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Melissa Rivers released a statement this afternoon announcing the passing of her mother, Joan Rivers. She was 81.read

As David Cameron considers joining the US airstrike campaign in a desperate bid to recover Mr Haines, his relatives have revealed they believe the strategy could further endanger his life.read

Like her character Lindsay Denton in BBC drama Line of Duty, Keeley Hawes has revealed she suffers from depression, which began when she was a teenager.read

Shweta Prasad (pictured), best-known for her lead role in 2002 film Makdee at the age of 11, was arrested in Hyderabad, India, on Sunday after becoming involved in the sex trade.read

Tommy and Patrick O’Driscoll were stabbed to death by their 22-year-old brother Jonathan, who fled the scene at County Cork, Ireland and later took his own liferead

With the advent of the knee defender causing fights on flights across the globe, JOHN SIMPSON recalls his worst experiences... and how a lack of legroom was enough to send him mad.read

Palmira Silva, 82, who is believed to be of Italian descent, was found dead outside a house in Edmonton, north London.read

The proposed 11-acre site in Catherine-de-Barnes, near Solihull, West Midlands, will include a total of 11,000 graves for followers of Islam.read

Cincinnati-based electrical engineer Lee Hite put the theories to the test by bouncing good and bad batteries through a tube (pictured). He then opened them to discover how they differed inside.read

Ashya's parents must tell the judge what type of treatment they want their son to receive. His ward of court status means the High Court must approve all decisions.read

Ashya's mother Naghmeh is confronted with the potential death of her young child, the blackest of parental nightmares, writes JAN MOIR.read

Ali Hussein Kadhim, a Shiite Iraqi soldier, was one of hundreds abducted by the extremist group in Tikrit in June.read

After Adeba Shaker was kidnapped from her village by ISIS fighters, she managed a daring and nerve-shredding escape when her captors suddenly grabbed their guns and left.read

As fresh details of David Haines's kidnapping emerged, the Prime Minister used the Nato summit in Wales to criticise countries who pay multi-million pound sums to Islamist jihadisread

David Cameron signalled that British attacks on Islamic State forces, which have seized large swathes of Iraq, could come as soon as the country agrees a new government.read

The United States is concerned that the Islamic State group and other terrorists could obtain chemical weapons if Syria is hiding any stockpiles.read

The two men shook hands and smiled at the Celtic Manor event in Newport, which is being held to promote Wales and thank the community for its hospitality. read

Mr Obama greeted the smiling youngsters of Mount Pleasant Primary School in Rogerstone, near Newport, in Welsh by saying ‘bore da’ - ‘good morning’.read

The news came as the Nato summit in Wales, attended by 60 world leaders, got under way, with the conflict in Ukraine top of the agenda. read

The Prime Minister and US President penned a joint article attacking other members of the military alliance for not pitching in against the growing threat from Russia and the Middle East.read

The man I felt sorry for was the green keeper at Newport’s Celtic Manor golf course. They had only gone and plonked a warplane – F35 Lightning II – on his beloved turf, hadn’t they?read

'Cuddle cots' are pieces of medical equipment that act like a refrigerated bassinet and allow babies to stay in the hospital room with their parents so they do not need to be taken straight to the morgue.read

BBC received so many complaints about Jonathan Ross returning as holiday relief presenter on Radio 2, bosses have put a notice on website saying there are no plans to bring him back.read

Although life expectancy has greatly increased, and there are many more old people, they are in many ways less respected and valued than they used to be, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.read

Sir Hugh Orde, pictured, spoke out after a nationwide review found a postcode lottery over whether officers attended crimes.read

The depressing truth is that policing, like nursing, has been turned into an academic pursuit by senior officers who obsess over political correctness and diversity, while forgetting the basics.read

The £16m striker, who signed for Liverpool last month, is rumoured to be interested in the Cheshire property, complete with its own swimming pool, football pitch and helipad.read

Sue Taber (pictured) was shocked to discover an illegal immigrant hiding in her car when she arrived home to Shepherdswell, Kent, having driven from France.read

Natacha Bouchart said migrants to UK 'can work on the black market easily' as she demanded the presence of the Prime Minister in her port town.read

For President Hollande it is not just the clothes off his back that have been removed. So, too, has every shred of his personal credibility.read

Four reactors at Heysham and Hartlepool owned by EDF were shut down and may only be fully operational in December after a crack was found in a boiler.read

Her originality will long survive the tragic medical accident that has ended her brilliant and vivid life, writes MICHAEL THORNTON.read

Microsoft hopes a new 'selfie phone' will help it lure people away from Apple and Google handsets - but admitted the industry had to 'amplify the message around security'.read

Presenters on the long-running Channel 4 afternoon show, originally hosted by Carol Vorderman and the late Richard Whiteley, will be handed the award during today's episode.read

Mother of five, Pam, 36, tells of her crippling insecurities and says she hid behind clothes and had to switch light off in the bedroom.read

It follows a landmark Ofsted report in 2010 which revealed that schools may have wrongly labelled as many as 450,000 children as having special needs.read

It was no surprise when I started going through 'the change' at 42, given my family history. My mother went through it in her late 30s, as did her mother, writes MELISSA KITE.read

Witnesses said security staff were forced to turn a fire hose on the crowds as at least 250 people attempted to overpower officials and machine-gun wielding police.read

Manmade fibres are more likely than their natural rivals to whiff after exercise, a study has found.read

Mum-of-two Vanda Thomas, 55, has been left with terrible scarring under her chin by an unqualified beautician.read

Government-commissioned surveys show that just 64 per cent of Britons agree with animals being used in medical research – a 12-point fall since 2010 and the lowest since 2002.read

Figures, published by the EU’s statistics arm Eurostat, found that 19.4 per cent aged 65 to 69 were in employment - with evidence suggesting they do so to help support their grandchildren.read

He is said to be determined to shape up, adopting a new strict diet and fitness regime.And despite jetting into Australia from London on Thursday night, Kanye West was up bright and early on Friday morning for a spot of exercise.read

It’s often the little irritations that drive us to distraction, while we somehow manage to take the mighty geopolitical threats to our existence in our stride.read

Occasionally, politicians invite well-known retailers to advise them on running the country. But try to imagine what supermarkets would be like if they were run by career politicians.read

The VeinID system uses infrared lights to scan blood flow under the skin and the odds of two people sharing the same profile are said to be one in a million.read

A search is being carried out for the remains of King Harold at a church in Waltham Abbey, Essex, in a project chartered by OVal Films - who helped to find Richard III's remains in a Leicester car park.read

Al Ferguson, 26, from Kent, could only look on helplessly as his four-day-old son, Ted, decided to relieve himself during the photo shoot.read

The claims were made by Prof Gina Rippon of Aston University in Birmingham, who cited a study showing women 'grew' the part of their brains used for spatial skills.read

Utah researchers monitored palm sweat, breathing and cardiovascular responses such as heart rate in a bid to see if 3D was worth the extra cash.read

Mexican researchers found mushrooms feed on cellulose, an ingredient in diapers, and ground up diapers to create a fertiliser.read

Barrow Borough Council has decreed it is too dangerous for staff at South Lakes Safari Zoo in Dalton, Cumbria to put food on the poles, despite it allowing the animals to follow hunting instincts.read

It's a 237-acre estate that would give neighbors like Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres a serious run for their money - and with an asking price of $125 million, it would want to.read

Rider Johnny King was on his way to the start of the race during the meet at Laytown in County Meath, Ireland, when Arbitrageur suddenly threw its head back.read

Frances O'Grady voiced fears of a 'generational gap' causing dead-end jobs after more than 1,700 people applied for eight Costa jobs in Nottingham last year.read

Buffalo scientists have unravelled the genetic code of the coffee bean for about 30 percent of the world's coffee production.read

Researcher Krishna Upadhyaya (left), 52, and photographer Ghimire Gundev (right), 36, from London, were due to fly from Doha to London on Sunday but failed to arrive at the airport.read

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Members of the World Health Organisation's blood network have said the unconventional method should be tested as the crisis continues to grow.read

Mark Baldwin, 60, launched the foul-mouthed tirade against cyclist Eddie Bell, 38, after he pointed out the driver had stopped his £45,000 Jaguar in a bike-only box in Pevensey, East Sussex.read

The current high street price war means the pressure on suppliers is worse than when it emerged that horse meat was being passed off as beef in supermarkets and restaurants.read

Women looking at images of smiling babies with dummies rated the infants as less happy than smiling babies without pacifiers.read

The wannabe glamour model vowed that the £4,800 she planned to return to the NHS for her controversial surgery will be put it into a trust fund for her daughter's boob job, when she is 18.read

Cyclists have said various areas of their lives have improved since they swapped their car or public transport to commute on two wheels.read

Based in the Negev desert, on the Israel-Egypt border, the battalion was formed in the year 2000 after mounting public pressure to allow women to serve in combat positions.read

As nationalists claim independence is the only way to prevent Tory rule in Scotland, the Prime Minister and Labour leader urged voters not to treat the vote as a referendum on the Conservatives.read

The Sheffield fighter, 28, was on holiday with his pregnant wife at the Golf De Sur resort on the Spanish island, where the attack happened at 6am today after he was on a night out.read

Joel Clark, 37, was being held on Thursday at the Marion County Jail in Indiana. The dog was discovered in a trash can and dog hair on a pizza pan in the oven.read

Mr Bercow is under pressure over his attempt to parachute in controversial Australian Carol Mills to become Parliament’s senior official.read

Photographer Mark Davies spent more than six years visiting abandoned psychiatric hospitals, such as this one in Epsom, Surrey, to see what remains of the places where inmates once livedread

Temperatures are set to reach 23C in parts of the country on Friday and forecasters predict the warm weather will continue until at least early next week.read

Morag McTiernan, 21, from Middlesbrough was one of only four teenagers a year diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. She underwent a mastectomy to remove her right breast at just 19 years old.read

Studland Bay in Dorset had more than 40 spiny seahorses in a 2008 survey but numbers have fallen, and an 80-hour survey this year found none at all.read

Shona Sibary, 43, pictured top left today and bottom left aged 14, seethes with an uncomfortable mix of pride and bitterness over the attractiveness of her daughters Flo, 15, and Annie, 13, right.read

Hampshire Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of mother-of-five Penelope Davis, 45, in the village of Beaulieu, Hampshire. She was stabbed multiple times.read

Researchers in Australia found men were targeted in 84 per cent of all unprovoked shark attacks - and also say women are statistically more likely to survive a shark attack.read

This 50-second video, filmed on board a flight to Ibiza, shows passengers singing the theme to the Dambusters while doing the actions of a plane as the flight descends.read

London-born Sir Jonathan Ive (pictured) is said to have made the claims to an Apple designer. The iWatch is expected to be launched at an event on 9 September.read

The agreement will provide one-time payments of 2,500 euros for Jewish children who were in concentration camps, ghettos or spent at least six months in hiding.read

Young Rohan's assault on the Deputy Prime Minister's policy was so sustained it sparked suspicions he was an adult with a political axe to grind - something LBC radio denies.read

Thomas Henderson, of Helston, Cornwall, is charged with carrying out a five year fraud on the disaster relief charity between 2007 and 2012. read

Joseph and Moon Ray, a married couple from Austin, Texas arrived in New York to stand in front of Apple’s store for the iPhone 6, and are being sponsored by an app company.read

The driver's bus hit a stationary vehicle in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, crashed through railings and careered down a hill, coming to rest on a gravestone.read

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum has applied for planning permission to add to the existing luxury buildings on his 63,000-acre estate in Inverinate in Wester Ross.read

Lucy Simm, 29, from Morecambe, right, was keen to get back on a sunbed as soon as she had recovered from an operation to remove a cancerous mole on her leg. read

Just over 40 per cent admit they look to their foundation to give them confidence when they're photographed.read

Seven-year-old Tortoiseshell - who lives at the Pensthorpe Conservation Trust in Norfolk - has given birth to two new kittens, bringing the total number of her offspring to 50read

It's not only uniform and stationary on mums' back-to-school shopping lists - but autumn fashion too. In a survey of mothers seventy six per cent also said they had arranged beauty appointments and treatments to coincide with start of term.read

Sitting round the dinner table for a family meal is impossible for many because of time or money pressures, says study.read

An RAC report revealed that 61 per cent filling up with the wrong fuel were men, while just 39 per cent were women - a mistake that costs around £200 to put right across the country each year.read

Experts say Apple's iWatch will come in male and female versions - and will be launched alongside two updated iPads and the iPhone 6 next week in San Francisco.read

Nicole Joseph, 44, from Newport, South Wales, signed up to the dating site for fun - but fell for wheelchair-bound Dean Wulfekuhle.read

Apple shares have hit their lowest value since January since January, with one brokerage warning of a stock downgrade.read

Tory MP Anne Main said families were being forced to pay stamp duty on ‘ordinary homes’. She said the levy had become a ‘middle class postcode tax’.read

Irene Williams, 38, who lives in Llandudno in north Wales decided to take part in the international trial of new drug Amphinex, which could help with her inoperable bile duct cancer.read

The distressing clip is believed to show Luke Rhoden, 25, screaming as police detain him. Officers are investigating after the former player from Wigan died from a cardiac arrest following the altercation.read

Amanda Davey, 40, from Southport, was left with bruising and severe whiplash after slipping on the kitchen floor as she ran inside to dry herself off from the challenge.read

The Pentagon in Virginia is planning to introduce artificial intelligence to jets (F/A-XX concept shown). The plan it to use AI as co-pilots to humans to help with sensory data and landings.read

The employee suffered fatal injuries from the fall at about 4am off the BP Unity rig, which is a pumping station based almost 100 east of Aberdeen.read

David Tait, 42, was beaten up and suffered multiple injuries to his face when he confronted a man, 20, in Shipley, West Yorkshire, who had earlier taunted his 16-year old daughter Faye.read

Zimbabwean Brian Tatenda Shayanowako, 54, failed to turn up for his rape trial after being allowed to walk out of Aylesbury Crown Court on August 19.read

Rosalind Hodgkiss made a fresh public appeal for the return of her 14-year-old daughter, saying: 'We miss her, we love her, we just want her to come home'.read

A researcher in France says bodies of liquid on Titan may be fed by underground springs (illustrated). The finding was made when studying how methane rain interacts with lakes.read

Astronomers led by Southern Connecticut State University say that half of all planets in the universe may have two suns (illustration shown) like the planet Tatooine from the film Star Wars.read

The £8 billion project, backed by a consortium of Malaysian investors, will see the 42-acre former brownfield site transformed into homes, shops, cafes, offices and public space, including the restoration of the Grade II-listed power station.read

The skeleton of the Dreadnoughtus schrani (illustrated) - seven times bigger than T-Rex - was found in southern Patagonia in Argentina.read

The dawn raid in Ghazni, central Afghanistan, was targeted at the US-trained National Directorate of Security and a police rapid response squad. More than 150 people were injured in the blasts.read

This selfie of Andrew and Sally Rose Robinson - taken at Christ Church in Treales, Lancashire, just seconds after they tied the knot - has won the World Selfie Awards 2014.read

Researchers from Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, found that spending less time sitting could be more important than increasing exercise in order to live longer.read

David Anderson and Matthew Hine from Anderson’s Body Shop in Ballasalla on the Isle of Man custom built the vehicle in an attempt to break the current top record of 82mph.read

Mexico City will quadruple the number of passengers flying in each year to 120 million by 2050 with a new £5.5bn airport.read

The three-year-old Great Dane from Portland was rushed to DoveLewis Animal Hospital when he began to retch and vomit with surgeons finding he had ate more than 40 socks.read

Denny and Derrick Murphy were filming a gathering storm near their home in Iowa when a series of lightning bolts struck nearby, one of which knocked them off their feet.read

Inseparable siblings Kirsty and Mica Higham from Manchester were delighted when they became pregnant at around the same time.read

The 29-year-old was taken seriously ill with extreme altitude sickness as he neared the summit. He did, however, manage to reach the top of the Alpine mountain before he was flown to safety. read

Kyle Naegeli, a 15 year-old Texas high-school student, dangles a piece of rope down a storm drain and just minutes later pulls up a huge mudcat fish.read

Two thirds (65 per cent) of blokes boast about their knowledge, but women think they have a thing or two to learn.read

Conde Nast Traveller has released the results its annual Readers’ Travel Awards, naming the top 20 holiday hotels in the country.read

The accident reportedly took place after the vehicle crashed into the side of the bridge on the busy E-5 highway in the Avcilar district of Istanbul.read

'It's an installation called "Diggin' For Gold". Blimey, mate. Don't you know nuffink about art?'read

From butterflies in Ecuador to skates in California, many animals have skin that is up to 90 per cent transparent, enabling them to be almost invisible to predators.read

Tel-Aviv based designers have re-imagined a tool from 1.4 million years ago (shown). The Man Made project used 3D scanning and printing to create different handles and grips.read

The Dyson 360 Eye, (pictured) designed in Wiltshire, is expected to cost in the region of $1,000.read

The Maldives has topped the list of the best islands in the world, followed by the Greek islands, Sicily, and the Caribbean's St Barth, according to Conde Nast readers.read

Antoine Rose, 40, took these shots while hovering between 100 and 1,500 feet in the air over the sandy coastline of Miami.read

The bride and groom are among those feared dead after their bus got washed away by flash floods about 110 miles south west of Srinagar, in Indian held Kashmir.read

Scientists had been studying the critically endangered Mascarene Petrel off Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean when they managed to photograph one of the sea-birds.read