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Real Housewife of Miami star Lisa Hochstein and her plastic surgeon husband are facing opposition from Miami Beach preservationists over there plans for their Star Island dream home. The couple claims the 1920 house is falling apart and should have been demolished decades ago. They want to build a new 14,000-square-foot mansion including a wine cellar and five-car garage.

NEW Michelle Knight, pictured left, was gang-raped and impregnated in junior high - a year before she suffered more than 10 years of abuse under a kidnapper, an alarming report has revealed. Michelle was the first alleged victim of Ariel Castro, abducted off a Cleveland street in 2002. She was not seen again until this past Monday, when the 32-year-old was freed from captivity along with two other women and a child. Her great-aunt Deborah Knight, right, says that three male classmates grabbed Michelle at school and raped her.

Ariel Castro, pictured bottom right with his bandmates in 1998, was 'obsessive' about ordering around his first wife Grimilda Figueroa, left, to the point where he once ordered her to get into a cardboard box and only come out when he said so. Speaking to MailOnline, Grimilda's sister Elida Caraballo, top right, 44, said: 'My sister would be alive today if it wasn't for him.

For the past three decades, Marietta Pathy Allen in her role as an unofficial chronicler of the cross-dressing community has been working to capture the essence of transgender people beyond the wigs, makeup and outfits to reveal their humanity to the world. Allen's works are striking in their range, focusing on people of different genders, ages and races. Some images are sparse and black-and-white, while others are colorful and vibrant. Some of the photographs feature the families of transgender people, among them several strikingly intimate portraits, like a scene in a hospital room, or a couple's bedroom.

Decorated British Olympian Andrew Simpson has died after a 72-foot-long sailboat capsized in San Francisco Bay while he and 11 teammates were practicing for the upcoming America's Cup. The Artemis Racing catamaran carrying a Swedish flag capsized just after 1pm near Treasure Island, the former naval station located in the bay. Simpson, 36 - the team's strategist - was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A pit bull that was rescued from the streets of Brooklyn got to meet the children who helped raised funds to nurse her back to health. Misty was rescued by city students after suffering serious injuries while being used as a bait dog to train other pit bulls to fight. Students at Stephen Gaynor School started following the progress of the sweet, severely hurt pit bull on the Misty's Journey Facebook page. Before and after photos show the extent of Misty's injuries and how far she has come.

Rich and Laura Howard from Lutz, Florida were diving off the coast of Mexico when their dive instructor saw the 5ft dorsal fins and signalled for them to return to their boat. Obeying his instructions, the keen ocean photographer and his wife discovered to their disbelief that they were fast being approached by a group of huge killer whales. Mrs Howard filmed the incredible sighting on her Flip Cam.

A new first-person video has surfaced which gives viewers an opportunity to actually see what it's like to wear Google Glass, the new gadget hotly tipped as the future of computing. Initial images of what users can see have been distinctly underwhelming, but tech expert Rob Jackson shows how the glasses can do a broad range of tasks including getting directions and calling a friend.

Jane Richard (pictured left and circled right), a young dancer, lost her leg in the attack in the April 15 attack, while her mother Denise suffered head injuries, her father Bill was hit by shrapnel and her brother Martin (pictured right in the family image and circled right) lost his life. Only her oldest brother, 12-year-old Henry, escaped without injury. In a statement released on Thursday, the family revealed that Jane awoke two weeks after the bombings with questions that needed to be answered. 'There are not words to describe how hard sharing this heartbreaking news was on all of us,' the family said. The image right also shows one of the alleged bombers and the device, circled red.

Fifteen farm workers in California who flee the fields to escape smoke and ash from the massive wildfire burning nearby were fired for putting their personal safety above their job. The Crisalida Berry Farms in Oxnard, California later offered the workers their jobs back but only one has returned.

With Mother' s Day fast approaching, it seems appropriate to celebrate the most awkward mom-and-family photos we can find. Some are candid while others are creatively staged, such as one photo where a mother dressed in white karate fatigues pretends to kick her son in the face while he holds his fists up in defense in a scene that is inexplicably set against a cartoon background of flowers and unicorns.

The New York-based cyber criminals used hacked debit-card data to make 40,500 transactions in 27 countries, U.S. prosecutors said today. The cards were issued by National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah RAKB.AD in the United Arab Emirates and Bank of Muscat in Oman, prosecutors said.

Dressed in full military uniform, John Jackson appeared with his wife Carolyn Jackson (pictured) in federal court in Newark, New Jersey on 17 counts of endangerment, assault and conspiracy. A trial date was set for July 8, and each of the Jacksons was allowed to remain free on $250,000 bail.

Dr Orlando Llorente, 41, from Miami, allegedly pushed Leanne Sauma's head down a toilet and then forced a rag into the mouth of while pouring water over her head. According to the affidavit, Dr Llorente subjected the victim, 36, to almost 16 hours of abuse and torture in an apartment before driving her to a CVS where she escaped from his car.

According to a highly controversial scientific theory being debated in London this week, we should imagine our ancestors up to their necks in water, splashing after fish and clams, their primitive lives spent entirely amid wetlands, lakes and rivers. So says the 'aquatic ape' theory which puts forward the idea that our distant ancestors spent a million years swimming and paddling in water. It argues that this perpetually damp experience shaped us into the hugely successful species that we are today.

The celestial spectacle, known as a 'ring of fire' eclipse, is the second solar eclipse visible from northern Australia in six months. In November, a total solar eclipse plunged the country's northeast into darkness, delighting astronomers and tourists who flocked to the region from across the globe to witness it.

The new invention transforms the T5 Doubleback into a 26ft long home on wheels and doubles the living space. The inside of the ‘pod’ reveals luxurious seating for five people which can be rearranged to make a huge bed, with a foldaway table. Made from cutting edge aluminum composite used by the airline industry, the insulated rear extension weighs less than 300lbs but is strong enough to take the weight of a family of four.

Jimmy Kimmel's 'Lie Witnness News' tested the reaction of people on the street to the staggeringly unlikely news that Judge Judy Sheindlin (center) of daytime television fame is to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Obama.

Five teenage students have been charged as adults and taken into police custody after a shocking beating inside a Pennsylvania high school recorded and posted online by the assailants went viral. The footage, which surfaced on Youtube this week, shows Jordan Morales, 16, Clayton Newman, 18, Citerrah Gomillon, 16, Edward Stanley and Omar Davis, 18, viciously beating an unidentified 16-year-old in the library of Chester High School.

Kristin Davis and Eugene Han, pictured left, were among the 58 people wounded when a gunman opened fire 18 minutes into the screening of the new Batman film. The childhood friends, pictured right in hospital after the July 20, 2012 shooting, have vowed to not let the attack, inset, which killed 12 people, ruin their future lives together.

The second graders at Pathway School of Discovery in Dayton told their moms to come into school for a mystery reason and serenaded them with a Boyz II Men song. It didn't matter that the children in the room- who are all seven or eight years old- were not alive when the R&B; group were in their early Nineties heyday: the point was still clear.

The big cat tried its luck against the herd of 15 elephants by stalking the group and sipping from the same water hole in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. But one of the herd decided the leopard was being far too bold and squirted a stream of water in its direction to shoo it away.

Travellers and tourists finding themselves stuck in the departure lounge at Abu Dhabi International Airport are now able to catch up on some shut-eye in a futuristic-looking 'sleeping pod'. Unveiled this week, the 'GoSleep' pod offers time away from noise, light and crowds of the airport and only costs £8 for one hour's alone-time.

Images capture the moments owls march through a Lancashire farm to find food for their newly-born young in scenes reminiscent of Grand Old Duke of York nursery rhyme. The owls march and hop through the air on their mission, at times looking like they belong in an army display.