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A spy's eye view of Russia: Never-seen-before pictures

American historian Douglas Smith has lifted the lid on the extraordinary stash of US Army Major Martin Manhoff who was expelled from the USSR for leaving sensitive documents on a train. The US diplomat has travelled around the country taking thousands of photographs during the Stalin era more than 60 years ago. They remained untouched in a closet in Washington state until Mr Smith asked if he could explore the home after the accused spy's wife passed away.

Trump welcomes first Oval Office foreign leader May

President Donald Trump welcomed his first foreign leader to the White House on Friday, Britain's Theresa May.The pair bonded over a bust of Winston Churchill in the American president's office.'This is the original. This is the original, folks, in many ways,' Trump said, showing off the bust of the famed British prime minister resting on a stand in between he and May. 'It's a great honor to have Winston Churchill back in the White House.' Trump and May opened what looks to be a new golden era in the 'special relationship' between the allied nations as they met today for talks on trade and the fight against ISIS. The conservatives sealed their fled

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Trump circulated an unsubstantiated claim that 3 million ballot were cast illegally in the November election again this morning. He's expected to order an investigation in the next two days.

Katie Perrior, left, is Theresa May's chief spin doctor, Fiona Hill, middle, is Mrs May's long-trusted joint-chief-of-staff and Lizzie Loudon, right, is the PM's political press secretary.

Employees at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida are getting inundated with calls from angry people venting their spleen at President Donald Trump, who owns the members-only club.

Good Morning America's Lara Spencer has dinner date in NYC

Lara Spencer was out on the town Thursday night, enjoying a three-hour dinner with a mystery man at trendy New York City restaurant Lure. The Good Morning America host, 47, cozied up to her date once they were seated at the table, putting her arm around the man and frequently touching his stomach and chest with her hand. Both appeared to be enthralled with one another as they could be seen in close conversation throughout the meal, and frequently breaking out in laughter. The couple also took some time for a few makeout sessions between their sips of wine and bites food at the seafood eatery, located in the city's Soho neighborhood.

North Carolina woman, Tammara Gail Overman, 32, was charged with child abuse on Wednesday after her two-year-old daughter tested positive for cocaine. The toddler also had a severe rash on her groin.

RaSheeda Yates (pictured) was forced to take care of a four-year-old foster girl on Monday night after a driver for a Florida child welfare agency dropped her off at the wrong home after daycare.

Carl Reiner spoke to Mary Tyler Moore's husband

Carl Reiner (left), the creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, told Mary Tyler Moore's husband the day before she died that he should whisper in her ear that it was okay to go. The television icon died at the age of 80 on Wednesday afternoon from cardiopulmonary arrest after she contracted pneumonia. Moore was surrounded by family members, including her husband of 33 years Robert Levine (inset), who quickly flocked to say their goodbyes at a Connecticut hospital. Reiner was unable to be by her side but said the last time they saw each other was at a public event where Moore seemed well, but he could tell her health was deteriorating.

Somorie Moses, 40, from Brooklyn, New York, was initially arrested on suspicion of concealment of a corpse, but his charges have been upgraded to murder in Leondra Foster's death.

State Senator Toni Atkins has pioneered SB 179, a bill that would add a non-binary gender option for drivers licenses, birth certificates, identity cards and gender change court orders in California.

Uma wins primary custody of daughter after legal battle

The bitter custody battle fought by Uma Thurman (top right) and her multimillionaire ex-fiancé, Arpad Busson (bottom right), has been settled. Thurman's lawyer confirmed that the actress won primary custody of their four-year-old daughter, Luna. Thurman, 46, briefly appeared in court on Friday morning with her attorneys to agree on the terms of the settlement with Busson. On Wednesday evening, Thurman took Luna to Cirque du Soleil’s musical theater show Paramour (above).

A federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment against Ft. Lauderdale shooting suspect Esteban Santiago on Thursday.

The teens – boys aged 13 and 14 – were reportedly planning a 'Columbine-style' mass shooting for January 27 at The Villages Charter Middle School in Florida.

Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein accused in new sex traffick case

A woman who calls herself Jane Doe 43  has slapped Jeffrey Epstein with a federal lawsuit demanding damages for forcing her to perform sex acts on him. In court papers obtained by DailyMail.com Jane Doe 43 accuses Epstein of giving her no  choice to participate in the sexual acts. Over time she claims she was intimidated, threatened, humiliated and verbally abused in order to coerce her into sexual compliance Ghislaine Maxwell (above with Epstein), Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Natalya Malyshev are also named in the lawsuit. In 2005 Epstein was investigated for hiring underage girls to massage him in their underwear or totally naked. Epstein pleaded guilty to a single charge of soliciting an under-age prostitute and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The billionaire served 13 months and had to register as a sex offender. In an affidavit filed last year Virginia Roberts (inset) laims to have been used as a sex slave by Epstein  when she was underage.

The boy's father was slumped over the driver's seat around 5.45pm Wednesday in a parking lot in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The boy told 911 that his father wasn't 'waking up for anything'.

Florida teenager, Tavage Tobler (pictured), 18, was arrested after allegedly stabbing his roommate in the face during an altercation over a Minute Maid fruit juice box, authorities said.

This McDonald's maths puzzle is baffling Facebook

The tricky puzzle was posted on Facebook by Butuan, Philippines-based Keril. So far over 1,500 people have attempted to solve the puzzle, with varying results. The key to solving the puzzle lies in remembering the fundamental rules in maths about the order to do multiplication and addition in.

Celeste Beard, 53, is serving a life sentence in Texas after she begged her lesbian lover to murder her husband Steven, 70. Despite her conviction she still maintains she is innocent of her crimes.

Sarah Lewis, a social studies and dance teacher from Utah, has been charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor and furnishing alcohol to the underage boy.

Trump first president to not wait for wife at inauguration

Since day one of his candidacy, Donald Trump has made it clear that he isn't one for niceties. Evidently that also extends to his wife. Rather than waiting to accompany Melania as he exited the car, he left her in the dust as he scaled the famous steps alone to greet the Obama's. An unspoken rule of etiquette, every president in U.S. history has waited for the first lady to reach his side before entering the White House.

Trump proposed the tax on imports as a way to pay for the border wall with Mexico, with his press secretary Sean Spicer saying the tax would create $10billion in revenue a year and 'easily pay' for it.

A draft executive action for President Donald Trump could include the use of attack helicopters and artillery on the ground in a new tactic to try to destroy the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.

President Trump signed an executive order 'enhancing public safety' in US. The Secretary of Homeland Security will publicize a weekly list of crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

'You're supposed to talk about the news, not use a snarky comment here, an eye roll there, an adjective that is insulting or congenitally negative toward the president,' Conway said Friday.

Blagojevich daughter hits Obama for not commuting sentence

Amy Blagojevich (left), the oldest daughter of Rod Blagojevich (inset), has penned a letter to former President Obama (right). In the letter, which was posted to her mother's Facebook page on Thursday, Amy condemns Mr Obama for failing to commute her father's prison sentence. 'You’ve broken my heart once again, and you’ve betrayed the concept of justice like many other heartless individuals before you,' she wrote. Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2012 on several corruption charges. Among the allegations was that Blagojevich tried to sell Mr Obama's Senate seat after he became president.

President Donald Trump has fired his latest shot in his standoff with Mexico over construction of a border wall, tweeting that the country has 'taken advantage' of the United States.

In a Facebook post on a page for the Franklin, Tennessee, store, The Joy of Knitting owner, Elizabeth Poe, announced the ban on Tuesday and drew thousands of responses.

Mexican Vanity Fair rehashes slammed Melania Trump story

The article was originally published in GQ last year by Juilia Ioffe and contains claims the first lady's father, Viktor Knavs, was looked into for tax evasion. On Thursday, Mexican Vanity Fair unveiled the cover of its February 2017 issue on Twitter and claimed to have produced an 'advancement' on the story. In Spanish, the magazine wrote on Twitter: 'No, this is not a flattering story. We invite you to read the advancement on this report about Melania Trump.'

The adorable photo, shared to Ivanka Trump's Instagram on Thursday night, shows five-year-old Arabella pushing a bundled-up Joseph, three, on a swing at a Washington, DC, park.

Mike Pence became the first vice-president to ever address the annual March for Life which sees abortion opponents gather in the capital. President Trump tweeted his backing before the rally.

Women who took part in a 'census' by text message of Saturday's 'equality' marches inadvertently gave personal information to scores of 'partner' groups without being warned by organizers.

The president said in a Fox News interview Thursday that he hadn't seen waterboarding work, but had spoken to people who 'feel strongly about it'. He referred to it as not being actual torture.

Malia Obama takes on Trump's Dakota Access pipeline plan

On Monday, just four days after her father vacated the Oval Office, Malia Obama (left on Monday after the rally) made it clear just how disappointed she was in the new commander-in-chief by joining a rally protesting his plans to revive the Dakota Access pipeline project (bottom right). The 18-year-old student, who will be heading off to Harvard University later this year, was one of approximately 100 people who gathered on Main Street at the Sundance Film Festival to let it be known how upset she was with President Trump's plan to move forward with the controversial transport system. The group, which included Shailene Woodley (top right) braved the blistering cold and heavy snowfall as they held up signs reading 'Exist. Resist. Rise.' and 'Impeach corporate control.'

Former President Barack Obama's memoir would 'go for more than any president's memoir has ever gone', says Esther Newberg, co-head of ICM Partners' publishing unit.

Jason White, a Trump supporter, left a $450 tip for waitress Rosalynd Harris on Monday because Americans were 'all in the same boat' and needed to come together despite disagreements.

Drunk Japanese businessmen caught legless on metro

Pictures show Japanese workers slumped over on seats, sprawled out on their backs and sitting on train platforms next to their briefcases having had one too many after a hard-day's work. The images highlight the notorious post-work drinking culture in the country where some staff are given allowances to ensure they join in with work-based boozing sessions.

'The Modern Woman’s Guide to the Art of Self-Promotion', on Vogue, offers hints and tips on how to become a social media star while keeping your dignity - and your friends.

According to dentists, skipping the twice daily cleanse can lead to all sorts of health issues such as loose teeth, bleeding gums and even coronary heart disease.

A cluster of UFOs was filmed hovering over the border between the US and Mexico... but the footage has mysteriously disappeared from the internet

Creepy footage showing 'a fleet of UFOs' hovering over the border between the USA and Mexico has mysteriously disappeared from the internet. The 14 minute-long film showed a group of seven or eight lights dancing above a border control post in Tijuana, Mexico. The sight was so unusual that border staff even abandoned their posts to watch the 'UFOs' light up the sky.

This Oct. 13, 2016 booking image released by the Hardin County Detention Center, shows Stephen Kyle Goodlett, the former principal of LaRue County,Ky. High School.  Goodlett, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was indicted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography, news outlets reported. He admitted to seizing students¿ phones so that he could steal pornographic images from them and trade them online, investigators said.  He was fired after his arrest in October. (Hardin County Detention Center via AP)

Stephen Goodlett faces federal charges of possessing and transporting child porn. Investigators said he admitted to transporting the images to a thumb drive and sharing them online.

University of Hawaii researchers published the tale of a 56-year-old obese man who would often faint following a burst of laughter in the Journal of Medical Case Reports in 2008.

Maryland mansion pictured in haunting photos

Haunting images have revealed the crumbling interior of a once-luxurious 19th century Maryland mansion that has been left to rot after its wealthy owners moved on. The home looks as though it has been left in a hurry with not just the furniture left behind, but also books, pictures, toys, and even sporting trophies. With decaying walls, flaking paint and peeling wallpaper the mansion is a far cry from its former self.

Experts at California-based Intel Security provided the tips on the back of a UK survey which found that almost half of parents have no idea what their children are looking at online (stock image).

A mural of a gutted body hanging upside down with blood seeping out, is painted on an apartment building in Brussels on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Depicting details from Caravaggio and Dutch Master paintings, an anonymous street artist is the talk of the town and again asks that age-old question about art: how far can it go before it outrages just too much. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Two gory murals that appeared last weekend have made their anonymous artist the talk of Brussels, leaving locals to ask: How far can art go before it causes outrage?

Mischa Barton taken to hospital for mental evaluation

Mischa Barton was hospitalized after being found screaming on her backyard fence wearing just a shirt and tie, TMZ reported. The OC actress was voluntarily taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation after the incident Thursday morning, law enforcement sources told the website. Neighbors found the 31-year-old on top of her back-yard fence in West Hollywood screaming that her mother was a witch. She was also rambling about the 'world shattering', and something about Ziggy Stardust. Police and firefighters were called to the scene after being alerted about a jumper or possible overdose. Not long afterwards the Brit, who turned 31 just two days ago, tweeted: 'Thank you all for all the birthday messages Xoxo'. The tweet seemed to have been deleted as of Thursday evening.

Brandon Bostian, 33, the Amtrak engineer who was involved in a deadly 2015 crash in Philadelphia has sued the railroad, saying it failed to address reports that people were throwing projectiles at trains.

Women over the age of 50 with ductal carcinoma in situ - a precursor of breast cancer - were 10 per cent more likely to be alive ten years after their diagnosis than health women, Dutch researchers found.

She's got the moves! Steph Curry's adorable daughter Riley, 4, steals the show again with impromptu dab-off at father's high school jersey retirement

Riley Curry got into a dab off with a high school student on Tuesday. The four-year-old was attending her father's jersey retirement ceremony at Charlotte Christian High School in North Carolina. Sophomore Thomas Maye caught little Riley's eye from across the court and started dabbing at her. Precocious Riley mimicked Maye's moves back to him - sending the student section into cheers.

Michael Mastorovich, 54, is charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest, public drunkenness and criminal mischief. The Gateway School District says he has resigned.

A chance audition for Hollywood smash hit Lion has seen Indian Sunny Pawar, 8, thrust from life in a slum to international travel, premiers and A-list celebrities such as Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel

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'I'm an angel!': Naked woman brings rush hour traffic in Houston to a halt as she walks through lanes to retrieve her bra and 'shout at other drivers'

A naked woman stopped rush hour traffic in Houston by standing in the middle of a busy road and declaring she was an angel to other drivers, before retrieving her bra on Thursday. The incident was filmed by a passerby on the West Loop northbound at Westheimer. The unknown woman left her red Chevy unattended, walked through the car-filled street naked and chatted with shocked drivers. She allegedly said: 'I'm an angel! I'm an angel, where are the rest of them?' before retrieving her bra from the ground and driving away.

Larry Don Patterson and his cousin William Lloyd Harbour were sentenced to life prison terms on Thursday for murders of Valerie Janice Lane, 12, and Doris Karen Derryberry,13, in 1973.

According to a report by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office, founder and former CEO of CorePower Yoga Trevor Tice died accidentally after falling repeatedly while drunk and on a tranquilizer.

Judy Garland, who died in 1969, was removed from a mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York, on January 19 and flown out of JFK in a cargo hold of an American Airlines flight on Tuesday to Los Angeles.

The weapons were found among dozens of rockets hidden in a storage unit in Mosul with Iraqi troops claiming the haul presented a 'huge chemical threat'.

Zoos from across America have been battling it out by sharing snaps of their most adorable critters, tagged '#CuteAnimalTweetOff' - with entrants from Cincinnati, Virginia, New York and beyond.

The recipe for a Flu Fighting Tonic recipe contains six superfood ingredients, including trendy turmeric. Most of the ingredients contain antioxidants and boast impressive health benefits.

The missing Porsche of celebrity hairdresser Fabio Sementilli, who was fatally stabbed in his Los Angeles home, has been found and police hope it could provide evidence in their investigation.

Disneyland Resort in California is now taking reservations for its '21 Royal' private dining experience, which is hosted in a formally 'secret' space once intended to be Walt Disney's residence.

Police in Charlotte fatally shot Josue Javier Diaz (left and right) on Thursday. Diaz fled the scene after hitting an unmarked cop car and pulled a gun, police say. Protesters arrived quickly.

Researchers at the UW Medicine Sleep Center took blood samples from 11 pairs of identical twins with different sleep patterns. Every sleep-deprived twin had a weaker immune response.

Right there! Dog enjoys being groomed by a cat in purrfect video

hat's the spot! A sweet video shows a cat grooming a dog sitting nearby. The furry friends are seen together on the floor in the clip. The black-and-white cat licks behind the dog's head. The dog, meanwhile, reclines, with its head tilted up towards the ceiling. After several seconds of being groomed, the canine turns around and sees its feline 'stylist' - then gets up and walks off. It wasn't clear from the video where the cat tended to the dog.

Just 30 minutes of Zumba helps to burn 339 calories - the equivalent to a portion of fries from McDonald's. While a half-hour spin session can remove 270 calories, the same as a cheeseburger.

**MOVING OVERNIGHT THURSDAY, JAN 26**In this Jan. 18, 2017, photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, elk feed at the Wenaha Wildlife Area near Troy, Ore. A heavy snowfall this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other parts of the West has caused travel delays and other problems for people, but wildlife are also suffering, from deer and elk whose food sources are buried under snow and ice to cougars that had to forage in an Oregon town. (Keith Kohl/ Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)

The winter weather has taken its toll on wildlife in the American West with cougars forced from the mountains to prey on family pets in Oregon and tens of antelopes froze to death crossing a river.

The woman, 20, ran off down the street with her boyfriend's penis and, incredibly, the 23-year-old victim tried to cover for his lover by telling his parents in India that he had chopped it off himself.

In this undated photo made available by NASA, from left, veteran astronaut Virgil Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee, stand for a photograph in Cape Kennedy, Fla. During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside their capsule killing the three Apollo crew members. (NASA via AP)

On Friday's anniversary, the hatch that trapped Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee inside their capsule at the launch pad finally went on display at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

Jannet Sylva, 12, from The Gambia had had a tumor growing inside her mouth for the last three years. It had grown to the size of a grapefruit, but doctors successfully removed it and she is now recovering.

Nearly 50 people gathered Thursday at Audubon High School in New Jersey for the ceremonial return of Edward Dodds' ring after it was discovered in Papua New Guinea in 2013.

The star applied to adopt four-year-old twin sisters Stella and Esther at Lilongwe High Court in Malawi on Wednesday. She was pictured with security climbing into a white car after the hearing.

The gadget, which perform tasks through simple voice commands, has become the focus of annoyance to Alexas across the globe – because that is precisely the name to which the device answers.

An elderly man got himself stuck in between walls in Hubei, north-east China on January 24. The gap is only eight inches wide and firefighters used their strengths to push the wall out and save the man.

Microsoft Corp's market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, following another quarter of results that beat Wall Street's expectations.

Google is using historical parking data to warn users about the parking situation at their destination. Users just plug their destination into the parking difficulty icon to see a score of 'limited', 'medium' or 'easy'.

Playbuzz uploads pictures with well hidden cats

Cat lovers are sure to be enthralled by the latest series of difficult brainteasers to sweep the web. Playbuzz user SJoel has uploaded a series of fiendishly tricky puzzles featuring the popular pets - but even those who aren't big feline fans are sure to enjoy them. The images all appear to be cat-free at first glance - but on much, much closer inspection it's revealed there's a feline hiding somewhere in each one.

A couple who were found trying to enter Mexico with the body of a 2-year-old girl in a duffel bag have denied murdering her. Mercy Becerra and Johnny Hartley were stopped trying to cross into Tijuana.

Paxton Webb, 23, is still recovering in a Houston, Texas hospital after she was paralyzed from the waist down when a bullet severed her spine during a robbery at Katz Boutique on Christmas Eve.

Dieffenbach's, a Pennsylvania-based potato chip company, launched a new line called Uglies this month. The chips use potatoes that would otherwise be thrown out.

Ektachrome was phased out in 2012 but among professional filmmakers there has been a ‘resurgence’ in sales, New York-based Kodak revealed.

Chaka Laguerre, who is from the United States but is currently carrying out a 10-month clerkship at the UN court in The Hague claims she was 'roughed up' by Dutch police in a racially-motivated attack.

Video footage of a panda cub gnawing on a piece of rock in s Sichuan research centre was posted online on January 25. The panda cubs are residents of Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

A Massachusetts man is accused of attacking a Muslim airline employee at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, allegedly kicking and shouting obscenities at the woman.

Oh blast! Hapless car mechanic has his trousers ripped off by a stream of compressed air after walking over a high pressure hose

Hilarious CCTV security footage shows the unfortunate worker standing over a pump, normally used to inflate tyres, at a garage in Ussuriysk, Russia, before air shot underneath him. At the same time, the air blasted up through his anorak blowing his hood over his face. Worse, the video footage of his exposure has now made him a reluctant star on social media.

US female infantry Marines will be sleeping in makeshift shelters next to their male counterparts when out in the field and no special accommodation will be offered to them.

Don't do what a lot of people do in this terrifying situation, which is run to the toilet, says Emma Hammet, an experienced nurse at Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals.

Cheryl and Johnny Dearie from Baillieston, Glasgow, were blown away by the scan after they saw their unborn baby - at 16 weeks - 'wave' to them after they watched the amazingly clear 4D scan.

Almost half of refugees in Austria think religious law is more important than that of the country in which they live, according to a study published today.

Archaeologists have discovered more than 25 skeletons in the centre of the Cambridge University campus, and expect to discover dozens or more in the coming weeks.

Toronto-based YouTubers, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit, have released a video explaining what to pack, where to hide and what to expect during a nuclear attack.

Shocking footage shows Chinese motorists risking their lives on a highway to pick up loose banknotes. a man had left his wallet on the roof of a car on January 24 by accident.

Yanet García poses in lingerie in a YouTube video

Yanet García, 26, from Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico has shared a video of her posing in nothing more than a skimpy all in one with her YouTube followers. In the video which lasts two minutes and 37 seconds Yanet conducts a series of poses in the racy red lingerie. Since uploading the saucy clip just one day ago the video has already received over 318,000 views on her channel which has 210,000 subscribers.

Executions have been suspended for three years, and Ohio's efforts to restart capital punishment hit a new setback, as a federal judge declared its latest lethal injection process unconstitutional.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have found that being deprived of vitamin A while still in the womb could sow the seeds for the development of Alzheimer's disease

A motorist in New Mexico got the shock of his life when a huge gas hose adapter fell off a truck and smashed into his windshield on the Interstate.

The self-proclaimed Jew - and immigrant-hating 62-year-old identified only as Burghard B - was one of two people arrested in raids on properties in six different federal states in Germany.

In 2015, nearly 100,000 across the world underwent a labiaplasty, which involves trimming back the inner 'lips', figures from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery showed.

Arkansas 70-year-old man pledges a fraternity  

Gary Fryer, 70, became the latest pledge of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Arkansas Tech University after rushing in the fall semester of 2016. The former furniture salesman, who originally dropped out of the university in the 1960s, went through the bid process like any other freshman, attending mixers and receiving a 'big brother'. He returned to college last year and wanted the full college experience, prompting him to rush and join the same fraternity of his older brother.

A teenager who burgled a hairdressing salon in Granada, Spain and stole a hairdryer has been given a bizarre sentence - train as a hair stylist and then give the judge a trim.

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT An elderly man put the rat in a cage and drowned it in water on Thursday in eastern China, said an eyewitness. The rodent had apparently stolen corn, rice and meat.

Isha Price, the oldest sister of Venus and Serena Williams, says she will not be attending as her siblings play their Australian Open final on Saturday for fear of having to choose sides.

People around China are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Year of the Rooster, which begins on January 28. Festivities usually last for 16 days, from the Lunar New Year's Eve to Lantern's Festival.

Daniel Dropik, 33, who studies computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has enraged his fellow students for trying to start the local chapter of the American Freedom Party.

Eerie photos capture awe-inspiring shipwrecks

These vast ships once waged war and carried cargo across the ocean, but today they sit submerged like ghostly skeletons for divers to explore. Pictured, top, the bow of the USS Saratoga, a World War II aircraft carrier which sank in July 1946 in the waters of Bikini Atoll, the Marshall Islands; bottom left, the wreck of a small boat nestled amid the Shangri-La reef in the Philippines; and bottom right, the remains of Umbria, an Italian freighter that was sunk by its own captain in 1940 in the Sudanese Red Sea to stop British forces from stealing its precious cargo.

Rayyan Barakat was travelling back to London from Terminal 4 at JFK airport in New York on June 16 2016 when he saw the impromptu boogie break.

Al Judge and wife Kat run Alikats, which offers a collection of luxury chalets in the French ski resort of Morzine. MailOnline's Tammy Hughes sloped off to one - and found it irresistible.

The mum of a super-hairy baby has revealed he had his first hair-cut at just 20-weeks-old. Six-month-old Ash Patel of Renfrewshire shocked the doctor at his birth and is now his hair-dresser's youngest client.

Terry Edwards, 43, was given the lethal injection on Thursday in Dallas, Texas, and pronounced dead at 10.17pm. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing two Subway staff.

LaGrange Police Chief Louis Dekmar apologized for the heinous crime on Thursday evening during a public ceremony at the Warren Temple United Methodist Church.

The world's wackiest boats and yachts revealed

MailOnline Travel has rounded-up a selection of bizarre, inventive, and in some cases wanderlust-worthy boats, built to whisk the most eccentric seafarers around the world. Pictured, clockwise from top left - the water-skimming Proteus, built by an Italian engineer to cure his seasickness; The Love Love, brainchild of French designer Julien Berthier, who cut his boat in half then sealed it with fibreglass; the Seabreacher, a dolphin-inspired leaping submarine conceived by New Zealander Rob Innes and Californian Dan Piazz; the Amphibious Lamborghini, which was sold on eBay in the UK last year for upwards of £18,000; and Swedish designer Christian Bohlin's duck-shaped boat, which boasts a sauna in the bow.

One-year-old Pooh and eight-month-old Steven are on the mend and chasing toy mice around the veterinary surgery in Sofia, Bulgaria after being hit by a car or a train in horrible accidents.

Georgy Urumov, 37, and Vladimir Gersamia, 33, swindled Russian-owned banking group Otkritie. They then moved money to different accounts throughout the world to hide their crime.

A mentally ill woman in China was locked in a cage by her family for 10 years. An 18-year-old student came across the woman in her enclosure while he was out hiking.

A Japanese technology company, NTT Resonant, has invented a robot designed to dish out love advice. The system, called Oshi-el, can show sympathy, suggest a solution to the problem.

The video showed The La Hacienda hotel in Peru (pictured) perching on the edge of the river bank before it collapsed and plunged into the overflowing river Sicra which was beneath it.

Niamh McManus, from Redcar in North Yorkshire, shared a snap of her Beauty Blender bobbing in murky brown water on Twitter. Her brother drank it thinking it was a cup of tea, she said.

A real bridezilla! Witty woman plays a hilarious prank on her stunned fiance on their wedding day by arriving at the ceremony in a T-REX COSTUME

Elizabeth Gardner, 30, from Chicago, left her husband Thomas in fits of laughter when she arrived for their wedding dressed in a dinosaur costume. His shocked expression, pictured bottom left, was captured on camera in a video that has been watched over 2.6million times. The couple, pictured, got married in North Carolina in November.

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What it's like to be eaten by a lion: Astonishing moment big cat tries to swallow a photographer's GoPro which films footage from inside its mouth

The curious cat approached the camera by a road in South Africa's Mala Mala game reserve before trying to eat it. Unsurprisingly, the cat didn't enjoy the taste and spat it out 20 minutes later. The owner of the GoPro, who was on a photographic safari, said: 'We came across a coalition of four male lions conducting their territorial patrol. I drove up the road ahead of them and positioned my GoPro on the road to get a ground level shot of all four lions walking. However, the first male had other ideas.'

Ruby the eight-year-old miniature poodle from Inverness has worked out that if she lies on top of a fluffy brown bed throw she cannot be seen - but the only downside is her owners keep sitting on her.

A Chinese father has trained his five-year-old son to lift weights and walk on wires to build his confidence. However experts have warned that the father's behaviour may have a negative effect.

A Welsh corgi is so lazy it did not move when its owner pushed him around her home in the Philippines. The dog, called Logan, would not even play with a toy when it was in its mouth.

Fascinating images of UK flights, dating back to the 1950s, have emerged revealing that ‘skycots’ were attached to the overhead luggage bin, with children placed inside for the journey’s duration.

Two men filming rough seas on their phones are wiped out by a huge wave that comes over the top of the ocean wall

Dramatic video shows the men standing near a sea wall in Redondo Beach, California, when the massive wall of surf crashes down on them. The man standing nearest the sea wall loses his footing and is swept towards the other, who grabs onto a rope barrier which they cling onto until the swell subsides.

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Antarctica captured in black and white photos

Dramatic pictures captured by American photographer Christopher Michel, highlight the unforgiving environment of Antarctica and the Arctic. But they also show people and industries braving the elements in the North and South Poles and battling the same icy conditions faced by explorer Captain Scott a century ago. Michel has visited the Antarctic five times and the Arctic twice, capturing the polar caps in black and white.

Cui Yubo, 60, is working as a street sweeper at the Kangle Real Estate Compound in Yakeshi city, in the northern part of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Footage shows Juan Carvajal, 17, from Club de Muchachos Nueva Casarapa in Venezuela, being attended to by medics who inspect his injured leg.

The collection includes framed portraits, unframed portraits and preparatory sketches that have sat untouched for three decades in Hadlow Tower in Tonbridge, Kent, where Bernard Hailstone lived.

Outrigger Koh Samui beach resort features 52 standalone 'rooms' boasting plunge pools and drool-worthy designs, MailOnline Travel's Jennifer Smith reports.

Make-up junkies flaunt their VERY stylish beauty rooms

Those lucky enough to have their own private cosmetic cave at home have been proudly showing them off on Instagram. Standout features include (clockwise from top left) product walls, and Hollywood mirrors while many have gone for a monochrome of sugar pink theme, while others showcase their designer shoes and Chanel handbags in addition to their products.

   

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