NEW KTLA reported that residents called the Los Angeles Fire Department and LADWP to remove the cat, which had been lying on top of a utility pole in the suburb of Sunland. According to an onlooker, a worker sent by LADWP donned gloves and went up in using his truck's extending bucket to pluck the cat from the pole.

Former stripper and police trainee Kim Hollingsworth, who was this week found guilty of animal neglect, says she is the victim of a vicious hate campaign that has forced her to go into hiding. Ms Hollingsworth has told Daily Mail Australia her enemies are jealous of her previous reputation as a horse rescuer. On Wednesday, a magistrate ordered Ms Hollingsworth pay more than $100,000 in costs after convicting her of charges including starving horses on properties at Brownlow Hill and Mulgoa, west of Sydney, late last year. The one-time police trainee, whose earlier short careers as a Kings Cross stripper and prostitute were portrayed in the television series Underbelly: The Golden Mile, maintained she had done nothing wrong and would appeal against the convictions.

A determined wife has completely gone against the wishes of her concerned husband after bidding nearly $1 million at auction for an unliveable house. 81 Frederick St, St Peters has some unavoidable flaws - including being gutted by a sever fire and being right underneath a busy flightpath - however nothing could deter Sonia Chen from forking out $790,000 for the property.

An incredibly rare collection of pictures from the set of the original Star Wars film is going on show for the first time in London. The exhibition, at the British Film Institute's Southbank Atrium, features never before seen Polaroid photographs of the main actors during filming for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The material was donated by the film's continuity supervisor, Ann Skinner in a stash of treasures that includes photos of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker (left and bottom right), Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin (top right) and a copy of the original Star Wars script (inset left). It also includes a picture of Koo Stark who played Camie (centre, next to Mark Hamill) - though her scenes were not used in the final film release.

UPDATED WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The gunmen ambushed the bus early this morning as it headed for the capital Nairobi from Mandera, a town that lies on the border with Somalia. The extremists ordered the Muslims to get off the bus, before attempting to drive off with the 28 non-Muslims. But when the bus got stuck, the militants executed the prisoners before fleeing back to Somalia. After the ambush, a Shebab spokesman said the 'perishing of the crusaders' was in retribution for last week's raids on the mosques in the troubled port city of Mombasa. The death toll was confirmed by Kenya's Red Cross, which said it was attempting to retrieve the victims' bodies from the scene.

Thousands of teenagers have descended on the Gold Coast for the first official night of schoolies celebrations. However police have expressed their concern over persistent drug dealers, peddling toxic narcotics to vulnerable teens coming of age in the party town. The young teens are seen as a hot market for money thirsty drug dealers and police believe substandard drugs may be peddled due to a string of recent crack downs on the narcotics. Cameraman David Wood, pictured inset, was an unfortunate recipient of the Schoolies' bad behaviour, as he was spat on while he tried to cover the chaos.

Leah Welsh, (right) who lives on the shore of Long Island, found the black-and-white photograph (left) on her lawn in 2012 after the storm had devastated the East Coast. It shows a smiling woman in white pinning a boutonniere on an older man wearing a bow-tie and tuxedo. And two years after she first tired to find the owners of the picture, relatives of those photographed have now come forward.

Aimee West says she refuses to have any emotion towards her fiance's killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, centre, saying that if she thinks about them, it means they have won. Miss West was 3,500 miles away in Afghanistan when she heard that her partner had been hacked to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London.

For Elle Watmough, it would be an understatement to say the prospect of having a child with the love of her life is exciting. But the 25-year-old, who began trying for a baby through IVF since she became engaged to NRL player Anthony Watmough nearly four years ago, has been enduring years of physical and emotional pain. Having kept her struggles private for the past few years, the former model and her husband who live in Dee Why - northern Sydney - made the decision to share their story on a blog on Friday.

NEW SAS troops with sniper rifles and heavy machine guns have killed hundreds of Islamic State extremists in a series of deadly quad-bike ambushes inside Iraq. Defence sources indicated last night that soldiers from the elite fighting unit have eliminated 'up to eight terrorists per day' in the daring raids, carried out during the past four weeks. Until now, it had been acknowledged only that the SAS was operating in a reconnaissance role in Iraq and was not involved in combat. But The Mail on Sunday has learned that small groups of soldiers are being dropped into IS territory in RAF Chinook helicopters, right, - to take on the enemy. Thee troops are also equipped with quad bikes which they often use to sneak up on the enemy.

When John Prescott revealed his struggle with bulimia, no doubt hoping to help others blighted by the condition, the world laughed. But when Victoria's Secret launched an advertising campaign called The Perfect Body, showcasing the variety of underwear it sells, there was an uproar. Complainants said the advert played on women's insecurities, sent out damaging messages, and failed to celebrate diversity. Can you imagine if men made a similar response to the David Gandy posters for Marks & Spencer? In a controversial new book, writer Peter Lloyd claims men are the real victims of sexism.

A photographer is challenging people to spot his black and white border collie in a series of Where's Waldo-style images. Unlike the conventional cluttered mess of red and white stripes, Andrew Knapp's work is serene and spare, with seemingly nothing in the scene to hide behind. Nonetheless, his beloved pet Momo is concealed within every one. One shot seemingly shows an empty stretch of beach with just a thin yellow beach stand in the frame. In another, Momo co-stars with a tartan-skirted lacrosse team. And his monochrome coat is artfully disguised in one shot of yellow and orange autumn trees. Knapp, 31, has been carting Momo around his native Ontario, Canada, for almost two years now, building an extensive collection of visual puzzles. He is hoping the latest batch is his most challenging yet.

He is currently gearing up for a series of test matches in Australia against India, but cricketer Shane Watson has put his Sutherland house on the market. The couple have put their five bedroom water-front Caringbah South home on sale for $3.95million, which features a stunning pool overlooking the water, a huge built-in wardrobe and spectacular views.

It comes after the controversial viral clip by feminist group HollaBack, which charted the number of cat calls one woman received over 10 hours. But this undercover investigation had a different message: promoting prostate cancer awareness. Men are urged to 'check out your own butt' in the playful sketch which tallies the number of people looking. At one point, two hasidic Jewish men seemingly balk in delight at the view before them. An elderly woman looks intrigued. One man leaps out from behind his girlfriend to get a better look. Each time another head turns, a 'ding' noise sounds and the face is enlarged. In total, 59 people - including a billboard and a couple of dubious glances - are clocked. A message then flashes up on the screen: Happy Movember #CheckYourButt. November is Men's Health Awareness Month, for which many men around the world grow mustaches. The 'check your butt' campaign, similar to the 'coppa feel' campaign, is encouraging men to check the skin between their bottom and groin for a lump that could be cancerous.

The controversial work of forensics who use the skulls of murder victims who have been obliterated or decomposed to form facial sculptures has been captured as part of a new photo exhibit in New York. New York photographer Arne Svenson spent four years traveling the United States and Mexico to capture the images. Because forensics build the reconstruction around the actual skull, they have to be deconstructed after investigators photograph them, so the sculptures themselves are rare. Facial reconstruction is controversial because it is not legally recognized as a technique for positive identification, so it is not admissible as expert testimony.

A video of women competing in Moscow's Russkaya Pesnya theatre this week shows finalists dancing on stage and Tatiana Baitova being awarded the crown, after fending off 49 other hopefuls.

After years of pestering dealers to get his hands on a particular Bill Henson photograph, art collector and gallery owner Peter Maddison received a tip-off from a good friend. 'A mate who was working with Kodak called one day to tell me Bill Henson's got a problem: He's got a flood in his darkroom and he needs money to clean it up. Today might just be your day,' Maddison told the Daily Mail. And it was. The Henson Triptych, purchased by Maddison for $60,000 at the time, is among 180 photographs now on exhibit - and up for sale - at Maddison's Badger & Fox Gallery in Sydney's Surry Hills.

The gory preview of shoot-em-up film, Hardcore, will seem oddly familiar to anyone who has spent hours playing computer games such as the hugely popular Call of Duty. The film, which stars District 9 actor Sharlto Copley, has been 18 months in the making and now its creator, Ilya Naishuller, is hoping to raise £160,000 to pay for the post-production special-effects needed to make it cinema worthy. Mr Naishuller said: 'I am proud to say that you have never seen anything like it. It's the first action film to be shot 100 per cent from the hero's perspective.' Hardcore is also the first full-length movie to be shot using the Go Pro camera - a device increasingly popular with extreme sports fans. The movie tells the story of Henry - a cyborg who must rescue his wife and creator from a telekinetic tyrant by rescuing people and killing enemies by the dozen.

Pictures of free running world champion Tim Shieff show him clambering across buildings in Oxford Street and Bond Street in central London while wearing no clothes. Mr Shieff clambered across rooftops and dangled off bridges for the pictures which will be sold as prints to raise money for the Jamie Oliver (inset with Mr Shieff) Food Foundation charity. The photographs were taken by fellow free running expert Jason Paul, who had to clamber up the buildings himself to take the pictures, often without permission of the buildings' owners. The dangerous shoot put Mr Shieff in 'life or death' situations as his strength was put to the test, he said.

Seattle man Jason Hakala sent a weather balloon 90,000 feet in the air that played with a GoPro camera and his iPhone attached, and captured a video (top right) of a marriage proposal from space. He used a GPS tracker to find where the balloon landed, and the following day played the video to his longtime girlfriend, Stella Yee, who he first met in high school. Hakala, a video producer for The Cut, recently uploaded a clip of the big question and has quickly gone viral.