Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros Reyes and husband Julio Cesar Mora Tapia have a combined age of 214. The couple from Ecuador have been officially recognised by Guinness World Records

Heidy Jaramillo Vega, 35, said she was “eager to help” after the eight-day-old infant was rescued in Cartagena, Colombia, after being taken by a woman who tricked her parents into trusting her

Glaciologist Konrad Steffen, 68, was working near the Swiss Camp research station he set up 30 years ago when he plunged into a crevasse created by rising temperatures in the Arctic

Nathan Smith, who moved to New Zealand from Dorset in 2005, was at one of two Christchurch mosques targeted by a white supremacist who went on a rampage and slaughtered 51 people

The Lazarus Group, which notoriously hacked Sony Pictures in 2014, was found to be ratcheting up its efforts to steal cryptocurrency in May, when a South Korean cyber-security firm raised the alarm

Geraldine Mullan was the sole survivor of the crash in Co Donegal that killed her husband John Mullan, and children Tomas, 14, and Amelia, six

The child was found floating helplessly out to sea on the toy off the coast of Gulf of Corith, Greece, after authorities ashore alerted a passing ferry to rush to her rescue

Tony L Lavoie, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, is said to have told a police officer who questioned why he allegedly had sex with mum Cheryl Lavoie ‘I don’t know, it just happened’

Grieving father Aden Ibrahim Diriye told the man who shot his little boy “justice is waiting for you in the next life”, on the third day of his sentencing hearing for 51 killings and 40 attempted murders

Stephanie Blais, 44, was killed by a black bear outside their family cabin in northern Saskatchewan, Canada – her nine-year-old boy witnessed the disturbing attack