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The Netflix series tracing the Queen's life in the fifties has been dubbed ‘the most expensive series ever made’, with the first ten episodes costing £100 million. read

At least six Democratic electors have signed an agreement to try to block Donald Trump from securing the presidency with 270 Electoral College votes. read

Alex Steven, Robert Jefford and Dave Clark were fired on the same day their employer published a newsletter containing a note from a resident praising their work in Chatham, Kent. read

Judge Paul Batty, Honorary Recorder of York, awarded three nine-year-old £50 each after they raised the alarm and helped catch Robert Franklin who stole an 88-year-old's funeral savings. read

Dozens of High Street retailers harvest email addresses - including Debenhams, Mothercare, Argos, Halfords, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, Next, Selfridges, Wickes and Joules. read

Nottinghamshire Police has been accused of discriminating against white straight people after appealing for new recruits from ethnic minorities and the gay community. read

Former England footballer Paul Stewart has said that he was sexually abused every day for four years by his coach. The 52-year-old said it took place when he was between the ages of 11 and 15. read

Rocco (pictured), whose father is director Guy Ritchie, was allegedly seen 'smoking or doing drugs' near his Primrose Hill home in North London, reported the Sun. read

The woman, who was in her 70s, died at the scene at the Wrekin Retail Park in Telford, Shropshire, despite the efforts of medics. The driver had to be treated for shock following the incident. read

The elderly woman was attacked while standing in the doorway of a house in Peckmill Green (pictured), in the Netherley area of Liverpool at around 6.10pm this evening. read

The Catholic App, which has been developed by Musemantik, is to be launched in Scotland in early 2017 with the aim of boosting attendance numbers at Holy Mass and Confession. read

‘High-achieving’ Harpreet Kaur Hallaith, 18, attended the prestigious Wolverhampton Girls’ High School but had started to get ‘stressed’ about her exams earlier this year. read

Furious MPs have asked regulators if ‘assets other than cash’ can be used to plug the black hole in the BHS pension fund. This could include the tycoon’s super yacht Lionheart, branded ‘BHS Destroyer’. read

The cost to banks of funding mortgages has leapt since Mr Trump's surprise win, and experts expect these rises to be passed on to homeowners. read

Convicted paedophile and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins is alleged to have sent three Tweets while serving 35 years in prison for child sex offences. read

James Bettles, 26, booked himself in at the Glow salon in Enfield Chase, North London, and placed his HD device inside a towel, before tearing a hole in the material so he could get a good view. read

Dyfed-Powys Police were called to the assault on Caldey Island off the Pembrokeshire coast, which has a population of just 40 and is home to an order of monks who follow a vow of silence. read

Rightous Garnett, 49, was caught with bracelets, rings, earrings and watches worth tens of thousands of pounds that were snatched during a burglary at the five bedroom townhouse. read

Canny money-makers can end up with thousands more in tax-free earnings every year than the average UK take home pay. Our step-by-step guide reveals how. read

Horse breeder Lena Banks, 44, who built an illegal cabin in Sheriff Hutton, North Yorkshire has received a criminal conviction after she refused to tear it down. read

The woman went missing near Folkestone, Kent, at around 7am today. A major search operation was launched and the woman was rescued and airlifted to hospital but later died. read

The Duchess of Cambridge comforted mother Ceri Knapton, who became emotional as her son Ethan told Kate how he was bullied because of his autism at a reception in London tonight. read

Research by uSwitch found five of the big six energy suppliers have hiked the price of their cheapest fixed-rate tariffs by an average of 16 per cent – £129 – since September. read

Controversial former MP George Galloway was speaking to a group of students at the University of Aberdeen when he was 'glitterbombed' by a group of protestors waving placards. read

Doctors say Cohen Yau, from Hereford, who is four and a half but the height of an 18-month-old, is 'a puzzle'. His family, profiled on Medical Mysteries on Channel 5, are desperate for answers. read

Palestinian Jamal Owda is accused of masterminding a gang which allegedly smuggled more than 50,000 Syrians into Europe in a £7million operation, which he ran from his asylum hostel in Liverpool. read

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, national medical director of NHS England, said 0.25 per cent of each hospital trust’s turnover would be withheld each year unless they made progress. read

A new operation can apparently ‘reset’ your flawed hunger hormone levels for good. And, as Janet French testifies, the effect can be dramatic. She has dropped six stone since having the surgery. read

Etiquette expert William Hanson says he has made a 'staggering revelation' in the footwear department and discovered trainers. He does however admit that there is a time and a place to wear them. read

Boudicca Scherazade, of Hampton Court, South West London, fell for antiques dealer Laurence Roche while he ran a market stall in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. read

Darren Williams, 32, went to his cab to find it frosted over with a thick coating of ice but did not want to go back into his house and potentially wake his partner and daughter before starting his shift. read

Prof Neil Pollock claimed his son and other pupils at the council school in Edinburgh are forced to stand behind a barrier and admitted in small groups. read

Stella Creasy made the claim as she challenged Tory MP John Redwood's assertion that because being scouted as an elite footballer as a child could be life changing, selection would work in other fields. read

The two Qatari victims, in their 60s, were being driven from Le Bourget airport in a Bentley when they were targeted in a lay-by on the A1, north east of Paris. read

Last Tuesday Tom Knighton, 29, was awoken when a motion detection camera sent a message to his iPhone and these are the chilling images he saw when he went through CCTV footage. read

US restaurants have started to serve live animals like octopus, which joins a long list of cruel food practices such as drowned bird and boiled rat. Here are some of the worst offenders. read

Police are hunting a man who posed as an officer and tried to force 25-year-old Calise Maclean out of her car as she drove close to the Fettykil Fox restaurant, in Glenrothes, Fife, last Monday. read

MailOnline can reveal the mystery woman found in Rome is 21-year-old Embla Jauhojärvi, from Stockholm in Sweden who had travelled to Italy six months ago to study the language. read

Expectant mother-of-two Tasha Maile has been heavily criticised for posting several videos of her breastfeeding her two young sons onto social media, with some calling the footage 'incestuous' read

Mark Jones, 34, from Droylsden, had fallen into a diabetic coma after his blood sugar levels had dropped. But his son Lenny-George managed to grab two yoghurts from the fridge. read

The European Parliament is voting today on plans which would cut through red tape and allow NATO forces to be deployed quicker in the event of a crisis Europe. read

Amanda Holden's paternal grandfather Frank Holden Sr was an army psychiatric nurse who survived the sinking of the RMS Lancastria in 1940, she discovers on Who Do You Think You Are? read

Alison Smith, from Maidstone, took to Facebook to voice her concerns when her four-month-old son Jensen lost consciousness after taking 2.5ml of Galpharm’s Junior Ibuprofen. read

Mohammed and Nazimabee Golamaully, from Streatham, south London, wired money to Zafirr Golamaully, who is believed to be fighting on the front line for the terror group in Syria. read

The cyclist, whose Twitter name is BrokenLegs, posted shocking GoPro footage of his collision on the site. It shows him cycling at speed in a London bus lane before the collision. read

Former Top Gear stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May's new show launched with rave reviews on Friday. read

The tech giant's secretive DeepMind health business will use the data to help develop a mobile app for doctors, nurses and other medical staff at the Royal Free Trust in London. read

Helena Reid, 50, from Sheffield, claimed the response was excessive after Brandon, 15, who has Asperger's, was left with carpet burns on his face after being taken from his parents' home in Sheffield. read

Albert Eliot, 12, succeeded his grandfather Peregrine Eliot (pictured), the 10th Earl, at the Port Eliot Estate in Cornwall after his death from cancer in July, but a row has broken out at the 6,000-acre home. read

It's been 21 days since Halloween and it's still two days until Thanksgiving, but that hasn't stopped some of the stars getting in the Christmas spirit ahead of time. read

Protesters shouted: 'There isn't enough Nutella, Gummibears and chocolate', as the dispute escalated during Ramadan in the west German city of Düsseldorf. read

A Facebook user from Mexico shared the images claiming the sun 'reacted' to the object. Others said it was a wormhole. But Alex Young, a Nasa scientist offered a simple explanation. read

British researchers are recruiting anyone in the world to help them determine if the life hack of rubbing garlicky hands on something made from stainless steal really nullifies the stink. read

Researchers at the Retina Foundation of the Southwest in Dallas have developed a tablet video game that can encourage children to work their weaker eye harder. read

They shared every second of their lives together until last month. But Jadon and Anias McDonald, twins conjoined at the crown of their heads, never caught a glimpse of their closest companion. read

This dramatic footage shows police wading into icy waters to rescue a man who drove a suspected stolen car into a lake in St Helens, Merseyside, on Monday night. read

Darren Byrne, 40, allegedly murdered his spouse Maria, 35, in the kitchen of their £450,000 home in Theydon Bois, Essex, before trying to cover his tracks. read

Iconic 80s brand Hofmeister - famous for its 'follow the bear' slogan - is being relaunched as a craft beer aimed at hipsters. read

Merseyside Police wants to highlight the number of non-urgent calls it receives. The force says of 2,500 calls it receives a day, up to 2,000 of those do not require immediate help. read

Airport security Col. Abd Al-Rahim Al-Dale'i was executed by ISIS militants as he climbed into a car in war-torn Aden, a port city in the south of Yemen. ISIS later released footage of the callous attack. read

Rasheed Benyahia, 19, an engineering apprentice from Birmingham, arrived in Syria in May 2015 and was killed by shrapnel from a missile in Iraq in November last year. read

Jessica Baldwin-Evans, 16, went missing on Monday when she left her school in Sussex. She did not return home that evening and has not been seen since. Police are increasingly concerned. read

Alvina Rayne, 32, from Pennsylvania, had a bullying partner who called her a 'fat piece of garbage' when she reached her heaviest at 274lbs (20 stone). read

Sex worker Mistress Magpie, 33, known also as Margaret, is based in Plymouth and has specialised in bondage, domination, sadism and masochism (BDSM) for four years. read

Sir Jony Ive, head of design at Apple, has designed the Christmas display at Claridge's in London, but the rather basic look of the untrimmed trees has drawn criticism. read

Police in Saltash, Cornwall, released an image of the statue in a bid to reunite it with the owners, but prudish officers blacked out the private parts of the world-famous statue. read

New study reveals our favourite festive tipples and how we like to drink them - based on where we live. Londoners buy Champagne as a gift, while East Midlands gives out beer. read

All hot coffees are £1 at easyCoffee shops in London and Southend-On-Sea, founded by easyJet mogul Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. He plans to expand the business with franchise system. read

A cholesterol charity have discovered that women could be eating up to four times their recommended amount of saturated fat in high street Italian restaurants. read

President Obama gave out his last batch of Presidential Medals of Freedom today to huge names in Hollywood, the world of sports, philanthropy and more. read

Milo Yiannopoulos, poster boy for young Team Trump was censored from speaking at his old school because exposing pupils to anything other than a liberal viewpoint could be damaging. read

Controversial journalist Milo Yiannopoulos was due to speak at the Simon Langton School in Kent, his old school, but the talk was cancelled amid fears of protests, much to the dismay of pupils. read

The family of Prince Harry's girlfriend, Meghan Markle (pictured), have shared a never-before-seen family photos of the possible future princess posing in dungarees when she was just 14 years old. read

Prince Harry rolled up his sleeves to help plant a sapling at the dedication of a conservation project named for his grandmother the Queen today, on the Caribbean island of Barbuda. read

When Donald Trump made Nigel Farage the first major foreign politician he received, the President-elect didn’t so much as upset the diplomatic apple cart as kick it over. read

No10 insisted the key post will not be vacant for at least four years after the president-elect tweeted that the Ukip leader would do a 'great job' as the UK's man in Washington. read

In an extraordinary intervention, the US President-elect took to Twitter in the early hours to suggest the acting Ukip leader should replace existing British ambassador Sir Kim Darroch. read

'My inclination would be, for whatever power I have on the matter, is to say let's go forward. This has been looked at for so long, ad nauseum,' Trump said Tuesday of new investigations into Clinton. read

Donald Trump used his meeting with Nigel Farage in New York to bring up his 'dismay' at Scotland being 'over-run with ugly wind farms', which he claims has spoiled the view from his golf course. read

Maggiano's Little Italy in Washington say they unintentionally agreed to a reservation from the National Policy Institute, who the restaurant say gave a fake name when they booked their party. read

'After the meeting today, though - and I am being human with you here - I think, F*** him!' said one of media members who attended the summit Donald Trump held on Monday afternoon. read

I wasn't surprised Kanye was hospitalized. For the past 18 months, the star has behaved in an increasingly erratic manner. I suspect the real diagnosis is he’s suffering from fame addiction. read

The 39-year-old snapped at the interviewer, went on a rant about his critically panned Yeezy show, and shared his belief that in the future people are 'going to communicate through eye contact, emojis, signs.' read

The rapper was under 'psychiatric evaluation' at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles late Monday and the rest of his Saint Pablo Tour was cancelled as friends say the star is 'spiraling out of control.' read

Saturday Kitchen star Glynn Purnell's girlfriend Kerry O'Carroll was left in 'agony' after a crash in Coleshill, Birmingham, which left her car a write-off. read

Thomas Mair (pictured left), 53, is on trial for allegedly shooting and stabbing the 41-year-old mother of two (inset) outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, on June 16. read

GRAPHIC CONTENT - A shocking video has emerged of a dinghy packed with migrants sinking in the Mediterranean after they mistook a Tunisian trawler for a coastguard ship. read

Housing Minister Gavin Barwell said the plan would have hurt ‘ordinary working class families’ and would not have saved much money. read

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling (pictured) said Britain must be 'much more careful' before giving the green light for 'unfettered use' of the unmanned aircraft in the skies over the UK. read

A group of researchers from the University of Lincoln and Lancaster University studied hundreds of people and their relationships with their phones, in the first study to show a link between personality and phone type. read

This is the Cupertino-based firm's second iPhone repair program in less than a week after it announced that it will fix the 'touch disease' issue blighting many users' iPhone 6 Plus handsets. read

Four-year-old Mitzi Steady, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in Bath, Somerset, in the horror crash on February 9 last year. read

Defying Brexit doomsayers, the deficit came in at £4.3billion in October - below the £6billion expected. The figures emerged on the eve of Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement. read

A deal to stay in the single market while curbing free movement will never get past MEPs, Brexit Secretary David Davis was told at his meeting today. read

Apple is still unclear as to what causes the glitch, but the video is reportedly hosted on a Russian social networking site, Miaopai. A force reboot of the device should resolve the issue. read

For many of the men in the current series of the hit reality TV show, being trapped in the wilderness seems to have put them in touch with their sensitive sides. read

Father-of-three Craig Gill and his Inspiral Carpets bandmates were best known for their hits Saturn 5, This Is How It Feels, She Comes In The Fall, Dragging Me Down and I Want You. read

The stunning animal, which is black due to a genetic mutation, was spotted by Paul Stevens, a 67-year-old retired engineer from Portland, south Dorset. read

Maurice Campbell, 56, was jailed for two years and four months on Tuesday after 'man-handling' vulnerable Dora Melton, 85, in her own home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. read

The President-elect is set to be invited to Britain for a state visit next summer, just months after he is sworn in. Diane Abbott (pictured) has warned he should not speak in Westminster Hall. read

The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, pictured, who earns £250,000 a year, said the High Court will soon be six judges short because many of the current 106 judges are reaching retirement age. read

Amy Merrifield, 21, pictured today, and her 24-year-old sister Rebecca are accused of going on the rampage at the Goals five-a-side football centre in Dagenham, Essex, on January 16 this year. read

The Lord chief justice, pictured, suggested ministers should look at non-custodial ways of punishing people but Tory MP Philip Davies said his 'left-wing view of the world should be ignored'. read

NASA's food scientists are working to develop high-calorie products that will taste good and help the astronauts keep a healthy weight. Replacing a meal with bars will help to reduce mass on Orion. read

Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid. read

Des Gunewardena, the boss of luxury restaurant chain D&D London, claimed he was 'fired' by Sir Terence Conran's (pictured) company after giving body and soul to it for more than 20 years. read

The US-inspired sales event falls this Friday but Tesco, Currys PC World and Carphone Warehouse yesterday launched deals on thousands of products, promising price cuts of up to 50 per cent. read

The billionaire socialite daughter of Uzbekistan's former dictator, Gulnara Karimova (pictured), is reported to have died after being poisoned. read

Arkady Rzegocki posted this video of himself feeding carrots to one of the royal horses after taking part in a ceremony to welcome him into his post at Buckingham Palace. read

Extraordinary footage has emerged of a Monarch aircraft pitching and tipping dramatically as it comes into land at Gibraltar airport. read

Hackers have attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries this year, using software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB. read

The 28-year-old was among 15 contestants aiming to wolf down five balls of locally grown steamed rice when he passed out having put the fifth 'onigiri' snack in his mouth in Hikone, Japan. read

Nikita Childs (pictured), 13, from Northwich, Cheshire, was told to 'take off the socks or go home' because they breached Hartford High School's uniform policy and put in a room on her own, her father said. read

Ricky Hayden, 27, and his father Paul, were both stabbed when they confronted a group of men who were trying to steal their moped outside their home in Chadwell Heath, east London. read

From 'Why is Mommy Moaning?' to 'Scouts in Bondage' - these unfortunately-named children's books are full of double entendres and may be just a bit too rude for little ones to read. read

The 20 year minimum terms given to a teenage couple for the brutal 'executions' of a mother and her daughter have been referred to the Attorney General for being 'unduly lenient'. read

Professor Robin Seymour, a leading periodontist and former head of Newcastle University's School of Dental Sciences, warns that in some cases the risks of orthodontic braces outweigh the benefits. read

 A woman whose dad ran the famous Cavern Club 50 years ago has uncovered one of the first photos Linda McCartney took of husband Paul - just weeks after they got together. read

The ‘hipster nativity set’ has gone on sale in the US and is already dividing the public on whether it is in poor taste or just good fun. A Christian has described it as 'hilarious' but some hipsters are offended. read

Forensics analyst Chelsea, 24 from London, showcased her unusual party trick on last night's episode - and her date Alex was clearly impressed, agreeing to a second date. read

The proposed new law sparked outcry across the country, with thousands holding protests and opponents vowing to block it in the courts. read

Forty per cent of all Britain's homes selling for more than £10million are in just three exclusive London postcodes. Of those 107 properties, only eight are located outside the capital. read

Laura Ouandjli admitted lying about being in the Carillon bar in Paris, where 15 people were murdered by ISIS terrorists on November 13 last year and has been jailed for a year. read

Brogan Warren, 21, Sam Kay, 26, Nicoletta Tocco, 25, and SamJones, 23, all died instantly when their Citroen Saxo collided with a Mercedes travelling in the opposite direction in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. read

London-based drinks giant Diageo has released the video to show the devastating effects of driving whilst under the influence of alcohol and the damage it can do to people's lives. read

The detached bungalow in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, was set alight around 6.30pm on Sunday evening in what police have described as a 'deliberate and targeted attack'. read

Bob Jones, 64, was speaking to his son Matthew Jones (pictured), who was travelling home from the Download Festival at Donnington Park in Leicestershire. read

Bus driver, Johnthony Walker, has been arrested after the bus he was driving crashed into a tree killing at least five elementary students and injuring 23 more in Tennessee on Monday. read

The man dressed as Santa mistakenly believed Dylan Taylor was misbehaving, when actually his mother says he was just thrilled to meet Father Christmas in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. read

Kerry Power, 36, was strangled by her violent ex-boyfriend David Wilder after she tried to make a so-called ‘silent solution’ emergency call to police when he entered the house. read

Middle East Drifting, or Hajwalah', is the 100mph car stunt sport that is growing fast across parts of Asia and is slowly being legitimised to stop 'rich kids' from endangering themselves. read

Alexander Johnson, 23, lost control of his VW Golf as he chased another motorist he'd had some 'banter' with at a McDonald's drive-thru in Benson, Oxon. read

The video captures the vehicles parked up outside the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff unable to move until the patients are discharged from their care. read

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: A little boy was left desperately reaching out for his mother in the middle of a road in Ukraine after a car crashed into him on a pedestrian crossing. read

A new bill calling for 'Walter Mitty' fraudsters that impersonate Britain's war heroes to be fined or jailed, will be discussed in the House of Commons in Friday. read

Those who had lower levels of carotenoids in their system had to rely on more brain power to complete memory-orientated tasks, University of Georgia researchers found. read

Chris Wormald, top civil servant in the Department of Health, has officials examining whether checks should take place on everyone seeking hospital treatment in the NHS across the UK. read

Anne Diamond, 62, has opened up about her losing her son to sudden infant death syndrome in a video posted to Youtube. In it, she describes screaming as she found her baby boy in his cot. read

German car maker Daimler - which owns Mercedes Benz - has sacked a top executive of its trucks and buses unit in China after he said his host nation was full of 'bastards'. read

The stretch of road between Alberquerqe and Tjeras has rumble strips and when the wheels hit the strips, they cause a vibration that are heard as a rumbling melody through the body of the car. read

Paul Jefferies, 52, who worked Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), was brutally attacked in his own home in East Sussex. Ben Bamford (pictured) was found guilty of his murder. read

John Traynor, 64, died after being hit by a lorry on a desert highway. He was on holiday with partner Julie Galbraith, who was also injured. read

Alderman Howard Brookins (pictured), of Chicago's 21st ward, was biking on a trail earlier this month when a squirrel got caught in his front wheel, sending him flying over the handle bars. read

Ampika Pickston is selling up the home near Altrincham, Cheshire after her employee was threatened in a raid where thieves escaped with a haul worth £70,000. read

Trevor Timon, 31, pictured, is accused of killing Oliver Dearlove, 30, during a row after a night out in Blackheath village, south east London, on August 28. read

The mysterious jumper, who goes by the name of 8Booth on YouTube and Instagram, frequently posts videos of his shocking antics online. His latest death-defying stunt was filmed in Mexico. read

Shona Sibary, 45, has been hit by a sense of overwhelming apathy. The mother-of-four suggests it may be because she's grown to resent the fact that she's expected to put everyone else first. read

Dave and Sarah, from Nottinghamshire, spend their weekends carefully reconstructing iconic scenes from Hollywood blockbusters with the help of their two cats, Willow and Tara. read

Belgium has repatriated asylum staff amid fears for their safety as chaos continues in islands including Chios. Migrants are frustrated that they are being stopped from continuing to Europe. read

Heinz fell foul of the Advertising Standards Authority because it failed to show the top of the can being taped up to cover any sharp edges as youngsters played with it. read

It's an exclusive offer to create a 21st century country house. But the new owner must knock down the existing 1970s bungalow, near Berkhamsted, Herts, to build this stunning home. read

Malawian man Eric Aniva was prosecuted after publicly speaking about his role as a 'hyena' in a BBC documentary. read

Passengers applauded as the driver of a delayed Southern Rail service from London Victoria made a heartfelt apology over the loudspeaker for any problems they experienced on the line. read

Dizziness, headaches and nausea are three of the most common symptoms, but one in six Britons wrongly think a metallic taste in the mouth is also a sign, a new survey has revealed. read

Science teacher Jacob Strickling came up with a new take on the Mentos and Diet Coke experiment by combining the fizzy drink with liquid nitrogen and filming the results in a park in Australia. read

Jonny Mason, 52, was caught by police as he drove the battery-powered cart from a bar to his accommodation at Kragero resort in Norway. read

Doctors have saved the sight of South African boy Ryno van der Westhuizen after his eye socket was pierced by a metal door handle in a horrific freak accident. read

Photos of a muzzled bear in chains at a circus-themed club night in Guipry-Messac, France have stoked the ire of animal rights activists and social media users. read

One of his compatriots can be seen hitting him full force with a cane as he crouches in agony at the Cavalry Centre in Saraburi, Thailand. read

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Michigan, discovered the LITE-1 taste receptor in millimetre-long roundworms, known as nematodes. read

Mother-of-four Fatima Bibi begged the two raiders not to hurt her daughter, six, as one of them held her neck in his hand and pressed a knife against the child's skin and demanded valuables at their home in Oldham. read

Killer Jack Cramb, 24, uses an illegal mobile phone to regularly post topless selfies from his prison cell at at Shotts prison in Lanarkshire where he is serving a life sentence for murder. read

Kevin Yates, 23, from Burnley, Lancashire, sent abusive messages threatening to give his partner Jade Watson black eyes when he was released after a three-year sentence for burglary. read

Callum Staple-Hughes (pictured), 21, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, is believed to have fallen victim to Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS). read

Aly Stosz, 27, from New York, stands at 6ft 9in and endured years of bullying at school where she was called 'Godzilla' and a 'monster' - but she says she has finally learned to embrace her stature. read

A video from the Slow Mo Guys, filmed at up to 120,000 frames per second, reveals how sync gear prevented disasters in the air, allowing bullets to narrowly zoom by just before the blades pass. read

National Geographic Traveler has released its 2017 list of the hottest cities and the best places to visit for nature and culture in the world. Hamburg, Germany and Georgia, US both feature. read

Researchers at the University of Missouri tested beneficial live bacteria on zebrafish and their responses to stressful situations, but say the findings could be replicated in humans. read

Charly Babington, 41, from Blackpool, went into a coma and was left on life support for over three weeks after suffering flu-like symptoms. She woke up to find her hands and feet were black. read

The research by scientists at Caltech and UCLA could pave the way to developing nip-n-tuck style procedures that reverse and slow the ageing process. read

Zero to 62mph in 2.7 seconds with zero tailpipe emissions. That's the promise from Chinese electric car brand NextEV, which will make just six of these $1.2 million road racers for its investors. read

TV fans have voted for the most memorable TV moments of 2016, with GBBO, Game of Thrones and Great Britain's victories in the Rio Olympics all scoring highly. read

The alter-ego of Japanese comedian Kosaka Daimaou received more than 163.5 million YouTube views for his debut hit in September. He's now returned in a Sesame Street sketch. read

Once activated, the feature automatically detects places with free Wi-Fi near your location and marks them on your map. It is not known which countries currently have access to the new feature. read

Detectives were called after a burglary in the commune of Saint-Lys in France's south-western Haute-Garonne department, near Toulouse. read

Scientists from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands found that while the effect was small, it could make the difference between winning and losing. read

Never-before-seen photographs of Edward VIII's wedding to his divorcee lover Wallis Simpson have come to light 80 years after he sparked a constitutional crisis. read

Denis Karagodin plans to take posthumous legal action against Stalin and more than 20 others, who he holds responsible for killing his ancestor Stepan Karagodin in 1938. read

Nicola Collingbourne, 26, was found dead at her flat in Letchworth, Hertfordshire in May this year. Her half-sister, Yvonne Caylor, is charged with her murder, which she denies. read

Far from keeping it in the bedroom, the frisky folk sharing their escapades on Reddit have a taste for the unconventional. Locations range from the unlikely to the downright dangerous - like a runway. read

In an adorable new video, a hedgehog named Sashimi can be seen using her tiny paw to unlock an iPhone, successfully passing through the TouchID sensor. read

Daredevil cyclists tackled the near 5,000ft high White Line Trial in Sedona, Arizona, which follows a 'scar' along a sandstone cliff face that is known as one of the most dangerous routes in the world. read

The award-winning prototype was developed by researchers at Nottingham Trent university and Reutlingen-based German textile machine manufacturer Stoll. read

Footage shows the man lying on the ground in the street in Nigeria while a friend tells his devastated girlfriend that he has been hit by a car. read

The man was sitting at a desk in a makeshift office believed to be somewhere in the US when the device suddenly burst into flames, burning his hand and forcing him to stamp out the fire. read

One family of fearless wild boars is terrorising residents of the small Luxembourg town of Martelange. They say they have been destroying their gardens. read

Former Miss International Sweden 2012 Katarina Konow has stunned her fans after she was filmed lifting a 13st man while doing squats in Miami, Florida, earlier this year. read

A new viral video sweeping the web sees an unnamed woman using her children as weights as she performs a gruelling 'butt workout'. The clip has won her a legion of admirers online. read

A workman was left looking sheepish after his attempt to reach the ceiling of an office in Russia by setting up a ladder on a flimsy fold-out table ended in disaster. read

A seven-year-old boy from Switzerland must attend a specialist school after his over-protective parents left him unable to do things for himself, the country's highest court has ruled. read

For more than three decades, the streets of Apice have been empty and buildings have been left to crumble. read

A new book, titled 'Hello, Is This Planet Earth?', reveals more than 150 incredible image taken by Chichester-born astronaut Tim Peake during his historic mission to space. read

The film, produced by Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, shows technology that experts believe will exist by 2062, including flying cars, which were originally imagined in the US cartoon. read

Despite the sitcom famously being set in Peckham, south London, Del Boy and Rodney's home in 'Nelson Mandela House' was actually Harlech Tower in Acton, west London. read