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Malawi's albino children hunted as body parts used in magic rituals

These are the albino men and women put under police and army protection in a desperate bid to stop the cruel East African black market trade of their body parts. read


Union's sinister hold over Ed Miliband

An analysis carried out by the Mail lays bare the extraordinary stranglehold Unite's firebrand leader 'Red' Len McCluskey has on Ed Miliband and the Labour Party. read


Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps accused of doctoring Wikipedia pages 

Tory party chairman Grant Shapps, pictured, has dismissed the claims suggesting they form part of 'an extreme dirty tricks campaign' by his political opponents who do not want to discuss policy. read


Tesco set to announce £5bn loss, one of biggest in British history

Tesco is expected to report a ‘horror show’ loss of anything between £3billion and £5billion today, which would be the biggest in its 97 year history and reflects a shift in shopping habits. read


London trader 'helped to trigger £500bn crash from semi'

Navinder Singh Sarao, 37, is accused of making £27 million using a computer programme that was able to 'spoof' the stock market on Wall Street from this suburban semi-detached house in Hounslow, West London. read


40 money-saving tricks everyone needs to know

Here Money Mail looks at 40 ways you can save money. read


Nursing chiefs on £400k as frontline staff endures pay freeze

Health minister Jeremy Hunt, pictured, has vowed to investigate the payments where three senior nurses have received pay and pension packages of between £200,000 and £400,000. read


RSPCA investigates 160k animal cruelty cases in 2014

More than 20,000 of the complaints involved alleged deliberate and often violent cruelty to animals, the RSPCA said. Examples include a puppy thrown and kicked, and a dog found shot in the head. read


Surprise, surprise...Iraq War report is delayed AGAIN: Families' disgust as publication is pushed back to 2016 

Sir John Chilcot's inquiry began in 2009 and has cost the taxpayer almost £10million. Bereaved families say the delay is so key figures like Tony Blair can rebut the inquiry's findings. read


Bosses are urged to harness talents of older workers: Millions of job vacancies set to go unfulfilled if companies continue to ignore skills of over-50s 

The report estimates that by 2022 there could be 7.5 million jobs unfilled, and that companies need to start offering more flexible hours and IT training for older workers so they stay in work for longer. read


Employees who have sex two or three times a week earn more 

Employees who have sex two or three times a week earn 4.5 per cent more than those who have sex less often, according to a study by Anglia Ruskin University which looked at 7,500 responses. read


EasyJet charges £10 to prove flight are cancelled to insurers

The charge came to light when hard-hit easyJet customers sought to claim money back from travel insurers after French air-traffic strikes affected flights earlier this month. read


Son had father's ex-lover killed because of sexual assault claims

Justin Robertson was today convicted of murdering Pennie Davis in the New Forest after her ex-lover's son asked him to kill her because she had accused him of sexual assault. read


Rescuers describe moment they confronted migrant ship captain

Doctor Giuseppe Pomilla of the Order of Malta, said he was haunted by the sea of 'red eyes' from dead bodies as he attempted to rescue those in the migrant boat which overturned south of Lampedusa. read


Ukip candidate apologises for mocking Mediterranean refugees

Peter Endean (left), who is standing for Nigel Farage's party in council elections, re-tweeted an image with a caption that said: 'Labour's new floating voters. Coming to a country near you soon'. read


Tony Abbott urges EU to adopt their tough immigration policies

Tony Abbott, whose government introduced a military-led operation to turn back boats carrying asylum-seekers before they reach Australia, said harsh measures are the only way to stop deaths. read


Christian migrants reveal how they fled Libya to escape ISIS

Christian migrants from Africa (pictured) have spoken of making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to escape beheading from Islamic State fanatics in Libya. read


Ed Miliband demands rescue missions to save fleeing migrants

The Labour leader, speaking in Manchester today, said it was unacceptable to abandon thousands of immigrants boarding makeshift boats in Africa in the hope of making it to Europe. read


Italian police arrest crew of latest migrant boat heading for Europe

The crew of the luxury yacht were identified through the selfies and other photos their Syrian and Palestinian passengers had taken as the boat attempted to reach Europe. read


Kurdish Peshmerga's 'foreign legion' who fight ISIS with them

Showing off their tattoos, play fighting and relaxing in their camp in north Syria, the international fighting force appear incredibly relaxed - despite fighting on the frontline against the Islamic State terror group. read


Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'seriously wounded in coalition air strike'

An Iraqi source said that he was wounded by an attack from the US-led coalition while travelling in a three-car convoy in March in Nineveh, Iraq. read


Muslim men 'set up stall on Oxford Street and handed out ISIS propaganda'

Shah Jaha Khan, 62, and Ibrahim Anderson, 38, both from Luton appeared at Westminster Magistrates accused of inviting support for a banned organisation by handing out leaflets on Oxford Street. read


Police arrest boys on suspicion of preparing to join terrorists in Syria

The homes of the teenagers and a 39-year-old man, all from Coventry, West Midlands, were raided by West MIdlands Counter Terrorism Unit officers today (its boss, Sue Southern, pictured). read


Birmingham teachers accused of beating boy for mistakes as he recited Koran

Mohammed Waqar, 23, and Mohammed Siddique, 60, from Tyseley, are accused of assaulting the youngster at the UKIM Jamia Mosque in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. read


Boris Johnson kissed by woman on South Thanet campaign trail

The London Mayor was given a big kiss on his right cheek by a particularly enthusiastic voter yesterday as he helped colleagues campaign in Ramsgate. read


Boris Johnson urges UKIP supporters to vote Tory to avoid Labour government

Boris Johnson last night urged Ukip voters to 'swing behind the Conservatives' to avoid the 'nightmare' of a 'backward-looking Labour government' propped up by an 'even more Left-wing' SNP. read


Homeowners could face interest rise if Ed Miliband is propped up by SNP

Morgan Stanley said the prospect of a Labour government reliant on the Scottish Nationalists would create the ‘greatest uncertainty’and probably lead to an ‘earlier Bank Rate hike. read


Iain Duncan Smith attacks Ed Miliband's 'politics of hate and envy'

The Work and Pensions Secretary (pictured) said Ed Miliband was standing on 'the most Left-wing platform since Michael Foot' and was 'peddling lies' about the Government's record. read


Ed Miliband WILL forge 'alliance' with the SNP, Labour's David Lammy admits

David Lammy, who is standing for London Mayor, said Labour would 'forge common alliance with parties that you can actually do business with, and the SNP must be part of that story'. read


Ian McKellen weighs in for Ed Miliband by ANDREW PIERCE

Oscar-nominated actor Sir Ian McKellen yesterday said he was impressed by the Labour party's manifesto for lesbian, gay and transgender people, writes ANDREW PIERCE. read


Miriam Clegg reveals secret life as a Nigella Lawson-style food blogger

Nick Clegg's glamorous wife revealed that for the past three years she has developed a secret cookery website with her three children providing recipes for working mums. read


Madonna posts Instagram tribute to Margaret Thatcher - then deletes it moments later after receiving barrage of abuse from her gay fanbase

The superstar distracted from controversy with cleavage rather than admit to the faux-pas. read


Nicola Sturgeon rounds on John Major after SNP danger to UK speech

The SNP leader hit back at the former Tory Prime Minister who today claimed the SNP would use any power they wield in Westminster after the election to further their dream of independence. read


Former PM John Major was as polite as a cannibal's butler says QUENTIN LETTS

Sir John Major was a retro act even 20 years ago. Hearing him make a speech now is like taking a ride in a 1950s Vanden-Plas Princess saloon, writes QUENTIN LETTS. read


Ed Miliband says NO to a second Scottish independence referendum

The Labour leader's intervention came as the former prime minister John Major warned that the SNP was 'merely waiting for a good excuse to put separation back on the agenda'. read


Nigel Farage denies Ukip's manifesto is racist with 'fully black person' comment

The Ukip leader made the remarks after a furious row erupted last week when he was asked to justify the lack of black and Asian faces in the party's manifesto. read


Labour seize 1m food bank figures but Tories attack 'unverified' numbers 

Iain Duncan Smith, pictured, countered the growing foodbank numbers by suggesting 'the best way to help families provide for themselves is to cut taxes and get more people into work. read


David Cameron promises extra 600,000 free child care places

David Cameron will today announce the £350 million scheme. He said he will pay for the additional places by cutting tax relief on pension contributions for those earning more than £150,000. read


The paranoid final hours of Robin Williams

The 63-year-old, pictured with his wife, had been diagnosed with Parkinson's but in his final 24 hours was convinced something else was wrong and frantically began looking up drugs online. read


Toxic air cases in planes rise to 167 in four months

The figures have re-opened the debate about prolonged exposure to the air in planes. It follows a coroner's warning after initial investigations into the death of British Airways pilot Richard Westgate. read


Ryanair passengers at Manchester Airport walk into UK without passports being checked

Holidaymakers onboard the delayed from Madrid to Manchester had been due to land at 11.25pm on Friday. But by the time they finally arrived three hours later, they found an empty arrivals hall. read


Jamelia slammed for plus-sizes comment on Loose Women

Loose Women panellist Jamelia has sparked controversy after saying shops shouldn't stock plus size clothes, stating: 'I do not think it's right to facilitate people living an unhealthy lifestyle.' read


Sex offending may be in our genes but that won't help us prevent it

Dr Mairi Levitt from Lancaster University argues that the genes that make up who we are, and the environments in which we are raised cannot be considered independently of each other. read


Our cars were written off while parked on the drive, so why are insurers still arguing?

A mum and her teenage son have faced a year-long battle with insurers after their cars were written off while parked on their own driveway. read


Mike Holpin 'feckless father of 40' can't keep hands off latest lover

Diane Morris, 46, is engaged to Mike Holpin, a 56-year-old from south Wales who has shamelessly boasted of having children with 20 different women. read


Doctors charged with manslaughter over death of primary school teacher

Frances Cappuccini, 30, affectionately called 'Mrs Coffee' by pupils because of her surname, died from a haemorrhage after giving birth to her second son Giacomo in Kent on October 9, 2012. read


Sisters lose control of mother's fortune because they hate each other

The hostility between the women, 61 and 58 meant they would never be able to make rational decisions about how to deal with their 97-year-old mother's £600,000 house, a judge said. read


Tube commuter hit by train in the head dies in hospital

John Burgess, 27, from Dulwich, south London, died in hospital three days after he was hit on the head by a Northern Line train as he bent down to pick up his bags on April 10. read


Primary school kids are failing to reach healthy fitness levels

Fit For Sport, which runs holiday camps and after school clubs across the UK, said parents and schools must do more to increase children's activity levels to ensure they stay healthy. read


Goldman Sachs banker Sonia Pereiro-Mendez reaches £1m settlement in sexism row

Sonia Pereiro-Mendez took the investment firm to a tribunal over allegations of sex and maternity discrimination but came to a resolution with the firm. The bank refused to reveal the value of the settlement. read


Prince William finishes training in time for Kate Middleton royal baby birth

Until today the second in line to the throne, who is a trainee pilot with the East Anglia Air Ambulance in Norfolk, had been expected to still be working around the time his wife is expecting their new baby. read


Model Matthew Riches 'spiked woman's drink at Kensington Roof Gardens'

Matthew Riches, 29, from Epsom, Surrey, is accused of dropping the drug into a clubber's drink so he could have sex with her while on a night out at the Roof Gardens Kensington last year. read


Councillor Joe O'Riordan guilty of trying to stab his wife to death over postman affair

Joseph O'Riordan, 74, has been convicted of attempted murder after stabbing his wife Amanda, 47, nine times with a kitchen knife at the home they shared in Polegate, East Sussex. read


Diabetes drug could hold back Alzheimer's

More than 200 men and women in their 50s from across the country will be recruited for the year-long, £5million exercise, during which their brains will be scanned and their memory tested. read


Solar power considered by 60% of households as energy bills rise

The demand has been fuelled by 'rent-a-roof' schemes, whereby companies install solar panels free in return for pocketing payments for surplus energy fed back into the National Grid. read


Pret A Manger staff can give free coffees to customers they fancy

Instead of a loyalty card, Pret runs a system giving staff the opportunity to hand out free coffees to their favourite or most loyal customers. read


Google now lets you download your entire search history

The California-based company has rolled out a feature which exports all of your searches to Google Drive in a ZIP archive, with files divided by year and quarter. read


Blogger Haddie Gladwell with bowel disease speaks about life with an ostomy bag

Hattie Gladwell, 19, from West Sussex, was fitted with an ostomy bag after undergoing emergency surgery for ulcerative colitis. Now she blogs about her experiences of living life with the bag. read


Men are more competitive than women in sport, claims US study

Scientists at Grand Valley State University in Michigan studied elite runners and found that women tend to prioritise other aspects of their lives like academic studies. read


Daughter of £1.2m lottery winners stole £22k from nursery in West Yorkshire

Samantha Crossland, 30, used to run Child's Play Day Nursery in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, but left the business close to collapse after admitting taking the money from payments made by kids' parents. read


Children arrested over hundreds of Welsh wildfires: Boy, 11, among five held after 623 incidents in one month 

One boy, 11 years old, has been arrested and five children questioned over the 623 fires which have raged across 600 acres of woodland in South Wales over the last month alone. read


Man bought tickets to see 1D in Cardiff but booked flights to Ireland

Jake Boys, 19, of Hailsham, East Sussex, surprised partner Emily-Victoria Canham, 18, by telling her they would fly to see One Direction at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. read


Driver on M58 blocks off motorist trying to beat traffic by undertaking

Traffic had started to build up on the M58 around Switch Island on Merseyside, when a Mercedes tried to beat the jam by undertaking but was repeatedly blocked by another driver. read


All-nighters before exams 'don't work' as sleep is vital to memory

Scientists at Brandeis University, Massachusetts believe that when memory neurons are activated and begin converting short-term memory to long-term , a person needs to sleep to remember what they've learned. read


Two cups of coffee a day can HALVE the risk of breast cancer returning

Caffeine in coffee causes cancer cells to grow more slowly and die more frequently, and can boost the effects of the drug tamoxifen, researchers from Lundt University and Bristol University found. read


David Bulman repeatedly punched his wife in the face for not ironing

David Bulman, 55, left his wife with a black eye after repeatedly punching her in the face outside their home in Clevedon, North Somerset. He was given a 12-month community order. read


CBBC's Carl Beatson-Asiedu's 'nightclub killer fled to Nigeria on brother's passport'

Jeffrey Okafor, 24, of East Dulwich, south east London, is accused of stabbing Carl Beatson-Asiedu to death outside a nightclub in the summer of 2009. read


Chloe Knapton 'unable to smile' after she was glassed by stranger in traffic jam

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Chloe Knapton, 21, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was forced to undergo surgery after a man shattered her car window with a bottle. read


Footage showing 'Arsenal fans singing homophobic chant about Ashley Cole to a Lily Allen song' being assessed by police

Metropolitan police are assessing footage which appears to show Arsenal fans singing a homophobic chant about Ashley Cole. It was apparently taken before the FA Cup final against Reading. read


Toxic 'diet pills' that killed Eloise Parry can be bought online for 70p

The most recent victim of the chemical 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) is Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, pictured, from Shrewsbury. She bought it online to slim down – despite being a normal weight. read


Jewish-Saudi woman strip-searched at Detroit airport settles lawsuit

The government said on Tuesday they will give Shoshana Hebshi $40,000 for being unfairly strip searched on the anniversary or the 9/11 attacks at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. read


Murderer boasts on Facebook of winning hundreds of pounds on football bets

Ricky Oldroyd is serving a life sentence for stabbing a 50-year-old man in the back in 2011 and is currently housed at HMP Gartree in Leicestershire. read


QUADRUPLE rainbow snapped by Long Island commuter after thunderstorms

The rare formation, formed of two double rainbows, appeared over a commuter rail station on Long Island early Tuesday and was snapped by fashion entrepreneur Amanda Curtis. read


Graeme Finlay beat elderly couple on Canary Islands cruise ship

Graeme Finlay, 53, allegedly attacked husband and wife Ronald and June Phillips the all inclusive Thomson Celebration cruise liner outside their cabin as the ship sailed off the coast of Lanzarote. read


Boston bombing victim Krystle Campbell's photo shown to jury

The brother and father of victim Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell testified on Tuesday in the penalty phase of the trial as the jury was shown photos of her life. read


Iraq war inquiry 'will not report until 2016'

Sir John Chilcot’s much-delayed report into the Iraq war, which is expected to be highly critical of senior political figures including Tony Blair, will not be published until 2016, a source has said. read


Labour peer Lord Janner could be sued for £2.5m over child abuse claims

One man, allegedly attacked by Janner in a children's homes between 1981 and 1988, has already instructed lawyers to sue him and Leicestershire County Council for damages. read


Woman reveals how jealous sister-in-law almost wrecked her marriage

Husband and wife David and Sandra Greatrex, 53 and 52, from Plymouth, have told how David's jealous sister Anne tried to cancel their wedding using a fake email address just weeks before the big day. read


Nigella Lawson returns to BBC for first time since Charles Saatchi court case

The celebrity chef, who last appeared on the channel with Nigellissima in 2012, will present Simply Nigella on BBC 2, a show which will see her focus on 'a new pared-down approach to cooking and eating'. read


Knightsbridge flat on sale for £575,000 but only has 3 years on lease

The Knightsbridge flat, London, which is on sale for a fraction of the price of neighbouring homes, has just three years left on the lease. But if the lease was extended, it could be worth more than £6 million. read


Are YOU at risk? Bug found in apps including Uber and Microsoft's OneDrive is leaving MILLIONS of users vulnerable to hackers

Estimates suggest around 1,000 iOS apps are vulnerable to a flaw in connectivity software from AFNetworking. This includes the California-based Uber and Microsoft's OneDrive. read


British students killed in South Africa bus crash after 'dangerous shortcut'

Eleanor Payne, Samantha Lake and Dan Greenwood, all of Leicestershire, died when their safari bus flipped over near the city of Nelspruit during a wildlife study tour in 2010 read


UK weather causes cherry blossoms to bloom across the country

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom up and down the UK with experts heralding them the best in five years thanks to the recent warm weather which saw temperatures hit 20C in Bournemouth yesterday. read


Drunken stag party wreak havoc on holiday flight to Spain

Fellow passengers sat stunned as the yobs - some of whom were shirtless - sung and swore their way from Glasgow to Alicante on a Jet2 flight last Friday morning read


McColl's workers rob store where they both worked then made up story

Rachel Start, 23, had dialled 999 and claimed a masked thug had forced her to open the safe during the 'raid' at the village store in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire last year. read


Thief stole iPhones, watches and jewellery from Virgin Active members worth £30k

Rajul Patel, 35, targeted wealthy victims as they worked out at Virgin Active health clubs across London after obtaining memberships using the stolen driving licence of a gym-going doctor. read


Coffee 'can cut risk of breast cancer tumours returning'

A cancer-killing cocktail of the hormone drug tamoxifen and two coffees every day was found to reduce the risk of tumours returning by 50 per cent in women recovering from the disease, researchers said. read


Parents of five-year-old transgender boy Jacob Lemay share their son's transition story

Five-year-old Jacob Lemay of Massachusetts was born a girl. After he insisted that he be treated as a boy since the age of two, his parents Joe and Mimi decided to let him transition. read


Virtual reality headsets could prevent nausea on flights and tackle jet lag

London based in-flight entertainment company Flow IFE has developed a prototype device that shows passengers a virtual horizon that mimics the movement of the aircraft. read


Mikaeel Kular's killing by mother could 'not have been predicted'

Mother Rosdeep Adekoya, repeatedly beat her three-year-old son Mikaeel Kular (pictured) before stuffing his body in a suitcase and dumping it in woods in Kircaldy, Fife, in January last year. read


Chelsea 'fatberg' removed from sewer causing £400k damage

The enormous lump of congealed waste, which was 40 metres long and made up of fat and wet wipes was discovered under a Chelsea street after residents complained of a rancid smell. read


Facial surgeon Ninian Peckitt struck off over punching patient

Professor Ninian Peckitt, 63, claimed he was attempting to reduce the fracture when he hit the patient up to ten times while a colleague held his head at Ipswich Hospital, a medical hearing heard. read


Tykeran Hamilton who accelerating to 70mph and killing Gloucester man is jailed

Tykeran Hamilton (pictured) accelerated to 70mph after spotting a friend at a bus stop. Moments later he hit and killed Alan Knight, 64, on Stroud Road, Gloucester. read


Charity shop clothes, home-made lunches and no more Netflix

Jenni Hill, 24. from Sale, Manchester, wanted to save for a deposit on a home in the city centre so she ditched her gym membership and began buying secondhand items in order to cut back. read


Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening in court before Holocaust survivors

Oskar Groening, 93, is being tried in Lueneburg on 300,000 counts of 'accessory to murder' of deported Hungarian Jews who were sent to the gas chambers, and faces up to 15 years jail. read


Coventry's Ann Malsbury throttled former partner who came to collect belongings

Lee Judson, 21, had gone round to 22-year-old Ann Malsbury's home in Coventry to collect his belongings after the pair broke up following an 18-month relationship. read


Suzy Lamplugh Trust hits out at 'I love my stalker' T-shirts

Clothing that jokes about stalking adds to the myth that the crime is 'humorous' and could even stop victims coming forward, says the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which reveals 45% of stalkers are ex-partners. read


Creams used to treat athlete's foot and eczema 'could REVERSE multiple sclerosis'

The active ingredients in the creams can repair the damage to nerves that causes multiple sclerosis, scientists from Cape Western Reserve University found. read


Chevrolet unveils self-driving electric FNR at Shanghai event

General Motors unveiled their concept car at an event in Shanghai. The self-driving Chevrolet-FNR (shown) has 'dragonfly' swing doors and 'crystal laser headlights'. read


Julian Assange attacks Guardian over Edward Snowden handling in Newsweek

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured) accused the British newspaper of being hypocrites and leaving Edward Snowden in the lurch after getting what they wanted from him. read


Cancer patient's giant tumour is 'completely destroyed' by pioneering new drugs

Scientists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York believe the combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab produces 'one of the most astonishing responses' they have seen. read


Police complete security checks outside the Lindo Wing for Royal baby's birth

Police were making final security checks outside the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital this morning as the royal due date approaches. They were joined by a group of patriotically dressed fans. read


Zimbabweans return to home country after fleeing South Africa violence

The families – including pregnant women and babies – were seen wearily disembarking at a migration centre in the Zimbabwean border town of Beitbridge after escaping Durban. read


Men accused of hacking immigrant to death during South African protests appear in court

Four South African men accused of stabbing Mozambican man to death in a brutal anti-immigrant attack in a Johannesburg township on Saturday appeared in court today. read


Retired British soldier to be quizzed over John Pat Cunningham's shooting

John Pat Cunningham (pictured) was 27 when he was shot by the Army in a field in Benburb, County Armagh. The British Government apologised for his death in 2013 read


Sandra Malcolm found hacked to death at her South African home

Sandra Malcolm, originally from Dundee in Scotland, was found dead at the Capri Mews complex in the Marina Da Gama area of Cape Town, South Africa. read


Wiltshire teen rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in baby swing 

The teenager, named only as Cody, had taken her toddler brother to the park in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. When he asked her to have a go on a baby swing she got stuck and spent an hour trying to free herself. read


Jordyn Ladell breaks silence over Hollywood sexual assaults when she was 13

WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE Jordyn Ladell, 18, is breaking her silence about her alleged sexual assault at the hands of top Hollywood acting coach, Cameron Thor, when she was 13 years old. read


Ancestry expert traces Hillary Clinton's roots to Welsh mining family

An ancestry expert has traced Hillary Clinton's family tree to a tiny Welsh mining district named Ystradyfodwg (Ust-rady-vod-ug). Baby Hillary is pictured with her Welsh grandmother. read


Gangster Paul Doyle who lived near Premier League footballers is jailed for 16 years

Father-of-two Paul Doyle, 56, moved his family into an £820,000 home in Altrincham, Cheshire, despite having never worked and living life ‘on tick’ and on incapacity handouts. read


Algorithm identifies antisocial web users with 80% accuracy

Researchers studied 40 million posts made by 1.7 million web users. From this they could identify so-called Future-Banned Users (FBUs) - and Never-Banned Users (NBUs). read


Oldest evidence of life on Earth is wrong, claim Bristol scientists

University of Bristol scientists studied the Apex chert microfossils. They found they were just stacks of clay minerals that looked like fossils (cross section shown in image). read


Juarez Cartel boss 'The Liquidator' arrested in Mexico

Mexican police said they arrested Jesus Salas Aguayo, a former hitman and current leader of the Juarez Cartel, wanted in connection with 20 deaths, on Friday in him hometown of Villa Ahumada. read


Amir Khan facing probe after posting Snapchat of him driving in California

The 28-year-old posted pictures to the image sharing app while behind the wheel of his car in the city of Fremont close to San Francisco, where he is currently in training for his next fight. read


Carpet at Dome of the Rock sparks anger as it may cover up Ark of the Covenant clues

Scholars have suggested recently discovered designs could lead to something hidden beneath the floor - possibly even the Ark of the Covenant, imagined in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. read


How to raise children and juggle a career by Vicky Pryce

Economist Vicky Pryce, who served two months in jail after taking her ex husband Chris Huhne's speeding points, opens up about balancing a successful career with raising five children read


Boris Nemtsov's daughter embarks on modelling career alongside her mother

Dina Nemtsova, 13, made her debut in a photoshoot with Russian fashion label Yulia Prohorova White Zoloto, her mother and Nemtsov's partner, Ekaterina Odintsova, has revealed. read


British couple's Spanish £600k villa is demolished in red-tape nightmare 

Len and Helen Prior sold up in the UK and moved to Spain 13 years ago, spending hundreds of thousands on a three-bed villa in Vera, Andalucía. Two years later they were told it would be demolished read


BBC Two documentary Back In Time For Dinner claims insects are the food of the future

In tonight's final episode of BBC Two's Back In Time For Dinner, the Robshaw family who have travelled from the 1950s to the end of the millennium are served the food of the future. read


Army sergeant Edwin Mee says sex attacks on recruits 'never happened'

Edwin Mee, 46, is said to have abused his position of trust and power to abuse or rape 11 alleged victims while working at an Army careers centre in Croydon, south London read


Woman spotted threatening people 'with a dildo in each hand'

By standers said a woman spotted threatening people with 'a dildo in each hand' during an altercation outside a northern New South Wales pub was 'seriously out of it' at the time. read


Pony that thinks he's a dog as he rolls around with owner

Footage shows the seven-day-old foal nuzzling Sunny Bayne's shoulder before pushing her to the ground and laying on top of her belly. read


Belly dancer Sofinar Gourian sentenced to six months in prison over 'Egyptian flag dress'

The court in Agouza, west of Cairo, said Sofinar Gourian, known popularly as 'Safinaz,' was fined £15,000 after being found guilty in a case raised by a private complainant. read


Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi sentenced to 20 years

The 63-year-old former president was sentenced at a court in Cairo today - but was also acquitted of charges that would have seen him face the death penalty. read


Stony Brook University chimpanzees Hercules and Leo given HUMAN rights

Two chimpanzees, living in a lab at Stony Brook University, Long Island, (not pictured) are the first animals to be covered by a writ of habeas corpus, allowing their detention to be challenged. read


Michael Schumacher's daughter shows off her riding skills at horse show 

Gina Maria Schumacher, 17, was one of the participants in the NRHA European Futurity Horse Show in the Bavarian town of Kreuth and looked every inch the professional rider throughout the tournament. read


Gang in Manchester tried 'Trojan Horse' bid to steal gold bullion

The gang posing as rich Italian businessmen built a cabinet so one of them could hide inside a large void and secretly switch a haul of Euros for fake money during a deal in Manchester. read


Michael Beach's wife Elisha Wilson breastfeeding on the toilet sparks outrage

The photo of Elisha Wilson Beach, from Los Angeles, has been shared more than 25,000 times on Facebook and liked more than 211,000 times, but has divided option with mothers around the world. read


Britain's last surviving mobile cinema is up for sale on eBay

It's one of just seven mobile cinemas originally commissioned by the Ministry of Technology in 1967 to promote British industry. read


Linford Christie's son Liam hid crack cocaine and heroin under floorboards

Liam Linford Oliver-Christie, 29, whose father is the 55-year-old former Olympic sprinter, was caught with the drugs under his floorboards during a police raid in West Kensington, west London. read


The Self Made Seat can transform sofa in multiple ways

Need more space in your front room? Simply pack up the sofa. French designer Matali Crasset has created these foam modular cushions, which can be transformed in multiple ways. read


Chilling video of mystery creature chewing itself out of a steel cage

The disturbing video, which apparently comes from Shenzhen Reservoir in China, has been the subject of heated online debates over the species of the mysterious creature. read


Garden gnome from The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's cover sells for £29k 

Experts at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, had given the gnome a pre-sale estimate of $25,000 - around £17,000 - but it ended up going to an unnamed buyer for $42,500 - or £29,000. read


Rhiannon Langley sharing her nose job 'journey' with social media

Popular blogger Rhiannon Langley, from Melbourne, is sharing pictures, videos and blog posts day-by-day while she undergoes cosmetic surgery in Thailand. read


Elephant cools off with a mud shower on banks of Indian river

The Asian elephant appears to have a huge smile on its face while throwing dry mud onto its back on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. read


Twitter's takes on the trolls with tool that automatically removes abuse

Users of the Californian site can report indirect threats, abusive accounts will be locked until a phone number is added, and an algorithm will automatically remove abuse before you even see it. read


Mac on... NHS fat cats

'Ladies and gentlemen. You can see your loved ones now.' read


US warns Iran over arms shipments aircraft carrier reaches Yemen

America deployed 12 ships including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (pictured) off Yemen's coast in response to sighting of nine ships which could be arming Houthi rebels. read


The worst is still to come: Horror storm smashes homes and threatens to burst Manly dam, thousands of Carnival Spirit cruise passengers are trapped in huge seas off Sydney and a second weather cell is moving over the Hunter region

NSW residents are enduring a third day of ‘the worst storm conditions for 100 years’ on Wednesday. The monster storm has already caused three deaths and extensive damage to property. read


Dealer ditches modern cars for business in vintage Model Ts

Despite his newest models being nearly 90 years old, the businessman, from Buckinghamshire, is selling one every week, including to the TV and film industry who have used in shows such as Downton Abbey. read


Hillary Clinton back in First Class after anti-rich New Hampshire tour

Hillary Clinton raced from New Hampshire to Boston to catch a 7pm flight to Washington with first class seating, after saying the wealthy had the 'deck stacked' in their favor and she'd 'shuffle the pack'. read


Marcin Wasniewski's car ploughs into back of lorry but he walked away with cuts

A father from Coventry survived these horrific scenes, shocking paramedics by walking away from this horror crash with just cuts and bruises. read


Solihull man escapes being burnt alive as flames shot out of manhole in video

Father-of-two Shiraz Nawaz said he felt lucky to be alive after fire shot out of the manhole mere seconds after he had walked over it in a busy street in Shirley, Solihull in the West Midlands. read


Family of SIX travel through Argentinian streets on a motorbike

The two adults and four children were spotted riding through the city of San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina's north-western province of Tucuman. read