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Prince Harry salutes wounded heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan all smiles as he meets Michelle Obama at event in support of Invictus Games

Prince Harry hugged US Marine Sgt Roderic Liggens today at Belvoir, Virginia. He launched the USA's first Invictus Games for wounded veterans with Michelle Obama, who joked he was a heartthrob. read


Bailey Gwynne killed after Aberdeen Cults Academy school stabbing

The pupil, named locally as Bailey Gwynne, pictured, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by ambulance after police were called to Cults Academy around 1.30 this afternoon. read


Strictly Come Dancing announcer claims cocaine are delivered directly to BBC staff

BBC Veteran Mr Dedicoat, 60, who is known as the 'voice of the balls' because he has announced the National Lottery since 1995, said a drug dealer delivered his wares to BBC staff at their desks. read


Revealed... the 116 things that cause CANCER - according to world health experts

Experts at the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer have classified processed meat as being carcinogenic to humans. Here we reveal the other 115 things deemed as dangerous. read


Six-year-old boy who weighs EIGHT STONE is 'food obsessed'

Jane (not her real name) revealed on today's This Morning that she doesn't know what to do as her son already eats healthily and gets some exercise. He is double the weight of an average six-year-old. read


Take our quiz to see how many of these University Challenge questions you can answer

BBC's University Challenge has released a quiz book full of the show's challenging questions. FEMAIL has put together a quiz of the toughest, see how you square up against the champions. read


YouTube video shows woman pretend to be drunk during the day in Madrid

The clips shows the scantily-clad woman drinking from a bottle of alcohol at 5.30pm in the buzzing city of Madrid, Spain, and a steady stream of men approaching her. read


Whale boat tragedy passengers were trapped inside sinking ship

Survivors were found in the water and clinging to rocks off Vancouver Island, Canada, while one man was shouting for his wife who he said could not swim, it has been revealed. read


Becky Watts's stepbrother Nathan Matthews confessed to killing her so the family could bury her

Giving evidence at Bristol Crown Court, Nathan Matthews denied having a sexual interest in his 16-year-old stepsister before he kidnapped and killed her then cut up her body with a power saw. read


Kent schoolboy Connor McDonald dies after falling off a promenade into the sea

Connor McDonald fell into 5ft of water in Dymchurch, Kent. Efforts to resuscitate him failed and he died overnight in hospital. The boy is thought to have been with his father when he fell on Tuesday. read


Financial consultant charged his MOTHER £400-a-day to visit her in care home

The financial consultant, from Gerrard's Cross in Buckinghamshire, charged his own mother (not pictured) £400 a day for visiting and pocketed nearly £120,000 from her fortune. read


How does death feel? Chemists explain what happens when you're about to die

A video , by the American Chemical Society, reveals how fear and pain change the brain's chemical make up. It also explains how the brain experiences an extra jolt of life just before before it dies. read


Two-month-old Northampton baby boy died when his mother fell asleep on the sofa

Dawn Goodacre, pictured with her partner Kieron Whitehouse, drank two glasses of wine before falling asleep with her son Henry Whitehouse at home in Northampton. read


Baby born without a brain celebrates his 2nd birthday and says 'Mummy' for the first time

Emma Murray, 24, from Lanarkshire, Scotland, said it seemed like a miracle when he son Aaron first spoke as he was born with only the tiniest part of a brain. read


Two Iranian poets jailed and sentenced to 99 lashes for shaking hands with members of the opposite sex

Fatemeh Ekhtesari, an obstetrician, and Mehdi Mousavi, a trained doctor who teaches literature and poetry in Iran, were arrested in 2013 months after President Hassan Rouhani took office. read


Brit Karl Andree sentenced to 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia to be released

Karl Andree, a 74-year-old British expat living in Saudi Arabia, had been sentenced to 350 lashes for brewing homemade wine in his bath, breaking Saudi Arabia's strict alcohol laws. read


South Sudanese men were forced to eat each other's FLESH in cannibal torture before being shot

The African Union Commission of Inquiry had been tasked with investigating the ethnic violence which began in the capital Juba in December 2013. read


Madeleine McCann search scaled back after investigation costs soar over £10m

The Met, which has spent more than £10million on trying to find the missing British child, has cut the number of officers working on it from 29 to four, the force said. read


Christina Annesley's parents track down last man to see her alive in Sweden

Christina Annesley, 23, died in January this year shortly after arriving on Koh Tao in Thailand, the same island where British travellers David Miller and Hannah Witheridge were murdered in 2014. read


MEPS vote to hike EU budget by 830m in face of worsening migrant crisis

The European Parliament added extra funds for handling the unprecedented flow of refugees across Europe when voting on the budget for 2016. read


Germany says Austria is 'out of order' over migrant crisis and accuses country of shuttling refugees to its border under the cover of darkness

'The behaviour of Austria in recent days was out of order,' German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said today, suggesting Austria was helping migrants cross undetected. read


EU exit might not close borders says Prime Minister David Cameron

The former Chancellor is leading the Tory campaign to leave the EU and believes Mr Cameron's claims it would still mean open borders and paying millions to Brussels are scaremongering. read


Migrants using children as shields for men with iPhones to justify arriving in Europe

Czech President Milos Zeman claimed that migrants are not in desperate need, but are economically wealthy and are using their children in order to gain sympathy from Europe. read


Royal Marines defy MOD to join veterans call for retrial of Marine A Sgt Blackman

Royal Marine Sergeant Alexander Blackman, 41, received a life sentence two years ago for killing a wounded captive in Helmand province in Afghanistan in September 2011. read


Sepp Blatter reveals Russia was chosen to host 2018 World Cup BEFORE vote

Sepp Blatter has revealed there was an agreement in place for the 2018 World Cup to go to Russia even before the vote took place. He said the tournament was always lined up to go to Russia. read


David Cameron blasts Jeremy Corbyn and the House of Lords for blocking tax credit changes

The Labour leader dedicated all of his questions at Prime Minister's Questions to the over tax credits reform which was controversially stalled this week by the House of Lords. read


Niece Jean Kelly stole £36,500 from her widowed poppy seller aunt

Over six years, Jean Kelly, 62, plundered the bank account of her elderly aunt Laura Judge, while masquerading as her carer, York Crown Court heard. read


Hundreds of mourners - and Spider-Man - turn out with yellow balloons for funeral of two-year-old boy who choked on a grape in Pizza Hut

Some 200 mourners gathered at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Hartlepool, Country Durham, to bid farewell to Jacob Jenkins, who died five days after choking on the fruit. read


Mother selling a couch saws it in 3 after Facebook joker Joe Cordingley posed as a buyer

Joe Cordingley contacted mother-of-one Emma Taylor, both from Lancashire, after he spotted the second-hand couch for sale on a Facebook buy and sell site. read


Harry Kirkham killed by police car while practising parkour in Birmingham

Harry Kirkham, 15, from Birmingham, had just left a church service and was performing stunts with a friend and his brother when he was struck by the police car in Birmingham. read


Robert Mandley who retired to South Africa for a better life was strangled to death

Retired postman Robert Mandley, 66, was moving into a new flat near Johannesburg when he was attacked by his gardener and another man who had been helping him move. read


Burger King Rodeo meal photo bears no resemblance to the advert

Danny Allen, from Edinburgh, bought the Burger King Double Rodeo BBQ burger at a restaurant in Fort Kinnaird. He was left disappointed after the meal looked nothing like the advert. read


Is your KITCHEN making you fat?

Professor Brian Wansink, of Cornell University, says our kitchen arrangements affects our weight. From hiding junk in cupboards to listening to jazz at dinner, here he reveals how to be slim by design.. read


Sting auctioning his art collection including a Matisse and Picasso

The singer's Steinway piano - said to be worth around £50,000 - is among more than 200 items from their former family home in Westminster to go under the hammer. read


Bottle feeding is 'making children fat' because mums are distracted

Californian researchers say the ‘technology trap’ may be distracting new mothers and stopping them from noticing when their child has had enough milk - so-called ‘mindless feeding’. read


Sellers mock panic over 5p charge for plastic bags with posts on eBay

Sellers on eBay are advertising carrier bags for sale from 1p to £1,000. The jokey listings appear to be a reaction to the 5p charge brought in this month. One urged buyers to grab 'a piece of history.' read


Map shows the thousands of migrants flocking to Europe every month

Each dot represents between 25 and 50 people who were among the more than 1.3million seeking asylum in the Eurozone from 2012 to the end of 2015. read


Man arrested off plane at Gatwick airport over stabbing of 21-year-old Eastcote

The unnamed 24-year-old was getting off a flight which had just landed and was taken into custody near the border in connection with the death of Josh Hanson, 21, who died on October 11. read


Thailand's Miss Uncensored News 2015 thanks mother for success in the most touching way

The heartfelt moment 17-year-old Miss Uncensored News Thailand 2015 winner Khanittha 'Mint' Phasaeng knelt before her mother in filthy conditions to say thank you for everything she has done. read


Married student accused of taking photos up women's skirts at wedding reception blames 'drunken nervous twitch' for his behaviour

Californian Collin Lieberg, 34, was allegedly spotted by wedding guests at the Oyster Shed pub near London Bridge leaning in towards girls and angling his phone under their dress hemlines. read


Britain's spies throw open doors of GCHQ to reveal intimate secrets

The super computer in GCHQ's Cheltenham building is the size of a family fridge and creates the cryptographic keys used to encrypt all Government, MI6 and MI5 files. read


Injuries suffered by Great Harwood teenager assaulted while he was out with his girlfriend 

Louise Beardmore spoke of the moment her son Danny, 19, returned home with a broken cheekbone, eye socket and nose after being assaulted in Great Harwood town centre in Lancashire on Saturday. read


Facebook rolls out Message Requests feature that lets ANYONE contact you

The announcement was made by Facebook's David Marcus. Message Requests will soon start appearing at the top of a person's main inbox in the Messenger app (pictured). read


London woman is sexually assaulted on her Clapham doorstep

The woman, who is in her 20s, was returning to her home in Clapham, south London, at 8pm on Monday night when the man launched the sickening attack. read


Footballer wins High Court fight over child maintenance pay

The 'well-known' unnamed player, in his early 30s, has children aged ten and five by different mothers and is paid around £180,000 a year. His case was heard at the High Court in London. read


Krzystof Charamsa attacks the Vatican after coming out as gay

Polish Father Krzystof Charamsa was stripped of his post earlier this month on the day he announced he was in a relationship with another man. read


North Middlesex Hospital doctors are cleared of cheating in their medical exams

Dr Joao Fernandes Pinheiro and his girlfriend Dr Ana Do Amaral were reported amid claims he had allowed her to copy off his test paper during an exam at North Middlesex Hospital in London. read


Family share photographs of their four-year-old daughter fighting meningitis

Parents Tim and Louise Dawson, from Dalton, West Yorkshire, have shared the photos of their daughter, Millie, in a bid to raise awareness of how suddenly the disease can take hold. read


Compact studio flat at £434-a-month is just a sofa in a bodybuilder's bedroom

The 'compact' studio flat, situated in South Kensington, west London, is being rented out by an exercise fanatic who claims it has 'relatively new' appliances despite no proper bed or a view. read


Office for National Statistics figures show disposable income is back to pre-crash levels

Higher wages and lower prices have made Britons feel richer – with disposable incomes rising at the fastest pace since 2007. read


Country Life reveals its 39 key skills every modern gentleman should have 

The weekly magazine - published in London - says the steps reflect the ground rules for male manners in today's world of social media, high-tech gadgets and constantly shifting trends. read


Mexico's Zapotec tribe where kids of FOUR are fed magic mushrooms revealed

The mushrooms which grow on the hills of Mexico's Oaxaca state are seen as sacred by the indigenous Zapotec tribe and are used by local shamans witchdoctors in coming of age rituals. read


George Osborne's climbdown puts tax-credit reforms back months

The cuts had been due to come into force in full in April, with millions of households expecting ‘Christmas letters’ outlining how much they would lose. read


Anastasia Goncharova wins High Court battle to have a DNA test so she can claim fortune

Anastasia Goncharova, 24, has triumphed in a legal bid to get her hands on a tiny vial of blood belonging to Kakha Bendukidze, a billionaire businessman whom she claims is her father. read


Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in £24k stamp duty tax avoidance on £1.5m Portuguese home

Jose Mourinho told Portugal authorities he bought holiday home in his hometown Setubal for £1.1million - around £350,000 than its true value, avoiding £24,000 stamp duty, it is claimed. read


Former lawyer, 37, launches appeal after losing favourite teddy bears

Jena Peng, 37, who lives with his mother in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was devastated when he misplaced teddy bears Cinny Baby and Bahad, and has now launched an appeal to find them. read


Parents fined for taking son on term-time Dutch holiday for WW2 Battle of Arnhem anniversary

Rachel Hughes, 41, from Blackpool, wanted her son Ben Pietersma, 13, to see the spot where Cpl John Atkinson fought Germans in 1944 ill-fated Operation Market Garden. read


Identities of 'tens of thousands' of Britions sold on the 'dark web' after hacks

Personal details of more than 600,000 customers stolen from companies in the UK last year. And they are available to buy on the black market of the internet for less than £20, it has been reported. read


Cat snuck into New Zealand vets to be with her kittens after her owner dumped them there

Staff at the Mill Road Vet Clinic in New Zealand found a box of four abandoned kittens on their doorstep one morning and immediately fell in love with them. read


From Marilyn Monroe's ornate jacuzzi to Mike Tyson's mirrored ceilings, photos reveal the luxurious interiors of celebrity's lavish bathrooms

Marilyn's bathroom inside her former New York penthouse also features a marbled staircase and long mirrored side wall. Celine Dion, 47, has plush golden drapes inside her ladies' room. read


Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ticket website crashes as sellers hit ebay

Booking opened at 11am today for pre-registered fans who had priority for the May 2016 preview performances of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. read


Biker in India survives after impaling himself on two iron bars after crash

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The three-feet long rods punctured Hamar Singh Rajput's neck as he rode on his bike in a remote part of Rajasthan, India. read


Why marriage really IS good for your heart health

The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study found married people were likely to have better aftercare than those who were single or widowed, which improved their recovery. read


Italian school bans high heels in case staff and pupils trip up fleeing earthquakes

The school in Avezzano, central Italy, has banned any shoes with a heel higher than 1.6inches to make sure that students and staff can flee quickly in case of an earthquake. read


London rush hour crush after a gang attacked John Francis Been at Stratford Tube station

John Francis Breen, 53, who was found unconscious at Stratford Overground station, in east London, just after 5.15pm yesterday, has now died in hospital of serious head injuries. read


After The Apprentice catfight Kelly Rose Bradford reveals she hates all-female offices 

Kelly Rose Bradford, 42, from west London, is not surprised by the Selina and Charleine's clash on the BBC show, after years of 'spiteful competition and playground-style bitching' from women colleagues. read


Swansea estate agent who posted revenge porn pictures of his ex online has been jailed

Ashleigh Hayward, from Swansea, was prosecuted under new laws which make so-called 'revenge porn' illegal after he admitted sending photos of the woman to a friend. read


EU bosses tell Britain we CAN axe the tampon tax

Treasury minister David Gauke has pledged to take the fight to scrap so-called 'tampon tax' to Brussels and avoided a humiliating Commons defeat for the Tories after 305 supported him and opposed it. read


Edinburgh Police post cheeky form asking drug dealers to shop their rivals 

Officers in Edinburgh, which has one of Scotland's highest crime rates, used their Twitter account to promote the plea. read


Blackpool mum relives the horror of tracking down the dad who raped her for 6 years

Sarah Williams, 37, from Blackpool, was raped by David Pritchard, who also took pornographic images of her. Despite reporting him, police said there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him. read


Flogging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is set to resume 'soon', says his wife

Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Canada, said the Saudi authorities 'have given the green light to the resumption of Raif Badawi's flogging' at the prison in Saudi Arabia where he is being held. read


iPong! Career criminal returns stolen handset stashed inside his own BUM following Meatpacking District burglary

Trent Patterson, pictured, recovered the stolen iPhone 5 from up his bum and handed it over to officers after its owner tracked down the handset to the Sixth Precinct in West Village, Manhattan. read


Poppies removed from Surbiton station platform when drivers confused them with signals

Commuters were delighted to see the ceremonial flowers appear on pillars at Surbiton station this week, ahead of Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. read


Thousand-year-old Bible found in Turkey after smugglers sell it to police

Police in Tokat, central Turkey, said they had detained three suspects who were attempting to sell the Bible, written in the old Assyriac language, to undercover police officers. read


UFO spotter alerts UN to a 'baby bear' living on Mars complete with fur

UFO hunter, Scott Waring, who lives in Taiwan, said the 'creature' in the Nasa photograph of Gale Crater on Mars, has hair and is clearly living, although many people will think it's simply a rock. read


Gordon Ramsey swearing over footage of young Masterchef Junior contestants

A cleverly edited video splices Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay's epic foul-mouthed tirades over footage of MasterChef Junior contestants as they grapple with their dishes. read


Unwanted greyhound left in Battersea Dogs' Home is flown to his new home

The greyhound had been a long-standing resident at Battersea Dogs' Home in south-west London after he became too old to continue racing. But he is now enjoying his new life in St Brelade, Jersey. read


Thieves ransacked elderly couple’s home on wedding anniversary

Alec and Isobel Stevenson returned to their home in Pilton, Edinburgh, in the early hours of Saturday morning after celebrating 50 years of marriage with their friends and family at the city's Royal Navy Club. read


Astrophysicist predicts when a ball is going to hit the target

The system, dreamed up by an astrophysicist and his son in Oregon, could be to make TV coverage of sports more exciting by showing a ball's trajectory on top of the screen. read


Take the 007 world tour of EVERY James Bond film from Spectre to Dr No

MailOnline Travel looks at every Bond film to reveal which 007 racked up air miles to make their enemies weep with envy. From Venice to the Bahamas, take a world tour on the MI6 trail. read


DARK MATTER may have sent comet towards Earth to wipe out the dinosaurs

A leading cosmologist at Harvard University claims a dense disk of dark (illustrated) matter in the heart of the Milky Way may have sent a comet on a collision course with Earth. read


Crawley woman Margaret Kiernan says substation has given her 'radiation poisoning'

Margaret Kiernan, 49, of Crawley, West Sussex, claims she suffers fits, fatigue and difficulty walking as a result of radiation poisoning - and may have to leave her family home. read


Crohn's disease sufferer wrote Facebook post after being accused of FAKING disability

Father-to-be Ste Walker, 24, suffers from all five types of Crohn's disease and has spent all but four weeks out of the last 18 months in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, in West Yorkshire. read


John O'Neill's dementia caused by concussions suffered while playing rugby

John O'Neill, who spent two decades playing in the first team for his local rugby club in Southampton, is now unable to move, talk or feed himself due to his early-onset dementia. read


Nigerian troops rescue 338 people held by Boko Haram including 192 children

The hostages, which included 192 children and 138 women, had been kept by the terrorists in their Sambisa Forest stronghold, near the border to Cameroon, the army said Wednesday. read


Volkswagen posts first quarterly loss in 15 years

VW has posted a loss of £2.5billion for the first quarter to be impacted by the emissions test cheating scandal. The carmaker has increased the money set aside to cover the cost or recalls. read


10-year-old Vietnamese girl blinded in acid attack which burned her entire head

Little Nhi was just six years old when a mystery attacker covered her in acid, burning her entire head and leaving her blind in one eye and with minimal sight in the other in Vietnam. read


Why a cigarette is so tempting after a drink

Researchers from the University of Missouri's School of Medicine have found nicotine cancels out the sleep-inducing effect of alcohol. It could explain why so many drinkers are also smokers, they say. read


Photos show Chinese girl with cerebral palsy who is fed a pint of SPIRIT every day

Cheng Xin, 13, from Jiangxi, China, suffers from congenital cerebral palsy. Her symptoms include muscle spasms that causes extreme pain. She started drinking to help with the pain. read


Woman with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome discusses finding out her FRIEND was stealing from her

Kat Rees, 32, from Hadlow, Kent, set up a secret camera in her home which caught Elena Jeffrey in the act as she took cash from her wallet. Jeffrey was jailed over the offences. read


Pubjab man has 8st growth removed from his leg after being unable to walk for 5 years

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Gumreet Singh, 26, of Jalandhar, in Punjab, northern India, was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer - sarcoma of the bone. He now weighs just over 5st. read


Beijing Forbidden City tourist decides to walk home after being separated from tour

The Chinese tourist said he became overwhelmed by the size of the crowd at the popular tourist attraction and was unable to find help because he doesn't speak the local dialect. read


Infants are soothed for longer when they listen to singing rather than talking

Psychologists from the University of Montreal, Canada, said babies get 'carried away' by music, suggesting they have the mental capacity to be enthralled. read


Kelly Cruse ditched her husband in favour of her 35 CATS

Kelly Cruse, 33, from Plymouth, Devon, has bred over 200 rare Snowshoe cats and has had to cover the walls of her home in white plastic to prevent bad smells and the spread of infection. read


Cancer patient's last wish to see his horse again granted by Bodmin Community Hospital

Frank Keat, 80, wanted to visit the stables where he worked for 65 years one final time, but was too frail to leave Bodmin Community Hospital where he was being treated for cancer. read


Transgender treatment among children has risen fivefold in five years

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which specialises in gender issues in under-18s, said there had been growing referrals made by GPs, medical specialists and schools. read


UK holidayers in Sharm-el-Sheikh hooked to IV drips fixed to LAMPSHADE

Marc Trundley and Hayley Gavin paid £1,520 for the 11-night stay in the Red Sea resort. But they spent half their stay bedridden at the Royal Grand Sharm hotel after suffering a severe gastric illness. read


Mexican couple filmed having sex in a Santa Fe office block during late-night fling

These are the shocking scenes as a Mexican couple have sex inside an office block in Santa Fe, Mexico City completely unaware that they can be seen quite clearly from a neighbouring building. read


UK weather sees floods hit parts of Britain with heavy rain for THREE DAYS

Photos taken in Sheffield today (pictured) show traffic struggling to drive through floodwater after downpours overnight. It comes amid warnings of localised floods across parts of the UK. read


Author Liz Dean says changing your vocabulary could make you richer and healthier

Could repeating a word in your head bring you love and even riches? Author Liz Dean claims it can. She says 'switch words' have even helped to return stolen cars and lost luggage. read


Serbian prisoner’s genitals disintegrating after he injected Vaseline to make them bigger

Alexandar Djelic, 46, who was serving time in a north-west Serbian prison for theft, injected 80grams of Vaseline petroleum jelly into his penis over a period of four days. read


German condom maker Einhorn banned from 'multiple orgasms' slogan

Berlin condom company Einhorn promises 'up to 21 orgasms' for a pack of seven - three per condom - arguing that promising just one orgasm per condom is offering a one-sided sexual experience. read


House prices up 5.3% in a year as London market reignites with average property now costing £500k

The Land Registry said that In the capital values rose 9.6 per cent compared to September 2014, meaning the average property now has a price tag just £3 short of £500,000. read


Katy Charlton confronts cyclist husband's killer Neil Urwin as he's jailed

Katy Charlton took to the witness stand at Newcastle Crown Court and told Neil Urwin, 56, (pictured) his decision to drive had devastated her family, leaving three children without a father. read


Hounslow feminist mum cringes at her daughter's love of princesses, frills and pink

Mother-of-two Sarah Fletcher, 32, from Hounslow, is baffled by Alice's love of all things fairy tale-inspired despite her best efforts to give her stronger, more well-rounded role models. read


Wayne by Wayne Cooper 'vagina' dress taking the internet by storm

A maxi dress on sale at an Australian department store has taken social media by storm as people point out the 'Sahara Print' looks more like vaginas than the desert. read


Superfan has Michelle Keegan's face tattooed on his leg but it looks NOTHING like her

A Coronation Street superfan had a permanent inking of Michelle, who found fame as Tina McIntyre in the soap, but unfortunately for Stephen Jones, it looks nothing like the star. read


Equestrian models strip down to their stockings for Foxy Hunters charity calendar

The 14 amateur models, all from the equestrian world, swapped their riding gear for stockings and suspenders for the saucy shots. read


Video of pet cat Sox being mesmerised by her own reflection

Fraser Napier, 24, of Blackburn, near Aberdeen, captured the hilarious footage of Sox balancing on her back legs while waving her front paws in the air and staring at her reflection in the mirror. read


Cardiff mother's shock as baby son is born weighing 12lb 9oz

Aaron Amaf was 'like a celebrity' after being born by Caesarian section, nearly twice the size of an average baby at the University Hospital of Wales. A scan revealed he would be a big baby. read


Merseyside police officer is caught using his PHONE behind the wheel of a force van

The policeman was filmed apparently using the device while driving the marked vehicle along a 30mph road in Widnes, Merseyside, earlier this month. read


Female Guantanamo Bay guards banned from transporting '9/11 detainees' over their beliefs

An order banning female guards at the Cuban prison from transporting the detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (pictured), has been branded 'outrageous'. read


Inside James Packer’s $4.5bn super casino in Macau but not EVERYONE’S impressed

Billionaire James Packer has opened the doors of his lavish new $4.5 billion super-casino in Macau, with some of Hollywood's biggest stars turning out to help the Australian mogul get the party started. read


Instagram star Gabrielle Epstein reveals she was trolled by people she knows

Instagram star Gabrielle Epstein, 21, from the Gold Coast, said she suffered internet bullying from 'friends of friends' who thought she wouldn't notice their negative comments on her posts. read


Ettington Park Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon might be Britain's most haunted hotel

Ettington Park Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, a Neo-Gothic mansion with roots stretching beyond the time of William the Conqueror, is considered one of the nation's most haunted places. read


Brave breast cancer survivors bare their scars for Femininity Comes From Within exhibition

Photographer Julia Holland spent two years documenting women she met through her work with charity Keeping Abreast. The exhibition is starting at Gloucestershire Royal before a national tour. read


Nasa says it may soon find life-bearing oceans on Enceladus and Europa

Astronomers are studying Saturn's small moon Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon, Europa - both of which are believed to have habitable oceans that lie beneath their icy exterior. read


Tesco driver Tom Moulton's piano performance of the Titanic theme stuns crowd

Tom Moulton, 22, was pressured into playing the tune by his mum, Jane Wood, 50, as the pair walked past a piano in Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester. read


James Ware who 'faked his way into 'James Bond Spectre premiere BOUGHT tickets

James Ware proudly told how he 'crashed' the glitzy screening of the James Bond blockbuster at the Albert Hall by blagging his way past security with the forged ticket. read


Two seals in Cornwall and Weymouth use FACETIME to keep in touch

Female seal Sija and 37-year-old Babyface have settled for gazing at each other through iPads 160 miles apart after the equipment was set up at their sanctuaries in Cornwall and Weymouth. read


Salem witches at war: Witch 'priestess' takes 'world's best-known warlock' to court accusing him of harassment

Lori Sforza, who runs a Salem witchcraft shop, filed for court-ordered protection against harassment from Christian Day. read


3293660 Woman who thought she'd simply bumped her head is told she has FIVE brain tumours - and needs half her skull removed

Katherine Dance, 42, from Binfield, Berkshire, had an operation to remove the five tumours - which revealed one was cancerous. She had a stroke afterwards, leaving her unable to walk or talk. read


What Richard Branson, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg eat for breakfast

An infographic by Make It Cheaper reveals the morning habits of high-powered leaders such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Virgin’s Richard Branson and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. read


Barnsley Antiques Store CCTV footage captures picture frame falling by itself

Owner of Barnsley Antiques Store Danny Parker has been plagued by a 'phantom' for a year and has captured it causing mischief on camera a number of times. read


Elephants killed in Zimbabwe Hwange National Park may have been poisoned by rangers

Staff at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, have reportedly not been paid, and it is feared that the 62 elephants found dead in the park this month may have been killed as a form of 'protest'. read


Overweight mother and daughter lose 17 stone between them on secret diets

Katie Hunt, 50, from Derbyshire and Amber, 22, from Birmingham started diets on the same day - slimming to 10st and 10st 11lbs respectively. However neither of them knew about the other. read


Record number of Android users are switching to Apple

During Apple's latest fourth quarter earnings call, boss Tim Cook said that 30 per cent of customers who bought an iPhone recently had switched from an Android-based phone. The Move to iOS app is shown. read


Gravity app turns your iPhone into a WEIGHING SCALE

Gravity was created by California-based design engineer Ryan McLeod who posted a blog about the development process on Medium. read


Chinese kindergarten children forced to wait for a beating by female teacher

A shocking video has surfaced showing around 20 pupils from a kindergarten in the city of Jiangmen frantically being forced to queue up and then beaten with a stick by their female teacher. read


Can YOU tell who is who? Couple swap Halloween costumes half way through the night and leave the internet baffled

Phil Nye explains that he and his girlfriend went to a friend's Halloween party as Randy Marsh and Lorde from comedy cartoon, South Park. read


Brazilian drug trafficker attempts prison break wearing a mask

Clodoaldo Antonio Felipe, 44, wore the creepy mask, which has been likened to those used in big budget Hollywood movies, to try and break out of Coronel Odenir Guimaraes Prison in central Brazil. read


Jae-eun amassed 272,000 Instagram followers thanks to cute hybrid genetics

Jae-eun has amassed more than 272,000 Instagram followers in Japan and Asia. The tot with the cheeky smile and bright eyes has been called 'irresistible' by Japanese media. read


Michael Sharpe says ME can be beaten by taking more exercise and positive thinking

Oxford professor Michael Sharpe's team today publishes findings which suggest a form of counselling is the most effective way to treat chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME. read


Video of van driver thwarting petrol station robbers by smashing into getaway biker

Incredible CCTV footage captured the moment a van driver slammed his vehicle into the getaway bike to knock the rider off and prevent him from escaping with cash and valuables in Chile. read


California dad turns daughter into El Nino for Halloween with a cloud on her head that rains

Zoey Hutain (pictured), three, has been travelling around her neighborhood with a cloud on her head which lights up and rains. The costume was a joint project by Zoey and her father, from California. read


Chinese alcoholic develops fat deposits around his throat after drinking A LITRE of liquor a day

Man from Guangzhou, China, developed huge fat deposits around his neck. He was diagnosed with Madelung disease, associated with alcohol abuse. He underwent surgery and will recover. read


Is Miami the Instagram chihuahua the world's most travelled dog?

Donning accessories in his trademark colour, red, three-year-old Miami, from Italy, is always dressed for the occasion, whether that involves a snug coat for the airport or a studded collar for a yacht. read


Halloween loving Charlene Marcham uses makeup to create cuts and bruises

Charlene Marcham, 23, from Hailsham, East Sussex, uses wax and artificial blood to create the gory effects and says she hopes to become a professional theatrical makeup artist. read


Nissan's self-driving minivan among the vehicles unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show

Car manufacturers have revealed an array of self-driving, eco-friendly and connected vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota revealed a space-age design for a hydrogen-fuel powered car (pictured). read


The world's fattest man Andres Moreno is going in for weightloss surgery tomorrow

A team of seven staff had to help hoist Andres Moreno onto a special reinforced stretcher to transport him from his home in Obregon City to a Guadalajara hospital for the gastric bypass. read


Mac on... the Lords' historic snub to the House of Commons 

'Hard feelings? Good heavens, no! We're inviting all Labour and Lib Dem peers to a party here on November the fifth.' read


Dutch prison inmate films himself smoking a joint in his 'luxury' cell

The footage was posted to LiveLeak and purports to show a man inside a prison in Holland touring his cell and showing off his stash of fresh food, the view from his window and his many toiletries. read


Poppy Appeal sees giant poppies appear on pyramid's along Scotland's M8

The stunning floral tribute was created on the famous grass pyramids close to the M8 near Bathgate in West Lothian, west of Edinburgh. read


Baby sea lion jumps onto Vincent Fejeran's kayak and snuggles fisherman in San Diego

Vincent Fejeran was fishing in San Diego last spring when a baby sea lion jumped on the back of his kayak and refused to leave his new human friend. read


Scuba diver photographs an ancient Mayan sinkhole in Quintana Roo in Mexico

The 400ft pit in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, is believed to be an ancient sacrificial Mayan site filled with animal and human bones. The images were taken by an American underwater photographer. read


Would you eat Huckleberry's American Diner's Halloween monster meal?

Diners at Huckleberry's American Diner in York are being challenged to eat the entire £25 meal, which is modelled on a disembowelled body, to get their photo on a Wall of Fame. read


Boo and Saki's YouTube video shows them playing baseball with fireworks

American friends Boo and Saki decided to 'up their game' by attempting to play baseball with a mortar. In the clip Saki dodges explosions as fireworks blow up around him. read


Shanghai chrysanthemum fields viewed from above in breathtaking photos

These aerial photos show hundreds of thousands of chrysanthemums in a field in Shanghai, on China’s central coast, where they are grown in colourful strips of yellow, red, pink, orange and purple. read