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Alexandra Mezher, 22, was attacked today at a centre for unaccompanied migrant children aged between 14 and 17 in Molndal, on Sweden's west coast. A 15-year-old boy was arrested. read

The NHS's 111 service has been slammed by a new report that says it is unsafe for seriously ill children following an investigation into the death of one-year-old William Mead, of Cornwall. read

As Mother & Baby magazine turns 60, Sally Saunders looks at the advice given to new mothers in a bygone era - from drinking stout while pregnant, to driving with a baby on your lap. read

One NHS operation is cancelled every ten minutes in England - around 60,000 a year - because patients fail to follow doctors' instructions beforehand. read

Researchers found the first 12 words a prospective employee utters could make or break whether they are offered a job, but people without privileged backgrounds struggle to make small talk. read

A team of Israeli scientists may have found a 'miracle' diet that really does work for everyone. read

Some iPhone users may be experiencing some trouble today with a prank shutting down phones. CrashSafari.com is being snuck into tweets and when clicked on, overloads Safari browser. read

Several areas on Google Earth have seemingly disappeared for no reason. These include areas of Valencia City in the Philippines (pictured). read

Popular English television presenter Selina Scott got to know Trump after she came to New York City in 1995 to film a profile about the real estate tycoon, saying he was charming at first, but that changed. read

The aspiring presidential candidate has long dismissed reports that he sexually violated Ivana Trump in a rage after a painful plastic surgery operation to cover a bald spot on his head. read

High-speed HS2 trains that would link Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and London could have special carriages for wealthy travellers who wish to ride undisturbed by others. read

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The annual festival of digging up Britain's roads is getting into full swing as councils across the country rush to use up their budgets before the end of the financial year. read

Susanne Hinte, 48 – who has sent her water-damaged ticket to lottery firm Camelot – was called six times to Worcester Magistrates' Court for fines dating back to 2003, and once to Kidderminster. read

Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell and disgraced PR guru Max Clifford came to blows in London's High Court today. Clifford claims Burrell gave him secrets to sell to the newspapers. read

The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has announced it has joined other unions in deciding not to go ahead with tomorrow's walkout in London following lengthy talks with the company. read

George Osborne is facing three inquiries into his £130m back-tax deal with Google while Downing Street has distanced itself from his claims the agreement was a 'victory' for the tax-payer. read

George Osborne was off on a jolly with Microsoft founder Bill Gates while his £130million corporation tax deal with Google was being picked apart, writes QUENTIN LETTS. read

Perth mum Kim Tucci, 26, who is pregnant with quintuplets, is force feeding herself 6,000 calories a day and trekking to the bathroom 12 times a night. read

Will Smith and his wife Jada are boycotting this year's Oscar in protest over the lack of diversity among nominees and now Ian McKellen has waded into the debate.  read

DAMIAN THOMPSON examines why was the reaction so explosive towards Charlotte Rampling's comments that complaints about the lack of black actors in the Oscar nominees list. read

Louise Casey said some British officials were ‘so wrapped up in political correctness’ they ignored shameful scandals which led to vulnerable women and children being harmed across the UK. read

The backbencher is accused of claiming more than £25,000 in extra accommodation allowances since 2011 for his children, despite none of them living with him in London. read

The fast food giant said customers will soon be able to order from digital kiosks at their table after the feature proved successful when it was trialled at 14 locations across Britain. read

On Tricks of the Restaurant Trade, due to be broadcast on Channel 4 tonight, West Sussex-born nutritionist Amanda Ursell compared the KFC Toasted Twister wrap with the Nando’s chicken wrap. read

The Coventry City Police team has faced an angry backlash on social media after publicising how officers have been testing front doors while on carrying out burglary patrols of the city. read

Kathryn McNally, 39, an accountant from Southport, Merseyside was showing the classic symptoms of migraine, yet her GP insisted she was experiencing no more than tension headaches. read

Can eating blackcurrants cut the risk of diabees in people who are overweight? That's the thinking behind a new clinical trial. read

To find out whether size matters, researchers from Wyoming University visited nine zoos and videoed 140 animals from 39 species as they tried to solve a puzzle. Tiger pictured. read

Rice University developed a method for de-icing airplane wings. They placed graphene and naoribbion on rotor blades, which heated up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit while in motion. read

After the tragic death of Henry Worsley, who died in hospital in Chile after the epic Antarctic trek, pictures of the heroic adventurer show how he would not give up despite his health deteriorating. read

The poignant journal entry by Henry Worsley, 55, explained he could see the summit in Antarctica where he was to finish his history-making 950mile trek when he finally succumbed to exhaustion. read

Fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) have caused untold misery to gamblers across the UK by allowing users to stake £100 a time on games including roulette and poker. read

The UK National Screening Committee recently decided against screening men for prostate cancer. But were they right? We speak to two experts with VERY different views. read

Nearly half of women are sleep deprived according to a new study, and many do not seek medical advice because they believe it is merely a side effect of growing older. read

The American woman who was raped and murdered while vacationing in Grenada has been named as Jessica Colker, an anesthesiologist from Atlanta. read

Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things, has launched a new section on its site that lets users easily browse webcams without a password. read

Children are being denied medicines that could save their life because of the crusade against antibiotic resistance, according to the NHS report into Cornish one-year-old William Mead’s death. read

Sex change surgery is the top prize for contestants of the Miss Transsexual Australia 2016 pageant, but event organisers say they are not promoting surgery for transgender people. read

Five new versions of Action Man will be released to mark 50 years of the toy including a footballer to celebrate the anniversary of England winning the World Cup. read

Jack Letts, 20, left the UK in September 2014 when he was just aged 18, sparking fears that he may have fled to join ISIS in Syria. He is now said to go by the name Ibrahim or Abu Muhammed. read

The terror group claims have to hundreds of militants in countries across the continent ready to bring murder and mayhem to the streets, said Europol. read

An undercover reporter researching jihadis online was asked to marry an ISIS terrorist called Mario and come to Syria to be with him after talking to him over the internet for just half an hour. read

Islamic State terrorist Mohammed Emwazi, who was killed in a drone strike in Raqqa two months ago, had told his brother Omar, 22, that his encounters with MI5 had ruined his hopes of marriage. read

Tareena Shakil, 26, (pictured) from Birmingham who fled to Syria in October 2014 told a jury she came back of her 'own free will' after a change of heart. read

Christine Chubbuck (pictured) killed herself while reading the news for a local Sarasota, Florida TV station in July 1974, aged 29. Her story has been retold in a film which was released. read

Security cameras captured the thief as he targeted the customer in the aisles of the discount store in Burpham, in Guildford, Surrey on the morning of 2 December. read

UK universities should be exempt from Freedom of Information laws so they can hide details of salaries given to senior staff, according to high ranking figures within the institutions. read

The lost manuscript for The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots was rediscovered two years ago by publisher Jo Hanks, along with the only picture that Potter ever finished of the as yet unpublished character (pictured). read

Coroner Sir John Goldring made the ruling in Warrington, Cheshire, as he began what is set to be a three-week summary of nearly two years of evidence into the disaster at a 1989 FA Cup match. read

Wristbands for asylum seekers are a great idea because most lobbed their identity over the side of their inflatable when they crossed the Mediterranean from Turkey, writes KATIE HOPKINS. read

Council chiefs in Kent said they have no choice but to place local children elsewhere amid the continuing flow of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) from the Continent. read

The first two families will arrive in the spring, the Western Isles Council said today, joining a population of just 27,400 people which only has one town, Stornaway, where 8,000 people live. read

German police have recorded hundreds of cases of sexual assault and robbery on New Years Eve, reportedly carried out by 'gangs of foreign men'. read

Carnival costumes for children to dress up as wartime refugees have been taken off the German Amazon website - in case they offend refugees. read

As EU ministers met at an energy summit, Theresa May tore into Brussels for being ‘more talk than action’ as plans were belatedly unveiled to try to solve the migration crisis. read

Geert Wilders (pictured), leader of the extremist Freedom Party, claims the measure is necessary to stem the 'rape epidemic' as Muslim refugees wage 'a sexual Jihad' on European women. read

Maisie Beech, 19, from Flemingston, Wales, thought her-and-half make-up selfie was empowering but instead strangers mocked her natural appearance, saying she had alopecia. read

Storm Jonas, which has caused widespread chaos across America's East Coast, is to hit Britain tomorrow - bringing up to six inches of rain and gales of 70mph. read

East Coast residents who made the most of a paralyzing weekend blizzard face fresh challenges as the workweek begins. read

The young woman's torso was found in a remote field in the village of Cockley Cley, near Swaffham, Norfolk in August 1974, wearing a pink nightdress and wrapped in a plastic sheet. read

Experts from US hospitals and institutions including Harvard University managed to transplant cells into mice, which immediately began producing insulin. read

The RNLI has said it has found another 30-tonne corpse on marshes at Wainfleet on the Lincolnshire coast (pictured) - five miles from where three more were discovered yesterday. read

The drug, dronabinol, is already widely used to tackle nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. read

Theresa Tuddenham, 28, a mortgage consultant who lives in Weymouth, Dorset, was buying a house and was pregnant with her first baby. Yet she felt inexplicably depressed. read

Professor Julia Buckroyd, a psychologist and specialist in eating behaviour at the University of Hertfordshire, reveals the three signs to look for to see if you are an emotional eater. read

Richard, of north London, denies three counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and a charge of paying for sexual services of a child read

NHS weight-loss expert Dr Sally Norton said the more sugar a person eats, the more the reward receptors in the brain are numbed to it, meaning they need more sugar to re-create the same high. read

Yale University scientists revealed the brain responds differently to taste and nutritional value - and humans' response to sugar as nutrition was developed to ensure we eat enough calories. read

MailOnline takes a look at Amal Clooney's stunning array of coats, a collection that has coat more than £25,000 over the past two years. When it comes to coats, Amal believe you get what you pay for... read

Peter Capaldi is reportedly expected to leave Doctor Who after the next series – when writer Steven Moffat also steps down. read

An American Heart Association report revealed the atypical symptoms of women's heart attacks are often misdiagnosed or undertreated - which leads to higher death rates. read

Could an algae found in the UK's reservoirs, lakes and estuaries hold a clue to Alzheimer's disease - and provide a new approach to tackling the devastating condition? read

University of Waterloo claims this is the first portable touchless device that monitors the entire blow flow system in their patients. The device uses light and a digital signal process to track blood. read

Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire discovered the planet 2MASS J2126 orbits its star at an enormous distance more than 7,000 times further apart than the Earth and sun. read

The answers to the origin of the universe may lie in the measurements of ‘primordial standard clocks,' proposed by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. read

In a new video by Dating Without Borders , one man dresses up in six different styles of clothing, from hipster to surfer to businessman. Nine women then weigh in on what they think. read

There are signs that iPhone sales in the first three months of 2016 will show an abrupt decline from the same period a year earlier. read

In a collaboration by Carnegie Mellon University and Sikorsky Aircraft, autonomous helicopter and an unmanned vehicle teamed up for a ground-air mission. read

According to the report, cities with low pay packets and high welfare bills include Manchester and Bradford. Cities enjoying high wages and low benefits bills include Cambridge and Aberdeen. read

In a tearful interview, the 24-year-old, from Leeds, said her outrageous behaviour - which includes going through an abortion so she could have a £7,000 nose job - was in a bid to achieve happiness. read

The touching post by Joe Wilson about Glasgow magazine seller Daniel Collins is warming the hearts of thousands on Facebook after he revealed how the pair had struck up a friendship. read

Stephen Hammond, the MP for Wimbledon, South West London, made the claim for £1.35 to drive three miles despite earning an £800 an hour adviser fee earlier in 2015 on top of his MP salary. read

Southampton midfielder Gaston Ramirez was in his native Uruguay when his Hampshire home was ransacked. Jaghmon Roath, 27, and Vishaal Hussain, 19, admitted handling stolen goods. read

David Hutchinson had turned up to meet 14-year-old girl 'Amy' in Newcastle city centre after sending her explicit messages - including of his genitals - on a dating website. read

A full inquest will be held into the death of Ann Maguire, a teacher, 61, who was stabbed to death by 15-year-old pupil Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in 2014. read

The Labour leader, who visited 'The Jungle' on Saturday on a tour of Northern France, said the 9,000 people camped in Calais and Dunkirk should be given homes by European countries. read

More than 500 complaints were made about the first episode in the controversial series after it aired at 6.30pm on a Sunday evening, two-and-a-half hours before the watershed. read

Neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L Macknik, from State University of New York Downstate Medical Centre, explain techniques used by magicians in How It Works Magazine. read

Jacek Adamowicz, 29, was working at Hitchen Foods in Ince, Greater Manchester, when the stack of unstable material fell and trapped the employee underneath. read

There are 5,885 highly dangerous criminals behind bars in the eight Category A prisons in the UK, of which 1,229 follow the Islamic faith, including Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo at Belmarsh. read

David Cameron led the tributes to Cecil Parkinson, who has died aged 84, saying he had been ‘part of an extraordinary political generation’, which had helped to ‘transform Britain’. read

Canadian academic Michael Oman-Reagan (pictured here) tweeted the dictionary after he took exception to the sentence used to describe the adjective 'rabid'. read

An analysis of 22 studies at the University of Liverpool revealed exposure to ads for unhealthy food significantly increased food consumption in children, but not adults. read

Grocer magazine said the treats are 'falling from favour fast' as parents opt for lower sugar alternatives. The fall in sales came despite a packaging revamp and a lower sugar version. read

Accountant Murray Pringle, who is in his 70s and comes from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and businessman Simon Pringle, who is in his 50s and lives near Hastings, East Sussex, both lay claim to the baronetcy of Pringle of Stichill. read

Helga Martin, 56, from Tyldesley, Gtr Manchester, was giving a bath to Holly, five, and nine-year-old Libby using two small bath bombs from a children's Boots gift set when she saw the glass. read

Spanking a child can take a toll on their psychiatric wellbeing - and increase risk of them developing aggressive behavior later in life, say professors of psychiatry at the University of Toledo and SUNY. read

Over the past year, 30-year-old Andreas Christopheros, from Cornwall, has slowly rebuilt his life with the support of his 33-year-old wife Pia and their adorable son Theo, two. read

EXCLUSIVE: The interactive infographic shows trends among the top 100 billionaires, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos (pictured) and was created by GoCompare, based in Newport, Wales. read

Critics fear that now the Department for Work and Pensions have access to the data from next month it will be used to name and shame surgeries who issue the most 'fit notes'. read

David Cameron vowed to continue his dealings with the Kremlin with a 'very cold heart' after an inquiry found President Putin had 'probably' personally ordered the assassination of Mr Litvinenko. read

Samantha Cameron, 44, had to prepare her kids for being bullied in the wake of extraordinary claims made in Lord Ashcroft's book, according to Jason Manford on his Absolute Radio show. read

The man was attacked by the masked assailant who allegedly sliced and ‘chopped up’ his victim in front of shocked commuters near a bus stop on Tile Cross Road in Birmingham at about 8am. read

The City of London worker often struggles to find a seat on his return journey from London Liverpool Street to Ipswich, Suffolk, a journey he has made for the past 17 years. read

STUART FRASER IN MELBOURNE: Andy Murray admitted it had been an emotional 48 hours as he returned to action following the collapse of his father-in-law Nigel Sears. read

The 24-year-old became the first British woman in 32 years to reach a Grand Slam quarter final after beating last year's semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova. read

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is strong evidence that a sugar tax can work alongside other measures such as tackling big portion sizes and unclear food labelling. read

Scientists at Penn State University and Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in Germany, say it is 'extremely likely' humans have caused recent record temperatures since 2000. read

EXCLUSIVE: Fran Purdy, from Kent, had tried dozens of over-the counter and home remedies. She claims a specialist treatment which uses tiny needles and heat has transformed her skin. read

Lauren Brown, 22, from York, had been prescribed Co-cyprindiol - commonly known by the brand name Dianette - for skin problems. Pain and swelling in her leg revealed she had DVT. read

From animals to #fitspos, it can often seem like Instagram is a minefield of varied hashtag trends. But the latest thing to do might just be the most unusual to date - meet the naked Instagram posters. read

Martin Trenneborg., 38, makes a list of demands for his victim, including that she gives him a 'girlfriend experience' when they have sex in the bunker he had built on his remote farm in Axeltorp, Sweden. read

The man was found dead in a 'sex swing' surrounded by gas cylinders at a property in Hove, East Sussex, at around 9.15pm on Friday. read

The campaign would be fronted by some of Britain’s best-loved actors and presenters, potentially including Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Terry Wogan, Sir Michael Parkinson and Lord Melvyn Bragg read

Daisy Kelly has been segregated from other pupils at Tollbar School in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, after dying her hair with a technique called ombre. read

Harley Quinn Smith, the 16-year-old daughter of director Kevin Smith, stars alongside her friend Lily-Rose Depp in the new movie Yoga Hosers, which hit Sundance screens on Sunday. read

Mandy Lamrini, from Berlin, shared a photograph mid-way through the inking on January 19 and told her social media followers that she was 'satisfied' with how she looked. read

The Dublin-born businesswoman behind the brand that has taken over middle-class homes says she isn’t keen on people buying new things. She thinks we all have ‘too much stuff’ already. read

Astronomers in Corfe, Dorset, were treated to a rare view of Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter lining up in an arc across the sky. In the coming weeks Mercury will be added to the list. read

The high-tech alchite dressing (pictured), believed to be a world first, has been designed by the fibres science and technology team at the University of Bolton. read

The chat show host, 50, was forced to address the claims his wife had cheated on him by a guest riled by his interrogation. In a dignified response, he said his 'children were all that mattered.' read

The remains were buried in some 400 graves and shed light on the poverty of people who toiled in the Lancashire city’s ‘dark satanic mills’ during the Industrial Revolution. read

Ricky Hepworth, 24, killed 48-year-old Andrew Tomlinson and his wife Faye, 54 (pictured), and Mandy Deere, also 54, as they walked home together from a pub in Askern, Doncaster. read

Behind their smiles and pristine uniforms, cabin crew from airlines based all over the world, in countries including the US and Australia, are gradually losing their patience with passengers. read

Roman Abramovich gave Vladimir Putin a £25million yacht called Olympia (pictured) after he became president of Russia, adding to his estimated fortune of £28billion. read

The shocking incident was caught on CCTV and shows 40 men escaping Frei Damiao de Bozanno prison in Pernambuco, on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil after blowing up an external wall. read

The women, all from England, arrived in Marlin Marina in Cairns,. Australia, after 257 days at sea, where they rowed across the Pacific Ocean after setting off from San Francisco last April. read

Spotify will be rolling out video content for its Android users this week. Users can search from providers like ESPN, ABC, Comedy Central and more. iOS will have access end of next week. read

New research from Harvard University reveals, that the large-scale decline of Native American populations began more than a century later than is commonly believed. read

Locals are furious about the proposed five days of resurfacing in Royal Wootton Bassett (pictured), Wiltshire, the town where parades are held for fallen soldiers when they arrive back on home soil. read

Neil Denny, 35, wrongly convinced himself that there was another man hiding in his house in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, after returning to his partner and two children from a festival. read

The footballer was every inch the proud dad as he posted a cute picture of his newborn baby, Kit, at just a few minutes old on Instagram. read

A caring monkey and a tiny puppy are charming locals in the city of Erode, in southern India, after the monkey began feeding, cleaning and protecting the puppy as it would its own child. read

The bull charged at a crowd of people as they paraded around a bull ring in a Peruvian town after apparently breaking free from restraints ahead of a fight. read

The Doro Liberto 825 (pictured left) is ‘coming soon’ according to the Swedish company’s website and is made to be a simple version of a smartphone such as the iPhone. read

A rush to purchase buy-to-let properties before a stamp duty hike arrives in April is hitting the property market, claims a landlord industry body. read

Susan Richards, 49, of Rochford, Essex, scooped £3million on a scratchcard she bought on a whim from a Sainsbury's after realising she had the exact change needed to buy the £10 ticket. read

Rare skiing accident occurred at Feldberg ski resort in Baden-Württemberg. The male skiers were both wearing helmets before the violent impact. read

A rise in the number of Britons with helmet cameras, dash-cams and smartphones means that whenever and wherever a crash happens, it is almost certain to be caught on camera. read

Dozens of hungry pigeons flocked to the man, believed to be Stuart Moxon, from Bury, Greater Manchester, after he was covered in bread crusts while lying in a square in Amsterdam. read

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The dog was horrendously deformed and his face was infested with maggots when he was found by Animal Aid Unlimited charity workers in India. read

Two carers are Ashbourne House nursing home in Middleton, Greater Manchester, after footage and pictures emerged showing the dolls as the subject of a number of sick pranks. read

EasyJet advises parents to pay extra to ensure they are sat next to their kids, which costs between £0.99 and 4.99 per seat. In one incident a two year old girl was sat 12 rows away from her mother. read

Cara Lee-Fanus was 23 months old when she was rushed to St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey, with a severe head injury. read

A woman has been mowed down and killed in Loudi, China by a rickshaw driver who was distracted by a woman wearing a miniskirt. The driver also admitted he was drunk driving. read

Ludivine, a two-and-a-half-year-old hound dog, who is prone to roaming around town at will, ran a half-marathon in Alabama, and finished in seventh place without her owner noticing. read

The U.S. portion of the Niagara falls could temporarily go dry under a new Parks proposal. Officials want to divert the water from the American falls in order to make repair to two crumbling bridges. read

She's accused of being part of a multi-state crime spree in which more than $4 million worth of jewels were stolen. But Abigail Lee Kemp's run-in with the law began long before when she was a teenager. read

A team led by Dr Sungwon Lee and Professor Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo used nanofibres to create a pressure sensor that remains accurate even when bent double (pictured). read

Kent and Canterbury Hospital will ask ambulances to take intoxicated patients to hospitals in Margate and Ashford to relieve pressure on its emergency care centre. read

Stress negatively affects the immune system - and so the trick to fighting the flu may be to relax by working out, having fun or seeing a therapist, say Case Western Reserve University experts. read

Bristol police officers sent up the helicopter after members of the public rang 999 and said they could hear a female sobbing and wailing in the Avon Gorge. read

This thrilling footage shows the Red Bull Air Force - an elite team of the world's most accomplished and experienced aviation experts - performing an extreme flight sequence over Moab, Utah. read

Kerrigan Renniegade, from Scotland, filmed her partner Mark O'Neill arriving home to their young Staffordshire bull terrier Patch, who was overwhelmed and leaps into his owner's arms. read

Users of the dating website shared their contrasting snaps on Twitter to show the 'reality' of how they look when browsing the app to look for potential lovers compared to the photos displayed in their profiles. read

A horrific video has emerged of a car hitting passersby in Chengdu, China. Four people were injured after the car drove on the pedestrianised pathway in a bid to escape traffic police. read

Finley Kirwan, from Southampton, was rushed to hospital late last month as he was struggling to swallow, was short of breath and had a dangerously high temperature. read

Home styling was once the preserve of wealthy Hollywood celebrities but is increasingly being used in Britain as homeowners seek to sell their properties quickly and at a better price. read

Alberto Muraglia, 53, was filmed clocking in council offices of Sanremo, north-west Italy, wearing his underpants. He has now been sacked by the town's council despite claims that he once foiled a robbery. read

Canadian engineer, Charles Bombadier's latest concept jet is capable of reaching Mach 24 - more than twice the speed of the Skreemr and 12 times faster than Concorde. read

A three-year-old girl has been left with horrific injuries after her stepmother allegedly beat her as punishment for soiling herself. Her injuries were so severe that she was sent to a specialist. read

The German engineering team behind the FlyShip said it is set to revolutionise the way we travel across sea. It can hold 100 passengers and has a cabin space area of 1,500 square ft. read

Danielle Richards had to rush her eight-month-old Scottish terrier Corby to the vets for emergency surgery after he ate cocktail sausages spiked with nails on the streets of Wandsworth in London. read

A young boy from in Teilong Village in China probably got the best delivery of his life when he opened a box at a charity event only to find his father sat inside, who he had not seen for three years. read

Google is developing a range of virtual reality headsets to take on Oculus, HTC and others, it has been claimed. Job postings point to 'large scale' virtual reality hardware in the pipeline. read

World Rally Championship driver Jari-Matti Latvala has been given a one-race suspended ban after he ploughed into a bystander during the Monte Carlo Rally - then continued to finish the race read

Alan Morrison is said to have used potentially contaminated equipment on patients at his clinics in Cumnock and Drongan, Ayrshire for almost a year read

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have invented a technique that uses a hydrogel 'ink' that swells when it is added to water, causing objects to change shape. read

Joseph Law, now 17, above, gorged on fried rice and duck pancakes every lunchtime. He spent £100 a month on greasy takeaways - and his weight ballooned to a whopping 28st 11lbs. read

It is illegal to wake a sleeping bear to take a picture in Alaska and sharing your Netflix password is forbidden in Tennessee. An infographic reveals the bizarre laws still in place across the US. read

The Duffle Suitcase design, which was created by New York-based, Wool & Oak, has dedicated space for clothing, integrated shoe bags, a laptop pocket and a detachable toiletry section. read

It has emerged California-based Google made a total of $31billion (£22 billion) from its operating system, but Apple generated $32 billion from iPhone sales alone in one quarter last year. read

The Animalarium in Borth, near Aberystwyth in Wales, is home to meerkats, monkeys and even crocodiles and is being sold by the outgoing owners read

West Yorkshire Fire Service said Simon Pilling officially retired at the end of last month - but will be returning to the post of chief fire officer and chief executive on February 1. read

The suspected robbers entered Barclays Bank on East India Dock Road, Poplar, London before one held a staff member at knifepoint and demanded that the security door be opened. read

'I wouldn't have a career without Chris (Carter) and his show The X Files. That really made everything happen for me as an actor,' Duchovny told the fans gathered to congratulate him. read

Virgin Holidays has created a 35-foot high luxury treehouse on London's Southbank, complete with a private balcony, views of the Thames and a personal chef. read

The striking pictures were taken by photographer Michelle Lynn Fritz, from Pennsylvania in the U.S., where she creates the bubbles and lights them up against the rising sun in her back garden. read

Police in Quevedo, central Ecuador, found the animal holding on to the crash barrier for dear life, moving neither forwards or backwards, after getting stuck half-way when crossing the road. read

'Mum. Your £33million cheque has arrived. They're sorry it's blank but it's been in the wash.' read

The unlucky lion was impaled on the horn of the cape bull buffalo as it leapt on to the animal, while it was grazing in long grass, in the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa. read

Celebrated Spanish bullfighter Francisco 'Fran' Rivera Ordóñez attracted criticism after posting a controversial picture of him holding infant daughter Carmen while fighting a bull. read

Zeus, an African Serval from Nevada was treated to a live meal of fish by owner - model and former reality TV star Morgan Lynn, 30, from Nevada. The animals are illegal in all but four states. read

The Transport Security Administration in the U.S. details on its website and blog regularly of the weird, wonderful and downright illegal items many passengers attempt to take on to the plane. read

The bizarre move has been made by Thai Smile Airways to treat dolls, Luk Thep or Child Angels as they have become known in Southeast Asia, to a similar experience as human passengers. read

With their long bandy legs and familiar hump, camels may be well known for being some of the toughest animals in the desert but they are also formidable in the wrestling ring. read