Former President Barack Obama (bottom right) unwound from eight years in the White House with some extreme sports on his Caribbean vacation with billionaire friend Richard Branson (top right). Newly-retired Obama was pictured kite-surfing with Branson during a vacation on the Virgin founder's private Necker Island. He was seen fooling around with Branson on a boat (bottom left), smiling widely for the camera (top left) and launching himself into the air on a board (centre). The Obamas are now back in Washington, DC where they have chosen to stay while youngest daughter Sasha finishes high school.
Brexit bad blood boils over: Extraordinary shouting match breaks out during Commons debate as furious Alex Salmond and deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle lock horns in row over SNP questions
Shortly before midnight, Mr Hoyle tried to move the debate to an end, cutting SNP MP Joanna Cherry off by saying: 'I think the honourable member has come to an end.' She used her speech to accuse the Government of 'hubris and contempt' in rejecting SNP demands for Scotland to be given full consultation on Brexit negotiations.
- Barack Obam-AIR! New photos show former president kite-surfing and horsing around with billionaire buddy Richard Branson
- Brexit bad blood boils over: Extraordinary shouting match breaks out during Commons debate as furious Alex Salmond and deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle lock horns in row over SNP questions
- Defiant Bercow DISMISSES MP fury over his attack on 'racist' Trump as Lords counterpart says Speaker should be stripped of control over Westminster Hall speeches
- Wife says she is 'still good friends' with estranged husband who tried to MURDER her after he lost £200,000 in investment scam
- Mother-of-three is rushed to A&E; after a 'botched' at-home filler treatment leaves her with lips like 'raw sausages'
- Asda starts storing bottles of tomato ketchup in the FRIDGE as Twitter debate rages about the best place to keep the sauce (but there's only one right answer)
- Rolf Harris is CLEARED of indecently assaulting 12-year-old girl as jury considers seven other charges
- Is ANYWHERE safe from the lycra louts? They've got cycle lanes galore. But now they're on pavements and jumping lights - and mowing down pedestrians
- Clarifications and corrections
- I don’t take no sh*t': Passengers give a bus driver a standing ovation for physically throwing off a drunk man who had spat in his face
- Schoolgirl Paige Doherty's killer is attacked behind bars by serial rapist days after being switched to new jail to foil plot on his life
- Yorkshirewoman, 46, says her migraines have left her speaking in accents from Scouse to Jamaican and even her daughter doesn’t recognise her on the phone
- Surgeon, 51, 'stroked a female assistant's arm at a hospital trauma clinic as he told her intimate details about his love life with his air hostess girlfriend'
- ‘Good Samaritan’ raped a ‘very drunk and vulnerable’ university student in the back of his car after he sped off with her in front of her shocked mother after giving them a lift home
- CCTV catches the moment a driver's SHOE slips off and jams under the pedal sending his car crashing into a young woman as shoppers look on in horror
- Bigamist is caught out by his own van's SAT-NAV after his first wife spotted a 'strange address repeatedly popping up on the screen' just two weeks after he married his second bride
- Farmer spends 16 years studying law by himself so he could sue a powerful chemical firm for 'polluting his land' - and he wins the first round
- Britney Spears asks for 'prayers' for niece Maddie, 8, whose ATV flipped into pond trapping her underwater for several minutes despite her mom Jamie Lynn's desperate attempts to free her
- Tom Brady and Gisele arrive back in Boston after historic Super Bowl victory as his Patriots coach sends a not-so-subtle message to NFL commissioner who suspended the quarterback
- Barack Obam-AIR! New photos show former president kite-surfing and horsing around with billionaire buddy Richard Branson
- Would you stay in a hotel with a stranger? Marriott is set to introduce communal rooms for up to 16 people that share a living and dining area
- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Huma Abedin and estranged sex-pest husband Anthony Weiner are seen together for the first time since September - out and about with their son Jordan
- Nordstrom bosses sent strongly worded memo criticizing President Trump's Muslim travel ban to all staff TWO days before dropping Ivanka's line
- Surveillance footage captures the terrifying moment a heavily armed gang attempt a home invasion in New Mexico by using a woman pleading for help as a decoy
- 'Wonderful things come to those who work hard': Gisele Bundchen shares touching photo and pays tribute to husband Tom Brady after Super Bowl victory
- Letter from Osama bin Laden detailing when jihadists should be allowed to masturbate is revealed
- PIERS MORGAN: Gaga hates Trump, Tom Brady counts him as a friend but last night these two awesome superstars helped America come together and show the world just how great it can be
- Will Melissa McCarthy get Sean Spicer fired? Trump is 'not happy a woman' played his embattled press secretary in SNL's showstopping skit and hates that it makes him look weak
- Mystery as Columbia graduate, 23, is found dead on Panama island three days after she went missing during a trip to the beach
- 'She's been through a lot': Tom Brady pays tribute to his cancer sufferer mom as he says he's still feeling young at 39 after his Super Bowl win
- Boy, five, is found dead wearing just his pants and socks and with a broken nose ‘after his parents punished him for wetting the bed’ in France
- Bercow BANS Trump from addressing Parliament: Commons Speaker brands US President 'racist and sexist' - but had no problem with the President of CHINA
- MOST READ IN DETAIL
I don’t take no sh*t': Passengers give a bus driver a standing ovation for physically throwing off a drunk man who had spat in his face
The Yellow Buses driver, who has not been named, furiously leaped from his seat and grabbed hold of the man (pictured left) and tossed him into the street (right). The drama at Horseshoe Common in Bournemouth was filmed by a passenger and the clip is now going viral. It shows the drunken lout, in a grey hoodie, boarding the bus and lurching over to the driver's seat and spitting at him. Then the driver then addressed the shocked passengers and apologised (right) 'for the disruption' before returning to his seat to resume the journey.
Young couple who lost their baby ‘were told they DESERVED it by a carpet-cleaning firm because they cancelled their appointment as a result’
Dean and Charlotte Coutts (left) were shocked when they received abusive and threatening messages (right) from Clean Carpets Plymouth after refusing to pay for an £85 invoice. The couple booked a session with the firm but called it off when Ms Coutts was taken to hospital. Weeks later, Mr Coutts claims a representative from the firm said 'The best thing has happened' to their baby and that the couple aren't 'worthy of being parents'.
How Beckham changed date of charity party at Downing Street to save his tax perks: Footballer said it was a 'problem' to lead delegation for Unicef while he played in the US
At the time, Beckham was playing for LA Galaxy and therefore domiciled in the US for tax purposes. If he travelled to the UK, it could have meant to pay more to HM Revenue and Customs. He did later undertake the visit, (left) but on a more convenient date. It follows revelations in leaked emails that Beckham’s knighthood was blocked by a ‘red flag’ from the taxman to warn there were issues over his tax. Pictured right: Victoria Beckham going to work in New York on Monday.
Chilling CCTV shows teen knifeman fleeing the scene after killing American tourist and stabbing five others in London bloodbath
Zakaria Bulhan (centre) killed retired teacher Darlene Horton (left) who was visiting the UK with her university professor husband, and stabbed five others including Israeli Yovel Lewkowki (right). CCTV footage shows the killer in a white T-shirt as he walked away from the scene of his knife rampage before he was Tasered by armed police. Bulhan, a Norwegian of Somali origin who was living in south-west London, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility yesterday. He faces a possible life sentence when he comes before a judge today.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Donald Trump will NOT get to speak in Parliament after Commons Speaker John Bercow launches furious tirade at 'racist and sexist' US President
- Ukip MEP Jane Collins is ordered to pay three Labour MPs damages of £54,000 EACH after she lost libel case over Rotherham sex abuse scandal
- Theresa May keeps Israeli PM waiting on the Downing Street doorstep before potentially tricky talks about Iran and West Bank settlements
- 'I don't want to accidentally bite one of those things': Boris Johnson keeps calm and carries on despite being smacked in face by microphone during Brussels press call
British DJ accused of murdering Bali police officer with the help of his Australian girlfriend screamed 'Get off her you f***ing c***' before beating him to death, trial hears
A witness said she heard David Taylor (pictured, left) shout obscenities before the law enforcer died on Bali Beach. The bloodied body of Wayan Sudarsa (inset) was found in the idyllic tourist hotspot of Kuta Beach in the early hours of August 17 last year. Taylor, 34, claims he acted in self-defence after a row broke out over a missing handbag belonging to his Australian girlfriend, Sara Connor, 46 (pictured, right). Both deny murder.
Brave dog survives being mutilated by the Bucharest Butcher and is set for a new life in Britain after its LEG was hacked off, its teeth pulled out and TAIL snapped off by animal attacker who still roams free
The dog, named Spirit, was found bleeding in the street, in the same spot where three murdered puppies were found in the same week. One had been cut in half, one had its skull caved in and the other had been disemboweled. Horrified animal campaigners Nicky Stevens, Amanda Keask and Anneka Svenska (pictured in Bucharest, inset) uncovered the catalogue of cruelty in the Romanian capital, and called for tougher laws to protect the thousands of strays that roam free across the country, a hangover from Romania's Communist years.
Woman is filmed watching a martial arts movie on a mobile phone attached to her windscreen as she drives along a busy motorway
Software engineer Adric Marsh spotted the driver enjoying the film on the M4 near Newport, south Wales, on Wednesday afternoon. The phone, which is fixed to a holder on the car's windscreen, clearly displays moving pictures for the duration of Adric's 20-second clip. The father-of-two said the woman risked causing an accident on a 'particularly tricky' part of the motorway near a tunnel.
'Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away' star was best friends with Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield after meeting when they both worked as bouncers
Brian O'Shaughnessy (right), star of Channel 5 show 'Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away, met Bellfield (together, left) while he was working as a bouncer at a nightclub, and the pair were reportedly good friends for 'five or six years'. Mr O'Shaughnessy, 39, who repossessed cash and goods for courts on the show, was also interviewed by police in 2005 about a joint sex allegation with Bellfield. No suggestion has been made that Mr O'Shaughnessy knew about Bellfield's crimes. Mr O'Shaughnessy has since admitted to having been an 'associate' of the killer, whose actions he called 'disgusting and vile'. Bellfield is currently in jail for life for a number of murders, including Milly Dowler (inset) in 2002 and those of Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22.
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'We leave them so dogs eat them': ISIS terrorists are left to rot alongside their suicide belts on the streets of Mosul as Iraqi army tries to stamp out any support for jihadists
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The fly-blown corpses of ISIS militants have been left to rot on a main street in Mosul as the Iraqi Army leave them as a grisly warning to others. The bodies (pictured, circled) have been there for two weeks. Two men on a motorbike glance at the corpses (top right) and the stench of death is all-pervasive as people walk past (bottom right). As Iraqi forces prepare to expand their offensive against Islamic State from east to west Mosul, they want to stamp out any sympathy that residents may have for the group, which seized the city in 2014. 'The message is clear to Iraqis, to keep them from joining or supporting Daesh. This will be your fate. The Iraqi army will finish you off,' said Ibrahim Mohamed, a soldier.
WORLD NEWS
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How West Papua's gold rush has created a wasteland: Indonesian island's lush tropical riverland is laid waste by toxic dumping from the world's biggest gold mine
The western half of the 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. Indigenous tribes like the Kamoro (pictured, left) say they have been hit by disease, poverty and environmental degradation since operations began at the Grasberg mine in 1973. The mine allegedly dumps as much as 200,000 tonnes of mine waste directly into the Aikwa delta system every day, turning thousands of hectares of forest and mangroves (bottom right) into wasteland. All the Kamoro can do is pan for gold (top right) and hope to hit it rich.