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Police in the western German city of Essen have ordered the Limbecker Platz shopping centre to remain closed on Saturday due to 'concrete indications about a possible attack'. 'The current state of our investigations points to the threat being exclusively at the shopping centre,' said the police in a statement. The mall is one of the biggest in Germany with more than 200 stores, serving around 60,000 visitors per day. Pictured, police at the scene of the incident.

Ozlem Essizhan, mother of the Scottish toddler Alistair Grimason killed in Turkey 14 years ago, says she is relieved her son's killer was killed after being released from prison so she never has to run into him. Alistair, above, was two-and-a-half when he was killed as he sat in his buggy at a café in the Aegean resort of Foca in 2003. His killer aimi Akyuz was shot dead on Saturday, six days after he was released from prison after serving less than half of his life sentence.

Nicholas Frankl, a London-born entrepreneur, who is set to star in TV show How'd You Get So Rich, hosts parties for the rich and famous aboard multi-million pound yachts (main). His whirlwind travel itinerary, will take in Los Angeles, Florida, Bermuda, Monaco, Cannes, St Tropez, San Francisco, Miami and St Barths this year, where he will throw dazzling monthly events attended by celebrities including the Prince of Monaco and Matt Le Blanc. The 45-year-old jet-setter (top right) has lifted the lid on his extraordinary lifestyle and how to follow in his footsteps. Pictured (bottom right), from left to right, Prince Albert II, model Petra Nemcova, Mr Frankl and Princess Charlene.

Location is key when it comes to making your money go further in the UK's housing market. Across the country, the average home is going up for sale for £299,764, price data from Zoopla has revealed. In areas like the South East and London, you'll be lucky to bag a one bedroom flat or studio for £300,000, while in Scotland or the North East, the same amount stretches to a four-bedroom home.

Taylor Swift stalker Mohammed Jaffar, who was arrested on Monday, had aired out his fixation on the pop star in tweets unearthed by TMZ . An unhinged tweet from February 12th insisted: 'I need to meet you tonight @taylorswift13, / To do in words written / What John Cusak's [sic] character did in music.' In a February 7th tweet, he'd written: 'Something a gatekeeper (a guy dressed up as a security guard in your lobby today) prevented us from sharing @taylorswift13' above a photo of several candy hearts, one of which read: 'HOT NOW.'

Dead men and women were walking the streets of central Manchester this week. Some of them, their faces wan and eyes open, but filled with a terrible vacancy, stumble forward with arms out-stretched. Others stand stock-still like shop mannequins, seemingly unconscious but upright, or slumped forward, as commuters scurry past with their heads down. These are the victims of Spice, a generic term for various mixtures of herbs and potent chemicals which, until last May, was openly on sale in Britain as a so-called 'legal high'. Now, a powerful strain has emerged that produces a terrifying zombie-like effect in those who smoke it. It is estimated that up to 95 per cent of the young homeless in Manchester are using it, many of them hopelessly addicted.

Millionaire David Gill is the owner of South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, which this week was ordered to close following one of the most shocking animal welfare scandals of recent years. The zoo, which attracts 250,000 visitors a year, was issued with a closure order after an inspection found 486 animals died there between December 2013 and September 2016. Barrow Council lambasted its 'deplorable' standards of welfare and lack of veterinary care. Gill's wife, Frieda Rivera-Schreiber, 43, a former Peruvian beauty queen who retrained as a vet, was on the team responsible for providing that veterinary care.

All the focus may have been on the well-groomed thoroughbreds at Crufts this week, but tonight all the action will be at the Scruffts Family Crossbreed Dog of the Year final. Six mixed breed dogs and their very proud owners have gathered from around the country to compete at the prestigious Crufts dog show in Birmingham to see who will win the coveted Scruffts crown. (Clockwise from top left: King Tommy and owner Monique, Ginny with her owner Judy, Wendy with her Collie cross Fleur, Bonnie with her owner Grace, Joshua and three-year-old Biscuit and Sarah with her Terrier cross Vinny)

The property, 1b Ennismore Gardens Mews (left), in Kensington, London, has a 65ft frontage but is only 2.5 ft deep at one end (right). It is expected to sell for more than £800,000 at auction due to its vicinity near Royal Albert Hall, Harrods and Hyde Park. The unusual house was owned by Linda Wildoner (inset with Sir Martyn Poliakoff) for around 60 years. She died seven years ago and the house has been unoccupied ever since.

EXCLUSIVE: Ellen Kelly, of University Heights, Ohio, says her son Robert, a professor of political science in South Korea, was 'embarrassed' at the fame he gained from his children bursting in on a serious BBC interview. Mrs Kelly, 72, told DailyMail.com that she and her husband, Joseph, regularly Skype with their son, his wife Jung-a Kim and the children - Marion, four and James, nine months - from their home. 'The kids probably heard voices coming from the computer and assumed it was us,' she said laughing. 'It was just hilarious.'

NEW A dominatrix who runs a luxury sex service is the latest self-employed business owner to slam the Chancellor for his painful tax hike. Margaret Corvid charges between £200 to £300 an hour and runs her business from her home in an upmarket area in Plymouth. But the professional sex worker, who has been selling whipping sessions for four years, said she fears she - and her self-employed customers - will be badly hit.

The Earl of Onslow has slammed the National Trust's plan to rebuild his ancestral home, which burnt down in a fire two years ago.The National Trust has said it will rebuild Clandon Park house, the 18th-century Palladian-style mansion in Surrey, with plans to create cafés and a giftshop on the site. Rupert Onslow, the 8th Earl of Onslow, said the trust should be honouring its remit to 'preserve and protect' and questioned whether the organisation should be spending £30 million to rebuild the house from scratch.

Dashcam footage from a shocking officer-involved shooting in Alabama has emerged almost exactly three years after the incident. Airman Michael Davidson was shot by a Opelika police officer Phillip Hancock after he responded to a report of erratic driving on Highway 85 the evening of March 6, 2014. As Davidson struggled to get out of his vehicle the officer yelled for him to show his hands - and when he did, the officer mistook his wallet for a weapon.

Miami Beach Police are taking a stand against hundreds of rowdy college students who flock to South Beach for Spring Break and trash the sandy shores with litter from their epic partying. Wild youths, clad in thong bikinis and often with a drink in hand, were dancing on each other when they were wrangled by weary officials for a mass migration to Ocean Drive, removing hundreds of students from the beach so crews could start cleaning up piles of litter left behind. Police have beefed up its staff, hiring extra officers and rolled out a new list of harsh rules for the revelers. Despite the restrictions, Miami Beach Police are facing off against the disorderly and rambunctious students, deploying beach ATV cruisers to manage the crowds and have made 35 arrests within the first week of the Spring Break chaos as of Friday.

A shocking video shows the unknown man (pictured) creeping slowly closer to the vagrant, who was sitting outside London's Tottenham Court Road station at around 9pm on Wednesday. Horrified bystanders said the spooked homeless man tried to run away, screaming 'Get him away from me!' - which only encouraged his nude tormenter to chase him.

NEW Mastication, pusillanimous, futtock - all words that sound rude but have bland meanings. Popular YouTube teacher Lucy tested her friend Alistair's knowledge in a fun game of word porn. Armed with a list of ten words that sound sexual, Alistair tried his best to come up with the right definition to the words. Kicking off the game with the word Futtock, Alistair was stumped from the get go offering speculative guesses like a fat buttock,  or a farming tool. But he was way off as a futtock actually refers to the curved middle wooden frames of a ship's hull

Paul Humphrey (left with his mother Linda), 37, has been told he cannot return to be with his family because their Grimsby house (right) is too small to accommodate the extra large hospital bed he would need. Mr Humphrey was admitted to hospital last August, weighing more than 45st 9lb (290kg) - he now weighs about 42st (266kg). He had suffered an infection in his leg and following a biopsy doctors also diagnosed penile cancer.

Hye-Min Park (left), one of South Korea's most prominent beauty gurus, used more than 10 products - none of which came from the star's own beauty line - to morph into Kylie Jenner (right). The vlogger showcased her transformation in a tutorial shared on her YouTube channel, which has more than two million subscribers. At the beginning of her video, a bare-faced Hye-Min (inset) can be seen laying the basis of her transformation with touches of foundation and eye shadow. She then moves on to more drastic work on her eyebrows and changes her facial features with some contouring. At one key point, she uses no less than six different products to give herself Kylie's trademark pout.

Home automation company Nest released a series of 15 winning clips for the 2017 Nestie Awards. The footage shows hilarious moments most homeowners miss when they're not around. The 'best breakthrough performance' Nestie was given to a clip in which a father's foot accidentally breaks through the ceiling while his children are napping in the couch below. (Pictured left) The funny video shows one of the children waking up to the startling sound as she looks up bewildered.

Actor David Tennant revealed this week that, at 6ft 1in, fans are often amazed by how tall he is in real life. So which stars are big on talent but small of stature? Hollywood's biggest stars sometimes come in small packages, while others tower above the rest. Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe is known for his short stature, and standing at 5ft 4½in, he's near the bottom of the height ladder along with Tom Hollander. Martin Freeman inches just past him at 5ft 6½in. Standing in the middle of the ranks are the likes of Sir Ian McKellen and Hugh Grant at 5ft 11in. Rounding out the top of the chart are Idris Elba, at 6ft 2in, John Cleese, at 6ft 5in, and Greg Davies, at a height of 6ft 8in.

Aimee Gardiner had lived with her aunt and uncle, Carrie and Chris Stevens, in Gravesend in Kent for almost 13 years before the disagreement with a newly-appointed woman social worker. With her new foster family, Aimee said, she was abused and assaulted, and left so hungry that she was driven to eat cat food. The legal abduction of the teenager has now been condemned by an official inquiry which found that social workers took her from a safe and loving home without good reason, and sent her to a new family where she was exposed to genuine harm.

Pop star Louis Tomlinson told police 'I may have taken him down' when asked if he had tripped a paparazzi photographer during an altercation at LAX last Friday, DailyMail.com reveals. The One Direction star was arrested on suspicion of battery over allegations that he attacked photographer Karl Larsen and Ana Becerra Herrera, a passenger at the LAX terminal, during a brawl which also involved his girlfriend, Eleanor Calder. The Los Angeles Police report (inset), obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, reveals how police found that Tomlinson had scuffed knuckles after the incident - and that the photographer claimed he was knocked unconscious before Tomlinson threw Herrera over his shoulder after grabbing her in a 'bear hug,' according to a witness.

June Kenton (left) is the UK's leading 'boobologist' and in July 1982, became the official corsetiere to the Queen, performing her 'intimate services' in Buckingham Palace. She left school at 16 to train to be a corset fitter and started selling clothes in Brixton Market, 'doing a roaring trade in candlewick dressing-gowns' at 19s 11d (99p). Another market stall followed, then she opened a shop in Croydon, South London, which specialised in lingerie and swimwear and offered women proper fittings. In 1982, she had a phone call that changed everything. Tessa Seidon, who owned the last made-to-measure corsetry company in Britain, wanted to know if June were interested in taking it over. Rigby & Peller had been going since the Thirties, but it was struggling. The only selling point, in fact, was that the business had a Royal Warrant and had been providing corsetry to the Queen for 22 years. This set June on a journey where she would get to know the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret - and even become good friends with Princess Diana (right).

Hilarious footage captures the moment a chocolate Labrador in Massachusetts can't stop breaking wind. Owner Billy Howard uploaded the clip onto Facebook where it's been viewed 3.2m times. Owner Billy can be heard laughing in the background as the aged dog lets his pumps go freely. Impressively, the farts move through a range of octaves with deeper, bassier farts interspersed with higher pitched squeakier farts.

Nine-month-old Reagan Caldwell got his glasses just after his father Brandon was deployed to Antarctica with the U.S. Air Force for two months. The boy's mother Amanda filmed their emotional reunion at their home in upstate New York last week. Brandon, still dressed in his Air Force uniform, was filmed singing Reagan a song as he held him close. The little boy grinned and stared adoringly at his father through his adorable blue glasses. Halfway through the song, Reagan rested his head against his father's chest as he hugged him. The moment brought tears to the Air Force Captain's eyes.

Footage showed the enraged mammal wreaking a path of destruction in Kanjicude village in Kerala, India, after wandering in from the wild. Villagers said the elephant had left the Walayar Forest in desperate search for water, taking out anything in its path. The video, which was shot from the home of a local resident, shows the battered motorcyclist escaping the elephant on foot deserting his bike.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted on March 10, 1997 and ran for seven seasons until 2003. It led to the spin-off show Angel, which ran for five seasons. FEMAIL explores what Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy), Alyson Hannigan (Willow), Nicholas Brendon (Xander), and David Boreanaz (Angel) have done since the show ended. Anthony Head (Giles), James Marsters (Spike), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia), Seth Green (Oz),Eliza Dushku (Faith), Emma Caulfield (Anya), Amber Benson (Tara), and more are also looked at.