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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 says he was doing nothing wrong on Wednesday night when security guards demanded he leave a game at Madison Square Garden. Oakley is facing assault charges after he allegedly attacked three of the security guards who tried to remove him following an incident with team owner James Dolan. In an interview after his arrest, Oakley said: 'What happened, me and four friends went to the game tonight to watch the Knicks and the Clippers. Get there, sit down, try to have a good time, next thing I know I was asked to leave the building.'

Mischa Barton repeatedly threatened to kill herself according to two neighbors who called 911 to seek help for the actress during her now infamous meltdown last month. 'My downstairs neighbor is hysterically crying in the backyard and says she's going to kill herself,' said a female neighbor in a 911 tape obtained by TMZ. 'She's screaming and she just keeps on saying "I want to die" and then she's like "I'm going to kill myself" and then she just keeps on, yeah, it's all nonsensical. But I'm very concerned.' That woman then added: 'They've been called there a bunch. They go see her at least every couple of months because she loses it.'

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.

White House advisor Kellyanne Conway urged Americans to 'buy Ivanka's stuff' during a televised interview from the White House, after Nordstrom discontinued Ivanka Trump's product line. Last week Nordstrom announced it would not be buying items from Ivanka Trump's collection for the next season. President Donald Trump tweeted this week about Nordstrom treating his daughter Ivanka Trump 'so unfairly.' Conway made her comments from inside the White House.

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.

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.

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.

Jason Derulo has blasted American Airlines for racism following an incident at Miami airport Wednesday during which police officers were called. In a video obtained by Dailymail.com Derulo explains what happened in the moments leading up to the incident which he calls 'a racial issue'.  The recording artist and his entourage demanded the plane be turned around and go back to the gate when he was told by a friend they were going to be charged $4,000 for 19 pieces of luggage that had to be loaded onto a separate flight.

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.

When it comes to being naked on screen, you have to look good, well, everywhere. It’s a daunting and difficult feat, but Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan managed to achieve it for their new movie Fifty Shades Darker, the second movie of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. Ramona Braganza, the on-set trainer for the stars, reveals how she kept them in top form.

A group of women was caught on video during a messy brawl at Smoke's Poutinerie in Toronto. Two women wrestled around on the floor as another two were caught fighting behind them. One of the women, dressed in a black parka and boots had her dress pulled up during the fight, exposing her thong.

Jessa Dillow-Crisp, who is now 29 and lives in Denver, Colorado, has bravely recounted how she overcame a childhood of being gang raped, sexually abused by family members and sex trafficked. Her abuse started aged 10 in her home country of Canada where she was sexually attacked by members of her own family. As a child, she was made to pose for pornographers, had to perform degrading sex acts and was raped in front of the cameras. She was then sold to different pimps and friends of her family who abused her.

Alexandrea 'Sissy' Thompson died after being shot in the chest as her father Alex grappled with the three men who broke into their Mount Auburn, Ohio, home. Now her mother Amber Caudell has issued a message of forgiveness for the shooter, saying she is sure that it 'wasn't his intention' to kill her daughter. 'He didn't come in there and intend to shoot and kill a 9-year-old kid,' she said. But she is urging the men to come forward and 'take the blame.' 'I think they had a plan in mind and it didn't turn out how they planned and Sissy was killed,'' she said. 'They need to turn in the person who did this. Someone needs to come forward. Someone has to talk.'

Fashion blogger Egreis Gjergjani lives in Kansas with her husband Jeremy and two sons Gio and Charlie. When she became pregnant for a third time they decided to reveal the gender at a party by cutting a cake - with Egreis fully expecting to be having another boy. In a video taken of the moment, the mom is so shocked that she is pregnant with a girl that she screams and sinks to the ground.

Jonathan Gay (right), 51, was identified as the person who allegedly carjacked a cab in Philadelphia on Monday and drove it through a crowd of people at Rittenhouse Square before crashing it. Gay was charged with robbery of a motor vehicle, theft, DUI, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Video footage showed the naked man pinned the ground as a large crowd gathered around him.

John Nese's family has owned Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles for more than 70 years. Since 2000, the jovial store owner has almost exclusively sold fizzy drinks and has acquired more than 700 unique flavors. Nese, 73, (main) prides himself on selling sodas that use cane sugar and glass bottles claiming they are healthier alternatives to common brands. Some popular flavors in the store include Jamaica's Finest Ginger Beer (top left), Tropical banana soda (top right), Americana buckleberry (bottom left) and the award winning Mr Q.Cumber (bottom right).

The WICS anchor from Springfield, Illinois, said it is 'the question I dread the most'. The 36-year-old, pictured inset with her husband Ryan, also 36, and their daughter, gave birth to Abigail, Parker and Peyton, pictured right, three-and-a-half years ago but only one triplet survived. Skrysak, pictured left with Parker, said there is 'no handbook' for coping with questions about her late children and finds it is sometimes easier not to mention her 'children in heaven'.

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 (right).

A 10-year-old boy has become an internet sensation after he conquered his fears and bust out his dance moves during a high school basketball game. Seth Vangeldren, 10, of Port Orange, Florida, (pictured) usually dances in the privacy of his own room, using videos online to perfect the choreography for weeks on end. But when his mom's favorite song came on during a Spruce Creek High School game, he jumped up and prompted a dance party with his show-stopping routine.

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.

An incredible image of twelve members of the Household Cavalry hiding in the jungle has had internet users the world over scratching their heads. The photograph shows a dozen soldiers from one of the British Army's most elite units camouflaged in the foliage of a forest in Brunei. Can you spot all 12?

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).

This is the moment a reckless driver barely avoids killing a policewoman as she tries to give him a parking fine. The officer in Mexico City was knocked to the ground as she tried to ticket the driver of the Chevrolet SUV, who burns rubber before heartlessly speeding away and sends the policewoman tumbling to the ground.

A new exhibition currently on show in Beijing 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.

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 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.