The patient, who is originally from the Republic of Congo, had chemotherapy to prepare her immune system for a bone marrow transplant after she was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia.

As the Gurkhas' most famous cheerleader, Joanna Lumley, admitted, it was very hard 'not to start blubbing' at such a moment as 200 years of Gurkhas service was celebrated in London.

A new study by researchers at Chapman University in America has shown that greater life satisfaction in adults aged over 50 is related to a reduced risk of suffering premature death.

Mr Osborne, pictured, will say governments should be bound by a new requirement to run an overall surplus in the public finances in 'normal times' to lessen the impact of future recessions.

John Inverdale, 57, has been side-lined for this year's nightly BBC coverage of Wimbledon and replaced by Clare Balding, 44, who also replaced him on Radio 5 Live last year.

A 'magic circle' of top figures in Edinburgh's legal establishment may have protected Lord Janner, pictured, when he faced a police probe over an alleged child sex offence, it was claimed.

Advertising agency WPP's chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell's exorbitant pay package includes flying his second wife, Lady Cristiana Falcone-Sorrell, around the globe with him on business trips.

47-year-old former model, entrepreneur and athlete Heather Mills took to the streets to hand out vegan food to members of the public at the opening of her new deli in Chester yesterday.

Studies have shown that regular yogurt consumption aids gut health, can lower blood pressure, ease hay fever, boost the immune system, lift mood and speed weight loss.

The latest bid to get a law through is being spearheaded by Labour MP Rob Marris, who is fronting a private members' bill pressing the case for a 'compassionate' assisted dying law.

Problems arose yesterday after the paper counterpart was replaced with an online database detailing driving records, with motorists requiring an access code should they wish to hire a car.

Publishers Penguin Randomhouse discovered that a copy of the book, called Grey and due to be released on June 18, was missing this morning.

Teachers are guilty of subconscious bias that means they are likely to underrate children because of their gender - even when they get the same test scores as their peers.

The London Mayor reopened the row over whether David Cameron would sack ministers who did not back him in the referendum, after the PM was forced to claim he had been 'misinterpreted'.

The Commons Speaker called for cross-party talks to bring about 'meaningful change' to the weekly sessions which have become dominated by booing and heckling.

Speaking at a summit in Monaco, Johann Rupert said he fears that a poor uprising will mean the middle classes won't want to buy luxury goods in the future for fear of exposing their wealth.

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski has warned the party leadership that the unpopular measure should be reviewed and amended as a result of the negative reaction to the tax on doorsteps.

The rejig would also mean that the HSBC brand would cease to be a presence on the high street. HSBC took over Midland Bank (file image) in 1992 and rebranded all the branches in 1999.

Coventry-based Jaguar Land Rover's 'pothole alert' system enables a prototype Range Rover to adapt to rough road surfaces and a crater's location to other drivers.

Truck driver Timothy Murphy, left, is accused of driving the container with 35 migrants to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Basildon Crown Court heard that Murphy, along with his co-accused deny conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry to the UK.

Meanwhile, men were most likely to complain their partner's menopause affected their sex life, while women were most concerned about weight gain and sleep loss, say the Yale researchers.

Even when youngsters from lower income families perform as well as their classmates on independent tests, they are still less likely to be judged as 'above average', research suggests.

It's feared that a little known cap preventing the recording of more than five violent crimes against one victim is concealing the full extent of domestic abuse being suffered by women.

Geordie Rhodick, 71, a former soldier, and wife Betty, from Lochgilhead in Argyll, Scotland, have become millionaires after she fished out a winning lottery ticket from a rubbish bin.

The shadow health secretary, regarded as the standard-bearer of the Left, is shown here posing for a photograph after a black tie ball alongside members of his football team.

The 72-year-old, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in medicine, told his audience of female South Korean scientists he was a 'chauvinist pig'. Science careers are still vastly dominated by men.

'A car is one's second living room today,' Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler (pictured) said on Tuesday at a business event in Berlin attended by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. 'That's private.'

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute found just one dose of the HIV vaccine may offer a similar level of protection to the two or three doses currently given.

Police are 'very concerned about the wellbeing' of 13-year-old Brogan Mearns, who disappeared after telling her father that she was going for a walk and leaving his home in Glasgow on Saturday.

Emma Currie, 45, is accused of going on a spending spree with her boss's credit card after driving off with valuables she allegedly stole from her employer's £3.5million Belgravia home.

One year has past since Islamic State shocked the world and marched into Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. Now residents in Mosul have revealed how their lives have been turned upside down.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the tactics used by radicalised extremists to escape being caught by police were becoming 'increasingly sophisticated'.

Three soldiers died after a 16-mile march in heats of up to 81F and the paramedic on the scene today told an inquest that Cpl James Dunsby's temperature was the highest he'd ever seen.

UK-based Nazi expert Karina Urbach said the former King - who famously abdicated the throne in December 1936 - was extremely anti-Semitic and hoped the conflict would be won by Germany.

Lee Wright, 27, of Blackburn, was today told that he faces prison after being found guilty of possession of the fighting dog which killed Ava-Jayne Corless, aged 11 months, last year.

An infographic by Mix It Up reveals that hardly any of the elements which make up a traditional Sunday roast originated in Britain with carrots originally from Afghanistan and beans from Peru.

A study has revealed breast cancer rates are five times higher in areas close to the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, than experts would expect. Other cancers were found at double the expected rate.

The 41-year-old model was escorted from the flight from Bodrum, Turkey to Luton airport on Sunday after police were called to reports she was being 'disruptive' on board

The SNP leader is pushing Scotland as a place to do business and insisting she has not given up hope of independence as she continues her four-day tour of the United States.

More than two months after flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps, Lufthansa transferred coffins with the remains of 44 victims by cargo plane from Marseille. France, to Duesseldorf, Germany,

The photo was captured by Tasha Sturm, a microbiologist in California, who took a handprint from her eight-year-old son after he had been playing outside.

Constable Daniel Woodall was gunned down as he tried to make an arrest at a home in Alberta, Canada last night. Fellow officer with the Southwest Division Patrol Sgt. Jason Harley, 38, was injured.

Officers are using sniffer dogs to continue the probe into the alleged murder after a post-mortem examination proved inconclusive. The body was found at a property in Peterborough on Friday.

Jim Dale, pictured with Carry On co-star Barbara Windsor, appeared in 11 of the popular films during the 1960s and is most associated with the series despite working Laurence Olivier and Glenn Close.

Bundles of the ultra-creepy crawlies have been photographed in counties including Yorkshire, Suffolk and Devon. Brightly coloured with a black spot on their back, the spiders are newly hatched babies.

Scientists have filmed chimpanzees drinking alcohol from the boozy sap of palm trees in West Africa - then climbing down and having an afternoon nap afterwards.

Chet Haze may be wanted by British police after allegedly causing over $1,800-worth of damage to a hotel room, but he seemed nonplussed when he spotted in Los Angeles on Monday.

Here, TV nutritionist AMANDA HAMILTON assesses five, from Glaceau Vitaminwater Defence, to Bio-Synergy Skinny Water and Vit-Hit Berry Boost.

A study of 2,000 women shows that women spend £768 a year on clothes but most fashion items only ever see the light of day seven times before being banished to the depths of the wardrobe forever.

Neighbours living beside the Milton Keynes flat said the killer was believed to have murdered Mr Gillard (pictured) on Saturday but returned on Monday to destroy the body and the evidence.

The US Navy has confirmed that the 'dead-load' - a wheeled steel sled - was successfully launched aboard the Gerald R. Ford carrier into the James River in Virginia.

Yasmin Disney, 25, admitted making a string of bogus claims during her two-year employment as a secretary to an army major at the British Army's headquarters in Andover, Hampshire.

A photograph of the Commander-in-Chief with Matteo Renzi shows him standing on a balcony clutching an item which looks like a packet of cigarettes. He claims to have given up.

Andrea Newsham, who is in her thirties and lives in Cheshire, welcomed baby Millie Elizabeth, now two, into the world in 2013.

James Harrison, 78, from Australia's central coast, has an antibody in his blood that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a rare form of anaemia.

'App thinning' will be supported on Apple's iOS 9 and later models. It ensures apps use the lowest amount of storage space by 'slicing' it to work on individual handsets (illustrated).

The special will wrap up the 22nd series of BBC Two's hit motoring show, which has been off air since March, although a transmission date has not been announced yet.

Rob Holden, of Hampton Wick, west London, has set a new record of 31.285km (19.44 miles) on one of London's Santander hire cycles, at the Herne Hill Velodrome, which was built for the 1948 Olympics.

Russian photographer Murad Osmann uploaded a photograph of his wedding to Natalie Zakharova to his 2.5 million followers... and unusually they aren't holding hands.

The measures include a ban on drinking alcohol on the street between 10pm and 8am and restrictions on the Majorcan town's notorious bar crawls.

David Ormsby, 51, of St Lawrence, Jersey, said he suffered '15 months of hell' at the hands of his employers because he refused to punch and choke his canine companion.

Little Mohammed bin Ahmed Jaber Al Harbi looked dapper in a top hat, white tie and tails as he walked up to Her Majesty The Queen as she stood in the paddock at Epsom Racecourse on Saturday.

With first class flights and overnight stays in five-star hotels, the 4,500-mile tour takes aficionados to 16 locations in 12 countries, including the winemaker next to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's vineyard.

A huge operation was in action involving 62 fire-fighting units and three trains which had delivered equipment and water supplies to the area just outside the Ukrainian capital.

Colin McSweeny, 59, pictured, battered his son Shaun McSweeny, 24, after discovering he was planning to move out of the family home in south London with his six-year-old daughter.

Officers Shymkent, in Kazakhstan's south, said they have evidence of ten 'unwanted' babies being sold on the black market from this maternity unit, but warn that number could 'rise significantly'.

High-tech gadgets have sent the average value of items in a passenger's hand luggage soaring to £934. Mobile phones are the most popular carry-on, followed by a laptop or tablet.

A rabbit was lucky to escape with its life after getting partially buried in a fast-moving avalanche in Kamchatka, Russia. Captured on camera, the all-white mammal hops out of the thick snow.

Paris police used tear gas as they rounded up 87 migrants who had been living in a makeshift camp in the French capital - but just hours later another group were setting up their mattresses nearby.

Thea Wilson, 37, from Burwarton, Shropshire, was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer called Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia (APML), which had also made her feel incredibly tired.

FEMAIL writers Bianca London, who wanted to achieve perfect curls, and Martha Cliff, who dreamed of super sleek locks, put the new hair tool to the test... so was it worth £165?

A helicopter has been used in the search for the three-year lion that is thought to have slipped through a hole in the fence at Karoo National Park in the south of the country on Friday night.

Dutch lifestyle website getoud.com created the photo series 'What I wanted to be' after asking men and women over the age of 75 to dress up as what they wanted to be when they were children.

The conjoined twin girls were born joined at the hip and at the bottom of the spine in Jiangxi province in March. Surgeons have simulated the complex operation using an accurate life-size model.

From August, Manchester United will sell their new adidas shirts in a whopping XXXXL size after complaints from some fans that the existing jerseys were not big enough to fit them.

Captains Ally Wilcox and Ian Mills had to contend with high winds as they landed at a Madeira airport nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and a hill dotted with homes.

EXCLUSIVE: Luis Geraldo dos Santos, 52, of Vila Autodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, came home from work one day to find half his house demolished after wife Edileza sold her share.