnam topping the league. The UK features at position 44 - higher than Germany (47), Spain (62), Canada (65), Australia (76) and the US (105). The map was compiled using data from the latest Happy Planet Index (HPI) - a global measure of sustainable wellbeing. The HPI claims it 'measures what matters', rather than wealth. Each of the three component measures - life expectancy, the level of well-being experienced and ecological footprint - is given a traffic-light score based on thresholds for good (green), middling (amber) and bad (red) performance. These scores are combined to an expanded six-colour traffic light for the overall HPI score, where, to achieve bright green - the best of the six colours, a country would have to perform well on all three individual components.

Five-year-old orphan Devine has been stranded in Liberia and separated from his younger sisters Faith and Favor, main, after Ebola caused his adoption by an American couple to be put on indefinite hold. Tessa and Joel Sanborn of Washington state, inset, were due to take all three children from the Acres of Hope children's home in Liberia but Devine had to stay in the country due to a state of emergency imposed to contain the deadly virus.

The images of eight-year-old Doberman Arnaque were snapped by pet photographer Catherin Arsenault of Quebec, Canada, and show her pet licking his lips after enjoying a treat of peanut butter. Ms Arsenault has been taking pictures of Arnaque since he was just a 10-week-old puppy and says although most people are surprised when they first see the photos, most find them funny and then laugh.

EXCLUSIVE: Once the pet of Malaysian royalty, now Katerina is said to be the loneliest orangutan in the world as she pines away her days in a miserable zoo with no companion, no toys, no leafy trees and only a concrete block to sleep on. Visitors to throw junk food at her and have been caught forcing her to smoke a cigarette, like Tori the orangutan in Solo, Indonesia (bottom left). Katerina has no bedding and is forced to sit on cold concrete everyday for at least 12 hours after the Lipis Zoo in Malaysia is closed (main picture and top left).

A Minnesota zoo is welcoming the arrival of its first lowland gorilla baby. The male primate was born Wednesday morning at Como Zoo in St. Paul weighing a healthy 4lbs. Video footage shows the infant being lovingly cradled in the hands of his mother, 12-year-old Alice, in an off-exhibit area. The first-time mother appears to be exhausted as she lays restless on the ground.

A sinkhole between 100ft and 130ft wide has opened several miles to the east of a potash mine in ther Perm region of Russia as 2,000 miners have been urged to stay at home. The mine is owned by the world's largest producer of potash - a chemical compound used in fertiliser. One bank has estimated that the producer could lose almost half of its output thanks to the accident.