The large fire ripped through the centre - home to 280 refugees - completely levelling the hall in the western German city of Dusseldorf on Tuesday. Emergency crews treated 25 people for smoke poisoning before police started an arson investigation amid claims a mattress had been sprayed with lighter fluid then torched. Witnesses reported that there had been recurring tensions between followers of different religions in the Red Cross-run facility. Authorities now believe a quarrel over meal times during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan likely sparked the arson attack.
Farewell to a legend: Muhammad Ali's body arrives at traditional Muslim prayer service where mourners have lined up for hours
- EXCLUSIVE: 'It's going to be an emotional time.' Muhammad Ali's brother leaves his $480 a month Senior Living apartment to prepare for the private service with a pedicure and a new suit bought at Men's Warehouse
- Scalpers cash in on free tickets for Muhammad Ali's memorial service by selling them online for up to $100 a piece after all 15,000 were given out to fans in an hour
The coffin carrying the body of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali arrived at Kentucky's Freedom Hall on Thursday in front of thousands of mourners clutching camera phones who turned out to celebrate the sporting legend's extraordinary life. More than 14,000 thousand mourners will attend the traditional Muslim Jenazah service for the three-time world champion boxer who died Friday at age 74. The service will be broadcast worldwide and streamed online and mark the start of two days of ceremonies honoring the Muslim-convert sports star who died one day after being taken to hospital with breathing problems linked to his lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease. Muslims have traveled from all over the world to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a Kentucky arena for a final tribute to Ali, who died after being taken to hospital with a respiratory condition complicated by his long-term struggle with Parkinson's disease. Former boxer Sugar Ray Leonard (bottom left) and US boxing promoter Don King (top left) both attended Thursday's service for Ali (bottom right).
Stanford rapist pictured with a bong: Photos of Brock Tuner 'smoking' prove he lied to judge about illicit drug use while text messages show references to taking LSD and ecstasy
New pictures have surfaced that show Stanford rapist Brock Turner with a bong and a pipe, proving that he lied to Judge Aaron Persky when he denied using illicit drugs.
- Now the Stanford rapist's supporters turn on him: School counselor retracts court letter saying he is 'undeserving' of jail as friend says her support was 'misconstrued' and others receive death threats
- EXCLUSIVE: Stanford rapist has TWO MONTHS cut from his six-month sentence - as his lies about his victim to probation officer as he tried to dodge jail are revealed
Mother who burned her 16-year-old daughter alive for eloping in Pakistan ran into the street and shouted 'I have killed my girl for misbehaving' as she beat her chest, her sister reveals
Parveen Rafiq, (pictured left and top right) tied her daughter Zeenat, (bottom right), to a cot, doused her in kerosene and set her alight in the family home in Lahore, eastern Pakistan. Mrs Rafiq then went outside and began shouting on the street to neighbours that she had killed the teen for bringing shame on her family, while beating her chest. Punjabi Zeenat's 'crime' was getting married to her Pashtun boyfirned Hasan Khan, a motorcycle mechanic, and her mother said the teenager had brought shame on the family.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the twisted lives of 'terrible yoga twins' - high school loners who rarely dated, always showered naked together and racked up long criminal records while fighting like a married couple
Daily Mail Online has pieced together a complete picture of 37-year-old Ann (top right, bottom right and in black bra in left photo) and Alison (left in teal bra and center top and bottom) Dadow, one of whom is now dead while the other has been released after initially being charged with her sister's murder after their car plunged 200 feet off a cliff in Hawaii. Alison Dadow, the younger twin by 42 minutes, was released on Wednesday after a judge ruled there was no probable cause to support a second-degree murder charge against her. She had been held in custody since last Friday after she allegedly tried to fly out of Hawaii following her discharge from the hospital. The were brilliant high school loners, who kept themselves to themselves, rarely dated and thought nothing of showering naked together almost every day, Daily Mail Online has learned exclusively.
Terror in Tel Aviv: Chilling security camera footage shows moment two gunmen disguised as Orthodox Jews storm into cafe and shoot dead four people 'including girl aged four' and injure six
Gunmen dressed in dark suits have carried out a terror attack in Tel Aviv leaving at least four people dead. Around six other people were wounded in the shocking shooting incident, which took place at the Max Brenner restaurant in the centre of the Israeli city (Main image, gunman with gun circled). Wounded were rushed to hospital (bottom right) while one gunman appeared to have been arrested (top right).
Beak-a-masala: Hungry seagull is rescued after falling into a huge vat of curry
The Herring gull had swooped onto a 'waste' vat of chicken tikka masala outside a food factory in Wales and was fishing for meat when it fell in and ended up being dyed bright orange, pictured. Staff quickly rescued the creature and handed it over to the Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre in Gloucestershire. It has been thoroughly cleaned, top right, and restored to its natural white colour, bottom right, and is set to make a full recovery.
Now that's a sea view! The floating home on the Great Barrier Reef that comes complete with a marine biologist and a celebrity chef
A floating apartment sitting on top of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been listed on home-sharing site Airbnb. A celebrity chef will cook for guests and a marine biologist will take guided tours of the reef. To win a stay at the luxury residence, all you have to do is write a 500 word letter describing why you belong on the Great Barrier Reef.
Is this the most extravagant wedding EVER? Russian billionaire spends $2m on his son's lavish nuptials - where the bride wore THREE couture dresses and $200,000 worth of Tiffany jewellery
The son of a Russian billionaire has married his fiance in an opulent wedding that cost $2 million and saw Maroon 5 perform for the 500 guests. Sargis Karapetyan married Salome Kintsurashvili last Saturday in an extravagant event that saw the bride change her dress three times, including into a couture Elle Saab gown. The incredible venue was likened to a scene out of Alice in Wonderland and was picture perfect with thousands of flowers, fairy lights and a nine tier cake.
The terrifying pictures EVERY anti-vaxxer needs to see: Mother of a baby boy with chicken pox shares pictures of his tiny body covered in horrific scabs and blisters as she pleads with parents to vaccinate their kids
Queensland mother Kayley Burke has called for parents to vaccinate their children after her baby boy Elijah (pictured inset), who is too young to be vaccinated, was hospitalised with the disease. Photos show little Elijah is covered in horrific spots and blisters (pictured left, right), which have caused a secondary infection in his body. Elijah was admitted to Ipswitch Hospital on Thursday, prompting his mother to plead with other parents to vaccinate their own kids to prevent putting others, like her son, at risk.
In cod we trust! Indian children gag and squirm as they are made to swallow live fish in ritual thought to ease breathing problems
The video shows children gagging and squirming as they are forced to swallow live fish as part of a ritual thought to ease breathing problems in India (pictured right). A crowd of 100,000 people gathered at Hyderabad's Exhibition Ground to take part in the ritual, where instead of an asthma pump Indians of all ages participate in an annual ceremony in which they must eat the wriggling fish (shown top left). Sufferers gather every June in the southern city to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in the hope it will help them breathe more easily. Those administering the treatment often clamp their hands over their mouths and noses afterwards to force them to swallow, sometimes giving their neck a quick massage afterwards to help ease the discomfort. In the clip, one boy is heavily scolded and smacked as he runs away in order to avoid having to swallow a fish (shown bottom left).
Surgeons pull a live GRENADE out of a soldier's face in a hospital car park in case it explodes during surgery after military accident in Colombia
The live device was removed under tense conditions outside the Military Hospital in Colombia's capital city Bogota amid fears it could detonate at any second. A temporary operating theatre was set up in the car park of the hospital to avoid harming other patients in the event of an explosion. Authorities are still investigating how the grenade became lodged in the face of the soldier, named locally as Luis Eduardo Perez Arango. Some reports said that the misuse of a heavy fire weapon equipped with a grenade launcher resulted in the explosive accidentally hitting the officer and becoming wedged in his skull. X-ray images show the grenade buried deep in the solder's face.
Heart-stopping footage shows huge tiger pounce on a visitor at Russian zoo only to slam into a glass wall
You can take the beast out of the jungle, but you can never take the jungle out of the beast. That was the lesson learnt by one tourist, that and to never turn you back on an apex predator, after she was chosen as the prey of a white tiger at a zoo in Russia. Video capturing the incident starts innocently enough with a woman sat with her back to the enclosure and a big tiger within, a wall of glass separating the two (pictured left). In an instant the tiger launches itself at the woman, its whole body rising up and planting against the barricade with a crash (pictured right), causing the woman and the children to jump back and scream. The footage comes days after a similar video was taken at a zoo in Chiba, Japan, which showed a little boy turning his back on a lion enclosure only for the cat to charge forward and pounce.
Peekaboo...boop-a-doop: Can you spot Marilyn Monroe smiling among sea of 800 faces in this high school photo when she was a 15-year-old Norma Jeane Baker?
This is the amazing photograph of young Californian school girl Norma Jeane Baker taken in 1941, four years before she transformed into international superstar Marilyn Monroe. The photograph, which features 800 students of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School is signed by many of those in the historic frame. The image is going under the hammer for an estimated $2,500 - however, the future Marilyn Monroe did not autograph the frame.
The world's slowest (and scariest?) roller coaster: Daredevil riders pedal around a narrow track in an open cycle car with just a seatbelt protecting them from a 50ft fall
Daredevil riders can admire stunning views of the sea and small islands while they try to avoid looking down on the SkyCycle ride at an amusement park in Okayama, Japan. They must do all of the work as they make their way around the track in a tandem cycle car. Each car is wide open and doesn't have any rails to protect the occupants - just a seatbelt - at a height equalling four storeys.
Swimmer suffering from earache is horrified when nurse pulls out wriggling SPIDER that was living inside her
Victoria Price, 42, from Porthcawl, Wales, suffered earache after swimming in the sea and thought it was due to a perforated eardrum or an infection. She filled her ear with cotton wool, but still, the pain persisted. Asking her husband to check for infection, he remarked: 'There's something alive in there'. In hospital, a nurse removed a live, wriggling spider (inset) with forceps and said it was 'twice the size it looked'. Fortunately, an examination showed the spider had not caused any problems. Mrs Price said: 'There was no further damage - or any eggs laid - as everyone keeps asking me.'
Has Nessie FINALLY been caught on video? Bizarre footage shows mysterious humps on the waters of Loch Ness
Anger and confusion at baby fetish store: Residents protest at shop selling diapers, soothers and cribs for ADULTS
Residents of the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect are angry and confused after a store opened selling diapers for adults. The owner admits many of his customers are sex fetishists. But John-Michael Williams (pictured, left) said: 'The biggest concerns come from people who don't understand our business and what we do.' The town's mayor, Arlene Juracek, said: 'When you look at the codes and all the definitions, there's nothing pornographic about it, there's nothing that would violate any sense of decency.'
'Do you remember me?': Incredible moment a chimp smiles and hugs the woman who saved her from a research lab 25 years ago
Animal behaviorist Linda Koebner (pictured) has received all the thanks she needed from the animals she hasn't seen for all those years - a 'welcome back' hug. Koebner, who founded the non-profit chimpanzee sanctuary Chimp Haven in Louisiana, spent four years teaching the chimps how to be wild in southern Florida after they were released from the hepatitis research lab where they lived (bottom right). She then returned to the enclosure and was greeted with open arms by the chimps, which was captured on camera and featured on the PBS documentary The Wisdom of the Wild. 'Do you remember me?' she asks, as a chimp named Swing reaches out a hand to Koebner from the dock, and cracks a huge smile (main).
How the Shawshank prisoners seduced 'flirtatious' married prison worker into daily sex acts in the tailor shop and manipulated her into helping their escape by saying they would settle in a 'place on the beach'
It's a miracle! Half a million people will 'walk on water' as part of art installation on Italian lake
The 'Floating Piers' by artist Christo, is being set up over picturesque Lake Iseo in northern Italy and will allow visitors to appear like they are walking on water to an island in the middle of the lake. However, the project still awaits a final touch, the application of deep yellow fabric that the artist promises will dramatically shift from nearly red to brilliant gold under the effects of light and humidity. Once the installation opens on June 18, 150 volunteers, among them lifeguards, will be posted on the piers and on boats around the clock to ensure safety.
Lost possessions of Holocaust victims which were taken before they were sent to the gas chamber: 'Forgotten' items snatched from Jews by the Nazis are discovered in Poland
Thousands of personal items belonging to Jews murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz have been recovered, decades after being stored away and forgotten in cardboard boxes. The 16,000 long-lost objects, which include jewellery, watches, brushes, tobacco pipes, lighters, fragments of kitchenware, buttons, Pocketknives and keys, were first discovered in 1967 by archeologists excavating the ruins of the extermination camp's gas chamber and crematorium III. They were then put into 48 cardboard boxes and stored at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Polish capital Warsaw, where they remained forgotten for over 50 years.
The most heartwarming video you will see today: Woman shares security footage of a little boy sneaking into her garage every day to cuddle her dog... and then finds out the boy's own dog died from old age last year
Hollie Breaux Mallet, from Louisiana, noticed a little boy sneaking into her garage to play with her dog. She shared the security footage (top and bottom right) online to try and identify the boy and tell him that he is 'welcome to stay and play.' The little boy's mother recognised him in the video and confirmed it was her son Josh. She said Josh 'turned ten shades of red' when he saw the video and that they had lost their family dog Bella, who Josh had had since he was two, in 2015. Josh is now welcome at Ms Mallet's place anytime to play with Duchess and has snapped a number of selfies (left) with his new friend.
Meet the 25-year-old tech millionaire who sold everything to travel the world with his wife and two young children... jealous yet?
Multi-millionaire Garrett Gee, his wife, Jessica and their two children, Dorothy and Manilla, from Utah, have been travelling the world after Gee sold mobile scanning app QR to Snapchat last year for $54million. Pit stops for the 'Bucket List Family' as they are known online, have included the Bahamas (top left), Fiji, Dominica (bottom left), Australia, Saint Martin (top right), New Zealand and Antigua (center).