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Meet the bloggers making thousands of pounds a month by just agreeing to post pictures of

Thanks to app Takumi, which connects Instagrammers with brands looking to partner them, amateur photographers can make thousands each year by agreeing to take pictures of their products and posting them online. Brands can be willing to pay as much as £2,000 per image, in the hope it will act as an ad for their products. This includes Ivona Moore, 24, from Northern Ireland (left and main), who only set up her Instagram account last year but it is already the way she makes her living. The married mother-of-one, who is originally from Lithuania, can make more than £100 for every picture she posts online after receiving briefs from brands through Takumi. And she does all this without even using a professional camera and captures her images like most other people by using her mobile phone. Neel Patel, 22 (top right), from London, now has almost 35,000 followers and can make up to £300 for posting just one picture on his account, meaning he is able to focus on photography full-time after giving up his job as an editor for a science company. Christopher Rusev, 24, (bottom right) only recently graduated from the University of Salford, but so far there has been no need for him to find a job. That's because his Instagram pictures have been helping him to earn a living. His account is full of images of eye-catching landscapes and unusual buildings.

President Obama says First Family is ready to leave the White House

President Obama has said his family will be happy to be out of the White House - and out of the spotlight. Obama's days as president are almost over, as the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump approaches on January 20. He said the 'bubbles' the family are in and constraints posed by the Secret Service have 'gotten old'. He said: 'Michelle never fully took to the scrutiny. She's thrived as a First Lady, but it's not her preference. She was the hardest sell, and she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic given how good she is.' Speaking about his daughters, Sasha and Malia, he said they have grown tired of the constraints of Secret Service and 'all that stuff' now that they have gotten older. However, the President admitted he and Michelle both have many fond memories from their time in the White House.

The man, believed to be in his late 50s, was killed after he became trapped under rubble on Thorpeness Beach at 1.25pm today. He sadly died at the scene.

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Experts in America say that if men wear underpants for bed, it can affect the quality and production of their sperm as the material of the underwear makes their crotch area too warm.

Lawand Hamadamin, who was born deaf and unable to communicate, fled the country with his parents and brother last year, coming to Derby after staying in a French refugee camp.

Sarah Wollaston, who spent 20 years working in the health service before becoming a politician, stated that the real figure is actually less than half of what Mrs May suggests

Kamiyah Mobley cries as she says goodbye to her kidnapper in court

Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found living in South Carolina as Alexis Manigo this week. She had been kidnapped on the day she was born from a Florida hospital by Gloria Williams. The 18-year-old girl was found living with the women who abducted her. Kamiyah was allowed to see Williams in jail after arrest and cried out 'Momma'. She has since defended Williams on Facebook saying 'my mother is no felon'.

Sue Barker's future as presenter has been thrown into doubt as the BBC reportedly approaches the final stages of awarding the contract for the quiz show to an independent production company.

It's been revealed that The Crystal Maze is making a comeback to Channel 4 after the success of the one-off special during the station's charity fundraiser Stand Up For Cancer in October.

Morrison's shopper is slammed by fellow customers for going shopping in her dressing gown

A shopper has been shamed for wearing her pajamas in Morrison's (pictured left and right) a week after two women sparked an etiquette debate when they were pictured wandering around a Tesco in dressing gowns. The photographer, who did not want to be named, branded the woman 'lazy' and 'dirty'. Last week Chris Cooke branded two traveller women (pictured inset) 'bloody disgusting' when he posted a picture of them walking down an aisle in a Salford Tesco in pink nightwear and slippers. Mr Cooke's post went viral and, while some agreed with his stance, others shamed him for 'taking photos of strangers minding their own business'.

An investigation by the Bank of International Settlements has blamed the freak crash of the pound on badly managed computer trading platforms and inexperienced Asian-based currency traders

British-based Professor Ted Malloch said if he is appointed as the US ambassador to the EU he will advise the billionaire businessman to offer the UK a 'game-changing' trade deal with America.

Costa Concordia wreckage torn apart for scrap 5 years after the cruise liner capsized

It is nearly five years to the day that the Italian cruise ship hit an underwater rock off the island of Giglio near Tuscany. Half a decade on the rusty metal vessel is being ripped apart in the port of Genoa. The haunting wreckage acts a sombre reminder of the tragedy in which 32 people were trapped aboard and drowned - the death-toll making it Italy's worst maritime disaster since the Second World War.

Woman has successfully Peterborough Council (file photo) for £35,000 after accusing them of failing to investigate claims she was raped by her foster father between the ages of six and nine.

Portsea Polo brings out celebrities and public in party antics

Beneath the star-studded surface of Victoria's glittering Portsea Polo was a rowdy underbelly, revellers in the outer using the occasion to wrestle and bare their assets. The hours of drinking took a heavy toll as racegoers turn away from the on-course to take tipsy selfies and show off their raunchy dance moves. All the while, Former Victoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik, socialite Rebecca Judd, and The Bachelorette's Georgia Love were emong the A-Listers leading the nearby 'grass carpet' arrivals.

A 47-year-old woman and 26-year old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was attacked and killed at his home in Gomersal, in West Yorkshire.

Despite splitting two decades ago the Duke and Duchess of York still send out joint Christmas cards- and this year's creation features a truly remarkable set of family 'selfies'.

Reddit user posts very offensive map of UK stereotypes

A Reddit user posted the cheeky graphic online and got hundreds of comments. Swapping place names for stereotypes, insults include calling the Welsh sheep-lovers, Liverpudlians thieves and labels everyone from Cornwall as 'inbred farmers'. Meanwhile the Republic of Ireland is simply known for Guinness.

Autumn Long, 20, was in the Greggs at the Gallagher Retail Park in Cheltenham with her 18-month-old son, Maddox Long-O'Regan, and bought a £1 bottle of orange flavoured juice.

Trump 'invited ex-Miss Hungary to his Moscow hotel room in 2013'

Kata Sarka (right), a 30-year-old Hungarian model, said that she was approached by Donald Trump and a phalanx of his bodyguards during a pageant after-party in the Russian capital in 2013. 'He grabbed my hand like this,' Sarka told a Hungarian-language program called Kasza Taxi. 'And he gave me his business card (inset) with his private number and told me in which hotel and which room he is staying in. And his name is Donald Trump.' Trump is seen on the left with Miss Universe Maria Gabriela Isler at the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013.

Christopher Steele (pictured is his London office) was first hired in June 2016 to dig into Trump by a political research firm FusionGPS, for a fee reported as being £130,000.

Trump's Cadillac One will make its public debut on Inauguration Day

President-elect Donald Trump 's Cadillac One limousine is set to make its debut on Inauguration Day. The new model's features bulletproof and sealed off to withstand chemical and biological attacks, which means only the driver will be able to roll down the window to pay tolls (pictured President Obama's current Cadillac One).

Wolverhampton nurse claims traders dug up her garden without permission then billed her

Tracey Jones (inset) said she was 'angry' after finding her front garden (main) at her home in Wolverhampton had been dug up without her permission. Ms Jones, 51, said a man knocked on her door last weekend and offered to resurface her front garden, but she rejected the offer. The nurse said she then came home from work the next day and discovered part of her lawn had been dug up and replaced with a muddy patch of land. She added that a bill for £2,500 (inset right) had been posted through her letterbox.

A yellow weather ice warning has been issued in the east and south east of England after towns were hit by flooding last night. Essex and Suffolk will be hit with snow, sleet, ice and wintry showers tonight.

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator has hinted at a deal for the City in a major climb down. Michel Barnier told a private meeting that there must be a 'special' relationship for financial services.

Court documents show Heard will keep the dogs - Pistol and Boo - who were at the centre of an infamous showdown with Australian officials in 2015 when the couple sneaked them into the country.

Prime Minister Theresa May has made a dramatic intervention into the hospital overcrowding crisis by telling GPs they must open up longer to take pressure away from Accident and Emergency units.

What became of all 34 former Blue Peter presenters

Since its launch in 1958, 37 different presenters have captivated millions of youngsters with their arts and crafts and feats of derring-do. But while some of the ever-bubbly presenters have gone on to forge successful TV careers after leaving the show, others have swapped the limelight for a quieter life off-camera. Now after Konnie Huq was crowned the nation's favourite ever Blue Peter presenter, FEMAIL finds out what happened to some of the other stars including (from left to right) Helen Skelton, Mark Curry, Konnie Huq, Tim Vincent and Zoe Salmon.

George Michael's boyfriend Fadi Fawaz was pictured close to the late singer's London home near Regent's Park, where it is believed he has been staying on and off, after a trip to buy coffee.

Russia model Yana Gudkova is suing real estate developer Brent Carrier, 55, claiming that he kicked her out of his Chelsea home when she stopped sleeping with him.

What's the weirdest security question you've ever been asked to provide an answer to? One website's very niche question was: 'Who was your favourite Wu-Tang Clan member?' (pictured).

Would you take on an exercise course so tough they have a paramedic on standby? One plucky writer was up to the challenge... and lived to regret it 

I'll admit, when I was asked to give Gymbox's Flatline challenge a go - I hadn't really looked into it. 'Run around a bit, pick up a few weights, it really can't be that bad', I confidently thought to be myself. How wrong I was, how very, very wrong. As soon as I nervously strolled through GymBox's arena of physical perfection in Farringdon, central London, I became aware that this was going to be no walk in the park - more a sprint through the park while being chased by a pack of hungry Rottweilers. This course, billed as the 'hardest and most dangerous gym class in the world', is designed to break you. And break me it did.

The film, Lost In London, will be shown in 500 cinemas across the United States next Friday, as the actor and his co-stars play out the action live across the city.

CCTV shows co-pilot Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem, leave his iPhone 6S and iPad mini next to bottles of perfume on top of the instrument panel in the cockpit of the Cairo-bound plane.

World's smallest self-proclaimed nation - an old WWII fort the size of two tennis courts -

EXCLUSIVE: Prince Michael of Sealand, (left) ruler of an abandoned WWII fort six miles off East Anglia,(bottom right) is planning to reclaim land from the North Sea to accommodate a larger population. Currently, only two people live on the platform, which was declared a sovereign state in 1967 by Prince Michael's father, Army officer Major Roy Bates. He crowned his life, Joan, princess.(top right)

RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague, 23, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24. His disappearance has confounded police and transfixed amateur sleuths.

Levi Felix, the man who advocated connecting by disconnecting from technology, died at the age of 32 on Wednesday. The Digital Detox founder left his job at a startup to live a simpler life.

Moment a furious wife kick boxes her husband's mistress in the head NINE times after discovering their affair

The woman launched the vicious attack on the timid girl at her home after discovering her partner had been having an affair with her in Bangkok, Thailand. She calmly doles out a series of powerful Muay Thai style kicks to her head. The shocking attack was caught on camera.

The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth - the clergyman at the centre of the row - described reaction to the recital as 'the most incredible pot of hatred I've ever encountered'.

The Tata Group is looking at merging its European steel operations, including Tata Steel UK, with German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp.

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Blogger told by doctors she will no longer receive chemo in heartbreaking post

In a short message on her Facebook page (pictured inset) Hannah Lyson, from Lancashire, revealed that she had received the 'worst news imaginable' when she told followers her disease was not responding to treatment. Miss Lyson (pictured left and right) was diagnosed with bowel cancer in May last year when she was just 19 years old. Doctors initially believed the teenager was suffering from irritable bowel syndrome when she complained of back ache and constipation. But tests revealed she had five tumours growing on her bowel and liver. After her devastating diagnoses Miss Lyson set up the blog Hannah's Bowel Cancer Journey chronicling her 'unwavering determination' to beat the disease.

Bradford mother hanged herself after her boob job surgery 'left her feeling ugly'

Company director Rebecca Hoare (pictured main and inset), from Bradford, had surgery on her breasts after a relationship broke down with a partner, who had allegedly made negative comments about her body. During two in-depth pre-surgery consultations, surgeon Olympia Hadden told Miss Hoare there should be a 60 per cent improvement, but added that there were risks and there were no guarantees, an inquest heard. She was not happy with the results. Miss Hoare was discovered hanged in July last year by her father who desperately tried to revive. She had left a 17-page handwritten note indicating her intentions beside her body.

Murderer Jamshid Piruz, 34, who was allowed into Britain unchecked from Holland, was given a life sentence yesterday for a hammer attack on two police officers outside a tool shed in West Sussex.

Goldman Sachs is set to spark a fresh bout of anger over fat-cat pay this week as it unveils bumper remuneration for its London bankers - fuelled by the collapse in the pound.

Uber driver 'brandishing a pole' comes to blows with his passenger as they fight in central London 

A shocking video shows a passenger lashing out at an Uber driver who retaliates by violently swinging a weapon at his customer during the fight in Clapham, London late on Friday night. The Uber driver, who appears to be wearing a Transport for London lanyard, told police he had been punched by his customer when they arrived just before 11:45pm. A passing taxi driver, known only as Mick, filmed the fight from his cab and posted the footage on Twitter where it has been liked and shared more than 350 times.

Carrie Fisher will not be digitally recreated in upcoming Star Wars movies, it was announced on Friday. The Disney studio promised to 'cherish and honor her memory and legacy'.

Ryanair passenger's friends launch Facebook search to track down her 'mystery man'

Vera Feddersen, pictured, was flying from London to Dublin, when she set eyes on a dreamboat in row 9D. Vera, originally from Berlin, couldn't pluck up the courage to ask for the man's number so her mates have launched a Facebook appeal to find the RyanAir passenger.

Tania Choudhury married extremist John Georgelas in Rochdale, in 2004. But after a decade of marriage she turned her back on him and extreme Islam - and embraced a new Western life.

The danger posed by our open borders was revealed this week when I hired a small plane to fly me across the English Channel to Britain's South Coast without undergoing proper identity or security checks.

Novelist is forced to quit Twitter... after she criticised Bake Off winner Nadiya's book 

After reading The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters - Hussain's 384-page novel about four Muslim sisters in an English village - writer Jenny Colgan (left) branded Nadiya Hussain (right) 'greedy'. Her review has been met with stern responses of its own - with the backlash seeming to have forced Colgan to leave social media.

Anatomy expert Mike Aunger is part of a campaign about how to properly train, fuel and use our muscles. Here he explains what muscles we use during day-to-day activities - including sex.

Nahella Ashraf, from Manchester, was attending a conference in Hammersmith. During dinner at a nearby fish and chip shop she was approached and attacked by the stranger.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl in a Manchester alleyway close to the Horseshoe Pub in the Levenshulme area of the city.

Michael Chandler, 53, attacked the young woman in a park in Harrow in 1986. Originally acquitted of the crime, a review of 30-year-old DNA proved his guilt. He pleaded guilty at London's Old Bailey.

Shocking moment a US snow plough driver is run off the road, falls 300 feet into a canyon and SURVIVES

Dashcam video released by the Utah Department of Transportation shows the moment a tractor-trailer clipped a state snowplow on a highway, causing the driver to lose control and go over the edge of the road and into the Spanish Fork Canyon. The driver, Terry Jacobson (pictured left), miraculously survived and is being treated in the hospital. His seat belt saved his life.

It is commendable of Earl Spencer to step up for the charity to commemorate Diana. But why is it that where his sister is concerned, I have a nagging feeling he is serving his own interests?

Blair Logan, 26, has been detained in connection with the death of his brother Cameron, who died when the family home in Milngavie, near Glasgow was set alight on New Year's Day.

Alexander Jeferson Delgado Herrera, 27, was two years into a 16-year sentence at the Piedras Gordas prison in Peru when he swapped places with his twin Giancarlo, pictured, during a visit.

Hopefully that's not loaded! Children get to play with weapons and heavy artillery as a

At military barracks across Thailand, children got to play with everything from small arms to tanks to mark Children's Day. No doubt to their disappointment, they were not allowed to actually fire the weapons. A group of children stood on an armoured personnel carrier(top left); while others took turns holding guns that were almost as big as they were.(top right; bottom, left and right)

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: ITV's new three-part drama on Moore, which started last night, chronicles how Stephanie began an affair with the former England captain five years before his marriage broke down.

This week, BEL MOONEY advises a woman whose eldest daughter has four children by two fathers who have had virtually no secondary education worth speaking of and no jobs.

Britain's most expensive houseboat goes on sale for £3.7m

Matrix Island a converted steel barge is now moored in St Katharine Docks, an upmarket yacht marina next to the Tower of London and is worth three times more than the average London property. Spread across two decks, the floating home boasts an open plan state-of-the-art kitchen, five large en-suite bedrooms, a jet-ski platform and upper deck for al fresco entertaining. With a dining room measuring 5,000 square feet and two reception areas built around a central atrium stairway, the vessel is a far cry from most houseboats dotted around the country's waterways.

Researchers say the 'big chill' had far more catastrophic effects than first thought, causing temperatures to plunge for three years even mixing oceans and killing off sea life.

Experts at the Antiques Roadshow could not place a value on some heirlooms left by Auschwitz victim Jane Haining who refused to abandon her pupils in their Hungarian school.

Alexandria Vera (pictured Friday) pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child and received the sentence Friday. The former Aldine teacher claimed the boy's parents accepted the relationship.

The Hubble telescope's best photos of galaxies, planets and stars

The Hubble Telescope's orbit outside the distortion of the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images of galaxies millions of light-years from Earth. It has been able to capture stunning photos of the birth of stars 16 million light-years away (top left), the red wisps of a dying sun, hot clumps of gas being ejected into space at more than 150,000 km per hour (top left), space dust (bottom left) and galaxies pulling each other apart (inset). For almost six years the best photo the famous telescope takes every week has been published online. Here are a selection of some of the most mesmerising photos of space ever taken.

Footage filmed in Russia shows the man, wearing jeans and a navy shirt, marching the woman out of his house and across a road. He then grabs her by the waist and throws her headfirst into the container.

The M606 southbound in Bradford will be closed until lunchtime today after 12 containers fell off the back of a lorry. A team from Highways England is currently working to clean up the huge spillage.

CCTV filmed from two angles at Phetchaburi railway station in southern Thailand shows a man in a green t-shirt jump onto the tracks seconds before a train pulls in.

Scientists in Ghent University in Belgium have discovered that we are more economical when using a squeezable container rather than a glass bottle or jar.

In this Jan. 12, 2017, photo, the Navya Arma autonomous vehicle drives down a street  in Las Vegas. The driverless electric shuttle has begun carrying passengers in a test program in a downtown Las Vegas entertainment district. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The oval-shaped shuttle that carries 12 people began a 10-day, free pilot program Tuesday along Fremont Street in the downtown entertainment district.

Royal Thai Air Force pilot Dilokrit Pattavee, 34, had been performing stunts at the air show in Hat Yai, southern Thailand, when his JAS 39 Gripen came down on Saturday.

Devon boy is only child in Britain with a debilitating disease which is baffling doctors

Brave Oliver Brown has rare bone marrow disorder Myelodysplastic Syndrome. The youngster, from Pymouth in Devon, will have a transplant while doctors race to learn more about the disease. There are just three other known cases of the syndrome in the UK.

James Bryant's relatives were threatened with legal action and then given just four weeks to find somewhere else for him to live after they refused to pay the huge bill from a home in Stevenage, Herts.

Please, will someone save me from the dry January bores? I'm fed up with their sanctimony whenever having an alcoholic drink is mentioned, writes DR MAX PEMBERTON.

Consumer group Which? quizzed almost 5,000 customers on their bank providers with not a single person giving a maximum score when it came to the topic of penalties and charges.

Xi Jinping will become the first Chinese president to attend the World Economic Forum when he gives a speech expected to extol Beijing's efforts to negotiate new types of regional trade deals shorn of US influence

Xi Jinping will become the first Chinese president to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where he is set to discuss globalisation as well as open markets and borders.

'Stereotypes are made to be broken!' Plus-size ballerina becomes online star after footage of the teen executing an elaborate turning sequence goes viral

Lizzy Howell, 15, from Milford, Delaware, shares plenty of photos and videos of herself dancing on her Instagram and Facebook pages, but footage of her nailing a series of fouetté turns has launched her into online stardom. Thousands of people have watched the mesmerizing clip, and many have hailed her a role model for women of all sizes because of her confidence and beauty.

The girls, aged 13 and 16, were taken to hospital in Tacna, southern Peru, in the early hours of Friday morning. Their family filmed the teenagers wailing as paramedics arrived to treat them.

The Paris prosecutor's office has opened a judicial inquiry into Renault's emissions controls practices to determine whether its cars were 'dangerous for human health'.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Gary Bolger, chief medical officer at AXA PPP healthcare - a UK-based insurance agency - reveals his top six tips to help you cut down on your alcohol intake this month.

The January sales can be a dispiriting business, but not if you're looking for a new home. According to experts, now is the time to start your property hunt and use the post-festive lull to bag a bargain.

The Boeing 747 had just taken off from Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport when a powerful bolt of lightning ripped down from the sky - striking the plane's carriage.

17th century building in the shadow of Windsor Castle collapses during building work 

Bricks rained down onto an Audi A3 (pictured bottom right) as the rear wall of the 17th century building where King Charles II's mistress Nell Gwyn lived collapsed. Firefighters were called to the building (pictured left and top right), which now houses the Nell Gwynn Chinese Restaurant, on Friday. Fire crew manager Lucas Webber, from Slough Fire Station, said the scene 'looked so dangerous'.

Against an unpredictable economic climate, UK holidaymakers will find the best-value breaks in Europe this year, according to a new report from Post Office Travel Money.

The accident took place on a motorway in Lerma, central Mexico. A group including journalists, police officers and other officials had gathered on the scene of an earlier crash on the same stretch.

More than 42,000 elderly Britons are in employment compared to 21,000 five years ago with many turning to the retail and service industries, while others have launched their own businesses.

US-based Mac Potts, 21, has been playing music professionally since he was 11 years old but he has never been able to see. Mac asked children to describe their experiences of different colors.

Korean anglers compete in annual ice fishing contest and celebrate their catch of the day

Tourists and locals have been flocking to a frozen river in Hwacheon, South Korea, to take part in an annual tradition which sees them try to catch as many trout as possible, sometimes with their bare hands. Part of the Mountain Trout Ice Festival, the three-week event - one of the most popular in the country - draws more than one million visitors every year.

 
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Harrowing pictures show man being gored by huge bull at Nepalese festival to mark the end

The huge beast was seen butting the man, who was helplessly cowering on the floor. It happened at the Maghesangranti Festival in Taraka, around 80kms from Kathmandu. The annual event is held in open ground in the Himalayan foothills to mark the end of winter, according to the Hindu calendar.

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Spinning around! Ingenious man creates a stunning ice carousel on a frozen lake using a chainsaw

Writer and energy expert Janne Kapylehto cut out the carousel using a chainsaw and axe in Lohja, Finland. He then used a solar-powered outboard motor to make the sheet of ice spin, with stunning effect. Once the carousel is completed, he and his friends are seen relaxing on top of the ice. They enjoy drinks at a set of table and chairs, while a log fire burns on top of the sheet of ice.

Google Maps doesn't just want to show you where you going, it wants to help you get there. Users can now search, browse, request and pay for an Uber rides directly from the Google Maps app.

'Hang on man!': Cat hilariously perches on owner's shoulder as the two speed down a snowy hill

A man captures the moment his cat, Weston, holds onto his shoulder for dear life as they launch down a snowy hill, believed to be in the United States, on a wild sled ride. The cat's bright eyes are wide open in fear as its owner tells it to hang on. The man films the ride on a handheld camera, plus an additional camera he's set up at the foot of the hill. As he launches the sled, he tells Weston to 'hang on, man' as he screams 'wooohoo' through the snow.

   

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