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A truck driver has died after high winds blew his truck off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The man was driving southbound on the 23-mile bridge and tunnel complex linking the Delmarva Peninsula with Virginia Beach when the horror wreck occurred. Gusts of wind up to 40mph are believed to have knocked the white tractor-trailer out of its lane and through the steel railing on the bridge. A Navy helicopter crew happened to be in the area and plucked the man from the waves, but he died on the way to the hospital.

Matthew Badger, the father who lost his three daughters in a tragic house fire in Connecticut on Christmas Day in 2011, has passed away aged 51. The news of his death was revealed on Thursday by the charity Badger set up to honor his little girls - nine-year-old Lily and seven-year-old twins Sarah and Grace. 'We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Matthew Badger, LSG co-founder. When LSG first started, it was to honor the lives and memories of Matthew's daughters,' the charity said.

George Clooney and wife Amal are expecting twins in June. The Talk's Julie Chen announced that the couple are expecting twins after confirming the news with the 55-year-old actor.  'What we did find out is that the twins are due this June,' Chen said on Thursday.

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. The Household Cavalry serve as the Queen's official bodyguard and is part of the Houseshold Division. It is made up of the two most senior regiments of the British Army, namely the Blues and Royals and the Life Guards. Notable members include Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, who were both members of the Blues and Royals, and singer James Blunt, who served in the Life Guards. The Household Cavalry dates back to 1660 and consists of The Life Guards (inset) and The Blues and Royals. Can you spot all 12 servicemen in the photograph (main image)?

I guess he prefers being the big spoon! A heartwarming photograph has gone viral after a newly adopted pit bull named Russ cuddled with Kayla Filoon as she did her homework on the couch. Filoon, who attends Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fell in love with the dog even though he was underweight and had a bloody tail, a kennel cough, an eye infection and patchy fur.

Jessa Dillow Crisp (right), 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. And after breaking free from the terrifying world of sex trafficking, Ms Dillow Crisp enjoys hiking Colorado's mountains with her husband John (top and bottom left).

The slick video shows the aircraft merging together in a tight formation as they fly in low over a snowy landscape. A close-up of a pilot is seen before the man fires missiles down to a target below. The war game saw the units shoot down 30 aircraft. The newly released footage follows the announcement on Tuesday that Russia is readying itself for war - the latest in a series of drills amid tensions with the West.

An Indiana conservation officer got some puppy love from his K9 while they posed for a portrait together. Heartwarming photographs show K9 Kenobi lick and nuzzle Indiana Conservation Officer Levi Knach. The Facebook page for Indiana State Parks posted the images on Thursday. Indiana State Parks wrote: ''Kenobi is cute, but make no mistake - he is a trained, working officer and can track people and locate a variety of objects ranging from venison to ginseng. We are grateful for the work that our ICOs do all over the state to protect and serve people and to conserve our fish and wildlife resources.'

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.

Six weeks ago, Ivanka Trump was bullied sitting with her husband and their children aboard a JetBlue flight departing from JFK airport. It's hard to imagine more snivelling, sickening and cowardly behavior towards a young mother as she sat quietly with her small children. Yet it perfectly typified the vile liberal assaults on Ivanka from the moment her father decided to run for president. And now the bullying continues - this time by Nordstrom.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, 35, was sent back to Mexico through the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona, at 10am Thursday. The mother-of-two had been in the US illegally from age 14 and had a prior felony conviction in Arizona for criminal impersonation.

Under Armour's CEO is once again coming under fire from two of his company's top celebrity endorsers for saying that President Donald Trump was good for American business. Hollywood movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson (left) and world class ballet dancer Misty Copeland (right) have joined fellow Under Armour pitchman Steph Curry (right inset) in distancing themselves from CEO Kevin Plank (left inset). Plank caused a stir on Tuesday when he told CNBC that Trump was a 'real asset' for US companies. Both Copeland and Johnson released statements on their Instagram accounts in which they disavowed Plank's comments and stressed their belief in 'diversity and inclusion.'

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...

Tamara Ecclestone has launched an impassioned rant at 'bitter people' who have tried to 'sexualised breastfeeding'. The heiress, 32, posted an artistic snap of her nursing her daughter Sophia - who turns three next month - on her Instagram page on Thursday afternoon while criticising those who reacted in a negative way to her choice. Posing in an elegant shoot for photographer Ivette Ivens, the socialite explained she wanted to speak out on the issue to stem the tide of 'hatred' she was experiencing on varying forms of social media.

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.

Former South Carolina police officer Leroy Hair (left), 29, faces up to 30 days in jail for allegedly punching James Terry III (right) while arresting him for speeding in a North Charleston parking lot. The November incident was caught on video. It shows Hair pulling Terry across the backseat of a patrol car to the edge of the frame. Terry's attorneys say that's when Hair punched their client repeatedly in the face. Hair said Terry spit on officers as they tried to arrest him. The North Charleston Police Department fired Hair in December for 'unnecessary or excessive use of force'.

Thanks to changing attitudes to child bereavement, as well as the CuddleCot - which contains an electric cooling system attached to a mat to keep the body temperature low - mothers are taking their babies home to care for them in the days before their funerals. Often concealed in bassinets to give the appearance of a living baby sleeping, CuddleCots enable parents to spend time with their child before their final parting. The baby can be held, dressed and taken for walks like a living child. The widespread use of the device came to light when 21-year-old Charlotte Szakacs and her husband Attila, 28, from York, told how they had used the equipment to care for their daughter Evelyn for two weeks after she died due to a chromosome disorder a month after birth (right, when she was gravely ill). And nursery nurse Lynsey Bell and her husband Mark spent 15 days saying goodbye to their son Rory (left).

Unsurprisingly, Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z will be seated front and center for this Sunday's Grammy Awards where she's nominated for nine trophies. The 35-year-old pregnant pop diva - who's expecting twins - is also scheduled to perform one of her Lemonade tracks onstage LA's Staples Center.

Cook was pictured resting his head on the shoulder of 21-year-old aspiring singer named Zoey Tess in since deleted Snapchat and Instagram pictures. The college sophomore is just three years older than his own daughter. Sources say Cook - whose marriage to supermodel Brinkley ended in divorce after he cheated on her with an 18-year-old - kept insisting that Tess should sleep over. 'He was being aggressive,' the source told Page Six after the pair's apparent date in in East Hampton on Tuesday. 'She kept shutting him down.'

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.

Madonna is back in New York City with her new daughters, twins Estere and Stelle. The pop star, 58, adopted the four-year-old girls from Mchinji, Malawi, announcing the news on Instagram Wednesday. The group then flew back to the United States in a private jet overnight, touching down in New York City on Thursday morning. From there, the girls headed to Madonna's Upper East Side townhouse, and got the chance see their first blizzard. This just 24 hours after they left Malawi, where the temperature was approximately 80 degrees on Wednesday.

The venomous snake had been spotted by villagers outside the central Thai province of Saraburi and called upon the local snake catcher to remove the reptile. The video shows the man employing a variety of tactics to subdue the cobra, as he wields a long metal hook. He grabs the reptile's tail, drags it along the dusty ground and pushes its head down with his hand. Eventually he manages to pick it up entirely and place it into a large white bag.

Queen guitarist Brian May collected the nineteenth century French 3D prints of an imaginary satanic underworld - and you can buy them at auction if you've got $600 to spare. The stereocard photographs, named 'diableries' (French for Devilments), depict skeletons at war, a boudoir run by Madame Satan and even skeleton boat races. The images made in a special way so that they could be viewed in 3-D with a device called a stereoscope.

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.

The latest clip by Cut.com tackles the two places both before and after the Second World War. Using one Jewish and one Arab model, the looks include everything from headscarves and military caps to glamorous waves and red lips. The group looked at how both Jewish and Arab Palestinian women have been frequently been photographed in military garb and holding guns - making fashion take on a 'militaristic dimension'.

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.

A report by Pew Research Center shows that 11.1 immigrants live illegally in the country, and 65 per cent of those live in large metropolitan cities like New York or Los Angeles. The study provides a glimpse of where immigrants in the country illegally reside, and regions that could be most affected by Trump's crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Painter and TV personality Bob Ross died in 1995, but his legend lives on - especially among millennials, who remember his calm, blissful TV show from their youth. The memory had such a sway on Chris Nervegna from South River, New Jersey that the 22-year-old decided to make 'Bob Ross' the theme of his last birthday party. Chris fired up one of Ross' old instructional episodes, set up party-goers with paint and canvases, and watched the nostalgic fun unfold.

Over 300 whales stranded on a remote beach in New Zealand's South Island have died (main), while rescuers are frantically working to refloat more than hundred more (inset). Whale rescue organisation Project Jonah said in a Facebook post that there were 416 pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, and that 75 per cent had died overnight. Together with the Department of Conservation, Project Jonah was calling helpers to the northern end of Golden Bay on the island's west coast to help refloat the surviving whales.

A clever two-year-old was filmed during playtime as her mother Karen, and her father, watched TV while sipping on wine.The footage shows the girl bringing her toys to drink out of mommy's glass and imitating slurping sounds as they 'take a sip.' The mother, from Cook County, Illinois posted the video saying: 'Barbie's horse and Holly the Singing Christmas Tree had a choice between milk, water or wine. They chose wine.'

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.

From an unfinished fire temple to the resting place of secret society members, pyramid mausoleums were once a popular place to be buried in the US. Freemasons like Fred Adolphus Dorn (inset top right) and George W.P. Hunt (inset bottom left) had pyramids built to honor their loved ones. Dorn's wife Cora (inset top right) was buried in a 25ft Masonic pyramid in California and Hunt and his wife were buried in a 20 ft white-tile pyramid (bottom left) on a hilltop in Arizona. Charles D. Poston (inset bottom right) converted to Zoroastrianism and attempted to build a fire temple (bottom right), which later became his resting place. More than 150 years later, Nicolas Cage (inset top left) followed the trend and had a pyramid mausoleum (top left) built in a famous New Orleans cemetery. DailyMail.com looks at these four along with two others of the most interesting pyramid mausoleums in the US.

The bright orange gator was spotted climbing out of a pond in Hanahan, South Carolina on Tuesday - the alarm and amusement of the locals. 'It's a Trumpagator,' one local resident commented on the private Tanner Plantation and Foster Creek Community Facebook page, in reference to President Donald Trump's apparent love of orange fake tan. On Twitter, other joked that the Trumpgator was from the 'freshly drained swamp' in reference to claims from President Trump that he would 'drain the swamp' of self-serving politicians in Washington.