Ted Cruz is a maniac no more. Donald Trump, who hit the Texas senator just two days ago, saying he wasn't 'qualified' to be president, slammed the breaks on any more attacks in one of the more jovial moments of tonight's Republican debate in Las Vegas.

It's been ten years since the last movie and nearly 40 since the original. Now, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is set to smash box office records when it is released this week, expecting to gross more than $3.5billion. But does it live up to the hype? Brian Viner can finally give his verdict on perhaps the most hotly anticipated movie of all time, set to propel British stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega (left) to international stardom.

More than 640,000 children were ordered to stay home after the district's superintendent received an email from a self-professed extremist jidahi threatening to attack schools with nerve gas, bombs and rifles. LA police, school boards, and politicians even stuck by their decision after New York officials highlighted major flaws in the email - such as the misspelling of 'Allah' with a lowercase 'a'. It has also been revealed the writer of the message claimed he joined a 'jihadi cell' after he'd been bullied and rejected from 'one of the district's high school'. The threatening message, which threw school days on the West coast into disarray, read: 'I am a devout Muslim, and was once against violence, but I have teamed up with a local jihadist cell as it is the only way I'll be able to accomplish my massacre the correct way.' A school in Brooklyn was evacuated on Tuesday (center), but the threat was believed to be unrelated.

For those trapped in the ISIS capital Raqqa, life is a nightmare under the brutal regime's draconian laws and people live in constant fear of air strikes (top right). For those whose homes have been bombed to rubble with no electricity or hot water, they are banned from working to afford simple luxuries like chocolate - and women and children are often seen lining the street for food handouts. Meanwhile, those who break ISIS's (bottom right) laws are beheaded, lashed or crucified (top left), and homosexuals are thrown from the top of buildings. Locals live in constant fear of the terror group's religious police, Hisbah, and its all female police force, the al Khansa brigade (bottom left), who weed out rebel spies, dole out beatings and force girls to become jihadi brides. But the city was once a place where children spent the summer with friends at pool parties, women wore what they wanted and students visited trendy coffee shops.

Patrick Schmidt, 29, lives in a DIY converted school bus. He drove from Las Vegas to Florida on a 10,000 mile journey this year and plans to continue his adventure across the United States next year. Prior to beginning his trip, Schmidt quit his job at a Seattle airport because he decided he wanted 'more out of life' and wanted to try to 'live tiny'. Schmidt, who goes by the handle Skoolielove on Twitter and Instagram, purchased the $4,500 bus (left) in March of this year in California and drove it to his parent's home in Las Vegas. With his dad's help, Schmidt converted the bus into a tiny 189-square-foot motorhome (right and inset) using materials purchased from DIY shops and online. The conversion project costed approximately $9,000.

Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, (bottom middle) and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, (top middle) are behind bars and facing charges of felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem, after the gruesome discovery in Redding, California, on Monday night. The bodies were stuffed inside plastic tote containers and then hidden in the storage unit. Three-year-old Delylah Tara (right) and six-year-old Shaun Tara (left), who were in the custody of the couple at the time, have been reported missing, but authorities will not say if they were the slain children. Police were led to the remains after they discovered a 'severely abused' nine-year-old girl at an apartment Huntsman was taken. The youngster was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries. Sheriff Greg Hagwood said she weighed about 40 pounds, had broken bones in her shoulder, broken fingers, a dislocated jaw, and teeth that were missing or loose.

At an age when most women would be drawing their pension, 66-year-old Wintour, who earns upwards of $2million a year, is still the most powerful woman in the fashion industry - feared and admired in equal measure. But after 27 years at the helm of Vogue, her tendrils of influence have spread far beyond fashion - with Hollywood stars, political powerhouses and sporting legends all now ensnared in her web. Here, we reveal how the British mother-of-two has become one of the most powerful women in the world - and the famous names that helped her get there. Pictured, Wintour, center, with Victoria Beckham, left, Roger Federer, inset, and First Lady Michelle Obama, right.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Police have arrested 24-year-old Alejandro Obando Vega (right) on suspicion of the murder of Sondra Lynn Elizondo (pictured with Vega left), 46. They believe she was killed in a crime of passion and the suspect then stole belongings from her hotel room. Investigators suspect Elizondo was killed after threatening to leave Obando after they began arguing over his jealous and controlling behavior. It's believed her killer held a pillow over her face before stabbing her repeatedly leaving wounds to her neck, face, chest and shoulder. Elizondo's nephew told Daily Mail Online that his aunt had planned to end her relationship with Obando - known as Ale to those who knew him.

Dr. Tabasum Mir, a New York City-based dermatologist and star of Bravo's The Singles Project, revealed the cosmetic procedures she believes 35-year-old Kim (center and bottom right) and 18-year-old Kylie (far left, top right) have done to create their hour-glass figures and flawless faces. Dr. Mir, who has not treated the half-sisters, said Kylie has had her 'hip and butt done for sure' and claimed Kim has had an eyebrow lift in addition to hip and butt implants.

A photograph from almost 100 years ago has some on social media convinced that Russian leader Valdimir Putin is immortal. The picture, taken in 1920, shows a Russian solider who has an uncanny resemblance to the country's current leader. What's more, another photo taken of a Russian solider in 1941 also looks just like Putin and the man who was pictured 20 years prior. Some think this is definitive proof that Putin is much more than a 63-year-old workout buff with a penchant for riding horses shirtless. These people instead believe he is a mythical creature who is ageless and can time travel.

Heartbroken actress Michelle Dockery led hundreds of mourners in paying their respects to her 34-year-old fiancé John Dineen at an emotional ceremony last night following his death from a 'rare form of cancer'. Ms Dockery rushed back from promoting Downton Abbey in the US to be at the bedside of her partner, who she got engaged to earlier this year. The actress (pictured, right, with Mr Dineen at the Queen's Cup polo final last year and, left, flying back from the US last week) travelled to a hospice in southern Ireland, near Mr Dineen's home city of Cork. He died two days before her birthday yesterday. Ms Dockery led mourners in paying their respects to her fiancé at an emotional ceremony at the Church of St James (inset) in the village of Ballinora last night ahead of his funeral later this morning.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Shocking photos have emerged from inside the five star hotel room where Egor Sosin, the son of a Russian billionaire, allegedly beat up and strangled his mother Anastasia Novikova-Sosina to death (left) with a mobile phone charger. Egor, 19, a student of Hult International Business School in London, was found wandering the corridors in his underwear the Volga River city of Kazan in Russia. He told police he began 'hallucinating' after taking pills given to him by Ms Novikova-Sosina (pictured with her son, right). Sosin is the son of construction magnate Igor Sosin known for his lavish spending. Sosin senior, Starik Khottabych, construction giant, is regularly seen on the Cote d'Azur and has several time rented a luxury holiday home in the U.S. for £650,000.

Philip Chism, (left, in court) 16, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was found guilty of murdering and raping his high school math teacher Colleen Ritzer, (inset, bottom left) 24, in 2013. Chism, who was 14 at the time of the attack, followed her into the bathroom before he soaked his clothes with blood (top right) as he stabbed her at least 16 times and carried her remains away in a garbage bin (bottom right). Ritzer's parents (inset, center left) were present in court on Tuesday as the guilty verdict was read out, after a trial where Chism's lawyers said that he was severely mentally ill.

Emma Freud went some way to putting the plot queries to bed this week when she live tweeted husband - and the film's director - Richard Curtis' first cinema experience of the 2003 rom-com classic. Among them, Emma, 53, confirmed that there is in fact a happy ending for Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman's characters, Karen and Harry, after the film left fans guessing whether the married couple made a go of it.

Spectacular pictures appear to show Luis Fernando Candela (right) hanging by his feet and using his abs to hold himself in position high above a beach at Pedra do Telegrafo, Brazil. But it has now been revealed that hundreds of tourists making their way to the Pedra do Telegrafo beauty spot also take similar pictures, thanks to a trick of the camera (circled left). According to visitors to the area, although the stone where the bodybuilder appears to be hanging from is on a cliff edge, there is actually a plateau just below where people can stand.

Monaco judge has granted full custody to Kelly Rutherford's  German ex-husband, Daniel Giersch. He will continue to live with the children in Monaco. Kelly, 47, will only permitted to 'exercise her visiting and accommodation rights exclusively in France and Monaco'. The court order stipulates the exes must make decisions concerning nine-year-old Hermes's and six-year-old Helena's health and schooling jointly.

U.S. Army engineers dug up the smashed remains of a coal barge which was lost at the Barnegat Inlet, around 30 miles up the coast from Atlantic City. Pictured top-right are planks from its hull protruding from the sands, while other fragments of debris are piled up bottom-right. The 200-ft vessel was lost in unknown circumstances in February 1926 on a voyage from Boston to Norfolk, Virginia, and was buried under decades of shifting sands. Pictured left is a mat of rocks being placed over the remains of the ship, which will be left buried under the sands.

Magazine shoots with Iranian models in the Seventies have resurfaced showing women posing in Western clothes, fashionable hair styles and Hollywood-inspired make-up. The pictures are a reminder of the relaxed attitudes that prevailed before the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah. It ushered in an era dictating that women appear in public with their hair covered and wearing loose robes to their feet.

It's the site of one of the biggest project blunders in U.S. history- a $2 billion nuclear power plant that was never completed - but the Satsop Nuclear Power Plant has been reborn as a dystopian movie set. On the back of the boom of dystopian films thanks to franchises like The Hunger Games and Divergent, the plant has been refashioned as a popular movie set, and was most recently used for Transformers: Age of Extinction. It has also been used for military training and as an active business park, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The ambitious development failed because of a $61 million budget shortfall and has sat abandoned since 1983, however the futuristic feel and empty spaces make it a perfect film set.

Photographer Jason Travis, from Atlanta, has people lay out their belongings, which he neatly arranges for a photo. He juxtaposes each picture with one of the person him- or herself, demonstrating that you can't always know who a person is by looking at him - but you can tell a lot about a person by his things. Though the 34-year-old started just taking pictures of friends, he now approaches strangers and has included people of all ages, as well as dogs. Some surprising things he's found inside bags have been guns, food, lube, knives, a mason jar, plastic animals, and a naked Barbie. He calls the pictures series Persona.

The 29-year-old killer operates in the Costa Grande de Guerrero, where more than 1,000 people have been reported missing in the state since 2007 - far fewer than the actual number believed to have been 'disappeared'. The killer said he first 'disappeared' a man when he was 20 years old. And he says he has standards, never killing women or children and never making his victims dig their own grave. The killer raises cattle for a living, has not told his family, and believes he is protecting people from the violence of other drug cartels.

Several actors - who also included Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Banks, and Rooney Mara - each offered up their own takes on the hit R&B; song, which reached number two on the US Billboard Top 100 this year. Some, like Amy (bottom right), Seth (top right), Elizabeth Banks (top left), and Bryan (bottom left), gave dramatic readings as if they were auditioning for a new film. Others, like Brie Larson and Saoirse Ronan, sang and danced - though their move seemed much more natural than those in Drake's infamously awkward music video. Some of the stars seemed confused by the lyrics, including Rooney Mara - who seemed to be completely unfamiliar with the major hit as she read the words off a piece of paper.

The warring teenagers are said to have been battling it out over a boy at the Salvador Gonzalez Lobo Secondary School in Saltillo, in the north-eastern state of Coahuila. Their classmates are heard urging the pair to start the brawl, which begins when a bystander pushes one of the fighters into the other. The girls continue to fight and scrabble around on the floor before their peers - who can be heard shouting 'that's enough now' and 'let her go' - pull them apart.

The 11-year-old Siamese cat's owner, firefighter Jay Gibson, captured the funny footage on December 7 while filming the hunting attempt from his living room in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Named after Frank Sinatra because of his blue eyes, the cat had been intent on hunting two pigeons and began slowly stalking up to the perch they were sat on. But almost instantly, one of the birds spotted the cat and flew to safety. In a flash, the pet launches itself towards the remaining pigeon but the frightened bird manages to fly away just in time, leaving the pussycat grasping at thin air. His momentum just about sees him catch his claws in the wood but this has hilarious consequences when it causes the bird table to topple over with him.

Two new consignments of crop seeds
will be deposited next year in the 'doomsday vault' built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. The vault - which opened on the Svalbard archipelago between
Norway and the North pole in 2008 - is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice and wheat against the worst cataclysms
of nuclear war or disease.

The unfortunate bowling ball-induced injury is believed to have occurred in America and shows a group of friends standing in a line with their legs open to form a tunnel. The man at the front holds the ball and attempts to throw it through everyone's legs (left). However he ends up chucking it a little too hard and smashes his mate in the thigh with it (middle), who drops to the floor in pain (right).