The world's largest sailing yacht revealed: Russian billionaire's £292m luxury liner is 300ft high, has eight floors and an underwater observation room

Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko's yacht is the world's LARGEST

Built for Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, 'Sailing Yacht A,' simply named after its owner, is taking its test voyage in Kiel, northern Germany. The ship is believed to have cost almost £260million and is the world's largest sailing yacht. At 468ft in length, with masts nearing 300ft high, the 'mega-yacht,' has eight floors and has an underwater observation room.

The woman who died with her husband in a 'gas blast' explosion in Derbyshire was MURDERED say police who are now treating the incident as suspicious 

Riddings woman who died with husband in explosion was MURDERED say police

The pair, named locally as Simon, 50, and Shelley Saxton-Cooper, 45, were found dead in the bedroom of the house they had lived in for 25 years on Valley View Road in Riddings, Derbyshire yesterday. Derbyshire Constabulary announced this afternoon that they are treating the death of Mrs Saxton-Cooper as murder because they believe she was wounded before the explosion and subsequent fire.

Burglar dies after he is caught red-handed while breaking into home of British couple in Portugal and restrained in a choke-hold

A suspected burglar has died after being caught and put in a choke hold while attempting to rob a British family's villa in Portugal, it emerged today.

Have you been saying it wrong? Buyers incorrectly pronounce Nutella... as the brand reveals it DOESN'T start with 'Nut'

The official pronunciation of the hazelnut chocolate spread is 'new-tell-uh', according to the Nutella website. The brand explained the correct way to say it on their website under FAQs.

'How do you wind the window down?' Revealing the most hilarious questions passengers have asked flight attendants

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'Can you ask the crew to fly lower as my wife is scared of heights?' and 'what's in the ham and cheese sandwich?' are just some of the questions which have been asked of flight attendants.

An end to puddles? Bizarre 'thirsty' concrete sucks up hundreds of gallons of water in less than a minute

A video of a test of Topmix Permeable concrete, developed by Birmingham based Lafarge Tarmac, shows 880 gallons of water vanishing without trace.

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Estranged wife of severely brain damaged soldier awarded £1.1m after Taliban attack 'wants his last £200,000' in divorce battle 

Soldier Simon Vaughan wounded in Afghanistan goes into a divorce battle

Corporal Simon Vaughan's case will be heard today by a family court judge, sitting in Telford, Shropshire, who will decide how much money his wife Donna Vaughan should have. Cpl Vaughan (pictured, right, during his time serving) was with 29 Commando regiment in 2008 when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. The court could order him to sell his bungalow in Shropshire, which was bought for £295,000 in 2009 and specially adapted for him. Due to long-running building work at the house, he is now understood to have only £200,000 of the original sum left.

Headteacher is banned from the classroom after her school shunned a sex abuse victim and branded her a trouble-maker 

Vanessa Jukes, who was headteacher at High Wells School in Barnsley, Yorkshire (pictured), has been banned from the classroom for life for unacceptable professional misconduct.

Conman carpenter fleeced £90,000 from the taxman and got away with it for so long because of office cutbacks 

Christopher Mitton, 25, from Hull, East Yorkshire, logged onto the Government's website and made several 'amendments' to his tax return, including boosting his annual income tenfold.

Helicopter police officer could be jailed for 'filming former Page Three girl sunbathing naked in her garden'

Adrian Pogmore, of Rotherham, south Yorkshire, was sacked by South Yorkshire Police amid allegations he took footage of couples 'dogging'  from his helicopter.

Sue Perkins reveals brain tumour consultant told her being infertile would be EASIER because she's a lesbian

GBBO star Sue Perkins, 45, has revealed that while learning the news that her benign brain tumour has left her infertile, she was the victim of cruel homophobia at the hands of a consultant.

BBC's £8m on birdsong and Syrian puppets: Money spent on collection of digital art despite bosses complaining about budget cuts

Insiders say the BBC's £330,000-a-year creative director Alan Yentob (pictured) is the man behind The Space website project, which began trading as a company in September 2013.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is ITV's best: Comedy-drama tops poll of channel's greatest shows beating Thunderbirds and Coronation Street into second and third

Three decades after Wayne, Oz, Den, Nev, Bomb, Mox and Barry were introduced to audiences, their search for high wages, cheap beer and low taxes has lost none of its appeal.

Revenge! Drugs, debauchery and the book that lays Dave bare: How PM's snub to billionaire who funded the Tories for years sparked the most explosive political book of the decade

David Cameron's debauchery laid bare in Lord Ashcroft's book Call Me Dave

Today we lift the lid on the extraordinary feud between David Cameron (left) and a billionaire Tory donor that has triggered the most explosive political biography of the decade. In the dynamite book, former party treasurer Lord Ashcroft (inset) makes allegations of drug taking and debauchery by a young Mr Cameron, who is pictured (right) dancing at the Pitt Club Ball at Cambridge University in 1987. The book also claims the Conservative leader was aware as early as 2009 that Lord Ashcroft was a controversial 'non dom' who did not pay UK tax on his overseas earnings. Mr Cameron has previously said he did not know until 2010 about the tax status of a man who had given his party £8million - suggesting the public was deliberately misled in the run-up to that year's general election. The pair fell out, the book reveals, when the Prime Minister failed to honour a pledge to give Lord Ashcroft a 'significant' job if he won power. In the wake of this split, the peer has penned Call Me Dave.

The tragic child who made Dave human: Cameron said Ivan's diagnosis hit him 'like a freight train'... but he and Samantha found inner strength to get through it

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The birth of Ivan is crucial to the Prime Minister's story. Before his arrival, David Cameron had known little real suffering, and so the birth of his profoundly disabled son hit him 'like a freight train'.

British Prime Minister and an obscene act with a dead pig's head: How David Cameron took part in sordid initiation ceremony after joining Oxford University dining society as a student

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A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims David Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig.

NOW I understand why Miliband didn't like that bacon sandwich: David HAMERON ridiculed on Twitter over #piggate

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David Cameron was the source of widespread internet mockery this morning over the bizarre allegation that he once 'put a private part of his anatomy' into a dead pig's mouth.

Muslim model, 24, is found hanged after fearing she was going to be forced into arranged marriage by her parents 

Muslim model Nadia Menaz found hanged in Oldham after arranged marriage fears

Nadia Menaz, 24, (left) was found dead at her home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, five months after taking out a court order to stop her family from forcing her to marry, Rochdale Coroner's Court heard. The mother-of-one had already married in an Islamic ceremony, but the union was not recognised under English law, and her family, including father Sabir Hussain, 60, (top right) and mother Ruksana Kousar, 55, (bottom right) did not approve of her husband, Umar Rasool, Oldham Coroner's Court heard.

One in three born this year could be hit by dementia: Experts warn of 'looming national health crisis' 

Experts warned of a 'looming national health crisis' and called for urgent action by politicians and scientists to deal with the potential care timebomb.

Two sugars in your cuppa? Then you are more likely to be in a low income bracket says new research into the office tea round

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The study by The Grocer compared the tea-drinking habits of different socio-economic groups and found that more than a third of people in the 'DE' social grade bracket take sugar in their tea.

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Hundreds of millions of iPhone users at risk as Apple store is hit by its first major hack: Malicious codes found in some of China's most popular Apps

The security breach took place after hackers convinced legitimate developers to use a tainted and counterfeit version of Xcode - the software provided by Apple for creating iOS and Mac apps.

Newts will no longer be able to halt homes: New plans will mean builders will only have to protect habitats rather than move endangered species away from sites

Plans drawn up by Natural England could mean developers will not be required to move individual newts - and instead will just be asked to protect thriving habitats.

Teenagers make the best liars say scientists because they think faster than grown-ups so don't get caught out 

Around 60 per cent of children aged between 13 and 17 tell up to five lies a day, research led by Bruno Verschuere of Amsterdam University found. The average person only told 2.17 lies per day.

Nearly HALF of children are addicted to smartphones and tablet computers, say their parents

Some 47 per cent of mothers and fathers say youngsters spend too much time in front of screens and 43 per cent say this amounts to an emotional dependency, according to a poll.

Why it's safe to make love after having a heart attack: It's no riskier than climbing stairs or a brisk walk, say scientists 

Experts say that doing any physical activity - including making love - after a heart attack is safe and should be encouraged. German researchers tracked the health of more than 500 heart attack survivors.

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson says defecting to the Lib Dems would be like 'leaving the Beatles to join a Bananarama tribute band'

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Speculation has mounted in recent days that Labour backbenchers aghast at the party's lurch to the left under Jeremy Corbyn would instead switch to the Lib Dems under Tim Farron.

Show more RESPECT to your leader! Labour deputy Tom Watson orders MPs to get in line after a week of attacks on Corbyn

Newly elected deputy leader of Britain's opposition Labour party Tom Watson leaves the Party's headquarters in London on September 14, 2015. Radical leftist Jeremy Corbyn attacked government plans to curb strike action on his first day in parliament, after becoming leader of Britain's opposition Labour despite dissent in the party ranks. The 66-year-old, who swept to victory on Saturday, set the scene for a heated debate over the Trade Union Bill by saying that even some Conservatives saw parts of it as "something from a fascist dictatorship". AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLISJUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

Mr Watson, who was elected the party's number two alongside Jeremy Corbyn last week, admitted he was 'worried' about the level of sniping by MPs and appealed for them to give him time.

Anger at plan to refurbish the European Parliament after just 22 years which will give MEPs THREE offices each

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Officials claim extensive work is needed on their main building in Brussels as it is in a state of 'dilapidation' despite it being only 22 years old.

Celebrating turning one, the first baby born after a womb transplant: Mother speaks of 'fantastic feeling' following pioneering project that saw four children born

First womb transplant baby turns one as Mother Malin Stenberg celebrates

Malin Stenberg, left, from Sweden, became the first woman in the world to have a baby following a womb transplant. She had thought there was no hope but joined a pioneering project with Gothenburg University and 61-year-old family friend Ewa Rosen donated her womb to Malin. After successfully giving birth, bottom, initially, she and partner Claes Nilsson, right, wanted to remain anonymous but decided to share their story when Vincent turned one year old to give others hope.

Married couple are found dead in the bedroom after enormous gas explosion rips through home in quiet residential street in Derbyshire - but the pet dog survives

The bodies of a man and woman have been found in the bedroom of a house on Valley View Road, in Riddings, Derbyshire following a 'gas explosion' at around 7.30am this morning.

Deliciously rich and comforting: Shopper, 32, is put off lasagne for life after finding mystery FANG in her Waitrose ready meal

City worker Arabella Frankel, 32, from Highgate in north London, was eating the 'deliciously warm and comforting' dish on her lunch break when she bit down on something hard.

Mum WILL be busy at feeding time! Tessa the Basset Hound stuns the vets by giving birth to a supersize litter of 14 puppies 

Tessa the Basset Hound is recovering at home in Morley, West Yorkshire, after a dramatic birth. Her owners are working in shifts to cover the time-consuming 24-hour feed of all 14 puppies.

Care workers caught threatening and mocking a 68-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer after her daughter set up a hidden camera in bedside alarm clock 

Video of The Ridings care workers in Birmingham threatening an Alzheimer's sufferer

The clip shows Bridget McDonald, who suffers from Korsakoff's syndrome, being labelled a 'tramp', 'hopeless' and 'such a baby' by one carer at The Ridings home (bottom right) in Birmingham. Another carer can be heard threatening the 68-year-old, telling her: 'Next time I call you, don't f****** ignore me' before ripping the duvet from the bed (left; top right). The camera was hidden in a bedside clock by Bridget's daughter Rachael, 37, after she became concerned her mother's behaviour was changing at the end of last year. The two carers caught in the footage - Adam Hunt and Rachel Pritchard - have since been dismissed from their position as care workers, with Mr Hunt also receiving a caution from West Midlands Police for common assault.

Busted! Drug-smuggling mother-of-three is jailed for four years after being caught with £200,000 of cocaine stuffed in her 46D BRA 

Nola Williams, of South London, was found with the 973 grams stash after she arrived at Gatwick Airport on a BA flight from Kingston, Jamaica, with her six-year-old daughter in January last year.

British-based gang pocketed £100,000 shipping migrants across the Channel from hotel used as 'storage area' for Vietnamese, Iraqis, Iranians and Kurds 

The criminals used a Dunkirk hotel as a 'storage area' for Vietnamese, Iraqis, Iranians and Kurds - who slept seven to a room and had to supply their own mattresses - waiting for lorries to England.

Business falls victim to Britain's biggest-ever telephone banking scam as it hands over more than £1million to conman

A business was tricked into handing over more than £1million to a bogus caller in one of Britain's biggest-ever telephone banking scams.

Acid victim and her boyfriend were followed by attackers before they hurled liquid at her face in 'targeted assault' 

The attack happened outside Turtle Bay bar in Southampton around 9pm on Friday night and left the 37-year-old unnamed woman with 'severe burns' to her face, neck, back and arms.

Sex beast Rolf Harris is nicknamed the Choir Master because he gives fellow lags singing tips at their weekly singing sessions

Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris has joked about getting inmates at Stafford Prison to appear on Top of the Pops after mentoring them on their breathing and singing tone.

'Troubled' witness in axed VIP abuse murder inquiry told 'whopping lies and had falsely confessed to killing a prostitute' 

An inquiry was launched after a witness known only as 'Darren' made a series of claims, including that a girl had died during a paedophile party at the Dolphin Square flats in Westminster.

Going, going, gone! Watch the moment old apartment blocks are demolished by 180 kilos of explosives as emotional crowd witnesses the end of an era

Glasgow's Tarfside Oval apartment blocks are demolished by explosives

Around 180 kilos of explosives were used to bring down the three old apartment blocks at Tarfside Oval in Cardonald, Glasgow, as part of a controlled demolition today (pictured). Around 340 neighbouring properties were temporarily evacuated to allow the blocks of flats at Tarfside Oval in Cardonald to be safely demolished. In the immediate aftermath, several cars were left covered in dust from the blast. The high rise blocks of flats, which had lain empty for the past year, were demolished as part of plans for a £5million regeneration in the area. They had become expensive and difficult to let for the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) and were increasingly unpopular with local residents.

The moment a Messerschmitt crashed on a London golf course: New book recreates hundreds of Battle of Britain events in pin-sharp detail

The incredible black-and-white photograph shows members of the Armed Forces standing with civilians as they inspect the huge crash site in Coulsdon, south London, after the crash.

Pipe down! Anti-gay preacher meets his match 'in the most Scottish way possible' when he is drowned out by a bagpiper in the middle of St Andrews

The hilarious incident took place in the Scottish town of St Andrews and was caught on camera by one of those watching the scene unfold. The clip has since been viewed more than two million times.

The end of the Cornish pasty: Regional foods protected by law face new threat from the US under new European trade deal 

Other foods including Stilton and Cumberland sausages, which are both currently protected, could also be at risk due to a pending agreement between Canada and the European Union.

Prince Charles meets The Few: Heir joins veteran Battle of Britain pilots and aircrew for Westminster Abbey memorial service

The Prince of Wales laid a wreath in front of a full congregation of 2,200 people who gathered for the annual service to remember the remarkable victory as well as the loss of life.

Skilled worker shortage hits efforts to beat UK housing crisis with scarcity of plumbers, electricians, kitchen fitters and bricklayers

From a survey of more than 100 construction companies, 87 per cent of respondents said they hoped to create new jobs next year - but 24 per cent said a 'skills shortage' was preventing them.

Watching all this rugby is hard work! World Cup fan stretches out on luggage racks as tournament is hit by second day of train chaos and overcrowding 

Ticket holders are facing overcrowding and severe delays as they desperately try to get to games using normal services and special trains put on between the capital and venues.

The Few fly again: Thousands flock to see amazing Battle of Britain re-enactment as Spitfires and Hurricanes scramble to battle the Luftwaffe once more

At an event organised to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, spectators were treated to a rare display featuring 20 Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes and several German Messerschmitts.

Archbishop of Canterbury throws opens the doors of Lambeth Palace to migrant families and says 'Jesus was a refugee' 

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has offered to host one or two refugee families in a cottage in the grounds of his Lambeth Palace residence in London.

Millions of British holidaymakers face £80 levy on their holidays as Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza prepare to launch new green tax 

The new eco-tax being prepared by the Balearic islands' government will see holidaymakers charged a daily fee of €2 per person - costing the average UK family £80 for a two-week holiday.

A very special escort: Red Arrows lead Vulcan bomber across the skies as display team bid farewell to the aircraft before it is retired to a museum

Royal Air Force Red Arrows bid farewell to Vulcan bomber

Spectators at Southport Air Show today cheered as the Red Arrows' nine British-built Hawk aircraft made a V-shape in front of the Vulcan. The Vulcan XH558 is the last airworthy example of the UK's famous V-Force fleet and 2015 is the delta-winged aircraft's last flying season. Enthusiasts who raised millions of pounds to keep the Vulcan airborne were 'devastated' in May by the decision to ground the Vulcan. But engineering backers pulled their support due to safety fears and the plane will be now retired to a new museum and aviation academy. The last Vulcan was withdrawn from service in 1984, but XH558 flew on from 1986 to 1993 as the single Royal Air Force display Vulcan.

Precious cargo: Desperate Syrian family risk the lives of their eight-month-old twins to make the perilous journey across the sea to Lesbos 

Syrian family risk the lives of twin babies to make journey to Lesbos 

The babies arrived on Eftalou beach on the Greek island of Lesbos today in a rubber dinghy after crossing the Aegan Sea from Turkey with their parents after they fled from Syria. The children and their parents were among the hundreds of people who have made the journey across the Mediterranean in recent days to continue their journey to Europe. A total of 13 migrants died in the Turkish waters in recent days trying to reach Lesbos, with six of those killed believed to have been children, with another 20 having to be rescued.

The human tide: Waves of migrants keep coming as Hungary warns millions are 'breaking down the doors' of Europe

In a full-page advert in several Lebanese and Jordanian newspapers, the government said 'the strongest possible action is taken' against people who attempt to enter Hungary illegally.

'Syrian squat' is smashed in Calais: French riot police move in on 300 occupants who had refused to join the 'Jungle'

All of those living in the Paul-Devot hangar had insisted that Prime Minister David Cameron wanted them in the UK, after he pledged to take in refugees from the Syrian civil war.

Newly re-elected Greek Prime Minister faces his 'first crucial battle' - asking the creditors to write off some of the country's debts

The head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has blasted Greek leader Alexis Tsipras for continuing a coalition with a small right-wing party who only polled four per cent of the vote.

Did this eight-year-old predict the Chilean earthquake? Schoolboy wrote an essay just hours before because he felt a tsunami was 'going to happen' 

Carlos Perez from Argentina, penned the essay called 'Tsunami in Chile' saying he had a feeling people would have to flee their homes and that a helicopter would rescue them.

More than 4,000 of South Africa's most dangerous prisoners are evacuated from infamous Pollsmoor Prison after two inmates die from a disease spread by RATS

Murderers, rapists and violent gang leaders are being moved at gunpoint in a massive, high-risk operation at Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson Mandela spent part of his incarceration.

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U2 concert in Stockholm is abandoned after reports man 'armed with a gun was let inside while disguised as a policeman'

The man was let into the U2 concert at The Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm last night with a gun after he claimed to be a policeman who had 'forgot to leave the gun at work', it has been claimed.

South African police discover 21 pieces of female genitalia in Danish man's FREEZER after he 'drugged his own wife and mutilated her'

Danish man Peter Frederiksen has been arrested after police claim to have found 21 pieces of female genitalia stashed inside his freezer alongside anaesthetic, photographs and surgical tools.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Is the therapy that brings out false memories behind VIP abuse claims? 

DOMINIC LAWSON: There seems an obsessive need on the part of the authorities to pursue the perpetrators of unspeakable crimes...which may never have taken place at all.

PETER MCKAY: He's an ogre but we need Putin's help to kill ISIS 

Vladimir Putin is accused of annexing Crimea, destabilising Ukraine and stashing billions in foreigh banks to fund a lavish retirement - but might we have to join his crusade to crush ISIS?

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Gesture solutions and unanswered questions

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: With the first of 20,000 Syrian refugees expected in Britain this week, hosts of questions remain unanswered.

ANDREW PIERCE: Clegg set up shop with a pizza tycoon

After businessman Rumi Verjee became one of the Lib Dems' biggest donors, the man who brought Domino's Pizzas to Britain was elevated to the Lords in 2013 by a grateful Nick Clegg.