Edward Tenniswood (top right) was today convicted of raping and murdering 20-year-old India Chipchase (inset top centre), who he ushered into a taxi outside a Northampton nightclub and strangled at his home. He told the court he had OCD and 'hated dirt'. As photos taken inside his property a year before the murder show, he laid newspapers down around the floor and put dustsheets over his furniture.

NEW Frightened families in Melbourne's west have resorted to fortifying their homes against violent thieves less than a month after many residents started to arm themselves with bats. People living in the area are beginning to add barbed wire extensions to their fences and brainstorm other ideas online.

The internet has a habit of finding humour in the most unexpected places. For instance, an image has gone viral of an American man working out. Though it sounds innocent, the picture is hiding a rude and very cheeky secret.
While the photograph shows a muscular man taking a workout breather, when viewed with a certain lens it looks very, very different.

As long as people around the world continue to irritate each others will be writing and leaving each other passive digressive notes, which the internet will joyfully share. From the snarky note about running out of toilet roll (top left); to the woman who was clearly fed up about being asked whether there were any jobs going (top centre), these people have got it nailed when it comes to a snarky response. Then there's the message to IT about fixing an obviously outdated computer (bottom centre); and the note left by a person clearly frustrated with people trying to get in the wrong door (bottom right).

Erin Holland has defended Sonia Kruger after she received a backlash for proposing a ban on Muslim immigration to Australia on the Today show last month. The 27-year-old told Daily Mail Australia that while she 'doesn't necessarily agree' with the statement, she does not condone how Sonia was treated online. 'She got so much hate online which is really sad because it is probably where a lot of these problems are coming from in the first place,' the model said on Tuesday

The Australian teams have kicked off training for the first time in Rio ahead of the 2016 Olympics which has already been marred with controversy. Swimming favourite Cate Campbell (left) was seen inspecting the Rio de Janeiro Olympics aquatic centre. Meanwhile water polo player Joel Dennerley (top right) was photographed using what looked like a six-pack of blue Powerade as weights in the pool and boxer Shelly Watts (bottom right) carried out training on well-used basketball courts.

Police and State Emergency Services volunteers travelled to Jenolan Caves, west of the Blue Mountains in NSW on Tuesday, where about 80 people, and 14 vehicles including seven buses, are stuck. An SES spokesman said emergency services were doing what they could to free the bogged vehicles as heavy snow continues to fall.

Meet Sam Humphrey - the 22-year-old Melbourne actor who stands at 127cm tall. Mr Humphrey was born with acrodysostosis- a condition which affects bone growth and physical development - restricting his height to that of an eight-year-old. He will on Thursday night debut on long-time Australian soap Neighbours, with a guest role written for him.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Terrifying images show the death toll of the Philippines' bloody war on drugs is rising. Officers have killed over 500 suspected drug traders since the start of July. President Rodrigo Duterte, dubbed 'The Punisher', ordered police to carry out summary executions and also urged citizens to kill drug users and dealers. A man is pictured gunned down in the street lying next to a sign that reads: 'Do not follow me, I am a drug pusher and my house is a drug den' (right). Some men are seen stripped to their underwear, with their hands and feet tied. Others have their faces covered in tape or their clothes soaked with blood (left).

NEW Samuel Leighton-Dore, 24, and his partner Bradley Tennant (top right) want to have a child who can 'see where he or she came from when they look up at their parents'. The Sydney-based writer considered adoption but after speaking to his sister, Bronte Leighton-Dore (left), about his concerns the pair decide to have a baby, together. 'The only possible chance my partner and I have of waving our respective biological flags in our future kid's DNA is if my sister donates an egg for my partner's sperm,'  Mr Leighton-Dore wrote. the 24-year-old said his mother (bottom right) has supported his decision, despite the confusion it creates when explaining the origins of her only grandchild.

NEW Gunman Daniel John Ashley (pictured), 27, was left paralysed and partially blinded after being shot by police during the Mosman Park siege (inset). Ashley took five hostages at his ex-girlfriend's Perth home in June, 2015 with a replica gun. While inside the house, Ashley posted on Facebook: 'Tonight, I'm going to die. I will be shot by police'. On Tuesday, the judge ordered a psychiatrist assess Ashley ahead of his sentencing on Friday.

The teenager, named Jemimah Thomas in reports, travelled to Romania as a volunteer where she decided to take some time off to go zorbing with her friends during the summer. Shocking video footage of her rolling down a steep ski slope (below right) screaming has been uploaded by her friend. It shows her pals laughing unaware that Jemimah is in pain. She reportedly had to stay inside the orb for 30 minutes in agony (top), as resort staff refused to cut her out. She had in fact broken both her arms (below left) and the mountain rescue team had cut the ball open to pull her out, according to local reports.

ISIS has released the 15th issue of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq (pictured left), in which it attempts to claim ISIS is in fact Islamic. It features a list-style article on the reasons why the terror group hates Westerners. 'We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers; you reject the oneness of Allah; whether you realize it or not,' the article says. The other six reasons ISIS hates everyone include because they are reportedly 'liberal', 'atheist', commit 'crimes against Islam' and 'crimes against the Muslims' and invade 'our lands'.

Swedish homeware giant IKEA has responded to Kanye West after the US rapper said he wanted to collaborate on a furniture range. The 39-year-old said: 'I have to work with IKEA - make furniture for interior design, for architecture.' In response IKEA Australia posted a piece of furniture titled 'Yeezy' (inset), which is also the name of West's fashion label. 'Hej Kanye, we'd love to see what you'd create... we could make you Famous,' IKEA wrote. West, who is married to socialite Kim Kardashian (left), was pictured visiting IKEA's head office in Almhut, Sweden earlier this year (right).

Scantilly's campaign was rejected by Facebook on the grounds that it doesn't allow ads 'that promote sexual acts, sexual videos and publications', however they have since reversed the decision. In a message to Hannah, they wrote: 'Thank you for notifying us about your ad disapproval. We've reviewed your ad again and have determined it complies with our policies. I'm sorry for our incorrect review. We evaluate millions of ads per week and there are instances that we incorrectly disapprove an image that does not violate our policies. Your ad is now approved, active and will start delivering soon.'

Star, 30, from Birmingham, has admitted she won't give up going under the knife - whatever the dangers - as she is determined to overhaul her look. She has already spent £50,000 on plastic surgery including cheek implants, lip fillers, breast implants and a nose job that has left her struggling to breathe. Star, who appears on Channel 5's Body Freaks, was called Stacey when she was born but she has ditched her old name as well as her natural features after her mother kicked her out of the family home when she was 17 (inset) and made her live in a hostel.

Tiffany Grimes and Dade Barlow, from Arizona, live as husband and wife. After first meeting in 2008, they were in a gay relationship until Dade realised he wanted to live as a man and underwent hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery. The couple, who married in 2008, are pictured with their daughter Zane (left), before Dade began his transition (right) and as a young woman (inset). Tiffany said: 'We've gone through so much, but most people have been supportive. People don't even realise Dade's past and are shocked when they find out! I'm so proud of him - we're just like any other family.'

NEW A frustrated business owner decided to dump two truckloads (pictured) of rubbish at a man's front door after he refused to remove it himself. Damon Barry purchased Auckland's Express Recycle in 2015 and claimed it was former owner Lei Gong's responsibility to remove eight-tonne piles of rubbish before he left. After repeated attempts to have Mr Gong remove the piles, Mr Barry decided to take a different approach and footage shows two trucks depositing a mound of wood, plastic and material onto his driveway.

Thousands of hungry punters (including Caz Johnson, top right) had flocked to MySlice Fest at Wembley Park, which was billed as 'London's biggest pizza party', and 'a day full of fun, food and a dash of mayhem... guaranteed to deliver'. But once they arrived, they found just six pizza sellers were offering 'disappointing' slices (bottom right), and visitors the event failed to live up to expectations - despite VIP tickets costing £49.50. Pizza lovers then had to queue (main image) for more than two hours to get a slice at the festival, held in a corner of a car park near Wembley Stadium, before unprepared vendors ran out of pizza four hours early.

Maria Pettersson, 32, who was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, but now lives in Sicily, gives her 130,000 social media followers a glimpse into the lifestyle of a Boeing 737 pilot on - and off - duty. The green-eyed blonde takes selfies from the cockpit (left) or waving from a plane window (inset) but she also shows off her incredible figure in bikini yoga snaps (centre) and pictures that see her enjoying a spot of paddleboarding (right).

Three women wearing skimpy hot pants try to cover their faces as they dance on the busy strip in Pattaya, Thailand, where the government is trying to ban the nation's infamous sex trade (top left). Inside a bar on the strip, three women can be seen pole dancing and entertaining men as they drink lager (top right), while a ladyboy stands outside waiting to speak to people that walk past (bottom left). In a set of eye-opening photographs taken in Pattaya, on Thailand's south coast, one woman - known as a bar girl- can be seen leaning against a metal post while striking a sexually suggestive pose (bottom right).

A huge crocodile has been pictured turning cannibal and devouring another reptile in a Northern Territory waterhole (main and inset). The four-metre long saltwater crocodile was captured on camera by Jason Tolhurst while he was out in a boat with his five-year-old son Joshua and his friend. Mr Tolhurst said the reptile had no problem with their boat lingering nearby while he continued his scaly meal. It's the second time a cannibal crocodile has been spotted eating his own kind in the Corroboree Billabong, south-east of Darwin, with another tourist capturing similar pictures in May.

When you have a child by your side, getting fed, dressed and out the door on time in the morning can be hard. But thankfully daddy blogger How To Dad is here to help... sort of. The father-of-two from New Zealand has produced a new video tutorial showing fellow parents the secrets to getting children ready in the morning, which he very nearly achieves.

An amusing video shows Reggie the budgie attempting to mate with his favourite plastic penguin toy on the living room floor of his owner's house in Haslemere, Surrey. After chasing off his best friend Buster, Reggie performs a mating dance around Mrs Penguin (right), before proceeding to spend some quality time with the Antarctic animal.

The 'Coiling Dragon Cliff' walkway opened on August 1 on Tianmen Mountain, at the Tianmenshan National Park in Zhangjiajie, and is only 5ft wide sitting 4,600ft above the valley floor. The mountainous area is particularly popular with tourists for its remarkable natural scenery as well as for its relatively new attractions, the glass-bottomed walkways. Photographs of the walkway's first visitors show them edging carefully along the cliff wall, with some guests avoiding looking down through the transparent floor and over the side of the barrier.

Okie the western lowland gorilla appeared to be relaxing at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston (left). But the 23-year-old ape suddenly became enraged when a visitor tapped on the glass with only the faintest of touches. The gorilla pounded his chest in a display of aggression (middle). He then charged at the tourists and slapped his hand on the viewing screen (right). The zoo says that such 'natural' behavior is periodically shown by Okie.

Kate Visser, 23, who lives in Canterbury, Kent, started planning her surprise visit to Oregon to shock her mother, Wendy Rice, 51, after telling her she couldn't afford to visit on her birthday (pictured together, inset). She looked up where Wendy was staying on Google Maps and found her way across to their house before capturing her incredible reaction on video. Before the door fully opened, her mother can be heard screaming hysterically before shouting: 'Oh my god, Katelyn!' The video has drawn a lot of positive responses on Facebook with people feeling touched by the mother and daughter's close connection.