This curious cat got up close and personal with a tourist while on safari at the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. The wild cat, with its razor sharp claws and teeth, sure is one moggy you'd rather not have curling up on your lap. But, nevertheless, the bold animal hopped into the back seat of a jeep as it drove through the African plains - much to the shock of an Irishman inside. After entering the vehicle, it slowly sauntered over to holidaymaker Mickey McCaldin (main and top right) until it was barely a foot away from his face. The cheeky cheetah was part of a well-known family that Mr McCaldin's group had been tracking for a couple of days.
'The benefits cap will make me homeless': Mother-of-eight who rakes in £26,000 a year in handouts claims she will lose her house under George Osborne's £20,000 welfare limit
Jobless Marie Buchan, 33, from Selley Oak in Birmingham says the Chancellor's new measures aimed at cutting welfare spending will leave her family on the breadline. Ms Buchan (pictured inset with Benefits Street star Deirdre Kelly, aka White Dee) says she is already behind on her rent, and were her handouts to be cut by £6,000 she would be forced out of her taxpayer-funded four-bedroom home.
- The cat that got too close for comfort: Alarming moment tourist came face-to-face with a cheetah when it jumped in his jeep
- 'The benefits cap will make me homeless': Mother-of-eight who rakes in £26,000 a year in handouts claims she will lose her house under George Osborne's £20,000 welfare limit
- Artist carrying photos in cardboard tube feared he might get 'done like Jean Charles de Menezes' when armed police swooped on him outside Buckingham Palace
- One in 20 children may have been victims says chairman of abuse inquiry as she opens probe which will take five years
- Mother-of-two who lay next to her partner's dead body for THREE DAYS in crashed car before police thought she had only been there for 30 minutes when firefighters arrived
- Police launch hunt for 15-year-old mother who vanished with her newborn baby and reveal the father, 18, has ALSO disappeared - and she may have gone to meet him
- 'Tube strikes are ruining my life!': Commuters' fury as London Underground shutdown causes travel chaos across the city
- 'Today I got a boat to work – quite liking the Tube strike': How Londoners refused to let striking drivers ruin their journeys
- Man ordered to pay £100 after washing a six-year-old's mouth out with soap when the youngster kicked a pensioner's walking stick and told him to 'f*** off'
- Mentally ill musician 'killed himself after he was taken off disability benefits and ruled fit to work'
- Grieving daughter demands to know why her father, 86, died while waiting five hours for an out-of-hours doctor to visit
- Triplet dies in accidental fall from second-floor flat - one year after her sister was paralysed after being pushed out of a window by the THIRD sibling
- Footballer, 24, dies on pitch after collapsing during trial for non-league team
- Police say DNA evidence against suspects accused of raping and murdering British backpackers on Koh Tao cannot be retested by defence lawyers as it has been 'lost'
- Michelle Obama reveals her 'modest' $600k changes to White House State Dining Room - months after her florist quit amid reports of 'infighting' between designers
- The most bitter cat fight in tennis: One's a human volcano, the other's an ice queen. And BOTH loved the same man. As they duel on Centre Court today, the venomous truth about Serena and Sharapova
- The tragic downfall of an 80s icon: Mugshots chart the decline of Can't Buy Me Love actress Amanda Peterson before she was found dead in her apartment aged 43
- New York Stock Exchange reopens after 'technical issue' halts ALL trading, just two hours after United was also forced to ground its flights after a 'router fault'
- 45 ISIS fighters 'die after eating poisoned Ramadan meal in Iraq'
- EXCLUSIVE: New twist in 'The Watcher' mystery - No copies of threatening letters, no summons served, and former residents insist there was NO stalker - but family still demanding triple its $1.35m sale price
- Tragic final photoshoot of 80s bombshell Amanda Peterson whose body was found two days after she died alone in her apartment
- 'Greece is on the edge of catastrophe. There will be riots and chaos': French central bank boss warns of dire consequences if the country does not make a deal this week
- EXCLUSIVE: Cops close in on Bill Cosby as they prepare to question woman who says he drugged and attacked her at Playboy Mansion in 2008 - within statute of limitations
- Inside 'billionaire summer camp': Tycoon Elon Musk brings wife he's already divorced twice while recently widowed Sheryl Sandberg is accompanied by a friend
- 'He thought it was a dud': Mother of Disney World star who was killed launching a firework off his head speaks out and calls for stricter controls on explosives
- Whoopi Goldberg LOSES it on The View as she defends Bill Cosby by comparing his dozens of accusers to the woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse team of rape
- Drought shamed! Tom Selleck accused of stealing truckloads of hydrant water for his 60-acre California ranch and avocado farm
- Revealed - who's who in the VERY Royal Box at Wimbledon: William and Kate joined by several other royals and a star-studded line up of celebrities to watch Andy Murray
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'Tube strikes are ruining my life!': Commuters' fury as London Underground shutdown causes travel chaos across city
Thousands of commuters heading into London faced chaos this morning as a strike by tube workers over extra pay brought the city to a standstill. With no London Underground services running, over-ground trains and buses are crammed with people trying to get to work, while roads are gridlocked with those who were forced to drive. As massive crowds gathered on already congested train platforms across the capital, those caught up in the widespread disruption took to Twitter to criticise the industrial action (inset). Meanwhile, police officers were on hand to maintain order as long queues formed at bus stops, including the one outside Stratford station, pictured main.
'I know what I saw and I saw the lady!' Revealed, the Pacific islanders who insist Amelia Earhart WAS taken prisoner by the Japanese after crashing on remote atoll
EXCLUSIVE: Marshall Islanders remain certain the aviator and her navigator crashed into the Mili atoll, 850 miles from her intended destination (bottom right), before being picked up by the Japanese. Among them, a doctor who says he treated Fred Noonan for a broken leg as Earhart looked on, and a worker who saw the Japanese rush off to the island find the stricken adventurers. U.S. businessman Jerry Kramer (top right) also heard the story of how Noonan was treated for a broken leg on a Japanese boat - and claims he was even shown where she was jailed in Saipan by people who swore she was there. A group of researchers hope to finally put the enduring mystery to rest with tests on pieces of metal found on the atoll.
Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New World 3,300 years ago
Author and researcher John Ruskamp claims to have found pictograms from the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty etched into rocks in New Mexico, California and Arizona. He claims the markings, which give details of journeys and honour the Shang king, provide proof that ancient Chinese explorers were travelling around North America and interactiving with Native Americans nearly 2,800 years before Christopher Columbus stumbled across the New World. If correct, his conclusions will require the history books to be rewritten. The main image above shows ancient Chinese scripts found in Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico, together with their translations, while another set of carvings found in Arizona are shown inset.
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- 'David Cameron is jogging past, I can't believe that!': The hilarious moment the PM photobombed This Morning host Amanda Holden on live TV while on his morning jog
- New tax crackdown to hit the non-doms: Chancellor could steal Labour idea in Budget
- Sturgeon threatens new independence referendum after the SNP clash with Tories over 'English votes for English laws' plan
Pictured: Sufferers of the bizarre condition causing almost a million Japanese men to lock themselves inside for YEARS, surfing the internet and reading manga
It's the social and health crisis plaguing almost one million Japanese people. The sufferers of 'Hikikomori' - mostly young men - have such severe social withdrawal they isolate themselves in their bedroom, in some cases for years. One of the few hikikomori experts in Japan, Dr Takahiro Kato, suffered from the condition as a student and is now working to prevent it from having a widespread affect on the next generation. Yuto Onishi (left), 18, from Tokyo had not left his bedroom for almost three years before he sought treatment six months ago. Pictured is right and inset are Japanese sufferers of hikikomori who are featured in a French documentary.
Warning: graphics violence! Game Of Thrones amazing behind-the-scenes footage reveals computer tricks used to create epic Hardhome battle
No Wildlings were harmed in the making of this video. An amazing behind-the-scenes film has been released revealing the computer wizardry employed to create Game Of Thrones' stunning Battle of Hardhome. The epic brawl between the Wildlings, Night's Watch and White Walkers was easily the most ambitious set piece of the series so far, and one of the most exciting to watch.
The tragic downfall of an 80s icon: Mugshots chart the decline of Can't Buy Me Love actress Amanda Peterson before she was found dead in her apartment aged 43
Mugshots of teen star Amanda Peterson reveal the sad downfall of the former Hollywood star in the years before her death. Peterson was arrested four times between 2000 and 2012, most recently for DUI and possession of narcotic equipment under the name Priscilla Peterson in 2012. The other arrests were in 2000, 2003, and 2005. She looks dazed and even bruised in some mugshots, and her mother has admitted that Peterson did have a drug problem at one point, but that she had been clean for years.
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The 'exceptional private estate' just 20 minutes from central London has picturesque views, a lavish seven-bedroom house (middle) and two properties for staff boasting a further four bedrooms. But the unique selling point is the ultimate luxury for a sporty millionaire - its own full-size five hole golf course (top left), which even tops its indoor leisure centre and bowling alley (bottom left). It's being sold for £19.5m.
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China cracks down on its sex partying, Ferrari-driving, money-burning 'fuerdai' second generation of super-rich, shallow and very spoiled brats
There has been a massive public backlash against China's 'fuerdai' - or 'rich second generation' - who quite literally burn through their billionaire parents' cash (left) on gold-plated Apple Watches for their pet dogs and brand new Ferraris which they treat like toys. The unemployed kids of the country's wealthiest tycoons then show off their luxurious wares and bundles of cash on social media. The public fury against them intensified when 23-year-old Guo Meimei (right), who was considered to be the queen of the fuerdais, was accused of selling sex at a 'drug party' in 2013. She replied by posting an image of £516,000-worth of casino chips online along with the caption: 'To rich to need to sell sex'. The glamorous heiress, who has since admitted to charging for sex, was one of the many fuerdais who were part of the 'Sports Car Club' (inset). Members of the elusive gang share photos of their supercars with each other on messaging apps. President Xi Jinping demanded that these out-of-control children be taught the value of money - so 70 of the billionaires' children were sent to a 'social responsibility' retreat where the fine for turning up late was £103.
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- Tunisia announces 100-mile wall will be built along its border with Libya in response to terror attack which claimed 38 lives
- The scribbled notes on a hotel writing pad which will decide Europe's future: Greece's new finance minister accidentally reveals negotiating plans... written in ENGLISH
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- Pictured: The colourful way Greeks have vented their frustration at EU crisis with graffiti... they did invent the word after all