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Sir Bradley Wiggins has become Britain's most decorated Olympian of all time after winning gold in the men's team pursuit. read

Families are being hammered with a £250 holiday tax – plus a triple whammy of stealth fees. Taking a family of four to Spain means handing the taxman £133.20 – 30 per cent up on 2008. read

I like wearing the same type of clothing every day of the year. I appreciate not needing air conditioning or mesh screens on the windows to keep out insects in Britain. read

The Chancellor says he will guarantee that projects receiving EU money will be fully funded. He also pledges payments made to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy will continue. read

Bus driver Peter Kennedy, 45, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, applied for a job in Watford with bus firm Arriva - but was allegedly refused an interview because he is not Romanian. read

Around 1,800 rail workers will walk out on Friday August 26, when families across Britain are due to begin their weekend getaway, before striking again on Bank Holiday Monday. read

Neal Gray is fighting to re-open the inquest into his granddaughter's death reopened and force Sutton Council and the courts to answer why they allowed the little girl to stay her parents care. read

Official statistics show a dramatic drop in pupils taking subjects such as TV, film and leisure and tourism, with thousands switching to the sciences, maths and core humanities (file photo). read

The Government’s plans to allow the creation of more grammars are likely to be modest in scale and have a strict focus on providing for ‘hardworking’ middle-income families. read

He has been accused of being everything from a racist to a misogynist in recent months during his White House bid - but is Donald Trump a Russian agent, writes EDWARD LUCAS? read

Top Democrats have claimed that Russian intelligence is behind the cyber-attacks as part of an attempt to influence the election. read

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have holidayed in a stunning French chateau owned by the media boss who first employed David Cameron. read

Experts at Copenhagen University found binge-watchers had average sperm counts of 37 million per millilitre of fluid, compared to 52 million per millilitre among men who hardly ever watched TV. read

The findings, by a team at York University, supports research suggesting coffee – once considered a potential danger to the heart – may actually have a protective effect when drunk in moderation. read

Julie and Jennifer Fellows (pictured) repeatedly molested the youngster over 14 years. The deaf siblings, of Kington, Herts, communicated with Worcester Crown Court via sign language interpreters. read

Judge Patricia Lynch, QC, has been placed under official investigation by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for the robust way she dealt with John Hennigan at Chelmsford Crown Court. read

Syrians have been seen celebrating on the streets on Manbij after the former ISIS stronghold was liberated by US-backed forces who have driven the terrorists away from the town. read

US-backed forces have toured an ISIS 'religious police' headquarters where women were tortured in the city of Manbij, in Syria. Shocking documents of their 'crimes' were found. read

It emerged yesterday that Kadiza Sultana, who was one of three schoolgirls from east London who fled to Syria last year, has been killed, reportedly in an airstrike. read

Lancashire single father Craig McBeth, 36, says he was banned from his children's primary school after 'accidentally' wearing a T-shirt with swearing on it. The school also called social services and police. read

Of the 296 people onboard the stricken craft in the Mediterranean, 73 were children, Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service said today. read

EXCLUSIVE: George Cottrell was arrested and led away in handcuffs as he and former Ukip leader Nigel Farage got off a flight in Chicago. Cottrell is in custody awaiting trial on 21 charges. read

A new series of photos shows exactly how much of certain foods add up to 100 calories in a tribute to the vast array of different flavours, colours and textures you should eat as part of a wholesome diet. read

Dr Libby Weaver, an Australian nutritional biochemist, was described by actor Hugh Jackman as 'a one stop shop for health and wellbeing'. Here she explains the most common reasons why diets fail. read

Those who sleep naked may do it for comfort, but research shows it also has health benefits. It lowers body temperature, steadies cortisol levels and can even strengthen your relationship. read

James Thie, lecturer of sport ​coaching and performance at Cardiff Metropolitan University, says jogging increases the life expectancy of men by 6.2 years, and women by 5.6 years. read

This is a tale of blood, sweat, tears, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, success, willpower and the unexpected riches found lurking in wonky-shaped spuds, writes JANE FRYER. read

Conman singer Dene Betteridge, 59, from west Yorkshire, served just 46 days of his six-month sentence after being jailed for admitting five counts of benefits fraud. read

RAF navigator Sean Casabayo was killed in 1999 aged 30 when his Tornado crashed near Newcastle during a training flight. He won a Gulf War medal for his service in the campaign. read

Female prison officer Melissa Priestley (left) has admitted a lesbian affair with an inmate after love letters were found in a cell in Low Newton Prison in Durham. read

The girl was abducted near her school and raped at the age of 13 only to be groomed soon after by Ian McGlasson (pictured) on Facebook, leading to two years of abuse in and around Birmingham. read

The Britain's tourism industry has reported a 25 per cent increase in bookings due to fears over terrorism, with some destinations costing £1,000 more than foreign equivalents. read

Balmy temperatures of 24C are expected on Saturday and Sunday with the mercury rising further into Monday - and when the Spanish plume arrives on Tuesday we could enjoy 30C weather. read

Victory aboard Predilection in the mile handicap completed a double for the popular Italian who had earlier moved to 2,999 courtesy of a typically stylish success aboard Ghayyar in the maiden. read

The girls were in a play park area called Castaway Camp at the Windsor theme park shortly after midday yesterday when they were attacked. read

Footage of the exchange has emerged online showing the man lying on the ground clearly in pain after the alleged incident in El Salvador as a TV reporter asks him a barrage of questions. read

Sir Steve was furious after John Inverdale compared him to James Bond villain Oddjob, who is mute, during the BBC's coverage of the rowing in Rio. read

Welsh swimmer Jazz Carlin has won her second silver medal of the Rio Olympics after finishing second for Great Britain in the women's 800m freestyle final. read

Golden girl Ennis-Hill was not at her best in the throwing event in Rio but was able to jump up one place from third after registering a 13.86m throw. read

The 18-year-old made the semi-final of the skeet competition in her first Games – but was eliminated in the final stages of the round. She was cheered on by her grandfather in Rio. read

Charlotte Dujardin, who won team and individual gold at London 2012, and her team mates Spencer Wilton, Fiona Bigwood and Carl Hester were beaten by the Germans. read

Britain's golden girls Jessica Ennis-Hill (left) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (right) yesterday began their battle for the women’s heptathlon title in Rio de Janeiro. read

The much anticipated showdown between Australia's Mack Horton and his great rival Sun Yang will now not happen after Yang failed to qualify for the men's 1500 metres freestyle final. read

Hours after declaring on the Today show that he was 'active' and 'available' on Tinder, the Team USA swimmer in an attempted disguise sneaked into the hotel where Kayla Rae Reid is staying. read

Controversial U.S soccer star Hope Solo has lashed out at the Swedish women's team after they knocked the Americans out of the Olympics with a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory in the quarterfinals. read

Defending 100m Olympic champion Usain Bolt is the ‘good’ in the much anticipated showdown in Rio while the ‘bad’ are some of those expected to be lining up against him. read

Sprinter Kariman Abuljadayel became the first Saudi woman to compete in the 100m and despite finishing seventh in 14.61 seconds, she won the respect of people around the globe. read

An American shooter has won bronze in Rio, becoming the first woman and second athlete overall to earn an individual medal in six straight Olympics. read

Former Team USA swimmer Natalie Coughlin introduced Michael Phelps to cupping about ten years ago, and says athletes wear their marks as a 'badge of honor'. read

The infamous green Olympic diving pool has now closed, after it stunned viewers by turning a murky green during diving events in Rio earlier this week, according to a tweet from Tom Daley. read

There was further disaster for the Rio Olympics today when the much anticipated track and fields events began to a near empty stadium and the Games' spokesman said: 'We have a problem.' read

This is Heather Stanning and Helen Glover's second gold at the Olympics, having won in the same race back in 2012, and will be added to three World and one European titles. read

US gymnastics sensation Simone Biles never knew her father and was taken away from her drug addict mother at a young age, but has gone on to defy her past to become an Olympic champion. read

At the end of the fight the Egyptian Islam El Shehaby refused to shake the hand of Israeli competitor Or Sasson, in a major breach of judo etiquette. read

South African defender Nothando Vilakazi, 27, has been representing her country in Rio this week. But after images of her cupping her private parts appeared, she has been targeted by trolls. read

Brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan have made history for Ireland by winning the country's first ever Olympic rowing medals, but they have also earned plenty of fans for their laid-back approach. read

Bryony Page has won silver in the trampolining event at the Rio Olympics tonight. The 25-year-old from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, bounced into second place, behind Canada. read

Unusual signs have been posted outside the Olympic Village bathroom. A U.S. Olympic athlete shared the picture of the bathroom rules that ban things like fishing in the toilets. read

Anthony Ervin has become the oldest swimmer ever to clinch gold at the Olympics, with the 35-year-old winning the 50m freestyle by one one hundredth of a second. read

Tourists in the Pyrenees in the south of France were in for a shock when a Bombardier 415 'water bomber' zoomed past them just a few feet above the ground after fighting forest fires. read

It has been a humiliating week for former Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson since his premature comments over the Hinkley Point nuclear plant deal, writes PETER OBORNE. read

There can be no greater moment of heartbreak than when a wife discovers that her husband is having an affair. read

The NHS can only provide 330,000 cataract operations per year but that figure could be greatly improved if UK GP surgeries started offering the procedure, health chiefs say. read

Six residents died at the Springwater Lodge Care Home in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. Two of the deaths - which took place within 24 hours of each other - are the focus of an investigation. read

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Lucas has threatened the Arts Theatre in London with legal action after she was kicked out of the Green Day inspired musical for breast-feeding her daughter, Nixie. read

Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli will play with his forename 'Dele' on the back on his shirt this season, citing personal reasons as his motivation for changing. read

Consultant psychiatrist Nadir Omara is said to have rung the Abbeycare addiction treatment centre, near Newmarket, Suffolk after drinking heavily on his wedding anniversary. read

Zoe Wilkinson (pictured), from Bury, persuaded Natalie Leicester to sign a false statement in support of her husband Sgt Richard Pendlebury, 42, after he was detained on suspicion of shoplifting. read

Nigel Wilkinson met his victims on the social network before inviting them to his house in Bristol for ‘male fitness’ photoshoots. Once there, he drugged and raped the men. read

When he woke up on Tuesday morning, Hugh Grosvenor faced a day no different from thousands of fellow twenty-something Londoners. The next he was the seventh Duke of Westminster. read

No sooner is a floor clean than someone tracks mud all over it. So it’s little wonder the world went into a spin when Dyson launched its robot vacuum cleaner last month. read

Frozen rosé - or ‘frosé’ - is made by blending the pink wine with lemon juice and sugar before popping it in the freezer for six hours. The result is a slushie-style concoction that is proving wildly popular. read

Locals living next to a £1.2million country estate in Oxfordshire bought by Hackney Council for troubled families are insisting the new owners surround it with a giant 6ft 8ins fence. read

For 24 years, Jim Gardner Burns has been doorman at the five-star Athenaeum hotel in London. He tells MailOnline Travel why he thinks his job is the best in the world. read

Annual accounts from the Duchy of Cornwall show £1.5m has been paid to Annabel Elliot since 2005. Her latest commission is a pub-cum-hotel in the centre of Poundbury, on the outskirts of Dorchester. read

The veteran socialist, 67, just couldn't stand still when some funky beats were put on at a meeting of his followers in Sunderland. read

Last week, Joe Haines, Harold Wilson’s press secretary between 1969 and 1976, wrote an exquisite letter to The Times, comparing the honours lists of his ex boss and David Cameron's. read

The decision - overturning a High Court ruling handed down on Monday - means 130,000 people who joined Labour since January 12 cannot vote in the leadership election. read

To justify the claim the Corbyn campaign pointed to a single survey on June 26 which had Labour and the Tories level on 32 per cent - despite another poll on the same day putting the Tories 4 points ahead. read

Neil Jackson, 58, son of his second victim Emily Jackson, 42, said: ‘I’m glad he is finally losing his cushy lifestyle. He gets better fed in Broadmoor than I do and I work six days a week.' read

Police chiefs stood side by side with the loved ones of DS Christopher Head, DC David Wombwell and PC Geoffrey Fox in Shepherd's Bush, west London, to remember the brutal 1966 massacre. read

Plans by former Prime Minister David Cameron to change the law to grant the vote to one million Britons who have been living abroad for more than 15 years have faced opposition from Whitehall. read

Alexander Withnell, 78, of Colinton, Edinburgh, passed away yesterday following a battle with a series of health problems, including heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. read

Kevin Carey, 35, from Northern Ireland, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour last year. His wife Natasha is raising money for immunotherapy so he can beat the disease. read

A sharp drop in the number of people who suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage - the most fatal form of stroke - occurred in the same period as a decline in smoking numbers. read

In the last five years there have been at least 675 transplants involving former cancer sufferers. The figures will raise concerns that there is a desperate shortage of donors. read

Mrs May also said she wants more flights to the British-run islands as she extended an olive branch to Buenos Aires over the hotly disputed territory. read

Lynne Morgan's daughter Laura died on a Sunsail holiday at the Vounaki resort in Paleros Bay when the catamaran she was on was hit by a gust of wind and capsized on July 31, 2003. read

Today Siberia, which is one-and-a-half times larger than Europe - evokes the horrors of Stalin’s Gulag, the network of forced labour camps that were largely concentrated there. read

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Christopher Wooll, of Warwickshire, developed Stevens Johnson Syndrome - a rare skin condition was triggered by the mood-stabilising drug lamotrigine. read

Carol Hadman's daughter Grace was just 17 when she died in a crash on the A34 in 2007. This week Tracy Houghton, her two sons, and her partner's daughter, were killed on the same road. read

The fossils were discovered in 2008 in a Siberian cliff face. Now, researchers from Tomsk State University in Russia are set to publish their findings, claiming the animal is a new species of sauropod. read

Tory MP Philip Davies complained about the drive for 'so-called equality' that favours women in a speech that has emerged online. read

The wife of a farmer in nearby Stretham said she heard a 'huge bang' from the crash, which threw the 4x4 (pictured) down the bank and onto its roof. The driver was taken to Addenbroke's Hospital. read

Archaeologists found the two palaces in Montenegro, which they describe as a 'great and cardinal discovery.' The buildings are predicted to have been built before 260 BC. read

Excavations of Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, just a mile from Stonehenge, have revealed huge pits that once held more than 120 giant wooden posts arranged in a circle. read

Outgoing Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s new facial hair has been mocked and compared to the likes of Ron Burgundy from the Anchorman films and Swiss Toni from The Fast Show. read

After mother from Alabama posted a photo of herself jumping for joy at the prospect of freedom went viral, other parents have shared their images online. read

Oscar Smith, of Bridport, Dorset, was caught on camera by his mother Katie while snoozing on a friend’s white pony called Dipsy after mucking out its stables - and has now won a national competition. read

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth found dogs were more interested in themselves than helping humans, in one of two experiments published in a recent study. read

Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard claimed the swimsuits worn by some Muslim women threatened to provoke people because of the number of terrorist attacks being carried out by ISIS. read

A volunteer who pulled a two-month-old baby from the rubble in the war-wrecked city of Aleppo in Syria two years ago has himself been killed in an air strike. Khaled Omar, 31, died yesterday. read

John Bolton, 47, pleaded guilty to possession of the three lock knives while parked in his car with his dog, 100 metres away from Buckingham Palace on June 9, this year. read

Gina Schumacher is pictured celebrating her team's victory at the SVAG FEI European Championship Reining Young riders 2016 held in Switzerland. read

Amazing footage showed Bolivian fast food worker Cesar Saucedo, 24, charging across the tarmac at Madrid's international airport as he tried to board a Ryanair flight to Gran Canaria. read

A strike by Eurostar workers is the latest blow to France's shell-shocked tourist industry. The strike by Britain's RMT union has impacted on services from London to Paris and Lille today. read

Authorities tried to have the shops and restaurants shut down because they were unlicensed and pose health and safety hazards. read

Glen Shadbolt, 39, from Knebworth, Hertfordshire only managed to avoid the migrant mob by driving over their road block in his van, only to see motorists stuck behind him be mugged by the gang. read

Mrs May is not due back in London for almost two weeks as she takes advantage of the long summer recess to recharge the batteries after rapid rise to No 10 after the EU referendum. read

The video was captured by a chef in a Japanese restaurant and appears to show a giant tiger prawn flicking its tail as if it has suddenly come back to life and is trying to swim away, despite not having a head. read

Four people have been killed in at least seven explosions across southern Thailand - including two blasts in Patong, Phuket - an area popular with western tourists. read

Silicon Valley internet mogul, Gurbaksh Chahal, 34, who made $300 million at the age of 25, was sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation in a domestic violence case by 'kicking' another woman. read

Australian astrophysicists say we are constantly bombarded by about 10 billion photons per second from intergalactic space when we're outside, day and night. read

Kent Police who are investigating a robbery have released e-fits of two men - who locals say look like popstar Justin Bieber and Gnarls Barkley singer Cee Lo Green. read

The grandmother, 66, from Gwynedd, Wales, said she fell in love online with a conman claiming to be Mark Alexander Milley, a decorated four-star General in the US Army, pictured. read

Driving instructor Michael Mihalyfi, 23, was returning belongings to his ex-girlfriend Zoe Radley, 36, when she came over to his car and slashed his left hand with a knife in Cressing, Essex. read

Four British teenagers have been arrested in Majorca after running up a £3,552 bill in a luxury hotel. The lads, all from London, have had their passports confiscated by Spanish police. read

It is believed that 41-year-old Igor Shtutin hit a wall that protects the cove in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (pictured), near Nice, in the south of France. His three-year-old son was a passenger on the jet-ski. read

Russian President Vladimir Putin today fired one of his closest allies, Sergei Ivanov, in the Kremlin's most high-profile power reshuffles in years. The announcement was made in Moscow. read

Nikki Widdowson, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, thought her daughter was in the living room. Instead, she had been hit by a taxi. Eighteen-month-old Faith died for four minutes but was brought back to life. read

Until now scientists believed the virus would fade after three months. But this week an Italian man tested positive for Zika 188 days after he was first infected. read

A shocked cyclist couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a taxi driver using a magnifying glass to read a map as he took a passenger down the busy Whitehall in central London. read

Keeley Robinson, 26, (pictured) is mother to two of Tony Henderson's many children, having met the drug dealer, 53, from Withernsea, East Yorkshire, when she was just 16. read

The hours after a workout are crucial for letting your muscles slowly recover, strengthen and grow. Alcohol, however, interrupts that process, according to a study by the University of North Texas. read

The women, whose average age was 30, were from Romania, Albania, Nigeria, Tunisia, Italy and Ukraine. Pope Francis has dedicated Fridays throughout the Holy Year to suffering. read

This week an Italian newspaper ran a cartoon of reforms minister Maria Elena Boschi, 35, showing her dress riding up with a caption that played on the Italian word for 'thighs'. read

While idealistic food photos are inspirational, five parenting bloggers have candidly revealed the reality of what a lived-in family kitchen really looks like, behind the careful cropping. read

The two tiny galaxies, called Pisces A and B, were spotted by Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope, and astronomers say they likely existed in isolation for most of the universe’s history. read

China is developing a new hypersonic space plane (illustrated) that will use a combined cycle air breathing engine along with rocket motors. It hopes to deliver a working plane by 2030. read

Pierre Bate, 42, broke into his victim’s home in Thornton Heath, south London, in 1996 and molested her while her two children were sleeping. read

Swedish art critic Britt Tidelius, 81, allegedly launched into a racist tirade at hotel guest Confus Nekea at the Carlton Tower in London's Knightsbridge. read

Berlin's business tsar Cornelia Yzer warns in the letter that Brexit will 'severely affect' business operation in the UK and promotes the virtues of the German capital instead. read

Tom Sweet, 21, popped the question to Marcela Montoya, 19, who was also in uniform, at the two-day Second World War re-enactment in Blaenavon, south east Wales. read

Tanya Skeldon and her partner Shaun Trebilcock have been kicked out of the property in Saltash, Cornwall, after a long list of complaints against them. read

Dramatic footage shows a military plane almost coming within touching distance of sunseekers on a stretch of sand in Aveiro, northern Portugal. The P-3C Orion plane was on a training flight. read

Concept habitats will be built here on Earth, to help the space agency gain a better insight into the needs and opportunities for extensive manned missions around the moon and beyond. read

The pair struck at a house in Chorlton, Manchester, but CCTV captured their every move. About £1,200 in cash and Asian gold worth £4,000 was taken, and the police are now investigating. read

A rare pygmy elephant has been found with tusks growing inwards, like a sabre tooth tiger, in the tropical Malaysian state of Sabah. read

Vacationers gawked as they watched the fire across the Verdugo River which began at Soutomayor village in Pontevedra, northwestern Spain, near the Portuguese border. read

About 25 police officers are currently on the scene at Speakers' Corner following the discovery. Police were called to the scene at about 6am following concern for a man's welfare. read

At 12ft tall and counting, the giant Gunnera manicata has taken over Jenny and Anthony Phillips’s garden. The colossal plant provides a striking centrepiece for the couple’s lawn. read

Tests on water bottles were carried out by Minneapolis-based fitness website Treadmill Reviews. It found harmful bacteria such as E.coli lurking on the refillable water containers. read

Archaeologists have discovered an unusually large tomb at the ancient Maya city of Xunantunich in western Belize, where they found the skeleton of a 20-30-year-old man and three hieroglyphic panels. read

User DracoLeCount uploaded a series of photos showing what happened when he left a frozen tomato out on his counter top to defrost in an Imgur post that has had 457,000 views. read

Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were jailed after three tonnes of the Class A drug were discovered inside the MV Hamal about 100 miles off the coast of Aberdeen. read

The indigenous people of Yakutia, Siberia, claim they are being pushed into poverty as their reindeer herds are attacked by wolves. Now a bounty of $400 per wolf has been placed on their lives. read

A researcher from Glasgow Caledonian University says there is no feasible way to determine whether or not fingerprints and voice patterns are actually unique. read

They say there is nothing like a mother's love and this baby boy proved this to be true when he beamed with pleasure while his mother gently stroke his face and head. read

Did you know that some foods lose their taste and texture, go off more quickly and sometimes blacken when refrigerated? From basil to bread, FEMAIL rounds up the things you shouldn't put in the fridge. read

It’s a waterfall that forms when water levels lower along a split-level channel on the Uruguay River in Argentina. read

Two treasure hunters seeking a mythical Nazi gold train are to resume the search next week and have promised to live stream their latest dig online. They believe it is near Walbrzych in Poland. read

Househunters looking for a £20million apartment require 24 hour concierges, underground parking as standard, with the option of separate staff quarters and even their own private swimming pool. read

Hunters in Texas used an exploding rifle target to eviscerate a group of feral hogs. Video shows the pigs eating before two shots detonate the bomb and sends pig parts flying. read

Her make-up transformations have earned Texan YouTuber, Katelyn Galloway, an army of fans. In her latest video, she slowly morphs into Buster Bluth from Arrested Development. read

The researchers visited lava flows in a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, north of Iceland, called the North Kolbeinsey Ridge, using a deep-sea torpedo robot. read

PC Geoffrey Fox, DS Christopher Head and DC David Wombwell were shot dead by Harry Roberts (pictured) and his accomplices near Wormwood Scrubs prison, in west London. read

Footage from train stations and the front of trams in Victoria show distracted people and bad drivers risking their lives by walking in front of and merging into trams and falling off platforms. read

WARNING: DISTRESSING SCENES. The violence played out in an unidentified Chinese city and continued for several minutes as the victim was beaten senseless by the three middle-aged woman. read

An elephant which travelled 600 miles after becoming separated from its herd by floods had to be rescued in yesterday after almost drowning in a pond. It arrived in Bangladesh from India. read

Sean Rist was 'creeking' through the Boquet River, in the Adirondacks, New York, when he was caught in the aggressive white-water rapids, that flipped him out of his boat. read

The stunning shots were captured by French engineer Maxime Cotte from Grenoble as he travelled across the Continent stumbling across abandoned places of worship. read

The five supercars, each worth some £200,000 each, caused major problems for drivers after they were left parked in the middle of a road in central Birmingham. read

Engineering boss Douglas Burns, 52, built the three metre high platform in the garden of his £450,000 home to enjoy the view from his property in upmarket Bearsden, Scotland. read

British traveller Ian Wright, 51, from Suffolk, has put his immune system to the test for a new travel guide recording the dirtiest places he licked across Europe. read

An investigation is under way after a Russian scientist shot and killed a Polar Bear pup on the Arctic Norwegian island of Selvågen. read

The research comes from Columbia University, where scientists used a technique known as optogenetics that has previously been shown to restore sight and hearing in blind and deaf mice. read

When corals become stressed, they have been known to exhibit a behaviour called ‘bleaching.' Now, researchers in Australia have captured this on video for the first time. read