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Simon Hayes (top centre) left Roger Curry (bottom right) with paramedics outside Hereford Hospital, claiming he had found the 78-year-old dementia sufferer in a country lane. Hayes, who was dressed in a bogus Army uniform, refused to give his own name, saying it was a security risk because he was working at the SAS base in the city. The 53-year-old had stripped Mr Curry of his passport and other papers and dressed him in British clothing to further obscure his identity. Hospital staff could not work out who their patient was and Mr Curry spoke his name just once – after he was moved to a care home in the nearby village of Credenhill. It was only when Debbie Cocker (left), 48, saw a picture from a 1950s American school year book of an 'Earl Roger Curry' who looked like the pensioner that his identity was discovered. Pictured top right: Mr Curry's son Kevin with his mother Mary Jo Curry.

Rochelle Humes has revealed she has reunited her with her long-lost sister Lili Piper (left in both pictures) after 23 years apart.  The television presenter, 30, (right) met her lookalike sibling once when she was six, and was left astounded when Love Island's Kem Cetinay (inset)  revealed his plans to reunite them at a Christmas party two years ago.  Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby Podcast, Rochelle said despite feeling terrified of meeting Lili, the pair instantly bonded and have 'spoken every day since'. Also pictured, centre right, her sister Sophie.

Heavy gunfire was heard near La Carlota airbase in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Tuesday (bottom), after opposition leader Juan Guaido (inset) announced the start of an armed uprising against President Maduro. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the embattled president was ready to flee Venezuela for Cuba until Russia convinced him to remain in the country. A video has emerged showing government forces in an armoured vehicle ploughing into demonstrates outside the base in Caracas (top). One protester was seen falling under the wheels. Soldiers who had defected to Guaido's cause were earlier shown setting up heavy machine gun positions on bridges around the base, and witnesses said they had got into skirmishes with Maduro's loyalists. Guaido urged protesters to join him on the streets and encouraged other members of the armed forces to defect as part of what he called 'the final phase of Operation Liberty'. US National Security Adviser John Bolton, Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence tweeted out their support, while Maduro's allies in Bolivia and Cuba denounced what they called a coup attempt.

A high school sprinter has posted the fastest 100-meter dash time of any American under the age of 20. Matthew Boling (inset), an 18-year-old senior at Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston, ran the event in just 9.98 seconds at Texas's Region III-6A track and field meet. The time was not only a personal best, but a new high school record for all conditions. Unfortunately for Boling, it won't count as the official record because he had a 4.2 mph tailwind at his back, according to Yahoo. The official 100-meter high school dash record belongs to Trentavis Friday, who recorded a 10-second flat mark in North Carolina in 2014. Boling's 9.98 mark was no fluke. He was previously clocked at 10.22 seconds earlier in March and in the 200-meter dash, he's posted an impressive time of 20.58 seconds. For comparison's sake, Jamaica's Usain Bolt is the current world record holder in both the 100- and 200-meter dash, with times of 9.58 seconds and 19.19 seconds, respectively. Boling plans on attending the University of Georgia in the fall, and then hopes to make it on the U.S. Olympic team ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Former Worcestershire star Alex Hepburn, 23 (pictured with his girlfriend Lucy Street as they arrived at Hereford Crown Court today, left) was found guilty of raping the woman after she had consensual sex with his teammate Joe Clarke in the early hours of April 1 2017. His victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was horrified when she opened her eyes to find it was Hepburn (pictured with his girlfriend on holiday, bottom right) and not Clarke, who was asleep elsewhere in the flat. His trial at Hereford Crown Court heard how the pair had exchanged vile messages (inset) boasting about how they got women 'blind and then back to ours'. Hepburn wrote in one message: 'Got to understand that Hepperdawg is a horny c*** and without you keeping my head straight just goes and does rogue things.' The sportsman told a retrial that the woman made eye contact with him and then kissed him, instigating a consensual sexual encounter lasting around 20 minutes. But he was today sentenced to five years behind bars and placed on the sex offenders' register for life.

Liverpool fans in Barcelona have been filmed pushing locals into a fountain as trouble brewed in the city ahead of Wednesday's Champions League semi-final first leg. At least two videos have surfaced on social media showing supporters shoving local people into a fountain in the middle of the popular Placa Reial square. Hundreds of travelling fans congregated in the square on Tuesday afternoon when the incidents occurred.

Therese Curphey (centre, outside court last July), 53, lived in a rubbish-strewn semi-detached house worth £165,000 in West Derby, Liverpool, with her mother Theresa Curphey, who was said to have been in 'unimaginable pain'. Therese finally called 999 in February 2017, telling the call handler her mother was 'cold and clammy, had stopped talking and was making horrible noises'. Paramedics went to the house (interior rooms pictured) but initially struggled to gain entry to the bedroom (bottom right) because there were so many objects piled high behind the door. Theresa was rushed to hospital but she died later that day. Shocking pictures reveal the filthy kitchen surfaces covered with dirty tissues (top and bottom right). Therese has always denied responsibility for the death, but was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of gross negligence manslaughter. Therese last week screamed 'How could you do this to me?' at jurors when they returned a guilty verdict.

Unlikely sex symbol Adrian Dunbar, 60, has described his leap to primetime fame as his very own 'Arthur Lowe moment' (a nod to the Dad's Army star's late-life appearance as Captain Mainwaring). He has soared to household fame with his role in Line Of Duty as Superintendent Ted Hastings. But, Dunbar has had a very versatile and surprisingly starry career, spanning the best part of 40 years. Here, the Mail takes a look at the Northern Irish actor's journey to the top.

JANET STREET-PORTER (inset): Women's Rights groups are outraged at rape complainants being asked to hand over their - phones to police, claiming it will deter victims from coming forward. There have been high profile cases in which the complainant had her personal life examined in open court - the Ched Evans (top right) case, for example, in which the footballer was acquitted of rape after a retrail and his accuser was identified and suffered chronic abuse on social media. Women making false accusations of rape are very rare - in 2017, Jemma Beale (bottom right) was jailed for ten years for making false claims about 15 men - one was wrongly convicted and served two years in jail, and another fled the UK. But Liam Allan (left with his mother Lorraine) wants men accused of rape to have the same rights (ie anonymity) as their accuser until the point of conviction.

EXCLUSIVE: George VI, the Queen Mother (both left) and a young Princess Elizabeth (left in top right image) were involved in efforts to distract Axis attention away from the intended location of the Allied invasion of Europe by planting false leads. Channel 4's D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler claims in 1944 the king was actively working on behalf of British intelligence. The program even suggests he had been fully admitted into secret plans for Operation overlord - the codename for the D-Day landings (D-Day exercises before the invasion, bottom right).

About an hour before F8 was set to kick off, the social media giant posted an update to the Messenger website breaking down the major updates to its main chat app. The changes will see a significant overhaul to Facebook's main chat app, including an 'entirely new code base,' Asha Sharma, director for Messenger consumer product, said in a now-deleted blog post.

Soaring drone footage over the fire ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has captured men in harnesses strapping down weather-proofing sheets to the roof to protect the church from the elements (pictured: men working to protect the roof, top left and right; and the inferno on April 15, bottom left). French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to rebuild the cathedral within five years and France has launched an international competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral's 19th-century spire, which collapsed into the nave during the blaze. However, more than a thousand French and international architects have warned Macron his rapid plans risked building quality with a 'political agenda.'

Emperor Akihito (left, top right) abdicated the throne in an official ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday where he thanked people for supporting his 30-year rule. But the 85-year-old said his age and ill-health - he has been treated for prostate cancer and heart problems - had left him unable to perform his duties. He will officially depart the throne at midnight before rule passes to Crown Prince Naruhito (inset), ahead of an official ceremony on Wednesday morning. Akihito started the day with a series of private religious ceremonies (bottom right) during which he informed the gods of his decision to depart the throne, the first time in 200 years that an emperor has done so.

Shocked Irish locals called for a barman to be sacked, flogged and thrown in jail yesterday for serving 'the worst pint of Guinness ever pulled' to an English woman at Dublin airport. The not-entirely-serious reaction came after a Twitter picture of the drink appalled residents who apologised profusely to the recipient for its almost three-inch head of froth. Thirsty Kelly Jackson (left), from Wimbledon, southwest London, said she spent her last euros on the pint (right) as she prepared to jet back to England from Dublin on Monday.

Stearn Hodge, 68, lost his left arm and right leg in a workplace accident in 1984. He kept his independence thanks to an electric mobility scooter. But he was stopped at Calgary Airport as he and his wife tried to get a flight to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a holiday celebrating his 43rd wedding anniversary. Airport officials took away the lithium batteries that powered the scooter, as well as the replacement batteries before he was allowed to board for a holiday, citing 'safety concerns'. While lithium-ion batteries are a potential fire hazard, global standards issued by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) allow people with disabilities to travel with compact lithium batteries for medical devices in carry-on luggage.

In 1978, Matt Weber was a taxi driver in a city plague with crime, abandoned buildings and a government on the verge of financial collapse. Working the night shift, Weber witnessed New York City's fights and arrests, saw its hookers and its homeless, and ‘so many crazy things on the street that I kept saying, “Damn, I’ve got to buy a camera,”’ he said in a 2017 article. ‘If you saw the movie Taxi Driver, that was the world that was out there. There were prostitutes on the corner, Times Square was crazy; it was a dangerous part of town. I was robbed in my taxicab at double gunpoint.’ So he picked up a camera and started chronicling the porn, peep shows and prostitution in Times Square, the busted cars in Harlem, and the sailors who came to town for Fleet Week. His decades of documenting the city, images above, is now part of a new book, 'Street Trip. Life in NYC.'

The father of model and TV presenter Caroline Bittencourt, (right) 37, said she did not jump into the sea to rescue her dogs near the island of Ilhabela, off the coast of Brazil on Sunday. He told local media she was knocked into the ocean by a huge wave. Her husband Jorge (together inset) followed her into the water to try to save her but they were separated by the storm. He was rescued after swimming towards to coast for almost three hours. Caroline, who has a 17-year-old daughter from a previous relationship (together left), was pulled from the water on Monday afternoon. In a video posted on IGTV (left), Caroline can be seen dancing with one of her dogs to celebrate the end of her training.

A time lapse video of a tarantula encapsulates the several hours-long process of how the giant spider laboriously sheds its own skin. The six-hour-long process is condensed into just 17 seconds and succinctly shows the Red Knee tarantula writhing on its back until it emerges from its former exoskeleton.

Leases at The Collective's new 21-storey project in Canary Wharf, central London, range from £1,300 a month for a year-long stay in a 'cosy' suite, up to £2,080 per month for a three-month stay in a 'big' living space. The philosophy behind the 705-room building is 'co-living' - focusing on shared cooking, social and recreational spaces to encourage a sense of community among its young residents. Pictured are artist's representations of how the living space will look. Top left: The basement bar. Top right: The swimming pool. Bottom left: The drawing room. Bottom right: A bedroom.

The 'What Were You Wearing?' installation features 18 outfits recreated by unnamed university students and was first shown in Arkansas, before touring the world. Clothes are accompanied with testimonies from survivors, reflecting on what they wore. Pictured, clockwise from top left: A light blue t-shirt, a child's sundress worn by a six-year-old, a child's yellow t-shirt and military uniform.

The hilarious viral clip shows Austin Mousa,17, from Henderson, Nevada, holding a box of donuts and witing outside the front door of the house he thought his peer, Hannah Masluk, lived in. His friend, Johnny Pashales, 17, recorded the video, as the pair had planned to capture Austin's romantic gesture on camera. However, when the door opened, it was an unfamiliar girl who Austin hadn't meant to call to. In the clip, the girl can be seen placing her hands on her mouth and saying 'oh my gosh!' as Austin giggles awkwardly and apologies to her for the mix up. The hilarious video was shared to Twitter by Austin on Twitter, where it has racked up almost 160,000 likes and more than 300 comments.

An owl sits perched on a fence post as a hare rests in a field – but another animal appears to be having a hoot by hiding in the scene. A second little owl poked his head above the wall and had a peek as a photographer captured the picture. The snapper, who calls himself Villager Jim, did not realise the second owl was there until he reviewed the photo later. Jim said he was surprised to spot the bird near Tideswell, Derbyshire.

Measuring just 377 square feet (35m²) this flat in Budapest, Hungary, is the same size as two car parking spaces, but fits all the rooms of an average house inside. The small space features a kitchen, bedroom, dining room and living room. But the kitchen and bed can be hidden by grey panelling which allows the bed to be drawn down for sleeping and dirty dishes to be hidden when guests arrive. And the design, which meant tearing down all walls inside the space, was completed for less than £20,000.

TOWIE star Bobby Norris arrived at 10 Downing Street to hand in a petition to make online homophobia a criminal offence on Tuesday. The Essex favourite, 32, snapped a selfie with the iconic Larry the Cat as he posed outside the famous residence. Bobby handed in his petition after it reached a staggering 100,000 signatures, which means it will be considered for a debate by Parliament.

The number 77 Brighton and Hove Buses' service to Devil's Dyke crashed on Sunday into two bollards when it made a wrong turn. The side of the bus splits and lets out an ear-splitting crack as the driver tries to free it from the posts. He pulls the second post completely out the ground but manages to wriggle the vehicle free.