A second spectacular blast from the Calbuco volcano (inset) in southern Chile has covered nearby towns and villages in a thick layer of ash (pictured). Yesterday's dramatic explosion was the first time the active volcano had erupted in over four decades, shooting ash and smoke over six miles into the air. There are now serious fears the ash could contaminate water supplies and cause severe respiratory damage to locals. 4,000 people have already abandoned their homes in the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt, 18 miles away from the source of the eruption which one local described as 'an atom bomb'.

The shocking images were taken in ISIS-held territory in the province of Homs and show the two accused men being savagely executed by up to four jihadis. Huge, bloodthirsty crowds are seen in the desert clearing where the group of executioners made a display of hugging the blindfolded couple (top and bottom left) and telling them they were forgiven of their 'sins', before pummeling them to death with hundreds of fist-sized rocks (main image).

Barholm Castle, in Dumfries and Galloway is on the market for £695,000, which means owners Janet and John Brennan will lose a six-figure sum after spending thousands on renovations. The couple bought the crumbling castle for just £65,000 in 1997 and spent years chasing planning permission and carrying out a restoration. Now it boast of four luxury bedrooms, as well as a kitchen that was formerly a vaulted chamber and a living room, that was converted from a great hall.

A series of images showing the heartbreak, brutality and horror of the Ebola virus as it tore through West African communities (pictured left) has taken the top prize at the world's largest international photography competition. The Sony World Photography Award winners were announced at a gala in London last night, where dozens of stunning photographs showcased people, communities and landscapes from around the world. Pictured top right is a pyrograph on Mount Kenya, while bottom right is a group of children playing football in one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Argentina.

Wegasi Nebiat is now on her way to Athens (pictured left) after she miraculously survived a shipwreck off the coast of Rhodes on Monday. The image of the 24-year-old being pulled from the sea (pictured right) was shared around the world, and speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail she has revealed how she feels lucky to be alive following the disaster. Her family paid more than $10,000 to smuggle Wegasi into Europe, but the boat crashed in rocky waters, throwing its passengers overboard and killing three people. After spending three days in hospital with suspected pneumonia, Wegasi says she now hopes to start a new life in Europe Two Syrian men were arrested after the shipwreck and prosecutors are considering whether the charge the men with manslaughter.

Raising a pint to the patron saint of England, Nigel Farage (pictured on the campaign trail yesterday) is himself the toast of a considerable chunk of the electorate in Thanet South. His appearance on an impromptu walkabout down Ramsgate High Street causes even more head-turning, more selfies, more spilling out of pubs, more heckling and more chaos than the appearance of Boris Johnson a few hours earlier, writes ROBERT HARDMAN.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: he Wire actor Dominic West and his wife Catherine Fitzgerald (pictured) are reluctantly selling her ancestral home in West Limerick for £4.6 million because of the cost of its upkeep. The castle is the home of the Knights of Glin. West's wife Catherine is the daughter of the 29th and last Knight of Glin, Desmond Fitzgerald, who died in 2011.

Samuel Kvarzell (top left), Erik Naslund (top right), Eric Jansberger (bottom left) and Markus Asberg (bottom right) subdued an enraged homeless man who was viciously beating another rider on the train. They stopped the violence and held the attacker until the NYPD could arrive. The friends sprang into action after a frantic conductor yelled over the intercom: 'Are there any police officers on the train?'

The power tool (left) was used by the gang to cut a hole into the basement of the safety deposit centre (inset), where they raided 72 security boxes before escaping with wheelie bins full of precious gems. The photograph of the Hilti DD350 drill was released tonight by Scotland Yard as the officer in charge of the investigation said the crime had been carried out by an 'Ocean's 11 type team' (pictured in CCTV footage). Police are offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the raid.

Jeremy Clarkson (left), James May (centre) and Richard Hammond (right) were today pictured together for the first time since Clarkson was axed from the show - prompting speculation that they are planning their next career move. The three presenters held a three-hour meeting at Clarkson's home in west London this afternoon with Andy Wilman (inset, centre), executive producer of the BBC's hugely-popular motoring show. The meeting is likely to worry Corporation bosses, who now face the prospect of the hit TV show re-launching with a rival broadcaster. It came after May ruled out returning to Top Gear without Clarkson, insisting it would be 'lame' with a new presenter in place of his sacked co-host. He said the BBC would be 'stupid' to try a version of the programme with 'a surrogate Jeremy', Hammond and himself - adding that the idea was a 'non-starter'. His comments have raised the chances of the show returning next year with a completely new presenting team, given that both May and Hammond saw their contracts finish last month.

Bettie Jo, from Houston, Texas, tipped the scales at 47 stone (660lbs) but found it difficult to lose weight without the support of her husband Josh, she reveals on tonight's My 600lb Life on TLC. The 24-year-old (right) was housebound and unable to tend to her own needs and lived off a diet of fried chicken. Bettie Jo, who now weighs 35st 8lbs (500lbs) thanks to surgery, reveals on the show that Josh (pictured with her left) had become her 'caretaker' - helping her go to the toilet and into the shower, and putting powder between her rolls of flesh afterwards to stop her skin from chafing.

The male contestants slaughtered the animal after two days without food, while the show's producers believed it was a more common species, only to later discover it was endangered. A spokesman for Channel 4, which produces the programme, said the island used, in Panama, was scouted out before the contestants were turned loose. While common caiman crocodiles were discovered, it was not known that the rarer American crocodile called the island home until after it was dead.

While preparing to take ten GCSEs this summer at one of Britain's most elite girls' schools, Gabriella, from Godstone, Surrey (right), is wearing a tight corset in an attempt to whittle down her already tiny waist. Like many of her peers who also follow the corset trend, Gabriella's inspiration is not to emulate the upright posture of Victorian ladies who wore corsets so tight they'd faint and permanently deform their rib cages. Instead, she's using one to try to force her body into the same extreme hour-glass shape as her favourite celebrity Kim Kardashian, who has posted pictures of herself on social media using corsets to 'waist-train' her body to ever more cartoonish proportions. Pictured left, 27-year-old Joanna Costa, who wears a corset for up to four hours a day.

The first trailer for upcoming film Black Mass was released on Thursday, showing actor Johnny Depp (left) taking on the role of Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger (right). In the movie set to be released this September, Depp plays James 'White' Bulger - the notorious Boston gangster who topped the FBI's most wanted list for 16 years before he was finally arrested in 2011. The trailer was one of several Warner Bros screen at CinemaCon on Thursday, and the creepy two-minute clip was a highlight of the day.

EXCLUSIVE: As the 'Auschwitz bookkeeper' Oskar Groening goes on trial for his role in the murder of 300,000 Nazi death camp Jews, here are the three female SS guards who revelled in Hitler's Holocaust and will never face justice. Pictured left is Charlotte S, a 'merciless' woman who trained an Alsatian to attack inmates' genitals. Pictured right is Gisela S who was in charge of the standing cells - small, dark rooms where up to 15 prisoners were crammed into for days at a time

The new Adam Sandler film ran into a huge problem on Wednesday when a group of extras stormed off the set. Native American actors appearing in The Ridiculous 6, a spoof of The Magnificent Seven that stars and was written by Sandler, left the set after they became offended by the script's jokes about their race and culture. It was so bad in fact that even the cultural adviser for the movie walked off the set.

A Washington teen who strapped fake explosives around his body in a stunt to ask a date to the prom has been suspended from school. The five-day suspension for Ibrahim Ahmad will prevent him from attending La Center High's dance Saturday. Ahmad says he was trying to go all out with his prom proposal. The 18-year-old senior wore a vest filled with paper-tube props made to look like explosives.

While it emerged this week that an airport baggage handler in Seattle fell asleep on the job and wound up flying in cargo - on the other side of the country it appears there's no slacking to be had. NBC journalist Jeff Rossen filmed an airport worker at LaGuardia Airport in New York doing push-ups on the runway after loading up a plane. Footage shows the employee wearing his high-visibility jacket and gloves while performing the aerobic stunt. Even after his 12th push-up, the fitness-enthusiast shows no sign of slowing down.

A little girl with Down syndrome named Giselle (pictured) is every bit a Disney Princess when visiting the Florida theme park and modeling the beautiful dresses her mother Kristina sews for her. Jacksonville, Florida Photographer Kristina Bewly took her 4-year-old daughter Giselle to Disney World for the first time last September and they have been returning every month since.

Onlookers reported hearing a loud scream before the woman, who has not been identified but is thought to be in her mid-forties, 'vanished' down the two foot by five foot wide gap (centre) in the pavement outside the Marrakech Express cafe on North End Road in Fulham, London (inset). Early reports suggested that the woman may have been pushing a pram, but it is thought it could have been a shopping trolley. The London Ambulance service say the woman was 'shaken but not seriously injured' and she was taken to Charing Cross Hospital.