Saudi millionaire blocks traffic on one of London's busiest roads to get his £1m Porsche washed and polished for supercar season

Chaos in Knightsbridge as Porsche 918 Spyder is  washed on Brompton Road

Motorists were forced to slow down and bus drivers had to change lanes so they could safely pass the Porsche 918 Spyder while it was meticulously detailed on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge. For around an hour, the detailing firm washed the Porsche and vacuumed it before polishing the 210mph car, which is over here for the supercar season. The car was parked up in an on-street parking space, but passing vehicles were moving into other lanes in order to clear both the Porsche and the two men washing it safely. It is believed the car belongs to a nephew of Saudi Arabian rally driver, Yazeed Al-Rajhi, 33.

Brit who married US billionaire's daughter and tried to extort £2m from her family by posting nude pictures of her online is jailed for 12 years

Brit who married US billionaire's daughter tried to extort £2million from her family by

James Casbolt, 37 (pictured with his wife), from St Ives, Cornwall, demanded the money in exchange for removing nude pictures of his estranged wife Haley Meijer - who is the heiress to a £5.5bin fortune - from the internet. He told her family that, if his demands were not met, he could 'tickle the public interest for years'. As part of his vile campaign, Casbolt also posted ramblings about his wife being a prostitute and even threatened to send suicide bombers to her parents' home. The pair met in 2009 but her father Hank - who is CEO of huge supermarket chain Meijer - never approved of him. Today he was been jailed for 12 years after being branded 'extremely dangerous' by the judge at Truro Crown Court.

Mother who claimed to have been assaulted by security staff while breastfeeding in Primark is charged with perverting the course of justice 

Caroline Starmer, 28, has been summoned to appear in court following an allegation a security guard in Primark in Leicester assaulted her after she was told to stop breastfeeding.

Disgraced Lord Sewel stands down from the Lords and apologises for 'embarrassment' after being filmed taking cocaine with call girls

Lord Sewel, 69, eagerly boasted of having sex with the young BBC presenter and described the encounter, which took place in an attic, as a 'one off' because 'she was happily married.'

Economic growth jumps to 0.7% as wealth per person finally returns to pre-crash levels

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The service sector is fuelling most of the recovery, although the mining industry reported its strongest growth since the 1980s, the Office for National Statistics said.

British police investigating Madeleine McCann disappearance contact Australian detectives over body of fair-haired girl found in suitcase

The body of a young, fair-haired girl aged between two and four, who was killed in at least 2007, was discovered in a suitcase near Wynarka near Adelaide in South Australia this month

Divorced man, 63, sues Airbnb for cancelling his membership after complaint from woman visitor who gave him a 'long massage' 

Mark Howell, 63, was renting out rooms in his four-bed home in Kennington, south London, but was kicked off the site following a complaint by a visitor called Maria.

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'Devious' neo-nazi paedophile who murdered Paige Chivers, 15, to stop her going to the police after he abused her is jailed for life 

Robert Ewing is believed to have beaten Paige Chivers to death in his flat in Blackpool after he developed an 'inappropriate sexual interest' in her, the court heard.

Army veteran who survived two tours of duty in Iraq killed after crashing into a tree while mountain biking

Mark Kingston, 50, died while riding his bicycle in Bracknell, Berkshire, on an adventure trail at the Look Out Discovery Centre after suffering a major cardiac arrest.

Racist thug who was caught on CCTV slashing a Turkish shopkeeper's neck with a kitchen knife is jailed for life 

Andrew Jefferson, 53, screamed 'you f*****g foreigners, coming to the UK to poison the British people' before stabbing Hilmi Uludag at Padiciya Wine in Paddington, London, last year.

Liverpool FC manager Brendan Rodgers in High Court divorce battle with estranged wife over buy-to-let property empire of '102 homes' and millions of his future earnings 

Liverpool FC manager Brendan Rodgers in court divorce battle with estranged wife

The dispute - said to be over an estimated £10million fortune - came before a judge at London's High Court, who could be called on to decide how their assets are divided. Rodgers left his wife of 14 years, Susan (left), last year and has since been seen out with former-Liverpool worker Charlotte Hind (right). It is understood Rodgers has already agreed to pay monthly maintenance to Susan running into 'several thousand pounds'.

Fresh rage at police over mother left dying at crash scene: Constable left voicemail on her phone TEN DAYS after she died

Ms Bell and her boyfriend, John Yuill, lay inside their crashed car in a ditch next to the M9 at Bannockburn for three days after police failed to record a call from a member of the public

The end of the 'iceberg': Mega-basement extensions favoured by the rich and famous face being banned as their disgruntled neighbours force limits to be set 

Wealthy residents living in Westminster could be banned from creating so-called 'iceberg homes' after the local authority brought in strict regulations on building mega-basements.

Review of British pilots' mental health in the wake of Germanwings disaster finds 350 have been grounded in the past five years - but 276 have since returned to the skies 

The Civil Aviation Authority has revealed that 350 British pilots were suspended due to mental illness in the last five years, after Andreas Lubitz killed 150 people by deliberately crashing.

Meet the Bake Off contestant WITHOUT a soggy bottom: The Lithuanian body builder who loves high heels, cocktails and pumping iron and might be a match for Mary Berry

Bake Off hopeful Ugne Bubnaityte, 32, from Essex, might spend most of her free time whipping up baked goods but she is also busy carving herself a career as a professional body builder.

The running of the gulls! New craze sees teens racing down promenades holding food in the air and seeing how far they get before being attacked by hungry birds 

Youngsters in seaside resorts across the UK are said to be taking part in 'gull running', which sees them running along seafront promenades with chips on their heads, trying to avoid the seagulls.

Elton John's mother fills the void left by bitter feud with her pop star son by becoming friends with Elton tribute act who performed at her birthday party

Sheila Farebrother - who has not spoken to her son for seven years - will this week attend a concert in London by impersonator Paul Bacon, which will be the third time she has seen the tribute act.

Plumber is left blind in one eye after suffering horrific injuries while flying his toy helicopter INSIDE his flat 

Phil Shelgrove, 26, from Colchester in Essex, lost the sight in his left eye when the blades of the toy helicopter sliced through his eyeball and slashed his face when flying it inside his flat.

The Cinderella model who is the new face of Dior: Extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the 14-year-old girl plucked from poverty in Tel Aviv to star on the catwalks of Paris

Israeli model Sofia Mechetner's Cinderella story sees her as new face of Dior

14-year-old Sofia Mechetner (pictured) has signed a lucrative $250k, two-year-deal with Dior but at one point, while living in an impoverished Israeli neighbourhood, her family could not afford Cornflakes. The oldest child to Russian immigrants, Sofia grew up in the run-down area of Holon where she was too embarrassed to invite her friends round to her home. But such was her talent - and natural beauty - that she was signed up on the spot by an Israeli modelling agency who introduced an exclusive boutique French modelling agency in Paris (bottom right). A chance meeting with Dior's chief designer Raf Simons (top right) in the French capital helped Sofia land the dream contract.

Two migrants hit by trains and seven others saved from drowning after trying to sneak into Britain as holidaymakers face yet more delays on both sides of the Channel

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Eurotunnel said its passenger services were disrupted, with waiting times of up to an hour in both directions due to what the company described as 'an incident on the terminal'.

Blow me! It's the windiest year for two decades: Britain has not experienced a 'calm' day for three months 

The UK is on track for its windiest year since 1995, as unseasonably strong gales of more than 50mph have battered coastal areas in south-west England this week.

GPs offered cash incentives worth up to £200,000 for NOT sending patients to hospital for routine op such as hip replacements and cataracts 

Doctors in the North West have been told to slash the numbers referred for procedures of 'low clinical value' including hip and knee surgery and cataract treatment - in a bid to free up hospital appointments.

Fraudster conned her own mother and husband out of £720,000 to fund a luxury lifestyle of lavish holidays and beauty treatments before disappearing for a year

Alison Joyner conned her father-in-law, left her mother destitute and defrauded her husband of 28 years by selling their marital home in Middleton, Warkwickshire before disappearing

'Daddy, Putin has poisoned me': Alexander Litvinenko's father told police his son made a deathbed accusation, inquiry hears 

Walter Litvinenko told police his son, who was struggling to speak, also claimed the Russian president was 'perverted' and 'very dangerous', warning him to be 'careful' himself.

Ex-girlfriend is banned from mentioning her former boyfriend and his new partner on Facebook or face five years in jail after three year campaign of harassment 

Belfast women Marion Curoe happly poses for the camera after her court case in Coleraine for allegedly sending menacing messages to her former partner and his girl friend. Curoe was banned for two years and not to contact either party.PICTURE MARK JAMIERSON.Judge orders Belfast woman to end Facebook campaign against ex-parter and his new girlfriend

Maureen Curoe, of Belfast, was handed a two-year restraining order because of messages written about Adrian McAleese and Yvonne Hegarty since they split up three years ago.

'Stupid' motorist who drove shouting 'I can't see' when a fire extinguisher was let off in his car for a joke is jailed 

Charlie Jones, 21, from East Sussex was caught after uploading the clip of his passenger setting off the fire extinguisher in his car to Facebook, which was eventually reported to police.

British man, 41, collapsed and died in Morocco on the final stretch of a ten-day motorbike expedition across the desert

Aidan Sherlock, pictured, from Salford, Greater Manchester, collapsed suddenly due to a hardening of the arteries which sometimes has no detectable symptoms, an inquest heard.

Seagulls that are responsible for series of pet deaths and attacks on humans are 'just misunderstood', says expert 

Only last week, a young boy nearly lost a finger in a gull attack, while a pensioner was knocked over and left with a bloodied scalp after being dive bombed in Cornwall.

Motorist who pulled into the bus lane to let a speeding ambulance on an emergency pass her is shocked to be given a £60 fixed penalty notice

Hull motorist who pulled into bus lane to let ambulance pass is given fine

Lynne Plaxton (left) 50, was driving home when she noticed the emergency vehicle in her rear view mirror as she travelled on Anlaby Road flyover in west Hull, and quickly manoeuvred out of the way (right). So the 50-year-old was shocked when she received a £60 fixed penalty notice for encroaching into a bus lane as she manoeuvred to allow the ambulance to pass. Hull Council have stated the notice was only a warning rather than a fine as it was issued in their initial 14-day period of grace while the new bus lane rules are introduced. However, if the move had come after August 1, Ms Plaxton would have been landed with an automatic fine. The driver has now hit out the 'ludicrous' letter.

Hospital blunders left a disabled woman dead after nurses bleeped the wrong pager number for help

Eileen Smith, 69, was at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when she suffered a cardiac arrest and died because doctors did not receive any calls from nurses asking for help.

Owner of a curry house called 'Spicy Affair' is found guilty of sex assaults after slapping waitresses' bottoms and telling them they were paid to flirt with him 

Prashant Sengar is now facing jail after sexually assaulting six women, including two while interviewing them for jobs at his restaurant called Spicy Affair in Leamington Spa.

How Britain's fattest man who weighed 65 stones refused to listen to the nutrition experts who begged him to stop eating himself to death

Carl Thompson, who weighed 65 stone at the age of 33, was found dead in the one bedroom flat in Dover, Kent he had been unable to leave for a year because of his weight.

Pregnant? DON'T eat for two! Overeating 'changes the digestive system making it hard to shift your baby weight'

Scientists at the Medical Research Council believe changes to a pregnant woman's digestive system could cause them to absorb more energy and calories from same amount of food.

Drinking and smoking 'raises dementia risk': Unhealthy habits reduce grey matter in areas of the brain linked to memory

Obesity, diabetes, smoking and drinking are each associated with smaller volumes of grey matter in crucial parts of the brain linked to memory, the researchers found.

Three in four people think Labour is LESS electable than when Miliband led them to crushing election defeat

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The party has been rocked by the dramatic surge in support for leftwing hardliner Jeremy Corbyn, sparking fears that Labour could be out of power for a generation.

'I'm actually a bit embarrassed': Jeremy Corbyn blushes at his status as a Mumsnet sex symbol for 'Dumbledore sea dog' look

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The Labour leadership frontrunner has been made uncomfortable by the attention from women after Mumsnet users set up a thread called 'Anyone else think that Jeremy Corbyn is very sexy?'

Sack the gardener! Orchid named after true blue Tory David Cameron during Singapore visit turns out to be Ukip PURPLE

Prime Minister David Cameron looks at Papilionanda David Cameron, an orchid that was named after him during his visit to the Singapore Botanical Gardens, as he arrived in Singapore on the second day of a four day visit to south-east Asia.  PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday July 28, 2015. See PA story POLITICS Cameron. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

As Mr Cameron toured the city state's Botanic Gardens, Downing Street welcomed the naming of the flower it described as having petals that were 'a shade of blue' but in fact looked more like purple.

Brollies at the ready! Racegoers brave the dismal weather and turn up dressed in their best as Glorious Goodwood gets underway

Brollies at the ready! Racegoers brave the dismal weather and turn up dressed in their

Racing has got underway at Glorious Goodwood with the Chichester racecourse welcoming hundreds of guests in summer dresses and elaborate cocktail hats. Among the winners so far today were horses belonging to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Makhtoum, the emir of Dubai, and Qatari royal Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. High profile guests looking on included William, 4th Viscount Astor - Samantha Cameron's father-in-law.

Is this the worst attempt at reverse parking EVER? New driver needs 17 minutes and a helping hand from their equally inept passenger to slot into space

The footage documents the drivers' painstaking efforts to reverse park a red Mini Cooper - which has a green 'P' new driver sticker on the front - six times into a space in Townhead, Glasgow.

British family's four star 'holiday from hell': Tourists are served raw sausages and narrowly escape injury after tiles fell off walls in bathroom at 'luxury' Spanish resort

Alan and Sarah O'Rourke from Cheshire travelled with Thomas Cook. Their bad experience was at the four-star Cabogata Mar Hotel & Spa in Almeria.

FIFTY gipsy caravans cause havoc after setting up camp on a leafy park in the Midlands 

Hundreds of gipsies set up camp in the grounds of the £10,500-a-year King Henry VIII School in the upmarket suburb of Earlsdon, in Coventry, where poet Philip Larkin was educated.

Debenhams security guard 'stole £54,000 of luxury goods for his wife to sell on eBay'

Gareth Richards, 36, of Glais, Swansea, is accused of stealing designer watches, sunglasses, handbags and clothes which his wife Mari, 37, then allegedly sold on auction site eBay.

Millionaire businessman accused of hitting his wife and urinating on plane seats forcing flight to divert is finally allowed back to Britain 

Darren Halliwell, 48, has finally been allowed home to the UK after his alleged drunken rampage caused the London to Houston passenger jet to land at Boston's Logan International Airport.

Vicar who fled to Germany before being convicted of stealing £16,500 in fees for weddings and funerals is finally jailed after five days on the run

Simon Reynolds, 50, from Farnham, Surrey, has been jailed for 30 months after handing himself into police. He had fled from Sheffield Crown Court while the jury deliberated four theft charges.

SamCam shares her experience of raising disabled son Ivan with families at new centre launched to help families struggling with daily chores

Samantha Cameron, wife of Britain's Prime Minister Cameron, meets six-year-old William Moore and his mother Laura at the Hop, Skip and Jump centre in Horsham, southern Britain July 28, 2015.  The centre provides respite care for children and young adults with disabilities and special educational needs. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

The Prime Minister's wife has championed the Care In the High Street initiative which offers somewhere for children to be looked after while their parents carry out 'everyday chores'.

That's NOTHING like a Dame! Helen Mirren shocks viewers (and herself) when she swears on Good Morning Britain

The British actress, who turned 70 on Sunday, was talking about a camping trip to a field in Cornwall with her former boyfriend Liam Neeson in the 1980s, when she told how it 'p***ed with rain'.

London's housing madness means it is cheaper to live in MADRID and commute by plane four days a week

It costs £5,000 more to live in a one-bedroom flat in Camden than to stay in central Madrid and fly to London four days a week according to a new analysis by Labour's Tessa Jowell.

PICTURED: The American dentist who killed Cecil, Africa's most famous lion, with a bow and arrow on $55,000 hunting trip

Cecil the lion killer was American dentist Walter J Palmer

An American dentist has been identified as the hunter, who used a bow and arrow to kill one of Africa's most famous lions. Walter J Palmer, a dentist from the state of Minnesota, is thought to have travelled to Zimbabwe and allegedly paid £35,000 ($55,000) to kill Cecil the Lion. The much loved lion was wounded by arrow after he was lured out of the national park by the hunter's bait. After spending two days tracking the injured beast, Cecil was eventually found and shot dead. The corpse was then skinned and the head hacked off as a trophy. Professional Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst and local landowner Honest Ndlovu will appear in court on poaching charges for allegedly killing Cecil.

Jamie Oliver's friend Jimmy Doherty is slammed by campers after tents blow away and his festival turns into 'a night from hell' 

Families attending the Sausage and Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm in Wherstead, near Ipswich, Suffolk, complained after the event held at the weekend was blighted by poor weather.

The curse of the gloomy set strikes again! Viewers slam poor lighting in racy new BBC drama Life in Squares (and say they needed help from Wikipedia to decipher the plot)

Viewers have taken to social media to complain about the dim lighting used in new BBC2 drama Life in Squares after it aired last night. The racy mini-series charts the lives of the Bloomsbury set.

Summer of trouble: Holidaymakers face yet more chaos amid warnings of forest fires in France after 10,000 tourists were forced to flee campsites 

French firefighters issued warnings that threat of more forest fires is 'very severe' in the Var region of southern France. 10,000 tourists were forced to flee as flames swept through the region's forests.

Police hunting for missing tourist took 10 weeks to respond to a report of fresh blood near the area where she disappeared 

Mother-of-two Susan McLean, 61, from Pennsylvania, went missing in May while staying at the luxury Moness holiday resort in the Highland town of Aberfeldy, Perthshire.

Mystery of mother who STILL looks pregnant 17 months after giving birth to her fourth child - despite being sterilised

Nina Mulhall, 32, from Grimsby, gave birth to her fourth child, Isla Keetley 17 months ago but since then has been unable to get rid of her pregnancy bump. Despite numerous tests doctors have found no cause for the bump.

Recruiting foreign nurses is 'frustrating and expensive' but essential to keep the NHS running, says hospital boss

Dr Keith McNeil, chief executive of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, revealed today that 303 foreign nurses were recruited by the Trust hospital last year.

'I just wanted them to look normal': Woman is left with lopsided breasts after NHS surgeons bungled boob job FOUR times

Victoria Ewens, 24, began having problems when one of her breasts failed to develop at puberty. A corrective operation at 16 was botched and three subsequent operations made things even worse.

Mother gives birth alone in the BATH after mistaking her rapid labour for 'fake contractions' 

Thinking she was suffering from Braxton Hicks again, Kiva Mia Jackson, from Salford, ran a bath - only to discover moments after getting in the baby's head had already appeared.

Couple who endured heartache of six failed IVF attempts finally have three healthy babies thanks injections of soya and egg yolk

Jennie Macphee, now 34, from Lincolnshire, underwent intralipid therapy where she was injected with soya and egg products to tackle 'killer cells' in her immune system.

Tragic Conley, 7, died when his clothing pushed up around his body and restricted his breathing as he struggled to climb out of pipe on building site

Why did they not find Barnsley's Conley Thompson earlier?

Conley Thompson (left) died when he got stuck in a plastic pipe at the construction site (main image) near his home in Worsbrough, Barnsley, and his clothing restricted his breathing. Builders found his body at 8.30am yesterday, when they arrived for work at the site - which has had no security guards for almost a fortnight and where panels have been removed from the perimeter fence. Neighbours said they had told police officers searching for Conley on Sunday night that the adventurous youngster had frequently played on the site, despite being warned not to. Today, members of the public continued to leave flowers, toys and messages for Conley at the building site (inset).

Go compare THAT! Tenor who plays the annoying opera singer in TV ads loses five stone after feeling 'ashamed' of his 'horrific state'... and needs a padded suit for the role

Wynne Evans, 43, from Wales, known for his loud voice and tubby frame as moustachioed Gio Compario in the comparison site's adverts, hired a personal trainer when he hit 20 stone.

Woman, 51, who lost her son and mother within weeks turns to making 'reborn dolls' to cope with grief... and even bakes them in her oven 

Teresa Russon, from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has made 250 dolls and even bakes them in her oven to look like actual living babies.

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Vikings were the original package holiday tourists: Sightseeing and souvenirs inspired raids on Britain

Dr Ashby from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York said there were social reasons for raids on Britain as well as seeking wealth and power.

Tyrannosaurus rex had teeth like a STEAK KNIFE: Serrated bite of carnivores could crush bones, analysis reveals

University of Toronto Mississauga paleontologist Kirstin Brink said fossil evidence showed that T. rex's serrated teeth could crush bone and rip through the meat of its prey.

Is Pluto's atmosphere about to COLLAPSE? New Horizons spacecraft may have made it to dwarf planet in the nick of time

Scientists at Stanford University say data sent back by the New Horizons spacecraft suggests the thin atmosphere on Pluto is falling back to the surface.

Better start saving! New £100m superyacht passes under Tower Bridge... but it will cost you £420,000 a WEEK to hire

£100m superyacht passes under London Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge has had some spectacular ships pass underneath, and this £100million superyacht could certainly fit into that bracket. Now, the 240ft boat Grace E - which comes with a sauna, gym, hydrotherapy bath and pool - is available for hire for £410,000 a week. Built last year in Italy, it also has a beauty salon, meditation room, sunbathing area and massage room - and sleeps 12 guests in six suites. Grace E comes with an 'energetic' crew of 20, a cruising speed of 14.5 knots and various watersport options from powerboats to kayaks. And if that isn't enough to entertain you, there is also a film library, satellite TV, iPod docking stations and Wi-Fi internet access.

What lurks beneath: Incredible underground pictures show network of Victorian storm drains under the city of Sheffield

The six-person collective visited the Victorian system in Sheffield after one of their members overheard a man in a pub talking about it.

An historic country mansion where Henry VIII wooed Anne Boleyn - and which still bears her signature in a window - goes on sale for £3.5m 

The Grade-II listed Yaldham Manor, near Sevenoaks in Kent, was the setting for the courtship of one of history's most famous couples - with rumours they once danced together in the Great Hall.

Is this the most useful item of clothing ever? Windbreaker branded the 'Swiss Army jacket' has 15 pockets, neck pillow, blanket and iPhone charger

Inventor Hiral Sanghavi, 29, from Chicago, has raised almost $3million (£1.9million) from a crowdfunding site to put his gadget-packed garment which has its own eye mask into stores.

Yikes! Fright on a lion's face couldn't be clearer as it spots a crocodile while wading across a river in Botswana and has to swim for his life

Photographer Marna Van der Walt, 47, from Johannesburg, South Africa, said the male lion was attempting to follow a female across a river when he spotted the crocodile and panicked.

Owner has absolutely priceless reaction to pet cat climbing up on to oven extractor fan and LEAPING into his chicken dinner

A cat channelled its inner ninja and sneaked up onto a kitchen unit before jumping from it and landing in its owner's dinner in Ohio. The funny moment was captured on a home security unit.

'This dog looks like it pays taxes': Grumpy dog becomes the new grumpy cat after internet falls in love with images of sulky puppy Earl

Earl the five-month-old dog became an interview sensation when his owners posted pictures of his gloomy face. It quickly gained more than two million views and attracted a series of internet memes,

He fled the bombs of Aleppo to sell tissue on the street in Turkey: The heartbreaking story of the Syrian refugee boy, 13, bloodied and beaten by a restaurant boss in pictures that sparked outrage

The full story of the Syrian refugee tissue seller beaten up in Turkey

Turkish officials gifted Ahmet Hamdo's family a free three-day holiday to a Turkish hotel after images of his savage beating (left) went viral. The 13-year-old was selling tissues on the streets when a restaurant owner claimed he was disturbing his customers and began hitting the small boy. Ahmet and his four siblings have been pictured walking hand-in-hand on its lush gardens (right) and thrashing happily in the pool (inset) but soon, they will return to their poverty-stricken lives in Izmir, Turkey. They live in a tiny, two-room apartment which is shared by 12 people and has a vermin infestation. And yet their life here is better and safer than it was in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo which they escaped four months ago

Heartbreaking images reveal the human face of hunger in Yemen: SIX MILLION people are on the brink of starvation as war ravages the desperate country

Thousands of militants have died in the ongoing civil war but these pictures show the human impact of arms blockades that have made half the nation hungry and pushed some to the edge of death.

PICTURED: The American dentist who killed Cecil, Africa's most famous lion, with a bow and arrow on $55,000 hunting trip

Walter J Palmer, a dentist from the state of Minnesota, is thought to have travelled to Zimbabwe and allegedly paid £35,000 ($55,000) to kill Cecil the Lion.

The second life of a Nazi war criminal: German documentary reveals how 'butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie became a fixer for drug lords when he went on the run in South America 

A notorious Nazi war criminal, dubbed the 'Butcher of Lyon' during World War II, worked as a druglord fixer while on the run in Latin America and helped bring a right-wing dictator into power.

Still thinking of heading to France for your holiday? Horrendous traffic jams, run the gauntlet of migrants, road blockades, wildfires at campsites... and now farmers are spraying manure over cars 

British holidaymakers are facing a summer of chaos in France this year, fleeing forest fires in the south, migrants in the north, more wildfires in the west, and in the east farmers are spraying cars with manure.

NATO backs Turkey in its war against 'terrible acts of terror' as Prime Minister Erdogan warns it is 'impossible' to continue peace process with Kurdish militants

Photos of the #Iran-Turkish gas pipeline blown up by the #PKK in #Agri province.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (pictured) said the bloc supported Ankara in the face of militant insurgencies by the Kurds and ISIS after a crisis meeting of the military alliance.

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Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam is sentenced to death alongside eight henchmen for war crimes in Libya

The son of Libya's former dictator Colonel Gaddafi has been sentenced to death in absentia after he was found guilty of committing war crimes in the Libyan Civil War.

Spain's Queen Letizia in mourning after her grandfather dies aged 98 in Salamanca hospital, after suffering breathing and heart troubles

Spain's Queen Letizia cancelled public appearances, after the death of her 98-year-old grandfather in Salamanca last night. He had been suffering from breathing and heart troubles.

Woman born with no arms or legs reveals her empowering fight against bullies, abusers and suicidal thoughts to become an inspiration to thousands in Colombia

Zuly Sanguino, 25, pictured, was born in Columbia with a rare condition called Tetra-amelia sydrome but has proven a life without limbs does not need to be a barrier to success.

Russian helicopter pilot survives two days alone in the Arctic after crashing his helicopter and fighting off three polar bears

A Russian pilot has been rescued by Canadian after his helicopter crashed into the water in the Arctic Circle and managed to survive three days alone in the Arctic.

Place your betskis! Putin gambles on a £3billion complex of 16 super-casinos in SIBERIA with yacht club and ski slopes to woo punters from the Far East

This is the first glimpse inside a new £3billion casino complex being built by the Russian President on the eastern fringe of Siberia in Russia, which will boast a 1,500-acre gambling zone

The evidence is all there on video and he effectively proved his guilt by resigning, so RICHARD LITTLEJOHN asks: Why hasn't Lord Sewer had his ermine collar felt?

Why weren't the drugs squad hammering on Lord Sewel's door immediately after The Sun published photographs of him snorting cocaine with prostitutes, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Can our forces match PM's sabre-rattling? 

This paper is aware of the need to rein in spending but if David Cameron wants to posture and boast on the world stage about our military might, he must ensure the armed forces are properly funded.