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Connor Jones, 18, terrified pupils when he loitered outside St Cenydd Comprehensive School in Caerphilly, South Wales, dressed as a clown with a snarling mask and green wig (as seen centre and inset). The teenager (right) was arrested for breaching public order at the school and ordered to pay £90. It is believed to be the first fine handed out in connection to a 'killer clown' stunt. He later posted a message mocking the punishment on social media, writing: 'Just had a £90 fine for my clown antics haha' (left). It comes as the so-called 'killer clown' prank craze continues to sweep across the country, with police forces reporting dozens of related incidents in the last 24 hours.

Spalding teen sweethearts 'stabbed mother and her daughter to death' as they slept

Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and 13-year-old Katie Edwards died 'within moments' of each other after a boy crept into their rooms armed with an eight-inch kitchen knife and repeatedly stabbed them in the throat as they slept, jurors were told. The 15-year-old then suffocated his victims with their own pillows while his female accomplice listened to them 'struggling and gurgling' at around midnight on April 13, it is alleged. A court heard the couple planned to kill themselves with pills and the girl left a suicide note which read: 'F*** you, world. I want to be cremated and want our ashes scattered at our special place.' Police discovered the bodies after forcing their way inside Ms Edwards' semi-detached home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, at around 12pm on April 15 - 36 hours after the killings - and the teenagers were later arrested.

Estimates of health lifespans compiled by the Office for National Statistics show London has some of the most dramatic variations, but there are sharp differences elsewhere too.

Kate visits The Hague and Rotterdam for first solo trip without William

The Duchess of Cambridge betrayed no hint of nerves today as she arrived in the Netherlands for her first solo foreign trip without William, wearing an elegant blue Catherine Walker coat. In a break from her usual style she wore her brunette locks swept back in a chic bun, and accessorised with delicate pearl earrings.

The South Korean company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it has made a final decision to stop production of the Galaxy Note 7 for the sake of consumer safety.

Handsome London vet Michael, 27, sent female fans into meltdown on Twitter after he appeared on last night's First Dates, but many were left devastated when they saw who he was matched with.

A new infographic reveals the world's banned food, from raw milk in Canada to samosas in Somalia. And the seemingly innocent Kinder Surprise in the US.

Rod Stewart receives Knighthood from Prince William

Rod Stewart was joined by model wife Penny Lancaster and their two children on Tuesday afternoon as he received a Knighthood in recognition of his services to music and charity. The veteran rocker, 71, was bestowed the honour by Prince William at Buckingham Palace following a decades spanning career that began in the early '60s with little known rhythm and blues group The Dimensions. Arriving on the arm of his statuesque wife and joined by sons Alistair, 10, and five-year old Aiden, Rod was in characteristically high spirits as he prepared to accept his honour.

The 27-year-old, who currently plays for Chesterfield, told the court yesterday he got 'caught up in the moment' when he started having sex with the teenage waitress who accuses him of rape.

Police in Manila say they are close to linking the murder of Aurora Moynihan, daughter of Lord Tony Moynihan with a 'high-level' drug supplier who is believed to be her ex-boyfriend.

Cody-Anne Jackson, 19, (pictured) is being questioned by police after her child, Macey, was found dead at her terraced home in Stoke-on-Trent.

Mnombo Madyibi, 32, was on his honeymoon in Coffee Bay, South Africa when he was set upon by his wife after she got scared after seeing his 'hairy, scary cucumber' penis for the first time.

'Killer Clown' armed with a baseball bat gets HEADBUTTED after picking the wrong victim to

NEW Ashley Symes, 23, inset top, tried to cash in on the so-called 'killer clown' craze by scaring strangers in dark streets (left) and in an underground car park at the Dockside Outlet Centre, Cheltenham. But he was left with a bloody nose (inset bottom) when one of his targets turned on him, headbutting him in the face (seen right). It comes as the so-called 'killer clown' prank craze continues to sweep across the country, with police forces reporting dozens of related incidents in the last 24 hours.

Social media users want clowns to be stopped by police after a woman in Whitwick, Leicestershire, went into premature labour after a 17-year-old boy dressed as a clown jumped out on her.

A multi-agency independent review was set up after 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne (pictured) was stabbed to death at Cults Academy in Aberdeen on October 28 last year.

Karthik 'Big K' Nagesan's big claims caused a stir on the first episode of the Apprentice last week. And the IT whizz's social media accounts reveals he's just as confident when it comes to his body.

Romantic hopefuls have been baring their souls on social media by creating brutally honest dating profiles - with one describing himself as a 'short nerdy Asian boy with jealousy issues'.

Firefighters were called out to aid the group of red-faced Hampshire Police officers and winched the lift to the next floor before opening it with a key to free the night shift team.

Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee appear in shirtless selfies the night she died

Selfies have emerged from the night Warriena Wright met her accused killer Gable Tostee - before she fell to her death from his 14th floor Gold Coast apartment balcony in August 2014. The pair connected on dating app Tinder and photos from their only night together show them seemingly enjoying the evening. Mr Tostee is on trial for Ms Wright's murder.

Derek and Julian Limbert, of Sutton Coldfield, said their five-day trip to Scotland turned into a nightmare after they spent more than 10 hours per day on a coach and missed out on sights.

Durand Academy Trust failed to improve after it emerged Sir Greg Martin, who took home £229,000 as the executive head, also made £161,000 from facilities at the premises in London and West Sussex.

Kathleen Harkin went missing on Saturday night after spending time with friends by the banks of the River Tay in Perth. Police have said there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.

Research from Harvard Medical School found that men who grew up in caring homes were better at managing stressful emotions as middle-aged adults (stock image).

A 59-year-old Vietnamese man was taken to hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for emergency surgery after 'breaking' his penis while trying an exotic sexual position.

It's one of the biggest questions among women, and a source of anxiety for men but the members of Netmums took to a thread to prove that confidence and technique were more important than size.

The man, in his 40s has been charged with rape and incest after he attacked his daughter in their family home in the city of Fredrikstad. She told police she had been punished for her lifestyle.

Abraham Reichman, 35, from London, swerved to try and avoid a gang that was trying to stop traffic on the busy A16 road as he was heading towards the EuroTunnel entrance in Calais on Sunday night.

The three moves that could save your child's life: Martial arts teacher reveals the self defence tricks ALL youngsters need to know (and why they should never shout 'help')

With the help of 11-year-old Melissa, martial arts teacher Matt Fiddes, from Wiltshire, demonstrates the three moves that could prevent a child from being abducted. Pictured left to right: A wrist twist can help loosen an attacker's grip, a kick to the groin can pry a predator out of a neck grip and to end a 'bear hug'-style attack the victim should stomp on their attacker's feet.

Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, is part of team behind the test. He says:'Studies have found that our blood's glycan levels closely track our chronological age'.

Pregnant women may need to produce a passport or driving licence to get care on maternity wards under the scheme, with 'non-eligible' women from overseas denied free care.

One in five British girls aged 5-11 and from privileged backgrounds are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2020, compared with one in six for their male counterparts.

Married GP Matthew Gale, 57, had been rubbing the woman's lower spinal area during a consultation at his surgery in Chorley, Lancashire, when he slipped a hand between her legs.

NEW In today's report the National Audit Office said there was now a 'significant risk' the bridge would not be built and that up to £22.5 million of taxpayers' money may have to be written off.

The best Halloween costumes ever

These creative parents have muscled in on the festivity by dressing up with their children in a series of hilariously inventive costumes that raise the bar for fancy dress. One father and son duo dressed as as Pixar characters Carl Fredricksen and the adorable Russell, the wilderness ranger from Up (centre); Darth Vader went to a party with a tiny Princess Leia (top right); another mother dressed as a barista with her baby frappuccino (bottom left); Zach Galifinakis's Hangover character was recreated (top right); while a Ghostbusters fan donned the famous boiler suit and dressed his tot as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (bottom right).

NEW A 15-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy have been passed to Staffordshire Police's youth offending team to be dealt with following an attack on a 13-year-old girl outside a school.

Known as 'The Punisher', Rodrigo Duterte's 100-day-old drug war has already left thousands dead (pictured), but now he is making smoking a thing of the past in the Philippines.

John Warren began the relationship with the former prostitute, who had a history of sexual abuse, while he was working as her 'key worker' at KCA Croydon - an adult substance misuse centre.

Shocked passengers sit alongside a DEAD BODY after diabetic passenger dies during flight

The 50-year-old woman, who has not been named, is said to have suffered a diabetic seizure just 45 minutes into the Azur Air flight to Moscow from the popular resort of Antalya and died. It is believed that the woman's husband, who was also unnamed, said she packed her medication in her checked-in luggage because she believed she wouldn't need it. Flight attendants then had no option but to lie the victim down in the aisle and cover her over with a blanket after she passed away.

Jaber Albakr was detained on Sunday in Leipzig in eastern Germany by two fellow Syrian refugees who invited him to their home but realised who he was wanted so tied him up and called police.

Martin Greenbeck, 72,from Laceby, North East Lincolnshire, died at the end of September after a long battle with the disease but before he did, he penned the notice about his own demise.

As currency markets are a barometer of a nation's economic health and prospects, relative to other markets and economies, many fear that investors are losing faith in the UK after the Brexit vote.

Brits took to social media in their droves to debate whether it was too early for the festive lights to be on display in London - and things got a little heated.

Cold Feet fan favourite Pete Gifford (John Thomson) left viewers on the edge of their seats - and in shock on Twitter - last night after he appeared to take his life at a remote beauty spot.

British model marries Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf in $700 Vegas wedding ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator - just a year after they were caught fighting in a German street

Shia LaBeouf married his long-term British girlfriend Mia Goth in Las Vegas on Monday. An Elvis Presley impersonator officiated the ceremony and they performed their first dance on camera in the Viva Las Vegas chapel. Shia and Mia have been dating for four years, since meeting on the set of their controversial movie Nymphomaniac: Volume II.

Heidi Luckraft, 39, from Beeston, Nottinghamshire, was walking her dog four years ago when she was bitten by a tick. However, it wasn't until last year that she was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Gemma Patten, 30, was referred for further tests at Barnet Hospital after a smear test revealed abnormal cells. Doctors found a 1cm tumour and had to remove part of her cervix to treat the cancer.

Glasgow University scientists looked at the records of 525,046 patients aged 40 to 80 who were followed for five years. They found patients on beta blockers twice as likely to suffer depression.

The American Heart Association found high blood pressure disrupts the structure and function of cerebral blood vessels. It is unclear whether treatment for hypertension could prevent Alzheimer's.

Desperate bride-to-be asks for donations to fund treatment instead of wedding presents as

NEW Emma Houlston (left), 31, from London, has aggressive inoperable ovarian cancer and her only hope is immunotherapy - which is not available on the NHS. The treatment, which is expected to cost around £114,000 privately, works by getting the immune system to destroy cancerous cells. Surgeons initially operated (right) on her in March last year and she underwent successful chemotherapy (inset). But in June this year, the cancer came had returned. Her wedding day has been brought forward to ensure she gets married to fiance Matt Lees, 31. The couple penned a heartfelt message to would-be guests asking them to donate money to their online fundraising page instead of gifts.

Experts at the lingerie brand third love have added two new additions to their 'Breast Shape Directory', Athletic and Relaxed, joining seven other kinds the brand has identified.

Jonathan Taylor, the principal of Wymondham College in Norfolk, has been accused by the school's former acting head of IT of giving teachers the 'go ahead' to bend the rules.

Veteran William Smith, who was a driver from Nottingham and worked with horses, carried the watch across the battlefields of France during the First World War more than 100 years ago.

The reality TV star, who has previously suffered from heroin addiction, was found dead by paramedics at a home, in Stockton's Tilery estate, on Monday.

Railway staff and union members faced an angry backlash from passengers this morning as scenes of chaos caused tempers to flare in stations across the south east of England.

Muslim Ashura ceremony photos show bloody tradition of self-inflicted wounds

This tiny Pakistani boy is clutching a whip made from chains and blades as he prepares to flagellate himself in a religious parade to mark the Muslim festival of Ashura. The young Shiite Muslim boy took part in commemorations yesterday in the city of Peshawar, in Pakistan. Other pictures from the religious procession in Peshawar show men and boys covered in blood and pool of crimson on the ground, as devotees whipped and cut themselves to mark the religious holiday.

Emily West (left) appeared in a 2010 episode. Donald Trump fixated on her appearance, specifically that of her skin, according to a transcript of a behind-the-scene exchange unveiled Monday.

Supporters of Hillary Clinton are asking Mark Burnett to make public the recordings of the hit TV series, which the Republican presidential candidate hosted on NBC between 2004 and 2015.

They labelled it a 'town hall debate' but that was too twee. In truth, it was grippingly low-grade, the two candidates circling each other on the central stage area.

Is this the world's first ever DASHCAM footage? Dusty bag full of cine films found in attic are revealed to be fascinating footage of Hull 50 years ago - filmed by a pub landlady as she drove around the city

Pub landlady Maud Mellors drove around the centre of the city in East Yorkshire with her son Peter (together, centre) in the late 1960s and filmed everything she saw. The video has now emerged nearly 50 years later after her grandson Nick Mellors, 52, found the reels in an attic and developed the footage. He believes his grandmother was testing out her new camera ahead of a trip to Australia in 1969, but never got round to developing the footage. Ms Mellors had filmed various parts of the city as she sat in the passenger seat. Mr Mellors, who is a quality controller for a reprographics company, said: 'It's absolutely fantastic to see the city as it was half a century ago.'

Lord Bamford, pictured here with former Prime Minister David Cameron left the CBI over the organisation's increasingly stringent pro-European views.

The ex-chancellor waded into the row over the government's increasingly tough approach to Brexit, mocking the idea that more trade with Australia could make up for looser ties with Germany and France.

There were 3.8million visits from abroad in July, up two per cent on 2015, and spending from those visits rose four per cent to £2.5billion as the pound fell to a 30-year low against the dollar.

Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel said making people wait two hours to get into Italy or Spain would make clear why free movement rules are crucial to the EU.

Is this proof of the 'Black Monk'? Ghost hunters capture spooky footage of 'chair being pushed down stairs' in one of Britain's most haunted houses 

Unnerving footage appears to show a poltergeist that ghost hunters call the Black Monk throwing a chair down a staircase in one of Britain's most haunted houses in Yorkshire. The Black Monk is said to have been a 16th century monk who was found guilty and then hung to death on gallows near the house for the rape and murder of a girl.

The worker hurled lager cans as the robber reached over the counter as Sean Munson, 25, brazenly took the money at the Lifestyle Express store in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire.

The victim's body was dumped by the side of a road just off the A628 just east of Tintwhistle and north of Valehouse, Derbyshire, and found by a member of the public yesterday.

Sharon Howe, 15, of Morecambe, Lancashire, was out with classmates when she was offered the deadly former legal high by a group of older boys - and later collapsed with severe convulsions.

The research comes from the University of Calgary where scientists tested the stress levels in male and female mice. The findings highlight the importance of a social network for females (stock image).

Aaron Leafe is feared to have taken his own life at the Ivy Cottage Children's Home in Tupton, Derbyshire, just six weeks after finding the courage to report predator Anwar Ismail.

The pests - common clothes moths which feed on wool and natural fibres such as cashmere, tweed, sheepskin and fur - are eating through our jumpers and cardigans in millions of homes in the UK.

Incredible moment a six-day-old baby has life-saving open heart surgery after a nurse spots a deadly defect

The baby boy (left), from West Drayton, London, was immediately taken to hospital for medical checks after being born at home. Hospital staff deemed him to be healthy until a more experienced nurse noticed a blue colouring in his feet and fingers. Tests revealed he had a potentially fatal heart defect known as total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. It means the veins carrying blood between his heart and lungs weren't connected properly and stopped the flow. He was transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital for the open heart surgery (top and bottom right) just six days after being born.

Siberian marriage agency OCS Centre say Chinese men are desperate to marry a Russian bride, due to a lack of women in China, and add they have had a massive success in matching couples.

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Turkish man commits suicide live on Facebook after girlfriend breaks up with him 

In the tragic footage Erdogan Ceren, from Turkey, holds a shotgun to his chest while addressing the camera and, after one failed attempt, ends his life. The 22-year-old had told viewers on Facebook that his girlfriend had broken up with him and therefore intended to commit suicide. Local Turkish media reports that he later died in hospital.

Audience member Sarah Carson was asked by Derren Brown to place the piece of glass on her tongue and to 'crunch on the big bits' during his West End production, Miracle, which aired on Channel 4.

A league table produced by the EU showed Finland was the best place to live, while both Scotland and Northern Ireland are more palatable than England and Wales. Edinburgh, pictured, ranks highly despite the weather.

Researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London and University College London (UCL) looked at whether tone-deaf people had difficulty in social situations (stock image)

Motorists have been stuck in severe delays for several hours following the crash on the London-bound carriageway of the M4 just before 3am on Tuesday.

Shocking images have emerged of pupils continuing to study in a polluted classroom after a factory explosion on October 10 in China. Parents of the students have complained.

Thigh do! Groom squeezes the legs of female wedding guests while blindfolded in bizarre Polish tradition 

The footage, said to have been captured in Ontario, Canada, shows a number of women - including the bride - sitting on chairs and waiting for the newlywed to pass. Blindfolded and being helped along by a another man, he stops at each female guest and uses his hands to feel their bare legs, knees and thighs. The groom, dressed in a dinner jacket, eventually reaches his wife and manages to identify her before pulling off his blindfold and leaning in for a kiss while guests cheer him on.

Jackson Watters, 17, and Millie Crouch, 12, died at the scene on the A36 near Salisbury, Wiltshire, when the Ford Fiesta struck a Mercedes Sprinter van heading in the opposite direction

Trainee nurse Carol Gray, 25, from Keith, Scotland was left with green hair after using purple dye to tone down her brassy highlights and had to use ketchup to get rid of the emerald hue.

Radhika Mandloi, from central India, started to suffer pain in her left ear last week. Doctors were shocked to find a blow fly - attracted to bad smells - inside her ear which had laid around 80 larva.

In an excoriating attack on the Government, General Sir David Richards, ex-chief of the defence staff, said there was an 'instinct' in Whitehall that British soldiers 'aren't good'.

Hero or bully? Male McDonald's customer pours his drink over woman who was 'fat shaming' another man waiting to order

A McDonald's customer received a hero's reception after pouring his drink over a girl who is 'fat shaming' another man. The 'bully' and her friend berate the helpless chap about his weight, as he just stands there without saying anything. The blonde and brunette pair say that he is costing the NHS money by eating at the diner while already being too fat. The incident was actually a social experiment uploaded to YouTube a year ago, but it has just started to go viral this week.

Obama on Tuesday vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to work with private companies to 'to build new habitats that can sustain and transport astronauts.

In London to speak about mental health yesterday, the Duchess of Cambridge turned heads in a £428 pink silk Kate Spade dress that left fashion fans firmly divided.

Ellie Waters, 14, from Northants, was told she had deep tissue tear after collapsing in a charity run last year. But a scan found she had an alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma - a form of soft tissue cancer.

Proposals from the parliamentary standards commissioner would mean politicians have to ensure there is no 'conflict' between outside work and their official duties.

The only thing that saved Luke Yates from Hampshire in the horrible weeks and months after his wife Sam's death was the knowledge that she would have wanted him to go on living.

Three times a day, after each meal, Carola Karlsson from Sweden takes herself off to the nearest bathroom to dispose of a third of what she has just eaten to control her weight.

Eight-year-old Liu Minghui from China makes ten thousand dumplings a day to support his family. His parents are migrant workers and he only gets to see them once a year.

The images, captured by a visitor to Taiyuan Zoo in Shanxi province, showed the bear rooting through assorted junk in its enclosure, including a water bottle, food debris and a balloon.

London tattoo artist risks blindness to get her eyeballs injected with ink

Sara Night, 32, from London has risked blindness to have her eyeballs injected with dark blue ink (inset) as she thought it looked 'artistically amazing'. Previously Sara was a beautician (left) and didn't have any modifications or inkings. But she became interested after training as a tattoo artist and has also had her tongue surgically split into a fork (right).

Vikram Chatwal, a New York hotelier, socialite and friend of Lindsay Lohan, has been accused of setting a stranger's two dogs on fire outside his Manhattan home, then babbling incoherently.

A leading industry body has devised a scheme to colour code the hard hats worn on construction sites - and traditional yellow (as seen on builder, pictured) hasn't made the cut.

Varvara Karaulova, 20, told a military court in Moscow that she had fallen for fanatical Airat Samatov and 'wed' him in a secret virtual ceremony after he groomed her online.

The proportion of graduates in roles within the police, administrative positions and estate agents has risen dramatically since 1979, and shows many courses no longer represent value for money.

Sickening moment teenage girl trying to take a selfie is SCALPED when her hair gets caught

Video footage that some viewers may find hard to watch shows the teenager had her locks completely ripped off. The accident happened outside a college in Baraut, a small city just over 40 miles north of Delhi, India. In a horrific accident the girl, believed to be around 16-years-old, was trying to take a selfie beside a ferris wheel. But she got dangerously close to the ride in order to get the perfect shot.

FILE - The Sept. 29, 1933 file photo shows a general view of a courtroom in the hall of justice at Leipzig, Germany, where Marinus Van Der Lubbe and four communists have been tried for burning the Reichstag building. A new study published Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 details how thousands of Germans who committed crimes during the Third Reich were protected by former Nazi party members holding key positions in the post-war legal system. (AP Photo)

The study has found that more than half of senior officials in Germany's justice ministry were Nazis and judges and lawyers saw no difference between carrying out sentences for Hitler and post-war work.

The Kremlin confirmed this morning that Presidnet Vladimir Putin had cancelled a visit to the French capital where he was due to have talks over the Syria conflict with Francois Hollande.

British Banquet cat food by Green Pantry costs £249.99 for a 2kg bag, and contains world's most luxurious ingredients, including saffron, superfood quinoa and Devon crab.

Hannah Dalton, 27, from Essex, suffered severe hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) which left her vomiting constantly and unable to keep food down - eventually leading to PTSD.

Dan Frederick and his daughter, Lauren, found a 2.03-carat diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. The gem-hunting pair found the stone in less than an hour of searching.

The creepy sounds were recorded by University of Iowa's 'Waves' instrument and then converted in sound files by the engineers to form the spooky soundscape.

Britain's youngest DOUBLE lung transplant patient: 5-month-old is even well enough to be a

Weighing less than 10lbs, Imogen Bolton (left)underwent a seven-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She was diagnosed with the rare illness Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia after being admitted to hospital near her home in Brighton several times with breathing problems. It meant her lungs had not properly formed and most sufferers do not live long. Experts believe she may be the youngest child in Europe to have the operation. Last month parents Hayley and Jason were married and Imogen was able to go to the ceremony in her bridesmaid's dress following the surgery (right)

Children's author Judith Kerr has said people over the age of 75 should keep a 'do not resuscitate' sign next to them to spare their family the anxiety of deciding what to do regarding their death.

In an article for The Conversation, Charles West, and Alyxandra Mattison, researchers from the University of Sheffield, explain why history would have been very different if England had won.

Three-year-old Heidi, who suffers from feline asthma, is given an inhaler by loving owners Donna and David Stead, from County Durham, to keep her condition under control.

Uber London Ltd's latest accounts show the UK company's turnover doubled in the year to December 2015, but this income did not come from driver commissions, which disappeared abroad.

ATM customers in Tekridag, Turkey, hoping to get some money were instead given a soaking when a worker managed to burst a water pipe, sending a huge jet of water spraying everywhere.

Would a woman's hair colour stop YOU from helping her? New Yorker poses as a blonde and a brunette to find out which one gets more help with a VERY embarrassing wardrobe malfunction

The test by DailyMail.com featured a woman on the streets of New York with her skirt tucked into her underwear wearing brunette and blonde wigs. As a blonde, pictured right, she waited nearly an hour for assistance, but as a brunette, pictured left, three people came to her aid in just 12 minutes.

Andrei Mikhailov, 33, toured his native St Petersburg to take the photographs that appear more like paintings from an ancient book of fairy tales than the second-largest city in Russia.

Antonio Carluccio told an audience at Cheltenham Literature Festival he was confused when he first came to London and saw spaghetti Bolognese on menus - because it does not exist in Italy.

The girl, known as Lan Lan, was confirmed to be three months pregnant after a pregnancy test in a hospital in Xuzhou, China. A 35-year-old man had paid 30,000 yuan (£3,600) for her to be his wife.

Glasgow dog scared of his own hair after owner gives him a trim

Goose, an eight-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, had a puzzled look on his face after being sheared last week having grown his coat for more than two months. His owner, hospitality manager Grant Brown, from Glasgow, Scotland, with his wife Laura, 25, said the pattern formed almost perfectly as he tidied up Goose's coat. Mr Brown, 31, said: 'We give him a haircut every couple of months because he gets a bit messy as it is started falling off him I realised it looked pretty cool. We had been waiting a wee while longer because we were waiting on a new set of clippers to come in the post so it was quite straggly. His hair does grow quite long but he enjoys getting it cut too. My wife likes it shorter so when the new gear came I sat him down and got it done.'

Bizarre video footage has caught a tricycle running on a road in China without a driver. In the footage, cars can be seen swerving to avoid hitting the vehicle. Police are seen investigating the incident.

Dramatic footage from Hertfordshire shows three people trying to rescue a man in his seventies from his car which had plunged into a lake and started to sink - eventually managing to save him.

Collated by the National Cancer Institute, the images were taken at a number of cancer centres across the US. A range of fluorescent scans and 3D images were used in the collection.

An international study of more than 12,000 first-time heart attack patients found one in seven had either done heavy exercise or experienced intense emotions - or both - within the hour before the attack.

The Sriwijaya Air flight was travelling to Padang, Indonesia at the time. It was the first time the pilots had flown to the airport. They decided to ignore their instruments as they thought they were wrong.

Parents Debbie, 28, and Brandon Potter, 29, from Bethpage, New York, gave into food cravings and late night takeaways after the birth of their first child Brayson, now aged three, in 2013.

Transport For London is investigating GoPro footage of a cyclist who was lucky to escape unhurt after the bus turned a corner near Elephant and Castle, forcing her off the road.

The project to save the site in Brnnec, Czech Republic, by a local writer is not proving popular with locals who still remember Oskar Schindler for heavy drinking, gambling and women.

In a new study in Israel, patients are being given injections of special cells to replace those killed off by AMD, or dry age-related macular degeneration. The hope is that will stop the disease progressing.

Chinese parents found dead shielding daughter in rubble of collapsed building

A mother and father in Wenzhou City, China's Zhejiang province were found in the rubble of their home shielding their daughter on October 11. They were found in rubble protecting their three-year-old after their building collapsed. The family were taken to hospital where the parents died some time later. The child survived.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology led an international team of scientists in the study, in which a computer simulation tracked the evolution of the planets over 300 million years.

Debbie Conroy, 42, admitted failing to ensure her teenage daughter's regular school attendance at Blackpool Magistrates' Court but said the girl was 'turning her life around'.

As 'locker room talk' hits headlines with the recent antics of Ukip members and revelation as of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, Craig Brown ponders this question.

Poundland is the go-to shop for all things cheap and cheerful but some customers wondered if the store had gone too far after spotting the pink vibrating bullet on the retailer's shelves.

CCTV captures moment an 80-year-old man is catapulted into the air by a speeding car 

This dramatic footage shows the terrifying moment a pensioner was catapulted into the air by a speeding car. CCTV footage shows the 80-year-old man, who suffered serious injuries, leaning back to let a car drive past after walking into the road to open the door of his own vehicle. However the car accelerated on and as he tried desperately to jump out of the way, he is hit and flung into the air. The 27-second clip was captured on shop owner Naser Ansari's CCTV footage at Regal Meat Market in St Louis, Missouri.

MailOnline Travel has compiled a catalogue of locations that look other-worldly, from sulfurous hot springs in Ethiopia to gas craters in Turkmenistan and ice in Siberia.

The phrase man's best friend has rarely been truer than with this obedient dog who has been trained to fetch beer. Footage emerged last week from Sudbury, Canada, of the puppy's very useful trick.

Matthew Junior 'MJ' Maybin was killed when his cousin Tony accidentally reversed a tipper truck over him outside the boy's home in Wolverhampton, an inquest heard.

Many of those surveyed by Poundland also admitted they couldn't hang a picture, put a new washer in a dripping tap, decorate a room or iron a shirt or blouse.

New survey reveals people are eating less meat than they used to. Twenty-eight per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds said 'that by 2025, my diet will probably be mostly meat-free.'

From frozen poles to massive canyons: New images of Mars reveal the planet's surface in

A team, led by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab in Passadena and the University of Arizona, has published over 600 new images taken of Mars over the last few months. Each feature teaches us something new about the history of our mysterious neighbour, which used to be covered with oceans, ice sheets and erupting volcanoes. Clockwise from top left to bottom left show craters in the Tempe Fossae region, the south pole, dunes in the Russell Crater, a ridge called Hyblaeus Dorsa, sand dunes and a major trough in the Valles Marineris canyon system.

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Heartbroken bride reveals her husband married her before dying of cancer 

Sian Thomas, of Surbiton, south London, was married for just one day before love of her life Jonathan died of a rare type of cancer. The pair had brought forward their wedding when doctors told them he didn't have long to live. Ms Thomas is marking her first wedding anniversary by walking 350 across Britain to raise funds for ulcerative colitis, the condition that led to Jonathan's cancer.

In alarming footage the bearded reveller jiggles around on top of the force's Ford Focus beside the M32 in St Agnes near Bristol. Two unimpressed police officers watch on.

Onlookers at the branch of Burger King in the city of Incheon in South Korea shriek as the woman uses the heatproof gloves to place the phone on a table before dropping the handset onto the floor.

 

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Be Monarch of your own Glen for just £850,000: Share of unspoilt Highlands estate comes

Renowned for its spectacular salmon and sea trout fishing, the Gualin Estate (pictured) has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years and the owners have the chance to live like Highlanders centuries ago. Now a one third share of the 6,239-acre plot is on the market with estate agents Savills, offering all the benefits of owning an impressive estate without the sole responsibility of running it. The estate is a must for keen fly fishermen with a 7.5-mile stretch of double bank fishing on the River Dionard (top right), full of salmon and sea trout. It also includes Loch Dionard (top left), which was described by Trout and Salmon Magazine as 'a wonderful and immutable place... perhaps the best salmon loch in all Scotland'.

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Johanna Nordblad captured freediving underneath a frozen lake

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