A much-loved cleaner at Bristol University was brought to tears when students crowdfunded £1,500 to send him to Jamaica on holiday. Herman Gordon, who is adored by students for his positive attitude and happy-go-lucky approach to life, broke down in tears after generous undergrads handed over the cash gift. The money was raised via a JustGiving page to fund a week's trip for Mr Gordon and his wife to visit family in the Caribbean - with more than 230 students donating.

Victoria Beckham, 44, pulled out all the fashion stops as she arrived to The Argento Ball in Windsor for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on Wednesday evening in a sleek black gown. The singer-turned-designer was on hand to support and celebrate 25 years of her pal's charity with Ed Sheeran, Liz Hurley, Nicole Scherzinger and her son Brooklyn.

England fans could not hide their glee today as rivals Germany crashed out of the World Cup in the group stage. The Germans had to beat Korea in their final group match and hope Sweden could not get a result against Mexico. But despite peppering the Korean goals with shots, the German failed to score a winner and so will be heading home from Russia earlier than expected. The result sparked joy in England, who have so often been knocked out of big competitions by Germany in the past, most memorably at Italia 90 and in Euro 96.

Mesut Ozil clashed with furious Germany fans as he walked off the pitch after being dumped out of the World Cup following his team's defeat by South Korea. A group of supporters, positioned near the tunnel, directed their rage in the midfielder's direction and he reacted in kind. One of the Germany staff then pulled Ozil away to avoid the ugly scenes deteriorating further. 

The Love Island villa is set to be shaken to its core later this week as an eye-popping 12 bombshells are set to enter the show in an explosive shake up that will no doubt cause ructions in the house.  A host of incredibly good looking singles are heading into the show to shake things up with stunners from all walks of life coming in - including a footballer, make-up artist, eyebrow technician and socialite.  Each of the newbies will be searching for love  

David Clark, 49, is facing life in jail after being found guilty of killing his wife Melanie, 44 (pictured together right) during an argument about her tryst with Katie Bastians, 31 (pictured in her underwear left) a close friend's daughter. Clark murdered his wife after she repeatedly humiliated him about the size of his penis and taunted him about her encounter with the lesbian journalist, jurors were told. The court heard the former military medic stabbed his South-African born wife in the chest with a cook's knife at their home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (pictured and then dialled 999, confessing: 'I've killed my wife. She did my head in.' He was today found guilty of murder at Birmingham Crown Court.

Britain has recorded its hottest day of the year for the third consecutive day as temperatures close in on 90F (32C), causing a bridge to swell and railway lines to buckle. The day began with a glorious sunrise in Derbyshire (main picture). Gritters and emergency 'action teams' (bottom centre) have hit the streets of the country to stop motorways and main roads from melting away in the burning heat. It comes as the temperature record for the year was smashed this afternoon, with 89F (31.9C) registered in Portmadog in Wales. The sweltering conditions took its toll on sunbathers in Weston-super-Mare, top inset, and caused Barton Swing Bridge in Salford, Lancashire to expand, forcing firemen to douse the expanded metal frame in cold water for half an hour to get it to return to normal. The blistering heat was even blamed for turning tap water into a strange milky colour (bottom right) in some parts of north Wales. Elsewhere roads have melted (bottom left) and temperatures continue to soar.

The RAF and the British Army have been called in to help firefighters battle 20ft flames on Saddleworth Moor as the blaze rages on for the fifth day amid a blazing heatwave in the UK. The smoke engulfing homes has been described as dangerous with health officials forcing families to wear dust masks and to stay indoors. The inferno has raged across four miles of the Pennines beauty spot near Greater Manchester, decimating the moorlands in its wake.

Johnny Depp's teen son Jack (left, pictured in 2017) is dealing with 'serious' health issues. His mother Vanessa Paradis (inset, picture on Monday) missed her latest film premiere on Tuesday to be by his side, French publication Public reported. The 45-year-old was supposed to attend the Paris screening of A Knife In The Heart, until the film's director Yann Gonzalez broke the bad news. Meanwhile his father Johnny Depp, 55, was pictured on Wednesday (right) out and about in Munich.

A hilarious video shows a woman seemingly left baffled by her boyfriend's riddle - even after the answer is explained to her. David Martin filmed Michelle Potter completely losing the plot last week when he challenged her to work out the puzzle at home in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. Gallant David then posted the clip to social media - and is now braced for reprisals.

Prince William (left) enjoyed a breathtaking view of the Old City of Jerusalem this morning from the iconic Mount of Olives. Dressed in a cool beige linen suit, tie and sunglasses, the second in line to the throne spent 20 minutes standing on a viewing point looking out over the sun-bathed city, marvelling at the view. Landmarks such as the Western Wall, Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were pointed out with the help of Tareq (right), a guide from the British Embassy. He said earlier that he would talk the prince through the major Biblical landmarks of the area and of events that have taken place on the Mount of Olives itself, including the last week of Jesus' life. The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem's old city with stunning views of many of its ancient landmarks.

She split from husband Ant McPartlin at the beginning of the year, with his new romance with his former PA coming to light recently. And Lisa Armstrong was spotted taking a stroll in the Los Angeles sunshine on Monday with a mystery man, after a hike in the Hollywood Hills. The makeup artist was wearing sports clothes as she smoked a cigarette, opting for black shorts and a grey tee.

These British women are all over 40 and say that they now wear bikinis more often than they did back in their 20s. The women say they are more confident about their bodies than ever before. From left to right, the women are: Faith Halliday, Pauline Swain, Sara Wells, Sue Wilkinson, Nicola Huelin and Sarah Hunter.

Heavily-tattooed Sydney-based gym junkie Yakiboy frequently posts images of fast cars, hard workouts and bare-naked selfies to his 62,000 Instagram followers. But recent photos reveal the true extent of Yakiboy's day-to-day decadence - including $180,000 luxury sedans, Versace bed sheets and a lamp fashioned from a gold-plated Beretta handgun worth more than $1800 AUD. Among those, the social media star constantly inundates his followers with flexing gym shots and naked selfies - using little more than a pizza emoji to cover himself - that show the full extent of his elaborate body art.

A mother who claims her five-year-old was abducted from a hotel kids' club is suing the travel agent Thomas Cook. Janet Alexander claims her daughter Rose was taken by a stranger during a family holiday to Turkey (pictured, left, Janet with Rosie, centre, and sister Lois). The senior charge nurse from Inverness says her youngest daughter (pictured, right, on holiday) was taken while at a supervised kids club at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya.

Mario Guthrie, 29, climbed into the notoriously dangerous water at Broderick Park in Buffalo with the intention of collecting a large piece of wood. When he began to struggle, 46-year-old Scott Vader dove in to help him. Vader, however, was ultimately drowned along with the man he tried rescue when he failed keep both himself and Guthrie - who was desperately holding onto him - afloat. Captain Jeff Rinaldo, from Buffalo Police Department, said even experienced swimmers should not jump in the water, recalling the death less than a year ago of police diver Craig Lehner. Lehner drowned in the same place during a training exercise. He said: 'There's different currents that flow especially when you get into eddy currents that will pull you towards the wall and then suck you out into the river as well as pull you down, it's not safe under any type of circumstance.'

Family, friends and fans chanted his lyrics and made 'X' signs at the Florida arena, Wednesday, as people lined up for hours to file past a casket where XXXTentacion (inset) was laid out in a denim jacket and two braids splayed over the side. As mourners paid tribute to the rapper, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, the sheriff's department announced they would like to speak to a second person of interest, 22-year-old Robert Allen in connection with murder. Family members and friends in a roped-off area wore black t shirts that said 'Bad' on front and 'No more pain' on the back. His mother Cleopatra Bernard (bottom right) was seen hugging a friend for support outside the arena before she went in. Celebrity guests were also rumored to attend. Outside the arena, emotional fans, who had been in line from 7am, in the sweltering 100 degrees F, broke down in tears and hugged each other for support (left and top right). Others sang along to XXXTentacion songs and shared how they had been moved by his lyrics.

As patriarch of the biggest family in showbusiness, Joe Jackson made no apologies for ruling his many children with a rod of iron, later pointing to their immense success. 'I don't regret it,' he told Oprah Winfrey in 2010 of the merciless beatings he would hand out with a leather strap and a switch to his son, Michael, and his eight siblings. 'It kept them out of jail and kept them right.' A few years later, he sounded even more defiant, telling an interviewer: 'I'm glad I was tough because look what I came out with,' writes TOM LEONARD.

A greedy squirrel was caught on camera going nuts and launching a savage attack on a pheasant pecking at food - even tearing clumps of feathers out of its neck. The feisty rodent unleashed a series of wrestling moves more commonly seen in the ring as he fiercely grappled with the game bird - and a baffled muntjac - and successfully drove the pair away. Retired office manager Anne Marks, 76, caught the astonishing scenes unfold in her Norfolk garden last week.

Quirky reader tips sent into British women's magazines have been shared online in an hilarious Twitter thread. Seen clockwise from top left: Stick googly eyes onto a tampon to make a nifty Halloween decoration; old pie trays make excellent coasters; who new a cereal packet could baby-proof your coffee table?; a piece of string can help keep your trousers up; cut the rope from a skipping rope if you're short on space; wear a silly hat to scare unwelcome visitors away.

A rescue boat stranded for nearly a week in the Mediterranean with over 200 migrants docked in Malta Wednesday, after a deal was struck between a group of EU states to take them in. Lifeline, a vessel for the German charity Mission Lifeline, had been waiting to be allocated a port for six days after rescuing 234 migrants off the coast of Libya last Thursday. The migrants disembarked the ship after it docked with one of the children passed to a paramedic on the shore (left). So far Malta, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium and France have agreed to welcome some of the migrants.

People from around the world contributed hilarious Snapchat posts of their dogs behaving in unexpected ways to a gallery shared on Bored Panda. Many people were surprised by how their canines interacted with other animals and even took on the traits of some creatures. Pictured clockwise from top left: A dog weightlifting its companion, a canine impersonating a squirrel, a husky surrounded by kittens, a puppy who befriended a brick, a pair of brothers and a man trolled for his hairy animal.

Katie Malone's 10-minute parasailing ride in Puerto Vallarta turned into 45 minutes of horror. Cell phone video captured her parasail being blown across the sky before falling hundreds of feet. Katie fractured her pelvis, skull, and ribs, and she suffered a broken jaw and cheek as well. She also suffered major head trauma and needed to be flown back home to San Diego for proper treatment. A former California congressman stepped in to fund the air ambulance back to the US.

In this week's installment of BBC Two's The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, Caroline Quentin joins architect Piers Taylor to visit the most sensational homes in Israel. They visit (clockwise from top left) a jaw-dropping home with not one but three gardens, a summer home in Israel's 'millionaire's playground', a spiritual sanctuary overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and a property blending modernity with tradition.

The £360m Sailing Yacht A, is owned by billionaire oligarch Andrey Melnichenko who made his £11bn fortune trading in fertiliser and coal. It was today spotted off the Corsican coast, moored in the Bay of Calvi. The magnificent vessel has three masts taller than London's Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben. It is powered by a 'hybrid diesel-electric package with controllable pitch propellers,' and is designed to accommodate 20 guests and a crew of 54. The staggering yacht is a 468ft-long vessel, which has three 300ft masts. The superyacht boasts eight floors - with a helicopter pad on one of the decks - and an underwater observation room.

An eagle named Nikita that boasts a seven-foot wingspan (pictured, right) has broken free from Warwick Castle after escaping in front of families as they enjoyed an evening show. The bird (pictured, left) escaped in front of stunned spectators viewing a display at the castle (inset). Today the castle's website appealed to the public for the eagle's safe return, with handlers fearing it is now in open space.

Sophie Mayanne, from London, has captured hundreds of people's scars in an ongoing project aimed at helping them to 'embrace their bodies' and has shared her latest images with MailOnline - including (L-R) one-year-old Faith, who underwent open-heart surgery, Katya, who was left with 30 per cent burns after a nightclub explosion, and Abigail, who was left with a prominent scar down her right leg after a serious accident when she was 13.

The stargazing phenomenon is the name given to a full moon which turns pink during sunrise and occurs in June each year. According to experts, this year's Strawberry Moon will be visible during the early hours of Thursday morning. The name is thought to derive from Native American tribes as it falls in late June during the height of strawberry picking season.