Residents in the Georgian capital Tbilisi have been warned to stay indoors after dangerous animals escaped from the city's zoo when flash floods destroyed their enclosures, setting them free and allowing them to roam the streets. The freak weather has already killed eight people in the city, including three workers who are employed at the zoo. One of the dead was confirmed as Guiliko Chitadze, a zookeeper who lost an arm in attack by a tiger last month. Heavy rains and wind hit Tbilisi last night, turning a normally small stream that runs through the hilly city into a surging river, destroying homes as well as major roads and vehicles.
'I know I've been foolish': Topless backpacker Eleanor Hawkins is finally back home with her parents and apologises for 'any offence caused' after stripping on sacred Malaysian mountain
Backpacker Eleanor Hawkins has returned to her home in Derbyshire after fleeing Malaysia, where she was jailed for three days after posing topless on a sacred mountain and blamed for causing a deadly earthquake. Flanked by her parents outside her home with this morning, she apologised to the tribesmen who accused her of triggering the tremor. She said: 'I know my behaviour was foolish and I know how much offence we all caused to the local people of Sabah. For that, I am truly sorry.'
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Soon after he boarded his favourite Alton Towers rollercoaster, Joe Pugh (pictured left) sensed something was wrong. And tragically, his fears would prove justified when the carriage he and his 17-year-old girlfriend Leah Washington were riding crashed into an empty car, causing horrific injuries to them both. Sixth-form student Leah Washington (pictured with Joe on the ride, top right, and together before the crash, bottom right) had to have her left leg amputated above the knee, while 18-year-old Joe smashed both his kneecaps, which will take months of physiotherapy and rehabilitation to overcome. Now, as the pair recover in the same hospital, Joe has spoken for the first time of the day out which ended so horrifically.
EXCLUSIVE - Rolf Harris's vile jail song: In shock letter from cell, shamed star reveals 'country rock' lyrics that damn his sex victims as greedy 'wenches' - then brags about cushy prison life
Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris has written a vile song from his prison cell in Stafford (inset right), sickeningly castigating his victims as money-grabbing mercenaries intent on claiming compensation. Harris, 84, targeted girls as young as seven, but in his lyrics he displays no remorse for his crimes. Instead, he callously describes the victims whose lives he wrecked as 'woodworms' who have 'climbed up out of the woodwork from 40 years ago'.In his misogynistic rant, he shamelessly sneers at the women he indecently assaulted, saying: 'Perhaps you think you're pretty still, some perfumed sultry wench?'
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In what could become one of the largest divorce claims in British legal history, Christina Estrada has apparently separated from Walid Juffali, one of the richest men in the Middle East. The couple (pictured together top left), who married in 2001 and have a 13-year-old daughter, split after Mr Juffali fell for a Lebanese TV presenter and married her under Islamic law, which permits him to have four wives. Now American-born Ms Estrada, 52, who was linked to Prince Andrew in the early 1990s when she was at the height of her modelling career (pictured together top right), is demanding a share of at least three British properties together worth an estimated £60 million (bottom).
Snap! How Prince George appeared in the very same romper suit as his father wore in balcony scene with Prince Charles in 1984
Prince George made his debut on the balcony of Buckingham Palace wearing exactly the same baby-blue romper suit his dad, Prince William, wore during his first appearance 31 years ago. Charming pictures from then and now also show how an excited Prince William, then aged two, reacted in the same excited way as his own son to the Trooping of the Colours, which marks the Queen's birthday.
Austerity riot plot of the facemask anarchists: Far-left activists secretly filmed by MoS bragging about plans to hijack peaceful demonstrations in London
MAIL ON SUNDAY INVESTIGATION: The same fanatics responsible for clashes with police that took place outside Downing Street two days after the General Election have been secretly filmed bragging about their plans (main image, ringleader Katya Nasim circled). They are ready to go into action next Saturday, when otherwise peaceful demonstrations will take place across Britain under the banner 'End Austerity Now', organised by the People's Assembly, an umbrella organisation for Left-wing groups. And they threaten to turn a march in Central London next weekend into a rampage. Pictured inset, violence at Tory Party HQ in 2010.
The agony is over says Ethan's father after mum-on-run hands herself in: Couple will resume fight for custody before judge tomorrow
After 17 days on the run with her son, Rebecca Minnock, pictured right, has handed herself in and father Roger, pictured left, says the agony is over. Ethan was last night staying with his father. Miss Minnock's whereabouts were unknown but police sources indicated she was not in custody. Meanwhile, the two-year legal battle between Mr Williams and Miss Minnock, 35, over custody of Ethan will resume tomorrow at Bristol Crown Court.
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Cherie Blair has called in police after up to £80,000 was siphoned from her elderly mother's bank account through cashpoints. Inquiries are centring on a 47-year-old man who lodged with Gale Booth, 82, at her modest terraced home in Oxford (right). He is believed to have bought a first-class ticket to Australia in recent weeks. The alleged fraud came to light when Mrs Booth (left with Mrs Blair in 2006) went to stay at the Blairs' country mansion - South Pavilion in Buckinghamshire - after injuring her arm.
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Intercepted by ISIS fanatics just yards from safety: Moments hundreds of desperate Syrian refugees are frogmarched back to face death as Turkish troops look on helplessly from the border
These are the shocking scenes as heavily-armed ISIS terrorists turned thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing to freedom away from the border while Turkish troops looked on. The refugees were seeking safety as Syrian-Kurdish YPG forces advanced on the border town of Tal Abyad. More than 13,000 refugees have crossed into the Turkish town of Akcakale over the past 10 days. According to photographs taken across the border, some of the ISIS terrorists were armed with U.S. manufactured weaponry. The YPG have encircled the ISIS-held town of Suluk, which is just six miles from the strategically important border crossing. ISIS uses Tal Abyad as a point where it smuggles in its foreign fighters and Jihadi brides, while sending contraband oil out the other way.
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- 'Don't blow my cover': How NAACP leader told her adopted black brother not to let on that she was actually white as she built 'whole new identity' as civil rights activist
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