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New photos show Barack Obama and Richard Branson going kite-surfing during the former president's recent visit to the billionaire's private island. The two had a competition on Obama's last day to see who could stay up the longest on their kite-surfing boards and Obama won. The former president and his wife Michelle are now back in Washington, DC after spending more than a week relaxing on Branson's private island.

'Step up and speak out': Hillary Clinton makes a rallying cry for women to rise up against the Trump administration as she speaks on video to say 'the future is female'

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.

New York City's Playboy Club is set to reopen near Times Square more than 30 years after it closed, despite the venue being blasted by critics as 'irrelevant' for today's society.

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Some of the alleged attacks took place at Sigma Alpha Epsilon's chapter at the Illinois university (pictured) on January 21 and were reported to the university officials last Thursday.

A 15-year-old girl claims she was expelled from Cousino High School in Michigan in 2015 after reporting she was forced to perform oral sex on a star athlete in his car during school hours.

Malawi's High Court has given the go ahead for Madonna to adopt twin girls, bringing the total of children from the impoverished African country she has taken in to four.

Are these the most awkward yearbook pictures EVER? 

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.

Mayor of Ankara Melih Gokcek accused the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of using a 'seismic machine' after two minor earthquakes struck off the Turkish coast causing minor damage.

A concerned father has taken to Reddit for advice after his best friend, 40, started dating his 18-year-old daughter. Users warned him his friend was 'perverted' and said he should know better.

Biracial twins Breana and Brittney share their experiences

NEW Breana and Brittney Cincotta, 21, are fraternal twins with different skin tones from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Breana (pictured far left and top right at age 4) looks white like their father Joseph (center right). Brittney (pictured far right and bottom right age 4) looks black like their mother Marilyn (center left). Growing up with different skin tones was difficult, particularly for Breana. In elementary school and middle school her classmates would ask her if she was adopted or if she was albino. Some people even told the girls that they needed to 'choose a side' white or black. Their parents, Marilyn and Joseph, taught the girls to embrace both sides of their family.

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.

Tom Brady and Gisele arrive in Boston after Super Bowl win

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.

The selfies with VERY distracting backgrounds!

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.

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.

Evanger’s Dog Food voluntarily recalled Hunk of Beef cans after a pug from Washington state died from eating one contaminated with Pentobarbital.

Britney Spears' niece Maddie 'should not have been in ATV'

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 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.

Secrets of 12 world famous landmarks hidden in plain sight

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).

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.

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.

World's strangest graveyards where the unwanted go to rot

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.

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.

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 

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.

Pro-Trump Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has denied he's planning to run for Governor of California - despite the creation of a political action committee supporting him.

The two individuals were part of the more than 230 people arrested on January 20 - inauguration day - and charged with felony rioting, which is punishable by up to ten years in prison.

Lawyers will argue before a panel of federal appellate court judges on Tuesday in the pitched fight over President Donald Trump's travel and refugee ban that could reach the Supreme Court.

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.

China is establishing a channel to manage President Donald Trump's aggressive posture by establishing links to the president through his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

President Donald Trump's administration is looking at ways to ease the regulatory burden on and funnel more money to HBCUs through an executive order that's in preparation.

Couple married 22 years have broken up thanks to Trump

Gayle McCormick, 73, recently moved out of the home she shared with her husband of 22 years, Bill. Their marriage came apart when Gayle, a Democrat, learned her husband was planning to vote for Donald Trump in the election. The McCormicks aren't the only ones struggling in this polarizing post-election political climate. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 13 per cent of Americans have ended a relationship thanks to the election.

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.

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.

The Commons Speaker is facing a backlash after abandoning his traditional neutrality to brand the US President 'racist'' and make clear he will not allow Westminster Hall to be used during the state visit.

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.

Owner Fernando Franco said he received a racist note at his restaurant Di Frabo in San Antonio on Friday. It said the customers would not be back to eat because Franco was Mexican.

Detroit River revolutionary war relics found

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.

California metro janitor who made $250K caught not working

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.

Unborn baby and father are killed in crash by DUI driver

Angel Barranco,35, died and his wife Barbara, who was seven months pregnant, (pictured with their two older children who were not harmed) lost their baby when 56-year-old Alexander Delapaz-Perez plowed in to their black Honda Accord at 1.45am in Victorville, California, on Saturday. Delapaz-Perez has two previous convictions for driving under the influence. Mrs Barranco's 42-year-old mother was also in the car. All three of the family members were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Can YOU find the one-eyed Jack in this deck of cards?

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.

Gay men and women have revealed why they have chosen to settle down and even marry a straight partner in brutally honest revelations on the secret sharing app Whisper.

Doing less than 68 minutes of vigorous daily exercise can cause permanent damage to a youngster's blood vessels, a study by the University of Eastern Finland found.

Iraqi girl 'bitten to death' with torture device by ISIS

The youngster, named Faten, was punished by the fanatics' morality police (pictured, left) after stepping over the threshold of her home while cleaning. Members of the female al-Khansa brigade in Mosul produced the torture device (similar to the one pictured, right), and the girl, bled to death as a result of her wounds, a witness claimed. Under strict rules imposed by the fundamentalists in the city of Mosul, women were banned from leaving home on their own.

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.

Florida school children 'were murdered by their teachers'

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.

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.

Hollywood's Golden Age in pictures go up for auction

Milton Krasner (pictured on the far left with a glamorous companion) is a cinematographer who died aged 84 and his personal archive of photographs featuring Marilyn Monroe and Walt Disney is set to be auctioned off. One of the more noteworthy pictures from his collection shows Marilyn and Cary Grant (pictured right) on the set of Monkey Business in roller skates in 1952, while Krasner(circled) stands beside a film light. His work with Marilyn and their shared filmography includes All About Eve, O. Henry's Full House, The Seven Year Itch and Bus Stop. His last production was 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' in 1970 and he passed away in 1988 at Woodland Hills, California.

The anonymous woman shared her story with Humans Of New York in a post published Friday (pictured). Women who get an abortion in Argentina risk one to four years behind bars.

Speculation is mounting that Apple could remove global support for 32-bit apps from iOS 11, after the launch of the latest beta version of the operating system.

Anna Nicole Smith's lover and trainer breaks his silence

Anna Nicole Smith's ex lover and fitness trainer Alexander Denk opens up about his affair with the Playboy playmate and actress on the 10th anniversary of her death. Denk says he gets upset when people only talk of Anna's scandalous love life, yo-yo diets, pill-popping and drinking. 'She was so misunderstood. Nobody ever talks about the good things Anna Nicole did,' he said. The Austrian-born aspiring actor and stuntman, who appeared in Batman, Batman Forever and Collateral Damage, hit it off with Anna immediately. One night, to relax, they had a massage together at a hotel in Newport Beach and their relationship turned sexual. Denk tells how Anna asked him to help her lose 100 pounds. She weighed 225 and was 5'11' tall. 'She was a big girl, 5 ft 11 ins tall and heavy. It took a long time but she lost 105 lbs with my help. ’He thought there was a 50/50 chance he was Dannielynn's father. Denk says he has photographs, emails and memories that he wants to share with Dannielynn's when she’s older

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.

YouTuber Laila Tahri from the Netherlands recently shared a video where she demonstrated using the contraceptive in her beauty routine and says it help her achieve the perfect blend.

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Stunning images reveal Nasa's golden years in colour

The striking colorizations were carried out by Westport-based artist Matt Loughrey. The images, which have been expertly colorized over hundreds of hours of painstaking work, show (from top left clockwise) astronaut John Glenn in 1962 during project Mercury, intense discussions raging at mission control, NASA software engineer and mathematician Margaret Hamilton in 1969 and mission control hard at work during the Apollo 11 moon landings.

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.

This kitten might have 18 lives. A mutant feline was born with two heads and three eyes last Thursday in China. Cat owner said he would take care of the kitten though he is unsure if it would survive.

Two brothers from the Buffalo, New York area died when their snowmobiles fell through the ice of Tupper Lake. The pair were travelling across the ice on their snowmobiles at the time.

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'.

University College London researchers found people who switched from tobacco to 'vaping' saw the levels of cancer-causing toxins in their body drop by up to 97.5 per cent in six months.

Photographer Barrett Hedges filmed the cheeky otter sliding around a frozen river in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. The playful animal was seen belly flopping into the snow last week.

Female thief is left dangling from the door of a bus after quick-thinking driver traps her when she tried to steal a purse from a passenger 

A woman caused a disturbance after trying to steal from another passenger on a bus and then dashing for the exit in Campina Grande, Brazil. But the driver slammed on the emergency button to close the doors at the exact moment she stepped out on to the pavement. She was stranded for more than 10 minutes as crowds simply ignored her pleas and waited for police to arrive at the scene last Saturday afternoon. A spokesman at the local police station, Delegacia Regional da Polícia Civil, said that the woman had confessed to the attempted theft.

Latanja Levine returned to her Houston home to find honey pouring down her walls. Video captures the moment the sticky substance began dripping from the roof onto the floors below.

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.

Melbourne mother Melissa Mitchell, from Melbourne, has opened up about the moment she discovered she was pregnant just a week after her partner was killed trying to save his best friend's life.

It's not difficult to match these three dog lovers to their respective four-legged friends. They appear on The Secret Life of Dogs on ITV, which says owners can begin to resemble their pooches.

Lena Dunham gushes about former intern Malia Obama

Lena Dunham is busy promoting the final season of her acclaimed HBO series Girls, and in an interview with Howard Stern on Monday took some time to praise one of her former interns on the show - Malia Obama (left). 'She's an angel,' said Dunham (top right on set in July, bottom right with Obamas in 2014), who up until that point had never officially acknowledged the fact that the former first daughter worked on set. When asked how she wound up working as an intern for the show, Dunham said: 'She was interested and she was interning at HBO and they thought what if she comes a couple days a week to the set of girls.' She went on to say that because she was just 16 at the time time there were limits to what Malia could do on set, and what she could see. 'We couldn't do graphic sex scenes around her,' said Jenni Konner, the executive producer of the show

Internet-connected TVs sold by California-based Vizio contained Automated Content Recognition software (ACR) which tracked second-by-second viewing information.

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.

The aircraft, an A319 with 67 passengers on board, which took off from Heathrow Airport this morning overshot the runway at Billund in Denmark.

Israel recently unveiled plans for 3,000 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank ©AHMAD GHARABLI (AFP/File)

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'

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

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.

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 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.'

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.

Thinking of her breaststroke? Distracted cameraman focuses on contestant's boobs in see through swimwear on Spanish diving show

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.

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 towers (pictured) will be built in Nanjing and 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.

Brazilian city's murder rate up 650% after police strike

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.

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 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.

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.

Human Ken Doll reveals despair over giant cyst

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.

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.

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.

Thugs who sliced off a dog’s ears escape with a fine

NEW GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two cruel thugs who sliced off a puppy's ears were punished with fines of just$1,000. According to Turkish news outlets, the pair were suspected to be involved in rooster and dog fighting in the city of Isparta in western Turkey, and reportedly punished one of their losing dogs by cutting off his ears. Gruesome pictures circulated on social media showing the men posing next to the bloodied dog and each holding up one of its severed ears. The unnamed men were brought before the Turkish courts, but were not jailed and were instead let off with a fine of just 4,404 lira.

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.

Meet the man who lives with seven sex dolls

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.

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You spin me right round: Sea Lion twirls in time with a young girl's umbrella at Spanish aquarium 

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.

A young woman walks past a banner against female genital mutilation ©SIMON MAINA (AFP/File)

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 trio of abandoned tiger cubs got a new mum - a fake lifesize tigress teddy. Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve wanted to reduce human interference with the cubs and so brought in the fake mum

Gao Tian and Gao Lin from China were photographed together when they were five years old, with their parents staging it as a cute 'wedding-style' shoot.

Adorable elephant calf collapses in a heap while taking its first very shaky steps 

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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Some friend! Fire-breathing teen sets his unsuspecting mate on fire in extraordinarily dangerous prank

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.

The 'escape and evasion' tools including an assassination lapel spike and a fountain pen dagger were given by war office department MI9 to Special Operations Executive agents.

He NOSE how to wow the crowd! Partygoer downs a pint of beer through his nostrils in 15 seconds 

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.

   

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