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When tradition meets the modern world: African tribeswoman in goatskin clothes checks out the deals in Namibian supermarket 

These striking images show the very pervasive nature of globalisation, as an elegant tribeswoman in traditional dress and mud for sunscreen checks out deals on washing powder. read


Every woman's nightmare: Harrowing CCTV footage captures oblivious victim being followed as she walks alone at night - moments before stalker holds her at knife point in attempted kidnap 

Alarming CCTV shows the woman being followed by the man along a dark street in Bolton moments before he held a knife to her cheek and dragged her down an alley. Luckily she managed to escape. read


Obese patients and smokers are to be barred from nearly ALL operations in 'the most severe policy the modern NHS has ever seen' 

The decision by North Yorkshire hospital bosses to halt operations on smokers and people with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above could become the norm, health experts have warned. read


New Mercedes will be able to tell you where there's a free parking space that's already been spotted by other cars in its fleet 

Mercedes Benz drivers will be able to find each other car parking spaces in a new piece of technology being developed in Stuttgart, Germany. read


Viewers beg BBC to recommission Goodnight Sweetheart

It captured viewers' imaginations with its quirky premise and talented cast in the nineties. And the special proved to be just as popular as fans took to Twitter in their droves to beg the BBC. read


Tyre fitter, 27, is charged with murder of 19-year-old Shana Grice who was found dead at home 

Michael Lane, of Brighton, was charged with the murder of teenager Shana Grice on Friday evening. The tyre fitter had been released on bail by officers at the end of August. read


Too fat to foster: Student, 32, who weighs 21 stone is told she is too big to look after children 

A 32-year-old from Salford has been told she is too fat to foster children despite the council being in desperate need for foster parents. Zoe Young has lambasted the council for its decision. read


Invasion of the cannibal slugs! They're bigger and slimier than out native breed.

Of all the pests that plague the British gardener, nothing is quite as frustrating as the Spanish Slug. These five-inch slabs of muscle and stomach are carnivorous, amorous and enormous. read


Want to get that job? Never mind brushing up on your business knowledge, just shed 1lb, women are told  

Weight-based prejudice means larger women are at a disadvantage. Researchers found that even women of a healthy BMI are penalised. read


EXPOSED: The hard-Left doctors who care more about bashing the Tories than your health  

GUY ADAMS investigates the British Medical Association's unprecedented decision to call for rolling five-day strikes, monthly, for the rest of the year. read


Junior doctors' leaders are being paid £250 a day to set up strikes

Junior doctors' leaders and organisers of the walkouts can claim the money from the British Medical Association as well as expenses for hotels and business-class travel. read


Boris lays down the law on Brexit: He tells Theresa May UK must NOT stay in single market and NOT pay into the EU 

In a leaked letter, Mr Johnson - who today attended a meeting of foreign ministers in Slovakia (pictured) - noted what are understood to be his four 'red lines' for the negotiations. read


EUROGEDDON: As a Nobel winner warns the euro is doomed, why the political elite's refusal to admit the misery it's causing means there's far worse to come 

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz issued a bleak presdiction that ‘Europe, the source of the Enlightenment, the birthplace of modern science, is in crisis’. read


SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Brexit-bashing Baroness Wheatcroft sparks cruise ship mutiny 

Baroness Wheatcroft must have expected it to be plain sailing after being invited by Cunard to be a guest speaker on the ship’s swanky 14-day cruise from Rome to Athens last month... read


The best discounts on a new car

Last year, some 462,500 new models were registered in September, up 485% on the month before. But that doesn't mean you can't get a good deal. Data provided by CarWow proves this. read


DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Why pictures of Poldark are making men seriously ill 

Men are now bombarded with images of the perfect male physique. Just look at the number of times we see Aidan Turner scything shirtless in Poldark, writes DR MAX PEMBERTON. read


PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Spare us Posh's cynical sob story

In her latest appearance in Vogue magazine, Victoria Beckham pours out her heart in an emotional letter to her insecure teenage self, AMANDA PLATELL writes. read


Holiday Brits face chaos in Calais migrant protest

Lorry drivers will block motorways on Monday in protest at the rising numbers of attacks by migrants. It means families returning to the UK face being trapped for hours as they try to catch ferries. read


Marks and Spencer pay row over Sunday and holiday bonus cuts costs the retail giant an extra £150m

Sky News said it had learned that M&S will cull about 15 per cent of staff at its Paddington office - with more than half of the cuts affecting contractors. read


Terminally-ill woman who touched thousands with brave TV shows about living with cancer dies eight months after achieving her biggest bucket list ambition - her 40th birthday party 

Inspirational Rowena Kincaid, from Cardiff, died of breast cancer after a three year battle. She presented two documentaries and defied doctors to make it to her 40th birthday last year. read


Being Deputy PM made me pale and fat, moans Clegg, as he recalls working in the coalition left him so stressed he suffered from pneumonia 

Mr Clegg said he also suffered from chest pains and chronic coughs. He became so overweight that the former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown berated him for his size. read


'£20k isn't a lot for my Iranian TV appearances,' says Jeremy Corbyn

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has defended a £20,000 fee from Iranian channel Press TV for four appearances between 2009 and 2012. The channel is banned from broadcasting in the UK . read


Shakespeare portrait to be cleaned and it may cost the playwright his facial hair

The National Portrait Gallery is mulling over doing the works on the Chandos image (pictured left) for the first time in its almost 400-year history and it could take up to a year to complete. read


Alzheimer's dad sets off on 16,000 mile bike ride through the wilds of North America

I was undertaking an epic journey to raise funds for Alzheimer’s. But it wouldn’t help anyone if I got myself eaten on the first leg, a few days out from my starting point near Toronto, says CHRIS GRAHAM. read


Hull mother Lauren Matthews hits out at taunts endured by her son Oliver, two, over vivid zigzag scar

Oliver Matthews (pictured) was born with an abnormally shaped head. His skull was crushing his brain and he had surgery that left him with a distinct scar. But his mum, Lauren, says he gets taunted daily. read


Sports Direct's HQ warehouse 'is awash with drugs and use of cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines are rife' 

Drugs paraphernalia, including a crack pipe and dirty needles, are said to have been uncovered at the firm's headquarters in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, during an investigation. read


Stanford rapist Brock Turner released from California jail after THREE MONTHS

Stanford rapist Brock Turner, 21, has been released from jail - after serving just three months of the six-month sentence handed down in June. He will now register as a sex offender. read


Schoolboy who raped his five-year-old brother and four-year-old sister is locked up

The sexual assaults only came to light when the girl spoke to their mother while they were walking home from school. She later told police about her brother's 'yucky' acts, Liverpool Crown Court heard. read


Swapping regular cheese for low-fat versions WON'T help you cut cholesterol, reduce blood pressure or trim the waistline 

A study by researchers in Copenhagen, Denmark, found that ‘skinny’ cheese does not lower cholesterol, reduce blood pressure or help to trim the waistline - potentially denting the low-fat cheese market. read


Team GB hockey heroines reveal all about their Rio medal joy

Their dramatic Olympic final against the Netherlands had millions of viewers holding their breath. Now, the shinpads are off — and the British golden girls are getting glammed up. read


Beaming Alex Jones leaves The One Show studios with huge bouquet of flowers in hand after announcing she is pregnant with her first child

The 39-year-old looked radiant as she headed home from the London studios with a huge bouquet of gorgeous white flowers in hand, gifted in celebration of her recently announced pregnancy. read


Australia's first women-only sex club opens its doors in Sydney

Sydney's first women's only sex club is turning the heat up with its second party on Saturday night after a successful debut in June. Vegas Hart will be dancing at the exclusive event. read


Army falls to lowest numbers for 200 years as recruiters struggle to attract young when there is no war to fight 

The number of regular soldiers in the Army has fallen to the lowest number in 200 years, as statistics show the number of trained and counted full time soldiers at 79,390 at the beginning of July. read


Can fruit help babies' brains? Pregnant women can boost their children's intelligence by getting an extra portion a day 

Researchers at the University of Alberta discovered each extra serving of fruit eaten by mothers-to-be corresponded with an increase in cognitive scores for their babies. read


Dramatic moment that a New Zealand boy is left dangling from a chairlift as his parents hold onto his arms while help arrives

A nine-year-old boy is lucky to escape injury after he slipped off his seat and was left dangling when he failed to lower the safety rail at Mt Hutt ski field in New Zealand's South Island. read


Bishop of Grantham announces he's in gay relationship becoming the first in Church of England

The Bishop of Grantham, Nicholas Chamberlain, has become the first C of E bishop to declare that he is in a gay relationship but said he didn't want to make a 'big thing about coming out'. read


Church is called on to sack vicar who joined hunt which is being investigated by police 'for throwing live foxcubs to a pack of hounds' 

A priest with St Lawrence's Church in Weston-under-Penyard, Herefordshire is under fire after he was filmed fox hunting. Footage shows the clerical collar wearing Rev Neil Patterson atop a horse. read


The price of sending your children to a top state school 

Tiffin School (pictured), a top grammar for boys in Kingston, south-west London, requires pupils to have the official blazer, costing £105 to £120. read


An ex-pupil's suicide, a torrent of allegations and the haunting question

Teacher Paul Sheppard was stopped at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of serious sexual offences against James Glynn (pictured) - a former pupil at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire. read


Mother-of-three with a 'billionaires' row' house is paid £170 a week in benefits

Mother-of-three Manal Morrar, 46, of north London, has been accused of 'taking the p***' out of taxpayers after getting £170-a-week benefits while living in an £11million home. read


GBBO's Selasi grew up in poverty in Ghana before moving to Britain as schoolboy

Just 15 years ago, he was living in Zomayi, in the Volta region, with his parents Dan and Regina, brother Senanu, sister Edinam as well as their grandparents in a cramped house. read


Great British Bake Off star Candice and her ex-drug dealer boyfriend 

It is the first time Candice Brown and Liam Macaulay, her boyfriend of four years, have been seen in public since his conviction for dealing cannabis in 2009 became known last week. read


Victory for the Mail as ministers pledge to outlaw toxic beads poisoning our seas

In a major victory for the Mail’s ‘Ban the Beads Now’ campaign, Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom pledged to ‘bring an end to these harmful plastics clogging up our oceans’. read


Us and china praised after climate deal ratified

The announcement, which comes as heads of the G20 leading group of nations meet in China, means the Paris Agreement drawn up in the French capital comes closer to being adopted. read


Fast cars, older men, foreign vacations - and a porn star past. The VERY racy lives of the 'drug mules' accused of $30m cocaine smuggling bid in Australia

The racy background of the two women held in a massive cocaine bust can be revealed today. One of is a former porn model; the other is 'turned on by money', an ex-boyfriend told DailyMail.com. read


The married dancing stars taken on by BBC to break the love curse of Strictly 

Of the six new pro dancers, four of them are married or engaged. They include husband and wife Katya and Neil Jones (centre). Could this help break the Strictly love curse? read


Police charge man on suspicion of murdering Oliver Dearlove with 'one punch' in Blackheath

Trevor Timon, (pictured) of Plumstead, is accused of viciously beating Oliver Dearlove, 30, from Eltham, south east London, who was out with friends on Sunday, August 28. read


Sara Connor's children plead for her to come home and tell her they love her

The 11-year-old and nine-year-old sons of Australian Sara Connor, who is accused of murdering a policeman in Bali two weeks ago, have begged their mum to come home in an emotional video. read


London Pride traffic lights baffling pedestrians as little green man is still replaced by same-sex symbols three months after London Pride

Transport For London replaced the traditional 'go' sign in 50 traffic lights in June around the Trafalgar Square area as a nod to those taking part in London Pride. read


How British mother nicknamed 'Mrs Terror' turned her son into ISIS killer

Family and friends of British ISIS convert Sally Jones, 47, and her son Joe, 11, have spoken about their grief after images surfaced of the child killing a Kurdish prisoner. read


Mums too POSH to parent: Never mind nannies, some super-rich parents hire professional potty trainers, Lego tutors and PAs to plan playdates... 

A new documentary is lifting the lid on the lives of Britain's super-rich parents who 'outsource' every aspect of their childcare - from organising playdates, to Lego therapy. read


Profits soar at crisis rail firm's owner as Southern passengers are told they will have to wait two YEARS for a proper service  

In the latest slap in the face for commuters, Southern's parent company Go-Ahead revealed profits soared 27 per cent to almost £100million in the year to July. read


Outraged passengers slam plans by Edinburgh airport to charge customers £5 to skip queues

Passengers could pay £5 to be fast tracked at passport control in Edinburgh airport. Officials say the initiative will ease congestion in busy periods but Scots have called the scheme 'unfettered greed'. read


How chimps are dedicated followers of fashion: They love looking in the mirror and copying the latest trends - just like us

Like all fashion victims, chimps love mirrors. They use them not just to check their appearance, but to examine areas that they can't see, such as the inside of their mouths. read


James Dyson's basement swimming pool in his home could land him in hot water

Planning inspectors were sent to his 600-acre Dodington Estate in Gloucestershire after being tipped off he had installed the pool at an estimated cost of £1m under the Georgian house. read


GPs could blacklist patients who use a forged doctor's note to pull a sickie

One website, DoctorsNote Store, offers ‘guaranteed 48-hour delivery’ of an ‘authentic-looking replica doctors’ sick note certificate … on official doctors’ notepaper, with real stamp’. read


Twins Ruby and Rosie and the photo their parents feared they'd never see

The Formosa sisters, from Bexleyheath, south-east London, were born conjoined - fused together at the abdomen and sharing part of an intestine. Their parents had little idea what the future held. read


Maya the dog waits outside Elda Hospital for six days waiting for her owner to return 

Spaniard Sandra Iniesta was rushed to hospital with severe abdomen pain while travelling back from a holiday with her father Andres - not the World Cup-winning footballer - and Maya (pictured). read


A new book reveals Kenneth Clark was also a bed-hopping, wife-stealing rogue

A new book has revealed how famed TV presenter Kenneth Clark was a serial adulterer - a constant seeker of affairs, even with the wives of his close friends. read


Man is charged with causing death by dangerous driving after crash which killed Penge boy

Joshua Dobby, pictured, of no fixed abode, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Friday accused of causing the deaths of Makayah McDermott, ten, and his aunt Rozanne Cooper, 34. read


BEL MOONEY: Does my bullying boyfriend deserve the heave-ho?  

This week, BEL MOONEY advises a 48-year-old woman whose boyfriend's nasty mood swings are putting her off the idea of spending a year travelling the world with him. read


Two women spared jail for performing shocking sex acts on each other in Devon

Anita Jane Hare and Martina Loosemore had both been drinking at the time. Performed their lewd acts in Pilton Park, Barnstaple, where children were playing. read


BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis' stalker bombarded her with letters

Edward Vines, 46, bombarded BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis with letters over the course of 20 years after becoming 'obsessed' with her, Oxford Crown Court heard today. read


Don Smith who found a giant puffball in Ontario asks granddaughter Kaylie Ngo to post photo online

Don Smith, 84, found the giant puffball (pictured) last week near Woodstock, Ontario - and was so delighted with his find he enlisted his granddaughter's help to broadcast it to the world. read


Fifi Geldof 'to be married in church that Peaches and Paula's funeral took place'

Fifi Geldof is set to tie the knot on Saturday, at the same church where the funerals of her mother Paula and sister Peaches were held.  read


The science of sports bras - How physics has kept women supported

Experts from the University of Portsmouth have revealed why active women look to sports bras to minimize pain, discomfort and even improve their sports performance. read


Wiltshire husband releases photo of mentally unwell wife forced to sleep in POLICE CAR

Katie Simpkins, 23, was forced to sleep in the back of a police car for nearly four hours after being turned away by Green Lane Hospital, a mental health facility in Devizes, Wiltshire. read


Big name banks make up to £6billion from record levels of interest on credit card debts 

Despite the Bank of England (pictured) base rate being slashed to 0.25 per cent last month, the average annual credit card interest rate has climbed from 21.2 per cent to 22.3 per cent since January. read


Finance boss who stole from a students' union and spent it on holidays is jailed 

Graham Jackson, 59, was jailed for five years after leaving Hull University Union on the brink of collapse by taking cash for expensive holidays, cars and the weddings of his two daughters. read


Drivers who talk on their hands-free mobiles while at the wheel are more at risk

A new study has found that motorists' brains become overloaded during phone conversations, costing them milliseconds of reaction time when the car in front brakes sharply. read


Father of two dies in a freak crash when his £19,000 motorbike hit a bird

IT engineer Ashar Niazi, 35, (pictured) was riding his £19,000 Yamaha R1M superbike through Godstone in Surrey with three friends when the accident happened. read


Mother Teresa's 'miracle' doesn't feel special, just loved

Marcilio Haddad claimed to have been cured by the nun, who died in 1997. His wife, Fermanda Nascimento Rocha said when he fell ill she prayed 'with all the strength I had.' read


Theresa May set to keep China waiting on Hinkley deal

Theresa May is set to fly into a diplomatic row with China at the G20 amid growing indications she could pull out. Sources say the PM will tell President Xi Jinping that he will have to wait for an answer. read


City worker Alexander Thomas 'killed friend who threw his shoe out of taxi window'

Alexander Thomson, 32, who had just lost his job, allegedly attacked Thomas Hulme, 23, after a night out with former work colleagues from a recruitment firm in Farringdon, London . read


Half of women can't identify their reproductive parts on a diagram

A survey conducted by the Eve Appeal found one in seven women were unable to name a single gynaecological cancer, despite half a million women worldwide dying from them every year. read


Philippines bombing at busy market kills at least 10 and injures 30

At least 10 people have been killed and another 60 injured after a bombing at a busy market in Davao City on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. read


Sisters who were split up at a Chinese orphanage together again at last

Two sisters with cerebral palsy who were split up after one of them was adopted from a Chinese orphanage and the other was left behind have been reunited after almost four years in Kentucky. read


Shocking moment thug floored a man outside a Manchester nightclub in one-punch attack

Horrifying CCTV footage shows the man launch himself at his unsuspecting victim outside the Press Club, in Manchester, after approaching him from behind. read


Speaker design appears to confirm that Apple's handset will feature the vibrant shade

At the IFA tech show in Berlin this week, audio hardware firm JBL said it chose the navy blue colour of its latest speaker to match ‘a few more devices’ that will launch ‘in the near future’. read


Twitter abuzz after millions receive BBC breaking news alert in BENGALI

Robert Peston, the former BBC economics editor, was among the first to notice the message. The BBC said a technical error had triggered a link to a report from its Bengali service. read


Fancy a tipple? No, it's Sober September as charities try to persuade us to take a break from bad habits

Cancer Research UK says its September Dryathlon is to challenge the nation to prove its willpower, offering a twist on the traditional Dry January because drinking rises over summer. read


This cat REALLY doesn't like Donald Trump: Borat the politically-minded pussy reacts violently when shown photo of the presidential candidate

Hilarious footage from America shows a woman attaching a photo of Donald Trump to the end of a broom and putting it in front of her cat - who viciously rips the picture and hisses wildly. read


Calais riot police tear gas hundreds of migrants trying to escape the 'Jungle'

Hundreds of refugees living in the sprawling Jungle camp were pushed back on Thursday after they tried to access the motorway that leads to the port of Calais. read


Calais 'Jungle' vowed to be destroyed by France's interior minister

As he prepared to visit Calais, the Socialist French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he wanted to see the thousands living there dispersed to other parts of France. read


Norwegian man's hilarious complaint to Ikea after getting a TESTICLE caught in stool

Claus Jørstad, of Alta in Norway, has lodged a hilarious complaint to Ikea on Facebook after he got a testicle stuck in one of the retailer's red chairs with holes while having a shower (left). read


Tandridge District Council close playground after tunnel fears

Mint Walk Recreation Ground in Surrey, once featured a concrete tunnel tall enough for a toddler to stand up in.However the play tunnel has now been demolished and the park is partially closed read


Beyoncé and Blue Ivy spend Labor Day weekend with Michelle Obama

Beyoncé and her daughter Blue Ivy have touched down in Maryland, to spend Labor Day weekend with the Obamas - minus the President who is in China for the G20 - at Camp David. read


Savers hit by Help to Buy loophole could lose their 25 per cent top-up

Thousands of buyers considering investing in one of the UK''s shared ownership scheme are among the 500,000 savers who have opened one of the government’s flagship Help to Buy Isa. read


One in three homeowners frustrated by their lack of progress on getti the property ladder

Lloyds Bank also found that, on average, 74 per cent of homeowners not living in the house that they will stay in for the rest of their life reckon that it will take up to two more houses to get there. read


Poet says she can no longer cope with noise and vandalism on her Durham street

Jackie Levitas, 79, (pictured) had campaigned for years to stop student housing taking over her neighbourhood in the heart of the historic cathedral city of Durham. read


Father recalls moment he realised Walton teen missing in the Thames was his son

Kevin Naylor has told of his grief over the death of his son Dominick, 15, (pictured) on Wednesday after the teen drowned in the river in Walton-on-Thames while swimming with four friends. read


Uzbekistan's hard man president Islam Karimov dies at 78 and in the wings to replace him are his tough guy enforcer, finance chief, veteran security boss... and his 'non-entity' stand-in 

Uzbekistan has been plunged into the greatest period of uncertainty in its post-Soviet history following the death of strongman dictator Islam Karimov, with no obvious successor lined up. read


Airports cashing in by making us pay to skip the queues at passport control

Officials claim charges for 'fast-tracking' travelers will ease congestion. But letting passengers skip the queue for a fee has sparked a backlash, with claims this is unfair and greedy. read


Tabby Road! It's the new album that's just for cats and the cellist behind it says his 'feline-centric sounds' will calm your pet

A new album, Music for Cats, has been put together by musician David Teie, who says he applied 'real, scientifically credible' research into his compositions for the major label release. read


Jeremy Corbyn says after-work drinking in the pub discriminates against mothers

Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to after-work drinks, saying that it benefits 'men who don't feel the need to be at home'. He was speaking at an event to launch his policy on equal rights read


County Cavan father ‘left notes revealing why he stabbed wife and children to death’ 

Alan Hawe, who is suspected of murdering his wife and three young sons at their family home in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan, is understood to have left a note explaining his decision. read


Thugs drag a girl to the ground in shockinglyviolent video uploaded to Facebook

The clip of the attack in Short Heath Park, Erdington, was filmed and shared on Facebook. The family of the victim say they have not contacted the police for fear of further repercussions. read


The top ten things parents find stressful about the children going back to school

A poll of 2,000 parents has revealed that mums and dads spend almost two hours a day stressed. Author and psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos offers her top tips to help parents to stay in control. read


'Can you quit Uber? I think you're kind of hot': Taxi driver reveals what life is really like on the road by filming the passengers in his car 

The Uber driver from Charleston, South Carolina, films his passengers and uploads them to a YouTube channel. They provide an insight into the everyday life of a taxi driver. read


1941 photograph of SAS shows The Originals men who survived Operation Squatter

The astonishing picture was only recently found by researchers features some of the regiment’s most famous members following Operation Squatter, the SAS’s disastrous first raid in Libya in 1941. read


Clare Balding on why her new book features a horse-mad heroine with 'big thighs'

She's an award winning TV presenter, sports pundit and autobiography writer but the tireless Clare Balding has added yet another string to her bow - by writing a children's novel about horses. read


Horrific moment a man savagely stabs four people repeatedly with a 'gigantic' butcher's knife in random attack

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Horrifying footage from Argentina shows man randomly stabbing victims - including an 89-year-old woman - before bystanders held him back. read


Government launches £1.5m contest to find out how to stop youngsters become terrorists

The Home Office is encouraging Britons to come up with ways they can help the Government wage the war on terror by rewarding good ideas with sums from £10,000 to £100,000. read


Inside Egypt's underground trade where brokers offer refugees in debt to people smugglers £3k

The underground brokers are targeting undocumented African migrants who arrive in Cairo desperate for cash. They offer sex workers as a 'sweetener' before taking the organs. read


Norwich bus driver charged with impersonating police officer after Police concert

Leslie Ireland, 60, was charged and taken to court after he stopped his bus to reprimand a woman texting at the wheel - and using her knees to steer her car on the busy A47 in Norwich. read


Video shows a puffed-up frog start SCREAMING at a family in Tokai Forest, Cape Town

The footage shows a Cape Rain Frog making a bizarre shrieking noise - its body entirely puffed up as he crouches on the ground in front of a family and their dogs in Tokai Forest in Cape Town. read


Seagull screams in for ice cream: Greedy gull swoops on unsuspecting Thai student on Brighton seafront 

Tara Dalyntara, 23, from Thailand, was ready to enjoy the treat on a trip to Brighton, East Sussex, over the Bank Holiday weekend when the brazen bird helped itself to a beak full. read


Mohammed tops the list of most popular baby boy names in the UK in 2016

Mohammed has topped the list for most popular boys' name in the UK as the 14 varieties of spellings - including Mohamed, Muhammed and Mohammad - put it above Oliver. read


Oxford Brookes student makes £12k to fund her law degree by designing and selling lingerie

Amani-Cane Elouazani, from Surrey, says she has made around £12,000 from her bespoke lingerie business which she puts towards funding her law degree at Oxford Brookes University. read


South African rap duo 'imitate' Oscar Pistorius's shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Ninja, left, and Yolandi Visser, right, of South African group Die Antwoord were accused of trying to cash in on the tragedy by Oscar Pistorius's psychologist Dr Lore Hartzenburg. read


World's first driverless buses with a top speed of 12mph take to roads in France

The buses will drive around the centre of Lyon at 12mph in year-long experiment starting on Saturday. They can carry up to 15 people between five stops on a 10-minute route. read


Burning Man enters final days as installations set on fire

Burning Man is entering its final days for 2016, with the more than 70,000 party-goers in the Nevada desert beginning to set fire to the huge wooden installations built for the week-long party. read


His mugshot will make you 'Holla!': Man with distinctive forehead tattoo arrested for the 27th time in Florida

Charles Easter, a well-known bikini-clad street performer in Florida with 'HOLLA!' tattooed on his forehead was arrested for a 27th time on early Tuesday. read


Amazing moment that four huge humpbacks frolic around a boat off NSW coast

Four fishermen off the NSW Central Coast were left stunned when a pod of humpback whales decided to pay them a visit swimming within arms reach and almost capsizing the boat. read


Back in the swing! A decade on from Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is in prime party mode

New Orleans has always embraced its drink and music culture and as Daily Mail's Siobhan Warwicker discovers, the city has shaken off Hurricane Katrina and ready to party. read


Mother shares hilarious before and after school photos of her daughter on Imgur

Kelly O’Brien, of Canton, Ohio, has shared hilarious before and after photos of her daughter Franky from the five-year-old's first day of school. The snaps have since been viewed over 1.3 million times on Imgur. read


World's highest glass bridge in China closes due to 'overwhelming volume of tourists'

The £48 million walkway in southern China is forced to close today after it opened on August 20. A spokesman said 'there were too many people', but he insisted there were no safety concerns. read


Discovery Channel host finds massive black slug as big as a small dog lurking the tide pools at a California beach

Coyote Peterson, who hosts the Discovery Network's Brave Wilderness, had a camera rolling when he stumbled across the black sea hare in - the largest slug in the world - in California. read


Drunk man leaps on roof of bus to dance before he is tackled off by furious driver 

The drunk had paralysed the city centre bus in Chelyabinsk, central Russia, when he began to pull strange poses on the roof while it was at a stop. One witness said: 'Bus drivers are pretty tough.' read


Group of Vietnamese teachers are lifted over a river by an EXCAVATOR

Teachers in the remote Yen Bai province in northern Vietnam were stranded when floods washed out roads between the villages and the school. read


All aboard for a weekend of sheer pleasure at a holiday home with its own private railway

The Hyde is set on the grounds of the Netherwood Estate in Tenbury Wells. The historic property is full of luxurious touches and there's an award-winning chef living on site. read


Horrific moment a man with one leg is mowed down by a speeding driver in the middle of the road after the 'pavement was blocked by construction workers' 

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The upsetting incident took place in the city of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The 42-year-old man was taken to hospital but he died of his injuries soon afterwards. read