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Gary Lee Sampson, 57, was handed his death sentence in a Boston court on Friday for murdering two men in a 2001 car-jacking. He received a separate life sentence for killing his third victim. He erupted in court with an outburst of profanity directed at U.S. District Judge Leo Sorkin who was sentencing him to execution. Massachusetts' state laws do not allow for the death penalty but Sampson was tried in federal court because his killings began with carjackings, which is a federal crime. Family members of Sampson's three victims - Philip McCloskey, 69, (bottom left) Jonathan Rizzo, 19, (top right) and Robert Whitney, 58 (top left) - confronted him during the hearing with McCloskey's son Scott saying he hoped Sampson rotted in hell.

A California sex offender was sentenced to death on Friday for kidnapping and murdering four women during a six-month span in Orange County. Steven Dean Gordon (pictured in court on Friday), who was convicted last year of killing the women in 2013 and 2014, was sentenced in Superior Court in Santa Ana. Some of the killings took place while the now-48-year-old was being tracked via a GPS monitoring device he wore on his ankle due to previous sex crime convictions.

In 1945, days before the end of the Second World War, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese torpedo. Hundreds of sailors were left to fight off attack after attack by sharks. A new film - USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage (pictured, left) - has just come out on DVD. But it really does not do justice to the story of the crew (top right), many of whom survived (bottom right).

Pan American Airlines pioneered the era of commercial flight from its bold inception in the late 1920s and won fame as history's most iconic airline, thanks in part to its alluring ads and trailblazing routes. Pictured, clockwise from the left, one of their attractive posters, and the twin-engined amphibious aircraft model, the Sikorsky S-38. Inset is the company's first logo from 1929.

West Texas police have arrested 25-year-old Robert Fabian, boyfriend of Sul Ross University student Zuzu Renee Verk, 22, who went missing near Alpine after going on a date with him in October. Human remains found in a shallow grave on Friday morning may be Verk's who disappeared nearby. Fabian has been charged with tampering or fabricating physical evidence by concealing a human corpse. He was named a primary suspect by police two weeks after Verk's disappearance.

Press secretary Sean Spicer said the White House is investigating leaks of phone calls between Trump and Mexico and Australia. The president reportedly hung up on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (top right) last week in his 'worst call' that day. In an earlier call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (bottom right) about paying for a wall on the southern U.S. border, Trump said he might send the US military to Mexico to stop drug cartels.

The Celebrity Apprentice host told the Men's Journal he suggested the idea to his assistant when he proposed organizing a one-hour meeting with his predecessor. But insisted he had to be 'above all that' and would instead just put him on the spot. The former Governor of California said he made the remarks after Trump tweeted about the opening night ratings of the NBC show he left before taking office. 'I said, "Let's sit on it for an hour," ' Schwarzenegger told the magazine. 'I called my assistant and said, "I think what we really should do is request a meeting and go back to New York.... And then we just smash his face into the table."' Schwarzenegger, who has been vocal in his opposition against Trump, shot back at president's Friday morning tweet that trashed his record as Governor. But where Trump used words, Schwarzenegger opted to simply link to a 2006 article about how he released his tax records. 

Haeli Way, 29, had been arrested in December 2015 after allegedly engaging in sexual activity with two 17-year-old boys. She was a teacher at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. She will not have to register as a sex offender and her attorney said she will likely get probation when she is sentenced on March 10.

Larry King took to Twitter on Friday to reveal the death of ex-wife Alene Akins, mother of two of his five children, 'So very saddened over the passing of Alene Akins, who died peacefully with our children Chaia and Andy by her side,' the 83-year-old tweeted on Friday afternoon. 'She was a grand lady.' There were no further details of the cause of death. 

Gearing up for the Super Bowl 51 match up between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots in Houston, Texas on Sunday, sneak peaks of the highly anticipated commercials have emerged. Featuring a star-studded cameos by celebrities and athletes, it appears that this year's advertising lineup could be the best one yet. From hilarious mix-ups, like Richard Sherman touring Houston, Scotland by accident, and a powerful nod to women's equality by Audi, the batch of Super Bowl LI commercials prove they can use their placement for humor, and to raise awareness of important issues.

A nine-year-old girl's voice trembled with fear as she yelled for her father to pull over in a 911 call to report he was driving drunk. Wesley Burgner, 36, was drinking while driving the 300-some miles from Atlanta to St. Simons Island in Georgia with his two daughters in the car, police said. The young girl expressed her fears that they would crash and die, and police eventually arrested Burgner, who faces DUI and child endangerment charges, police said.

Julia Laureano, a freshman at the University of West Florida was hospitalized when she was hit Thursday afternoon. Laureano and her friend were trying to get photos with an oncoming train in the background.

Some of America's richest people are spending billions quietly preparing for a global Apocalypse and building boltholes in New Zealand. They include the billionaire hedge-fund pioneer Julian Robertson (third from left) and the Hollywood film director James Cameron (third from right). Others, like Mark Zuckerberg (far left) and Larry Ellison (far right), have chosen Hawaii. They fear nuclear war (inset) and the collapse of western civilisation. Steve Huffman (second from right), co-founder of Reddit, has had laser surgery because he does not want to rely on post-apocalyptic opticians.

Hand in hand, Prince Harry and his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle (left) walk through the streets of London as rumors of an impending engagement continue to grow. The prince was pictured holding hands with the American-born divorcee (inset), who has been spending a lot of time with him at Kensington Palace since the beginning of the year, after a romantic dinner at trendy private members' club Soho House on Wednesday. Harry, 32, was said by onlookers to be relaxed about being photographed with his new love (right), which is being seen by royal watchers as a sign of how seriously he is taking the relationship. Another indication is that Miss Markle, 35, who is based in Canada where she films the hit television show Suits, has found a sitter for her dogs, Guy and Bogart, who live with her in Toronto.

Sarah Stern (top inset), of Neptune City, New Jersey, was allegedly strangled to death by former high school classmate Liam McAtasney (right), 19, when he was robbing her in early December. The 19-year-old was then allegedly thrown off a 50 foot bridge by McAtasney and his friend Preston Taylor (left), who had taken Stern to prom in 2014. Her father parents (bottom inset) faced the men responsible for his only child's death on Thursday. All three teenagers had attended the same high school in Neptune City, New Jersey. McAtasney was allegedly robbing Stern after she had recently withdrawn a large sum of money from a bank.

The comedian said Friday he and his wife had no idea she had a condition that caused blockages in her arteries. The blockages, combined with her taking the medications Adderall, Xanax and the pain medication fentanyl, caused his wife's death in April 2016, according to Patton Oswalt, who said coroner's officials had informed him of his wife's cause of death. 'We learned today the combination of drugs in Michelle's system, along with a condition we were unaware of, proved lethal,' Oswalt said. Los Angeles coroner's Lieutenant David Smith said McNamara's cause of death remains listed as pending.

Transexual and transgender people are often shunned in the largely conservative country, and many choose to retreat to a community on the island of Java. Here they could, until last year, attend an Islamic boarding school for transgender learners, thought to be the only one in the world. Now the waria - a term which combines the Indonesian words 'wanita' and 'pria', which mean woman and man - often gather in the building to pray, but the school shut after a public outcry last year. Nevertheless, defiant teachers continue to hold occasional classes for those of the 42 students who continue their learning.

Dental technician Gary Archer has been creating cinema's chompers for more than 20 years. Archer, a Los Angeles-based British expat, is a dental technician known for creating the smiles of some of the silver screen's most memorable characters. He shares the story behind Austin Powers's gnarly grin, Blade's fantastic fangs and other memorable creations.

Model Alexandra Kutas, 23, who lives in Dnipro, Ukraine, told Femail: 'I think this could be a real game-changer in the fashion world. Alexandra, who suffered a spinal cord injury at birth, has never been able to walk - but that hasn't stopped her from chasing her dreams. With the help of New York-based friend Blake Wind, who is also in a wheelchair, she was put into contact with acclaimed Ukrainian fashion designer Fedor Vozianov, who offered to make her the face of his upcoming collection in two runway shows.

South Africa's 'pink' one-day international against Sri Lanka encountered an unexpected hazard when a swarm of bees interrupted play for almost half an hour at the Wanderers. The hosts, who took the field wearing the pink strip used annually in aid of charitable causes, were held up three times in all when the bees flew into Johannesburg. Players on both teams fell to the floor in evasive action during Sri Lanka's innings - but when the swarm moved in for a third time and showed no sign of a quick exit, officials decided it was time to call for the experts.

The Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization (bottom right), which will appear Saturday in Destination America's new show 'Killing Bigfoot', responds to reported Sasquatch sightings, hunting down each specimen. Members of the GCBRO, which include former cops as well as National Guard and military veterans, have no doubts about the existence of the creature. The group says on its website that several of its hunters have witnessed it with their own eyes. They use night-vision equipment, microphones and thermal imaging to try to capture traces of the animal (upper right). But GCBRO investigator Don Mcdonald (left) said it's hard to catch a Sasquatch on camera, possibly because of the creature's sharp vision.

A neglected dog whose matted ball of dirty fur made her breed unidentifiable has had a haircut and given a name as the RSPCA launch an investigation into how she ended up resembling a 'dirty mop'. The tiny shih tzu has been named Rosie and was handed into a veterinary practice in Bury after she was found by a member of the public. In addition to her overgrown coat her flesh was covered in deep wounds and her skin was bleeding. Rosie is thought to be aged between three and six-years-old, had no microchip or ID tag when she was handed in to vets.

The impressive giant puzzle, created by German artist Clemens Habicht, features all the colours in the CMYK spectrum. This makes it extremely difficult to complete, as tiles next to each other are almost identical in colour - but not exactly the same. In the time-lapse video, the jigsaw builders can be seen completing the edges of the puzzle first, before moving inwards.