REDDING, Calif. (AP) — The death count from a Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.

The 2018 US elections are expected to be the most expensive midterms in history as advertising passes the $1bn (£760m) mark just 100 days before the election. Campaigns, political parties, and outside groups have purchased television advertising months before the November ballot casting which is hotly contested in several districts and states as Republicans hold a slim majority. The 2014 midterm elections hold the existing title as the most expensive, when candidates spent a collective $3.8bn in an effort to gain votes.

Gold Coast, Australia, photographer Brendon Gee has been picking up legions of online followers with his 360-degree depictions of popular settings as you’ve never seen them before.

While surveying whales and dolphins off the Hawaiian Islands, scientists spotted a creature they've never seen before: a peculiar hybrid between a dolphin and a small whale.  In 2017, before future naval officers trained on submarines in the waters around Kauai — a place called the Pacific Missile Range Facility — the U.S. Navy hired marine researchers from the Cascadia Research Collective to study the native animals in these seas. After encountering a large pod of melon-headed whales, the researchers tagged two of them, to see where they might go.  It was then that the researchers noticed something curious about one of the creatures. It wasn't quite a melon-headed whale. Nor was it exactly a rough-toothed dolphin, which are common to the area.  They collected some tissue from the animal, and after returning to shore and performing genetic testing, discovered it wasn't either species, but both. SEE ALSO: Iceland gets away with killing dozens of huge, endangered whales. Here's why. Melon-headed whales swimming in tropical waters (not hybrids).Image: NoaaThe hybrid was especially rare because of its melon-headed genes: The toothed-whales are rarely seen in these Hawaiian waters, the researchers wrote. Both species belong to the Delphinidae (oceanic dolphin) family, but the report notes that cross-species unions between them are unusual: It's only the third recorded example in the Delphinidae family, and the first between these two species. The hybrid, however strange, certainly wasn't treated as an outcast. The marine scientists tagged the hybrid with satellite tracking GPS, along with a companion, to see where they might go. And it appears they stayed together, travelling some 475 miles over eight days, and diving thousands of feet beneath the surface. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

Z-Burger had put an image of slain reporter James Foley, who was captured by Isis in 2012 while covering the conflict in Syria. Chain owner Peter Tabibian took the tweet down and said in a statement: “An apology has been sent to some of you from a contracted marketing company over an unfortunate incident, a post in very poor taste that was not approved by me before being uploaded to our Twitter account”. On 21 July the company's Twitter account posted an advertisement with an image of Mr Foley wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling facing the camera with a member of Isis wearing a full mask over their face.