Umpires called the police after Ioana Andrada Surdeanu, a Romanian junior player, was slapped by her father, who is also her coach, after she crashed out of a girls' tournament in Israel. Miss Surdeanu, who had reached the quarter final of the International Tennis Federation Tournament, screamed when her father hit her as 'punishment' for losing against the favourite to win the competition, witnesses said.

The verbal dressing-down came as a worker for Blackfriars Medical Practice, a GP surgery offering abortion services in Southwark, confronted Abort67 members and asked them to stop filming to protect patient confidentiality. She tells the protesters: 'You are wrong in what you're doing. You don't know why people are doing what they're doing, but you want to be out here judging and then filming.'

Charlotte Bevan, who is believed to have a history of severe mental illness, walked out of hospital with four-day-old Zaani Tiana wearing hospital slippers and no coat. Miss Bevan (left, with boyfriend Pascal Malbrouck), 30, was found 1.5 miles away at the foot of a gorge late on Wednesday night, after a walker spotted her slippers and a baby's blanket on the cliff's edge. Yesterday police found her baby's body on the cliff face nearby. CCTV footage had shown Miss Bevan walking past three nurses gathered around a vending machine (top right) at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol without being stopped.

Sophie Jones, 31, from Northumberland (left and right with husband Alix and son Jaiden), said she is racked with guilt and haunted by the deaths of Frankie at four days old in 2006, and the stillbirth of her son Korey, five years later. Throughout her pregnancies, Mrs Jones continued to smoke, unaware of the dangers her habit posed to her unborn babies. She said: I never fully understood the risks of smoking while pregnant. I just thought it led to a smaller baby. How wrong I was.' She said she has now quit the habit to protect her unborn daughter, and urged other mothers-to-be to quit too.

Richard Price was horrified to find his children, Jessica, eight, and James, six, consumed the equivalent of a bag-and-a-half of sugar each during a seven day period. He made the discovery after keeping a diary of everything they had eaten and then calculated their sugar intake. He found that they were consuming sugar in everywhere: from school dinners to snacks at after-school clubs and playdates.

The man, who is believed to be Eastern European, walked into the shop in Highgate, north London, (left) and claimed his wife was pregnant and needed water. He can be seen touching the member of staff on the stomach to demonstrate his wife's baby bump (centre), before the man falls into what appears to be a trance-like state. The shopkeeper only comes to after the thief has rummaged through his pockets (right) and made off with the contents during the bizarre incident. Police have now released the CCTV footage in a bid to track down the thief.

Nick Clegg - not used to winning much these days - must surely be judged to have the best card this year, posing in a Santa hat in a series of photobooth snaps with wife Miriam in a festive jumper. David Cameron poses outside Number 10 with wife Samantha and Chelsea pensioners (top left) while Ed Miliband and wife Justine are seeing making Christmas cars with their sons (bottom left)

As the world mourns the death of the 25-year-old Australian batsman from Macksville, Meagan Simpson remembers the Phillip Hughes that she knew - her best friend. The pair bonded over late night phone calls, coffee and shopping trips and helped set each other up on dates, far away from the spotlight cast over Phillip as an international sports star. Meagan, met Phillip three years ago, when he chatted to her in a Sydney pub, and they had been inseparable ever since. Heartbreakingly, Meagan described Phillip as 'the best friend anyone could ask for'. 'He was always there when you needed him and that says a lot when someone is so famous and when he has so many other things going on. Whenever I needed him he was there.'

Siobhan Fields, 18, from Hamilton in Lanarkshire, was left devastated after her dream Marilyn Monroe tattoo was badly botched. Now the teen has finally had the offending inking covered up for good, after laser surgery failed to remove it. Bungling tattooist Dave Stewart has since been fined £300 for operating a tattoo business without a license.

The world's largest container ship has been sent off on her maiden voyage from Qingdao, a city in the Shandong province of China. The gigantic CSCL Globe is 1,312ft long, 192ft wide and 100ft deep, making it bigger than four football fields, and can carry 19,000 standard-size 20ft containers. Despite its size, Hyundai claims the the record container ship burns 20 per cent less fuel than ones with around half its capacity.

The bikini-clad victim was left bleeding and sobbing after the sudden attack, which was filmed as part of a television programme broadcast across Russia. The abruptness of the attack appears shocking, but commenters on the video uploaded to YouTube who have apparently watched the entire programme say there had been provocation leading to the attack. MailOnline had no Russian speakers on hand to translate, but it the victim and her attacker were among eight contestants apparently taking part in a 'touch the truck'-style competition to win a car.

The incredible excavation is located at a building site about 250 metres west of the Saintes amphitheatre in France (bottom left), which was once used for battles between gladiators and wild animals. Dating back to the first and second century AD, the grave site is thought to have been an important necropolis used for those massacred at the nearby stadium. Three skeletons were found with chains attached to their legs (top left), another was buried in a crude shackle around his neck (main picture and bottom left) and a child was found with a device on its wrist.

Wayne Rooney posted this image on his Instagram page, appearing to show him belting out a number along with the house band of The Place nightclub, at the Manchester United Christmas Party. In another image he appears to be standing in the crowd watching another person perform alongside girlfriend Coleen and fellow teammates Ashley Young and Darren Fletcher. Rooney's latest solo effort comes a month after he was filmed singing Lego House with Ed Sheeran in The Sir Ralph Abercromby pub in central Manchester.

EXCLUSIVE: Tracy Bantleman (top left) made headlines around the world this week when she was pictured reaching out to her husband Neil (bottom left), who was born in London and holds duel British and Canadian citizenship, as he stood behind bars awaiting trial. The 43-year-old, who teaches alongside her husband at the Jakarta International School, is adamant he is innocent but worries he will be convicted and sentenced to up to 15 years in jail because of the country's high conviction rates. She told MailOnline: 'My husband is named as having abused these boys that they don't even know. They couldn't pick them out of a crowd.'

The baby, who has yet to be named, was born to Lu Xiaoyun and her husband He Yong on their farm in Dongdong, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Ms Lu thought she had suffered a miscarriage, and while she and her husband went to hospital, the baby's grandmother buried the newborn. After a doctor told him that there was a chance that the baby was not dead at birth, the father rushed home. He dug up baby girl, who had been buried in the yard for two hours, to find that she was still alive.

Whether it's being used as a swanky party venue or a luxury bolthole, the Xhibitionist is designed to turn heads... and it even comes with its own mini version on wheels for shore excursions. Designed by Swedish-based supercar designer Eduard Gray, the slick ship's interior is decked out in Art Nouveau decor, with classic touches like a Steinway piano, a dual staircase, and fine crystal Baccarat lighting.

As Tony and Cherie Blair proved earlier this week, festive photos can go ho ho-rribly wrong. From misguided nudity to PVC Santa costumes, annual greeting cards and family portraits can put the bad taste into Christmas. We look at the cringe-inducing seasonal snaps that families wish they could forget.

The haul of 60 rusting motors, which includes Ferraris once sat in by James Fonda and a Talbot-Lago previously owned by an Egyptian king, was found on a farm in western France. Among the supercars up for sale are a Ferrari once sat in by Jane Fonda and a Talbot-Lago previously owned by Egyptian King Farouk. The cars were collected from the 1950s to the 1970s by entrepreneur Roger Baillon, who dreamt of restoring them to their former glory and displaying them in a museum, but they have laid dormant since his death 10 years ago.

It is one of the key bonding experiences for a mother and child: breastfeeding. So Heidi and Maryellen Olson, of Santa Cruz, California, wanted to share that with their first-born Sequoia. They both nurse their daughter. Maryellen (breastfeeding left), who didn't give birth, takes medication to induce lactation and boost breastmilk. Heidi (breastfeeding right) also nurses Sequoia as she lactates naturally. As a result, when two-week-old Sequioa is hungry, she doesn't have to wait around.

For the first time in more than 40 years, Nasa has launched a spaceship designed to carry astronauts far beyond Earth. The unmanned Orion test flight successfully launched at 12.05 GMT (07.05 ET) today in a landmark event witnessed by thousands at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft is now being catapulted around the Earth twice in a 4.5 hour journey, which will end when it re-enters the atmosphere later today at 20,000 mph (32,000 km/h). In the future, Nasa hopes to use the spacecraft to send astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s and ultimately take them to Mars in the 2030s.

Bronwyn Pascoe's son James was diagnosed with autism at the age of two, and suffers from high levels of anxiety and trauma which Mrs Pascoe said was caused by years of care givers repeatedly ignoring his needs. Despite persistent calls by Mrs Pascoe and her husband Allan to the Victorian Department of Human Services about the lack of support and appropriate care options, James was apprehended by police at his accommodation centre and taken to the Northern Hospital in Epping, where he has been restrained for 14 days.

History teacher Francois Dourlen, from Cherbourg in France, has used stills from cult movies including Diehard, Edward Scissorhands, and Super Mario Brothers to produce his unique artwork. Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio, who famously appeared together perched on the bow of the Titanic, are shown to be riding on a small fishing boat on a deserted beach.

Jerry Kinnaman killed the animal with a bow and arrow on a friend's property in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, as dawn broke on Tuesday. But killing the deer, which was something of a local celebrity on account of its striking appearance, has sparked a frenzy of anger and even led to a flurry of death threats against him. However, he claimed the ageing deer was already in a poor state of health and would have died over the next few months anyway, adding that there was 'not an ounce of fat on him'.

The small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa and known as the Khoisan speak in 'click' languages, and have maintained the greatest genetic diversity known among human populations.

The clever turtle confuses the tiger shark with its dizzying manoeuvres, evading the predator's jaws in fascinating footage shot off the Cocos Islands, near Costa Rica, by marine conservationist Randall Arouz. The rare video shows the clever reptile turning on its side to make itself too big for the shark's gaping mouth. Mr Arouz stumbled across the amazing moment while surveying the ocean around the islands.

Five young boys sit in a hospital waiting room in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the expression on their faces range from fear to curiosity and determination. They are all set to take part in a traditional mass-circumcision at the Tuanku Mizan Army hospital in the capital. During the mass-circumcisions, dozens of young boys of similar age undergo the ritual surgery together, and in this instance, 112 boys participated in the event organised by the Ministry of Defence for children of defence personnel.