A state of emergency has been declared in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida as Hurricane Matthew is poised to hit the US within hours, as its expected to be a catastrophic storm with destructive winds and flooding that hasn't been seen in more than a decade in that area of the East Coast. Even before the full force of the powerful storm hits, thousands of people have already been left without power in some parts of the sunshine state. Florida Power and Light reported that a combined 12,000 customers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have been left without power this afternoon as it warns that 2.5 million statewide will experience outages in the aftermath of the storm. About 1.5 million people in Florida have been told to flee inland as the dangerous and life-threatening Category Four storm could become a Category Five and siege on the east coast of the state. The storm that's packing winds of up to 145mph is expected to hit Southeast Florida by Thursday evening through early Friday, as weather forecasters predict it will bring a dangerous storm surge to some parts of the state that will be even worse than what happened in New Jersey during Super Storm Sandy in 2012. Destructive winds and flooding is expected to stretch into Georgia and South Carolina moving up the coast by the weekend. Weather forecasters say the eye of the hurricane may never make landfall, however, the eyewall which contains the strongest winds, may do so.
Fifteen suspected migrants including a child are found huddled together 'at -25C' inside a freezer lorry at an M25 service station after the driver heard banging coming from the trailer
The driver stopped at Clacket Lane service station in Surrey after hearing a loud banging coming from inside the vehicle this morning. Police closed a petrol station slip road and detained the lorry's occupants on suspicion of illegal entry into the country. Reports from the scene suggest the contents of the lorry, which had travelled from the Port of Dover, were frozen to -25C.
RIP to the party that changed Britain for ever: DOMINIC SANDBROOK on how Ukip's infighting came to the fore after the party's reason for existing disappeared after the referendum
To some degree, Ukip has simply been the victim of its own success. Once the British people voted for Brexit in the EU referendum, the party lost its driving principle, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK.
Sir Cliff Richard SUES BBC and South Yorkshire Police over live coverage of raid on his house
Sir Cliff Richard has said his life was 'effectively turned upside down' as he confirmed he was suing the BBC and South Yorkshire Police over live coverage of a raid on his home in 2014.
Hypocrisy of webcam GPs: Despite complaining of recruitment crisis, doctors' leaders urge them to earn £90k from private sessions online
They can do as many hours as they want - from home or their surgeries - in between their NHS patients. Yet there is a severe recruitment crisis and up to one in eight GP posts are unfilled.
Welcome to Britain? What my Mum's ordeal at Heathrow Airport says about us, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
My 88-year-old mother, who lives in America, paid a state visit to England recently, but she didn't get the best of welcomes at Heathrow Airport, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.
- 'The worst is still to come': Hurricane Matthew pummels Florida coast with 100mph winds and flash floods as more than 800,000 lose power
- The migrants who nearly froze to death next to boxes of Aunt Bessie's roast potatoes: 15 people - including a child - are found huddled together inside a '-25C' freezer lorry at M25 service station
- RIP to the party that changed Britain for ever: DOMINIC SANDBROOK on how Ukip's infighting came to the fore after the party's reason for existing disappeared after the referendum
- Sir Cliff Richard SUES BBC and South Yorkshire Police over live coverage of raid on his house
- Hypocrisy of webcam GPs: Despite complaining of recruitment crisis, doctors' leaders urge them to earn £90k from private sessions online
- Welcome to Britain? What my Mum's ordeal at Heathrow Airport says about us, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
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- First for the Army as soldier weds his groom on base: Air Vice Marshal does the honours as gay couple tie the knot in Cyprus
- Mother sues NHS over disabled daughter: Businesswoman says she 'would have had an abortion' if she'd known her daughter Matilda would be born with illness similar to Zika virus
- GP who admitted having a one-night stand with a vulnerable patient faces being struck off after tribunal finds her guilty of misconduct
- Migrants attack police with fire extinguishers in escape from Spanish detention centre on the day EU launches new border force
- Deadly risks of fly-in European plastic surgeons: Patients who suffer complications are warned that cheap doctors are hard to track down
- How the rise in speed limits for HGVs on rural roads has actually led to lorries going slower than before
- Why don't we let UK jihadis go to Syria? Senior judge questions why taxpayers' money is being used to stop people travelling there
- Creepy clown gets beat up with a baseball bat when he tries to scare a group of friends hanging out in their car
- 'The worst is still to come': Hurricane Matthew pummels Florida coast with 100mph winds and flash floods as more than 800,000 lose power
- Hurricane? I'll drink to that! Thousands of Floridians - led by Vanilla Ice - ignore calls to evacuate to surf, party and mess around on the beach dressed as DINOSAURS
- Fears for a huge flock of migrating birds which has been caught INSIDE the eye of Hurricane Matthew and can’t escape
- Former Miss Universe says she's done giving interviews about 'fat-shaming' after life story unravels: 'We will not be discussing the Trump subject any further'
- 'Time is up': Killer Matthew to hit Florida with 145mph in hours as storm becomes most powerful Hurricane to strike Florida in 12 YEARS amid warnings it will cause 'immense human suffering'
- 'We've never seen anything like this': Mother's boyfriend, 32, is arrested for raping ten-month-old girl to death in horror basement attack that has left cops in shock
- Life on the dark side of Tinseltown: Skid Row is revealed in all its decrepit horror as drugs and homelessness take their toll
- Campaigners start White House petition calling for man who raped his girlfriend's baby to death to face public hanging for his crimes
- Hurricane Nicole forms off Bermuda in the Atlantic and could be absorbed by Matthew as they cross paths
- Warren Beatty calls transgender son Stephen 'my hero' and reveals he went on a 'soulful' walk with Marilyn Monroe the night before she died
- 'Everyone you know is dead... your kids die too': Fox News host Shep Smith under fire for VERY ominous broadcasts as Hurricane Matthew hits Florida
- EXCLUSIVE: America's enemies within - SIXTY-TWO ISIS attackers and 'plotters' in just a year and more than half of them are immigrants or their children
- From Paradise Island to holiday from hell: Honeymooners film their luxury Bahamas hotel being ripped to shreds by Hurricane Matthew as storm leaves hundreds dead and homes flattened across the Caribbean
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Clarifications and corrections
Daily Mail Australia posted an article on 5 June 2016 containing allegations about an incident at Red Square nightclub in Adelaide, South Australia. The article suggested that a group of deaf patrons was discriminated against and denied entry because of their disability.
First for the Army as soldier weds his groom on base: Air Vice Marshal does the honours as gay couple tie the knot in Cyprus
Sergeant Alastair Smith (centre) married civilian Aaron Weston (left) on British forces territory in Dhekilia, Cyprus in what is believed to be the first gay wedding (inset) on a UK overseas military base. The marriage - which took place on September 10 - was approved and officiated by Air Vice Marshal Mike Wigston (right), the commander and administrator of the Army's sovereign base area. Sgt Smith, 36, said he was 'overjoyed' to celebrate the occasion surrounded by friends, family and infantry colleagues.
Mother sues the NHS saying 'she would have had an abortion' if she'd known her daughter was going to be born severely disabled
Amanda McGuinn and her husband Paul, 38, of Lee, south east London, have lodged a legal bid against Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust citing 'wrongful birth' in relation to daughter Matilda.
GP who admitted having a one-night stand with a vulnerable patient faces being struck off after tribunal finds her guilty of misconduct
Dr Jean Paton-Ker (pictured), 41, first met the patient in November 2013 when she started working at Shipston Medical Centre in Warwickshire.
Migrants attack police with fire extinguishers in escape from Spanish detention centre on the day EU launches new border force
One migrant feigned illness to distract officers, leaving the others to attack police with fire extinguishers injuring five at the Sangonera la Verde centre (pictured).
Deadly risks of fly-in European plastic surgeons: Patients who suffer complications are warned that cheap doctors are hard to track down
Surgeons from abroad regularly visit the UK to offer cut-price treatments before jetting home, but British medics warn that their patients are putting their lives at risk.
How the rise in speed limits for HGVs on rural roads has actually led to lorries going slower than before
The lorry speed limit on single carriage A- roads was increased from 40mph to 50mph in April last year, but new figures show the speed traveled on these roads by HGVs has dropped.
Why don't we let UK jihadis go to Syria? Senior judge questions why taxpayers' money is being used to stop people travelling there
Mr Justice Hayden said there had been an 'extraordinary level' of state intervention to stop a 17-year-old boy fleeing the UK amid fears he would join a terror group.
Fish and chip shops told to cut meals sizes: Outlets under pressure to offer an 'extra small' portion in fight against obesity
A leading industry wholesaler, which supplies hundreds of outlets, insist there is a demand for smaller chip portions among weight-conscious customers.
Healthy fats in farmed salmon have HALVED: Amount of omega-3 drops after changes in the way fish are fed
The amount of omega-3 farmed salmon contains has halved in the past decade. The fatty acid is recommended by doctors to combat a variety of conditions.
Southern Rail 'will sack guards': Hundreds face losing their jobs on New Year's Eve unless they sign up to new working conditions
Govia Thameslink Railway, which runs the Southern franchise, will today send letters to about 400 train guards warning them they will be fired on December 31 if they refuse to sign up to the contract.
We get it Tony, you're a big boy! Blair manspreads for a magazine as he hints at comeback to prevent Britain becoming a 'one-party state'
Tony Blair today indicates he is planning a dramatic return to front line politics to prevent Britain becoming a 'one-party state'. In an extraordinary interview with Esquire magazine, the former Prime Minister acknowledges he is deeply unpopular in Britain in the wake of the Iraq war. But he says he is 'very motivated' to try and save the brand of centre-left politics which saw him win three elections, but which has now been abandoned by Labour. In a withering attack on Jeremy Corbyn, he brands him a member of the 'ultra- Left' which 'believes that the action on the street is as important as the action in Parliament'.
Jeremy Corbyn promotes ex-lover, the lawyer who produced 'whitewash' anti-Semitism report and the domestic violence minister cautioned by police for fighting with her husband
Diane Abbott was sensationally made shadow home secretary and Shami Chakrabarti shadow attorney general tonight as Jeremy Corbyn launched a sweeping reshuffle.
Return of pensioner bonds: Theresa May could introduce accounts with high interest rates to help savers
Mrs May hinted in her conference speech on Wednesday that she would introduce policies to help savers after quantitative easing and the interest-rate cut had 'bad side effects'.
We never said Brexit would cause a recession, claims Sir Spin: Cameron's media chief tries to deny Remain team said vote could lead to a downturn
Former Downing Street spin doctor Sir Craig OIiver claims the Remain campaign did not warn of an immediate recession should Britain vote to leave the EU.
We might have to compromise on migration, says Hammond because access to the single market is as important as controlling movement
In a surprise intervention, the Chancellor suggested ministers were prepared to compromise on free movement to retain access to the single market with the European Union.
Green light for fracking! Government says controversial mining process CAN go ahead in Lancashire
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has approved proposals for using the controversial mining technique at a site in Lancashire.
Loophole that lets landlords dodge buy-to-let curbs: Six in ten invest through limited companies to avoid the new rules
Soaring numbers of UK landlords are buying properties through limited companies to avoid paying higher tax bills following a government buy-to-let crackdown.
Attack of the drones! New Star Wars flying toys which can hit 50mph top the list of children's must-haves this Christmas
Toy store Hamleys has predicted what it expects to be the top 10 sellers this festive season, including a new range of Star Wars drones (pictured main and inset) that can fly at speeds of 50mph and shoot lasers. The £25 Pieface Showdown is already a hit on social media, with posts abounding of youngsters enjoying a face full of cream. Meanwhile, the fourth edition of the BeanBoozled spinner game, also £25, will have players risking eating jelly beans flavoured to taste like rotten fish and spoiled milk.
How we've been walking the dog for 7,500 years: Discovery of tooth near Stonehenge shows animals accompanied humans as they travelled around the country
A tooth belonging to a dog thought to resemble an Alsatian has been found in the grounds of a nursing home a mile from Stonehenge which is thought to be the oldest evidence of 'walkies'.
Don't put off your retirement... you'll only end up sick! Living longer does not guarantee people will be fit enough to work into old age
British women born in 2015 can expect to live 82.8 years on average and men 79. But women can expect to stay disability-free for only 72 years, while for men it is 69.9, the study found.
Working night shifts does NOT raise the risk of breast cancer: Women who do shifts are 'no more likely to get the disease than anyone else'
Scientists at Oxford University found the incidence of breast cancer was essentially the same whether someone did no night shift work at all or did night shift work for several decades.
All because the lady loves...a yurt in Mongolia: Cadbury's resurrect Milk Tray Man 50 years after his first ad
Firefighter Patrick McBride, who won the role ahead of 20,000 hopefuls last year, is the latest to don the black polo neck for Cadbury's new Milk Tray Man in a £3million televised campaign.
Deadly risk of alternative therapies for children: Doctors issue warning about treatments following several cases of severe illnesses in youngsters
The caution was triggered by the case of a four-year-old boy with autism who was admitted to hospital in London after he became seriously ill.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
Looking for new material? After publishers dismiss his book proposal as 'bland' David Cameron gets back on the election trail with his successor
David Cameron is spending most of his time focussing on his memoirs and had hoped to secure an advance to match the lucrative multi-million pound deal secured by Tony Blair.
- Diane Abbott is made shadow home secretary as Jeremy Corbyn launches his reshuffle by promoting FOUR women - but he started with a brutal sacking of chief whip Rosie Winterton
- George Osborne plans a book on how to fix the 'Age of Unreason' by using his lessons from 'victory and defeat'
- Corbyn goes on HOLIDAY and buys his wife a woolly jumper as Theresa May sets out her plans to steal Labour voters (and then he brands her plans to protect British workers 'xenophobic')
Venom between leading figures, donations drying up and membership falling...ANDREW PIERCE on how Ukip is on the verge of collapse
Diane James' departure from Ukip, its struggling finances and 'venomous' in-fighting over the Witney by-election could spell the end for the party, writes ANDREW PIERCE.
Looking for new material? After publishers dismiss his book proposal as 'bland' David Cameron gets back on the election trail with his successor
David Cameron is spending most of his time focussing on his memoirs and had hoped to secure an advance to match the lucrative multi-million pound deal secured by Tony Blair.
Sofa company boss hits back at Home Secretary Amber Rudd after she complained his factory was recruiting too many foreign workers
The Home Secretary appeared to rebuke the firm during the Tory conference this week, suggesting it recruited 'almost exclusively' from Romania and Poland.
Aren't you meant to be at the Tory conference, Dave? Former PM seen strolling in West London and treating his daughter to breakfast
Clutching a blue satchel, David Cameron could be seen strolling down a street in West London and treating his daughter to breakfast before taking her to her primary school after skipping the conference.
Emmerdale star Leah Bracknell who played Zoe Tate for 16 years is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer - as her partner races against time to raise funds for last chance treatment in Germany
Fans of Emmerdale star Leah Bracknell who played Zoe Tate have rallied to her support after it was announced she has terminal lung cancer. Her partner Jez Hughes is raising funds to send her for desperate treatment in Germany. So far £2,547 in donations have been pledged from a £50,000 target. Writing on Facebook he said: 'Hi all. So it's been an incredibly tough month as my beloved partner and soul mate, Ali/ Leah, was rushed to hospital 5 weeks ago. Luckily they were able to drain a litre of fluid from around her heart which saved her life. Unfortunately the diagnosis for the problem that caused the fluid build up was lung cancer, stage 4, what the doctors call 'terminal.' Mr Hughes said Zoe has been a 'wonderful mother of two, loving partner and daughter'.
That's got to hurt! Fireman runs fund-raising half-marathon in full gear and ends the race with GIGANTIC blister
This was the heavy price Kevin Summerhayes paid for his success after setting a new world record - by a margin of just one second.
'I'm fed up of people taking pictures of him': Dog owner who dresses her Jack Russell in sunglasses, a baseball cap and booties 'for medical reasons' claims he is a laughing stock
Maria Domanic said she is 'fed up' with people pointing, laughing and taking photos whenever she takes 14-year-old Jax for walks in her home town of Kingsbridge, south Devon.
British schoolboy, 10, makes the final of Turkey's Got Talent after his breakdancing skills were spotted while on a family holiday to Cyprus
Kavan Stables and his mother Cazzie Franks, from Broomfield, had already returned home when Studio 21 (pictured together) called them and asked them to come to Istanbul for the final.
Frustrated parents fed up of struggling to find a space while dropping their children off at village school buy their own CAR PARK
Parents of children who attend Sharow School in Yorkshire, secured a £100,000 Heritage Lottery Grant for the community car park and now hope to crowdfund an additional £30,000 themselves.
Father died died after private ambulance crew 'failed to spot he was having a heart attack'
Kim Page is taking civil action against both the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust and Private Ambulance Service Ltd following her husband Gary's death in February.
Mother-of-four, 32, was horrified after she logged on to Facebook and saw pictures of herself on the news feed claiming she was DEAD
Candice Haines, from Birmingham, was shocked to discover her photo (shown) being used on health website, Daily Records, about another woman and fellow Crohn's sufferer who had died.
Till dress do us part! Couple celebrate their 50th anniversary by wearing the same outfits they wore on their wedding day... and they still fit
Carole-Ann, 71, and Jim Stanfield, 74, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by wearing the same outfits they wore on their wedding day. Despite it being half a century since they last wore their outfits Carole-Ann and James were shocked to discover they still fitted perfectly. Pictured: The couple on their big day (left) and their golden wedding anniversary (right).
Size 10 woman who was out celebrating her 20th birthday with a group of friends was turned away from a London nightclub dressed like this, because she was too FAT
Bobbi Jo Goldsmith claims she was turned away while waiting in the queue for Libertine London, in Soho, by a promoter who said the group were 'too big' for the nightclub's 'look'.
Distraught mother claims her Down's syndrome son was turned away from a play centre after staff said it was 'unsuitable for children like him'
Simone Blount took her four-year-old son Stephen to the Mattel Play! centre, Liverpool, for a day out, but says a member of staff leaned over her desk and said the young boy could not come in.
Ex-fireman, 49, who enjoys the 'peace and quiet' of the job (and even met his wife at a funeral) wins Gravedigger of the Year
Father-of-three David Homer, 49, from Measham, Leicestershire, said he enjoys the 'peace and quiet' of his work and insists it is no different to any other nine-to-five.
Perhaps not a conversation for the staff room? Student TEACHER, 24, reveals she had to undergo surgery to remove a sex toy from her bottom in a very awkward Facebook post
Mother-of-one Emma Phillips, 24, from Wallasey, Merseyside, was feeling amorous with partner Lee Miller, 29, during the early hours of the morning when the pink sex toy 'disappeared'.
Smiler crash victim Vicky Balch FORGIVES the Alton Towers workers who cost her a leg and says she's is not angry over the rollercoaster smash
Vicky Balch, 21, who was one of 16 people injured at the theme park in June last year, said today that the incident - described in court as 'needless and avoidable' - was 'noone's fault'.
'Goodbye, old man': Final farewell uttered to one another by the doomed Titanic crew is revealed in a newly-discovered account by the most senior officer to survive the disaster
As the liner sank after hitting an iceberg, second officer Charles Lightoller (pictured) wrote of how he bumped into eight colleagues who were walking calmly on deck reassuring passengers.
Two-month-old baby boy died of extensive brain damage after being 'shaken by his father' and abused since he was just two weeks old, court told
Eden Robinson's lifeless body was found by paramedics lying on his side in the bedroom of his father Easton Robinson's flat on November 8, 2014. A neighbour living on the floor above reported hearing a 'bang' from the 39-year-old's Nottingham home and 'a sound of anguish and frustration' just minutes before an ambulance was phoned. Robinson, who a jury heard was looking after his son during the fatal collapse, is on trial at Nottingham Crown Court where he denies murder. ...read
Jealous boyfriend, 24, who threatened to 'stamp the baby' out of his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend after accusing her of sleeping with his uncle is jailed
Joshua Thomas from Cardiff was sentenced to 16 months in prison at after making threats and holding a knife to the throat of his pregnant teenage girlfriend Shannae Sullivan-Bond.
Innocent schoolboy, 16, 'was killed by 75 pellets from point-blank range shotgun blast when he walked into the middle of gang feud'
Lewis Dunne was on his way to a shop in Liverpool when he was shot by a gang of men involved in an earlier clash, a court was told.
Murder squad detectives search a pub in the hunt for a father-of-one who vanished without trace 17 years ago
Martin Joyce, 45, from Manchester, was reported missing in 1999 and has never been found. Police now believe Martin (pictured) may not be alive and have launched a murder investigation.
'Extremely dangerous' teenager, 18, who stabbed people for fun with a hunting knife during a water fight in Hyde Park faces life in prison
Joshua Clements, 18, pictured, slashed two men with a hunting knife after thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park, in London, to enjoy the warm weather on July 19.
'Sex addict' biology teacher who asked girl, 13, to send topless pictures and had a stash of child porn on his computer is spared jail
James Luff, 32, a former teacher at Lutterworth College in Leicestershire, who asked a 13-year-old girl to send him topless pictures and had a stash of child porn on his computer has been spared jail.
Senior anti-terror officer and a member of the Royal Protection squad 'broke a football fan's eye socket then faked witness statements'
A royal protection officer and two other policemen fractured a football fan's eye socket during the heated Tottenham v Arsenal derby match and then faked witness statements, a court heard.
The moped mugger who snatched 21 phones in just ONE hour: Prolific thief stole mobiles from pedestrians' hands as they walked down the street
Cavell Hutson (inset), 21, from Highbury New Park in London, and an accomplice went on an hour-long theft spree where they snatched 21 mobile phones (left and right). They used a moped, with another vehicle's registration plate, to speed away quickly from their victims. They stole 10 phones in Camden, five in Westminster, three in Islington, three in Hackney and one in Tower Hamlets. The incidents took place on September 3, between 1pm and 2pm and sparked a police chase through London.
Driver who killed a couple when he smashed into their car while 16 times over the drug-driving limit before fleeing the scene and going to a wedding is jailed for just six years
Maria Smith, 48, and Richard Lewis-Clements, 46, died on August 12 when Jodan Hunt (pictured) smashed into their car - before heading to a wedding reception in Eastbourne.
'They were supposed to be my mates': Girlfriend of man killed in a car park fight reveals she 'knows his attackers' as police deny the murder was related to the Pokemon Go app
Carl Gregory died outside a toy shop in Kent on Tuesday. Chloe Lemare, rubbished claims it was related to Pokemon Go and said the 'monsters' who killed him were 'supposed to be mates'.
Moment pervert, 51, is confronted by paedophile hunters outside a railway station after he arranged to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex
David Metcalfe (pictured), from Newcastle, arrived at St Albans thinking he was to meet a 13-year-old called Lizzie White. But St Albans Crown Court heard that he was the target of a sting operation.
The moped mugger who snatched 21 phones in just ONE hour: Prolific thief stole mobiles from pedestrians' hands as they walked down the street
Cavell Hutson (pictured), 21, from Highbury New Park in London, and an accomplice went on an hour-long theft spree where they snatched 21 mobile phones.
Conmen duped great-grandmother out of thousands of pounds by ripping tiles off her roof then driving her to the bank so she could pay them to 'fix' it
Margaret Foster, 82, from Bradford, was asked for £1,900 immediately by the bogus roofers - they then left her with a further £2,000 worth of damage after leaving a pile of broken tiles on the roof.
'I've had a threesome before. The girls like it': Ched Evans' rape retrial hears striker's police statement boasting footballers could 'have anyone they wanted because they're rich'
A hotel worker heard 'sex noises' coming from the Premier Inn room near Rhyl, north Wales, where footballer Ched Evans, 27, is accused of raping a woman, Cardiff Crown Court heard today.
There's even room for the pickled shark! Street of industrial buildings turned into artist Damien Hirst's latest gallery is named best new building in Britain
Newport Street Gallery transformed most of a south London street that faces a railway line in Vauxhall into a free public gallery under the direction of Caruso St John Architects, who have picked up the coveted 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize trophy for their work. The most prestigious prize in UK architecture is now in its 21st year - and at a ceremony in central London, the award went to the gallery that renovated the row of Victorian warehouses, previously used as carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres. Also pictured, Hirst admires a sculpture, Play-Doh 1994-2014, by Jeff Koons (to the right) at the Newport Street Gallery.
Retired army colonel loses battle of the great crested newt as he is fined £1,000 for draining lake which was their home
John De Benham-Crosswell (pictured) pleaded guilty to damaging the breeding site and home of great crested newts after draining a lake on his property.
Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury admit the Catholic and Anglican Churches are still 'divided' as they meet to discuss gay marriage and women priests
The heads of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches said they remained 'divided' on gay marriage and women priests but would continue to work together after a meeting in Rome.
Muslim leader LOSES legal battle for £10million in damages from Donald Trump for his claim that parts of London are so radicalised that police officers fear for their lives
Kamran Malik was seeking £10 million damages against the would-be US President for allegedly defaming Muslims living in the Green Street and Romford Road area of Forest Gate, London.
Tiny rural village turns itself into 'Piccadilly Circus' with a jumble of TWELVE road signs in just 100 yards
The idyllic village of Barnoldby-le-Beck has even had its green blighted by three separate speed signs - one after the other and has two more warnings painted on the road.
Huge £136million EuroMillions jackpot that would make the winner richer than the Clooneys is up for grabs
The biggest lottery win in the UK - and across Europe - remains that of Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, who scooped a £161,653,000 EuroMillions jackpot in July 2011.
Back for a lot more Porridge: BBC remake of 1970s Ronnie Barker classic series is commissioned for a full series after successful one-off revival
The new series features Fletcher's grandson in Wakeley Prison for a succession of cyber-crimes. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the show's original writers, will write the new series.
Best-selling historical fiction author puts his lovingly restored thatched cottage where he wrote 14 of his books up for sale for £750,000
When Simon Scarrow moved into his idyllic 17th-century cottage in Norfolk, squatters had only recently vacated it and there were pigeons roosting in the living room. But he ploughed £250,000 into turning it into a work haven - and subsequently wrote 14 novels in the historic building.
Luxury three-bedroom seafront penthouse on sale for £750,000 - complete with a secret tunnel leading to one of Britain's most famous beaches
The plush apartment, overlooking the pebbled beaches of Brighton, was once visited by King George VI and rumours are he had the tunnel installed so he discreetly could visit its owners.
The REAL Doc Martin's quaint Cornish cottage goes on sale for £795,000 and it's next door to the 'surgery' used in the hit Martin Clunes series
The White House in the village of Port Isaac (pictured), where the ITV drama is filmed, is owned by retired GP Anthony Hambly who has even provided expert advice for the comedy actor before.
Hundreds of beavers, deer, lemurs and meerkats will be DESTROYED unless they can be found new homes as an animal charity is evicted from its base after 26 years
Beaver Water World staff in Tatsfield, Surrey, will have to find new homes for 400 animals, including lemurs, meerkats and reptiles, by December 15 or some may have to be put to sleep.
Amazon under fire for selling 'sexy Saudi burka' costume and 'Arab' costume featuring male model 'browned' up with shoe polish
Amazon has sparked outrage after selling 'racist' 'Arab' costumes for Halloween. The retail giant offered men the chance to wear a tunic with a 'Palestine' scarf and woman 'sexy Saudi burka'.
Cash-strapped council is recruiting and training members of the public to fix potholes it cannot afford to mend itself
Devon County Council wants to create an army of volunteers to fill in holes in what is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
Chip off the old block: Year-old colt sired by 'superhorse' Frankel sells for more than £1.3 MILLION
An unnamed, chestnut-coloured colt has now set a new UK record for Frankel's colts and fillies when it was sold as part of Tattersalls' three-day Yearling sale in Newmarket.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
EXCLUSIVE: 'I had to hold her again': Syrian baby girl pulled ALIVE from the rubble is reunited with the tearful hero who touched the hearts of millions
Abu Kifah, beamed with happiness and pride after travelling for hours through the dusty Syrian landscape to a patch of farmland Wahida Ma'artouk's family now calls home (left, the rescuer and toddler together). Footage (right) of Kifah pulling the then-30-day-old baby from the wreckage of her bombed home went around the world and reduced a veteran BBC presenter to tears. 'I carried her in my arms again and the night of the rescue came back to me,' Kifah told MailOnline after their reunion. But it was not without sorrow. Since their home was reduced to rubble, allegedly by Russian or Syrian warplanes, Wahida's parents were forced to move the baby girl (inset, in Idlib) and her brother Zakaria to a rough patch of farmland where they survive on even less than before.
UN warns that rebel-held eastern Aleppo will be completely destroyed by Christmas as Russia boasts their military campaign has demonstrated the 'effectiveness' of its bombs
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura today made an impassioned plea to save eastern Aleppo, warning the city faces total destruction, and urged Islamist fighters to leave so civilians can get aid.
At least 10 people are injured when bomb attached to a motorcycle explodes outside a police station in Istanbul
The blast occurred in the Yenibosna neighbourhood of the Turkish city and one of the people injured is in a serious condition as police hunt for a man who was seen fleeing the scene on a second bike.
Angela Merkel says Britain CANNOT be given access to the EU market if it limits immigration as it will lead to a 'free-for-all' in Europe
Speaking today to Germany's main industry lobby group, Mrs Merkel stressed to businesspeople the importance of upholding the EU's freedoms'
Haiti after the hurricane: At least 69 people killed in the Caribbean as thousands of homes are destroyed by Matthew
The category-three hurricane has triggered the worst humanitarian crisis to hit struggling Haiti since a devastating 2010 earthquake killed 200,000. At least 65 were killed in Haiti alone.
Italian mafia boss known as 'Mamma' is found hiding in a secret bunker behind his WARDROBE after being on the run from police for five years
Mobster Antonio Pelle, 54, crawled out of his hiding place on his stomach to the top of a wardrobe that had shielded the bunker at his home in southern Reggio Calabria.
Treasure hunters say they are close to finding £50 BILLION Nazi treasure left behind by Hitler's forces as they fled Czech town in 1945
The loot of 540 boxes - filled with diamonds, gold and other valuables - are said to be buried 16ft underground in tchovice near Prague after fleeing Germans stashed them in a cave.
ISIS recruits are mostly well educated and wealthy, the terror group's files reveal - with those who were unemployed most likely to become suicide bombers
The data, collated by World Bank, has used leaked ISIS data and shows jihadis heading to the Middle East to blow themselves up are likely to be more educated than their countrymen.
Is THIS Putin's secret holiday home...? 'Russian chief's country retreat has a grass roof to hide it from the West's spy satellites, helicopter pad... and even affordable IKEA-style furniture'
The secret home in northern Russia - decorated with tartan armchairs and modern furniture - is where Putin is said to escape to when he erratically disappears from the public spotlight.
WORLD NEWS
- EXCLUSIVE: 'I had to hold her again': Syrian baby girl pulled ALIVE from the rubble is reunited with the tearful hero who touched the hearts of millions
- UN warns that rebel-held eastern Aleppo will be completely destroyed by Christmas as Russia boasts their military campaign has demonstrated the 'effectiveness' of its bombs
- At least 10 people are injured when bomb attached to a motorcycle explodes outside a police station in Istanbul
- Haiti after the hurricane: At least 69 people killed in the Caribbean as thousands of homes are destroyed by Matthew
- Angela Merkel says Britain CANNOT be given access to the EU market if it limits immigration as it will lead to a 'free-for-all' in Europe
- Treasure hunters say they are close to finding £50 BILLION Nazi treasure left behind by Hitler's forces as they fled Czech town in 1945
- ISIS recruits are mostly well educated and wealthy, the terror group's files reveal - with those who were unemployed most likely to become suicide bombers
- Is THIS Putin's secret holiday home...? 'Russian chief's country retreat has a grass roof to hide it from the West's spy satellites, helicopter pad... and even affordable IKEA-style furniture'
- Is THIS Putin's secret holiday home...? 'Russian chief's country retreat has a grass roof to hide it from the West's spy satellites, helicopter pad... and even affordable IKEA-style furniture'
- The valley of abandoned dogs: Dozens of unwanted pets struggle to survive in remote Turkish mountain pass being used as a dumping ground by callous owners
- Italy has the highest proportion of youths living with parents in the world... and more than half of 15-29 year old Americans and Brits still haven't flown the nest
- Mystery of Flight 455: Forty years on questions remain about whether the CIA was behind the bombing of a Cuban passenger jet in which 73 people died
- Norway announces it will ban Islamic veil from schools and universities
- Poland REJECTS total ban on abortion following huge protests
- Age really IS just a number! Charming photographs capture Tokyo's elderly residents... including a sake-drinking bar owner and shellfish divers
- Dazzling images reveal the beauty of Iran's holy buildings and how they have changed from the first ever humble mosque
- Police shoot 'Arabic ex-soldier' in the leg after he stabs two officers in Belgium's 'hotbed of jihad' in suspected terror attack before Brussels train station is evacuated
- ISIS slaughter 36 people at Kurdish wedding - including the groom's family - by firing at guests until they ran out of bullets and then detonating explosive vests
- Suffocated on the squalid boats they dreamt would take them to new lives: Dozens of migrants are found dead in a crowded vessel after cruel smugglers crammed 1,000 people - including babies - on board
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Albania: Police destroy 2.4M marijuana plans since June
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Hometown honour for Hollywood star Michael Fassbender
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13 years for paedophile DJ Chris Denning, who 'offered victim to BBC presenter'
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Former Southern Health chief handed £190,000 payoff to quit advisory role
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Labour infighting continues after Corbyn top team reshuffle
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Chancellor to sell remaining stake in Lloyds Banking Group
Italy has the highest proportion of youths living with parents in the world... and more than half of 15-29 year old Americans and Brits still haven't flown the nest
A staggering 80.6 per cent of people aged 15 to 29 years old in Italy now live at home, a study has found. This compares to 66.6 per cent and 52.4 in the U.S. and UK respectively.
Age really IS just a number! Charming photographs capture Tokyo's elderly residents... including a sake-drinking bar owner and shellfish divers
Photographer Lee Chapman captured the quirky photo series which documents the lives of Tokyo's elderly away from the city's well known and modern entertainment districts.
The valley of abandoned dogs: Dozens of unwanted pets struggle to survive in remote Turkish mountain pass being used as a dumping ground by callous owners
A remote pass in the middle of the mountains has become a dumping ground for unwanted pooches, it has even been suggested that someone is deliberately roundig them up and abandoning them.
Mystery of Flight 455: Forty years on questions remain about whether the CIA was behind the bombing of a Cuban passenger jet in which 73 people died
Forty years ago today a Cuban passenger jet trundled down the runway at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados and took off, climbing into a blue Caribbean sky en route to Jamaica. Two bombs exploded 11 minutes later and all 73 people on the plane were killed. A memorial stands by the sea (pictured, left) overlooking the spot where Flight 455 came down. The DC-8 (similar to the one pictured, top right) was owned by Fidel Castro's regime and 47 of those on board were from Cuba. Cubans divers (bottom right) were sent down to look for the wreckage. But years later questions remain about whether the CIA was involved and there are hopes the thaw in US/Cuban relations will lead to the mystery finally being solved.
Norway announces it will ban Islamic veil from schools and universities
Norway's right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls (file photo)
Poland REJECTS total ban on abortion following huge protests
The Polish parliamentary commission session last night saw the bill rejected and the controversial legislation was withdrawn this morning before full assembly after a massive backlash.
Dazzling images reveal the beauty of Iran's holy buildings and how they have changed from the first ever humble mosque
Mosques are known in Arabic as 'masjid', which literally translates to a 'place of prostration', and have come a long way from the prophet Mohammed's home in 7th-century Saudi Arabia.
COMMENT
TOM UTLEY: I confess: I once blacked up in Ali Baba. Now drag me before the historical offences tribunal!
I see nothing at all wrong about actors of one race, creed or nationality appearing in dramatic productions as members of another, writes TOM UTLEY.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Don't reject fracking revolution out of hand
The Mail is instinctively uneasy about yesterday's ruling by Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid giving the go-ahead to a fracking site in Fylde, Lancashire.
CHRISTOPHER WILSON: Operation Golden Orb and the battle to make Camilla Queen
There's one intriguing issue: one throne, or two?There are awkward questions about whether the sovereign's wife will sit next to him when he is crowned - and if she herself will have a crown.
