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This is the heart-rending moment a Chinese prisoner who had been given a death sentence bid a final farewell to his young daughter. The little girl was apparently too young to understand the significance of the meeting. She happily waved to her crying father and said 'bye bye dad' - without realising what the separation would mean to the rest of her life.

Santino, 10, Noah, eight, and Bella, six, are the children of Yin Wong, (inset) a 33-year-old Sacramento woman who was killed earlier this month in Auburn, California. Wong had gone walking barefoot in the middle of the night at the American River Canyon near Auburn. Police say she died of exposure but by the time she was found, a mountain lion had eaten some of their remains. When she died, the children were still mourning the loss of their grandmother, Mayra Zamora, who died suddenly in February aged 55. In May, Mayra's long-term partner Lorenzo, who looked after the children and was their grandfather figure, was deported to Mexico.

Rosie O'Donnell sent out a flurry of tweets late Tuesday night - offering Republican senators $2million in cash in exchange for a 'no' vote on Trump's tax reform bill.  'So how about this, I promise to give 2 million dollars to senator susan collins and 2 million to senator jeff flake if they vote NO' the comedian desperately wrote on Twitter.  'NO I WILL NOT KILL AMERICANS FOR THE SUOER [super] RICH,' she wrote, telling the lawmakers to send her a direct message on Twitter if they were interested in negotiating.  'No s*** 2 million cash each.' The bribery didn't work, though, as Senate Republicans managed to push through the new tax bill by a narrow and last minute margin of 51-48. It's also illegal to offer money to a politician to influence acts such as voting on a bill -but O'Donnell may not know that.

A standard selling point for the GOP's tax overhaul plan is that middle class Americans will get a big tax cut and see their wages go up because of a slash on the rate paid by corporations. Republicans are doubling the standard deduction and the child tax credit, lowering tax rates across the board until 2025 and giving businesses a permanent break to spur job creation. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Sunday on CNN that a two-parent family with two children making $75,000 would keep $2,000 more a year and a family of four with a combined salary of $150,000 would get twice that. 'It's going to be one of the great Christmas gifts to middle-income people,' President Donald Trump on Saturday said. An estimated 13 million Americans are projected to lose health insurance. Commuters will no longer receive a perk that has saved them money. The passing of the bill sparked protests in New York (left) on Tuesday.

The spectacularly different individuals - including an enormous baby from India weighing 38lbs (left) - were all featured in a series of truly unique people. Among the other fascinating folk featured in the collection are Martina Big (inset), a German glamour model who shocked her fans with a new tan that turned her skin dark brown. and Sara Geurts (right), 26, who is determined to carve out a successful modelling career despite battling with Dermatosparaxis Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) - a genetic condition which causes excessively saggy skin.

NEW Ann Pachett, an author and bookstore owner from Nashville, Tennessee, gave up shopping after she felt it was 'numbing' and a 'distraction'. Pachett gave herself some rules to follow: She was forbidden from buying clothes, but she could purchase flowers, plane tickets, and books, as well as go to restaurants. She revealed that the experiment freed up lots of time and made her realize she could use her time better to help those less fortunate.

The unidentified fishing vessel, which is marked with Japanese lettering (inset left), was found within the Arcadia Beach State Recreation Site in Oregon (pictured centre). And inside was a valuable cargo - the ship was overrun with gooseneck barnacles (inset right), a delicacy that can cost diners £90 a plate. Photos from the wreckage show masses of the barnacles clinging to the overturned hull, as well as seagulls feasting on them. Experts say that, after the tsunami, the vessel was most likely trapped by the Kuroshio Current which runs along Japan's east coast. Professor David Tappin of the British Geological Survey - who was one of the first foreigners to assess the damage to Japan back in 2011 - said the ship probably landed on Hawaii first and later hit the US West Coast.

Bride-to-be Meghan, 36, revealed a polished new look as she arrived at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's annual Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace with Prince Harry (left). Her heavy make-up and straighter, glossier hair was in stark contrast to her more natural look in her engagement portrait just a few weeks ago (top inset). She also opted for a dress from Self Portrait (bottom inset), a brand loved by the Duchess of Cambridge (right).

The senior White House adviser, 36, was seen heading out of her house in Washington, D.C. wearing a gray plaid coat. She paired the garment, which had large, white buttons and plaid shoulder flaps, with black pants tucked into leather boots. The boots, with a thick high heel, featured laces going up the bottom half of the shoes. With her plaid coat, the former model returned to a pattern she has often favored, and has worn on tops, dresses and skirts over the past few months. She kept her eyes trained in front of her for most of the short walk between her house in the upscale neighborhood of Kalorama to the parked Secret Service vehicle waiting for her at the end of her driveway.

E! News' Catt Sadler is leaving the station after a decade at the popular network due to a significant pay disparity between her and her co-host Jason Kennedy (both pictured right). The 43-year-old news anchor confirmed she was leaving in a tweet that read, 'It's true. Today will be my last day on #DailyPop and @enews. I hope you'll tune in so I can thank you for the memories. I love you guys SO much it hurts.' The TV personality also revealed in a statement on her website that she was leaving the network due to a 'massive disparity in pay' between her and Kennedy.

Wyatt Koch (right), son of industrialist Bill Koch (inset), the forgotten Koch brother of Charles and David, is demanding that Ivie Gabrielle Slocumb (pictured with him left) return the 8.24-carat diamond ring after she called off their engagement in May. According to court documents, Koch bought the ring is an Oscar Heyman cushion cut diamond with two tapered baguette diamonds for $180,000 in March. His lawyers now argue the jewelry is worth $250,000, while Koch is also demanding $15,000 in damages. 

The teenager accused of stabbing his two classmates, one fatally, said the attacks came after years of bullying about his sexuality and a suicide attempt the day before.   Abel Cedano told ABC New York that he initially tried to walk away on September 27 when his classmates wouldn't stop bullying him.   'I was near the entrance to the classroom,' he told the outlet. 'And they continued to throw stuff. The class was very rowdy and loudness and everything. I just snapped. I started screaming and screaming.' The 18-year-old was released on a bail of $250,000 in November and was charged with manslaughter. He has been accused of stabbing Matthew McCree (top right), 15, and Ariane Laboy (bottom right), 16, during the school day at Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx.

Social media users have shared the hilarious signs, tweets, and dating profiles that show the pure bluntness people use every day. Stores across the United States appear to have said they're hiring 'losers', announced they're selling 'ugly' merchandise, and only having a sale because 'business sucks'. When it comes to dating profiles and relationships, one woman told her boyfriend she was 'pooping' when he asked what she was doing, while another said she was 'much fatter in person' in her dating profile.

A new online gallery has revealed the hilarious and very unfortunate snaps shared by couples online.Many sweet snaps took a turn after being photobombed by outside elements. Elsewhere over amorous partners make for a cringeworthy portrait that may just put you off your breakfast, with one shot seeing a woman lick her boyfriend's face.

Alexis Manigo (left and right with her biological father, Craig Aiken, and biological mother, Shanara Mobley), from Walterboro, South Carolina, was kidnapped from a Florida hospital as a newborn (inset right) and was listed as a missing person from 1998 until January of this year. The girl's real name was Kamiyah Mobley, and her biological parents had been searching for her for years. Manigo still can't visit Gloria Williams (inset left), the woman who abducted her and raised her into adulthood, in jail because she doesn't have ID - but the pair still talk every few days by phone. Since Williams's arrest, Manigo has grown close with her biological parents, who have separated since her birth, and her 'superhero' stepmother.

Giphy has released its round-up of the most popular GIFs of the year, and though some are no-brainers, others may come as a surprise. The website announced that 300 million people share over two billion of the moving image files every day, but not all GIFs are created equal. Some seem to tap into universal truths better than others, making them go-tos to express particular emotions. Others are just cute.  But one thing that every GIF in the top 25 have in common? Each was shared at least 32 million times this year.

Dressed in a red short-sleeved jumper and sporting long and sleek black hair, Amal Alamuddin shows off the elegance and class that made her the perfect school scholar - and future wife of Hollywood's former most eligible bachelor, George Clooney.The successful human rights lawyer, 37, stands out in the first ever pictures from her school days at Dr. Challoner's High School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. The photo was taken in 1996, when Amal was 17 and about to take a place at Oxford University, studying Law.

The husband had gone outside to investigate a noise allowing the gunman to slip inside the home in the Florida area of Johannesburg, South Africa. Once indoors, the robber then shot at the mother and child at least three times as they tried to flee into another room. The husband, alerted by the gunshots, ran back into the house before being shot in the head by the gunman who had The husband had gone outside to investigate a noise allowing the gunman (top left) to slip inside the home in the Florida area of Johannesburg, South Africa. Once indoors, the robber then shot at the mother and child (main) at least three times as they tried to flee into another room. The husband (top right), alerted by the gunshots, ran back into the house before being shot in the head by the gunman who had been trying to wrench a TV off the wall. With the husband in a position of surrender, the gunman unlocked the front door and let in his accomplice who attacked the homeowner with a hammer. They then fled with the television (bottom right).been trying to wrench a TV off the wall.

A Chinese street food chef has made it look effortless to cook noodles from scratch in a mesmerising video which shows him rolling out the dough, before folding it and then chopping it into long, thin strands. The clip has been watched more than 5 million times this year.

Heiresses, entrepreneurs and offspring of the rich and famous from around the world have taken to Instagram to share snaps of their extravagant holidays. The jaw-dropping images capture exquisitely decorated homes (top left and bottom centre), high-end shops (top right) and beautifully wrapped presents (bottom left, top centre) stacked beneath twinkling trees (top centre).

The film follows members of a US replacement battalion as they visit a newly formed orphanage based in Saigon, Vietnam, which had been opened just two months earlier. The orphanage housed children up to the age of three-and-a-half, many of whose parents would have been killed by the battalion's colleagues during the conflict. Not only did the troops visit the orphanage at Christmas, but the men of the US Army were also voluntarily sponsoring and financing the orphanage out of their own pay packets. Footage shows one servicemenber dressing up as Santa Clause to visit the orphanage and

NEW Female Ironman champion, Daniela Ryf, 30 from Switzerland, has revealed what she eats in a day and surprisingly is a fan of sugar, caffeine and carbs. She shared what she typically eats on a Sunday when she's training, and explained that she doesn't shy away from certain food groups, chowing down on pasta for lunch and American cheesecake in the evenings when she wants a treat. The athlete did however say that she also completes three one-hour runs on a typical Sunday, and so uses her meals as fuel for her busy training schedule.

Pictures show Isabelle Lovelie Duterte (right), 17, the daughter of the Philippines President's first son Paulo, posing in a sparkling red ballgown (left) at the presidential palace in the capital, Manila. But the opulence of the event has sparked anger online amid claims it mirrored the activities of the wife of the late President Ferdinand Marcos. Imelda Marcos (inset) was known for amassing a vast collection of shoes. The photo session, which involved a host of make-up artists and stylists, was part of her 'debut' party ahead of her 18th birthday and the dress is said to have been made by top designers including Garimon Roferos Couture, based in Dubai.

John and James, whose surname is unknown, were fused together at the upper part of their abdomen (left) before Indian doctors gave them a new lease of life. The pair made the 4,600-mile (7,500km) journey to a specialist hospital in Bangalore for the marathon operation that involved 22 specialists. Medics now claim the twins are ready to live 'independent lives' (right, with their unnamed parents) - despite spending the first six months of life attached to each other. The infants, who already defied medical expectations by surviving for so long, were classed as omphalopagus twins due to where they were attached.

Hybrid estate agent eMoov.co.uk has analysed how much the homes featured in Christmas classics would now cost compared with the year the films were released. Top left to right: The Chicago mansion in Home Alone and the LA penthouse in Die Hard. Bottom left to right: The Surrey cottage in The Holiday and Bridget Jones' flat in Borough Market.

While many of us shy away from creepy crawlies, one 22-year-old woman has bravely captured a huge funnel web spider (left) on camera. The terrifying footage shows a fierce looking arachnid with little bugs crawling over its body (right), just metres away from one of Nicole Wedlock's bedrooms. Placing a Tupperware container over the funnel web spider, Ms Wedlock told Daily Mail Australia she shared the video of the spider to a Facebook group to see if anyone knew what the little bugs were. 'When I was filming it I was concerned that it might climb out of the Tupperware container and either run away or climb over me,' she said. However, many people wondered how she managed to film the terrifying critter as they were unable to even watch the video (inset).

Stratolaunch used the aircraft's six Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines (bottom) to conduct a low speed taxi test (top right) at the company's facility at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Stratolaunch successfully travelled down the runway at 25 knots (28 miles per hour/45km/h). Once low-speed taxi tests have been safely completed, the company will begin the next phase of taxi testing, which will include increased speeds. Once testing has been completed, the aircraft (top left) will be used to launch satellites and other objects into space. This could include a Dream Chaser spaceship, which could act as a mini-shuttle to reach low Earth orbit destinations and return astronauts or payloads to a runway within 24 hours.

The Byzantine-era building, uncovered in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, may have once served as a meeting ground for ancient pilgrims, scientists said. Experts say the mosaic floor (right image), which is decorated with birds, leaves, and pomegranates, is incredibly well preserved for its age. Excavations conducted by a team from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered the remains of walls built using large worked stone masonry. A number of well-preserved architectural elements were found, including a marble pillar base (left image) decorated with crosses, and marble window screens. The marble artefacts were mined from a region in what is now Turkey and carried further inland by wagon, experts said.

A photographer in Kelly, Wyoming was in for a surprise when she stumbled across a bizarre wall of snow that appeared to be moving towards her. The phenomenon, which is described as a 'ghost snow tsunami', was created as a rare light and wind alignment caused a mesmerising mirage to form on the horizon. The stunning display lasted for several minutes before the wave dissipated as the winds changed direction.

Shocking footage shows a man jump across a train station platform narrowly avoiding an oncoming train by a split second. The video is believed to have been taken at Stratford station in East London. Social media users have branded the man an 'idiot' for risking his life for internet fame.

This is the moment a drunk Indian truck driver is nearly crushed by his out-of-control HGV as it spins round in circles on a busy motorway in Tamil Nadu - with no one at the wheel. The man ends up falling in a crumpled heap just inches from the lethal wheels as he desperately tries to bring it to a halt. The runaway vehicle eventually nose-dives into a ditch by the side of the road, bringing the commotion to an end.

A group of tourists were left stunned when three majestic polar bears wandered up to them through the snow. The beautiful moment at sunrise was captured on video as the curious bears over - a mother and her two cubs - were spotted sauntering across the wilderness of the Canadian Arctic. An electric fence had been erected in order to ensure the safety of the explorers from the great white bears.