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Prospective migrants would have to have a firm job offer before travelling and demonstrate 'an ability to speak English' under Boris Johnson's proposed system. They would be unable to claim benefits until they had completed a qualifying period in work. The system will be based on the scheme used in Australia, where prospective migrants are scored on a points system to determine their value to the economy. Key factors include qualifications, skills and age.

California college student Jordan Lindsey, 21, died after she was viciously attacked by three sharks while snorkeling off Rose Island in the Bahamas with her family on Wednesday. She was in the water with a snorkeling tour when she was attacked around 2pm. Investigators believe there were three sharks involved. In the horrific attack her right arm was torn off and she suffered bites to her left arm, both legs and buttocks. She was rushed to shore and taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Glastonbury revellers have been pictured inhaling balloons of laughing gas as they prepare to bask in a 91F heatwave as this year's festival gets underway. Thousands of music lovers arrived at the Somerset farm yesterday before watching fireworks to celebrate the opening night. The five-day event, which is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, will be headlined by Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure. Standard tickets for Glastonbury 2019 sold out in just 36 minutes. It is also set to be the hottest ever Glastonbury, with a heatwave sweeping in. Experts at the Met Office have predicted temperatures could hit record highs for June in the south of the UK - beating the previous record of 96F (35.6C) recorded in Southampton in 1976.

An otherwise undistinguished estate sale purchase yielded an incredible archive of never-publicly-before-seen photographs of the Twin Towers clean-up operation, providing a haunting glimpse of 9/11's immediate aftermath. Discovered on a series of damaged CDs, the some 2,400 image were captured on a Canon Powershot G1 by a currently unidentified member of the World Trade Center clean-up crew who has since died. Taken from above and on the ground, the cache of pictures in large show workers and heavy machinery submerged in a deep and ominous chasm of scorched iron, folded metal and the skeletal outlines of office floors which had, just days before, brimmed and bustled with a human pulse.

Jeremy Hunt has spoken for the first time about losing his baby sister in a 'terrible accident'. The Foreign Secretary (pictured left as a schoolboy) revealed his sister died when she was just a few months old and he was aged two. The terrible episode emerged as Mr Hunt, 52, was interviewed as part of the Tory leadership contest on ITV's Peston programme last night (pictured right). A an apparently taken aback Mr Hunt said: 'I was too young to ever remember it, but I do know it affected my parents.' Posting on Twitter this morning, presenter Robert Peston (inset) admitted he had 'upset' viewers with the way he pushed Mr Hunt on the issue.

A statement appeared on the BBC website last night saying that Maitlis (pictured top) was 'not to everyone's taste', but the critical comment was swiftly removed as the BBC insisted it was sent in error. The errant comment was a response to complaints about Maitlis's performance in last week's Conservative leadership debate (pictured bottom), which some viewers said she had 'failed to control'. Some critics said the debate between Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart In an updated message, the BBC defended Maitlis and said she had 'done a good job during this programme'. The BBC has already faced one storm over the June 18 programme, after it emerged that an imam who questioned the Tory candidates had sent anti-Semitic tweets.

Every cloud has a silver lining, they say - well, weeks of endless rain have certainly had one unexpected benefit. Shops have been left with lots of summer dresses - it's hardly been the weather for them so far. As a result, sale rails are overflowing with smart styles at hugely discounted prices - there are reductions of as much as 60 per cent. From ditsy midis to floral maxis and prairie frocks, the choices are endless - and as our sale guide proves, it's the perfect time to pick up a last-minute bargain...

TOM LEONARD: On an April evening in New York three decades ago, around 30 black teenagers headed into Central Park for several hours of unchecked mayhem. Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman, had her skull smashed in and lost so much blood that her survival after 12 days in a coma was almost miraculous. Four black and one Latino teenagers (Yusef Salaam top left, Raymond Santana top right, Kevin Richardson bottom left, Korey Wise bottom right and Antron McCray inset) were convicted of the rape and other crimes that night, sending shivers down the spines of fellow New Yorkers. Pictured left: Netflix mini-series When They See Us

A 29 year old man from South Yorkshire who fell down the stairs after tripping on his dog is rushed to hospital, after losing the ability to feel his feet in Channel 5's Casualty 24/7. Kevin is cared for by nurse Jade Melia who is in the final hours of her last shift at Barnsley hospital.

The 54 winners of the 2019 RIBA National Awards for architecture are revealed today. They include (clockwise from top left): London Bridge Station; The Painted Hall, in the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, southeast London; Preston Bus Station, in Lancashire; the Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience, in Moray; The Royal Opera House, London; and, inset, Writ In Water, in Runnymede, Surrey. The 54 will be whittled down to a shortlist of around six in July - and then, from these in October, one will be awarded the RIBA Stirling prize for the UK's best new building.

Rosa Ramirez is the mother of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, 25, the Salvadoran migrant who drowned in the Rio Grande along with his infant daughter while they were trying to cross into the United States. She says she finds a heartbreaking photograph of their bodies hard to look at but takes some comfort in knowing 'they died in each other's arms.' Ramírez had shared a sea-green brick home with barred windows in San Martin on the outskirts of the capital, San Salvador, with her son, his 21-year-old wife Tania Vanessa Ávalos and their daughter until the young family decided to make the journey north.

Speaking outside his home in Hawaii on Wednesday afternoon, Chapman held back tears as he told of how he held Beth and called out Jesus' name as she asked him to repeat it again and again (pictured: Dog outside his home, left and with his family, top right; and in hospital with Beth, bottom right). Choking on his words, Chapman continued: 'And then she, you know, she told the girls and everybody with her mouth and stuff she said I love you guys, are you guys all OK? But she never accepted it.' Beth passed away early on Wednesday at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu after an almost two-year battle with cancer. She was 51.

Wayne Rooney reprised one of his most well-known party tricks on Wednesday evening as he helped DC United beat Orlando City with an outrageous long-range effort. The former England captain picked up the ball well inside the United half and took a quick glance up as he thought about mounting a counter-attack in just the 10th minute of the game. However, seeing City's keeper Brian Rowe well off of his line, Rooney decided to try his luck from distance, unleashing a shot from 60 yards out. It was reminiscent of a previous strike against West Ham while at Manchester United in 2014.

Europe's 'vicious' Saharan Bubble was set to intensify today and tomorrow (top right) with authorities on alert as temperatures threaten to surpass 104F (40C) in some countries. Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic all recorded their highest-ever June temperature on Wednesday as millions sweltered in an 'unprecedented' heatwave. Paris banned more than a million of the most polluting cars from the city yesterday while health alerts have been issued in many countries and firefighters are battling a fierce forest blaze in north eastern Spain (bottom right). In France, three people have died from suspected cold shock after diving into the sea from a hot beach. Temperatures in central France are expected to rise to 113F (45C) by Friday, which would break the all-time record set in 2003 at 111F (44.1C). Pictured: People bask in the sun in Germany (main and bottom left).

A mother and father were forced to fend off an alleged kidnapper in an Atlanta airport in the early hours of Saturday morning after a woman attempted to take at least two of their children, newly released surveillance footage shows. Esther Daniels, 26, was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, shortly after randomly approaching a couple walking with a stroller through the building's atrium. Daniels can be seen walking over to the stroller, placing her hands on it, and reportedly tried to rip it out of the mother's grasp.

Video shows Albert Passavanti and his family enjoying some fun in the sun at their West Balm Beach home on Sunday. His son, Rocco, falls into the pool but his dad quickly comes and leaps in behind him to save the little one. 'The second you see it you get Superman strength and just have to go for it,' Passavanti explained. 'It didn't even cross my mind to go around, it was point A to point B.'

A hilarious online gallery collated by Go Social , reveals some of the world's worst counterfeit goods on sale - and it may make you think twice the next time you're in search of a bargain. Pictured clockwise from top left: Mario as Captain America, Toy story as Boy Space, Super Man as Spider Man, Apple slides, The Hulk as Shrek and Marge from The Simpsons as a Despicable Me 3 character.

White sneakers are all well and good, until you scuff them, go out in the rain or end up in a muddy area. But grubby white shoes can soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a viral video from Reebok that shows how you can get them gleaming from home. Using just a razor, toothbrush, baking soda, water, nail polish remover, hydrogen peroxide and a little bit of dish soap, you can bring your sneakers back to their fresh-from-the-box previous life (left and right).

Before she married Paul McCartney in March 1969, Linda Eastman (pictured in a1992 self portrait inset) was an award-winning photographer, making history as the first woman to ever shoot a Rolling Stones front page image and praised for her candid celebrity snaps. Her husband often joked he ruined her photography career, as their marriage overshadowed her work. But he appears to be making up for it now, curating an exhibition of her work with their daughters Mary and Stella to showcase his favourite shots. The Linda McCartney Retrospective runs from July 5 to January 12 next year at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow. Pictured left: McCartney on holiday in Scotland with his daughters in 1969. Right: The Beatles outside Abbey Road the same year.

NEW The RoboBee X-WingIt was developed by a team from Harvard University in Boston. It has a wingspan of 3.5 centimetres and weighs only 259 milligrams, light enough to land on leaves. The solar-powered RoboBee X-WingIt and has four wings which flap at a rate of 170 times per second, instead of a propeller to take off.

EXCLUSIVE Gary Edwards (pictured left at his heaviest weight 25 st 2lb, and right now, 13st 1lb), 53, from Ipswich, who became an alcoholic following an accident where he was crushed by a truck has turned tragedy into triumph by going on to lose 12 stone. His multiple external and internal injuries led to abdominal surgery to remove damaged intestines and he also suffered life-threatening deep vein thrombosis. Nineteen years later, Gary ditchhed the alcohol and overhauled his diet - before having surgery to remove excess loose skin (inset bottom). Inset top, Gary in the Army.

Former French Resistance fighter John Jammes, pictured left, was a schoolboy in the summer of 1944 when he joined the Resistance group led by his father around Loches, near Tours in central France. He even helped to capture three Germans hiding in a farmer's barn. Members of the French Resistance are pictured in 1940 top right, and below in southern France in 1944. Describing his escapades at the festival near Salisbury, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail, he said: 'In August 1944 these Germans said to the farmer, 'We are going to spend the night in your barn. If you tell the terrorists', meaning the Resistance, 'we will shoot you'. 'But the daughter of the farmer, she was about 15, came to us and said, 'We have three Germans - how about it!' I said, 'That sounds rather exciting!' 'We set out at midnight, breaking the curfew, got to that barn and burst in shouting, 'Hände hoch!' - German for 'hands up!' - and we captured them.

Fred Goettel of North Carolina captured the moment he used his own shadow to trick the small Maltese. He stands on a balcony overlooking his neighbor's dog and pretends to rub his tummy with his shadow. The little woof sees the arm and leans back thinking he's about to be petted.

A'Deja Rivers, 15 months (inset), from Arcadia, Florida, was diagnosed as deaf at her newborn screening. Her father, Robert Rivers, and her older sister, Ja'Lynn, five, are also hearing impaired. Ja'Lynn had cochlear implants surgery with success, so A'Deja's parents decided to get her implants too. A'Deja had surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital on May 17. On June 20, the implants were activated and A'Deja heard toys rattle and her mother say 'I love you' for the first time (pictured). Because A'Deja is receiving implants at a very young age, she will only have a slight language delay.

Australian travel agent Ben Trigger made America's Got Talent history on Tuesday as he became the first contestant to push the Golden Buzzer for himself.  The 25-year-old dancer caused golden confetti to rain down onstage as the crowd erupted in cheers. Ben laid down on the buzzer while kicking his legs up at the judges' table during a rousing, hilarious dance to Earth, Wind & Fire's 1979 hit Boogie Wonderland.

It is found in an uninhabitable peninsula of Russia (inset) so nobody was injured but the orbiting ISS captured the destruction from above (left). The eruption occurred on June 22 and was the first time the volcano had stirred in nearly 100 years. The volcano (bottom right) sent a mass of ash and volcanic debris soaring up to ten miles into the sky. Its thick plume was captured on camera by astronauts and also by a range of NASA satellites (top right).