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Delaware prison guard Sergeant Steven Floyd, 47, was found dead on Thursday morning after police entered Building C of the Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna following the 20-hour siege. A female counselor was found alive when police breached the building just after 5am. She was rushed to hospital but is 'alert and talking'. Floyd was a 16-year veteran of the Department of Corrections. Police could not confirm how or when Floyd died. Prisoners took over part of the jail and seized the three officers and one counselor at 10.30am on Wednesday in a protest over President Donald Trump. All 120 inmates who were inside the building when the siege broke out are now suspects.

Brittney Jones (left) shared a video of herself performing a sex act on a man outside a courtroom in Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday before she was due to face a judge on drugs charges. The 26-year-old, who has since deleted the footage from Twitter, had boasted that the explicit video was her way of trying to get her charges dropped. Authorities, who are no investigating, said the shocking incident occurred during business hours at the court and security cameras recorded the sex act. She filmed herself scanning the empty corridor (right) outside a courtroom before she performed the sex act on a man sitting on a bench.

Dannielynn Birkhead was just five months old when her mother Anna Nicole Smith died from a prescription drugs overdose. Now she lives with her father Larry Birkhead in Kentucky. Birkhead reveals in a new TV interview this week that he had to tell his 10-year-old daughter that she wasn't one of the ten richest children in America after spotting a video on YouTube. 'She wanted to go to the mall. And I'm like, "No it's not that. trust be, it's not that".'

Ivanka Trump enjoyed a night out with daughter Arabella on Wednesday as the two made their way to the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC to attend a party celebrating the lunar new year. Guests at the event surrounded the 35-year-old daughter of President Donald Trump as she entered the party accompanied by Arabella and their host for the evening, Ambassador Cui Tiankai. Ivanka's evening with China's ambassador to the United States came just two months after her host had some less than kind words to say about President Trump following the news that he had spoken with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan after winning the election and violated the White House's 'One China' policy.

A Treasury memorandum described specific sanctions being rolled back despite accusations last year that Moscow had launched cyber attacks to try to influence the U.S. presidential election. The Treasury Department said in a statement that the move will would allow U.S. companies to make limited transactions with the intelligence service that are needed to gain approval to import information technology products into Russia. The Trump White House insisted an hour later that the decision reflected 'a fairly common practice' following the implementation of international sanctions regimes. 'We're not easing sanctions,' White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters.

President Donald Trump requested prayers for his 'Apprentice' replacement, Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a religious gathering on Thursday morning in Washington. He skewered the movie star for running the television show into the ground this season, claiming, 'It's been a total disaster.' 'And I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings, okay?' he said. Schwarzenegger, a former governor of California, quickly responded with a dig of his own in a video message that he posted to Twitter (top right). 'Hey Donald, I have a great idea. Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV because you're such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job. And then, people can finally sleep comfortably again. Hmm?' Trump left the NBC program that's produced by Mark Burnett to run for president.

The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was looking into whether more civilians were killed in a raid on al Qaeda in Yemen on the weekend, in the first operation authorized by President Donald Trump as commander in chief. The raid, which claimed the lives of U.S. Navy SEAL William 'Ryan' Owens and the 8-year-old daughter of militant Anwar al-Awlakiwas, was said to be ordered without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations. Trump traveled to Dover Air Base on Wednesday to meet Owens' family.

Neil Gorsuch, who is the president's Supreme Court pick, set up a paper when he was a Columbia University student. In it he bashed liberals and the left as 'whining children', DailyMail.com reveals. Gorusch, now 49, set up The Federalist Paper with two other students - and robust headlines followed. He graduated in political science and went to Harvard Law School, Copies of the paper seen by DailyMail,com show how it published articles in line with the conservative beliefs Gorsuch holds. Gorsuch himself wrote a series of articles.about topics including gays in the military. And one editorial mocked Joe Biden and suggested he was an intellectual lightweight - because of his role in a contentious Supreme Court nomination.

Evangelist Paula White joined Trump at the White House meeting, hours after the President posted a picture of his close allies in a moment of prayer (inset). White (main picture) sat to the President's right as key Trump supporters discussed the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in the Roosevelt Room. She heads a group of evangelical leaders which will provide feedback to the President during his administration.

The woman clutched her head in her hands after being lashed with a cane after being found guilty of having sex outside of wedlock, which is against Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia. Pictures show how the woman was forced to kneel on the ground on the public stage in front of a mosque in Indonesia's Aceh province. Looking fearful, the man who hands out the punishment uses a cane to crack her across the back 26 times for violating the law as a crowd of people look on.

The award-winning interiors, featuring homes from Italy to Australia, have all been presented with the coveted Best of Houzz prize, which are given out in the first month of each year. The images represent the most popular kitchens as selected by the 40 million homeowners, builders and interior designers among users of the website Houzz. Pictured (clockwise from top left), a Scandi style kitchen in Sweden, a tall kitchen with wooden beams in the US, an Australian kitchen that opens to the outdoors, and an understated white and blue kitchen in Ireland.

Calah Waskow (left), 15, of Georgia, described for Dr Phil how she and Jason Johnson (right), 37, were lying naked on his couch when the man's daughter, her friend, caught them in the act, then went upstairs. Waskow went missing from her home in Evans, Georgia, on December 4, setting of an Amber Alert. She was found a week later in a candy store in Sevierville, Tennessee, 200 miles away from home, along with Johnson, who was already wanted on unrelated child molestation charges.

The drug-crazed man, identified as Zhenya, broke into a house in Omsk where he found a teenager and her grandmother and started demanding narcotics from them. When it became clear they didn't have any, he made the family call the police so that he could get his fix in exchange for the girl's freedom. The dramatic video shows a SWAT team pacing in to free the girl and arrest the man.

A middle school teacher is fighting to keep her job after it was revealed she was an adult film actress in at least 16 productions. Resa Woodward taught sixth grade science at the Young Women's Science Technology Engineering and Math Academy at Balch Springs Middle School in Dallas, Texas, and was placed on administrative leave in late November. Woodward said she was forced into pornography more than a decade ago, and has since received a master's degree and pay increases for her work as a teacher.

She delightedly announced her pregnancy just hours before.  And pregnant Beyonce, who is expecting twins, shared an intimate insight into her pregnancy atop life with her husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy in an onslaught of personal snaps shared to her website on Thursday.  The 35-year-old songstress posted the snaps with the caption: 'I have three hearts' emblazoned across, while giving a rare glimpse into her wedding day, holidays with her family and stunning behind the scenes shots of her concerts. 

Abby Pollak, 23, struggled with an eating disorder in her late teens and would often eat fewer than 1,000 calories a day. She was 20lbs. underweight and had a thin, boyish figure. After enlisting the help of a nutritionist and personal trainer, she gained weight and lots of muscles. She now eats 1,700 calories a day and has seen her butt grow naturally.

Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan will be celebrating his first birthday on February 5. In honor of the occasion the palace released a stunning portrait of the baby son of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema. The little Crown Prince celebrates his birthday the same month as his dad, who will be turning 37 on February 21.

A New York-based photographer (pictured in his prime on the far left photograph) took a photo a day for 18 years until he died from cancer at 41 years old. Jamie Livingston kept a photo diary of more than 6000 pictures after buying a Polaroid camera in 1979. His diary covers all aspects of his life - from his marriage to the final moments on his deathbed. His portfolio has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at Bard College.

Search crews found the body of Metro Nashville Police Officer Eric Mumaw, 44, in the Cumberland River. Mumaw drowned while trying to rescue 40-year-old Juli Glisson, who relatives said was contemplating suicide and drove her car into the river. River conditions were brutal, with a fast current on top of cold temperatures. A Nashville fire department diver found Mumaw’s body about 70 yards from the boat dock just after 8 am on Thursday.

A 12-year-old girl was raped by a family friend who then killed her by throwing her alive down a 330 ft mineshaft, police in Russia said. Suspect Evgeny Bukharin, 40, offered the girl a ride on his snowmobile when she was waiting at a bus stop on a visit to her adult sister, it is alleged. But he took Viktoria Reymer, from the Russian city of Novokuznetsk, to his own house, where he sexually attacked her, according to investigators.

The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has created the world's first 3D-printed bridge (pictured). The creation, which is 12 metres long, is printed on micro-refined concrete. The construction is a milestone for the technology as it is the first time it has been used in construction and the architects (inset) say they want to do more projects like this in the future.

From threatening to give noisy little ones coffee or teaching them to swear to selling them to the circus, the tongue in cheek posters are a reminder that diners prefer children to be seen, and not heard. The spoof signs warn parents of dire consequences if they fail to keep kids in check, including their offspring being sold to the circus (above, centre) or traded in for donuts (below, centre).

From organizing your pantry to taking the perfect selfie, social media is filled with helpful hacks to make your life easier. But some have had enough of the lifestyle tips, which are often time consuming and difficult to replicate. They have taken to photo-sharing site Imgur to post spoof hacks - from a shopping trolley shelf (left) to a keyboard hanger (right) and a quick fix to changing the color of your iPhone (inset) to make others chuckle.

Precious Nyathi (left), from the village of Gokwe, in the north west of Zimbabwe, was eight months pregnant when she went into labour. But her husband, Mr Nomore, was left baffled when the 36-year-old gave birth to 'something strange' which resembled an amphibious creature (right). The baby later died in hospital before village elders ordered that the 'frog-like creature' be burnt in front of a crowd of horrified residents. Inset: A village leader inspects the corpse.

MailOnline Travel has compiled a collection of frankly terrifying play areas from around the world, which you might want to avoid paying a visit to with your children. Pictured clockwise from top left, a wonky Thomas the Tank Engine in Kazakhstan; a disturbing tunnel arrangement in South Korea; a climbing frame draped with plastic skeletons at the Heilig-Kreuz Kirche church in Munich, Germany; a slide with a scenic view of an unknown graveyard; and (inset) a creepy playground in Russia.

On Tuesday, a family in Texas found a rattlesnake swimming in their toilet. Mom Cassie Mcfadden killed the snake with a shovel. The family then called a pest control company for help, which found 24 snakes living in the cellar and underneath the house.

The leopard dragged the doomed impala out of the water and started chowing down on the stricken creature, in a gruesome attack lasting just seconds in South Africa's Kruger National Park. It comes as the crafty leopard seem to have perfected a unique method for catching prey - surprising them while drinking water. The dramatic scene was caught on camera by Simon Vegter, a safari guide from Wild Wings Safaris during a trip to the park.

Hilarious footage shows a dog tip-toeing up behind a cat as it snoozes in a basket, before leaping on top of it and sending the terrified feline flying across the room. 'Something tells me this is now the puppy's favorite thing to do ever,' a viewer commented, with another agreeing: 'Yah, his whole body language said, "Damn, that worked better than I expected."' It's unclear where the video was filmed.

Incredible images taken on February 1 show people in China queuing to pray to the God of Wealth. On the fifth day of the New Year, people go to the temple to pray for good fortune. Nearly 600 thousand people visited the Guiyan Temple in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei province.

Amazing video footage shows brave slackliners taking part in in The Extreme Highline and walking with cable cars hundreds of metres above Moleson ski resort, Switzerland. In the clip, the daredevils can be sen making their way across the valley while a spectacular sunset spreads it's fiery colours across the sky. It doesn't all go smoothly however, and one slackliner can be seen falling off - although thankfully their safety equipment lets them hang below before they get back up again.