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 It was a tale of two cities in New York on Wednesday and Thursday as an overnight storm dumped huge amounts of snow across the city and the rest of the northeast - making for what could be the biggest winter storm of the season. Up to 12 inches of snow is expected to fall on the city on Thursday, a stark change from the mild weather and balmy temperatures of Wednesday, left. The powerful, fast-moving storm made for a slippery morning commute, right, and all public schools in the city, Philadelphia and Boston have been closed. State offices were also closed in New Jersey, and government offices in the Delaware, Bucks, Chester and Montgomery counties outside Philadelphia were shuttered.

For the most part, people take selfies to share a fun moment with friends - or simply show off. Unfortunately for these snappers however, they've missed some extremely odd things going on in the background of the photos that ruin the vibe they were going for. BoredPanda have compiled a selfie gallery featuring these rogue additions - including pooping dogs and sex toys - and they're guaranteed to make you cringe...

Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley is facing assault charges after he allegedly attacked three security guards at Madison Square Garden following an incident with team owner James Dolan. Oakley is accused of shoving and punching the men while they attempted to forcibly remove him from his courtside seat during the first quarter of the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. That measure was taken after Oakley spent the opening minutes of the game loudly heckling Dolan. The melee drew the attention of the players on the court and the crowd, and soon began to chant 'Oakley! Oakley!' in support of the power player.

Terrifying surveillance video (main) showed desperate mother, Jessica Wilson's attempt to hand her toddler to a McDonald's drive-thru worker as she battled the child's father, Levenski Crossty (inset), 27, who allegedly kidnapped and beat her. At one point, Crossty is seen in the video pulling Wilson's arm in what appeared to be an attempt to get her back in the car. She then makes it over the the drive-thru employee, who reached out for the little girl and told Wilson to 'hand the child to me', according to prosecutors. Once Crossty managed to pull the child away from Wilson, he got back in the car with the child and drove away. Wilson was left stranded and 'desperately asking someone to call 911', prosecutors said. Earlier in the day, Crossty allegedly beat Wilson and left her with two black eyes, a cut on her head and a bite mark on her hand. The incident took place in July 2016 but Crossty's trial began Tuesday. Crossty is charged with felonious assault, theft and multiple counts of abduction and kidnapping.

A video has captured the moment that two flight passengers claiming to be lawyers got into a vicious row over an arm rest. Footage taken by another flier shows the man (shown left) and woman shouting at each other as the flight crew desperate tries to calm them down. Many of the other passengers on the plane, believed to be a Monarch Airways flight from the UK to Malaga in Spain, can he heard laughing as the pair's feud escalates. The video starts mid-way through the row, as an air steward tries to get the man to move seats (shown right). As the row intensifies and voices get louder, other fliers can be heard shushing the pair. The woman (pictured centre) then claims that she is a lawyer and 'knows' her rights, leading the other man to scream: 'I'm a lawyer too, you stupid woman.' At the end of the video, recorded on New Year's Eve, an air hostess asks if the pair are travelling together, causing the rest of the passengers to burst out in laughter and clapping.

It has emerged that Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's body was discovered at her luxury London apartment (inset bottom) by her cleaner. She was found dead yesterday aged 45 following a battle with a brain tumour - days after builders said they heard a 'loud bang' from her home. The revelation comes as a friend appeared on This Morning to claim she had relapsed 'into a dark place'. Ivan Massow (pictured right with Tara and inset on the show) said: 'She was facing a lot of problems. The recurring issue [was] that it was very hard for her to stay off drinking and things.'

Prepare to go cross-eyed over one photographer's mind-boggling optical illusion snap - as no one is sure how many zebras this image taken by South African Robert Holmwood actually contains. The retired mechanical engineer captured the gaggle of Burchell's zebra at the Kruger National Park in his native country. And the 64-year-old, who retired two years ago, said everyone who views the confusing image has a different opinion on just how many zebras there are in the frame.

President Trump attacked Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal on Twitter after the senator revealed comments by Trump's Supreme Court pick that were critical of Trump. Blumenthal (D-Conn.) says Gorsuch told him Trump's Twitter attacks on judges were 'disheartening.' The comment was confirmed by the Supreme Court nomination team. Trump went after Blumenthal for having told a 'major lie' about having served in Vietnam.

Hillary Clinton was spotted arriving at her daughter's home on Wednesday night. The former Democratic presidential nominee pulled up at Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky's Manhattan home with the Secret Service in tow around 6.30pm. She only stayed for a half hour before leaving around 7pm. Clinton was seen at the home not long after it was revealed that her son-in-law had quietly shut down his hedge fund Eaglevale Partners back in December. The decision to shutter the fund came just a few weeks after Clinton lost the election to president Donald Trump.

Grey Gardens, the Hamptons home once owned by eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is for sale. The famous East Hampton residence has been listed for $19.995million, according to an online listing. In a 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens was the rundown home of Onassis' aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, known as 'Big Edie,' (inset bottom right) and her cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale, nicknamed 'Little Edie.' Brothers Albert and David Mayles directed the film about the two women, who resided with 58 cats in the ramshackle home by the time they met the filmmakers. Grey Gardens contained piles of garbage that were five feet high, and the directors sported flea collars while filming. Ben Bradlee, an editor for The Washington Post, and his journalist wife, Sally Quinn, bought the home from 'Little Edie' in 1979 following the 1977 death of 'Big Edie, and restored it.

The first trailer for Dear White People has been unveiled — and not everyone is pleased. The Netflix series - which satirizes race relation in an Ivy League college - is a sequel to the 2014 film of the same name. And within minutes of the 30-second clip debuting on YouTube on Wednesday, the comments section was jam-packed with racist diatribe... even more than usual.

From the child actor who became a Hollywood heartthrob to the reality TV star who emerged from her family's shadow to become a beauty icon and entrepreneur, FEMAIL unveils the stars who changed the most after their awkward teenage phase (left to right: Nicholas Hoult, Kylie Jenner, Dev Patel, Ariana Grande).

Quebec's corporation of funeral directors says it is trying to put an end to the tasteless trend which sees photographs of dead bodies splashed on social media. There are 'strict rules' in place at parlors across the region to stop the spread of casket selfies but mourners must take it upon themselves to refrain, it says. The tasteless trend of casket selfies has swept Instagram in Twitter recently. One man even applied a Face Swap filter to his selfie (inset).

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The 30-year-old woman was dragged outside after the 500-strong mob broke down the doors to her cell. She was being held on suspicion of starting a fire which claimed the life of a toddler. A five-year-old child, named Marlon Buzaglo Campos, also suffered serious burns in the blaze she was alleged to have started.

Welcome to Alert in Nunavut, Canada, on Ellesmere Island, where the average February temperature is -33.2C and the record low is -50C. These temperatures are cold enough to freeze unprotected corneas, skin and muscle, in minutes. But that’s not all the population here – which can reach over 200 - has to contend with. There’s the isolation, too. The nearest town to Alert is 340 miles away and you cannot reach it by car – only by air or sea. Or dogsled.

Mack and her lawyer released a statement on Wednesday and said assertions she made in YouTube videos last week were false and that she had been coerced into making them. The 21-year-old's (left) statement claims she was reading words written by her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer (right). In a series of three videos posted last week, Mack said Schaefer was trying to protect her when he confessed to striking her 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack (inset), in the head with a metal fruit bowl. 'Tommy's an innocent man,' Mack said in the confession she is walking back. She went on to say in the disputed video he only helped her stuff the body in a suitcase and clean up the murder scene because she threatened to tell police he committed the crime.

Preston Kelley (left and right) texted his grandmother a disturbing photo on Monday, said Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office investigator Lt. Brad Potts. The photo appeared to show Kelley, who lives in Florence, Alabama just miles from the Tennessee border, bound and beaten in a wooded area in Tennessee. Authorities say Kelley told his grandmother to send $1,000 or else he would be killed. Kelley insisted the kidnapping had been real under police questioning, but was arrested on extortion charges later the same day.

Jackie Kennedy wrote to David Ormsby Gore (together, left, in 1966) - the 5th Lord Harlech and one of JFK’s most intimate confidantes - explaining how marrying him would stop her finding 'healing and comfort'. She penned the rejection letter (bottom right) five years after JFK's death as she sailed on the yacht of Aristotle Onassis, a shipping magnate who became her second husband. Lord Harlech had recently lost his wife in a car crash and was said to have proposed to Jackie while they were on holiday together. She wrote: ‘If ever I can find some healing and some comfort, it has to be with someone who is not a part of all my world of past and pain.' The letters (top right) are part of a 19-strong collection which have been unearthed after being hidden away in two locked government dispatch boxes for 40 years at the Harlech's family estate at Glyn Cywarch, in Gwynedd, Wales.

Nurse Fran Suarez works in a hospital in Madrid, Spain. And while he is no doubt excellent at his job, it is his social media photos that have made him an internet sensation. The part-time model and dancer has won more than 50,000 Instagram followers with his charming pictures from work (left) - and steamy changing room selfies (right). Away from the office, the nurse, who often poses topless (inset), appears to enjoy coffees and sightseeing with friends - many of whom are also strikingly good looking.

A new exhibition is celebrating some of the most iconic images from the past century of fashion as Condé Nast opens up its photography archive to the public. The collection of images selected by curator Nathalie Herschdorfer see the sharp contrast in photographs from the early 20th century including the black and white images of Edward Steichen took what were probably the first fashion photographs in 1911, to the modern day.

The dramatic footage, believed to be filmed in the US, shows the flames increasing in intensity as the woman shouts: 'The house is on fire!' The fire appears to have started outside on the porch, before the actual house catches alight as well. The woman remains in the house - despite the flames now completely engulfing the outside of the house - until someone else shouts: 'Hurry, hurry - get out!'

Researchers from Northumbria University women who swung their hips a lot when dancing, like Jennifer Lopez (pictured left) had their moves rated higher than those who kept them still, like Cameron Diaz (pictured right). The research also found that more asymmetric thigh movements were rated highly (shown by the stick figure inset). According to the study, if you can move your limbs independently, slightly out of phase and with different gestures, then you show more flair and intelligence than other people on the dance floor.

Attractive women are uploading their best attempts at 'ugly selfies' on social media, showing off their very best goofy teeth, squashed lips and double chins in a bid to prove that looks can be deceiving. Female users take a 'normal' headshot of themselves and then follow it up with a deliberately 'ugly' version - and they certainly don't hold back in their efforts, as these pictures prove.

A family of six is attempting to go 12 months without buying groceries.The Harvey family (pictured), from New Zealand, grow their own produce and receive pantry staples and meat through trade.They started the frugal food lifestyle after Lydia and Matt Harvey's youngest son was diagnosed with coeliac disease. They cut gluten and dairy out of their diet, and started to look at just what was in the food they bought each day.

A huge python was ripped to shreds by a pack of furious wild boars seeking revenge after the snake ate one of their young. At least eight of the wild beasts descended on the reptile after he slithered into their home in south east Asia and gobbled up a piglet. Completely outnumbered, the eight foot python did not stand a chance as he was surrounded by the boars and attacked from all sides. The animals used their powerful jaws to bite into the snake's body, ripping the animal to pieces.

Two bungling thieves resorted to head-butting a window as they tried to break into gas station with shatter resistant glass. Video footage showed the two suspects attempting to break into the Mobil Gas Station, in Port St Lucie, on February 7. The first suspect used a hammer to try and break the impact resistant glass. After smashing the window several times with the hammer, the suspect then rammed his body into the shattered door but was still unable to gain entry. Growing increasingly desperate, he even slammed his head against the window.

This is the terrifying moment a truck lost control on its way down a notoriously steep hill, colliding with another truck in Prachinburi province, Thailand. The horrifying collision killed the driver of the runaway truck and caused a fireball, which took firefighters using foam and water an hour to extinguish.

Video footage has caught the dramatic moment 11 fishermen in China are rescued by helicopter. The rescue took place on February 6 in the Taiwan Strait. Rescuers were lowered down to the boat on a rope from a helicopter. The rescued fishermen are now helping the Transport Authority with their investigation.