Self-taught make-up artist spends up to 16 hours transforming into characters such as Pennywise the clown

A self-taught make-up artist who spends up to sixteen hours creating quirky and terrifying looks has become an online sensation. Toma Skabeikyte, 28, from Lithuania has gained more than 3,000 followers on Instagram by using make-up and body paint to create petrifying optical illusions and re-imagined versions of the scariest villains from horror films.

Homeless family who slept in Garda station offered a home

A homeless woman and her young children who slept at a Garda station have been offered accommodation by the local council. Margaret Cash has been told a three-bedroom apartment in Dublin city will be made available to her and seven children from Friday.

Teacher Donates His Kidney to Save Student's Life.

A Georgia teacher helped save his student’s life by donating his kidney after he was inspired by his own son’s experience with kidney failure. Kaden Koebcke was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with kidney disease.

A French chef with 21 Michelin stars is battling his eviction from the Eiffel Tower.

THE TOP FRENCH chef who cooked for US President Donald Trump atop the Eiffel Tower last year has gone to court to challenge his eviction from his lofty perch.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan dies aged 80

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has died aged 80 after battling a short illness. Mr Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland this morning with his wife and three children by his side. In his family's full post announcing his death, they wrote: "Kofi Annan was a global statesman and a deeply committed internationalist who fought throughout his life for a fairer and more peaceful world.

Pope’s visit to Ireland

 

Pope Francis is expected to draw significantly smaller crowds than the last papal trip to Ireland by John Paul II nearly 40 years ago. Ireland has changed utterly since those days, but the imminent visit from the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics will still be the biggest gathering the country has seen in decades. So, what do we know about it? 

Is this £8.09million stunning house Britain's most expensive SECOND home?

A luxury house on Sandbanks has become one of Britain's most expensive coastal homes after it was sold for a record-breaking £8.09million.The Moorings, which has been purchased by a female buyer as a second home, was regarded as England's most technologically advanced houses when it was designed and built-in 2009.

The loneliest man on the planet

As we walked through the dense jungle, the stillness was broken only by the zing of the Trailblazers' machetes ahead of us and the occasional chatter of monkeys, swinging like trapeze artists through the treetops. It was 2002 and I was an only partway through a three-month expedition into the depths of the Javari Valley Indigenous Land in far-western Brazil, a sprawling reserve that harbours the largest concentration of uncontacted and isolated tribes in the world.

'Heroic' police officer breastfeeds a malnourished baby in Argentinian hospital

A police officer breastfed a 'malnourished and dirty' baby that was brought into a hospital where she was on guard duty. Celeste Ayala was working at the Sor Maria Ludovica children's hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina when the baby was brought in crying desperately. The officer asked the doctors for permission to hold and feed him because she could see the baby was hungry and hospital staff were overloaded with work.

Restaurant in Mexico raided by federal agents after Facebook videos shows them serving tacos with seared TARANTULAS considered to be a protected species.

Fancy a tarantula taco for a cool $27? Not so fast, Mexican authorities say. A Mexico City market restaurant recently put the arachnids on its menu and posted a video on Facebook showing a chef torching one until blackened.