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
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.
- That's what you call an upgrade! Russian billionaire unveils his £260m superyacht which is 300ft high, has eight floors and an underwater observation room - replacing his measly £190m boat
- Woman, 45, who died with her husband, 50, in a 'gas explosion' was MURDERED say police who are now treating the incident as suspicious
- Pictured: British couple at centre of Algarve burglary drama in which thief died after he broke into their £1.5m home and was restrained in a choke-hold
- Have you been saying it wrong? Buyers incorrectly pronounce Nutella... as the brand reveals it DOESN'T start with 'Nut'
- 'How do you wind the window down?' Revealing the most hilarious questions passengers have asked flight attendants
- An end to puddles? Bizarre 'thirsty' concrete sucks up hundreds of gallons of water in less than a minute
- Estranged wife of soldier who was awarded £1.1million when Taliban bomb left him severely brain damaged 'wants his last £200,000' after she walked out on him on Valentine's Day
- 1500 pupils and parents sign a petition against school’s uniform policy after head bans ‘aggressive hair’ and a boy is suspended for being TOO BLOND
- The rise of BIGOREXIA: How male gym-goers with anxieties over their muscles are excessively lifting weights and taking steroids - leading to depression, heart attacks and suicide
- Headteacher is banned from the classroom after her school shunned a sex abuse victim and branded her a trouble-maker
- Conman carpenter fleeced £90,000 from the taxman and got away with it for so long because of office cutbacks
- Helicopter police officer could be jailed for 'filming former Page Three girl sunbathing naked in her garden'
- Sue Perkins reveals brain tumour consultant told her being infertile would be EASIER because she's a lesbian
- BBC's £8m on birdsong and Syrian puppets: Money spent on collection of digital art despite bosses complaining about budget cuts
- 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
- Anger as Richard Dawkins becomes the latest celebrity to attack Texas schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed over his homemade clock after Sarah Palin says it DID look like a bomb
- So what REALLY happened to Dubai's Sheikh Rashid? How billionaire prince was hit by claims of cocaine, sex parties - and a 'roid rage' killing before he died at 33
- Thrown from bridges, horrifically mutilated, raped or simply 'disappeared': Inside the Mexican state where 900 women have either vanished or been murdered and 1,200 raped in a single year
- 'Mistress' of slain Houston police deputy was in the car with him when he was murdered at a gas station
- EXCLUSIVE: Bound to a pole, brutally bludgeoned with a bat and forced to listen to his wife being raped: The Connecticut doctor who survived home invasion and triple murder of his family reveals new details of the horrific tragedy in book
- Muslims are transforming Europe, says Art Garfunkel in warning over dangers of mass migration
- 'Rot in hell': Relatives scream in disgust as addict mother of 'Baby Doe' Bella Bond and her boyfriend plead not guilty to her murder
- Bonkbuster queen who knew ALL Hollywood's dirty secrets: At 15 she had a fling with Brando and was chased by Errol Flynn - but that was far from the most surprising thing about Jackie Collins' love life
- EXCLUSIVE: Stunning bride Allison Williams is walked down the aisle by her father Brian just days before he returns to the air - as both begin new chapters in their lives
- 'I want you to be friends': Six-year-old girl's heartbreaking plea to her divorced parents to try and get along is shared by thousands
- Soaring suicide rates, murder and forced to live by the roadside on scraps: How one of the Amazon's oldest tribes faces being wiped out by ranchers scaring them off their land in a 'silent genocide'
- Meet the face of Brandy Melville: The stunning model, 18, who is getting your daughters to spend millions on the controversial brand's clothing
- 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
- Man who ditched his family and hid out on the Appalachian Trail for SIX YEARS after being accused of $9million fraud is arrested after hiker recognized him from crime show
- Soap star rants against Viola Davis using the Emmys for 'racial opportunity' after her stirring acceptance speech on the prejudice faced by black actors
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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
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.
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
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.
Muslim model, 24, is found hanged after fearing she was going to be forced into arranged marriage by her parents
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.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Labour deputy leader Tom Watson says defecting to the Lib Dems would be like 'leaving the Beatles to join a Bananarama tribute band'
- Britain will become an 'impoverished backwater' if we leave the EU, claims Lib Dem leader Tim Farron
- Anger at plan to refurbish the European Parliament after just 22 years which will give MEPs THREE offices each
Celebrating turning one, the first baby born after a womb transplant: Mother speaks of 'fantastic feeling' following pioneering project that saw four children born
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.
Beloved author Jackie Collins only told older sister Joan two WEEKS before she died that she had been battling breast cancer for six years - because she didn't want to be a burden
The novelist, who has died at the age of 77, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer more than six years ago but kept her illness almost entirely to herself.
- 'I'm completely devastated': Joan Collins reveals grief at sister Jackie's death from breast cancer... and leads tributes to her 'wonderful, brave, best friend'
- Jackie Collins' final, stoic TV appearance: Novelist flew from LA to London for chat show just NINE DAYS before her death, gave no indication of her suffering
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
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.
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
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.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Precious cargo: Desperate Syrian family risk the lives of their eight-month-old twins to make the perilous journey across the sea 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.
WORLD NEWS
- Newly re-elected Greek Prime Minister faces his 'first crucial battle' - asking the creditors to write off some of the country's debts
- Precious cargo: Desperate Syrian family risk the lives of their eight-month-old twins to make the perilous journey across the sea to Lesbos
- The human tide: Waves of migrants keep coming as Hungary warns millions are 'breaking down the doors' of Europe and Germany says EU should only take refugees from crisis-hit areas
- 'Syrian squat' is smashed in Calais: French riot police move in on 300 occupants who had refused to join the 'Jungle'
- 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'
- German woman, 91, is charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder as prosecutors accuse her of being a Nazi SS radio operator who served in Auschwitz
- 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
- U2 concert in Stockholm is abandoned after reports man 'armed with a gun was let inside while disguised as a policeman'
- President of Italian football club Napoli is dramatically airlifted to safety after his luxury superyacht bursts into flames at sea
- South African police discover 21 pieces of female genitalia in Danish man's FREEZER after he 'drugged his own wife and mutilated her'
- Senseless slaughter, corruption and broken promises of money and glory: Landmark report reveals why growing numbers of foreign fighters are defecting from ISIS
- Thrown from bridges, horrifically mutilated, raped or simply 'disappeared': Inside the Mexican state where 900 women have either vanished or been murdered and 1,200 raped in a single year
- Soaring suicide rates, murder and forced to live by the roadside on scraps: How one of the Amazon's oldest tribes faces being wiped out by ranchers scaring them off their land in a 'silent genocide'