Not many of us would choose to be fat. Yet speaking to some patients in my clinic, I do begin to wonder whether obesity for some people is almost a self-fulfilling prophesy.

When Paul Gambaccini was arrested over flimsy abuse claims, he was out of work, denounced and shunned by former friends. Now he gives his truly disturbing account of his ordeal.

The Void, a company working to create a virtual reality experience at their facility in Utah, recently allowed a journalist from to go through two levels of what it calls 'the future of entertainment'.

Bennett, 81, says he is still traumatised by his experience when he stumbled over the lines in a stage production of A Chip In The Sugar, one of his popular Talking Heads monologues.

Cholita endured years of abuse at a circus in Peru. Her claws were cut down to stumps and her teeth broken to make her less dangerous. The stress of being kept in a cage made her lose her fur, too.

Naraha's 7,400 residents can return to their homes for the first time since the nuclear meltdown, which was sparked by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Chemical engineer and MIT grad Dave Whitlock has not showered in a dozen years because he wants to preserve bacteria on his skin. He helped found a company that sells a spray that contains live bacteria.

Student Chelsea Marr's, pictured, similarity to the 40-year-old Hollywood star has seen her take the internet by storm. But she is not a model - she works as an operations manager in Aberdeen.

It is good news that Britain and other European countries are now understanding that we all need to work to help Syrian refugees, writes MICHELLE DOCKERY.

We cannot just give our country away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves, writes PETER HITCHENS.

Distressed by seeing families sleeping rough on the streets of Symi, Andrew Davies (pictured) and Wendy Wilcox launched Solidarity Symi, writes IAN BIRRELL from the Greek island.

The Prime Minister pointed to figures showing that the UK has already given more to the humanitarian effort than Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Poland combined.

The Prime Minister's wife is thought to have helped persuade him to change his mind after having visited a camp in Lebanon two years ago.

Nick Clegg (pictured on a school visit) got the policy as the price for agreeing to the Tories' married couples tax allowance but costs are spiralling 'out of control' and officials have launched a major review.

Jeremy Corbyn has found himself the star of an animated video about UK politics made in Taiwan for audiences across the world. In it the 66-year-old is described as 'hard-lefty comrade Corbyn'.

Lady Njaimeh Jawara, wife of Gambia's Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, was ordered to wear an electronic tag after admitting over-claiming housing benefit, council tax and pension credits.

Heartbroken Danielle Knight, 31, is frantically trying to raise £29,000 so that she bring her father home and bury him after he passed away during a two week holiday to Turkey.

Gareth Bowen-Jones visited Flamingo Land, near Malton, North Yorkshire, with his mother last week but was disappointed after he was stopped from going on a ride for four hours.

Attacks of leaf miner don't kill horse chestnuts (pictured) on their own, but leave them prey to other diseases, among them bleeding canker. Ultimately the tree can die.

A delivery worker has been caught on camera throwing a large parcel over a customer's fence and walking off. The video was posted on social media and has been re-tweeted over 4,500 times.

Haroon Ahmed walked out of high-security prison HMP Dovegate with a group of visitors in May. He posted pictures of the escape on Facebook - but only after being recaptured and put behind bars.

A Kenyan court has said prosecutors should close their case against British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the 'White Widow', after failing to produce her in court.

The Range Rover Autobiography was stolen in August in Hampstead, North London as part of an ongoing steal-to-order campaign organised by sophisticated criminals.

The pensioners, who are in their 70s and from Cheshire, became stuck while out walking on the sands at Humphrey Head, in Flookburgh, Cumbria, at around 12pm yesterday.

Josh and Laura De Haan bought the property in the village of Stowting, Kent, in 2007, and they took two years to accomplish all the renovations and innovations.

Manchester United memorabilia comes in all shapes and sizes, but it's unlikely any can compete with this mobile shrine on wheels that has gone on sale in Huddersfield for £790.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, 40, has snapped up an eight-bedroom Grade II-listed property near Hampstead Heath in north London, which is just a stone's throw from where the likes of Kate Moss live.

Scientists at Cambridge University, who created the app, say the test can predict your personality more accurately than your friends, colleagues and your parents.

Actress Siân Phillips described her life with troubled Lawrence of Arabia star, Peter O'Toole, as 'intermittently ecstatic or unbelievably dreadful,' during their turbulent marriage.

Margaret Collins, 71, from Newcastle, has been dating online since she was 58 and says she has been inundated with responses. She has now been on 200 online dates - all with younger men.

An investigation has been launched by maritime experts to discover what caused the sinking of the Brigantine Zebu in Liverpool's Albert Dock in the early hours of this morning.