Chloe Knapton (left), 21, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was forced to undergo surgery after a man smashed down her car window with a bottle, causing the broken glass to become embedded in her neck. The incident took place when Ms Knapton was driving home from a night out on Thursday last week. Ms Knapton was driving with her friend, who was in a separate car, when she came across a bike lying in the middle of the road. Her friend got out of her vehicle to move the bike. But as she left the car, a man waiting at a nearby bus shelter came hurtling towards the woman with a glass bottle. The man then hurled abuse at the girl, before walking up to the Ms Knapton's car and smashing the bottle against her window, shattering glass all over Ms Knapton. She lost a tooth and was left with deep cuts to her face, neck and shoulders (right and inset).

Oskar Groening (pictured today and as an SS officer, inset), 93, is being tried in Lueneburg on 300,000 counts of 'accessory to murder' of deported Hungarian Jews who were sent to the gas chambers, and faces up to 15 years jail. Auschwitz survivors and the relatives of those murdered yesterday spoke of their pain, pride and duty in confronting this 'cog' in the machinery of genocide.

Ed Miliband last night repeatedly refused to admit he had got it wrong over the past five years about jobs, crime and the effect of tuition fees. Labour has previously confidently predicted that the Coalition's austerity programme would see unemployment and crime soar, and the number of poor students going to university fall. But, in each case, the opposite has happened - and last night the party's leader was challenged over whether this called into question the judgment of him and his team.

With the general election just over two weeks away, political parties and retailers are jumping on the memorabilia bandwagon offering gifts and everyday items to promote - and sometimes mock - their cause. Clockwise from top left: A joke David Cameron shot glass, satirical Nick Clegg underwear, the SNP's high visibility jacket, a tartan picnic blanket from the SNP, official Conservative cupcake cases and Ukip's logo pendant.

A mysterious black pair of boots (pictured left, circled right) that appear to be materialising behind the little girl in this photograph has sparked speculation about a samurai ghost online. This picture was snapped late last year by tourists in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. But according to the Reddit user who posted it online, there was no one behind the little girl at the time. There are suggestions the boots could be the spooky visage of a ghostly samurai because there were purportedly 'several sumarai tombs nearby'. But many are convinced it is a trick of the light.

The 28-year-old posted pictures to the image sharing app while behind the wheel of his car in the city of Fremont close to San Francisco, where he is currently in training for his next fight. It comes after the boxer posted another video to his Facebook page appearing to show him driving in Beverley Hills and Rodeo Drive.

The man was trampled and gored during a fiesta in the Spanish town of Teulada after being knocked to the ground by one of the bulls and being unable to scramble to safety in time. The annual bullrunning event takes place between April 8 and 16, and involves turning several of the large beasts loose on the streets. Runners then tease the animals, then try to escape to safety behind wooden pallets or metal bars before being gored.

Ali Gordon, 26, and Lydia Millen, 27, from Milton Keynes, have been dating for two years after meeting via Instagram. Ali has been the driving force behind the overhaul, helping Lydia to ditch her bad lifestyle habits. Lydia, 27, explained: 'I was so unhealthy [before I met Ali]. I smoked up to 20 cigarettes a day, binge drank at weekends and my diet was just awful I didn't have a clue and was majorly under eating. I saw that Ali looked at his body a completely different way than I did and I almost felt a little jealous, I wanted to look at mine that way. So he started schooling me on training, nutrition and I fell in love with the lifestyle. I've now been smoke free for two years and I can't remember the last time I had a drink.'

The gang posing as rich Italian businessmen built the cabinet (right) so one of them could hide inside a large void in the middle and secretly switch a haul of Euros for fake money (top right) during a deal. But the four-man gang were caught when police swooped on a room at a hotel near the Trafford Centre in Manchester - and found them busy assembling the wooden furniture ahead of their con. Police suspected they planned to keep the real money in a briefcase inside a drawer of the cabinet and show it to a wealthy jeweller at a pre-arranged meeting ahead of a deal for gold bullion. At Manchester Crown Court, Antonino Ballistreri (top left), 45, Luigi Arcuri (centre left), 73, and Nikolic Giuliano (bottom left), 37, were each jailed for two years and eight months.

Can a child recognise their mother simply through touch and scent? In a heart-warming video made in Australia that will have you reaching for the tissues, six real-life women and their children are gathered to find out the answer. The sweet youngsters are blindfolded and asked to pick their mum out of the group, while their mothers can be seen waiting anxiously to see whether their child would recognise them.

The video shows a clawed creature aggressively biting through the cage with a visibly bleeding mouth (left) before ripping the metal wire apart with its limbs (top left, bottom right). The disturbing video, which apparently comes from Shenzhen Reservoir in China, has been the subject of heated online debates over the species of the mysterious creature. Some users have claimed the clip depicts a 'water monster' from Chinese folklore. Others believe it's a Malaysian Bear who suffers from alopecia, a disease which causes baldness from areas of the body where it normally grows.

Curt Almond (pictured left and right), 26, from Bristol, spent at least £40 a week buying new Calvin Klein boxers so that he could slip into a new 'crisp pair' every day of the week. During his year-long addiction, Mr Almond spent £2,000 on 365 pairs of new boxers - which were then thrown into the bin after just one wear. As his budget became tighter, he had to resort to buying cheaper pairs, including novelty boxers at Christmas time. But after wiping out most of his savings, Mr Almond realised that it was 'bankruptcy or boxers' - and that he needed to wean himself off his addiction. He has now reverted back to the normal routine of wearing and washing his boxers several times over - and has saved himself thousands in the process.

Traffic had started to build up on the M58 around Switch Island on Merseyside, when a Mercedes tried to beat the jam by undertaking but was repeatedly blocked by another driver. The swerving goes back and forwards for over a minute before both drivers wind down their windows to confront each other with neither letting up.

Journalist Harry Mount met the nimble-fingered James Freedman, a pickpocket expert who exhibits his 'skills' in a one-man show. In their brief encounter, the performer showed just how quickly someone can become a victim of theft, lifting Harry's watch, wallet and phone without him even noticing. For years he's been giving pickpocket demonstrations to teach people how not to become victims of street crime. He has also advised the Metropolitan Police and taught the 'art' to actors - showing the boy who played the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's film Oliver Twist how to pick a pocket or two.

The photo of Elisha Wilson Beach, from Los Angeles, has been shared more than 25,000 times on Facebook and liked more than 211,000 times, but has divided option with mothers around the world. The mother-of-two defended the image against critics who've called it 'unhygienic', saying: 'Motherhood ain't pretty but then that's what makes it so beautiful.' Pictured from left, Elisha Wilson Beach breastfeeding her daughter while on the toilet and right, Twitter comments about the image.

Father-of-two Paul Doyle (top right), 56, moved his family into an £820,000 home (bottom right) in Altrincham, Cheshire, despite having never worked and living life 'on tick' and on incapacity handouts. Doyle - described as 'well-known and colourful character' in his native Salford - put down a £200,000 deposit and obtained a £600,000 mortgage by falsely claiming his wife Jeanette, 49, worked as a company executive. But his family were probed after scandalising the leafy neighbourhood in Altrincham where his teenage son regularly rode quad bikes around the streets and later received an Asbo for terrorising other local children who complained of being robbed and beaten up. Pictured (left): Police raid his home in July 2014.

A kestrel and a barn owl repeatedly lunged at each other while trying to gain mastery of a nesting box so they could lay eggs and rear their young in safety. And despite the owl's cuddly reputation, it came out the victor, forcing the kestrel to seek an alternative home for itself and its mate. The fight was captured on video by wildlife photographer Robert Fuller, using a camera he set up inside a 13ft-high elm tree stump in his garden in Thixendale, North Yorkshire.

A worrying new trend dubbed the '#kyliejennerchallenge' is sweeping social media, encouraging teens (pictured) to blow their lips up to epic proportions using bottles or shot glasses. The reportedly painful method involves participants placing their mouth over the opening of a cup, jar or shot glass and sucking in until the air vacuum causes their lips to swell up - all in the hopes of emulating Kylie Jenner's bee-stung pout (right).

Lisa Skinner shot a male home invader - her estranged husband, Bradley Skinner (top left), after he broke into the house she shared with her mother in Huntsville. He was armed with a gun and knife. When officers from Huntsville police arrived on the scene they demanded that she drop her weapon but when she turned toward them with the gun in her hand, at least one officer fired at her.

Rhiannon Langley (above, left to right), from Melbourne, is sharing every step of her cosmetic surgery in Thailand with hundreds of thousands of strangers, who can follow along on the hashtag created just for the event, RhiannonGetsRhino. Miss Langley, 24, is currently in Bangkok recovering at a hotel post-surgery, but has remained active on her social media accounts, posting videos on Snapchat and sharing snaps on Instagram. She speaks exclusively to Daily Mail Australia about why she decided to share her experience online.

Authorities warned residents in Sydney and up and down the east coast of NSW to stay indoors as the worst storm in decades lashed towns and cities already deluged after more than 36 hours straight of rain and wind. The bodies of three elderly people, a woman and two men, were found in Dungog, in the NSW Hunter region north of Sydney, which has been smashed by the heaviest rainfall in 100 years. In nearby Belmont, yachts broke their moorings and smashed into shorefront homes (right). The are was among those hardest hit hard by the cyclonic winds and heavy rainfall, with at least four homes swept away (inset) as the Paterson River broke its banks. Elsewhere in NSW, people were rescued from floodwaters, at least 180,000 homes and businesses were left without power, and falling trees damaged buildings and cars in the wild weather. NSW Premier Mike Baird urged people to leave work early to avoid the weather and to be patient about delays amid road chaos. Some people defied the warnings, including two teenagers who donned wetsuits and clung to ropes to ride the surf crashing over pool walls at Bronte baths (main).

Father-of-two Shiraz Nawaz (inset) said he felt lucky to be alive after fire shot out of the manhole mere seconds after he had walked over it in a busy street in Shirley, Solihull in the West Midlands. The 36-year-old had been walking to his local takeaway when he heard buzzing from the ground just a few feet behind him. He turned around just in time to see a massive plume of black smoke followed by huge flames shooting up from the ground.

Identical Perth twins Anna and Lucy DeCinque won the title after they fascinated the producers of a Japanese television prank show who discovered them on YouTube and invited them to participate. The 28-year-old's, who share the same job, bed, eating and beauty habits, bed and boyfriend, competed against Japan's most famous set of twins, but found them no match. Even a computer failed to spot the difference between Anna and Lucy, who only once tried to pursue their individuality when they were 12 years old (centre inset), a faze which which didn't last long.

Heather Mack (pictured left in main and top right) cried as she was jailed for 10 years for the 'sadistic' murder of her mother today. Her sentence came just minutes after her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer (right in main and bottom right in main), 21, was jailed for 18 years at a court in Denpasar, Bali and he violently lashed out at photographers. Mack, 19, from Chicago was found guilty of helping Schaefer stuff the body of her mother into a suitcase.

A father who walked out of the secretive New Zealand Christian commune Gloriavale, where everyone wears blue uniforms and birth control is non-existent, said living in the community was like being in a scary thriller movie. In March 2013, Elijah Overcomer, 26, and his wife Rosanna, 29, (pictured main in their outfits, daughter Honour on the right) walked out of the town for the last time after Mr Overcomer 'asked too many questions'. Shortly after leaving, he watched the 2004 psychological thriller film The Village (inset) - where residents of a town are afraid of the 'wicked' outside world - and he realised there were strong similarities between the two - especially in how they thought the outside world was evil.

German scientists using Esa's Rosetta spacecraft (illustrated top right) captured stunning images of a dust jet erupting from comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko (right). The jet may have been caused by a wave of heat reaching ice trapped under the surface, causing an explosion of material. But it is unusual, because so far such activity has only been spotted on the day-side of the comet (bottom left) - not the night, like this.

The Asian elephant appears to have a huge smile on its face while throwing dry mud onto its back on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. The practice isn't all child's play, however. Dusting is a natural, and sometimes critical, behaviour designed to protect their skin from insect bites and sunburn - welcome relief in an area where temperatures today reached 37C (100F).

Joelison Fernandes da Silva, 28, developed gigantism as a child and his rapidly soaring height forced him to drop out of school due to bullying and then refuse to leave the family house for years. But true happiness eventually found the shy Brazilian - who has come to be known as 'the gentle giant' - in the form of Evem Medeiros, a 5ft 21-year-old woman he met online. Pictured left and centre: Joelison and Evem, pictured right: Joelison with his mother Ivanilde.

Jessica Carey drove nearly four hours to Washington to surprise Patty Lawing (left in white jumper) with the tattoo (inset, left). Her grandmother's emotional reaction was captured on camera and the footage posted online. Patty's heartwarming display was filmed by a relative, showing her overcome with emotion at the artwork (right). It showed her grandmother as a young woman, with long red hair, wearing a smart blouse and jacket (portrait, inset right). Jessica said: 'I had driven up that morning with both my kids to surprise her with the visit as well as the tattoo. She lives about three and a half hours from me. The video started recording within minutes of walking in through the front door.'

The two adults and four children (main picture) were spotted riding through the city of San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina's north-western province of Tucuman. A man was pictured holding the handlebars of the bike while three young children straddled the petrol tank in front of him and a girl and a woman sat on the seat behind him. It comes just weeks after a similar pictured (top right) emerged of a family of seven riding on the same motorbike though the city of Junin in Argentina's eastern province of Buenos Aires.