The executioner: Caught on CCTV, the horrific moment Al Shabaab gunman took deadly aim at hostages in Nairobi mall massacre

• Terrorists caught by CCTV aiming at cowering hostages at Nairobi mall
• Masked man seen pointing gun inside bank at Westgate shopping centre
• Other images show women and children sitting among dead bodies
• Militants killed 67 people and injured 200 - with 71 still missing

This is the horrifying moment one of the terrorists in the Kenyan shopping centre attack levelled his gun at cowering hostages, ready to execute them. The attacker, wearing a camouflage jacket and facemask, points a handgun at customers in a bank as they lie under a counter with their hands around their heads. The CCTV pictures were taken inside the Diamond Trust Bank on the ground floor of the Westgate shopping mall in the early stages of the hostage crisis.

Terror at the mall: A gunman takes aim at the hostages as they lie face down inside a bank at the Westgate shopping centre during the terrorist attack

Another picture shows three fighters brandishing rifles at the entrance to the shopping centre, one of them apparently wearing a traditional Islamic robe and pointing at a figure cowering in the corner. In other images, women and children are shown on the roof of the building among the blood-stained bodies of the dead and injured. The group is thought to include families who were attending a cookery demonstration by a TV chef Ruhila Adatia-Sood, who was six months pregnant and died in the attack. They were eventually rescued by the Red Cross, who arrived with stretchers as the terrorists moved inside the building. For many it was their choice of hiding place that made the difference between death or survival. Some security camera footage shows gunmen raking toilet cubicles with gunfire, apparently after learning that people were hiding inside.

Horror on the roof: Women and children, thought to be part of the group attending a cooking demonstration, sit among bodies of the dead and injured

Sinister shadows: A CCTV image shows three armed terrorists entering a bank in the Nairobi shopping centre

Other attackers took the time to divide Muslims from non-Muslims after demanding that some recite the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith. A man trapped inside the shopping centre told The Mail on Sunday he had a clear view of a woman brandishing a sniper rifle. Achebe Odida, 42, a glass engraver, described how he hid under the counter of a mobile phone shop as the shooting began and raised his head to look out of the window. ‘I saw a woman wearing a black headscarf and a black shawl over a pink top and black trousers,’ he said. ‘While shoppers were running and screaming through the mall, she moved slowly and calmly to take up position behind a pillar. She looked like a Somali woman, tall and slender with dark skin.’ He saw her brandishing the rifle as if to take aim, but did not see her shooting anyone. The Kenyans have yet to announce how many terrorists were involved in the atrocity. They say five were killed in the shopping centre and it is unclear whether the eight people they currently have under arrest were detained at the scene or elsewhere.

Mourning: People light candles during a memorial service in front of the shopping centre

Prayer: A father lights candles with his son during the 24-hour vigil

In memory: Kenya Defense Forces soldiers pay tribute to victims of the terrorist attack

The siege developed into a hostage drama with Al Shabaab claiming civilians were being held but if there were hostages, it is unclear what became of them. In one section of the shopping centre, three floors collapsed, making the search for them difficult and dangerous. The collapse was caused by Kenyan soldiers firing rocket-propelled grenades into the building, according to a senior official, raising questions about the effectiveness of the rescue operation. Soldiers and police were said to have been arguing over who was in charge. Some of the heroes of the operation were private security guards and relatives called by those hiding inside. Presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu did not comment on the cause of the collapse but said structural engineers were examining the building. The Kenyan authorities have insisted that all the dead are accounted for, although the Red Cross says it has reports of 71 missing, as well as the official tally of 67. The Foreign Office said another Briton was among the dead, putting the total back up to six, after one man was discovered to have been Kenyan.

The White Widow's Lair: The South African safehouse in suburbia where world's most wanted woman 'lived for months in hiding' ahead of Kenyan mall massacre

• Modest home of Samantha Lewthwaite - world's most wanted woman
• Tidy house in Johannesburg suburb 'one of a number' rented under alias
• She is wanted by authorities over alleged involvement in a 2011 bomb plot
• Speculation has grown over her involvement in Kenyan mall massacre

With green bins dutifully placed out on the street, flowering garden peeking from behind a white gate, and a carefully tended entrance, it looks for all the world like any other suburban family home. But this is believed to be the South African lair where Samantha Lewthwaite - who Interpol last night named the world's most wanted woman - is believed to have spent months in hiding. The images have emerged amid growing speculation that she masterminded the bloody Nairobi mall massacre which has left at least 72 dead. The tidy home in the leafy Johannesburg suburb of Bromhof, is said to be one of a number that Lewthwaite rented under an alias, allowing her to run up debts of around £5,500.

With green bins dutifully placed out on the street, flowering garden peeking from behind a white gate, and a carefully tended entrance, it looks for all the world like any other suburban family home

But this is believed to be the South African lair from which Samantha Lewthwaite - who Interpol last night named the world's most wanted woman - is believed to have masterminded the bloody Nairobi mall massacre

The tidy home in the leafy Johannesburg suburb of Bromhof, is said to be one of a number that Lewthwaite rented under an alias, allowing her to run up debts of $8,600

Residents, who claim she lived in this house in the quiet neighbourhood for three months, may have known her as Natalie Faye Webb. In fact she was the wanted widow of London bomber Germaine Lindsay, who blew up a Piccadilly Line tube in 2005, killing 26 people. The mother-of-four is being hunted by Kenyan authorities over alleged involvement in a plot to bomb holiday resorts there. They say that Lewthwaite had gained a South African passport using the assumed identity of Webb and the document was cancelled in 2011. But there has been increasing speculation about her possible involvement in last week's attack on a Nairobi mall after a Kenyan minister said a British woman was in the group. British police have also cited Lewthwaite as a possible suspect. Two neighbours in Bromhof told AFP they recognised Lewthwaite's picture. Herbie Ullbricht, 69, who lived two houses away from her address cited in credit reports, said the woman lived there in '2010 or 2011' with her three children, and she was always dressed from head to toe in a hijab. Her children stayed inside and never played with the other children in the street. 'Three to four months she stayed. After that I never saw her again. She kept to herself. No one knew her,' he told AFP. The area has undergone a concerted rejuvenation programme in recent times, with families escaping the noise of the city, to set up a quieter home in its outskirts. In the nearby vibrant town of Randburg, young people buy properties in upmarket areas, with restaurants and shopping centres on almost every corner. In her home town of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, she was described as a bubbly teenager, and schoolfriends said she had an ordinary upbringing. Local councillor Raj Khan said: 'She was an average British, young ordinary girl. She didn't have very good confidence.'

The mother-of-three is being hunted by Kenyan authorities over alleged involvement in a plot to bomb holiday resorts there. But there has been increasing speculation about her possible involvement in last week's attack on a Nairobi mall

South African television station ENCA said credit records showed Lewthwaite racked up debts of nearly 30,000 rand ($3,000) to two leading South African banks during her time in the country and owed nearly $1,000 to two clothing stores. Radio reports said she worked as an IT specialist for a halal pie shop in Lenasia, a south Johannesburg suburb known for its Muslim population. The current death toll from the bloody four day siege at the Westgate Shopping mall is 72 and is likely to climb with uncounted bodies remaining in the wreckage. Another 175 people were injured, including more than 60 who remain in hospital. At least 18 foreigners were among those killed. The Interpol notice made no mention of Westgate, however, saying that Lewthwaite is wanted on charges of possessing explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony in December 2011. It is not clear why the notice has been issued now. African authorities have linked her to other attacks as well - again, without presenting evidence of her involvement. She is believed to have been questioned by police once but was not taken into custody. Earlier this week British anti-terror officers yesterday told a court how a colourful selection of sexy underwear was found at one of the ‘White Widow’s’ Kenyan safe houses. Both Lewthwaite and Grant, 29, from Newham, east London, have been charged with planning to cause the loss of lives and possessing bomb-making chemicals.

Evidence: Samantha Lewthwaite (left) and Jermaine Grant (right), both 29, from Newham, east London, have been charged with planning to cause the loss of lives and possessing bomb-making chemicals

Giving evidence at the trial of Samantha Lewthwaite’s accomplice, Jermaine Grant, in Mombasa, Scotland Yard counter-terrorism detective Robert Garrick said police retrieved a collection of pink, black and red lingerie along with the Muslim convert’s birth certificate. The villa, in the Nyali district of the Indian Ocean resort, was one of five being rented by Lewthwaite, 29, before police foiled her and Grant’s plot to blow up British tourists in December 2011.

These include electrical switches, acetone, hydrogen peroxide and ammonium nitrate - the same chemical used by Lewthwaite’s husband Jermaine Lindsay when he blew up a Piccadilly Line tube in 2005, killing 26 people. A team of anti-terror officers, who have been working with the Kenyan police, flew to Mombasa to give evidence at Grant’s trial. Yesterday, soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling. Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged. Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.

Soldiers have told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday as the first pictures of inside the centre have emerged

Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged during the four day siege

Pictured is the aftermath at Westgate Shopping Mall where the roof of the car park collapsed crushing three floors

Most of the defeated terrorists, meanwhile, were reportedly discovered ‘burnt to ashes’, set alight by the last extremist standing to try to protect their identities. The horrifying details came yesterday as the first pictures emerged from within the wreckage of the building, showing piles of bodies left strewn across the floor. A third of the mall was destroyed in the battle between terrorists and Kenyan troops. Lying in the rubble are feared to be the bodies of as many as 71 civilians who have been declared missing by the Kenyan Red Cross. With detectives, including the FBI and the Metropolitan Police, still unable to reach the wrecked part of the mall for fear of setting off explosives, it could take up to a week to determine exactly who is still inside.

Yesterday, soldiers and doctors who were among the first people into the mall after it was reclaimed on Tuesday, spoke of the horrifying scenes inside

Bomb disposal experts with sniffer dogs were yesterday painstakingly combing the part of the building still standing for explosives before clearing forensic officers, police and troops to search for bodies

The collapse happened on Monday when government troops launched a massive assault on the mall where up to 150 people are thought to have been killed

The Nazi women who were every bit as evil as the men: From the mother who shot Jewish children in cold blood to the nurses who gave lethal injections in death camps

• Chilling new book has unearthered thousands of complicit German women
• At least half a million witnessed and contributed to Hitler's terror
• Have been dubbed the ‘primary witnesses of the Holocaust’
• Secretaries typed the orders to kill and filed the details of massacres
• Only a small number of women were called to account for their crimes

Blonde German housewife Erna Petri was returning home after a shopping trip in town when something caught her eye: six small, nearly naked boys huddled in terror by the side of the country road.
Married to a senior SS officer, the 23-year-old knew instantly who they were.
They must be the Jews she’d heard about — the ones who’d escaped from a train taking them to an extermination camp.
But she was a mother herself, with two children of her own. So she humanely took the starving, whimpering youngsters home, calmed them down and gave them food to eat.
Then she led the six of them — the youngest aged six, the oldest 12 — into the woods, lined them up on the edge of a pit and shot them methodically one by one with a pistol in the back of the neck.
This schizophrenic combination of warm-hearted mother one minute and cold-blooded killer the next is an enigma and one that — now revealed in a new book based on years of trawling through remote archives — puts a crueller than ever spin on the Third Reich.
Because Erna was by no means an aberration. In a book she tellingly calls ‘Hitler’s Furies’, Holocaust historian Professor Wendy Lower has unearthed the complicity of tens of thousands of German women — many more than previously imagined — in the sort of mass, monstrous, murderous activities that we would like to think the so-called gentler sex were incapable of.
The Holocaust has generally been seen as a crime perpetrated by men. The vast majority of those accused at Nuremberg and other war crimes trials were men.
The few women ever called to account were notorious concentration camp guards — the likes of Irma Grese and Ilse Koch — whose evil was so extreme they could be explained away as freaks and beasts, not really ‘women’ at all.
Ultra-macho Nazi Germany was a man’s world. The vast majority of women had, on Hitler’s orders, confined their activities to Kinder, Küche, Kirche — children, kitchen and church. Thus, when it came to responsibility for the Holocaust and other evils of the Third Reich, they were off the hook.
But that, argues Lower, is simplistic nonsense. Women were drawn into the morally bankrupt conspiracy that was Hitler’s Germany as thoroughly as men were — at a lower level, in most cases, when it came to direct action but guilty just the same.
Ironically, it was the professional carers who were the first to be caught in this evil web. From the moment the Nazis came to power and imposed policies of Aryan racial purity, countless nurses, their aprons filled with morphine vials and needles, routinely slaughtered the physically disabled and mentally defective.

Pauline Kneissler worked at Grafeneck Castle, a euthanasia ‘hospital’ in southern Germany, and toured mental institutions selecting 70 ‘patients’ a day. At the castle they were gassed, which she decided was not that bad because ‘death by gas doesn’t hurt’.

Complicit: Johanner Altvater (left) and Lisolotte Meirer (right) killed Jews for sport during the Third Reich

Meanwhile, midwives were betraying a whole generation of German women by reporting defects in unborns and newborns and recommending abortions and euthanasia, as well as sterilisation of mothers.
From the outset, Lower concludes, ‘women made cruel life-and-death decisions, eroding moral sensibilities’. A line had been crossed. It was no big step when the racial purification process turned to the Final Solution of exterminating millions of Jews.
That Jews were the enemy and their annihilation the answer was taken for granted by millions of women who would later deny knowing what was going on under their noses.
Lower, though, dubs them ‘primary witnesses of the Holocaust’.
The worst outrages took place in the ‘Wild East’, Hitler’s newly acquired (by military conquest) territories in Poland, Ukraine and other parts of overrun Russia. At least half a million young women joined in this colonisation process, and became accomplices to genocide on an unprecedented scale.
A mass of secretaries, for example, typed the orders to kill and filed the details of massacres. This placed them at the very centre of the Nazi murder machinery, but they, like so many others, chose to shut their eyes and benefit from their proximity to power.
But, picnicking in the country on their days off, how did they miss the mounds that hid mass graves, the gagging smell of rotting corpses? Whose clothes and possessions — plundered from ghettos or confiscated at camps and killing fields — did they think they were cataloguing for redistribution back home?
Trainloads of booty went back to Germany in what Lower calls ‘the biggest campaign of organised robbery in history’. And German women, she charges, were among its prime agents and beneficiaries.
Even more caught up in the criminal madness were administrators such as Liselotte Meier, who worked so closely with her strutting boss, an SS officer, that they were almost indistinguishable. She joined him on shooting parties in the snow, hunting and killing Jews for sport.

Guilty: Irma Grese, nicknamed 'The Beautiful Beast' pictured with two guards before she was hanged in 1945 at the age of 22

In the early phases of the Holocaust, massacres were generally by shooting. In her area of Belarus, she coordinated the arrangements with the executioners and even decided who lived and who died.
She spared the life of the Jewish woman who did her hair, while another secretary removed from a woman from the death line who hadn’t yet finished the sweater she was knitting for her.
Secretaries had another important role, too. After each operation, it was usual for the SS killers, many of them drunk on schnapps, to seek solace in the women’s quarters, whether for sexual release or a shoulder to cry on after the exertions of mass execution.  In support of the men, women even manned refreshment tables during executions so the killers could take a break.
But much worse than these active accomplices were the women who killed — often the wives of SS officers. Erna Petri — callous dispatcher of those six Jewish boys — was one such Frau. She had followed her husband to Poland and lived in a mansion overseeing a vast estate for the Race and Resettlement Office of the SS, with ‘sub-human’ Slavs as slaves.

The book reveals thousands of women were complicit in the mass murder of Jews and have been dubbed the 'primary witnesses' of The Holocaust

Another SS wife, Lisel Willhaus, wife of a camp commandant, used to sit on the balcony of their house and take pot shots at Jewish prisoners with her rifle.
Also in Poland was Vera Wohlauf, whose husband Julius commanded a police battalion ordered in 1942 to round up 11,000 Jewish inhabitants of a small town for transportation to Treblinka for liquidation.
She sat by her husband in the front seat of the lorry that led a convoy of killers to the town, and stood in the market square brandishing a whip as nearly a thousand who resisted the round-up or collapsed in the summer heat were beaten to death or shot.
She was pregnant at the time, a further incongruity.
In the Ukraine, 22-year-old secretary Johanna Altvater played an even more prominent role in a massacre while working for regional commissar Wilhelm Westerheide.
During the liquidation of a Jewish ghetto, Fräulein Hanna, as she was known, was seen in her riding breeches prodding men, women and children into a truck ‘like a cattle herder’.

The Holocaust has often been depicted as a crime perpetrated by men, but women also submitted themselves to the bankrupt morals championed by Adolf Hitler

She marched into a building being used as a makeshift hospital and through the children’s ward, eyeing each bed-ridden child. Then she stopped, picked one up, took it to the balcony and threw the child to the pavement three floors below. She did the same with other children. Some died, and even those who survived were seriously injured.
Her speciality — or, as one survivor put it, her ‘nasty habit’ — was killing children. One observer noted that Altvater often lured children with sweets. When they came to her and opened their mouths, she shot them in the mouth with the small pistol that she kept at her side.

The new book involves information from archives which revealed some women were as guilty as the men

On another occasion, she beckoned a toddler over, then grabbed him tightly by the legs and slammed his head against a wall as if she were banging the dust out of a mat.
She threw the lifeless child at the feet of his father, who later testified: ‘Such sadism from a woman I have never seen. I will never forget this.’
Close to the mass-shooting site where the ghetto inhabitants were herded to await their deaths, Westerheide and his deputies partied with some German women. Altvater was among the revellers, drinking and eating at a banqueting table amid the bloodshed.
Music playing in the background mixed with the sound of gunfire. From time to time, one of the Germans would get up, walk to the shooting site, kill a few people and then return to the party.
Violence to children was also the trademark of Gestapo wife and mother Josefine Block, who liked to carry a riding crop and lash out at prisoners waiting to be deported.
A little girl approached her, crying and begging for her life. ‘I will help you!’ Block declared, grabbed the girl by the hair, smashed her with her fists, then pushed her to the ground and stamped on her head until she was dead.
Desperate Jewish parents often approached Block to ask for help, assuming that, as a young woman and mother, she’d be sympathetic.
But she would use her pram to ram Jews whom she encountered on the streets and was said to have actually killed a small Jewish child with it. Such treatment is an affront to any sense of humanity, let alone womanhood — all the more so because most of these crimes went unpunished.
Erna Petri was the exception and spent more than 30 years in prison. But all the others mentioned here were either tried and acquitted or released after questioning.
Their defence was often to play the helpless woman card and blame the men. ‘I was just a secretary,’ pleaded Johanna Altvater. Meanwhile, the millions of other women who were complicit in these odious events got on with their lives after the war as best they could, as if the whole Hitler era had been a nightmare to be put aside and forgotten once everyone had woken up.
Yet the deep stain remains. Thirteen million women were actively engaged in the Nazi Party. Not all of these could have been innocent bystanders.

Family life: The main role of women in the Third Reich was to promote the philosophy of Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - children, kitchen and church

Lower says: ‘To assume that violence is not a feminine characteristic and that women are not capable of mass murder has obvious appeal: it allows for hope that at least half the human race will not devour the other, that it will protect children and so safeguard the future.
‘But minimising the violent behaviour of women creates a false shield.’
At least half a million women, she says, witnessed and contributed to the operations and terror of Hitler’s genocidal war. ‘The Nazi regime mobilised a generation of young women who were conditioned to accept violence, to incite it, and to commit it.
‘This fact has been suppressed and denied by the very women who were swept up in the regime and by those who perpetrated the violence with impunity.
‘But genocide is also women’s business. When given the “opportunity”, women too will engage in it, even its bloodiest aspects.’
For those tempted to think that things are different now, consider those shocking photographs earlier this month of a beheading in the Syrian bloodbath.
What was even more gut-wrenching than the gore was to see children looking on, unperturbed, drawn into a terrifying topsy-turvy morality, just as German mothers and children were 80 years ago.
Perhaps, too, the executioner wielding the sword went home to a wife who mopped his brow, in the same way as Hitler’s firing squads did. The lesson of the atrocities of the Holocaust is that they are not something of the past to be filed away and forgotten, but still very much with us.

A Pulley Wheel’s Applications

A pulley is a simple machine, usually made from sturdy materials, which can be used for different applications, the most ordinary of which include applying forces or transmitting energy, elevating objects or controlling belts, chain, and ropes. The pulley wheel is symbolically set up in a frame or brace that allows the wheel to rotate freely. It can actually reduce the amount of force when a rope, chain, or belt runs around the pulley. The outer side of the pulley can be grooved to help control the belts, ropes, chains or cables keeping them from sliding off the pulley during process.

The applications of a pulley wheel can change significantly, and the sizes of the wheel will often vary under the purpose for which it is being used. A pulley wheel can be used in an automotive engine division to help the timing belt, And the pulley may also be used to power other equipment such as power steering machines and air conditioners. These pulleys will be considerably small. By comparison, an exceptionally large pulley wheel may be used on a ski lift at a ski area. This large pulley wheel will help lead the cable to which the chairs are safe and it will help keep proper stress on the cable connection.

Storehouses and industrial devices frequently use pulley wheels as part of a system to help elevate or deliver heavy objects. A rope or cable can be arranged through one or more pulleys and one end of the cable can be affixed to the object that needs to be send. Place pulleys to the operation can diminish the amount of energy needed to lift the object, though this could also put some friction to the operation, hence making the motion more hard. The proper balance of pulleys must be used to effectively lift or move the objects. Various of these pulley systems are motorized to help move items quickly and to raise tremendous heavy objects.

Types of materials to make a pulley wheel may differ based on the operation for which the wheel will be applied. For light duty systems, a nylon or plastic pulley may be enough, however, for heavier duty applications, a harder more enduring material will be needed. Pulleys used in automotive engines like crankshaft pulley, timing belt pulleys and underdrive pulleys are commonly made of heat resistant metals that will not wear out speedily or easily during constant being exposed to high temperatures and regular use.

Welsh language campaigners want village of Varteg to be renamed 'Farteg' - but villagers fear it will make them the butt of playground jokes

• Campaigners say the ancient name should be replaced because there is no 'V' in the Welsh language
• But villagers fear 'Farteg' will make them the butt of playground jokes
• They have dubbed the campaigners 'a lot of gasbags'

People living in the small Welsh village of Varteg are kicking up a stink about plans to rename it 'Farteg' - claiming it sounds like a 'schoolboy's playground insult'. Welsh language campaigners say the ancient name should be replaced because there is no 'V' in the ancient tongue of Wales. However, villagers fear they will be the butt of playground jokes if road signs are put up displaying the flatulent name. Sioned Jones, 42, who lives in the village near Pontypool, South Wales, said: 'Just imagine how embarrassing it will be to have the word "fart" in your village's name - never mind being followed by "egg".

Kicking up a stink: People living in the small Welsh village of Varteg are protesting against plans to rename it 'Farteg'

'I'd be humiliated every time I told someone my address. Everyone will be laughing at us and coming to get photographed next to the street signs. 'I just think it's ridiculous - these Welsh language campaigners are a lot of gasbags, they’re full of hot air.' Fellow villager Ray Leyshon, 62, said: 'Can you imagine the bus going past and some naughty schoolboy shouting: "You are going to Fart Egg". It is just a bad joke.' Many road signs in Wales display place names in both English and Welsh - and Torfaen council is now consulting on which form should be used in Varteg, which has a population of about 1,000 people. Proposal: Welsh language campaigners are calling for the Welsh translation 'Farteg' to be added to road names and street signs in the village near Pontypool, South Wales

Butt of jokes: Villagers fear they will be ridiculed if road signs are put up displaying the flatulent name

Campaigners are calling for the Welsh translation 'Farteg' to be added to road names and street signs in the village.

'Just imagine how embarrassing it will be to have the word "fart" in your village's name - never mind being followed by "egg"' Villager Sioned Jones

However, the idea has been slammed by Torfaen MP Paul Murphy, who described the new name as 'dubious', 'Why should people in Varteg be told how to spell their own place name?' he said. 'Varteg is not an English word so translating it is totally unnecessary. “It’s a name that reflects our rich history and culture in the Eastern Valley, with its Welsh language and English language influences.

Debate: A Torfaen council spokesman said changing the village's current name to 'Farteg' would be 'inappropriate'. But the village could still have its name changed to 'Y Farteg' 'I’m supportive of sensible steps to help the Welsh language, but this is not the way to achieve that - it will only fuel resentment.'

THE ANCIENT TONGUE OF WALES

The Welsh alphabet traditionally consists of these 28 letters: a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, l, ll, m, n, o, p, ph, r, rh, s, t, th, u, w, y The letter 'j' is now often included in the alphabet, between the letters 'i' and 'l'

A Torfaen council spokesman said changing the village's current name to 'Farteg' would be 'inappropriate'. However, village could still have its name changed to 'Y Farteg' - with locals now being consulted about this. The spokesman said: 'After discussion with the local councillor, 'Farteg' was considered inappropriate and was not adopted at the time. 'The Welsh language commissioner has proposed the alternative name “Y Farteg,” upon which the residents of the Varteg community will be able to express their views.'

THE HAMLET OF SHITTERTON: THE UK'S MOST UNFORTUNATE PLACE NAME

The hamlet of Shitterton in Dorset has been voted the UK's most unfortunate place name. The tiny collection of homes, which lies between Dorchester and Poole, is widely considered to be the most embarrassing place to live, according to a survey by www.findmypast.co.uk last year.

Unlucky: The hamlet of Shitterton holds the title of the UK's most unfortunate place name

It beat the nearby valley of Scratchy Bottom, near Durdle Door in Dorset, and Brokenwind in Aberdeenshire. Shitterton is a very literal English translation of the village name recorded in Norman French in the 11th century Domesday Book as Scatera or Scetra. It means a little town that is on the stream of a midden or sewer. The unfortunately-named hamlet also beat off competition from Crapstone in Devon, Ugley in Essex, Back Passage in London, Sandy Balls in the New Forest, Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire and North Piddle in rural Worcestershire. Contenders for the UK's most unfortunate street name included Slag Lane in Haydock, Merseyside, Pratts Bottom in Kent and Hooker Road in Norwich.

Father says wife and daughter, 9, were killed by 'animals'

• Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says British death toll could still rise
• Two more British victims identified as Warwickshire mother and daughter
• Zahira Bawa, 41, and her daughter Jennah, 9, were from Leamington Spa
• British architect Ross Langdon and his partner Elif Yavuz also shot dead
• Harvard graduate Yavuz was pregnant before Saturday's attack in Nairobi

The father of an eight-year-old British girl last night told of the ‘heart stopping’ moment he learned his Muslim daughter and wife had been killed by terrorists who laid siege to a shopping mall in Kenya. Louis Bawa, 43, said his nine-year-old daughter Jennah and Kenyan-born wife Zahira, 41, were killed in Nairobi on Saturday by ‘animals’, who were using ‘religion as an excuse to kill people’. The three-day siege appeared close to an end last night, when Kenyan police said they had regained control of the Westgate mall, hours after it emerged more than 60 people had been killed. Scroll down for videos

Distraught: Father Louis Bawa (left) is seen with his nine-year-old daughter Jennah (right). She has been confirmed as one of the British victims in the Kenya terrorist attack, in which her mother also died

Nairobi attack: Volunteers at the Oshwal Centre, which is serving as the casualty ward for victims of the Westgate mall hostage situation, take cover after gunshots were heard Prime Minister David Cameron said it seemed at least six of the dead were British after returning from a Balmoral break with the Queen to chair a meeting of the Cobra committee in Whitehall. Mr Bawa, chief executive of a marketing company which counts Aston Martin Racing as its main client, toldThe Daily Telegraph: ‘The people who did this, they are vigilantes, they are animals. ‘At the end of the day they are using religion as an excuse to kill people. They're saying that they were targeting certain people, but they were targeting anyone. Zahira and Jennah were Muslims. ‘But these animals just shot them the same as all of the others. At first I was convinced that they would be OK. I had hope…. I just want some justice now to come to the animals that did this.’ Jennah's grandmother Shakuntna Bawa, 63, yesterday said that the family had been devastated by the tragedy in Kenya's capital city on Saturday, telling reporters: ‘We knew that they were missing.

Operation: Smoke flows can be seen from the Westgate Mall as Kenya Defence Forces leave the nearby Oshwal Centre, which is being used as a emergency staging center

‘But we heard yesterday that unfortunately they had been killed. I feel pretty shocked - the whole family is in shock. I can't say anything else at the moment. It's very sad - but what can we do?' She added: ‘My sister saw Louis speaking on television and rang me. At that stage we still believed there was a chance Jennah and Zahira might be okay because there were a lot of people missing. ‘But the police have confirmed to Louis that his wife and daughter were killed. He tried to go down to the morgue to identify their bodies but there were guards there. ‘He was eventually let in after many hours and has now confirmed they died. I have not seen Jennah for five years ever since the family moved to Kenya, but she was beautiful.’ It comes after the revelation that British architect and Ross Langdon, who had dual Australian nationality, and his heavily-pregnant partner Elif Yavuz, were also shot dead by the terrorists.

Prize-winning British-Australian architect Ross Langdon, and his Harvard-educated pregnant partner, Elif Yavuz, were killed in the Nairobi shopping centre siege

The malaria-specialist is pictured here meeting former US president Bill Clinton in a photo And a photo taken moments after they were hit appears to show the 33-year-old cradling Miss Yavuz, in an attempt to protect her and their unborn child, as they both lie motionless in pools of blood. As they lay dying, terrorists hunted down other innocent civilians, spraying bullets and leaving their victims screaming in agony. Mr Langdon, 33, had been involved with a number of projects across Africa, which included designing an HIV-Aids hospital in Kenya free of charge. The London-based architect could be seen photographed with Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, in a picture posted on his Facebook profile earlier this year.

Elif, who was due to give birth in a fortnight, was killed alongside Mr Langdon, a prize winning architect who had joint British and Australian nationality

Mr Langdon, who studied architecture at the University of Tasmania then the University of Sydney, worked for several companies before founding his own firm Regional Associates Ltd in May 2008. Born and brought up in south-eastern Tasmania, his work included projects in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. Harvard graduate Miss Yavuz was eight-and-a-half months pregnant at the time of her death. The malaria specialist was working in Kenya for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which was founded by the former U.S president. On her Facebook profile she was photographer shaking hands with former US President Bill Clinton during a visit to a Clinton Foundation project last month.

The malaria specialist (left) was working in Kenya for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation run by the billionaire Microsoft founder, while Mr Langdon had been involved with a number of projects across Africa

Born in Holland, Miss Yavuz had lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while studying at the renowned Harvard University. Esther Waters-Crane, a British expat who was an acquaintance of Elif's, described her grief at losing the expectant mother, and how Kenya has reacted to the unprovoked attack. She said: 'I’m so, so sad about Elif. We had been in regular contact about her birth her in Nairobi and I feel sick/angry/furious/shocked by this tragic, tragic waste of lovely people. Nairobi is awash with helicopters right now. 'I'm at home and the explosions from Westgate are so loud they sound like they're on my road. We're all in pieces about this- a very very sad time for Nairobi and for dear Kenya.'

The couple are among the 62 people slaughtered by terrorists believed to be from Somali Islamist group al'Shabaab

The architect's mother told of the 'excruciating loss' she was suffering. In a message on Facebook, Mrs Linden Langdon said the loss of her son Ross was immeasurable. Mr Langdon's family has asked for privacy as they grieve over his death, that of his partner Elif Yavuz and their unborn child - but his mother decided to put a few words out on social media to tell the world of the grief his relatives were suffering. 'We have lost my beautiful son Ross Langdon, his lovely partner Elif Yavuz and their much loved baby just two weeks away from birth,' Mrs Langdon wrote on her son's Facebook page. 'The loss is immeasurable, absurd and excruciating.' The architectural practice where he worked as a director said in a statement: 'We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss our friend and colleague Ross Langdon and his partner Elif Yavuz. 'Profoundly talented and full of life, Ross enriched the lives of all those around him. Ross's leadership on projects throughout East-Africa was inspirational.

Mrs Linden Langdon said the loss of her son Ross and his lovely partner Elif was 'immeasurable'

'Ross was living his dream, greatly contributing to the lives of people within highly disadvantaged communities and supporting habitat conservation for some of the world's most threatened species. 'Ross will be very, very sorely missed. Our deepest condolences and thoughts are with Ross and Elif's families at this very difficult time.' Mr Langdon last year gave a talk at TEDxKrakow in Poland. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan 'ideas worth spreading'. On a blog for TEDxKrakow, which calls itself an independently organised TED event, tributes were paid to the architect. The site said: 'It was with great sadness that we learnt of the tragic murder of Ross Langdon and his wife Elif Yavuz in the terrorist attacks in Nairobi on Saturday. They were expecting their first baby in a couple of weeks. 'Ross spoke at TEDxKrakow in 2012 about his work as an architect in Africa. He devoted his life to creating sustainable architecture that is integrated into communities, and he left us with hope for humanity. 'It's impossible to make sense of this senseless and shocking loss of life. We send our condolences to both their families.'

Military forces take position inside a shopping mall following the attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi

Sporadic gun shots could be heard hours after the assault started as soldiers surrounded the mall and police and soldiers combed the building

People help a wounded man outside the Westgate shopping mall, as 69 people were slaughtered by the terrorists

Tributes to the couple have flooded in via social media. One friend, Arah Nekoei, wrote: 'We will miss you, Elif Yavuz, Ross Langdon and the one that we never got to know.' Meanwhile a British businessman has revealed that four members of his family were killed in the Nairobi terror attack. Samir Bharma, of Spinney Hills, Leicester, was last making arrangements to fly to the Kenyan capital. It is understood his relatives who were killed were taking part in a recording of a TV programme called Masterchef Junior. He said of his dead family members: 'They were young people who were taking part in a cookery contest that was taking place in the centre. Unfortunately they have all passed away. 'An aunt - my dad's cousin - she's critical in hospital. I've spoken to my father who is there, but contact is difficult. It's a very difficult time and I'm trying to arrange flights now.' Another Leicester man described how his parents and brother and sister were in the shopping mall when the terrorists struck.

Smoke rises from the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi following a string of explosions during the third day of a stand-off between Kenyan security forces and gunmen inside the building

Volunteers run for cover after hearing a volley of gunshots at the scene of the siege

The man, in his 20s, wishes to remain anonymous after his mother warned him that terrorists had hacked into Facebook accounts of Nairobi residents and left the chilling warning 'we are watching you'. He said his mother had called him from outside the mall: 'She was just passing by in the upper mall. The whole thing was taking place on the ground floor and she just saw gunmen wandering around everywhere and shooting people. She saw her best friend being shot straight in the head. 'My sister just froze to the spot. My brother dragged my sister out into the parking lot.. At that point the parking lot was secure and people could leave. 'My brother saw his best friend's body outside. He had literally been shot.' The man said his parents had gone to the hospital to help medical staff cope with the casualties.

HOW THE ATTACKERS TARGETED VICTIMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD - INCLUDING POETS, CHILDREN, PARENTS AND DIPLOMATS

BRITAIN/ AUSTRALIA Ross Langdon was an architect who worked in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, creating eco-lodges and socially sustainable tourism in ecologically sensitive locations. THE NETHERLANDS Langdon's partner, Elif Yavuz, 33, was expecting their first child in early October. A 2013 graduate of Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, she had completed her dissertation research on malaria in eastern Africa and was working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the university said in a note to faculty, staff and students. PERU Juan Ortiz-Iruri was a retired tropical disease specialist for UNICEF who had lived 25 years in Africa, according to UNICEF and Peruvian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alejandro Neyra. His son Ricardo Ortiz told Radio RPP that he entered the mall accompanied by his daughter, a 13-year-old born in the U.S.'The version from my sister is that sadly my father fell to the floor and showed no signs of life,' Ortiz said. He said his sister suffered a hand injury, but is out of danger. Ortiz-Iruri had worked in Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Liberia. GHANA Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations, died after being wounded in the attack, Ghana's presidential office confirmed. Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment. Awoonor's work drew its inspiration from the traditions of his native Ewe tribe. UKNOWN NATIONALITY Ruhila Adatia-Sood, whose husband was a foreign worker for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nairobi was killed, the organization said in a press statement. She was a popular radio and TV personality in Kenya and tributes poured in for her on Twitter and Facebook. KENYA President Uhuru Kenyatta's nephew and nephew's fiancee are among the dead. INDIA Two Indians, 8-year-old Parmashu Jain and 40-year-old Sridhar Natarajan, were killed, and four others were wounded in the attack, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said. CANADA Two Canadians, including a diplomat, died in the attack, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He paid tribute to the victims and noted the loss of diplomat Annemarie Desloges, who served in Canada's High Commission to Kenya as a liaison officer with the Canada Border Services Agency. Her spouse Robert Munk was wounded in the attack, but has since been released from the hospital, the Canadian Press reported. SWITZERLAND The Swiss government confirmed that one of its citizens was injured in the attack. It said its embassy in Nairobi is in contact with the victim's family and local officials, but would not provide further detail on the victim's name. BRITAIN At least four U.K. nationals were killed in the attack, according to the Foreign Office, which warned the number of such fatalities is 'likely to rise as further information becomes available.' FRANCE Two French women were killed, President Francois Hollande said. SOUTH AFRICA One South African citizen was killed, according to the country's International Relations Department. CHINA A 38-year-old Chinese woman with the surname Zhou who worked in the real estate industry was killed in the attack, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. Her son was injured in the attack and was in stable condition in a hospital, according to the Chinese Embassy in Kenya. U.S. Five American citizens were injured, U.S. officials said. NEW ZEALAND Andrew McLaren, 34, a New Zealander who managed a factory in Kenya for the avocado oil company Olivado, was wounded in the attack, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. He was hospitalized in stable condition.

'I wanted to give him a hug but I thought, no, he's a grown-up now': Mother tells of last moments before her public school son, 17, threw himself in front of a train

• Jake Pirie, 17, killed himself following a visit home to the Yorkshire Dales
• The teenager had been on his way back to Uppingham School
• His mother told inquest he was worried about coursework and had been feeling unwell for weeks
• Jake found his father dead at home when he was just three years old

A mother yesterday described the moment she kissed her son goodbye but suppressed the urge to go back and give him a second hug – moments before he threw himself in front of a high-speed train. Sarah Pirie, 50, had driven her son Jake to the station after a weekend break at home so he could return to boarding school, an inquest heard. She stood on tiptoes to kiss her 6ft 6in son and went back to the car. ‘I thought about going back to give him another hug,’ she said. ‘But I thought: “No. He’s 17 now. He’s grown up.”’

Suicide: Jake Pirie killed himself on the way back to boarding school in February this year at the age of 17

Star pupil: Jake was a top student at Uppingham School and was set to continue to university this year The teenager had been worrying about getting behind with his English A-level coursework and a virus had stopped him playing sport all term. But his mother said she thought he ‘seemed better’ – and after saying goodbye on the platform she returned home to email his housemaster that he was getting back to his normal self. Sadly the sixth-former, a pupil at the £30,000-a-year Uppingham School in Rutland, was already dead by the time she sent the email. The inquest was told that when his mother asked if he wanted to buy a return ticket, Jake replied:

Shocked: Those who knew the teenager said there was no indication that he was feeling suicidal at the time of his death

‘No, just get a single. I don’t know when I’m next going home or what is going on.’ She added: ‘He told me that he loved me as well. But that was quite normal.’ The tragedy happened 14 years after Jake’s father James Pirie also committed suicide when he was 39. Mrs Pirie told the inquest Jake was a small boy when he witnessed his father try to kill himself in 1998. He succeeded a year later and four-year-old Jake was with his mother when they discovered the body. Asked how this affected her son, Mrs Pirie replied: ‘He had been starting to ask more questions about his father and what he was like.’ She also told the hearing Jake’s grandmother suffered from clinical depression and was being treated in a psychiatric unit. The inquest in Northallerton heard Jake was a ‘talented pupil’ who had offers from three universities. He was worried about English coursework that was due to be handed in and had asked for the deadline to be extended after losing a memory stick he needed to complete it. Mrs Pirie said her son had been allowed home to Thornton Steward, North Yorkshire, on the weekend that he died in February this year because his grandmother had become unwell. She said they had a ‘peaceful weekend’ although he had ‘not eaten as much as he normally did’. Grieving: Jake's friends took to Facebook to pay tribute to him in the aftermath of the tragedy Jake seemed in good spirits when she drove him to the station late on Sunday afternoon to return to school. He called a friend to discuss sharing a taxi from Peterborough station to school. Describing the incident, train driver John Ashby said he sounded the horn as a warning when he saw the young man close to the platform edge. ‘The person seemed to hesitate and step back – then jumped turning his back to the train,’ he said. He applied the emergency brake but couldn’t avoid hitting the teenager, who died from multiple injuries. Mrs Pirie said her son usually played for the school rugby team but had not felt well enough to join in all term because of an undiagnosed virus, which she thought might have been glandular fever. Unexpected: Northallerton Station, where Jake killed himself after being dropped off by his mother Jake's house master Jonathan Lee said the 17-year-old had obtained nine GCSEs and four AS-levels, and had three university offers. 'He appeared to be suffering from flu and had got behind with his studies,' he said. 'His mother was concerned about Jake's motivation and lethargy. She also mentioned he had strained his back. 'I didn't think he was not motivated. But he did appear tired.' Deputy head Karl Wilding said: ‘Although Jake had anxieties about his schoolwork they were not above and beyond any other pupil at that stage of his school career. 'He rarely spoke about his father. There was genuine surprise and shock at Jake's death.' Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Michael Oakley said: 'He placed himself with his back to an oncoming train which he would have known was literally on top of him when he did this. 'There is no real suggestion as to why he should have done that. He had been ill. He had some sort of virus and was concerned about getting behind with his work and some work due to be handed in. 'But there was no indication he was going to do anything as drastic as what happened.'

Pale and VERY interesting! Claire Danes, January Jones, Kerry Washington and Zooey Deschanel are the leading lights in pastel gowns at the Emmy Award red carpet

With their array of ornate pastel coloured gowns, the leading lights of the red carpet beat out the brighter hues at Sunday night's Emmy Awards. January Jones, Zooey Deschanel, Kerry Washington and Claire Danes led the way in a dazzling array of dresses, looking their glamorous bests as they stepped out at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.

Man Man actress January looked pretty in a pale coral pink Givenchy gown deigned especially for her and wore her blonde hair in a curled vintage style fitting the star of the 1960s drama.

Pale and interesting: January Jones, Zooey Deschanel, Kerry Washington and Claire Danes looked stunning in pastel gowns as they arrived on the red carpet at the Nokia Theatre for the 65th Emmy Awards 'They made this for me so I had to pick it,' January told E! about her frock, which featured an ornate lacy detail on the skirt. And the star seemed confident, that, even if Mad Men didn't win any awards, the cast would find plenty of time to party. 'We know how to celebrate pretty well even if we don't win,' she said. Zooey Deschanel, meanwhile, plumped for an icy blue J Mendel creation with a thigh high split showing off her toned legs teamed with towering platform heels and a Chanel tourmaline cocktail ring. Claire Danes meanwhile, looked striking in a ornate cream cloud-like backless Armani Prive dress, Neil Lane jewels and custom Christian Louboutin shoes, with her hair pinned up in a faux blonde bob. The ever-stylish Kerry Washington, who was this week named the Most Stylish Woman in the world by People magazine, looked typically glamorous in an unusual cream, gold and white floaty dress. Earlier, Maria Menounos and Kelly Osbourne were the first to grace the red carpet and both stars relied on plunging gowns in striking primary colours to make them stand out from the crowd. And it seemed to be the theme of the evening, as Honduran-born Rocsi Diaz and Nancy O'Dell both arrived in equally daring necklines.

Striking! Extra presenter Maria Menounos, 35, showed off her fabulous figure in a strapless midnight blue gown, which she accented with enormous emeralds

35-year-old Maria looked stunning in a midnight blue strapless number, which finished in a flattering train and emphasised her famous curves. The Extra presenter wore her brunette locks tin a trendy fishtail braid that fell over her right shoulder, revealing an expanse of bronzed skin. At her neck sparkled an elaborate necklace made up of what appeared to be diamonds and enormous emeralds, melded together in a peacock-feather formation.

Breaking fashion: Anna Gunn looked a far cry from her rather dowdy alter ego Skyler White in Breaking Bad

Blue beauty: Zooey Deschanel looked stunning in a pale blue gown with a thigh high slit

Meanwhile, red carpet commentator Kelly wowed in a scarlet dress with a plunging neckline. Cinched in at the waist and featuring red beading at the shoulders, the eye-catching gown flattered the 28-year-old's figure. She accented her look with matching red shoes and a heavy slick of fiery lipstick that clashed with her trademark lilac hair.

Perfect in plum: Heidi Klum arrived in a stunning Versace mermaid style glittering dress and matching heels with her blonde hair pulled into a ponytail

We've already won: Project Runway's Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn were triumphant on the back of their Creative Emmy win last week

A touch of gold: Padma Lakshmi added a bold gold bracelet with draped pale blue dress

Actress Rocsi Diaz, 29, wowed in a kingfisher blue number, that ended in a flamenco skirt that boasted a thigh-high front split and strapless neckline. Arriving at the same time, TV host and television journalist Nancy O'Dell, 47, was another star to go a bright look, opting for a grass green dress with a long train and trendy leather trim. E! red carpet host Giuliana Rancic, 39, mixed up the primary colour scheme in a powder-blue gown, elaborately embroidered with silver thread. The strapless neckline and swirling fishtail skirt flattered the star's athletic frame, and all eyes were on the dress as she eschewed all jewellery but for an enormous diamond ring. 15-year-old Modern Family actress Ariel Winter looked followed Rancic's pastel lead in a baby pink off-the-shoulder ensemble, which emphasised her glowing young skin.

Green goddesses: Sarah Hyland, Anna Chumsky and Nancy O'Dell all plumped for floor length emerald coloured gowns

Back to black: Lena Heady wore a daring sheer number split to the thigh, while Amanda Peet sported an unusual frock with sheer sleeves, Aubrey Plaza arrived in a long sleeved embroidered dress and Homeland's Morgan Saylor arrived in black and white

Heidi Klum said she had trouble getting out of the car in her ultra tight plum coloured tight Versace dress teamed with Christina Louboutin heels. Arriving with her Project Runway star Tim Gunn, the duo were happy and relaxed on the back of their win for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program at last week's Creative Arts Emmys. The cast of Breaking Bad were upbeat on the red carpet, despite the show ending next week. 'The ending is perfect, unapologetic,' said Bryan Cranston who received yet another Emmy nomination for Best Actor. His on-screen wife Anna Gunn ensured she glammed up on the carpet in a stark contrast to her more dowdy alter-ego Skyler White. 'We just wanted an old Hollywood kind of look she said about her stunning one shouldered baby pink gown with black detailing. 'I would prefer this kind of look to the Skyler look.'

Lady in red: Kelly Osbourne arrived in a plunging scarlet Jenny Packham gown which contrasted perfectly with her lavender hair

Pretty pastels: E! commentator Giuliana Rancic wore an embroidered baby blue strapless number, while Ariel Winter looked glamorous in an off-the-shoulder pink dress embellished at the waist

Pregnant in red: Homeland's Morena Baccarin dressed her baby bump in a crimson gown

Modern Men: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his on-screen partner Eric Stonestreet looked dapper while Rico Rodriguez sported a suit and tie Mad Men stars Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks plumped for substantially different looks, with Moss looking more edgy with her cropped blonde hair, black and white Andrew Gn gown teamed with vintage Neil Lane jewellery. 'I did it and then Miley Cyrus did it like, literally a week late,' she said about her punky platinum hair. 'And obviously she is way more famous than I am so then everyone was like, "It's the Miley Cyrus!" And I was like, "No, I didn't copy her!"' Elisabeth, who arrived on the carpet with her mother, revealed she was still in shock at her double Emmy nomination for Mad Men and Top of the Lake. 'I haven't gotten used to it,' she said. 'I don't know if anyone is going to believe me on that, but it really is something I can't get used to. I'm still surprised.' Christina, meanwhile, dressed her famous curves in a more old-school Hollywood style Christian Siriano black gown which she described as 'beautiful and romantic.' Equally curvy star Sofia Vergara wore a typically plunging scarlet Vera Wang gown with oversized emerald jewellery. Stepping out on the red carpet with a large entourage including her son Manolo and boyfriend Nick Loeb, Sofia said the gown was 'doing a very hard job,' keeping her curves in place. Anna Faris arrived in one the most striking gowns, arriving in a bright yellow Monique Lhuillier number, confessing she loved 'the bold colour.' In stark contrast to the paler looks on the carpet, many of the stars arrived dressed in the brightest colours imaginable. Tina Fey looked stunning in a simple royal blue Narciso Rodriguez gown, which she told E! was 'made for her.' She also admitted to presenter Ryan Seacrest that she and friend Amy Poehler were keen on hosting the Golden Globes Awards again next year and were 'going to talk about it tonight.' 'The idea of getting to see Tina in any form is always nice,' added Amy, who wore a black high necked gown with embroidered side panels.