A father and son were shot dead in an execution-style murder moments after party guests left their home in a quiet neighborhood. Nicholas Pence, 25, and his father David, 56, had been celebrating a victorious football game in their garage in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday. But moments after jovially waving goodbye to the last-remaining revellers shortly before midnight, they were both shot dead at close range in an attack that shocked and baffled the quiet community of Metairie.

Shocking footage has emerged of the terrifying moment two people stood in a tiny dinghy while a 6 meter great white shark charged them. A film crew shooting the documentary Lair of the Megashark were just off New Zealand's Stewart Island when they attempted to put a camera on the dorsal fin of the massive ocean predator who decided to nudge the boat and bite at the thin rope that tethered the dinghy to the main boat.

Leah O'Brien, 33, a science teacher at Lakeside High School in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, died at the scene. Her daughter, eight, was taken to hospital in a critical condition. The two students, a 19-year-old man and 18-year-old woman, who have not been named, were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

With his infinite supply of supercars, private jets and beautiful women, billionaire businessman Tony Toutouni is threatening to become the new 'King of Instagram'. The 42-year-old entrepreneur, from L.A., chronicles his immensely extravagant lifestyle on the photo-sharing site and is usually seen surrounded by mountains of cash and bikini-clad women. Toutouni made his fortune after buying a nightclub in Hollywood, California, when he was just 19 years old and going on to run dozens of businesses.

The reality star (left and top right with interview Matt Lauer) told Monday how she, her sisters and her mother Kris Jenner would open their hearts to each other to process the emotional turmoil prompted by the 65-year-old former Olympian's decision to consider himself a woman. The two are pictured together (bottom right) in an Instagram photo Kardashian shared in the wake of Jenner's bombshell interview Friday during which he said 'for all intents and purposes, I am a woman'.

Hundreds of survivalists and so-called 'Preppers', of all ages and levels of 'experience', descended on the Salt Lake City, Utah, suburb of Sandy on Friday for the nation's first ever PrepperCon. During the two-day expo, they were shown specially-equipped underground bunkers (left), learned new ways to store food, examined tactical weapons (top right) - and even dressed up as zombies (bottom right). They were also greeted by actors from the AMC hit show 'The Walking Dead', including Addy Miller, who took pictures with fans and acted as a judge in an emergency preparedness food cook-off.

At 24, basketballer Abby Bishop's life completely changed when she took in her two-day-old niece Zala (pictured right in both images). Bishop (pictured left in both images), who starts playing for the Seattle Storm next month, suddenly found herself caring for a newborn, juggling training with sleepless nights and adjusting to her new life. Now Zala is 20 months old and she follows Bishop as she travels the world playing for professional teams, and will go with her to the U.S. this May when she starts playing for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA.

Dan Fredinburg, 33, (right) who was three colleagues and had been navigating the area for Google Maps, was given the messages by his girlfriend just before he set off on the expedition, but it's not known whether he had a chance to read them. He was one of three Americans killed when a massive earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, causing a wall of ice and rock to engulf the base camp. His friend Max Stossel (left) posted a picture of the letter (inset) he wrote to his late friend on Saturday alongside a tribute. In it he said: 'Your story has already greatly impacted mine for the better.'

NEW Before and after images show how the wave of snow, ice and rock destroyed the usually serene 18,000-foot-altitude base camp on Saturday. The avalanche started on Mount Kumori, a 23,000-foot-high mountain just a few miles from Everest, and gathered strength as it tore across the world's highest peak. Half an hour after the initial quake, another magnitude-6.6 aftershock hit, followed by smaller aftershocks across the region. Eighteen people died in the avalanche, including three Americans, and 61 were injured, according to Nepal's mountaineering department.

Tayler Chaice Buzbee was forced to make an emergency appointment at an Aspen Dental facility in Alabama on Friday morning after developing agonizing toothache which would not go away. But after calling the dentist's office, she was informed that the only available appointment was in just 20 minutes - meaning that she had no time to find a babysitter for her infant son, Attley (pictured, left, with Tayler today, and right, with Tayler at a younger age). She was later left 'humiliated' and 'embarrassed' after her son was apparently removed from her arms while she was breastfeeding him in the dentist's chair. 'I was crying, and I felt just embarrassed to be there,' she said.

Parents are taking to social media to reveal the hilarious reasons their children give for not wanting to eat perfectly good food - including how an orange is too juicy. (Clockwise from top left) This plate is too green for the child to eat from; these crackers have been contaminated - by other broken crackers; this banana wasn't peeled by the child's father - therefore it isn't good enough; this delicious-looking dish isn't made from pizza; the juice in these oranges is too wet; and this spaghetti is too noodley.

RJ Jackson, four, from Las Vegas, is one of only 70 people in the world who suffers Netherton's syndrome, an extreme form of the disease ichthyosis. His skin appears red and inflamed, and is often covered in dry skin that appears like scales on his body. His mother Valerie Jackson (left) has to regularly cover him in creams to try and prevent his skin drying out. But while out shopping recently, Mrs Jackson was suddenly surrounded by armed police, who had been called by a member of the public. They reported fears Mrs Jackson had been abusing RJ. 'It just shows the extent of people's ignorance,' Mrs Jackson said.

NEW The widow of Chris Kyle has revealed the painful moment she first broke the news to their two children that their father had been murdered by Eddie Ray Routh (pictured, bottom right). Taya Kyle (left) told ABC's Robin Roberts she gathered her son, Colton and daughter, McKenna (pictured with their father) and prepared to tell them. 'I remembered just closing my eyes, the tears rolling down and me just trying to breathe,' said Kyle. Taya, 40, was speaking to Roberts for a special edition of ABC News' 20/20 which will air on Friday, May 1 and will catch up with the widow of Kyle, whose story is portrayed in the blockbuster movie, American Sniper.

The University of Southern California sorority Gamma Phi Beta wanted to help their housekeeper Fannie Randle, pictured right, purchase a brand new car because the one she drove to work was old and being held together with duct tape. Senior and former Gamma Phi Beta president Alicia Jewell called on her sorority sisters and alumni to raise the necessary funds before her graduation in May.

NEW Derek Murray, a University of Alberta law student, could have had his day ruined by the mistake by a stranger's kindness brightened it up. Murray posted his story and the note online and the random act of kindness has now gone viral. 'When I first saw the note, I was expecting it to be an angry letter from someone telling me not to park there. Instead, I got someone just totally brightening my day. My day could have been ruined but, because of this guy, it was the highlight of my day,' Murray said.

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Brett Allen Marihugh, 34, (right) of Livonia, Michigan, died Sunday after being found unresponsive Friday. The other SEAL, 32-year-old Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Seth Cody Lewis (left) of Queens, New York, died on Friday. While an investigation of the incident is continuing, Navy spokesman Lieutenant David Lloyd told Reuters Friday, 'They were working out in the pool...They were swimming. It was not dive training.'

William Schultz (inset) was arrested Sunday afternoon, hours after Jordan Almgren (right) was stabbed to death in his home (left) in Discovery Bay, Northern California. Deputies put out an alert for Schultz after they said he got away in someone's truck. The motive for the stabbing remains under investigation.

Greystone Park Psychiatric Center, in New Jersey (center), was built to house hundreds of mentally ill patients, but it eventually became home to more than 7,500 people. The building was officially abandoned in 2003 but patients were moved out in the 1980s and the building quickly fell into disarray, with ceilings and walls left to crumble (bottom left) and paint peeling off doors throughout the building (top left). Broken and dusty chairs (top right) are just some of the remaining furniture alongside warped wooden bookcases and tables (bottom right).

For more than a century, women have loved meddling with their eyebrows, with millions following a new style every decade. From slim in the 1940s to bushy in the 1980s and Scouse brows in the Noughties. Can you guess who these iconic eyebrows belong to?

The seven victims (right) believed they were involved in a relationship with a Mormon man who lived in Utah, but later found out a Texas woman named Kayla (top left) had duped them. Kayla, who had stolen the identity of a Montana student named Keagan (bottom left), apologized to the women and said that she was trying to figure out who she was - being both gay and Mormon - but did it in the 'wrong way'. The women had a chance to confront the woman, named Kayla, on Dr. Phil's show.

Cleveland Cavaliers star Kevin Love, who dislocated his left shoulder on Sunday, has critized opponent Kelly Olynyk of the Boston Celtics for what he has called a 'bush-league' play. Olynyk's right arm became entangled with Love's left arm while his shoulder suddenly popped out. He grabbed his arm and kept running toward the Cleveland bench before going to the locker room, where he iced his shoulder. 'I have no doubt in my mind that he did it on purpose,' Love said.

Australians Andrew Chan (inset left) and Myuran Sukumaran (inset right) will be executed just after the stroke of midnight on Wednesday (3am AEST), it has been confirmed. The date - April 29 - became official when a local funeral director in Cilacap, the nearest port to Nusakambangan, or Death Island, was instructed to inscribe the names of those to be shot by firing squad and the date of their deaths on crosses. Chan and Sukumaran both refused to sign their execution warrants when they were given 72 hours notice of their deaths during official proceedings on Saturday, saying they believed it would be unjust to kill them. Sukumaran's brother Chinthu (left) said his brother had made peace with the situation, 'but he and we all feel that this is a grave injustice and it did not have to be this way and it still doesn't have to be this way'. Chan's brother Michael (left image, right) said mercy must be part of Indonesia's legal system and implored the president for his mercy. Pictured right are the coffins ready to received the death row inmates after they are executed.

An Australian woman has taken to a video-sharing website to exact revenge on her cheating ex-partner. The blonde woman, said to be Australian Lyn Kent, filmed herself in bed with another man, proclaiming to her former boyfriend: 'I cheated on you too!' Pictured: couple in bed addressing camera and inset, moving in for a kiss.

The world's most pampered pusses were put through their paces at Romania's International Cat Show this weekend. Unusual breeds including hairless Sphynx cats (top right) were up against petite Singapuras (bottom right) and fluffy British shorthairs (left, top and bottom) during judging at the annual feline beauty contest in Bucharest this weekend.

NEW Atlanta choreographer Tianne King and her four-year-old daughter Heaven have posted a video of themselves dancing to Silento's Watch Me on the streets of Harlem in New York City. In video, the youngster faultlessly bust some moved alongside some enthusiastic friend of hers who act as backup dancers as they carry off the complicated routine.

Stars Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino were all in attendance for Saturday's special 25th anniversary screening of Goodfellas. Not in attendance were director Martin Scorsese, who was filming in Taiwan, and Joe Pesci who had won an Oscar for his role in the 1990 movie. 'Joe Pesci couldn't be here, but he sent this email: 'F***, f***, f***, f***ity f***, f***' read De Niro. Scorsese sent a video message and recalled now the movie upset the owner of his then favorite NYC Italian restaurant. Throughout the two-and-a-half-hour screening the audience cheered each major character's first appearance. Jon Stewart then held a Q&A; with the actors and Liotta recalled Henry Hill thanking him for 'not making me look like a s***bag'.

Award-winning photographer Uruma Takezawa spent 1,021 days on an odyssey to 103 countries on four continents to capture amazing pictures of locals living off the land. Pictured clockwise from left: Pantanal, Brazil; the Wodabbe tribe in Nigeria; a protest in Tripoli, Lebanon; hand-painted human skulls in Hallstatt, Austria; and a woman and her child in Mali (centre).

Ventriloquist April Brucker, who lives in New York City, broke up with her partner after he gave her the ultimatum - and she picked the dummies, who she has spent $200,000 (£134,000) on in 10 years. The 30-year-old revealed that she considers her 16 puppets - who even have their own bedroom - to be her children, and she lives alone with them in her apartment. April works 60 hours a week as a singer, comedian, promotional model and freelance writer so they can have the best of everything - even if it means she goes short.

On the outskirts of Pakistan's major cities, refugee families can escape their troubles with visits to these makeshift amusement parks. Children who have been forced out of neighbouring villages due to fighting between security forces and militants shriek with joy on camel carousels, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels and swings. The collection of amusement parks, offer some light relief from their problems, even if it is just for a few hours.

The cheetahs were pictured surrounding the tortoise as it plodded across the sands of the Kalahari desert in South Africa. The big cats tried to frighten the little reptile out of its shell by snarling at it, but the tortoise kept well tucked up inside its shell refusing to pop its head out forcing the cheetahs to wander off disappointed.