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EXCLUSIVE: Luigi Fiorillo, 37, (left, with his wife Ina Medvyedyeva) stamped on the brakes of his delivery lorry as he watched the Morandi bridge in Genoa (right) crumbling before his eyes, then got out of the cab and ran for his life, calling his survival a miracle. Mr Fiorillo, described as 'friendly and hard-working' by his bosses and colleagues at Genoa haulage firm Damonte Trasporti where he works is said to be in shock. 'I stared death in the face on the Morandi bridge. I saved myself by a miracle,' he said. 'I saw a car overtake me on the left, I had another car in front of me. I saw that the cars ahead were falling off [the bridge].

A new book (pictured inset) written by official biographer James Pope-Hennessy and edited by royal historian Hugo Vickers reveals intimate conversations with those closest to Queen Mary (pictured left during the coronation of King George VI) that haven't been published in 50 years. The Royal who died in 1953 reportedly picked flowers out of vases in her room to gift friends rather than buying new ones from florists. Queen Mary (pictured right with King George V in 1911) also hated her granddaughter Princess Margaret along with Sandringham and Balmoral.

Police were called to the scene shortly before 5.30pm this evening after reports of a stabbing near to Landor House, on the Elmington Estate. Police have now cordoned off the scene (left, right) after a large amount of emergency services were dispatched to the scene (inset). The scattered remains of first aid equipment used on the injured was visible inside the cordon (right). One eyewitness revealed one of the victims had their 'intestines falling on the ground' as horrific nature of the attack has been revealed. The witness, who said they did not believe any of the teenagers lived on the estate, said: 'When I looked round the back, I saw the youth come running from the block. He came to the corner and dropped. He was holding his belly and all of his intestines were falling on the ground.'

Christopher Watts, 33, (left) appeared in court in Weld County, Colorado for the first time on Thursday. The bodies of his wife Shanann Watts, 34, and her daughters Bella and Celeste (together right) were found earlier Thursday at the Anadarko oil and gas site where her husband once worked. Shanann went missing on Monday after returning from a business trip at around 1am. Her husband said the last time he saw her was at 5:15am when he left for work. In the days that followed, he gave several media interviews (inset) where he made conflicting statements before he was finally arrested on Wednesday night. Authorities are being extraordinarily tight-lipped about their investigation and are refusing to say how they think Shanann died.

Mental health manager Hope Stubbings claims she has been seeing Cipriani since November after he messaged her on Instagram – but has kept the relationship quiet. The 27-year-old was not with the England rugby star when he was involved in a drunken nightclub fracas on the island of Jersey that led to him being fined £2,000 and putting his international career in jeopardy. Hope and Cipriani have yet to talk about the incident, as she is on holiday overseas with her son. A friend told Mail Online: 'It is a shame Hope was not with him as she might have been a calming influence.'

Cipriani, raised by his taxi-driving mother (left) who poured everything into giving her son the best chance in life, is in the spotlight once again after being charged for assaulting a female police officer. on the island of Jersey. The England fly half looked scruffy as he left court today (right) after admitting the charges brought against him. The prodigious talent has never fulfilled his potential and has had a string of high profile romances (both inset) and bust ups.

Aretha Franklin has died aged 76 at her home in Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer. Here, TOM LEONARD tells how the Queen of Soul, who was a mother at the age of 13 and married to a pimp by 19, rose to stardom from a broken home: Nobody wore a fur coat quite like Aretha Franklin (left in 1967). She loved to shrug it off dramatically mid-song - a Gospel music tradition supposed to indicate emotional abandon. In her case, the fur also helped remind her audience they were in the presence of royalty. She was the 'Queen of Soul' and nobody dare better forget it. On occasions when people appeared to forget royal etiquette, her regal behaviour could be quelling. But Franklin (bottom right on the Andy Williams show in 1968), who was a mother by age of 13 and married to a pimp (top right, together in 1968) by 19, came from a broken home, writes TOM LEONARD.

The 6ft aluminium and Perspex Tommy silhouettes(pictured) have been purchased by cities around the world, where they will be proudly displayed next to memorial sites. Former head of the Army Lord Dannatt personally wrote to 433 local authority leaders asking them to support the charity campaign. So far, however, only 160 councils have agreed to make a £750 donation to buy one of the silhouettes to display in their town or city for the centenary of the war.

What do you see when you look at these photographs: loving smiles and family resemblances between mothers and their daughters? You'd be excused for the mistake but they are all, in fact, siblings, with anywhere from 14 to 24 years between them. But what does a huge age gap mean for a sibling relationship? Four sets of siblings reveal all.

At least five of the prestigious universities of the Russell Group in the UK advertised courses in clearing with reduced entry requirements following yesterday's A Level results. They were Exeter, Liverpool, Warwick and York universities and Queen Mary University of London. In many cases they were dropping requirements from a string of A grades to B and even C grades. Universities are dealing with a glut of places this year because of a drop in the number of 18-year-olds coinciding with the removal of a cap on the number of places. Elise O'Connor (left) achieved top grades, Edi Rama (top right) the son of Kosovan refugees is off to Oxford and Jack Parkinson will study at Cambridge (bottom right)

More than 500,000 students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level results today. But not everyone got what they wanted, and teenagers across Britain celebrated and commiserated with each other with a series of tongue-in-cheek memes. Some joked they would beg universities to take them despite missing out on grades, while one pointed out: 'Can't fail your A-levels if you never open your results.' More than one in four A-levels were awarded an A or A* this year - the highest proportion for six years. But one in 12 (8.0 per cent) entries scored an A* grade, down 0.3 percentage points on last year. This is the lowest since 2013. The overall A*-E pass rate has also fallen 0.3 percentage points to 97.6 per cent - the lowest since 2010.

Jeremy Corbyn (pictured left) last night faced fresh questions about his links to terrorists as it emerged he shared a platform with the world’s first female plane hijacker. The Labour leader spoke at a 2002 pro-Palestine rally in London with Leila Khaled (inset), who took part in two attacks on airliners. Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), blew up one passenger jet on the runway in 1969. She then underwent plastic surgery to disguise herself and joined a second hostage-taking the next year as part of the Black September attacks. Mr Corbyn and Khaled were both speakers at an event in May 2002 where the Labour leader called for a boycott of all goods from Israel. On the same stage, Khaled called for a ‘victory’ over the Jewish state and argued that Zionism had ‘exceeded Nazism’.

The Competition and Markets Authority has written to British celebrities and social media influencers to gather information about posts and business agreements with brands. It refuses to say who it is speaking to, but they are likely to be stars already criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for not making clear posts are ads. Louise Thompson (top right) is among those already under fire for paid posts. Stephanie Davis (left) and Marnie Simpson (bottom right) have also been spotted placing advertisement posts on social media.

Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of Kivu, has been hit hard by the twin perils of an Ebola outbreak (patient being led to isolation pictured top) and persistent war that have bred fear and despair. The area on August 1 declared an outbreak of Ebola epicentered in Mangina - a small town that had been a relative haven from the fighting - where six members of the same family died of the disease. The infected will be treated in 10 Biosecure Emergency care Units (bottom), which will be used for the first time to treat Ebola patients and are currently being constructed by The Alliance for International Medical Action in response to the outbreak.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: ITV's big-budget adaptation of Thackeray's wickedly funny masterpiece, starring Olivia Cooke as scheming Becky Sharp, you might wonder if there will be anything else on the box once the nights start getting colder. The answer is a gratifying 'yes' — no end of treats.

The notorious EDL founder walked out of prison on August 1 after three months behind bars for contempt of court. A new hearing is scheduled for September 4. He then went on a two-week break where he filmed a video with Lutz Bachmann, the leader of anti-Islam group PEGIDA, on the Canary Island earlier this week. Robinson went on to enjoy a no-expense-spared holiday at the resort -- one of the most exclusive on the Canaries -- and spent days on end lounging by the swimming pool, sipping soft drinks and chatting to holidaymakers. He even went on a pirate-themed whale watching boat trip organised by the resort.

Simonne Kerr, a nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, was found suffering from a knife wound by police at her home in south west London yesterday afternoon. The 31-year-old wowed audiences on ITV after appearing on Britain's Got Talent as part of the NHS choir B Positive (inset), created to raise awareness for blood donations. Ms Kerr revealed how she took solace in the choir following the death of her son Kavele, 6, (pictured together, left) from sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, in 2015. She was pronounced dead yesterday in the Victorian terrace flat (shown right) she was staying in, despite the efforts of paramedics who battled for nearly an hour to save her. A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene, sparking the 90th homicide investigation in the capital this year.

Stephen Divers (inset) complained about his £60 ticket (left) in Edinburgh, claiming his car wasn't touching the lines - only to be mocked for not knowing the car didn't have to be actually touching them to be fined. The 22-year-old posted pictures showing his car parked next to the double yellows (right) but not touching them as his car was about 18 inches to 2ft from the kerb. 'You're actually still technically on a double yellow if your car is physically touching it or not,' one user commented.

Jordan Holgerson (pictured left), 16, initially didn't want her friend Taylor Smith (right) to face charges. But as she continues to recover at home in Washington, the teen has changed her tune about her friend. Jordan said she is in 'a lot of pain' and that it hurts to breathe and she struggles to get up. The investigation has been completed and forwarded to the prosecutor's office. Taylor has said she 'feels bad' about pushing Jordan and has apologized. But some claim that Taylor feels no remorse and hasn't even visited Jordan since the incident.

An E-type Jaguar made in 1961 and is expected to wow car collectors. The convertible is described as 'the most beautiful car ever made' and was one of only 92 released by Jaguar. The 'incredibly desirable' classic car which has a 3.8l engine and a rare bonnet lock goes on sale in October.

The Russian Tu-22M3M will also carry Kh-32 air-to-surface cruise missiles, which have a range of up to 370 miles flying up to 25 miles above the ground at Mach 5 - five times the speed of sound. These missiles are an upgrade of the Kh-22 which were designed to destroy U.S. aircraft carriers during the Cold War but also work well against ground targets. They can be armed with nuclear warheads. Russia claims the jets are the first to have artificial intelligence built in to their systems, though it was not clear if that included control of its weapons, which is highly controversial. The Tu-22M3M is a 'deep moderisation' of the Tu-22M3 which Russia's air force has about 100 in service and used extensively in missions over Syria in support of the Assad regime.

The victim's wife posted on Facebook that Keanna Cammon, 38, from Alabama, had called her via the video chat service and showed that she was holding the weapon to her husband's head. Shocking grabs from the Facebook Live at 10.30am (pictured left) show suspect Keanna Cammon pointing a gun at the camera while the victim's wife (seen in the corner of the screen) looks on aghast. She later shot the man in his torso, according to Tuscaloosa police. The wife told cops Cammon was threatening to kill her husband if he did not finalize their divorce. Cammon filed for divorce from her own husband last week.

WARNING: Graphic content. Every summer, hundreds of pilot and beaked whales are killed across the Faroe Islands, a Danish archipelago located hundreds of miles off the Scottish coast between Norway and Iceland. The practice, known as whale driving, saw children as young as five take part in the hunt of some 180 whales in the village of Sandavágur on Vágar island last month. While locals have been carrying out the annual hunts ahead of the sparse winter months for centuries, the practice often come off as shocking and gruesome to outsiders.

More than one million pilgrims have already arrived in Saudi Arabia, days before the kingdom prepares to host its mammoth annual Hajj pilgrimage. The Hajj, which is expected to draw more than two million pilgrims this year, represents a key rite of passage for Muslims and a massive logistical challenge for Saudi authorities – as these stunning images above show.

A server (pictured above) in New Orleans hit a spectator who slapped her posterior during a routine. The video shows the spectator enter the bar and interrupt the shot-pouring barmaid mid-routine during a tradition involving cinnamon whisky being poured down a punter's throat. Footage of the altercation at Spirits on Bourbon in New Orleans was posted to Twitter by Tyler Gamble and gathered nearly 10 million views.

Annabel Neasham, 27, an eventing champion from Oxfordshire, crossed the line in first place with Adrian Corboy (left) after riding for a week in the grueling Mongol Derby (right). The famous race took them across mountain passes, green open valleys, wooded hills, river crossings, wetland and floodplains, sandy semi-arid dunes, rolling hills, dry riverbeds. Not only do competitors have to battle the elements and rugged terrain, they ride on semi-wild Mongolian horses that don't always cooperate. Neasham and Corboy's victory was born out of their near-defeat, stuck in the remote marshes unable to move and contemplating giving up before a local herder helped them.

The two-year-old (pictured) was visiting a petting zoo with his mother in Castlebar, Ireland when he got too close to a goose enclosure. One of the honking geese nipped him in the face with its beak, sending the young boy flying to the ground. His mother, who was filming at the time, said: 'This is one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.'

Vanessa Münstermann, who lives in Hannover, Germany, has given herself the English nickname 'Two Face' and had the words tattooed on her chest. The attacker, who was identified in German coverage only as Daniel F., was jailed for 12 years in 2016 after ambushing her and throwing sulphuric acid in her face. A judge said Ms Münstermann could have died if she had swallowed any of the industrial cleaning product which was thrown in her face. A lawyer for the 33-year-old attacker said his client could not afford to pay the €250,000 she is claiming if the court found against him. Pictured: Ms Münstermann outside the regional court today (right); the former beautician pictured before the attack in 2015 (left); the burns she suffered in the 2016 ambush (inset).

The animal was spotted 'agitated and fearful' distress on a Patagonian port, about 2000 miles out to sea from the Chilean capital of Santiago. Fishermen spotted the creature, and reported it to the Chilean navy. The navy then sent a patrol boat named the Alcalufe to the scene, near port William on the island of Navarino, just off Cape Horn on the southern tip of Patagonia. Footage shows  the whale struggling at the water's surface as it tries to untangle itself from the fishing nets.