Ten states have declared emergencies, hundreds of thousands of people are without power and tens of thousands are at risk of flooding as a 'once in a generation' storm battered the East Coast today. Three feet of snow is expected in Washington D.C. today where it has now been snowing continuously for 24 hours, while ten inches fell in New York this morning, prompting authorities to ban all road travel and close exterior subway lines. In Kentucky drivers spent 12 hours trapped on Interstate 75 overnight after heavy snow shut the road, while motorists are still stranded on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after traffic ground to a halt. The storm death toll rose to ten today after a man suffered a heart attack while shovelling snow in Maryland.

René Charles, who turns 15 on Monday, delivered a stirring tribute to father René Angélil on Friday, even managing to make his mother smile for a moment when he brought up his father's love of smoked meat. The teen then said his father would be a 'tough act to follow' but that he promised to live up to his standards and pass on their good memories together to his two younger brothers. Celine, 46, arrived at the Notre-Dame Basilica clutching the hands of her twin five-year-old sons. Immediately after René Charles eulogy, Celine's hit version of 'All the Way' played to tears of the congregation The funeral followed an emotional memorial for Angélil, who died aged 73, on Thursday.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sam Davies, 31, from Lancashire, said her birthmark would always become itchy and raised when she was pregnant, and it even became a sure sign that told her she was carrying a child. But on her fifth pregnancy, it began to swell and pulse (pictured, right), and she was eventually rushed to hospital when it exploded, splitting the front of her forehead open. Doctors realised that the raised birthmark was actually the tip of numerous tumours, and found some cancerous cells, so did emergency surgery making a huge, cross-shaped incision on her forehead (inset) to remove them.

An old BlackBerry (centre), the filthy wheel of a discarded bicycle (bottom left), a rusty shopping trolley (top left), a car tyre (bottom right) and unwanted shoe (top right) - these were just some of the objects dug up during a massive clean-up operation of Regent's Canal. The Canal and River Trust drained the Kentish Town lock of 50,000 gallons of water - the equivalent of around 1,000 bathtubs - to replace its gates, which revealed the unexpected items lurking beneath the surface. The bizarre assortment of objects - eight feet below the surface - were fished out the canal during the maintenance job this morning. Visitors were given tours of the site, which is situated close to Camden Town. A set of canal gates typically cost £20,000 and last around 25 years. They are now made from sustainable oak and weigh more than two tonnes each.

A 45ft-long sperm whale thrashed around helplessly on a rocky shore before dying on a beach popular with holidaymakers. Coastguard and expert divers battled hard to save the life of the 30-tonne mammal (pictured) but in the end there was nothing they could do to coax it back into deeper water. The bull whale was stranded beneath cliffs along the coast at Hunstanton, in Norfolk, and died an hour and a half before low tide just before midnight, after becoming trapped on Friday afternoon.

Andy Murray's father-in-law Nigel Sears has collapsed at the Australian Open - just weeks before his daughter Kim is due to give birth. Sussex-based Sears, 58, fell ill during the third round match between Ana Ivanovic - who he coaches - and Madison Keys today. He was treated by paramedics in the stands and then stretchered away with his shirt off and attached to an oxygen tank. He is understood to have been conscious and alert as he was taken to hospital. Murray was unaware of what had happened as he was playing on a neighbouring court. He was informed after his match by his mother, Judy, and went straight to the hospital.

Ron Sheppard, 67, got down on one knee after falling for Filipino call centre worker Cristel Marquez - who is 40 years his junior - and he secretly chatted her up online (left and right). The couple first met more than ten years ago, when Cristel was 15 or 16, while he was married to Wan, wife number seven, and living in Thailand. Ron's current wife Weng, number eight, 36, gave him the boot after 11 years of marriage because of his antics on a recent trip to the Far East (inset).

Amal Clooney, right, met with Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, in Downing Street this morning to raise the plight of her client Mohamed Nasheed, left, who was overthrown as president of the Maldives in 2012. Mr Nasheed was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges. He was released from prison temporarily so he could fly to London for spinal surgery. Mr Cameron held the unusual Saturday morning meeting with Mrs Clooney and Mr Nasheed to assure them that the British government is putting the Maldives under pressure to release all political prisoners immediately and return the country to democratic rule. It is the second time that Mrs Clooney has met Mr Cameron on Mr Nasheed's behalf. Mr Nasheed was the Maldives' first democratically elected president until he was deposed in 2012. He was later jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges by his replacement Abdulla Yameen. The British government, India and Sri Lanka brokered a deal so Mr Nasheed could come to London for spinal surgery, but he will have to resume his prison sentence upon his return home.

Hungarian Jew Ivor Perl, 83 (inset), was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 when he was just 12. His mum, four sisters and three brothers died in Auschwitz's gas chambers while he survived by pretending he was 16, and strong enough to work. After his liberation (pictured right) he was granted asylum in London along with his surviving brother and started a new life there. After he agreed to witness in the trial of Oskar Groening, the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, Ivor was shown a photograph of Hungarian Jews queuing on arrival at the camp (left) which he thinks it shows his mother and one of his siblings.

The chief meteorologist for a local news station in California revealed she is expecting a baby - during a live broadcast. KGET's Alissa Carlson (seated far right) 'broke the story' while live on-air with her coworkers, Tami Mlcoch (seated far left) and Jim Scott (center). Mlcoch and Scott couldn't hide their surprised reactions, which were caught on camera. Before that, Carlson finished up a weather report. Then, Scott said while looking at an off-camera teleprompter: 'Well first of all, in a related weather, uh, report here, one local forecast calls for some uncomfortable mornings, followed by widespread shopping, and record-setting joy and happiness.' Confused, he asked Carlson if she had another forecast, to which she replied 'I do. I'm having a baby!' Her coworkers were briefly quiet in the wake of the big news.

Knife-wielding Ruqayya Abu Eid has been shot dead at occupied West Bank's settlement of Anatot. She allegedly attempted to stab a security guard. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the teen, named as Ruqayya Abu Eid, had fought with her family and left her home 'with a knife and intending to die'.

Blue Origin, the space firm created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has successfully tested a rocket in west Texas for the second time which can safely be returned to Earth and re-used. The internet mogul called the accomplishment a 'game changer', which opens the door to lower costs in space travel and his vision of people living and working in space. After its first launch in November, the company have now successfully relaunched the rocket, and seen it 'gently' return to Earth.

A new book shines a light on the seedy underbelly of London where Third World poverty, exploitation and criminality rule. Writer Ben Judah reveals this hidden side of the city in his new book, This Is London: Life And Death In The World City. More than half of the city's population are not ethnically British. So who are these new Londoners? In order to find out, Judah immerses himself in the migrant world. He spends a night with the Roma beggars who camp in the tunnels beneath Hyde Park. He stays in a doss-house in Barking, East London. He cajoles an astonishing array of migrants from across London to describe their lives. Whether a mini cab driver who also washes dead bodies, a Romanian prostitute in a blonde wig, or a wealthy young African with bodyguards hired from his own tribe, they open up to him, writes HARRIET SERGEANT.

The unknown error by phone-tracking apps have left tech and security experts, phone companies and law enforcement stumped as Christina Lee and Michael Saba (pictured) continue to receive visits monthly, with more than a dozen last year alone and two already in 2016. Police even once named the couple persons of interest when a missing girl's phone was pinpointed in their home (left). Lee and Saba plan to file a complaint with the FCC and their senator.

This week, former PR executive Katy Colins (pictured left, inset) from Manchester became the most famous jilted bride in Britain when the story of her cancelled nuptials - and her efforts to get over the heartbreak that followed by travelling the world - became public. Thom Soutter (pictured left with new fiancee Alyson Mobey), her one-time groom, discovered his ex was an internet sensation while planning his next wedding. To add to the drama, this week he gave an interview saying Katy was not blameless as she had later had an affair with a friend - and that she had been more interested in her dream wedding itself than she was in him. So who's really to blame?

The ferocious grizzly bear that mauls Leonardo Dicaprio's character in the Revenant was more like a blue smurf than a terrifying beast - claims one of the film's unsung heroes. DiCaprio, British actor Tom Hardy and the film's director Alejandro Iñárritu are all in the running for Oscars when the 88th Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Hollywood on February 27. But one man who will go without mention is an actor who played a part in arguably the film's most talked about scene, stuntman Glen Ennis (pictured).

This week the harrowing circumstances surrounding the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington (left) from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria were finally allowed to be heard. And they could not be more horrifying. The little girl with the gappy, baby-toothed smile was subjected to a horrific sexual assault by her father, Paul Worthington (right), that led to her death in December 2012. Pictured inset is Poppi's grave.

75 years have passed since the mighty Lancaster bomber took to the skies. By the end of the war, 7,377 Lancasters would have carried out more than 150,000 missions -including the Dambuster Raids of 1943. ROBERT HARDMAN examines the story behind the Lancashire bomber.

Three-year-old Claire Crosby belts out Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid on YouTube. Her father, Dave Crosby, 28, captured the moment at their Utah home. Since going live on January, 9, the video has received 172,000 views.

With the 67th Republic Day due to take place on New Delhi's central avenue of Rajpath on Tuesday, thousands took to the streets today to watch a dress rehearsal filled with colourful fanfare (top left), a camel mounted security force (main) and marching soldiers. India will also parade its military might with tanks (top right), fighter planes (bottom left), missiles and the somewhat less fearsome 'dog squad' (bottom right) as part of the country's annual lavish celebration of the adoption of the Indian constitution in 1950.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. An opossum miraculously survived after it was shot in the head and torso by crossbow arrows on Friday in Riverside, California. Riverside County Department of Animal Services were amazed by the opossum's survival after it was found trying to remove the arrows near an intersection in the city's La Sierra neighborhood.

Irish dolphin carer Matt Poole (pictured center left) and his two siblings kept wild dolphin Silhouette (pictured) calm on Monday at Queensland's Tangalooma Island Resort after a hook was stuck in her mouth. Silhouette, a visitor at the resort for 11 years, showed signs of injury and was treated with antibiotics before being placed back in the water.

After a group of men in Utah pull the fish from a freezer, they drop it into a metal tank where it lays motionless for about a minute. Suddenly the fish begins stirring its fins and emitting a few bubbles - before gliding around the tank, appearing to have been brought come back to life. It's unclear when or where the baffling video - which was uploaded this week to social media - was filmed.

Baggy clothes adorned with embroidered flowers and photos of tied up nude women were showcased on the Paris catwalk on Friday as a collection inspired by bondage took centre stage. Japanese label Christian Dada - in its first official appearance on a Paris Fashion Week runway - showed off models (pictured) in ballooning stovepipe trousers and oversized overcoats, some with belts as wide as a copy of Vogue. The bondage theme crept in with the image of a nude kneeling woman - hands bound together behind her back - printed onto some of the spacious coats paraded on the catwalk to the echoing sound of a beating heart.