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A wife who was caught on camera hiring a an undercover cop to kill her newlywed husband told a court she was acting in a bid to become famous on a reality TV show and was threatened to go along with the scheme by a police informant.

Dalia Dippolito spoke at a hearing ahead of her retrial for allegedly trying to pay a hitman $3,000 to murder spouse Michael in 2009, after the pair had only been married six months.

The 32-year-old became an internet sensation when hidden cameras from the show Cops captured her crying in 2009 as officers in Boyton Beach, Florida, revealed he was dead.

It was later revealed that he was still alive and cops had set up the scene to catch Dippolito's ploy in the act.

She admits her tears were fake - but only because she and her husband had formulated the plan together in a bid to be famous after getting the idea from another actor.

During her court appearance on Wednesday, she reiterated that she didn't want to kill her husband and was pressured into saying it.

She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2011 for solicitation to commit first-degree murder with a firearm, but the case was thrown out in 2014 after evidence of police misconduct surfaced during appeals.

Now she is facing a retrial after Boynton Beach judge Glenn Kelley said the case had been hanging around for too long.

Oliver Dietmann, 46, could be jailed for five years for the bedroom death of his lover Rica Varna, also 46.

The court in Mannheim where he is on trial had members of his victim's family including her father and sister in the public gallery hearing the sordid details of the episode, which also featured a bunch of carrots and some courgettes.

A 25-year-old mother of one has died after undergoing a routine breast enlargement operation in Shenzhen, southern China.

The woman referred to as Ting Ting died on Wednesday after her heartbeat dropped during surgery.

Ting Ting, who was a fashion model, decided to undergo surgery after being told during her consultation that she had so-called 'small breast syndrome' and small eyes.

According to a surgery brief provided by the hospital, Ting Ting paid 45,600 yuan (£4,884) for breast enlargement along with surgery on her eyes.

During a consultation before the surgery, medical staff told her that she had small eyes along with small breast syndrome.

Her mother named Tian sad her daughter was a model. She told reporters: 'I always told her she looked so pretty.'

She says that Ting Ting didn't think that she was perfect enough and often talked about making her eyes longer and rounder.

The hospital staff confirmed that she had previously had a nose job at the same surgery.

According to hospital records, Ting Ting entered the operating theatre at 10.30am and had surgery on her eyelids using partial anaesthesia. She then underwent breast enhancement surgery with added anaesthesia. It was during this surgery that her pulse dropped followed by her blood pressure.

She was given adrenaline however her heart stopped.

Ting Ting's husband was told of the news at 5pm. However she had already been dead for some time.

Tian, the woman's mother says she is angry that they weren't informed earlier about complications.

She said: 'She had already passed away and paramedics had been called without our knowledge'.

A spokesman from the clinic confirmed that they had called paramedics at around 3pm and that they had tried for 30 minutes to resuscitate Ting Ting.

The spokesman confirmed that the death had been caused by the use of anaesthesia. He said that all of the medical staff involved were fully registered and certified.

The hospital have said that they will bear full responsibility and offer some compensation for the woman's death.

The health supervising authority in Nanshan District of Shenzhen said that they are currently investigating the case.

The cause of death will be confirmed following post-mortem examinations.

Plastic surgery is becoming increasingly popular in China, with many young women opting to undergo surgery to get the 'western style' double eyelids.

A baby girl has been born with an extra leg sprouting from her back due to a rare condition which affects one in a million infants.

Two-year-old Varsha Sena, from Delhi, was born with two legs, and a third limb growing sideways out of her spine.

Varsha suffers from a rare condition called polymelia, which causes a person to be born with extra limbs, often arms or legs.

Doctors at the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Delhi, were able to successfully amputate the unwanted third leg at the end of last month.

The lead surgeon, Dr Daljit Singh, said: 'The baby was suffering from polymelia.

'It is a condition in which is a person is born with more than four limbs. We have not seen such a case in the last fifty years.

'This was the first case of polymelia in which the spinal cord had developed into an additional limb.' Via dailymail.co.uk

A young woman has publicly shamed her racist father after he sent a letter saying her family would leave her homeless and never speak to her again if she continued to date a black man.

Stephanie Hicks from Keller, Texas, shared the vile note on Twitter in which she was told she had 'disrespected her family in every way' by having a boyfriend with a different skin colour to her.

The dad, who claimed to be a Christian, gave her a final ultimatum - saying there were three empty suitcases waiting for her belongings to be packed in if she stayed with her partner, called Nike.

He wrote: 'While it may not be anti-biblical, I know I will never accept it, and I’ll never forgive you. My belief is that interracial relationships are despicable. Vulgar and reprehensible.

'There’s nothing worse than a half-black, and I’m crushed that my own daughter has entered into such a disgusting relationship.'

He went on to say that if he chose Nike 'over her family' he never wanted any contact with her again and asked her to change her name as he didn't want to be associated with her.

Stephanie , thought to be 19, uploaded a snap of the vile letter to Twitter commenting 'sad that it's 2016 and skin colour still matters', tagging her boyfriend.

She was met with overwhelming support and the post was retweeted more than 8,000 times and favourited by 7,000 people.

But she was also met with further abuse from racist users, and she has since deleted her account.

The letter from her father also read: 'This isn’t easy, but you haven’t made it easy. Over the last several years, you’ve turned on everything that we tried to instill from childhood.

But he said that Stephanie didn't want to split and instead told her parents they had broken up, but when the post of her letter went viral her family realised they were still together.

It is not known whether her father followed through with his threat.

Messages of support for the pair have flooded in on Twitter.

As one of the most recognised faces in show business, it's only natural that Kim Kardashian will have adoring fans wanting to copy her looks.

But Sonia Ali's similarities to the queen of selfies are so uncanny, she says she regularly gets confused with the mother-of-two.

The British beauty blogger, who lives in Dubai, says some fans have claimed she is 'prettier than Kim' - despite insisting she has 'never seen' the resemblance herself.

Sonia Ali bears a striking resemblance to the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, from her full lips to her chiselled cheekbones, sleek black hair and sultry poses - and even her outfits.

Sonia, who runs the Instagram page @soniaxfyza with her sister, make-up artist Fyza, describes herself as a 'beauty addict' who regularly poses for her sister and acts as her 'muse'.

The pair specialise in makeovers for Middle-Eastern skin, but also work with celebrities such as Naomi Harris and Helen Flanagan, and split their time between London and Dubai.

Between them they have more than 460,000 Instagram followers - which pales in comparison to the real Kim's 59 million fans - and a blog where they regularly post make-up tips and product reviews.

But it's Sonia's resemblance - her chiselled cheekbones, sleek black hair and sultry poses, as well as her outfits - to the most famous Kardashian sister that has her followers in a frenzy.

However, it seems she does at least share Kim's proclivity for selfies, posting dozens of photographs of herself pouting into her phone camera - which regularly draw in up to 5,000 likes.

She even appears to take inspiration from Kim's outfits, like a pale pink turtleneck top that bears a striking resemblance to one that Kim was seen sporting in March 2014.

She added that while the majority of their followers were Middle-Eastern, she and her sister Fyza don't underestimate the power of the Kardashians' influence on western culture.

On the sisters' website, they claim that Fyza was trained by Kim Kardashian's make-up artist, while Sonia herself has worked as his model.

And on a post where Sonia tried out a Tom Ford foundation, georgiialee wrote: 'how much does this look like kim.'

One even claimed that she was 'prettier than Kim'. VIA dailymail.co.uk

She may not be blonde but Hannah Gregory, 22, from Skegby, Nottinghamshire, boasts the same seemingly impossible body proportions and perfectly symmetrical facial features as a Barbie doll.

She has a tiny 22-inch waist and wears contact lenses that mimic the wide-eyed doll's glassy stare.

However, the Sheffield University student claims she is regularly criticised by passers-by in the street and can't find a man who is interested in her personality.

Her walking, talking doll looks have amassed her thousands of online followers.

However she claims that her striking appearance and Barbie-inspired outfits often come under fire from total strangers - and her striking looks mean that men become 'obsessed' without getting to know her.

As a child, Hannah was very shy. She recalls feeling unattractive and not having the confidence to experiment with fashion.

Hannah, who has two sisters, says: ‘Growing up, I was painfully shy and self-conscious about my appearance. I thought I was ugly and lanky.’

However, when Hannah started university in Sheffield in 2013, classmates began commenting on her resemblance to a human doll.

Hannah then began to embrace her 'human Barbie' appearance and began dressing up in doll-like clothes. She now spends up to three hours per day getting ready and also wears enormous contact lenses to imitate the blank gaze of a doll.

Hannah's living, breathing Barbie looks mean she gets attention everywhere she goes.

In spite of the unwanted hassle she receives, Hannah was eager to show off her human Barbie looks to the world and last year, when she started to upload pictures online of her posing in doll-like outfits on social media.

Her unusual looks won her over 18,000 Instagram followers who now worship her as the embodiment of perfection.

Hannah, who receives fan mail on a daily basis, said: ‘I always respond back to fan mail. I've heard some of the other living dolls don't reply back to their followers but I always make an effort, no matter how busy I am.

Although Hannah boasts thousands of adoring admirers, she says her doll-like beauty is ruining her love life. Via dailymail.co.uk

36-year-old London resident Angela Crickmore weighed about 83 kilos (182 lb). But inspired by the example of her friend who lost 9,5 kg (21 lb), she decided to lose weight herself. So she chose an appropriate diet and hit the gym. Overall, Angela lost about 28 kg. But after sometime, her husband filed for divorce claiming that he liked 83-kilogram Angela more. They have been together for 9 years. Despite all this, Angela is happy now with new life and doesn't regret her choice.

This is the agonising moment an teenage anorexic broke her ribs while jumping into her boyfriend's arms.

Georgia McGrath, 18, weighed just five stone when her ribs fractured as she went in for a hug while a friend took a photograph.

Miss McGrath, from Hull, East Yorkshire, had lost half of her 10 stone body weight after developing anorexia .

She lived off 100 calories a day, causing her weight to plummet and leaving her with a frail, skeletal frame.

She said doctors had warned her she was malnourished and vulnerable but said she couldn't see it at the time.

It was only after posing for the picture with boyfriend Ashton Benton, 25, and her family's horrified reaction that she sought the help she needed.

Miss McGrath said the anorexia started after someone at school called her fat.

From there her weight loss spiralled out of control as she went to the gym every day desperately trying burn off any calories she had eaten.

She said her illness caused her to miss a lot of college and she needed the support of a tutor just to help her walk.

In August 2014 she was rushed to the hospital after suffering from stroke-like symptoms that were caused by her starving herself.

VIA dailymail.co.uk

A new species of luminous creatures have been discovered in the Red Sea and they’re pretty incredible.

They were found by Russian researchers investigating coral reefs just off the Farasan Islands.

The ‘fluorescent lanterns’, as they have been dubbed, revealed themselves when biologists placed them under UV-light.

Attaching on to miniature shells of a sea snail, the creatures garland the animal with luminous green lights.

Vyacheslav Ivanenko, one of the lead authors of the research, said: ‘Sea hydroids, unlike hydrae, are often found in colonies and canbranch off tiny jellyfish

‘The unusual green glow of these hydrozoas (presumably, a new species of the genus Cytaeis, whose body length reaches 1.5 mm) was revealed in the peristomal area of the body.’

At the moment, the role of the glow has not been investigated at all but zoologists suggest that the glow around the mouth of polyps may attract prey.

‘Fluorescent flashlights’ may be visible to other invertebrates in the moonlight, and at sunset and sunrise.

Ivanenko added: ‘The fluorescence can be useful for quick identification of hardly recognizable species and for the studies of ecological peculiarities and distribution of hydroids and their hosts molluscs’. Via metro.co.uk

The woman - surnamed Mou - said she bought 11lbs worth of pork from her local farmers market in Dazhou city on January 15 and saw it illuminating after the nightfall.

The shocked pensioner kept the meat for four days and asked her granddaughter to take pictures of the unusual sight .

According to the report, when Ms Mou purchased the pork, she took it home and put it in a bowl ready to be salted.

She first saw it glowing it at night when she got up to go to the bathroom. The blue illuminated meat coming from the kitchen gave her a fright.

Ms Mou recalls going to the Tianhe Farmers Market with her neighbour - a 68-year-old woman called Wang - and together they bought 22lbs worth of meat, each spending 155 Yuan (£17) on their produce.

When she took it back four days later, she told the butcher that she saw the pork glowing in the dark.

The butcher told her there was nothing wrong with the quality of the meat and he was willing to bet her 1,000 Yuan (£107).

Ms Mou gave the picture to a local news reporter who came to her house to check the pork.

The reporter noted that in daylight, the pork looked perfectly fine, but when they took it to a dim room it was glowing blue.

Her granddaughter checked online what it could be and they discovered that the meat was unfit for human consumption.

Staff from the Dazhou Food and Drug Safety Hotline said the pork could have a phosphorus-containing food additive inside it, and the blue glow could have been caused by phosphorescent bacteria contamination.

Phosphorus additives can be used to make food last longer. For example, phosphate salts are added to meats to extend the shelf life.

Although phosphorus additives are harmless to humans, it is not wise to eat the meat if it is glowing blue.It is unclear what happened to the butcher, or if Ms Wou was given her 1,000 Yuan for winning the bet and proving him wrong. Via dailymail.co.uk