WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Koo Stark reveals the truth about Prince Andrew: After 32 years' silence, Royal playboy's ex-lover gives account of their affair in bid to defend him from 'sex slave' claims

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From taking her cockatoo to Buckingham Palace, to playing boardgames with the royals at Balmoral, Koo Stark (centre and left) reveals her life with Prince Andrew, and why it has convinced her he would never have slept with Virginia Roberts. In this world exclusive account she recalls a 'tender, loving and caring' man (right) who was always swooned over by women and had no need for 'forced sex'. She also recalls the emotional moment she learned he was to go war, and how she was kept from greeting him when he returned home with a rose clamped between his teeth.

Now doctors give boy, 12, gastric band: Youngest British weight-loss surgery patient revealed in new TV exposé that includes girl, 4, who struggles to fit into clothes designed for nine-year-olds

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The schoolboy is one of an increasing number of youngsters who have had the controversial weight-loss operations, despite recommendations that such high-risk surgery should be a last resort when other efforts to slim down have failed. Figures seen by The Mail on Sunday show that 62 young people aged 18 or under had the stomach-shrinking surgery at NHS and private hospitals over a three-year period. They include the 12-year-old, one boy aged 13 and two boys aged 15. Leading doctors and dentists blame parents for letting their children become so unhealthy that they need surgery - not just gastric bands but also operations to remove rotten teeth caused by sugary diets.

Entire A&E; consultant team quits at hospital earmarked for cuts after 'row with management' 

Four consultants at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire, and a consultant at nearby Worcestershire Royal Hospital made the shock resignations on Friday.

Free speech and Jews under attack again: Major manhunt in Copenhagen after two men are killed and five wounded in 'jihadi' gun assaults on blasphemy discussion then synagogue in chilling echo of Paris terror

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Danish police revealed two officers were also shot in the arms and legs close to the city's Great Synagogue, left. They have now locked down the area and helicopters are circling overhead after the suspect, pictured inset, fled on foot. The incident happened just two miles from where a man was killed yesterday after an Islamist fanatic opened fire on a cafe, right, as he tried to assassinate a controversial Swedish cartoonist.

'It's liberal-left poppycock!' Ukip fury as C4 predicts race riots if Farage wins election

Ukip has slammed Channel 4's new drama-documentary 'Ukip: The First Hundred Days' shows British society on the brink of collapse three months after the party wins the 2015 general election.

Purple reign? Ukip hopeful launches rival to the Barbie Bus (and yes, of course, it's a Jag) 

In a defiant response to Harriet Harman's 'barbie bus', Ukip's tourism spokesperson William Cash launches his electoral campaign by posing next to a V8 Jaguar with 'go faster' stripes.

Who WERE you afraid of Benedict... Moriarty? Master of deception Cumberbatch goes to amazing lengths - and even borrows Sherlock's tricks - to keep wedding secret (but the evil Professor STILL got past him!) 

The Sherlock star married his pregnant fiancee (right) in an intimate ceremony earlier today. Andrew Scott (centre), who plays Cumberbatch's arch-nemesis Moriarty on the hit BBC show, was pictured walking towards the church. In a role reversal of Cumberbatch's on-screen wedding (bottom left), Martin Freeman, who plays sidekick Watson, was thought to have been his best man. Imitation Game co-star Kiera Kinghtley was also believed to have been invited. Miss Hunter, who is heavily pregnant, arrived at the church and was shielded from the weather by an umbrella, top left.

David Cameron is 'turning a blind eye' to tax avoidance, says Miliband as he vows immediate probe into multi-billion-pound schemes

Ed Miliband said the rich should play by the same rules as the poor and accused the Coalition of 'shrugging its shoulders over tax avoidance' in a speech.

Tory bid to crack down on drunks' benefits failed twice before after experts warned it would drive claimants to 'crime and prostitution'

David Cameron's pledge to strip the obese, alcoholics and junkies of their benefits if they refuse help was previously rejected by the Coalition twice.

JAMES FORSYTH: Watch out Ed! Your tax triumph might bite you on the backside 

So far, the Ed Miliband's gamble to target the Tories on tax appears to have paid off. It has put him on the front foot and given him an issue on which he is on the populist, and popular, side of the argument.

ISIS publicly executes two 'spies' and CRUCIFIES another as armed insurgents and young boys watch on 

Images have emerged showing two alleged spies kneeling on the ground as hundreds of masked insurgents surround them (right). Another picture shows a deceased man crucified to a post (left) in what is believed to be the Syrian city of Al-Bab. On Thursday, the extremist group announced it was holding another man who they claim posed as a foreign fighter to spy on them for Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad. The Israeli government and Muhammad Musallam's father denied the allegations against him.

Can you hypnotise yourself thin with a £4.99 app? Paul McKenna says yes, but doctors claim it's simply misleading and a 'gimmick'

McKenna says his £4.99 Hypnotic Gastric Band app is a 'surgery-free weight-loss solution' that can help convince the unconscious mind that a gastric band has been fitted - but doctors are unconvinced.

Lethal gas probe denied as 'too costly': Why officials refused to investigate concerns over fumes from landfill site blamed for death of seven-year-old boy

Zane was overcome by fumes while he slept in Chertsey, Surrey. But Spelthorne Borough Council's contaminated-land officer advised against testing the land on the grounds of cost.

Bobbi Kristina's organs 'are shutting down but Bobby Brown is determined to keep her alive, even if it's just on life support with no long-term prognosis'

I was very numb when I saw her," says Leolah Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown's aunt, in a sit-down interview with Atlanta's Fox 5 TV station.

Leolah, speaking on Tuesday afternoon to Fox 5's Aungelique Proctor, recalled how hard it was to see her niece when she first went to the hospital. And it has been a difficult time for the family as they stay gathered around Bobbi Kristina in Emory University Hospital. Bobbi Kristina has been on a ventilator since Jan. 31, when she was found face down in a bathtub.

Family sources told TMZ that the family has come to accept that Bobby Kristina is dying but her grieving relatives are still trying to figure out what to do.

A mega virus, supervolcano and artificial intelligence: The 12 most likely causes of the Apocalypse, according to scientists

A team from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute and the Global Challenges Foundation has come up with the first scientific assessment of the apocalyptic risks we face.

What ceasefire? Ukraine peace deal in peril as shelling continues from both sides and top diplomat releases images claiming to show Russia's role in escalating violence 

The body of a deceased pro-Russian soldier was been pictured in Donetsk - just hours before a ceasefire with Ukrainian government troops was enforced. Intense fighting across the region has left at least 26 dead in the last 24 hours. It includes a child killed at a nursery in a government-controlled town 25 miles from the front-line in eastern-Ukraine. The ceasefire began at midnight but there is no early indication as to whether either side in the conflict - that has claimed over 5,000 lives - is observing it.

They don't get paid until the doors are shut, have some very nasty nicknames and could probably punch your lights out: The secrets of flight attendants revealed

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They greet you with a smile, serve you seriously questionable food and take care of all those little in-flight problems. But there's a lot more to the average flight attendant than meets the eye.

Mother left her two children aged 10 and 13 home alone for THREE WEEKS while she went on a holiday abroad

The mother, from Salford, Greater Manchester, had left her children to attend a wedding in Nigeria. She has since been arrested on suspicion of neglect and her children taken into care.

Former HSBC boss Lord Green steps down from City role days after leaked files spark tax dodging row

Lord Green will quit a financial services industry body amid claims HSBC enabled tax dodging while he was in charge of the bank

The Tory peer quit as chairman of TheCityUK's advisory council, after it was revealed HSBC's Swiss arm had thousands of 'black' accounts used to stash millions and avoid tax while he was boss.

Inside Jamie Dornan's REAL sex dungeon: Fifty Shades star is stunned by visit to old church hall - but he did find a 'kink advisor' for bondage role 

It may be dominating the box office this weekend, but Fifty Shades Of Grey's depiction of sadomasochism has already been scorned as disappointingly tame.Yet nobody could accuse its star, Jamie Dornan, right, of not going the extra mile to make his performance as Christian Grey as accurate as possible. Dornan visited the exclusive Rascals Club in Vancouver, centre, which is held in a former church hall, top left. The club caters for people with a large number of different tastes, bottom left.

YouTube turns ten: Man who recorded company's first ever video at a zoo says he is stunned that his clip revolutionized online video

Yakov Lapitsky, now 34, shot an 18-second video of his friend and YouTube founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego,starting a site that now boasts a billion viewers on its 10th anniversary.

PETER HITCHENS: Why catching crooks is NOT the police's most important job 

Their job, the reason we hired them in 1829, was to prevent crime and disorder and they successfully did this for more than a century by patrolling on foot, writes PETER HITCHENS.

RACHEL JOHNSON: Whatever you're up to DSK, remember... a gentleman always asks 

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in the news and the dock in Lille, accused of 'aggravated pimping' or organising paid sex parties. What's wrong with a nice cheese and wine with the neighbours?

Horror crash motorways reopen after eight hours: Police clear chaos on M1 and 40-car pile-up on M40 after four men die in fog

Four people were killed and nearly 50 injured in two horror crashes that happened as families hit the roads for the half-term holidays on Saturday. The tragedies happened within an hour of each other and brought the motorway network in Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire to a virtual standstill.  A 40 vehicle pile-up in thick fog on the M40 in Oxfordshire left one man dead, another person fighting for life and nearly 50 injured. 

Body of British passenger recovered from wreckage of crashed AirAsia plane seven weeks after crash which killed 155

The body of British passenger Choi Chi-Man (pictured), 48, who died when an AirAsia flight crashed in the Java Sea in December has been found.

Scientists show cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk: Groundbreaking research blames 'skunk' for 1 in 4 of all new serious mental disorders 

Researchers at Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London, highlighted the dangers of skunk, which is four times as strong as cannabis smoked by previous generations.

St Andrews University forced to apologise to hundreds of hopeful students after sending them emails offering them a place by MISTAKE 

The 'congratulations' email was intended for a small group of applicants who had already been accepted to the Scottish university, pictured, where Prince William and Kate Middleton met as students.

Family finally receive their Christmas presents six weeks late - because bungling postmen sent their gifts to CAMBODIA instead of Cambridge

The battered cardboard parcel arrived at the Cary family's home last Saturday from friends in Paris - after it went on a 12,000 mile round trip from the South East Asian country.

Sheer show-offs: Look at us! We're the celebs who just adore the latest diaphanous designs... and now our fans can see what's under our frocks (or can they see right through us?) 

Year in, year out, sheer garments are sent down the catwalk, and in 2015 they're more popular than ever.So how should non-exhibitionist, cellulite-possessing women keep up with the trend this spring? Avoid black, it's ageing - white, pink or baby blue are fresher- LIZ JONES gives her Fashion Verdict.

No cure for dementia survivors? That has to change, says Bafta-winning actress and star of new Alzheimer's movie Julianne Moore

We want to bring more awareness to the disease itself and more research because right now it is a disease that has no survivors and no cure, writes JULIANNE MOORE.

Tweet? Big Bird from longest-running children's show Sesame Street shares his first-ever post on Twitter

Big Bird joined Twitter in October 2012, but with a simple one-word post, 'Tweet?' on Friday morning, he raised his follower count to more than 16,000.

Kenneth Noye is out to get me: Journalist who helped to expose Britain's most notorious gangster reveals chilling note that shows he's lusting for revenge.... just weeks before he walks free from jail

Wensley Clarkson is the only person to have written a book about the criminal activities of notorious gangster Kenneth Noye (left). He now fears the killer will be looking for revenge after he is released in a few weeks time. A note written by Noye on the inside of one of the books (inset) reads: 'Wensley Clarkson has published loads of lies about me in his books and caused untold damage. The tables will turn one day.' Noye was jailed in 2000 for stabbing 21-year-old Stephen Cameron (pictured with girlfriend Danielle, bottom right) in a road-rage incident on an M25 slip road near Swanley in Kent. 15 years earlier, he knifed policeman John Fordham (top right) to death but was later acquitted on the grounds of self-defence after convincing the jury he thought the undercover officer, dressed in black fatigues, was an underworld enemy.

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EXCLUSIVE: Heartbroken lover of ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller breaks silence to reveal his desperate bid to save her by pretending they were married... But says she DENIED it to Isis 'judge' and sealed her fate

US aid worker Kayla Mueller, 26, was captured by ISIS with her lover Omar Alkhani (pictured together, right). Two months after the abduction, Mr Alkhani was told he was free to go, but she was kept as a prized hostage. Speaking to MailOnline and the Mail On Sunday for the first time, he revealed he returned to Syria to convince ISIS they were married - as he believed this would save her life. But she did not confirm the cover story and this sealed her fate. Her death was confirmed by Barack Obama last week, pictured (left) is the building in Raqqa, Syria, where she is said to have been killed in a Jordanian airstrike.

The surgeon who'll fix your heartbeat with an egg whisk: Consultant who treated Tony Blair's heart 'flutter' pioneering new method to treat cardiac problems 

Renowned cardiologist Wyn Davies is pioneering a same-day 'heart detective' system to root out the cause of disorders that make the organ beat too slowly, too fast or out of sync.

Half UK's bank customers have less than two months' wages stashed away for a rainy day

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Half of British households would struggle if they faced a big emergency bill and would probably be forced to turn to credit, research shows today.

Barclaycard is the first to offer interest free credit for THREE YEARS with the launch of longest ever balance transfer card

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The move has put the provider firmly ahead of its competitors after months of steadily increasing interest-free promotions among credit card providers.

The movie stars kidnapped and drugged by North Korea... to create an insane communist Hollywood

Movie director Shin Sang-Ok and Choi Eun-Hee were once South Korea's golden couple (together, left inset). Choi (pictured alongside Marilyn Monroe in 1954) was considered the country's most glamorous actress. The pair were separately kidnapped by North Korea at the request of the country's then leader Kim Jong-il (right) and spent years being held against their will. As well as sitting through countless ideological lessons, they were charged with getting North Korea's film industry off the ground, with Shin producing hit cult film Pulgasari (poster inset) while in captivity. Their incredible ordeal ended when they escaped their guards while on a trip to Vienna in 1986.

French finally admit you must speak English to be a real leader 

ENA, the elite National School of Administration in Strasbourg, which produces the French governing class, is to make mastery of English a compulsory rule of entry from 2018.

Get out of the goove! Now Radio 1 bans Madonna, 56, for being 'irrelevant and old' for its teenage listeners 

She has dominated the airwaves during 30 years as a chart-topper, but now Radio 1 has decided that Madonna is an immaterial girl and just too old for its teenage listeners.

HEALTH NOTES: More than 10 per cent of couples say snoring ruins their sex life

More than one in ten couples say snoring has had an impact on their relationship, either because they are too tired to have sex or find their partner's snoring a turn-off, a new study has revealed.

ASK DR ELLIE: Naomi Campbell should not be sneered at for wearing surgical mask on the Eurostar

The supermodel's apparent paranoia was justified. Face masks are worn in many parts of the world to protect fellow workers and commuters, writes DR ELLIE CANNON.

Selfie-loving councillor Karen Danczuk reveals winning bidder for a Valentine's Day date with her has to cancel because they have other plans tonight

The winner of the Valentine's Day date with Rochdale councillor Karen Danczuk, 31, must have had a better offer as he rescheduled the night-out until next month. The mother-of-two, married to Labour MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk, has remained tight-lipped about the highest bid, but earlier revealed that someone offered to pay £10,300 for the privilege. The 'Queen of the selfie' had even gone shopping especially for Valentine's Day underwear and posted a racy picture of herself in a red corset (left). She told her 37,000 followers she would be having a bath and champagne tonight instead.

'The truth is still out there': Outgoing top Obama aide John Podesta reveals his biggest regret from 2014 was his failure to disclose UFO files

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, Counselor to the President John Podesta speaks in Washington. Podesta has built a reputation for his work to salvage the second terms of two presidents. Now heís ducking out of the White House to help engineer the election of a third. Podesta, 66, served as Bill Clintonís final White House chief of staff in the 1990s and is in the last days of a year-long stint as counselor to President Barack Obama. His next act will be steering Hillary Rodham Clintonís expected 2016 campaign.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

On Friday, Podesta marked the conclusion of his year-long stint at the White House by listing on Twitter his top 10 triumphs and failures, chief among them keeping Americans in the dark about aliens.

Police stopped millionaire celebrity finance guru engaged in a sex act at the wheel of his £300,000 Lamborghini

Greg Secker, 39, from Oxshott, Leatherhead, a celebrity finance guru and multi-millionaire was caught by police in a sex act while driving his £300,000 Lamborghini Aventador.

Wolf of Wall Street broker being divorced by wife of 15 DAYS after she 'caught him in bed with socialite wearing her clothes'

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Barry Gesser, one of Jordan Belfort's friends who was consulted for the hit Hollywood movie, was allegedly in bed with socialite Dori Cooperman when wife Stacey Alysson entered their LA home.

SUPERHERO vision: Contact lenses magnify words THREE-FOLD and are controlled by winking

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An inventor from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne said the lenses that when paired with special glasses, the lenses could help people with macular degeneration.

50 Shades of Deja Vu: From Pretty Woman to Bridget Jones, how the hotly anticipated bondage film mirrors scenes from a long line other chick flicks 

Fifty Shades Of Grey, the most spectacularly hyped film of the past decade, is released in cinemas today. But as CLAUDIA CONNELL reveals, we have seen everything that happens before.

Anger as David Walliams lampoons Royals in new book: Comic Relief novel depicts Philip as a drunk and Charles suggesting the Queen needs a stairlift

A children's book written for Comic Relief has come under fire for lampooning the Queen and depicting Prince Philip as a drunkard. The Queen's Orang-Utan, by Little Britain star David Walliams, was written especially for the charity, with at least £3 from each sale going towards the fund. But it has been branded 'well-intentioned but misjudged' by Royal watchers due to its depictions of the Queen and members of her family.

BLACK DOG: Unlikely hero for 'Tory boy' Nick

BLACK DOG: After inflicting two blows on Ed Miliband, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson, taunted by Labour as 'Tory boy', swung into reverse gear yesterday.

Mail On Sunday in running for 13 top awards: Newspaper nominated in prestigious Press Awards 

The Mail on Sunday has scooped a magnificent 13 nominations in this year's Press Awards. The paper is shortlisted as Newspaper of the Year for its startling exclusives.

The workshy French ban 7-day-a-week bakery boss: Baguette maker says he will lose £185,000 a year and be forced to lay off some of his 22 staff 

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Stephane Cazenave, France's top baguette baker, has attacked his country's attitude to work after he was ordered to stop opening his shop seven days a week.

Mother 'burned her three children to death and rang their father so she could tell him "Listen to their screams - they won't survive" after he demanded custody in Belgium'

Madysson, six, Abbygail, four, and Oumy, two, died in the blaze at their home in the small town of Lennik, Belgium. Thioro Mbow, 35, allegedly killed her children in an arson attack after locking them in a shed.

A slimming club membership, an extortionate restaurant bill and a date who got ARRESTED! Seven women remember their worst ever Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day doesn't always go to plan but for seven women, the day of love turned into a real disaster courtesy of badly chosen presents, food poisoning and a drunken fist fight.

'I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me': Killer's confession to deputy after he murdered 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle as possible motive is revealed for first time

Eddie Ray Routh confessed in jail to gunning down famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend at a Texas rifle range because they would not talk to him, a court heard on Friday.

Extremist group Boko Haram in fierce clashes with Nigerian troops during fresh assault on town

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who is claiming responsibility for kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls.
Abubakar Shekau who calls himself the "Emir" of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has spoken of his aim to create a Caliphate in Africa like that of ISIL in Syria and Iraq.




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Violence broke out after scores of militants travelling in convoy struck Gombe in north east Nigeria on Saturday morning. They clashed with Nigerian troops backed up by fighter jets.

This is what a police station looks like in 2015: No, they're not on a break from the beat. These juice-sipping PCs are manning the replacements for shut-down police stations at local Planet Organic and Costa

Hundreds of police stations have closed in the wake of budget cuts, including one in Muswell Hill, north London. To combat this a 'police contact point' has been opened in a local Planet Organic Store. But officers have no desk, no way of logging on to the police national computer and no official forms. On two evenings, no offences were reported to the officers (right) and only one person approached them. Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone announced the opening as 'great news', saying she is 'delighted' (bottom). A PC was also seen on duty at a Costa coffee shop (left) in Leytonstone, east London, with a few leaflets to give to anyone who approached him - but no one did.

Baby born seven weeks early is one of the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant

Born nearly seven weeks early, Oliver became one of the youngest heart transplant recipients at Phoenix Children's Hospital last month.

The £50BILLION price of failed families: Cost of relationship breakdowns to the taxpayer surges 25% in just five years 

A study found the cost of family breakdown has shot up by more than £10 billion a year since 2009, with the estimated cost for this year put at £47.31bn.

Lloyds boss to pick up a £7million bonus funded by taxpayers... and that's on top of his £4million pay packet

Lloyds is expected to rush out details of the bumper shares windfall for chief executive Antonio Horta Osorio when it publishes its annual results at the end of the month.

EXCLUSIVE: Pictured for the first time: The British businessman set to have a hysterectomy after discovering he has a WOMB as well as normal male organs

Business manager Duane Walters, 37, is set to make UK medical history within the next six weeks when he becomes the first British male to undergo a hysterectomy.

Shocking moment two Irish travellers brutally assaulted man on night out because they wrongly believed he'd insulted their heritage

Gerald and Michael Connors, 20 and 18 respectively, were out drinking in Bristol in the afternoon when they claim to have been verbally abused by someone disrespecting their culture. Hours later the brothers attacked a group of men they saw standing outside a bar in what police believe to be a case of mistaken identity.

Parents of James Foley come out against Obama administration in the wake of their son's brutal beheading at the hands of ISIS  

Diane and John Foley have said in an interview that they don't believe the White House was very good about communicating with them after their son James was kidnapped.

Family's anger as killer Noye who murdered man in road-rage attack may be freed within weeks

Noye, now 67, was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in a road rage attack four years earlier. But after just 15 he has been granted a parole hearing.

Captain of Hong Kong ferry found guilty of manslaughter over 2012 sinking which left 39 dead - including one British child 

Lai Sai-ming, captain of a ferry which collided with a pleasure cruiser carrying partygoers in Hong Kong, was also found guilty of endangering the safety of others at sea after a 60 day trial.

Hidden horror of William's elephant sanctuary: Plea to Prince to cancel trip to Chinese park... where animals are forced to perform degrading tricks and have tusks sawn off

The Prince, a keen conservationist, is due to round off a solo trip to Japan and China next month with a visit to Wild Elephant Valley in Xishuangbanna. The popular tourist attraction set in a nature reserve is home to some of China's last remaining wild elephants. William, who is patron of the Tusk wildlife charity, will also see the reserve's Wild Elephant Walkway, which has been credited with helping to double the wild elephant population in China's Yunnan province in the past two decades. What the Prince may not realise, however, is that just 400 yards away, captive elephants are forced to perform to thousands of visitors a day in a shoddy arena that draws crowds from across China.

The proof IS in the pudding! Popular U.S. 'gender reveal' parties where parents find out baby's sex by cutting into blue or pink cakes arrive in the UK

British reality TV star Dan Osborne and his pregnant girlfriend Jacqueline Jossa were among the first to get it on the trend, sharing photographs of the pink sponge while told them to expect a daughter.

Print out your photos or risk losing them, warns Google boss

Dr Vinton Cerf, vice president of Google, warned that as operating systems and software get upgraded, documents and images stored using older technology are becoming increasingly inaccessible.

Struggling to sell your home? Raffle it, throw in the car or maybe ten rare sheep - and other unusual property sale tactics...

Gary Smith cartoon Property Mail 13/02/15 about ways to sell a house, showing ebay, win a house tombola & a house for sale

This might not be everyone's idea of a dream home, but for only £1,000 it could be the bargain of the century - providing Lady Luck is smiling on you.

Plague of the SUPER-RATS: Fears of rampant infestation as councils slash pest control budgets by a quarter 

Pest control budgets have been slashed by a quarter by local authorities, prompting expert warnings of a plague of 'super-rats' that will outnumber humans two to one by next year.

Bullying undertaker sacked 64-year-old woman after telling staff he replaced her with a 'fit young blonde'

Jon Christophers, who runs family firm F Christophers and Son Ltd in Devon, said he would get rid of 64-year-old grandmother Rozamund Perrin 'because he wanted someone younger'.

Woman who couldn't have sex gets artificial vagina made from PIG intestine

The woman had been sent for treatment at the University Hospital in the Czech town of Plzen after her doctor found she was so narrow internally it was impossible to carry out an examination.

Disney 'denies digitally reducing waist of Downton Abbey's Lily James in Cinderella film'

Walt Disney Pictures has reportedly denied accusations of digitally altering Lily James' (seen left in film and right at film premier) waist to make it look smaller in the new Cinderella film. After the latest trailer for the live-action feature was released last month, many people took to Twitter with comments about the minuscule size of the actress, and even suggested photoshop had been employed to achieve the look. 'I have a problem with the fact that Cinderella is photoshopped to have the tiniest waist I've ever seen,' tweeted @vixennicks.

That must be the fertility clinic! Aerial view of health centre shows it's shaped just like a spread-eagled man (complete with manhood)

Locals believe the Newmarket Health Centre in Ontario got its distinctive shape by accident, with a series of small extensions being added to the original design.

'We pray for Oscar, we love Oscar, we are proud of Oscar': Blade runner's granny speaks out in his defence on anniversary of Valentine's Day killing of girlfriend Reeva

Grandmother Gerti Pistorious has spoken in defence of her beloved grandson, who is serving a five year sentence in one of South Africa's most notorious jails for shooting his girlfriend dead.

Lawyer slams 'backstage manoeuvre' to oust judge from retrial of Sun journalists 

Mr Justice Sweeney, pictured, denied that Judge Richard Marks had been replaced for the retrial of four Sun journalists accused of paying public officials to 'improve the prospect of conviction'.

Jailed, groom in sham wedding who couldn't remember bride's name: Pakistani national admits he'd only communicated with Hungarian wife-to-be by laptop

Zubair Khan, 28, (pictured) forgot the name of his future wife Beata Szilagyi, 33, from Hungary. The Pakistani national turned to a sham marriage plot as his student visa was about to expire.

Council spends thousands on 'spectacular' 20ft sculpture of a dead tree - despite facing £42million cuts 

The six-metre iron sculpture, called 'The Tree of Life', was erected in Kirkby town centre in Merseyside after supermarket giant Tesco pulled out of plans for a new store for the town.

The door was open you know! The moment survival expert Bear Grylls smashed through This Morning window on a rope before television interview

The survival expert smashed his way into the ITV studios (pictured left and right) on London's South Bank ahead of his interview on the This Morning sofa with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford (inset) yesterday. He made the dramatic appearance onto set to promote his new show, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, which starts next week. He was seen travelling up the River Thames in an inflatable craft before running along the south bank, climbing up a rope and smashing into the set through a window pane.

Forget The Ledbury and Le Gavroche, this train carriage burger shack has been crowned the best place to eat in London

Three school pals who run Caboose restaurant in Brick Lane, serving £5 street food, were left astonished after their eaterie was voted the best in London by Trip Advisor users.

Dinner is coming! Epic 15-course Game of Thrones menu featuring 'dragon's eggs' and honey roast locusts arrives in London (but would the Lannisters eat it?)

Other dishes on the menu, which will be served at the Andaz Hotel in London's Liverpool Street until Monday, include roast suckling pig, poached veal tongue and spiced pigeon pie.

Land Rover driver who caused a horror crash which orphaned a four-year-old boy is jailed for one year 

Debra Weston, 41, pictured, was jailed today at Peterborough Crown Court after she admitted careless driving causing the death of Stephen Durber and his wife Samantha in August 2013.

Inside the Chinese fur farms which breed 'raccoon dogs' in tiny cages and skin them alive to make luxury coats sold in the West

Animal rights activists infiltrated two farms and a market near Beijing, each of which had more than 300 'raccoon dogs' (left), a canine species distantly related to domestic pets. They secretly filmed the trade after pretending to be potential buyers from Europe and their video shows a grinning worker ripping fur up around a live animal's head after stunning it with two metal probes hooked up to a car battery (top right). Fur farming was banned in Britain in 2000 but is largely unrestricted in China, which produces a stream of pelts (bottom right) for export across the world.

Growing up recluse: The kids who 'never' left their tiny NYC home for 14 years - and learned about the world by watching 5,000 movies

PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 23:  Director Crystal Moselle (C) with Mukunda Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Bhagavan Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo and Krsna Angulo from "The Wolfpack" pose for a portrait at the Village at the Lift Presented by McDonald's McCafe during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015 in Park City, Utah.  (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

The Angulo siblings - six brothers (pictured) and one sister - lived with their parents in a 4-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Their father kept the only key and the door was always locked.

Remembering a city bombed to near-oblivion: Thousands form human chain for peace on 70th anniversary of bombing raid on Dresden that killed 25,000

10,000 people joined hands across the Eibe river (pictured) to symbolise peace in Dresden. In recent years, neo-Nazi's have descended on the city on February 13 to protest against Islam.

How a trendy gluten-free diet could make you FAT: Specialist food is packed with extra sugar and calories, expert warns 

Dr Sally Norton, an NHS weight-loss expert, said for those with coeliac disease, gluten-free diets are not only healthier, but essential. But for those who fear they're intolerant, the diet is not advised.

Forget GIFs - now you can YOYO: Tool lets you rewind and fast-forward short clips

YoYo was created by Mehmet Ali Sabuncuoglu from Istanbul. The web-based tool lets users fast-forward and rewind GIFs (example pictured) taken from the web.

Three gorgeous, pouting, selfie-loving sisters. No, it's not Kim, Khloe and Kourtney... it's Lebanon's answer to the Kardashians who will star in new TV show

A Lebanese TV station has announced they will launch a fly-on-the-wall prgramme, called The Sisters about Nadine, right, Alice, centre, and Farah Abdel Aziz, left, charting their daily lives in Beirut. The sisters have long been compared to Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian due to their glamorous lifestyles and love and fashion and have a rising profile in Lebanon thanks to their daily Instagram fashion blog.

'Groundhog day' bug hits Twitter: Users complain of flaw that resends notifications and messages from last 24 hours

The Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced it's initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England. 
Twitter went public on the NYSE opening at USD 26 per share, valuing the company's worth at an estimated USD 18 billion.  



LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07:  In this photo illustration, 
(Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Hundreds of users have taken to the social network to complain of the bug, which shows them all their notifications and can also resend direct messages.

Revealed: How Alex Salmond once appeared in an obscure Pakistani soap opera as a Scottish ghost

It claimed that Salmond, then an MP, was due to star as a ghost in a Bollywood soap opera called The Castle, produced by SNP candidate Tasmina Sheikh.

The former SNP leader, who is standing for Parliament in May, made a brief cameo appearance in 'The Castle' - a 15 part romantic thriller partly filmed in a Scottish castle near Duns in the Borders.

At least 19 people killed and 60 injured in Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a Pakistan mosque 

The radical Sunni Islamists broke in to the mosque in Peshawar - close to the Afghan border - during Friday prayers this afternoon and fired automatic weapons at random, local police said.

The Oscar for outstanding poshness goes to... Eddie Redmayne! How the Brit tipped to land an Academy Award next week is even more privileged than you think

Award-winning actor Eddie Redmayne is tipped for Oscar success next week but admits his life has been 'insanely privileged' after attending Eton public school alongside Prince William.

My wonky sanctuary: Millionaire creates stunning Hobbit-like hideaway where nothing is straight 

Set against the slate-grey mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales, it's not surprising so many people do a double-take when they first see the house of millionaire businessman Peter Saunders (right). The property, called Cynefin, took three years to create and features bends and soft walls rather than right angles. Open the front door and you find a rounded reception hall, with a superb Welsh ash staircase leading up to a gallery. The ground floor is built into the natural terrain, so the living room area is on a split level, with French windows opening on to terraces from which there are gorgeous views.

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Pictured: The creepy drawings of gangster Reggie Kray while in prison - including half-naked women and Bruce Lee

During his time behind bars, the criminal (top left) completed sinister and erotic pencil drawings of naked women and eyeballs, the finished works only revealed for the first time recently before going on sale at auction. Kray is thought to have completed the drawings in 1999, a year before his release. He was allowed to leave the prison by the then Home Secretary Jack Straw due to deteriorating health.

Reunited with his family after 411 days in an Egyptian jail: Al Jazeera journalist celebrates with his wife and children after release on bail 

Pictures emerged of Egyptian Baher Mohammed smiling with his wife, Jehan, and their three children. Mohammed was released on Friday, with Canadian colleague Mohamed Fahmy.

Russian holiday company offering guided tank-tours of war-torn Ukraine in radical shift from their usual 'health orientated trips'

Members of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic gather near an armoured vehicle destroyed during battles with the Ukrainian armed forces in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (UKRAINE - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)

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Land of the giants! Huge crowds gather in Perth to watch 11METRE tall marionettes drinking out of fire trucks... and going to the toilet in the middle of the street

The 11-metre tall Diver Giant and his six-metre tall companion, Little Girl Giant, attracted an audience of 400,000 as they went about their daily activities in Perth's CBD on Saturday.

The View-Master is back! Google launches £20 virtual reality device for kids that works with a smartphone

Mattel and Google unveiled the new View-Master in New York, which will will use Google Cardboard technology for 3D scenes when it goes on sale in autumn.

It's all aboard the love train to When Harry Met Salisbury! Rail firm has some Valentine's Day fun with passengers

For one day only South West Trains has offered its customers the chance to go to Waterlove (top right), Breakfast at Twickenham, Rich (in love) Mond, Romsey and Juliet and Truly, Madly, Eastleigh. The train operator asked its customers and employees to send their suggestions, which also included Darling Dorking (bottom right), Wonderful Woking (bottom left), Hampton Courting and Strawberries and Champagne Hill. The romantic gesture has had a huge reaction on social media, with many commuters taking to Twitter to share their pictures of the signs.

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Rio's other big carnival: Annual dog parade rivals world-famous Mardi Gras celebration for elaborate costumes

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More than 100 decked-out dogs got in on the Carnival spirit in Rio de Janiero's annual pet parade in Brazil. From superheroes and Disney characters, to ladybirds and clowns, The Blacao - a play on the word for street party, 'bloco,' and dog, or 'cao'- is one of nearly 500 raucous street parties that stop traffic in the run up to the main Carnival.

I know I said 'til death do us part but this is ridiculous! Thai newlyweds lie in a COFFIN during ceremony which is meant to bring them good luck 

Ten couples took part in the unusual mass ceremony, believed to bring true love, prosperity and protection from harm, at a temple on the outskirts of Bangkok today.

Russian holiday company offering guided tank-tours of war-torn Ukraine in radical shift from their usual 'health orientated trips'

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A fierce and bloody battle between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces continues, but Moscow-based Megapolis Kurort believes they can cash in on the unrest.

Can this app turn you into a supermodel? New virtual make-up technology promises to transform you into Tyra Banks, Gisele Bundchen and Cara Delevingne 

The new app, called YouCam Makeup, lets users virtually transform into their favourite models by digitally tweaking their features and applying Spring's trendiest make-up looks.

Single parent - and sexual submissive: One woman's real-life Fifty Shades of Grey experience and how it helped heal her broken heart

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