Former President Barack Obama unwound from eight years in the White House with some extreme sports on his Caribbean vacation with billionaire friend Richard Branson. New photos show the newly-retired Obama going kite-surfing with Branson during a recent vacation on the Virgin founder's private island. The worries of the White House are clearly far from Obama's mind in the pictures - as he horses around with Branson on the boat, smiles widely for the cameras and then catches some air on his kite-surfing board.
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In footage from the 2017 MAKERS conference released on Monday, Hillary Clinton spoke out about breaking glass ceilings and the Women's Marches that took place last month. This was Clinton's first video statement since President Donald Trump was inaugurated last month. She said that 'now more than ever' women need to 'be bold' and 'step up and speak out'. She said that the women of today are 'the heroes and history makers, the glass ceiling breakers of the future'. In January, the former secretary of state and first lady praised the 'awe-inspiring' women and men who took to the streets of Washington, DC, and other cities around the world to protest the newly installed Trump Administration.
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'I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy - yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!' Trump tweeted.
Brittany Jones (left) and Jeremiah Robinson (right) are wanted on charges in Jacksonville, Florida after Jones tweeted a video of herself giving Robinson oral sex inside a courtroom.
Five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen arrived in Boston Monday following her husband's historic Super Bowl victory. The pair were seen disembarking an Under Armour jet with their two adorable children, Vivian and Benjamin. Brady's sister, Nancy Brady, and her new husband Steve Bonelli, were also seen getting off the plane. After the luggage was loaded into the vehicles, the Patriots star gave a baggage handler a cash tip with a thumbs up and a smile. Meanwhile, Patriots defense coordinator, Matt Patricia (inset), made sure he had the last laugh by wearing a clown T-shirt with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's face on it, as the rest of the team arrived in Boston on Monday. It's no secret that there's been tension between the Patriots franchise and Goodell, who penalized the entire team following the Deflategate scandal. Patricia's shirt seemed to signify Brady and the Patriots getting the ultimate revenge by winning Super Bowl LI after Goodell fined the team $1 million in 2015. Goodell also suspended Brady for the first four games of the 2016 season and denied the team two draft picks.
Florida readers learned a different outcome of Super Bowl LI than most Americans, as early editions of the Boston Globe ran a front page that suggested the Patriots lost to the Atlanta Falcons.
Some Trump supporters are calling for boycotts of major American companies including Coca-Cola and Budweiser following Super Bowl ads that were seen as political rebukes to the president.
As Britney Spears' niece Maddie recovers from a devastating ATV accident, it has been reported that she should never have been in the vehicle to begin with. TMZ has obtained an instruction manual for the Polaris RZR 170 - the model the eight-year-old was riding - which states that no child under the age of 10 should be permitted to drive or be a passenger in the vehicle.
A Baylor University strength and conditioning coach was arrested on Saturday on solicitation of a prostitution charge. Deputies arrested Brandon Washington, 33, at a local hotel.
The function on websites would allow an officer working remotely to access the chat and offer advice to anyone feeling vulnerable - or at risk of being groomed by paedophiles.
The series of yearbook pictures - and their accompanying messages - feature in a hilarious online gallery, and include everything from hair faux pas to comedy quotes. Alexander's snap revealed he is graduating high school as a virgin (left) and a young woman made a joke out of the common misconception that blondes are dumb (centre) while Maxwell joked about his sexuality's impact on his sartorial skills (right).
Police in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, Russia have offered a £40,000 reward for the capture of this man who is suspected of murdering 32 elderly women over a two-year period.
Beyonce is set to join a long list of celebrity mothers of twins, including Mariah Carey and J Lo, and now experts say that stars should be more open if their multiple births are a result of IVF.
The new President was uncharacteristically silent about this past weekend's Saturday Night Live had Melissa McCarthy play White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. According to a source close to the president, Trump was the most bothered by Spicer's portrayal as a woman. McCarthy played a belligerent Sean Spicer who makes up facts and gets easily rattled by the press.
Rosie O'Donnell has said she would impersonate Steve Bannon on Saturday Night Live after President Donald Trump reacted negatively to Melissa McCarthy's embodiment of Sean Spicer.
The Justice Department filed a brief on Monday urging a federal appeals court to reinstate Trump's travel ban, saying that a judge's order blocking it endangers national security.
Donald Trump's pick for secretary of labor Andrew Puzder admitted that he had an undocumented immigrant on his payroll for years as household help on Monday.
Last week's Navy SEAL raid on Yemen had the objective to kill or capture al Qaeda's head operative in the Arabian Peninsula. But Qassim al-Rimi is still alive, and has taunted Trump in audio message.
Owner Fernando Franco (right) said he received a racist note at his restaurant Di Frabo in San Antonio on Friday. The receipt said the customers would not be back to eat, despite the good food and service because Franco was Mexican (left). Franco is originally from Mexico City, Mexico, and said it was the first time he felt unwelcome in the United States after the racist remark was signed off with 'America first'. Since the incident Franco has received an outpouring of support online, causing him to thank his community (inset).
The Putin Administration demanded an apology after Bill O'Reilly asked Trump why he respected the Russian leader in an interview that aired before Sunday's Super Bowl.
The Russian president has launched a spot check on the country's forces, in order to 'evaluate readiness' for combat, defence minister Sergey Shoigu has revealed.
Donald Trump told Fox News interviewer Bill O'Reilly that criminal aliens get a pass from Democrats because they're trying to secure their future support.
The White House has released a list of 78 terror attacks that the press had 'ignored' following President Donald Trump's claims that the media was 'very, very dishonest'. The attacks dated from September 2014 to December 2016, all of which the president believed were 'underreported'. It included attacks in Orlando, San Bernardino, Brussels, Nice and the Bataclan in Paris. Trump claimed that terror attacks are happening 'all over Europe' but they weren't being covered. Sean Spicer told reporters aboard Air Force One: 'There's a lot of instances where I don't think they've gotten the coverage it deserved.' The comments come after Kellyanne Conway invented a so-called 'Bowling Green Massacre' over the weekend.
A New Zealand chef based in New York City has weighed in the strict immigration policies in the US, by adding a politically-charged note to the bottom of his customer receipts.
The Detroit River, which winds for 28 miles from Lake St Clair to Lake Erie, is home to objects which have been dumped in the water since the city's founding. Hundreds of guns including a mid-20th century Carbine rifle , cars including a Jeep Cherokee and 1980s DeLorean, a stolen war memorial statue and a 6,000 pound anchor from historic steamship 'Greater Detroit' reflect only some of the diverse objects found. And that's not even mentioning the six 1700s-era cannons that have been found since the 1980s.
Gregory Dennis, 54, was charged for killing his wife, Susan Winters, back in 2015, in an alleged suicide-murder plot where the psychologist would gain a hefty inheritance. He posted bail on Monday.
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg's charity has pledged $3million to tackle the Silicon Valley housing crisis - after he spent $30million to buy five homes in the area to stop neighbors from moving in.
San Francisco transit janitor, Liang Zhao Zhang (left), who earned more than $250,000 in one year - $160,000 in overtime - was caught hiding for several hours in a closet (right) not working. Zhang, earned $57,945 in 2015 for cleaning San Francisco's Powell Street station. But public records released by Transparent California, show that Zhang also made an additional $162,050 in overtime, bringing his total salary and benefits that year to $271,243, according to an investigation by KTVU. Zhang's timecard data showed that he worked every day in 2015, and most days he worked overtime. BART paid Zhang for working 17-hour days for 18 days straight in July 2015. BART has never investigated Zhang's time cards, despite him earning more than $705,000 between 2012 and 2015. Over a two-day period, Zhang (inset) was spotted in the janitor's closet for more than three hours. Another 49 BART janitors who earned more than $100,000 in 2015, were not investigated or audited by the company, according to KTVU's investigation. The agency's spokesperson, Alicia Trost, said in an email that there is no future audit being considering after even after the investigation. BART administration says that Zhang's supervisor approved all of his timesheets and overtime, and they insist he is one of their best employees.
Robert M. Gill is getting reacquainted with his jail cell after he fled police following an alleged drug deal in San Antonio, on Thursday. His original life sentence was pardoned by Obama in 2015.
Los Angeles rapper, The Game, has been charged with one misdemeanor count each of criminal threats and battery, and one felony count of grand theft, landing him three years of probation.
You may think you're the main attraction when you reach to take a selfie...but as this rib-tickling collection of images prove, a distracting background can upstage even the biggest prima donna. From X-rated acts to some terrible personal habits, here's a group of selfies that offer a little something extra.
Internet users have been challenged with finding the single one-eyed Jack concealed in this scattered deck of colourful cards. The brainteaser will prove especially tricky as the card is hidden among other Jacks, Kings and Queens of all suits. A quick glance might not reveal where the Jack is hidden, but take a closer look at the cards beneath the top layer and you might have more luck.
Wearing the right colour make-up for your skintone, eye colour and hair hue can totally revamp your look for the better - you just need to know how to figure out yours.
A new guide reveals how to store different types of chocolate, including truffles. Most items need to be kept in a dark place at a cool room temperature, but fresh cream truffles need to be kept in the fridge.
A Danish politics student who trained as a sniper to fight Isis in Syria has told how she has 'lost everything' after being labelled a terrorist - and now faces assassination by Isis. Joanna Palani, 23, dropped out of college to join the battle against jihadis in Syria, spending nine-day stretches alone on the frontline with her Russian sniper rifle trained on Isis targets, inset. Now she is in hiding and is facing jail in her adopted country for defying authorities who banned her from fighting jihadis. In an exclusive interview, she told MailOnline why she risked her freedom to fight Isis in Syria, left, her gruelling regime as a crack-shot sniper, and the devastating toll of war on her life. She said: 'I was willing to give up my life and my freedom. But I am seen as a terrorist by my own country.'
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Iraqi officers fired their guns into the clear Mosul sky as newlyweds Jassem, 20, and Rana, 18, made their way to his family home in the eastern half of the city which has been finally liberated from ISIS.
From an apartment at the Eiffel Tower to an abandoned ballroom above Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, MailOnline Travel unlocks the secrets of top tourist attractions across the globe. Pictured: The kilometre-long Vasari corridor in Florence that contains artwork from the 16th and 17th centuries and was used exclusively by one family for 200 years (left); the hidden Hall of Records which lies beneath Lincoln's head at Mount Rushmore and is inaccessible to tourists (right); and Lilliputian Police Station in Trafalgar Square, London, which was used by the capital's officers in the 1920s (inset).
Simple things like choosing the stairs over the lift or playing a game with the kids can boost the number of calories we burn each day, the experts on Channel 4's How to Get Fit Fast point out.
Kate Venezia, 19, from Louisiana, revealed a 25-year-old family secret of how her parents met; posting on Twitter how her dad had covered up for her mother's wind - and they went on to fall in love.
From bicycles to tanks and warships - these are the world's most bizarre graveyards for abandoned vehicles. Some of the abandoned goods have been left over from conflict, including a number of cars used during the Second World War. Also included in the stunning collection is a sea of statues of former US Presidents and a mangled metal mountain created by cast-off rickshaws in Bangladesh.
Sierra LaMar disappeared on her way to school in Morgan Hill, California, and the murder trial against her accused killer Antolin Garcia Torres is now underway.
Wendy Littlefield, from Nevada, had used her Magic Bullet NutriBullet 900 series machine to blend canned tomatoes and beans. However she claims the device 'suddenly malfunctioned'.
It's one of the most eclectic groups in the world and while many are called, few are chosen. And those few who succeeded in earning an Academy Award nomination this year came together for a class photo Monday in Beverly Hills. It took time to assemble them all in place but once they did, the gaggle of actors, directors, producers and other movie-making professionals did mange to say 'cheese' at the same time.
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Researchers from the University of Arizona found that women aged between 50 and 79 who married gained 2lbs or more on average in their study of 79,094 post-menopausal women.
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Yanis, 5, was allegedly made to run 'several kilometres' in his underwear in the middle of the night as punishment. He was discovered by a canal near his home in northern France.
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The new species of gecko (pictured), found on Madagascar, has massive scales which tear away to help it escape the clutches of predators, who are left with a mouthful of scales.
These sinister pictures offer a glimpse inside a derelict boys' school with a gruesome past, where pupils were said to have been murdered by staff. The creepy images were taken at Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, where decades of abuse and violence took place against boys who studied there. The eerie photographs show the site where 55 of the dead were buried, and abandoned classrooms, laden with towering piles of plastic school chairs. In one room, rusting metal bunk-beds are flooded with daylight from a hole in the wall, which appears to once have been a fire exit. The empty beds are now inter-twined with vines from the surrounding grounds. Other images show decrepit bathrooms, where the wooden roof has rotted away and rubble now scatters the floor.
There's no shame in sleeping with someone before a first date but having a cracked phone or an Android is definitely not okay, according to the annual Single in America survey.
A Cheeto that resembles Harambe has sold for $100,000 after a bidding war. There were 132 bids for the rare 'one of a kind' Cheeto - and the starting price had been at $11.99 before it skyrocketed.
Researchers from the State University of New York have discovered that pitcher plants across the world evolved separately but developed exactly the same strategy for devouring insects.
A shocking video of an attempted home invasion by heavily-armed men (pictured) was released on Monday by New Mexico police. The Alamogordo Police released the surveillance camera video from the incident that took place shortly after 9pm Thursday night. The surveillance footage from a home's front porch in the 200 block of Stanford Avenue shows a woman approaching the door to speak with the person inside. When the resident opened the door, a dog ran out of the home and into the front yard. Moments later a man (left) carrying a handgun walked up to the home and the resident quickly shut and locked the door. The man then pulled the door open as two other men, one brandishing an assault rifle (right), ran up to the porch. Authorities released the footage hoping to identify the individuals involved.
The new law will allow Israel to legally seize Palestinian private land on which Israelis built outposts without knowing it was private property or because the state allowed them to do so.
The 62-year-old faces jail if he is found guilty of a range of crimes including fraud, false accounting and breach of trust. He was indicted for 'financing an illegal campaign'
Granddad, an Australian lungfish who was four feet long and weighed 25 pounds, was euthanized on Sunday at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. He had stopped eating and his organs were failing.
CCTV footage shows around 10 passersby running to the overturned vehicle, which was hit by a hatchback at high speed on a cross junction in the city of Hefei in eastern China.
A cameraman gave viewers an eyeful of Patricia Martinez's low cut golden swimming costume when she appeared on Mira Quien Salta - the Spanish version of the show Splash! which featured Olympic star Tom Daley. He cuts out her face completely and focuses in on her breasts in the shot.
Ex-Colombo mob boss, Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli, has sued the federal government for $10 million after he sustained an injury while playing ping-pong in a New York prison.
Best-selling health book author Jessica Sepel recommended substituting tea for coffee. If you like liquor, she suggested choosing a vodka or gin flavoured with sparkling water or lemon juice.
The bizarre clouds were discovered by researchers from the Nasa-supported programme, Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS), based in Los Angeles.
In a new brainteaser shared by Playbuzz users are asked to spot all six words hidden in the sketch of a skating rink. While the premise seems relatively simple the lettering of the words is near identical to the pencil strokes in the picture. And with ten children featured in the drawing the busy scene makes it even harder to seek out the words.
A man allegedly sexually assaulted by Paris which has led to extensive rioting has spoken about his ordeal. Victim Theo Temoigne said: 'I saw him with his baton. He rammed it into my buttocks on purpose.'
Stunning new images reveal the astonishing attention to detail of the new Apple campus in Cupertino, California, which is expected to open in spring this year.
Derreck Quarles, 37, was filmed begging a trooper not to arrest him after he was found driving with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit in Orlando on January 28.
Military troops had to be deployed in the state of Espírito Santo after looting, rape and murders broke out amid the industrial action leading to a crime wave in the state capital of Vitoria. With officers staging a walk-out over conditions, thugs are running riot, with people running rampant with guns and machetes, shops being robbed, buses set on fire and dead bodies are left lying in the street. The chaos has been compared to the 2014 thriller film The Purge, where people take advantage of the absence of law and order to carry out horrific crimes.
Princess Eugenie is the owner of a Pinterest account where she can save store images, ideas or links to a virtual pin board with her account giving an eye opening glimpse into her work and social life.
Video footage shows the panda at a zoo in China, playfully gripping on to a long broomstick. It refuses to let go of the brush and wrestles with a keeper.
The western half of the Indonesian-controlled island of New Guinea is rich in minerals, especially copper and gold, but its discovery has been a very mixed blessing for the local people.
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Both specimens of the yellow-green Penicillium Notatum fungus are contained on a glass disc and date back to the 1930s when Fleming was pioneering the life-saving discovery.
It's been a fortnight since Human Ken Doll Rodrigo Alves had three cosmetic surgeries in one day, including a facelift, neck and eye lift. And Rodrigo Alves, 33, revealed a giant cyst has formed behind his ear following the latest procedure - and said he didn't know it was there until his fans pointed it out. He told MailOnline: 'I posted a Snapchat and Instagram story about the making of my new reality show and everyone noticed it and I don't know how I missed it.
Alyssa McDonald, from Cincinnati in Ohio, was just two-years-old when she tipped a the scolding liquid onto her face. Family members said her skin was 'melting off' after the accident.
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Emerging nations will outstrip the world's most powerful economies over the next 30 years according to PricewaterhouseCooper in a major new study released today.
A woman from China attempted suicide by jumping off a building, but was saved by her husband who grabbed her ponytail. Police arrived on the scene quickly and helped to pull her back.
The scary prediction comes from Dr Jason Barnes, a planetary scientist at the University of Idaho. If the moon and Earth collide, the energy released in the merging would melt the Earth into a magma ocean.
The towers (pictured) will be built in Nanjing with enough greenery to absorb 25 tons of CO2 each year and produce about 60kg of oxygen. They are due to be complete in 2018. Six hundred tall trees, 500 medium-sized trees and 2,500 cascading plants and shrubs will cover a 65,000-square-feet area on the buildings, called Nanjing Green Towers.
An upset father is searching for answers after his 10-year-old daughter was held down by two bullies who wrote 'loser' on her face using a black Sharpie marker during a school bus ride.
The Hilton Molino Stucky is Venice's largest hotel and a city landmark in its own right - and MailOnline Travel's Samantha Lewis discovers that it is the perfect base from which to explore the city.
Volunteer snake rescuer Somnath Mhatre, 18, plucked the cobra from a car in the central business district of Belabur, Navi Mumbai and took it to a safe place to release before trying to kiss it.
According to personal trainer, Rachel Dillon, from Queensland, getting a bikini body is all about training smart not hard, eating more and lifting weights. She shares her tips with FEMAIL.
Elle, who is located at the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, was filmed showing sheer determination to maintain his balance as he tried to walk for the first time but hilariously falls over. After 30 minutes of failed attempts, the wobbly Elle was up after being aided by some of the other elephants. The comical moment was caught on camera by safari guide, Brendan Cole.
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An adorable sea lion pup was seen spinning and pirouetting as a girl twirled her umbrella at it. Anton Juhant filmed the reaction while visiting the Oceanographic aquarium in Valencia, Spain. The video shows the curious pup swimming over to the family to have a closer look at the umbrella. Anton's daughter Tina begins to turn it slowly and incredibly, the sea lion begins to spin with it. Gripping its tail in its mouth, the pup rotates and barrel rolls in a synchronised motion to the brolly, utterly transfixed by the movement.
The widely condemned practice of ceremonial genital mutilation among girls and young women follows an evolutionary logic, according to a provocative study published Monday.
Meal prepping is the craze for preparing healthy meals in advance. If you're looking to join the trend, a new graphic showing you exactly what to fill lunchboxes with may be useful.
After a jam-packed week starting a new internship and rubbing elbos at an HBO party, Malia Obama took it easy this weekend - grabbing coffee and walking around her New York City neighborhood.
The latest discovery from Curiosity has baffled researchers trying to work out how the Martian atmosphere warmed, allowing water to flow and pool on the planet's surface - and possibly sparking life.
A space capsule was found Monday morning along Interstate 10 just outside Casa Grande between Phoenix and Tucson. The capsule was once a cement-mixer drum and created by an artist.
Spooky footage appears to show a creepy black spectre floating in and out of the walls of a maximum-security Brazilian prison. Guards at the Rio de Janeiro jail believed it was an inmate trying to flee.
A thirsty party-goer wowed his friends on a night out by drinking his beer through his nose. Footage of the creative drinker downing his pint was filmed in the Lanzhou district of China. In the video, the man is seen crouching down while holding his pint to his nose in preparation to drink it. He then stands up and uses his nostrils to gulp down the drink (left and right). Fifteen seconds later he succeeds.
A video shows a boy making a 'ssh' gesture to the camera before pulling the cruel prank. He then drinks from a cup before blowing the liquid through a lighter at his friend. It's not clear where the 23-minute clip was filmed but it has been shared online.
A shocking video showing daredevil Oleg Sherstyachenko larking around on a skyscraper has been published online. He is seen skateboarding on the edge and back flipping.
The minute long clip filmed in Balochistan isn't for the faint-hearted. It also shows people balancing on spikes and being stretched by motorbikes. The footage was taken at a 'stunt school' in Pakistan.
Melissa Radke, from Lufkin, Texas, said she is 'hungover from mom guilt'. The singer, writer, public speaker and pastor's video, featuring placards, has been viewed over half-a-million times.
Li Chen spends every day looking after his seven companions, who are human-size silicone dolls. The 58-year-old man, from Huishui, China's Guizhou Province, is a 'big fan' of the 'beautiful female figures' and considers them his daughters. In an interview with MailOnline, Li, who goes with a pseudonym, said he does not use his dolls for the purpose of sex, instead he grooms and dresses them. He even takes them on holidays and makes music videos for them.
