Herman Gordon, a much-loved cleaner at Bristol University, was brought to tears when students crowdfunded £1,500 to send him to Jamaica on holiday. Mr Gordon, who came to the UK as a 15-year-old in 1967 as part of the Windrush generation, broke down in tears after generous undergrads handed over the cash gift. Mr Gordon is adored by students for his positive attitude and happy-go-lucky approach to life and they wanted to do something special for him. The money was raised via a JustGiving page to fund a week's trip for Mr Gordon and his wife Denise to visit his family in the Caribbean - with more than 230 students donating. Speaking to Mail Online, his wife revealed that he called her in tears after receiving the money, overwhelmed by the kindness of the students. Mr Gordon is adored by students for his positive attitude and happy-go-lucky approach to life, and they wanted to do something special for him. The money was raised via a JustGiving page to fund a week's trip for Mr Gordon and his wife Denise to visit his family in the Caribbean - with more than 230 students donating. Speaking to Mail Online, his wife revealed that he called her in tears after receiving the money, overwhelmed by the kindness of the students.

Prince William prayed at the most sacred site accessible to Jews today when he visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. With a kippah skull cap on his head, the Duke of Cambridge placed a written prayer on a folded piece of paper into one of the cracks in the wall, held his right hand against the ancient stones and spent around a minute in quiet contemplation with his eyes shut. William was escorted around the holy site by Britain's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, on the last day of his historic visit to the Middle East. A large crowd of Jewish worshippers watched him as he prayed. One man shouted out: 'We love you' as the prince prayed. The Western Wall is the most sacred site accessible to Jews as it is the only remaining part of the Temple, held to be uniquely holy in Judaism.

The Duke of Cambridge (left) today made a 'profoundly moving' visited the tomb of his great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg (right, pictured in 1913), on the final day of his historic tour of the Middle East. William visited the Church of St Mary Magdalene, a golden-domed Russian Orthodox church on the Mount of Olives above the Old City in east Jerusalem which is situated in the Garden of Gethsamane. The Duke was welcomed to the church by Archimandrite Roman, Father Roman (also left, and centre), the head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, and Abbess Elizabeth. Before entering the church, Father Roman and William paused to take in the magnificent views from the church, overlooking the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount. At the entrance to the church, in keeping with Russian Orthodox tradition, William took bread and salt.

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  

Billionaire families whose businesses dominate the food, beauty, and media industries have all been named on the Bloomberg list of the world's biggest family fortunes. The 25 families have amassed a total $1.1 trillion, often with grandchildren and great-grandchildren reaping the rewards of their industrious relatives. Among their number are (left-right): the Mars family, owners of the confectionery giant (pictured, Victoria B. Mars); Alain and Gerard (pictured) Wertheimer, co-owners of the House of Chanel; William Lauder (pictured with partner Lori Kanter Tritsch), whose grandmother Estee founded a global beauty empire; and Giovanni Ferrero, whose father, Pietro, founded Ferrero in 1946.

As fans woke up to a World Cup without the holders this morning, the mockery online continued. Supporters joked that while Ronaldo might be carrying the Portugal team and Messi the Argentine side, the only thing carrying the German team now is a Lufthansa plane home. Others mocked up photos of German towels on aircraft seats, a reference to the popular English joke that Germans always reserve the sun-loungers in holiday resorts.

You would think that the first priority for both teams in a football match is to win. But that might not be the case when England take on Belgium at Kaliningrad Stadium in the World Cup tonight, as both sides could benefit from defeat. For the loser will face an arguably easier run (on the right side of the graphic), with Sweden or Switzerland in the quarter-finals - before Spain , Russia , Croatia or Denmark in the semi-finals. However, the winner of tonight's game in Group G (on the left side of the graphic) will play Brazil or Mexico in the quarter-finals - and then France, Argentina, Uruguay or Portugal in the semis. Ahead of tonight's match at 7pm UK time in Kaliningrad (where fans are pictured, left and bottom right), Belgium and England sit exactly level on six points, a goal difference of six and eight goals scored. And fans are dubious about the potential quality of tonight's match.

Vinnie Frans, who started kicking a ball around with Lukaku on wasteland near their Antwerp council homes at the age of six, said his friend had known nothing but obstacles on his way to success. Never-before-seen pictures of the 25-year-old star obtained by the MailOnline show  Lukaku's early life in an unremarkable suburb (right), where he lived in a modest house with his mum (left) and dad and was far happier playing football than doing his homework. The 6ft 3ins striker has been the player of the World Cup so far for Belgium, who play England in their final group match tonight.

Jay-Jay Reid, seven, from Chester, started struggling to breathe, with his worried parents Leanne, 26, and Andrew, 29, saying doctors initially thought he had been beaten up. Screaming in pain, A&E; medics used steroids and Piriton allergy tablets to prevent the youngster going into anaphylactic shock.

Self-closing doors have left two children with their fingers 'hanging off' in less than two weeks at incidents in Basingstoke and Hull, leading furious parents to demand greater safety measures. Janay Murphy has told MailOnline how her daughter Lydia, three, had her finger crushed in a door (pictured, top-right) at Basingstoke Leisure Park's branch (inset). The child (pictured, left, in Salisbury Hospital) had to undergo surgery (pictured, bottom-right, her finger before treatment) and is now too scared to open doors. The incident came just 11 days after Madison Smailes almost had her fingertip severed in East Yorkshire. In 2017, a five-year-old boy's finger was crushed in a similar incident at a Costa in Weston-super-Mare.

Angelina Jolie oozed elegance as she attended the Service of Installation of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Bath at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Thursday. The Maleficent star, 43, looked effortlessly chic in an ivory cowl neck gown, with a peplum waist which showcased her toned frame as she took her seat.

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.

They moved into their £10million sprawling country mansion in the Cotswolds six months ago - but the Beckhams' barn conversion remains an 'arid dust-bowl.'      While the surrounding fields look lush and verdant, aerial photos show that no grass at all appears to have grown on the garden of the triple barn.  The Beckhams employed top-end gardeners to design an English country garden surrounding the house - at vast expense - with a mixture of bought-in mature trees, plants and shrubs fitting in character with the local environment.

Britons are set to enjoy the hottest day of the year for the fourth consecutive day as forecasters predict that temperatures will finally pass the magic 90F (32C) mark. Glorious sunshine (pictured in Cornwall, main) will send the mercury soaring across the country this afternoon, when the UK's five-day heatwave is expected to peak. Forecasters are also predicting the sunny spells and high temperatures will last through the weekend and into next week, with a possibility of thunderstorms on Sunday. Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far, with 31.9C (89.4F) recorded in Porthmadog, North Wales. The temperature also reached 30.9C (87.6F) in Aviemore, in the Scottish Highlands, and 30C (86F) in Blackpool, Lancs.

Fire chiefs have warned Saddleworth Moor blaze could rage for weeks as temperatures continue to clime. Today the Army and RAF will join firefighters on the fifth day to combat the epic inferno which has savaged the popular beauty spot nestled in the Pennies, Greater Manchester. Horrific photographs reveal the extent of the damage with a scorched lamb tragically found stranded on the burning landscape while another image shows the smoke clouding the city of Manchester this morning as it rises from the moors.

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.

The startling scene was caught by a security camera in the city of Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora. In the video, 22-year-old Minerva F.S. can be seen dashing across three lanes of traffic in a pair of high heels. The woman passes in front of a pick-up truck and steps out into the third lane of traffic as a car comes driving past. She then slips, falling onto her backside directly in front of the car which crashed into her. The victim is caught under the car's wheel and dragged metres before the vehicle comes to a halt.

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 hilarious new online gallery compiled by Diply showcases the very ill-fated decisions people have made. Pictured clockwise from top left: An amateur mechanic fixed their car with tape, a woman with her head stuck in the exhaust of a car, a rather ornate makeshift wing mirror, an injured fashion fan opts for heels despite her crutches, a sumo wrestler makes a coffee machine less than appetising and an indecisive woman wears a jeans and shorts combo.

The 20-year-old man was riding his yellow Suzuki in Burnage, Manchester, in the early hours when he was knocked from his bike and run over, suffering two broken hips and other fractures. CCTV shows at the moment he reached the junction of Heyscroft Road he began  to slow his bike down - at which point Louis Lomas' red Citroen closed in on him. Lomas, 22, then purposely drove his car at the Suzuki, knocking the man off the bike, before running over him.

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.

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.'

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.

In the footage captured on New Town Row in Birmingham, the motorbike rider slams into the side of the truck and lands inside the highway maintenance vehicle before being carried away. Dash-cam footage from a passing vehicle captures the bizarre moment the motorcycle crumples as it hits the truck. The collision took place on as the maintenance vehicle was turning into Manchester Street, at around 9.30am this morning.

Gary Leese charged more than £1,000 for 'designer' puppies including labradoodles and golden Labradors. The 37-year-old kept the animals Pant-y-Pwyddyn Farm in Little Mill, Monmouthshire, before he was reported to police by concerned neighbours. When RSPCA officers arrived at the farm they found nine dead puppies and dogs locked in squalid rooms (inset) with their fur matter together. Among the dogs found include Reggie the labradoodle (pictured left at the farm and after, being cared for by the RSPCA).

Serafima Eriklintseva, 24, from Russia first met Ivan Lebedev, 30, at school when he taught her religion. They later became a couple and three years ago she welcomed Apollinaria Mayslik-Mertsalova, 21, into their relationship. Serafima insists there is no jealousy in their relationship, and has revealed they plan to start a family.

The Great Hall (pictured) is a stunning Grade II-listed building on the lavish Wynnstay Estate in the Welsh countryside. Buyers get a bonus - namely, Grade I-listed gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (inset) in 1777. The property, near Ruabon in Wrexham, North Wales, also has a vintage cinema inside with a drop-down screen. New owners will also be able to enjoy the great outdoors with a communal tennis court, all-weather sports pitch and three acres of privately owned gardens.

One of the fiercest indigenous tribes in the world, stick fighting and living off the land are the norm for the Suri people who own large herds of cattle, which they graze while travelling through south-western Ethiopia. Women and children in the tribe often decorate themselves with white clay patterns (above), and flowers on their heads. Suri also undergo the painful process of 'scarification', involving people's skin being lifted with a thorn, then sliced with a razor, leaving a flap of skin that will eventually scar.

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.

A piece of rocket debris crashing back to earth erupted into a massive fireball after landing in a town yesterday in south-west China. Footage filmed by nearby residents shows the debris, the spent first stage of a Long March 2C rocket, dropping from the sky and plummeting into the Earth in Fuquan city, Guizhou province. After smashing into the ground, it exploded near houses, sending plumes of smoke into the air. Residents had been evacuated prior to the scheduled satellite launch and no injuries were reported, according to a statement issued by Fuquan city government.

The South Florida man, wearing white pants and a navy-colored top, began flexing his muscles in front of the car in an old-fashioned Popeye pose before launching two haymakers at the vehicle. Part of the grill flew off after the initial attack, prompting the man to pick the splinter up and wave it at the driver, who promptly went into reverse as the attacker beckoned them to come back before walking away. Not content with the first barrage, the man turns round and sprints several yards towards the vehicle and jumps on it with both knees in the air.

In the hilarious video the moggy, named TJ by its owner, pauses as it spots the slithering snake across a bench at the centre in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. Taken on June 20 this year, the amusing clip captures the pet's look of utter confusion as it sets eyes on the snake, presumably a pet brought in by its owner for a check up.

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.

Professional stuntwoman Rachel Withers, 31, from Rock Hill, South Carolina, puckers up for one of the world's most dangerous reptiles, an alligator, in Gator Country, Texas. The alligator, named Big Al, is the United States of America's largest in captivity at 13 feet long. In the 90-second video, the daredevil crouches down and pats the 81-year-old alligator on the snout before leaning in for a smooch.