Violent scuffles broke out across Europe today as thousands of people taking part in far-right anti-Islam protests clashed with pro-immigration groups and riot control police. Police in Dresden, Germany, saw about 2,000 protesters at a rally organised by the group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, making it the biggest of a coordinated series of demonstrations across European cities. Known by its German acronym PEGIDA, the group emerged in Dresden two years ago and has become a magnet for far-right and anti-immigrant sentiment. Nationalist groups in Europe have been galvanized by the unprecedented influx of refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East last year. Today similar, smaller PEGIDA-style protests were planned in France, Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Pictured is anti-fascist protestors in Amsterdam (left) and PEGIDA rallies in England (bottom right) and Ireland (top right).

With its schools, theatre, nightclub, shops and restaurants, the migrants' camp known as the Jungle has now become a thriving Calais suburb, albeit a ramshackle one. As our aerial pictures show (main image), the camp on the edge of the French port has expanded beyond recognition in six months. Last summer (pictured inset) it was home to about 3,000 people awaiting their chance of a new life across the Channel in the UK. Framed by a motorway, scrubland and the sea, the settlement appears to be inching closer to land near homes on the shoreline as it demands ever-more space. Now its population, made up of 22 nationalities, edges towards 7,000.

Mayor Eduardo Paes handed a big golden key to Rio's carnival ceremonial King Momo, who promised a spectacular show. With great happiness, brotherly love and peace, I declare the best carnival on Earth open - our carnival in the Marvelous City,' the dancing king, who is elected ahead of the festivities, said on Friday. The annual mega-bash famed for lavish - and skimpily dressed - samba parades and all-night street dancing is expected to attract as many as five million people. In Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city and its economic capital, carnival celebrations were kicked off under intermittent summer rain, with a tribute to Carlinhos de Jesus, one of Brazil's most famous salon dancers.

The townhouse in the most desirable part of Central London where Lady Thatcher (centre) spent the last years of her life was bought by developers Leconfield for about £12m after the former PM's death in 2013. Now, after an 18-month, multi- million pound refurbishment, it is on sale with a price tag aimed at a fortunate few. It boasts a bright television room (top left), a lavish ground-floor dining room (bottom right), a new roof terrace (bottom left) and even a massage salon (top right). But friends and colleagues of Mrs Thatcher wonder if she would have approved of all the glitz.

For nearly 42 years, those closest to the disgraced Lord 'Lucky' Lucan (pictured left and right, ringed) have maintained a strict code of silence about the fate of the louche aristocrat who disappeared in 1974 after the brutal murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, at the family home in Belgravia, London. Now, in the wake of last week's High Court ruling that finally pronounced the missing playboy officially dead, Lord Lucan's younger brother, Hugh Bingham (pictured inset and right as a child), has broken the family oath of 'omerta' to speak for the first time in detail about Britain's most sensational unsolved murder case. In a series of remarkable interviews carried out by The Mail on Sunday over a period of two years, Bingham - the first member of Lucan's inner circle ever to speak out - reveals that he believed his brother (pictured below with Bingham as children) was an innocent man who fled with the help of wealthy friends because he had no prospect of a fair trial, and was running scared of violent gangsters chasing unpaid gambling debts.

When Tim Ritz was asked by his wife, Kolleen, where Hastings, the setting for ITV's 1940s drama Foyle's War was, he drew a map on a post-it note. But as the geography questions kept coming Tim, when asked where Downton Abbey and then Pride and Prejudice were set, decided he wanted to do something more than a basic sketch. After much research he produced this detailed map covering everything from current drama successes like the BBC's Poldark, to the quirky 1990s comedy of Father Ted, to the decades old Fawlty Towers. To source the map he scoured the film information site IMDB as well as Google Maps, Wikipedia and consulted a graduate in the field.

Spanish ski resort bosses have combed part of the tourist spot after a skier posted the image appearing to show an abominable snowman in Formigal in Spain. The photograph, posted online with the message: 'Strange animal spotted in Formigal. What the hell is this?', has been shared thousands of times. The picture sparked a search by ski resort owners Aramon and a frenzied debate over whether a Spanish Yeti was on the loose or if it was a bear, Photoshop montage or even a soldier wearing mountain camouflage.

This is the terrifying moment two hitmen dressed as police officers and armed with assault rifles (pictured left) stormed a hotel and gunned down a gangland rival in a brazen daylight massacre. In total, six men wearing disguises executed gangster David Byrne (main picture and inset) and seriously injured two of his associates at the Regency Hotel in Dublin yesterday before fleeing in a van later found torched. Wearing helmets and carrying powerful assault rifles with jackets reading 'Gardai' on the back, many witnesses said they mistook the men for genuine police before the shooting broke out.

The 5,577ft high structure known as the Sky Mile Tower (pictured) would be the crowning centre piece in 'Next Tokyo', a futuristic Japanese city which is being developed to combat climate change. If approved, Sky Mile Tower would be more than twice the height of the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,717ft high. The 'mega skyscraper' is expected to house 55,000 people who will have access to its 'sky lobbies' which will hold shopping centres, restaurants, hotels, gyms and even health clinics.

Roger the red kangaroo, from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, has made a triumphant return to social media - pulling off a fearsome flex to show off his bulging biceps and immense forearms (left). The mammoth marsupial, who weighs in at 89 kilograms and stands over 2 metres tall, made headlines last year when a photo emerged of him crushing a metal bucket with his bare paws while staring down the camera (right).

Katie Robbins (pictured with Lexie, six), from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, decided to take a chance when she ordered the tights from a seller in China, unsure when and if they would arrive. Not only did they come, they were delivered on time, and came with a free 'hilarious note' (right). It asked for three stars or more in the seller's eBay feedback section, and said they would be punished by theit 'a**hole' boss if any negative comments were left. The technique obviously works, as VC Blues Zone has 98.9 per cent positive feedback, although Mrs Robbins said she would have given them a good review anyway.

This year's swag bag is worth a record-setting £160,000, and features trips to Israel and Japan, a $250 vaporizer, a lifetime supply of Lizora skin care, and a Vampire Breast Lift. 'Everyone Wins', Distinctive Assets, the company in charge of creating the luxurious bags, claims in the gift's title. The group's press release said this year's bag 'once again a blend of fabulous, fun and functional items meant to thrill and pamper those who may have everything money can buy but still savor the simple joy of a gift'.

Windows shattered and shards of debris flew through the air as the blast tore through office buildings and shops within a half-mile radius in Manchester city centre on June 15 1996 (left). Minutes earlier two police officers are seen directing people away from the vehicle (inset), which was packed with 1.5kg of explosives, and a bomb squad called in. A robot approaches the lorry but efforts to diffuse the bomb prove in vain as time runs out (middle). Nobody was killed but 212 people were injured and £700million in damage caused (right) after the explosive device was detonated close to Marks & Spencer and the Arndale shopping centre.

A woman posted an adorable video of her nephew Ayden, who has seemingly turned to stone when he gets in trouble for touching things he's not supposed to (left). She repeatedly asks to no response: 'Did you break it? what were you doing with it? Are you going to pass out because you're so scared?' Eventually she tells him to blink to indicate that he's alive, and after more than a minute, the toddler breaks into a big smile (left).

The stark warnings from health experts that 'sugar is the new smoking' prompted millions of Britons to turn to diet plans that promised guidance in how to drastically cut their intake. Now an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed some of the top-selling 'sugar-free' recipe books are far from what they claim to be on the cover. While omitting traditional table sugar, they contain numerous dishes laced with sugars from syrups and other sources.

The Turner Prize nominee, pictured, hopes to bring her home and work life under one roof by building a house in Spitalfields, London, that is connected to her studio, but the 52-year-old has met opposition from locals. Tower Hamlet council's development control committee is due to rule on the plans on Wednesday, with councillors expected to agree with the recommendation of officers to refuse on heritage grounds. In anticipation of the result, a planning appeal has already been launched by experts on behalf of Ms Emin, for the Planning Inspectorate to rule on the case, a move called 'extremely aggressive' by one opponent.

Surveillance video shows the boy, named Jaden, walking into King Foods in West Palm Beach. Employees said he went up to the cash register, pointed the gun and said 'Give me the money'. An employee then took the gun from his hand and struggled to get the boy into the store' office before police were called. Eboni Alls, the boy's mother, said her son told her he was going to the park. He then stole her gun from her purse and biked to the store.

Javier Rigau, 54, who is accused of tricking Italian screen star Gina Lollobrigida (pictured together left) into marriage, said the first words the 88-year-old taught him in Italian translated as: 'Let's be together. Let's f***'. The businessman hit out at the ageing siren, who ruled Hollywood in the fifties and sixties (top and bottom right), after she told his fraud and forgery trial in Rome last Monday that even while travelling, the pair slept in separate rooms and we never had intimate relations.

Sophie Jenkins (right in left hand picture) welcomed Arya Kay Patricia at 8.56pm on Thursday, followed shortly by her mother Kay Henry's (left in left hand picture) baby Tiana Rose at 12.11am yesterday at the same hospital in Cardiff. It means that Arya is actually a few hours older than her aunt, Tiana. Arya is the fifth generation of the family, the oldest member of which is David, 84, who has 28 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren and now, one great-great-grandchild.

Christmas Island in the Indian Island of Australia's west coast is home to some of the most bizarre wildlife in the world. The island boasts the red crab (pictured) which is know for its breathtaking yearly migrations, it is also home to the coconut crab (inset) - which can grow up to a metre in length.

The aged board was upside down. The construction worker posted the image to Reddit this week, creeping out fellow users who commented on the image nearly 600 times. The worker wrote that he now wondered 'where the planchette was hidden'. The planchette is the piece of wood or plastic the player holds over the board as they try to communicate with spirits during a seance. It is not known which country the picture was taken in.

The heartwarming 30 second clip, which is believed to have been taken in Spain, shows the loving pooch ensuring that her young sibling is completely covered by his blanket. The tiny black and tan pup begins using her nose to flip the blue sheet over the tot's legs and front.

The 30-year-old from Leeds (left), who is of Bangladeshi heritage, spoke about her marriage to Abdal, 34, (inset right) as she joined in a debate on 'what makes a good proposal'. She admitted that their proposal 'was not private at all' as it occurred in front of 'about 40' members of both their families when she was 19 years old. She made her debut as a panelist on ITV daytime show Loose Women on Friday (right).

A comic book lover's dream came true as Hollywood director Michael Bay put up the heroes of his hit Transformer movies for auction with the Optimus Prime and Bumblee vehicles fetching just shy of a whopping £1,000,000 in total. The custom made Autobots (both pictured) were sold at an event in Scottsdale, Arizona, with Optimus Prime, a modified 1979 Peterbilt truck, bought by NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick for £834,310 and Bumblebee, a Camaro SS, sold to another bidder for £115,286.

The humorous clip is thought to have been captured in Turkey and shows a man, who is believed to be a karate teacher, practising his moves on a woman. The video, which was filmed by a handheld camera, begins with a close up shot of a nervous woman with an apple on her head.

Nicolas Vuignier, from Crans-Montana, Switzerland, created a video entitled Centriphone in which he takes to the slopes with an iPhone and a piece of string to capture some incredible footage. In the clip, Nicolas can be seen rotating the camera, secured inside a customised 3D printed rig, around his head to shoot the 360-degree footage of himself skiing and performing tricks.