Airlines are known to charge for extras, but one UK family got much less than they expected when the seats they purchased turned out to be non-existent. The airline, now under scrutiny, made them sit on the floor for their flight.

When Paula Taylor, along with her husband Ian and daughter Brooke boarded a TUI flight in June to return home to Birmingham from the popular holiday destination of Menorca, they didn't expect their £1,300 flight to be quite so "economy."

Despite having boarding passes for seats 41 D, E and F on the plane, the Taylors were shocked to discover nothing but an empty space under the numbers for where their seats should have been.

"We all just looked at each other as if to say 'where's our seats gone?'," Mrs Taylor told BBC One's consumer watchdog show, Rip-Off Britain: Holidays.

Israel opened a new road in the central occupied West Bank on Thursday with an eight-meter wall separating Palestinian and Israeli traffic, leading many to deem the route "Apartheid Road."

The road connects the illegal Geva Binyamin Settlement, southeast of Ramallah, to Route 1, a major highway that runs through the West Bank and into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.

The new 5-kilometer Route 4370, also known as the "Easter Ring Route" is a four lane route: two lanes for Israeli settlers travelling from the West Bank into Jerusalem, and two lanes circumventing around the borders of Jerusalem for Palestinians with West Bank IDs.

The Israeli-accessible portion of the road is currently only operating between 5am and noon, but will be fully opened as of January 10th, Israeli media reported.

While Israeli media have reported that Palestinians with Jerusalem IDs or Israeli citizenship would be allowed to use the Israeli-side of the road to travel from Jerusalem to the West Bank, heightened security and a new checkpoint along the road have led to speculation that Palestinians, no matter what ID they carry, will be subject to discrimination by Israeli border police who man the checkpoint.

There are dozens of segregated and settler-only roads across the occupied Palestinian territory, but Route 4370 is the first of its kind to have a wall - half concrete, half fence - separating Palestinians from Israelis.

A gay rights advocacy group claims at least 40 people have been arrested in Russia's Chechen Republic, alleging wave of persecution. Chechen leadership says the claim has no truth behind it.

Since late December 2018, 40 people suspected of being gay have been detained in the Chechen Republic, claims the advocacy group "Russian LGBT network." There are both men and women among the detained. Two of them were "tortured to death" in a secret prison in the city of Argun, the statement by the group's Program Director Igor Kochetkov said.

The report was denied by a spokesman for the Chechen government, who said it simply rehashes untruthful accusations that first surfaced in 2017.

"If even a single person were arrested, let alone 40, the entire Chechen public would have known. The claim that two were killed is even more absurd," said Alvi Kraimov. "[The network] must have forgotten that the so-called prison in Argun was checked many times by the Western media and rights organizations, which found no secrets prisons there or in any other place."

In modern society, many of the ways we talk about male identity have either negative connotations or encourage disparaging, eye-rolling satire. If the term is man, then common terms we hear are "man flu," "manspreading," or "mansplaining."

If the term is dad, then there is a droll shaking of the head at a "dad bod" or at "dad jokes." If the term is guy, it is often in relation to stubbornly self-defeating behaviour: 'I got sick, but I did the typical guy thing, and didn't go see the doctor." Or: "I was battling with my mental health, but I did the typical guy thing and didn't ask for help." If the term is masculinity, it is often used in relation to things males must atone for or confront: "toxic masculinity," or "the crisis in masculinity."

If educators, psychologists, and the media want to dissect emerging troubles in masculine identity, then a good place to start would be to acknowledge that many of the ways we talk about male identity undermine this goal. This is a problem that affects us all, because boys are growing up in a culture that is increasingly questioning what's wrong with them, whilst perpetuating casual cynicism towards them.

There are several reasons why this kind of thing gets overlooked. One argument is that it's just light-hearted ribbing, and shouldn't be taken too seriously; but many of the examples above are not light-hearted, and it all adds up to a big picture of masculinity being an obligingly easy target. It seems that women are in many ways entitled to "punch up" at a fracturing but still prevalent male entitlement, and that therefore putting male-chauvinist antics or clumsily wayward men "in their place" is an amusingly empowering thing to do.

A dream coming true when her fiancé kneeled to propose has ended up with the harshest of sanctions for an Arabic language major from Al-Azhar University as the video of the two young lovers embracing in public went viral in Egypt.

Egypt's Al-Azhar University, rated to be one of the oldest academies in the Arab world, has expelled a female student over a viral video with the woman hugging her boyfriend on campus, Ahram Online reports citing, an official from the school, which prohibits women and men from studying together.

University spokesman Ahmad Zarei told the media outlet that her penalty may be reduced by the high disciplinary board and that the expelled student can rightfully appeal her punishment.

"No decision is taken haphazardly; this is all according to the university's law. The student has violated the values of Al-Azhar, society and the university", the official told the outlet.

The expulsion was preceded by an investigation. There is no information if her fiancé, who is a student at Al-Mansoura University, was punished for the video.

The commander of the USS Bremerton was relieved of duty last summer after admitting to Navy investigators he paid for "female accompaniment" while the boat was in port in the Philippines.

Capt. Travis Zettel was relieved of duty in August following a loss of confidence in his ability to command the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, which is now tied up in Bremerton for decommissioning.

The incident occurred March 1 while the sub was ported in Subic Bay, according to documents released to the Kitsap Sun under a federal Freedom of Information Act request. NCIS agents interviewed a tipster to the Department of Defense Inspector General's hotline that Zettel had told him and another sailor at a hotel pool that Zettel had "requested/ordered ten girls to arrive at the hotel." Later, at dinner, the sailor saw Zettel with around 10 "provocatively dressed females outside the front door of the hotel."

Police have responded to an "active shooter situation" at a UPS facility in Gloucester County.

There is no immediate word on whether there are any casualties.

The incident was reported at 8:30 a.m. at the sprawling facility at 200 Birch Creek Road, Gloucester County spokeswoman Debra Sellitto said.

She said the incident was contained to the facility, and "all other businesses and areas within the community are secure."

Thirty-two UPS employees have been relocated to a nearby Holiday Inn, Sellitto said in a statement.

The size of the building's entire workforce was not immediately known.

Travel restrictions remain in effect on Center Square and Birch Creek roads, the statement said.

A row has broken out between the mayor of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church over what should happen to coins retrieved from the Trevi fountain.

Every year nearly €1.5m (£1.3m) is fished out of the famous landmark. It is traditionally given to a Catholic charity to help the destitute.

But now Mayor Virginia Raggi wants the money spent on the city's crumbling infrastructure instead.

The Catholic charity Caritas says the loss of income will hit the poor.

"We did not foresee this outcome," Caritas director Father Benoni Ambarus told Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference. "I still hope it will not be final."

The newspaper ran a scathing article on the move in its Saturday edition, headlined "Money taken from the poorest".

The artwork is courtesy of The Faction, conservatives who previously peppered the Hollywood Walk of Fame with dozens of Donald Trump stars.

Bill Maher on Sunday was attacked on a giant billboard that accuses him of not being "real" or "politically incorrect," but a liberal apparatchik of prevailing wisdom ahead of the return of his HBO show, Real Time, on Friday.

The billboard, at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood, is the work of a group of conservative street artists known as The Faction, who previously peppered the Hollywood Walk of Fame with dozens of faux Donald Trump stars to make up for the real one that the president's detractors have destroyed on multiple occasions.

A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka "BestBuy and Popopret" to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting the country's Internet and causing tens of millions of dollars in damages.

Kaye (30) was charged for DDoS attacks against British and German organizations using millions of Mirai botnets. Some of his targets in Britain included Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland and Barclays who suffered attacks for consecutive two days and caused a major service outage.

It all started in October 2015 when hackers began using Mirai botnet to target businesses, colleges, and government institutions. The DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN (a telecom firm responsible for providing internet service across Liberia through an undersea ACE fiber cable), however, were so powerful that it crippled the Internet in the entire county.