Teenage burglar hid in wardrobe for 13 HOURS as police hunted for clues - then fled with camera and laptop as owner slept

Plymouth Crown and County court buildings

Victims of the thought police: Snatched foster children are 'traumatised' say loving couple branded racist for supporting UKIP

'Though policed': The three children were taken from the foster-parents following an anonymous tip-off that they supported UKIP

The three children were taken from the couple, in their 50s, after an anonymous tip-off to Rotherham council that they supported UKIP.

War veteran, 94, dies in hospital after police break into their home and find body of his wife, 89

Police outside the house in Newbury, Berkshire, where two bodies were found this morning. Police are treating both deaths as 'unexplained'

The dead body of Maria Ziemba was found in the house in Newbury, alongside her husband Jan, who was taken to hospital from multiple injuries to the head and shoulder. He died later in hospital.

Man, 26, arrested on suspicion of raping 11-year-old girl in brutal two-hour attack in park near her home

Scene of the attack: A police car patrols outside Jubilee Park in Enfield, where an 11-year-old girl was subjected to a 'brutal' sexual assault on Friday evening

The man was arrested in Edmonton, north London, and is being held in custody following the attack in nearby Enfield, which left the girl needing surgery.

3,000 Eurocrats on more than Cameron... no wonder they don't want any cuts

Striking employee of European Union institutions holds a flag during a protest outside the European Commission headquarters. All EU staff work a basic 37 and a half hour week and receive 18 public holidays

EU officials work a basic 37 and a half hour week, receive 18 public holidays, including 'Europe day', and are entitled to a host of other bonuses, including first class travel.

Mayor on a mission: Boris lands in Delhi in a bid to boost trade links but takes time out to say no to EU referendum

Centre of attention: Mr Johnson met schoolchildren in New Delhi as part of a 5-day visit to India

Boris Johnson, pictured, arrived in capital city Delhi at the start of the tour which will also take in Hyderabad and Mumbai and aims to boost trade links and confront UK visa system problems.

Lollipop men fitted with cameras at 'Britain's most dangerous school crossing' after FIVE hit and runs by drivers

Parents take their children to Monks Abbey Primary School, under the watchful eye of Barry Brannick

The security measures have been introduced after one lollipop man was ran over three times, while his colleague was hit twice outside Monks Abbey Primary School in Lincoln.

Why migraines can be a headache for careers: Half of sufferers say they've been treated unfairly

Unfair: Almost one in three people who suffer from migraines has been disciplined at work because of their condition

Nearly one in three migraine sufferers has been disciplined at work because of their condition. Four in ten feel unsupported by their bosses and colleagues.

Price of top Christmas toys fluctuate by the hour as Amazon third party sellers cash in on soaring demand

Confusing: Parents shopping for the Christmas must-have toys such as Furby, pictured, may be paying more online. Furby was priced on Amazon at £84.95 - almost £25 above its recommended price

The most popular Christmas toys are being sold online for as much as £30 higher than the recommended price.
Demand for Furbys, pictured, and Lego Friends is sky-high.

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British aid to Rwanda 'is funding a dictator': UK millions fuel armed conflict, says president's former aide

'Dictator': Rwandan President Paul Kagame's regime is alleged to be arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo

The former private secretary of Rwanda's president Paul Kagame has said £270million of aid earmarked by the UK for the African country is 'sustaining a bad regime'.

Britain's poorest families 'facing 30% cut to their annual income by 2017' as Government slashes spending

Savings: The chancellor, George Osborne is expected to outline a further £10bn of welfare savings in the autumn statement on December 5

Figures from the TUC suggest the poorest families will lose 30 per cent of their income by 2017 as the coalition's tough spending targets begin to bite.

Cameron’s alcohol plan is based on ‘flawed assumptions and will penalise moderate drinkers’

'Flawed': The report said it was incorrect to assume that heavy drinkers would be most likely to be deterred by high prices

David Cameron wants to introduce a minimum price of around 45 pence per unit of alcohol in the UK, but critics warn it will penalise moderate drinkers.

Charles at 64, the impatient Prince: Royal speaks of 'wanting to get things done' during film for Clarence House website

Prince Charles jokingly admitted that he is impatient

Prince Charles, the longest-waiting heir to the throne in British history, has spoken of his 'impatience' to get things done.

Family carers turn to eBay to make ends meet: Millions fear for their financial future

family carers

According to a study some carers are even having to go without meals as they have a poorer quality of life than those who do not have family members needing long-term care.

Housewife? No, I'm the family's chief executive: 90% of middle-aged women take control of paying the bills

Family CEO: Nine out of ten middle-aged women said they had control over family purse strings. And one third said their husband believes that he does (file image)

A new survey found that nine out of ten middle-aged women also have control over buying for the home - but one third say their husband thinks he does.

Caught on camera: The moment stranded motorist is rescued from submerged car by heroic driver as 500 flood alerts are issued for underwater Britain

Man plucked from car

The pensioner was plucked from his car after driving into deep flood water in Keynsham, Somerset. Fortunately for him David Dunn and his son Callum were passing by in a Land Rover and they were able to rescue him, shaken but unharmed, and drive him to safety before his car was swept away.

Deluged homeowners' fury at failure of £1.7m state-of-the-art defences which they celebrated with an 'end of flooding party'

Evacuated: Resident Dan Corns said it was 'unacceptable' that the pumps had failed, leaving his and other homes under four feet of water

Dan Corns, one of those evacuated in Kempsey, Worcestershire, called the pump failure 'unacceptable' and said somebody had to take responsibility.

Married couples tax break ‘in next budget’ to try and appease Tory backbenchers over gay marriage

Tax breaks for married couples may be brought in early to try and appease Tory backbenchers over gay marriage

Conservative sources say ministers want to introduce transferrable allowances - worth around £150 a year - as part of Britain's 2013 Budget.

We're being persecuted claim Oxford University Tories as they plead for same equal rights as ethnic minorities and gays

Political row: The quad at Oxford's Corpus Christi College where Tory students claim they have been verbally abused

Young Right-wingers at Corpus Christi College who once voted for Courtney Love, pictured, to be officer for rock 'n' roll, have accused their political opponents of personal abuse and intimidation because of their views.

Women take 12 hours to pick an office party dress: New survey finds nearly they prefer choosing their outfit to the actual event

For many women picking the right festive outfit becomes another full-time job

The office Christmas party is supposed to be an opportunity to relax from the stresses of work. But for many ladies, it can be a full-time job in itself

The grumps who can't bear to chat before 8am: Nearly half of adults avoid talking to anyone for first hour after they wake up

Grumpy: Nearly half of Brits are too grumpy to chat int he morning, says survey

After waking up at an average time of 6.49am, it's another hour and 15 minutes before the grumps feel up to having a conversation, a survey of has found.

Err on the side of a free Press, Hague urges Cameron ahead of publication of Lord Leveson's report

'Unthinkable': Foreign Secretary William Hague advised the PM not to back a new system of statutory Press regulation

Foreign Secretary William Hague (pictured) joined senior ministers in telling the PM that backing up a new system of Press regulation in law in Britain was unthinkable.

'Toiletiquette' revealed: Never catch someone's eye at the urinals and don't squeeze in unless there's a space

Stressful: Men obey unwritten rules when they use a public urinal because they want to avoid a fight in the gents

They are terrified of being caught looking where they shouldn't - so they obey unwritten rules of behaviour, according to a report.

Does 'man flu' really exist? Study finds men are actually LESS likely to admit they are ill

Making the most of it? A man suffers from seasonal symptoms

The research, carried out by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine last winter, shows that women are are 16 per cent more likely to say they are ill - and at greater risk from flu in the first place.

The rise of the pillow emails: How a third of us are doing work on laptops and iPads in bed

Pillow tech: One in three of us admit to using a laptop or iPad in bed to answer emails and browse the internet

One in three people admit they or their spouse check emails or browse the internet from under their duvet, with the so-called 'pillow emails' spawning a new range of specially-tailored beds and bedside tables.

Married BBC stars Tim Willcox and Sophie Long banned from appearing together on screen after revealing affair

Close: Tim Willcox, 49, and Sophie Long, 35, have found themselves smitten with each other despite both being married to other people

Tim Willcox, 49, and Sophie Long, 35, have found themselves suddenly smitten with each other, despite both being married, writes RICHARD KAY. The couple, who both work as presenters on BBC's 24-hour news channel have been close for some time with Willcox a guest at Ms Long's wedding two years ago.

Sadistic Lithuanian woman and her partner destroyed man's life after attacking him in his own home

Arnold Hilton of Preston & grandaughters Victoria & Georgia and his attackers

Arnold Hilton, 89, had his life ‘destroyed’ when Aurelisa Galdikaite and Laurynas Dauksas attacked him with ‘severe violence’ in his home in Upholland, Lancashire.

Speeding motorist who faked CCTV to try and dodge fine caught out by shadows in the footage

Motorist Roger Moore, pictured here on his motorbike, attempted to fake CCTV images to avoid a speeding fine but was caught out by shadows in the footage

A driver who faked CCTV images in an attempt to dodge a speeding fine was caught out by the length of shadows in his forged footage, a court heard.

British secondary school teacher is unmasked as convicted murderer

Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Chowdhury

Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Chowdhury, a teacher in Bethnal Green, is being investigated by the Home Office after it was revealed he was found guilty of murder in absentia in his native Bangladesh.

'Kinky Hotel' sex club with dungeons sparks fury in suburbia after opening in family neighbourhood without planning permission

The 'kinky hotel', called Club Kiss caused outrage when it opened in a quiet residential neighbourhood

The 'kinky hotel', called Club Kiss, is situated in a Southampton neighbourhood where many residents are pensioners or young families.

Home Office security chief responsible for Buckingham Palace 'viewed child porn'

Royals: David Tracey, who was charged with making child abuse images, is reported to be responsible for advising strategy to protect Royal residences, including Buckingham Palace

David Tracey, 48,of Billericay, Essex, was arrested by police in Essex and charged with four counts of making indecent images of children.

Wealthy homeowner fined £125,000 after felling neighbour's tree that blocked sea views from his hot tub

Guilty: Neil Davey was hit with a £125,000 fine after being found guilty of arranging to have his neighbour's protected tree felledAccused: Neil Davey, left, and Thomas McGuire, right, arriving at Bournemouth Crown Court.

Neil Davey arranged for a tree surgeon friend to sneak onto his neighbour's property in Dorset under cover of darkness and take a chainsaw to the protected pine.

Too FAT to fly: Sick American woman dies in Hungary after 'airline kicks her off three New York flights because she was too obese'

Vilma Soltesz

Vilma Soltesz, 56, (pictured with her husband Janos) from New York, had weighed about 425 pounds or over 30 stone, had only one leg and used a wheelchair. She died from health complications in Hungary nine days after she was kicked off the first of three jets and her death could now be the cause of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the airlines

Horrifying death of girl, 14, who was so violently sick her stomach ruptured during half-term holiday with friends

Tragic: Jessica Ashton-Pyatt,11, died when she was so violently sick her stomach ruptured during a holiday with friends at Butlin's in Skegness

Jessica Ashton-Pyatt, a talented writer and artist, died while on a half-term break with friends at Butlin's in Skegness when she was so ill her stomach ruptured.

Baby died after being fed a day's food in just an hour via a drip at scandal-hit children's hospital

Scandal care: This is not the first time Bristol Children's Hospital has been accused of maltreatment - at least 35 babies died in the 80s and 90s which may have been the result of mistakes

Seven day old Maisie Bennett was being fed intravenously because she was born with a congential heart defect.

Kayaker dies after boat capsizes on a loch as he and two others undertook early morning trip

Loch Fyne in Argyll

A rescue helicopter was scrambled and sebt to Loch Fyne in Argyll (pictured) where the men were picked up by a lifeboat, before the man died. He is believed to be in his 20s.

Killed by her hair dye: Mother who suffered huge allergic reaction dies after year in coma

Tragic mother Julie McCabe

Julie McCabe, 38, had been on a life- support machine since suffering a ­suspected allergic reaction to L’Oreal Preference hair dye in October last year.

Gambler found dead in bookies toilets after being locked in cubicle for FIVE DAYS

The branch of Coral bookmakers in Surrey where the body of 39-year-old Marc Smithers was found

The body of 39-year-old Marc Smithers was found sprawled in the cubicle by Coral staff in Stanwell, Surrey, after customers noticed that the toilet door was bolted shut.

'Can we stab you every week?' Probe into sickening anti-semitic West Ham chants which mocked Spurs fans attacked in Italy

Not enough: Andy Carroll left) scored for West Ham but they were well beaten by Totenham

Spurs’ 3-1 Barclays Premier League win was overshadowed by sickening songs about the stabbings of the Tottenham fans in Rome last week.

Osborne warned his slow economic growth could mean another SIX years of cuts and VAT rising to 25%

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies said the continued sluggishness of the economy means the Chancellor could be forced to announce dramatic tax increases and impose further cuts.

'My home is worth more than £5million - and I want to pay more tax on it': A surprising view from a Tory MP - and ally of George Osborne - as mansion tax row rages

Appeal: MP Nadhim Zawahi says it's important to remember that we're still borrowing almost £400million a day

Alongside spending reductions must come proof that we are doing all we can to ensure those with the broadest shoulders carry the biggest burden, writes Nadhim Zahawi, MP for Straford-Upon-Avon.

Generous Labour donor causes embarrassment for Ed Miliband as it emerges that he saves £13million using tax haven

Peter Coates has donated £300,000 to the Labour party in the last decade

Peter Coates, chairman of bet365, has donated £300,000 to the party in the past decade, including £10,000 to Mr Miliband this year.

They got her in the end: Mexico's fearless woman mayor who survived two drug gang assassination attempts is beaten to death and dumped by the roadside

Maria Santos Gorrostieta, 36, was the former mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan. She famously survived two assassination attempts by drug gangs

Maria Santos Gorrostieta (pictured), 36, was the former mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan. She famously survived two assassination attempts by the drug gangs she so fearlessly opposed, leaving her horrifically injured (top and bottom right) She leaves behind three children.

End of the doctors surgery? GP visits to be replaced by Skype consultations in bid to save NHS £3bn

Technological revolution: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (left) believes plans to conduct doctor's appointments via Skype or over the phone will save the NHS £3bn

Face-to-face appointments with GPs could be replaced with treatment via the phone and Skype under plans unveiled by health ministers this week.

Revealed: Brian May allowed hunter to kill 23 deer on his land... despite his role in high profile campaign to stop badger cull

He is credited with defeating the government's plan to allow a limited cull of badgers in two trial areas to test whether it would reduce tuberculosis in cattle

He is credited with defeating the government's plan to allow a limited cull of badgers in two trial areas to test whether it would reduce tuberculosis in cattle.

Fancy a fast food Christmas? Chip shops start selling battered turkey, sprouts and mince pies

Calorific: The battered mince pie and battered Christmas pudding are the latest in list of strange foods to be given the deep-fried treatment

Chip shop owners Andrew Doughty and Chris Christoforou, who run two take-aways in Smethwick and Wythall, near Birmingham, think the battered puddings will prove popular.

Married Premier League star on £90,000 a week 'tricked model into two year affair by telling her he was a car salesman'

Kolo Toure

Manchester City defender Kolo Toure hid behind sunglasses and caps to hide his real identity as he carried out the affair with 22-year-old Kessel Kasuisyo, before heading back to his wife and two children.

Freddie Starr claims sex abuse allegations have cost him £1m after theatres stopped booking his live act

Ruin: Comedian Freddie Starr and his 34-year-old fiancee Sophie. He says the sex abuse allegations made against him have crippled him financially as booking dry up

Starr, 69, says theatres are 'too scared' to book him after Karin Ward, 52, accused him of trying to grope her in disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile's dressing room in 1974.

University exams consigned to the history books as coursework takes over (and is blamed for grade inflation)

Learning: University grades are rising, but some academics fear the drop in the use of exams to assess students is driving grades up

A study has found that grades are rising as the use of coursework to assess learning increases, sparking fears that students are increasingly downloading essays and plagiarising academic work they find online.

Is this a wind-up? Volunteer is banned from climbing ladder to wind church clock after 40 years in health and safety clamp-down

82-year-old Tom Monk has been banned from winding the clock of St Nicolas Church in Witham, Essex after 43 years

Tom Monk, 82, started winding the clock of St Nicolas Church in Witham, Essex back in 1969, and has done it nearly 900,000 times without any accidents. The church now wants to install a mechanism to enable the clock to be wound by someone standing on the ground.

'Sexual advice with your soup sir?' Bizarre new Thai restaurant becomes first in the UK to offer family planning leaflets with meal

cabbages and condoms

Cabbages and Condoms has opened in Bicester, Oxfordshire, after success in Thailand, where the idea has helped to encourage better sexual health.

Cadbury's Willy Wonka invention - chocolate that doesn't melt! Sweet giant's patent on bars that stay solid in 40C heat for three hours

Finger-licking good: But the new Dairy Milk won't melt in your hands after the breakthrough

Cadbury has developed a way of breaking down sugar particles into smaller pieces, reducing how much fat covers them and making the bar more resistant to heat.

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Two Titanic menus sell for £100,000: Items show lavish dishes first class passengers would have enjoyed

Rare: Two menus for lavish lunches on the Titanic have sold for a staggering £100,000

One menu was for a meal on board the ship the day it set sail while the other (pictured) was for a grand lunch to celebrate the launch of the Titanic.

McDonald's starts testing THREE new Quarter Pounders in bid to turn franchise around

New additions: McDonald's is changing up its menu with three new Quarter Pounders in the works

McDonald's is testing three new Quarter Pounders after reporting its first monthly sales drop in nine years earlier this month.

'Gangnam Style' overtakes Justin Bieber's 'Baby' to become most watched YouTube video of ALL TIME

Gangnam Style

With more than 808 million views, 'Gangnam Style' has become the most popular video on YouTube. It beat out Justin Bieber's 'Baby' for first place.

Firefighters forced to tear through the roof of family home after man became impaled on metal table leg in his loft

Harpenden

Emergency services rushed to the man's home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and found him trapped in his attic with a two-foot desk leg through his body. Because of his position, rescuers had to climb up a ladder, cut a hole in the roof of the house and lift the patient out on a stretcher.

Now that's a marry-go round! Couple tie the knot for the 29th time...with more than 20 MORE weddings to go before their final nuptials in secret locale

They do! Lisa Gant and Alex Pelling hold hands for wedding photographs in their 29th wedding ceremony in Litchfield Plantation, South Carolina

Last June, Lisa Gant, 30, and Alex Pelling, 32, of Manchester, England, embarked on a mission to travel the world and wed in every place they visit, and this weekend, they came to South Carolina for their 29th ceremony.

Children's hopes dashed for cure to rare disease after 'donor' who pledged £1m to charity disappears

Jack Baird, 2, was one of 20 children selected for a drugs trial to find a cure for a rare disease after a 'donor' pledged £1m before disappearing

Little Jack Baird (pictured) is one of 20 children who were selected for a drugs trial which was to be supported by the donor pledging money to the Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases.

He’s a little star: Toddler with leukaemia given special award by Cancer Research because he’s always smiling

The Victoria Wing at the RVI hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Two-year-old Max Pedelty was diagnosed with leukaemia was awarded a Little Star award by Cancer Research UK for being the little boy who keeps on smiling.

Hope for girl with rare genetic disorder that makes her cheeks abnormally large as she prepares for groundbreaking surgeries

Heartbreak: Megan Renfroe, right, holds her little sister Katie who suffers from megalencephaly at their home in Paxton, Florida

Katie Renfroe, four, was diagnosed with megalencephaly before she was born, causing some of her facial features to be abnormally large. She will undergo the first of as many as seven surgeries this week in Florida.

Three become one: Triplets who survived despite being born 15 WEEKS early celebrate their first birthday

Max, Lucas and Harvey Udell spent three months battling for their lives after they were born 15 weeks premature. The tiny brothers, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, weighed less than 2lb each when they arrived at 24 weeks and five days.

Max, Lucas and Harvey Udell spent three months battling for their lives after they were born 15 weeks premature.

Teenager has SEVEN heart attacks after one month on the pill: Contraceptive caused hundreds of blood clots

 Alyce took the contraceptive pill for just one month when she was 19 and suffered seven cardiac arrests, which ended her dream of being a show jumper forever

A teenager suffered seven heart attacks after a contraceptive Pill caused her to develop hundreds of blood clots.

Bloody rites and agonising ceremony: Devotees turn mosque floor red during mass flagellation to mourn Shiite martyr

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: tHE BLOODY floor of a mosque in New Delhi, India, as Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves today during a Muharram procession marking Ashura

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Shi'a Muslims all over the world pay their respects with the flowing of their blood as they mourn the slaying and martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad. In some Shi'a regions of Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Bahrain, the commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali has become a national holiday.

'Tracie Andrews stole my husband,' says wife who claims her partner is having affair with freed killer who he met at work

Road rage killer Tracie Andrews, who was sentenced to life in prison after stabbing Lee Harvey 42 times in 1996, has seduced Phil Goldsworthy, according to his wife.

Road rage killer Tracie Andrews, right and inset, who was sentenced to life in prison after stabbing Lee Harvey in 1996, has seduced Phil Goldsworthy, according to his wife Tracie Andrews, left.

Is milking the most pointless internet craze yet? Students filmed pouring four-pint cartons over their heads

Udderly amazing: 'Milking' involves pouring pints of milk over your head, preferably in public places, and has taken YouTube by storm

The group of Newcastle University students have filmed the bizarre video which sees them pour pints of milk over their heads in public places around Newcastle.

The man who built a mine in his back garden: Painter spends 13 years on extraordinary replica which is accurate to the last, painstaking detail

John Wiggins has spent 30 years making the perfect 19th century model in the farmland at his home in Skelton Green, Teesside

John Wiggins has spent 13 years making the perfect 19th century model in the farmland at his home in Skelton Green, Teesside.

The Hobbit flies in! Blockbuster theme is painted on side of plane as stars arrive in New Zealand ahead of world premiere

The Hobbit graphic is the largest of its kind to be placed on the exterior of a jet

Hobbit star Martin Freeman arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in true movie-star style for the film's premiere, in a jet emblazoned with his own face.

A beary merry Christmas: Workers at world famous Steiff teddy factory prepare for a bumper festive season

Lovable: The completed teddy bear, pictured at the Steiff stuffed toy factory in Giengen an der Brenz, Germany, waits to be shipped out to a new home

Pictures from inside the world famous Steiff factory in Giengen an der Brenz, Germany, demonstrate the traditional techniques used to create the hand-crafted bears.

Drinks are on me! Japanese artist makes comic book creations out of recycled empty beer and soda cans

Woody from Toy Story

Macaon transforms the old aluminium into iconic figures like Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story, Disney's waste clean-up robot WALL-E, a mask of Darth Vader and video play station's Super Mario.

Girl, three, who lost her father to Gaza's motorcycle lynch mob (and why his widow is convinced he wasn't an Israeli spy)

Tearful and terrified: Three--year-old Baraa (whose name means Innocence), clutches a picture of her father who was publicly executed and dragged through streets of Gaza by a motorcycle lynch mob

The Mail on Sunday can today reveal that the dead man in the photograph is 37-year-old father-of-five Ribhi Badawi, a Palestinian prisoner in Gaza.

Anyone for sushi? Fisherman catches 1,000lb tuna (that'll make 20,000 servings with rice)

What a catch! Marc Towers (left) and Neil Cooke caught this enormous 1000lb blue fin tuna on a fishing trip off Nova Scotia

Marc Towers (pictured left) caught the bluefin tuna off the coast of Canso in Nova Scotia. It was so big that the crew were unable to haul it onto the boat.

Police search French caves for aristocratic man 'who butchered his wife, four children and their dogs'

Suspect: Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, 51, may be hiding in caves near his childhood home. Right, wife Agnes, 49, was found dead at their home along with her four children and two pet dogs

Police will search underground caves and abandoned potassium mines in the area where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes was spotted by a CCTV camera in April 2011.

China lands fighter jet on its first aircraft carrier as it takes another leap towards becoming Asian naval power

The J-15 bomber is seen hitting the tarmac on China's Liaoning aircraft carrier

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy landed a J-15 fighter jet on the Liaoning aircraft carrier while the ship was out at sea.

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union

Would you miss it? American scientists were looking to blow up the moon to get an edge of the Soviet Union in the space race

It may sound like a fiendish plot out of a science fiction novel, but a mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s.

More than 120 dead and scores injured after fire rips through clothing factory in Bangladesh

Bangladesh fire

The fire at the nine-story factory in the Ashulia industrial belt started on the ground floor and quickly spread. Firefighters took nearly five hours to extinguish the flames.

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Slaughter: Miles Lappeman, with the carcass of Longhorn, a 24-year-old Rhino Cow, at the Finfoot Lake Reserve        

It's not this family who are bigots - it's the multicultural thought police

Right decision: Joyce Thacker, Rotherham Borough Council's head of children's services, said social workers had been right to remove the three children from the care of their UKIP member foster parents

MELANIE PHILLIPS: The story sounds just too idiotic and outrageous to be true. A Rotherham couple, by all accounts exemplary foster parents for nearly seven years, took on two children and a baby in an emergency placement.

I've suffered at the hands of the media, but I still believe Press freedom is vital for democracy

Eight years ago, David Blunkett's family experienced illegal hacking and constant intrusion and surveillance yet he still believed in freedom of the Press

DAVID BLUNKETT: As Lord Justice Leveson reports this Thursday the findings of his exhaustive inquiry, it may be thought that given my own experiences, I would be in favour of draconian statutory Press regulation.

Dawn of the living dead at the BBC

Patten was advised to search for new Director Generals outside the BBC by trust members

PETER MCKAY: The hurried appointment of Royal Opera House boss Tony Hall as the new Director-General has saved the job of vulnerable looking BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten. For the moment, anyway.

A family betrayed by political correctness

Nigel Farage described the fact that a family were denied the right to foster three children as a 'bloody outrage'

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: For years, this paper highlighted the senseless, politically-correct cruelty of the adoption and care system.

Golden reign of Parliament’s Quango Queen

Ann Abraham, ex-Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman left the post with a pension pot of a mighty £1.45 million

ANDREW PIERCE: The incredibly grand-sounding Parliamentary And Health Service Ombudsman is responsible for handling the growing volume of complaints about the often shoddy service from the Government and the NHS.

PETER HITCHENS: If the zealots truly cared about equality, they'd fight for female dustmen

All sorts of people who don't believe in God have suddenly developed bilious, enraged opinions on bishops

PETER HITCHENS: All sorts of people who don't believe in God and wouldn't know one end of a canticle from the other have suddenly developed bilious, enraged opinions on bishops.