Controversial Zimbabwe prophet Shepherd Bushiri (pictured above) has done little to improve his credibility after claiming this video is proof that he can perform miracles and captures him walking on air. The preacher, who is part of the Enlightened Christian Gathering, performs the feat after walking down a wooden staircase in his Malawi mansion (left). The camera then zooms in for a close up of Bushiri's feet as he appears to levitate (inset) before panning out again (right).

Simone Anderson Pretscherer, 24, from Auckland, New Zealand, lost 189lbs in just 11 months, going from 372lbs to 183lbs. Some online critics who watched her progress on Facebook accused her of faking her weight loss because they couldn't see excess skin - but she had just hidden it in the pictures she'd posted. So the make-up artist silenced them by putting her skin on full display, and was met with a ton of support. Recently, however, she underwent a nine-hour surgery to get the skin removed because it had become cumbersome. She debuted her new figure on Tyra's new daytime show, FABLife and also shared photos of herself in belly-baring work-out clothes online.

John Gotti's grandson has married in a star-studded ceremony. And according to Page Six's sources, it was an event worthy of The Godfather. The wedding for the mobster descendant John Agnello and his fiancée Alina Sanchez (left) was reportedly held at Oheka Castle (center) in Long Island last weekend. John Travolta (bottom right), who is set to play the Dapper Don (Gambino boss John Gotti, top right) in a much-delayed biopic, reportedly attended with his wife Kelly Preston.

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus' son, Charlie Hall, is a freshman walk-on for the basketball team at Northwestern University in Illinois. Both the actress and her husband, Brad Hall, attended the college in Evanston. This upcoming college basketball season, Hall will be sporting the number 10 jersey on court for the wildcats.

Jewel Shuping, from North Carolina, had thoughts of being blind from a young age (left and inset). The 30-year-old was diagnosed with Body Integrity Identity Disorder, where able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled. She fulfilled her wishes when she arranged for a sympathetic psychologist pour drain cleaner into her eyes. Medics battled to save her eyes - against her wishes - but the corrosive substance melted her eyes and within six months she was blind (right). She said she can understand why people might be angry about someone giving themselves a disability but says it wasn't a choice but a need, based on a disorder of the brain.

Unidentified woman flew into a rage at an jewellery store in Handan, China. She threw wads of cash at a shop assistant while shouting abuse (pictured), exclaiming her vast riches. Incident on September 25 was filmed and the video enraged China's web users.

Over 4,800 Uber employees from all over the world were treated to a lavish five-day event in Las Vegas. Security was tights and Uber's logo was replaced with two X's on signs for the private parties to keep it all hush hush. Staff were put up in fancy hotels along the Vegas strip such as the Paris and Planet Hollywood. The company had a 'no photo or social media' policy for those workers attending the 5-day event.

Susan Griffiths (left and inset) from Tustin, California, has been impersonating Marilyn (right) since the 1980s, when co-workers at her department store job urged her to audition for a lookalike agency. The 55-year-old doppelgänger charges $1,500 to $4,000 for a single appearance and is available for corporate events. She has also starred as Marilyn on screen, appearing in a 1991 TV movie about the star, the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, and several TV show episodes. More recently, she posed on the cover of GQ with Jimmy Kimmel.

Thomas Beatie (left) from Hawaii, separated from his wife Nancy (right) in 2012 after shocking footage emerged which allegedly captured her violently attacking him and mishandling their children. A bitter row which ensued later saw Beatie, who made headlines in 2007 as the first legally transgender man to become pregnant, arrested accused of stalking his ex and placing a GPS tracker in her car. The acrimonious split was further complicated in 2013 when a lower court judge denied the divorce request and ruled that Arizona's ban on same-sex marriages prevented the marriage from being recognized as valid.

Devar Hurd was banned from contacting the hip hop star or her family at a New York trial in 2009 when he was jailed for two years for stalking and aggravated harassment conviction. But after his release, the fan began sending Ashanti hundreds of lewd tweets from fake Twitter accounts, according to prosecutors who said he also turned up at events organized by her younger sister, Kenashia Douglas. Now both Ashanti and Hurd are back in the courtroom where the fan will face charges of breaking his restraining orders.

Under Pierre Cardin's ownership, the Palais Bulles (pictured) became a magnet for stars like Marion Cotillard, Rhys Ifans, Dakota Fanning and Pierce Brosnan, and even Prince Harry's ex-beau Cressida Bonas. The A-listers have all attended high-end fashion shows, posed for photoshoots or partied under its terracotta-coloured bubbles. The 1,200-square-metre mega-complex comes with ten space-aged rooms, three swimming pools, luxurious gardens, an amphitheatre that seats 500 and spectacular views of the Mediterranean. The idea of selling up has been on Cardin's mind for some time. Three years ago, he spoke of wanting to offload his global label for more than £750million and hope to get similar figure for his bizarre, bubble house.

Whether it's checking out the reputable fresh fish menu, or getting our jaws around some premium cuts of meat, food can be a central part of our trip away. However, with each culture comes individuality. And you might be surprised to note fast food offerings around the world vary significantly. Here, MailOnline Travel takes a look at some of the stranger fast food options available around the world for tourists on the go, including a monster pizza in Sweden (left), Black Ninja burgers in Japan (top right) and a fast food outlet upping their game with a lobster sandwich in the U.S. and Canada (bottom right).

NEW Hillary Clinton's response to the US ordering diplomats to not tell the truth could cause her some trouble for the 2016 Presidential election. Newly released emails between her and her top adviser, Sidney Blumenthal (top middle), expose the real story. They also reveal he wanted her to announce the 'successful strategy' in Libya during her time as Secretary of State.

The supermodel, 49, was interviewed in her huge, designer-filled closet by her teenage daughter, who chatted with her mom about social media, modelling, and writing her first book. Cindy revealed that she uses 'too many hashtags' on social media for her daughter's liking, causing Kaia to laugh.

A group of mostly African American women who were ejected from a Northern California wine country train have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit. The 11 members of the book club say they were ejected from the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing too loud and being disruptive during an afternoon excursion in August. The lawsuit seeks $1 million each for the 11 women who claim they were humiliated and discriminated against when staff ordered them from the train after warning them several times to lower their voices.

NEW Reality star Kim was staying with her father Robert, who was part of the NFL player's legal team, in June 1994 while he took refuge in the attorney's Los Angeles mansion. The athlete was forced into after being named the prime suspect in the murder his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman five days earlier. Kardashian Snr, the ex-husband of Kris Jenner, reportedly found Simpson sitting in 'Kimmy's' room, recording 'a suicide tape', just hours before he staged the car chase that was watched by millions of people on live TV. Lawrence Schiller, the author of American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the O.J. Simpson Defense, said Kardashian warned Simpson not to do it.

Eight-year-old brothers Jora and Black had spent most of their lives as stage acts for a Bulgarian troupe that toured Eastern Europe and Turkey. But when Budapest banned animal shows, they were were left to languish in a stifling beast wagon for months. They were finally rescued by animal charity Born Free earlier this year and, after a 10,500-mile VIP trip to South Africa, have now tasted their natural habitat for the first time at a game reserve near Port Elizabeth.

Silvina Luna, pictured, from Argentina, had the operation at a clinic in Buenos Airies in the hope of improving her model physique, pictured, but instead, it ruined her life. The 'painful' operation has left her in constant pain and has severely damaged her kidneys. As a result she has to take medication for the rest of her life which has made her infertile. She is now suing Dr Anibal Lotocki, claiming that the 2011 operation ruined her life.

This historic photograph (right) showing Jesse James and his killer Robert Ford has been authenticated after painstaking analysis by a police forensics expert. The tintype picture, potentially worth millions of dollars, is thought to have been taken not long before Ford shot the notorious outlaw dead in 1882. The image was passed down through several generations of Sandy Mills' farming family who knew Jesse James and even harbored him while he was on the run in 1870s, but nobody believed it was a genuine picture of the gunslinging bank robber - until now. The image was passed to police forensics expert Lois Gibson, who spent days comparing it to dozens of other images (two examples, left) of James. She said the photo, which could be worth millions of dollars, was genuine

As the host of TLC's new reality series Sex in Public , Jill Dictrow visits a mall, a bridal shop and a variety of other locations with hidden cameras to offer real people free advice about their sexual and emotional issues in the hopes of helping those who are apprehensive about seeking therapy.

Nikko Jenkins, 29 (main), told court officials in Nebraska this week he cut his penis as an homage to the ancient Egyptian serpent god Apep, or Apophis (top left), which he claims to worship. He said the latest laceration - the third such incident since his arrest for killing four people on Omaha in July 2013, within days of being released from prison - required him to have 27 stitches. The cutting was forced a major security crackdown at at Nebraska State Penitentiary as officers try to determine how Jenkins is finding the means to hurt himself.

LA-based TV personality Aaron Bleyaert, known as Conan O'Brien's 'web guy', says he's 'overwhelmed' by the response to his frank account of how a painful break-up led him to overhaul his life. In his funny 'four easy steps' piece, he places his tongue firmly in his cheek as he advises other men: 'Even though you're way too weak to do pretty much anything but lift 5lb weights, do it until your sweat makes a puddle on the floor.'

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bree Towner, 28, from Edwardsville, Illinois, developed a spot on her nose in January 2013, which failed to heal (pictured left). Two years later, it had grown to the size of a 'pencil eraser'. She was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a growth in the skin's basal cells, which line the deepest layer of the epidermis (the skin's outer layer). She had surgery to remove the growth, and then operations to reconstruct her nose. But this involved taking skin from her scalp (pictured centre) and having to shave her nose. Both this and the horrific scars left her on the brink of suicide. Now, though she is cancer-free (pictured right), she has been warned there is a 40 per cent chance the disease will return. She wishes she could be 'scar-free', she said. She added: 'It's awesome that I'm cancer free, but I wish it wasn't such a visible consequence. I am now dating a guy that I knew before my surgeries and he makes me feel beautiful, so I am slowly healing in that respect, I guess.'

Lexi Behrndt, 23, of Florida, was shocked to learn that she was pregnant at age 20, but says that having a baby has been the best thing in her life, and she considers herself incredibly successful because she is a great mom to her two-and-a-half-year-old son, Lincoln. The blogger wants to show people that success does not have to be measured only by professional accomplishments.

Cancer sufferer Caleb Hanby and his wife Bethany married in an hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, after his condition suddenly deteriorated. They were just weeks away from a dream $100,000 wedding they had won in a competition for deserving couples after her bridesmaid entered secretly told judges their story. But after arriving at the hospital last Thursday, the couple realized their times may have been running out. They tied the knot that day, with a nurse as a flower girl and a wedding cake made by the hospital kitchen. Mrs Hanby told her new husband he would be the love of her life told Mr Hanby - who has a rare form of jaw cancer - he would be the love of her life 'no matter how much time we have together'.

Children as young as nine are being put to work as slave labourers across the Central African Republic and the Philippines to mine gold and diamonds that drive the jewellery market in the West, according to two hard-hitting reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The global diamond market is about to be flooded with 'blood diamonds' (inset), mined by children as young as 11 working under 'back-breaking' conditions (left), with the lifting of the Kimberley Process ban. Meanwhile children in the Philippines dive down narrow shafts into cold, murky water (right) to depths of up to 10metres for several hours at a time, with just a thin length of hose to breathe through.

NEW The winning entry is 3D printed from translucent ice which shields the crew from radiation, and transforms into a glowing beacon in the Martian night. ''The innovative structure draws on the abundance of water and persistently low temperatures in Mars' northern latitudes to create a multi-layered pressurized radiation shell of ice that encloses a lander habitat and gardens within,' its creators say.

One of the oldest villages in the Mediterranean is being overrun with athletes from one of the world's newest sports - freerunning. On Thursday, Red Bull kicked off its fifth annual Art of Motion competition on the Greek island of Santorini. The competition pits freerunners from around the world against each other in a battle to wow the judges by navigating a complex terrain, all while performing amazing gymnastic tricks. Freerunning is similar to parkour, a famous alternative sport that gained popularity with action movies like Brick Mansions and the James Bond film Casino Royale.

More than 200 aerial daredevils plunged into the record books this week, linking up 7,000 feet above Southern California to shatter a world record for the largest sequential skydiving formation. The jump center's manager, Dan Brodksy-Chenfeld, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that more skydiving records could fall in the days ahead. The same elite group of jumpers is poised to take to the air again this week in an effort to form three separate formations, he said.

The amazing video, captured by the baby's father, Francisco Aguilar, and later posted online, shows the little boy peering over the edge of a mattress as he desperately attempts to climb down from it. But as hard as he tries to reach the ground, his short, chubby legs will not let him. Instead, the baby realises he needs to come up with another, cleverer plan. Footage shows the infant rolling over and lugging a full-sized pillow over to the side of the bed. He then hurls the item on the floor, before leaning back and doing the same with two more pillows (top left and right). Before long, the baby has created a stack of pillows right next to the bed, which enables him to lower himself on to the ground (bottom left and right).

This sprawling mansion (inset) in Friendswood, Texas, features a number of rooms themed on the hit sci-fi franchise, Star Trek. It has just gone on the market for a staggering $1.26million. The five-bedroom property includes a media room recreation (bottom left) of the bridge of the Star Trek USS Enterprise (top left, the recreation), complete with a cinema screen. It also boasts spaceship-inspired bunk beds, a 'Trekkie' kitchen and dining room (top right), outer space ceilings, and even a futuristic bathroom (bottom right). Elsewhere, it includes a tropical swimming pool (bottom right) and a medieval bedroom.