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A formerly obese mother has shifted 103lbs of pregnancy weight after discovering her cheating husband and his lover called her a 'fat f**k'. Betsy Ayala (pictured on the left before her weight loss and on the right afterwards), 34, from Houston, Texas, tipped the scales at 262lbs after giving birth to her daughter, Isabella, in 2013. Six months later the marketing manager discovered her ex-husband was having an affair and found messages to his lover that attacked her weight.

Daughters of society's elite have gathered for the 62nd annual Debutante Ball in New York's Pierre Hotel in a myriad of white gowns on Thursday night. They are college-aged young women from some of America's and some of the world's most prestigious universities putting their most congenial faces forward in the Pierre Hotel as they meet and greet with future husbands, friends, colleagues and business and charity contacts.

Bemused customers have shared hilarious cakes they received on the Cake Wrecks cake fails blog. From left to right: One features a road topped with the literal message: 'A road that you drive on'; another took the memo about the hippy party theme too literally; one customer had the question 'Can you draw a unicorn?' piped on top of the cake instead of an actual unicorn; one customer's advice to a bakery to 'google baby girl cake' for inspiration was taken too literally; a Minecraft cake turned into a luminous green cake with just 'Minecraft' written on top; and one customer obviously sent their cake request by mobile as they ended up with a bake topped with the message 'Sent from my iPhone'.

Hidden in the vintage illustration of a dog is the head of his master - but can you spot him? The image dates back to the turn of the century and was the face of a trade card used as an early advertising gimmick. Users have taken to social media to comment on how tricky the new illusion is.

It's not unusual - in fact, it's practically a given - to love your mom more than anyone but still get frustratingly, hopelessly annoyed with her on a pretty regular basis. Mothers tend to have a habit of asking a million maddening questions, even about pretty mundane things - a fact one Twitter user summed up pretty aptly with a single text exchange with his mother and another with his father. The two texts have gone viral, earning thousands of likes from social media users who can quite clearly relate.

The lid has been lifted on two 'Russian spy bases' after President Barack Obama ordered operatives out of the country as part of sanctions announced for their alleged role in hacking during the election. Obama outlined the punishments in a statement released on Thursday, for what he said where the country's attempts to 'interfere with democratic governance' and harassment of U.S. diplomatic officials in Russia. In the hours since the announcement, further details on the extravagant Russian compounds have emerged. The Maryland property is a luxurious, 45-acre compound just 30 minutes' drive from Washington D.C. It was first purchased by the Soviet government in 1972, and has long been suspected of being a spy center. The other compound that is reported to have been shut down by the State Department is Killenworth (pictured), the Glen Cove estate once owned by George Dupont Pratt on the North Shore of Long Island. The Soviet government bought the home in the 1950s. Killenworth was also used as a vacation retreat by Soviet diplomats and personnel who were stationed at the United Nations in New York.

Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov had fired back at Barack Obama's decision to kick 35 Russian diplomats out of the US amid election hacking claims with calls to banish 35 diplomats of their own. But he has been pegged back by his leader, who said no American officials would be expelled. The ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed the outgoing White House's decision and claimed the US and American people were 'humiliated by their own President' in the Cold War-style measures against Moscow. Today, Russia is today preparing an initial retaliation against the US sanctions and expulsions.

Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are celebrating Hanukkah with their three children and his brother Joshua Kushner, 31, at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai. Ivanka posted plenty of footage of the natural wonders she encountered during the helicopter ride on Thursday, including a snapshot of the Kilauea volcano. At one point, Ivanka struck a pose in front of a lush, tree-covered mountain, and she proudly shared the photo taken by her brother-in-law Joshua on her Instagram page.

Janice Fairman (top right with her husband, Gary), the adoptive mother of tragic 16 and Pregnant star Valerie Fairman, believes the 23-year-old woman would still be alive if she hadn't appeared on the MTV reality show in 2010. Valerie, who left her now-seven-year-old daughter Nevaeh (left) with her parents years ago, died on December 21 from an apparent drug overdose at a house in Coatesville, PA, five miles from where her adoptive parents brought her up. Both Fairman and Valerie's birth mother told DailyMail.com that they believe her death was due to the opioid epidemic that is sweeping the country.

Todd Fisher was seen visiting memorial park in Westwood on Thursday a day after his mother's death. ABC News confirmed yesterday that the family is now planning a joint funeral for his mother and sister. Debbie Reynolds died on Wednesday aged 84 after a suspected stroke at Todd's Beverly Hills home. Her 60-year-old daughter Carrie Fisher died the previous day from a heart attack she suffered on a plane. Fisher's 24-year-old daughter Billie Lourd did not join her uncle at the memorial park on Thursday.

A remarkable series of colour photographs, taken more than 100 years ago, have been unearthed and they paint a fascinating picture of the dying days of the Russian Empire. Between 1905 and 1915 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of colour photography, travelled the empire by railway, chronicling the lives of the many different people who lived under the rule of the doomed Tsar Nicholas II. The images including Jewish boys in traditional clothes studying with their teacher (top left), two convicts in shackles in a remote prison camp (top right), loggers at work in the city of Tobolsk in Siberia (bottom left) and Prokudin-Gorsky himself (bottom right, with two men in traditional Cossack costumes).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is 'happy' his oldest son was arrested after getting into a fight outside a Aspen, Colorado, nightclub and tussling with a police officer, because he was taking a stand against bullying. The incident started around 1.40am when authorities were called to Bootsy Bellows to escort people out of the venue following last call, and Officer Andy Atkinson witnessed Taylor Swift's ex (inset with Swift in 2012) grab another man and 'hit him four or five times in the back of the head with his fists' outside the club. Conor (left in mugshot) then tried to break free when Atkinson attempted to restrain him, and another individual had to aid the officer as he pinned down the 22-year-old so he could be put in handcuffs. 'Conor has always reacted against bullying. I'm happy he stood up for his friend,' Robert Jr. (right with children Kick, Aiden, William, Conor, and Robert III) said in a statement.

Children carrying handguns are ordered to take part in a training mission, going from room to room in an abandoned building (bottom left) in Raqqa, Syria, searching for tied-up captives. One man is shot in the leg before receiving a point blank head shot while another terrified prisoner is cornered on a roof (top right) before plunging to his death (bottom right). The 34-minute video, called My Father Told Me, shows so-called cubs of the Caliphate in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa going through military drills (top left) and learning how to use handheld rocket launchers. Brainwashed youngsters aged between nine and 13 also learn martial arts and how to fire machine guns during the film.

Ronda Rousey weighed in at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday for her first fight in 13 months against UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. A source said that Rousey is in the 'best shape of her life' reportedly losing about 15 pounds and showing off a mean six-pack on Instagram.

Haunting images of abandoned homes in Nordland and Troms in Norway reveal the stark impact of depopulation in the country's most remote, northern outposts above the Arctic circle. The breath-taking photographs were captured by Oslo native Britt M on three trips to Nordland and Troms counties, earlier this year.

Rusty Johnson arrived home to find a 'few things out of place' at his flat in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has released the footage of objects appearing to fly off kitchen counters unaided. He said the footage scared the hell out of him and he felt like someone was looking at him. He planned to continue recording what's happening in his flat but said he will move out if it keeps happening.

A man who was sentenced to death in 1995 for raping and brutally murdering the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend was granted a reprieve Thursday by Washington state Governor Jay Inslee (pictured right). Clark Elmore (left) has never contested killing Kristy Ohnstad, whom he choked unconscious, stabbed in the head with a skewer and beat to death with a sledgehammer. But Inslee, who has already stopped all executions in the state, granted the reprieve to Elmore Thursday, citing a 'lack of clear deterrent value, high frequency of sentence reversal on appeal, and rising cost,' The Bellingham Herald reported.

A hilarious YouTube video sees a boy named William holding his family's new Amazon Echo Dot while asking the smart speaker's Alexa voice service to 'play digger, digger'. However, things take a very X-rated turn when Alexa suggests some very vulgar categories of pornography instead.

A pilot, identified as Capt. Tekad Purna, for Indonesian low-cost airline Citilink repeatedly dropped his belongings as he went through security at Surabaya airport on Wednesday morning. The pilot is believed to have made it as far as the cockpit before he was replaced by another captain when many passengers staged a walk off. The travellers were reportedly alerted to his alleged state of intoxication when he made an incoherent flight announcement while preparing for take off. Citilink confirmed he had appeared 'physically unfit' and an investigation is ongoing.

Serena Williams touched down in New Zealand after announcing that she is engaged to be married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (the duo are seen together inset). He popped the question after whisking her away on a surprise trip to Rome. Williams, 35, shared the news on Reddit by posting a poem, writing: 'At the same table we first met by chance / This time he made it not by chance / But by choice / Down on one knee / He said 4 words / And I said yes.' Ohanian, 33, later posted Williams' poem to his Facebook account, writing: 'She said yes.' Williams was seen Friday (pictured left) arriving at Auckland Airport followed by the media and then hitting the tennis court for a practice session (pictured right) ahead of the ASB Classic tennis tournament next week.

A Michigan man sat on his five-year-old stepdaughter's chest and stabbed her to death before setting her on fire because she kept asking him for food, a court heard Thursday. Thomas McClellan (pictured left), 25, of Holt, 'snapped' on Novemeber 1 when Luna Michelle Younger (right) refused to leave his room until he gave her food, Detective Chuck Buckland said in a preliminary hearing in the 55th District Court in Mason. McClellan is then alleged to have covered her body with sheets, poured vodka on it, and set it ablaze in the bedroom.

The baby hyena and wildebeest are usually mortal enemies in the wild, as hyenas often hunt herds of wildebeest during their migration. But these animals were more interested in friendship.

Five young girls from School Number 37 in the Russian city of Stavropol remain in hospital suffering from 'lacerations and fractures' sustained in the frightening crush. A video shows scenes of panic when a child stumbles getting off the moving stairway, and others fall over him. People rushed to help the nine and ten-year-old children trapped helpless on the floor, but more from the group of 44 students kept coming down the escalator. And police are now investigating teachers accompanying the group for negligence.

Rupert Murdoch's famed ex-wife Wendi Deng has spent the holiday period with a handsome Hungarian model. The 47-year-old was pictured strolling hand-in-hand along a beach in St Barts with her 6ft 2in lover Bertold Zahoran on Wednesday. Since her split from her octogenarian ex-husband in 2013, Deng has swapped one toyboy for another.

Stephanie Dail, who goes by 'Sexy Chef Steph', nibbles on vegetables, flashes her bottom and even taps her nipple with a wooden spoon in the unusual cooking tutorial. The young woman from North Carolina has proved a big hit online - with her saucy video racking up over 3.6 million views on YouTube.

Mark Emmins was stunned when he saw the bizarre object speeding through the sky over Exmouth in England with people on Facebook suggesting that it could have been weapons fired from a nearby naval base. Mr Emmins posted on Facebook: 'Today for the second time in my life I can honestly say that myself, Clare and my neighbour Tyron watched a ufo. It was stood still in the sky for some hours and then decided to move and then vanish.'

Alina Chunikhina, 19, from Krasnoyarsk won the award of Miss Photogenic in a beauty pageant held in the city of in the city of Manzhouli last week. She was one of 60 competitors who made the finals of the Messenger of Beauty pageant 2016 in the city in north-eastern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The feisty pup immediately began barking at his reflection, so sure it was a rival. His owners laughed and filmed the entire thing as the pug tried to fight himself. The pug even runs out of the room at one point, hoping to lure his competitor. But then he returns, touching the mirror over and over again as he tries to figure out whose staring back at him.

This is the hilarious moment two little boys find themselves in fits of giggles on a vibrating exercise machine. The sweet video of Kenneth and Kenzo, was taken in Indonesia. But it's not all fun and games as they take a tumble and land on the floor at the very end of the video. The clip was posted to Instagram and has amassed 10,200 views.

Pilot Nick Cyganski, from Massachusetts, allowed his friend Connor to land his small aircraft with no experience. He had to figure out what the equipment does mid-flight. Pictured clockwise from top left: The yoke used to steer the plane, Nick Cyganski (right) and Connor (left) in the cockpit, Connor steers the plane and the view of the airport from the air as the plane comes in to land.

Proud father Kevin Russell, of Los Gatos, California, shared a video of the duo he forms with his daughter last week, wowing thousands of viewers with footage of their training sessions. Russell and his daughter (left) can be seen making progress as months go by and the baby grows into a little girl. The video features one of their earlier training sessions, with Russell trying to teach his daughter to stand with both feet on his torso, then attempting to get her to find her balance with just one foot on top of one of his hands - a trick she has now perfected (upper and bottom right).

They may be a little late to the party, but the crew members of the International Space Station performed a gravity-defying version of the viral craze. At least four people on the satellite, which orbits more than 200 miles above Earth, are seen holding positions while floating in the air. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet tweeted out the video, saying: 'We got the whole crew together and took the #MannequinChallenge to new heights.'

Marco Campazas, 39, spotted the flock of birds (pictured) swarming through the sky while he was driving through northern Spain's Logrono City on Christmas day. He pulled over and captured the last seconds of their incredible display - twisting and merging together 'like a lava lamp'. The admin worker, who is a keen amateur photographer, said: 'I was driving my car and through the window noticed the birds. I stopped straight away and filmed them, it was quite lucky to see them like this.'

Vaginal weightlifter and intimacy coach Kim Anami, who splits her time between Bali and LA, looks radiant as she poses in a range of exotic locations (pictured) In these photos Ms Anami is pictured hoisting a range of objects into the air, using her vagina to hold them there. 'Much of my work is about breaking down sexual barriers,' she said.