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The Queen was joined by Prince Philip as she welcomed Chinese president Xi Jinping to London. But it was Mr Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan, who stole the show at Horse Guards Parade. read

Niall, pictured left, and Aileen Caldwell, right, from Edinburgh, arrived at the airport in Sicily two hours before their flight to London Gatwick for their return journey. read

The study, which ministers have shelved since the summer, says a levy would rein in demand for unhealthy food and drink and also called for a crackdown on the promotion of junk food. read

British photographer Amanda de Cadenet , 43, teamed up with Marie Claire to create a comprehensive survey exploring modern women's relationships with porn. read

Two models from Siemens and Bosch have the highest EU energy efficiency rating of ‘A’ – but Dyson claims their consumption is closer to banned levels. read

Shocking new revelations about what happened in the days before Saudi Arabia's Prince Majed's arrest in Los Angeles for the alleged sex assault on his maid have come to light in court documents. read

Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson did not address the crowd, leaving the Directioners concerned for Liam's welfare and flooding to Twitter with their well-wishings. read

Jacqueline Sutton, pictured, 50, was on her way from Heathrow to Irbil in Iraq on Saturday when she missed her connecting flight at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. read

Profit margins at the ‘Big Six’ suppliers – British Gas, SSE, Npower, Eon, EDF and Scottish Power – are soaring as families and pensioners face a nightmare choice between heating and eating. read

He hasn't long been a father. But X Factor star Simon Cowell has confessed that he once feared that he wasn't connecting with his son, Eric. read

Studies have shown that even adults who consume moderately amounts of between seven and 14 units a week – up to six glasses of wine or seven pints of beer – are more susceptible to dementia. read

Jeremy Corbyn was given an unprecedented one-on-one meeting with President Xi after threatening to raise concerns at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace tonight. read

The Duchess of Cambridge teamed an embellished Jenny Packham dress in China's national colour with the Queen Mother's headpiece, which is also called the Papyrus tiara. read

The Duchess of Cambridge crowned the British designer by picking her to create the stunning scarlet gown. Packham has described the process of making dresses for Kate as 'collaborative'. read

Xi Jinping urged Britain to seize the opportunity opened up by David Cameron’s new stance on China, which critics claim relegates human rights behind trade at Buckingham Palace. read

MPs called on ministers to ‘stand up for Britain’ as Tata Steel confirmed that nearly 1,200 jobs would go at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire – the latest in a series of closures. read

She has been credited with adding glamour to Chinese politics and Peng Liyuan, wife of president Xi Jinping, certainly upped the style stakes today with three sophisticated ensembles. read

President Xi told MPs and Peers that China’s system of government was thousands of years older than Britain’s and the key to its strength. He added that it would develop with ‘distinct Chinese features’. read

President Xi of China addressed both Houses of Parliament in Westminster's ornate Royal Gallery in a mark of official esteem, or desire to please, writes QUENTIN LETTS. read

When retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming strode around London as part of the official Chinese delegation this week, trees shook and paving stones quaked, writes JANE FRYER. read

The pro-China protest outside Buckingham Palace in London was meant to drown out opponents of the regime, furious at the country’s treatment of Tibet and human rights abuses. read

British women spend an average of two years of their lives applying cosmetics. So could the blokes do it any better? Three Femail writers challenged their husbands to the task . . . read

Images of the seabed (main) taken off Western Australia could show debris from Malaysia Airlines MH370. The plane went missing in 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. read

Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, the chairman of NHS England, told the Westminster Health Forum in London that patients were confused by what services are available and do not know where to turn. read

Yesterday, high-profile think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that younger savers faced retiring on much lower pensions than their parents. read

Statistics showed pensioners’ average net income is 3 per cent higher than that of the working-age population, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. read

Today is the day in Back to the Future Part II that Marty McFly and 'Doc' Brown (Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd pictured left to right) arrive in Hill Valley after travelling forward in time from 1985. read

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond played down expectations about what can be achieved in the renegotiation with Brussels, saying many of Britain's demands may have to be watered down. read

Heidi Allen, the new MP for South Cambridgeshire, said that cutting tax credits 'overnight' showed that her party was out of touch with the public and lacking in compassion for those struggling. read

My heart went out to actress Helena Bonham Carter when, snapped popping to the shops at the weekend, her hair suddenly looked a little thinner than usual, writes SARAH VINE. read

Officers carried out the raids after a man called Nick claimed Lord Brittan was part of a murderous paedophile gang including ex-Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, and the former head of the Army. read

Russia's Defense Ministry released a clip from inside a Russian plane's cockpit as it encountered an American Reaper drone, at one point coming close enough to make out movements of its propeller. read

The official said Russian planes had flown extremely close to U.S planes twice in the past two weeks in Syria – one flew within 500ft and another came within 1,500 feet of two U.S. jets. read

The footage was shot by a VGTRK team over the rebel-held suburb of Syria's capital. President Assad's forces aim to retake Jobar, as part of a wider operation to defeat the rebels. read

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Diplomatic sources say inspectors will go to Iraq next week to help determine if the blistering agent sulphur mustard was used in the battlefield in August. read

As well as proving to be the most intractable challenge that Europe has faced for a generation, the migrant crisis has also revealed the profound consequences of gesture politics. read

A man has busted his wife cheating after she sent him a sexy, lingerie clad Snapchat from her hotel room to say goodnight - with another man's boots clearly visible behind her. read

We don’t quite make hay when the sun shines, but essentially we do try to complete every other chore imaginable that uses electricity when it costs us practically nothing. read

In the midst of the financial crisis in 2011, the price of gold soared to a record high, eventually hitting more than $1,900 an ounce. Today, it stands at around $1,176. read

A survey, commissioned by Waitrose, showed just under a third of people said they had cut back on TV dinners since BBC iPlayer, Netflix and other catch-up technologies became available. read

A report from the Office for National Statistics found higher levels of emotional problems among youngsters who spent a lot of time on websites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. read

The 80-year-old celebrity cook admitted that not everyone will share her taste for offal but said that her liking ox tongue evolved during her childhood in the Second World War. read

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called on the Government to review its position on fining parents who take their children on holiday during term time saying it is punishing them financially. read

A Money Mail investigation has revealed how hundreds of thousands of motorists with perfect records are being forced to jump through hoops if they want to benefit from a cheap deal. read

Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers said a security review revealed the Provisional IRA’s ruling body, the Army Council, still exists, but in a ‘much reduced form’. read

Dramas such as Eastenders will have to abide by the same impartiality rules while comedians will face restrictions on making jokes about the subject, it emerged yesterday. read

Last night, a very strange thing happened. I was lying in my Los Angeles bed when the earth moved in a way I haven’t experienced since a large quake knocked me onto the floor five years ago. read

John Boyega, 23, pictured, is from a tough estate in North Peckham, known for crime and gang violence, but he will be propelled to stardom by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. read

Using the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII, racist internet trolls have claimed the highly anticipated movie is a 'social justice propaganda piece' and should be ignored. read

Just the mere trailer was enough to send social media into a Star Wars-themed frenzy after it aired for the first time on Monday. Since then, the internet has been flooded with hilarious memes. read

They are set to star in a film series with the biggest and most hardcore fan following of all-time. And both Daisy Ridley and John Boyega reacted just as emotionally as any other devotee. read

Ex-EastEnders actor Hugh ‘Huggy’ Leaver, pictured, – who moved into the property only four years ago – will receive a large payoff from the new owners. read

The number of motorists who suddenly slam their breaks on is, on average, around six times higher at fixed speed-camera sites, according to the study. read

The researchers in America blamed pollutant carbon monoxide (CO) which is pumped out in higher quantities when planes are idling or taxi-ing on runways for causing health problems. read

The shower can be seen from around the world. The best time to see it is during moonset at 1:30am local daylight time on Thursday, although you may spot some meteors before then on Wednesday night. read

The mosaics are made up of images of people during 'Pluto Time' which is a brief moment near dawn and dusk, when the illumination on Earth matches that of noon on Pluto. read

For some people, the uncomfortable morning after the night before serves as the perfect opportunity to capture it all on Snapchat. read

Monica Monroe spoke for the first time of finding the NBA star unconscious at the Love Ranch in Nevada last week. He had taken a toxic combination of drink and drugs but is now recovering in hospital. read

Odom was discharged from Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday night where he at some point took a few steps accordng to his family. read

Incidents of fly-tipping has surged for the second year in a row with almost half of the incidents involving dumping rubbish on roads, with footpaths, back alleys and bridleways also badly hit. read

Nearly a quarter of those aged 30 to 50 in a survey admitted missing out on so much sleep that it could damage their health. The loss in sleep could be as much as 15 days over a year, the study said. read

Police in riot gear surrounded hundreds of migrants in a muddy field near the border village of Rigonce, from where they were to be escorted on foot to an already overcrowded reception centre. read

Sticks were used as weapons and punches thrown as thousands of migrants continued to arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after fleeing conflict in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. read

As the migrant crisis rages and European leaders clash on how best to deal with it, the UK gave permission to more half a million people from outside the EU to settle here. read

Populations have fallen by 48 per cent overall with the worst affected species – the white-letter hairstreak – down by 96 per cent. Intensive farming, less wild flowers and mild wet winters were blamed. read

Carlie Johnson, 28, (pictured) from Chelmsford, Essex, had last been seen outside Liverpool Street station in London where she was supposed to catch a train home with her girlfriend. read

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The Israeli got out of his car carrying a club after demonstrators threw stones at it. He began hitting vehicles before being run over near Hebron city. read

Forecasters are warning of a frosty end to 2015, with snow possibly arriving as early as this week in some parts of the country, leading bookmakers to slash their odds of snowfall on December 25. read

A hormone made by fat cells in which tells the body when to stop eating and kick-starts fat-burning was injected directly into the brains of rats and they lost five per cent of their weight in just four months. read

The discovery, by Imperial College London, could help scientists find a way to diagnose the early onset of schizophrenia, helping them provide treatment before symptoms get worse. read

Men whose wives became obese were 78 per cent more likely to follow suit, while women whose husbands gained weight were 89 per cent more likely to do so too, the Johns Hopkins study found. read

Imgur user Aronaf (pictured) shared the funny text exchange, which is between Sean and his ex - who slept with someone else. Sean ends the argument by correcting his ex's grammar. read

The Irish crooner and his wife Majella were booked to stay at the B&B owned by Anne and Noel Sheerin in Tulsk, County Roscommon when Mrs Sheerin couldn't contain her excitement. read

There was uproar among conservative Anglican Britain when the blunder (pictured) was found a year after 1,000 copies were published. The King ordered them to be set alight - but some survived. read

When it comes to personal hygiene, men are often the ones accused of having poor cleanliness and a lesser understanding of bathroom etiquette. Take our test to see how you fare... read

Websites such as Get Me In, Seatwave, Stubhub, Viagogo and World Ticket Shop offer tickets often at vastly inflated prices, according to researchers from consumer watchdog Which? read

Furious village hall bosses in Kennington were forced to cancel the latest NHS Blood and Transplant donation session because of the allegedly dangerous step. read

The chart-topping musician, 24, broke from his hectic schedule to return home to Framlingham, Suffolk this week to have a suite at the care home opened in his name. read

The popular daytime host (pictured) said touching messages she'd received from fans 'mean a great deal' as she made her TV comeback in London wearing a navy blue top and floral-patterned skirt. read

The toll keeps rising from the September 24 disaster outside Mecca as individual countries identify bodies and work to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of pilgrims still missing. read

The plastic head - designed to be part a Halloween outfit or pantomime costume -became a huge subject of interest after a bizarre comment left in the reviews section read

Dame Valerie Beral, a professor at Oxford University, today pointed to the large bulk of evidence suggesting the drugs did increase the risk of long-term health problems. read

The leader of France’s far-right Front National - who could face a year in jail - was in combative mood as she told Lyon Correctional Court: ‘I’ve committed no crime. I’m an honest woman.’ read

Lauren Jackson, 31, from Wiltshire, was given the heartbreaking news and told she would have to consider aborting her unborn child in August 2013, while she was two months pregnant. read

Teena Fleetwood was celebrating her daughter's 21st birthday at the Lagoon 1770 resort at Agnes Water on Central Queensland, last Friday when her husband took a family photo in the spa. read

Twenty viewers complained that the adverts, which showed young adults leaping into a pool in Mexico, depicted the activity – known as tombstoning – in a positive light. read

An email from the British Ambassador to Argentina to his colleagues said the BBC had been 'part of the difficulty' and there had been a 'lack of information' about Top Gear's Christmas special. read

EXCLUSIVE: The quiz's creator, Professor Martyn Caplin, a consultant gastroenterologist at London’s Royal Free Hospital, says diet is associated with up to a quarter of all cancers. read

EXCLUSIVE: A Romanian teenager is accused of selling her baby son to a UK-based couple for up to £11,000. But she insisted the claims are 'horrific lies' and said she loves her son. read

The process, known as nanoformulation, prolongs the effect of protease inhibitor drugs, and tests by scientists at the universities of Rochester and Nebraska, showed it eradicated HIV, illustrated, from immune cells. read

Researchers say there are 'significant' differences in the way male and female hearts change over time - and that gender-specific treatments may be needed. read

Dana Griffin-Graves posted a video, since seen nearly 10 million times, three weeks ago of her husband Arkell Graves' tearful reaction to the news that she was five-months pregnant. read

The Foreign Secretary said TV pictures showed that many of the people trying to reach wealthy EU countries were economic migrants, and Britain wanted to help the most vulnerable in camps. read

Newcastle University students Aidan Brunger, (pictured) from Kent, and Neil Dalton, from Ambergate in Derbyshire, were killed in the attack in Kuching, Borneo in August last year. read

The Celebrity Big Brother star, who recently converted to Judaism, urged Israelis to 'defend yourself by all means' and called on the U.S. government to take action. read

Rainer Schorr, 53, of Berlin, Germany, is a wealthy equities and real estate fund tycoon whose website bills the company as 'Private Equity and Investment in People, Future and Environment.' read

Roger Cooper, 41, a boss at Costco, spent at least a month plotting to kill lover, Sameena Imam, 34, and carried out the killing in Leicester on Christmas Eve last year with the help of his brother David. read

Daniel Soares, 17, the alleged mastermind, was arrested on Tuesday in New York along with fellow Commack High School students Erick Vaysman, 17, and Alex Mosquera, 17. read

Researchers claim to have worked out how to accurately predict the eruption of 'megavolcanoes' that blanket the earth in giant ash clouds triggering a 'nuclear winter'. read

The ensemble, which is priced at $49.99, has outraged transgender activists, who have complained to the online retailer. The 'tastelessly brilliant' costume is also being sold on eBay. read

Amelia Perrin, 19, from Essex, says she has been forced to watermark her selfies after spotting dozens of fake online profiles which use her pictures without permission. read

Anastasia Reskoss, 20, and Quentin Dehar, 23, have spent thousands to look like Barbie and Ken dolls. The couple, from Marseille, France, want more surgery after having 15 procedures in total. read

Justin Trudeau, 43, was named Canada's new PM after his Liberal Party won a majority of Parliament's 338 during Monday's general election. Stephen Harper stepped down as head of the Conservatives. read

The black rhino calf, who was born to first-time mother Damara, is the first of his kind to be born in the 40-year history of Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury in Kent. read

The Paralympian star's lawyers successfully argued that he should be released on house arrest after serving a year of his five-year jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. read

Tobias Terpilowski-Gill (pictured), a former Sheffield Halam student, had begged for psychological support but was told he should either go to his GP or visit A&E instead, an inquest heard. read

Cerys Edwards' (pictured) life was changed forever when the Range Rover Sport driven by Antonio Boparan destroyed the car she was travelling in with mother Tracey and father Gareth in Sutton Coldfield. read

Miltiades Papadopoulos, 41, was found dead at home in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, on October 22 last year. He had been stripped naked, tied up, robbed and murdered in his living room. read

Yorkshire groundsman Peter Bolton (pictured) is selling the soft-top 1999 MG MGF car that he claims helped him pull no fewer than EIGHT women in just the summer months alone on eBay. read

Sally Evans, 57, from High Wycombe, Bucks., appears in a Channel 4 documentary, My Son The Jihadist, as she tries to make sense of her late son Thomas's bloodthirsty transformation. read

Khoo Kay Peng, 76, who is non-executive chairman of Laura Ashley Holdings, and Pauline Chai, 68, who both come from Malaysia, have been embroiled in litigation in London for more than two years. read

From 7am to 6pm, Felimina Rotundo works at the College Laundry Shoppe in Buffalo, New York. She hasn't considered retirement and will continue working as long as her health is good. read

Flight lieutenants Geraint 'Roly' Roberts, pictured, and Alan Scott died, along with three other people, when their Puma Mk2 crashed during a landing at NATO's training headquarters in Kabul. read

Doctors at Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland, Washington, were forced to deliver Holli Gorveatt's first son on September 29. Logan was born on Saturday via C-section. read

Joaquin Gomez-Hernandez, 24, has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years after beating his 33 year-old wife Vanessa Santillan to death at their home in Fulham, south west London. read

Slovakia-born Zdenko Turtak, 22, has been jailed for 20 years for brutally raping an 18-year-old woman after dragging her from a bus stop in Leeds in March and beating her 18 times with a large rock. read

The musician revealed his darkest time in a candid interview with Good Morning America , saying: 'I mean, [medical officials] had to take my phone out of my room because I was making these phone calls. read

Hollywood, Florida-based actress Aniela McGuinness, 32, had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer and documented the process through photos. read

The new picture shows Amy Thomson, who collapsed and was left in a wheelchair and with brain damage after taking MDMA at a party in Glasgow, continuing her fightback to health. read

Nathan Matthews is on trial for Becky's murder. The court heard today from her best friend Courtney Bicker (pictured, left, with Becky) who said Matthews previously threatened to kill the teenager read

James Glyn has insisted he was resident in Monaco when he received a £24million dividend from selling off his family property portfolio ten years ago. read

Laura Gregory, 27, from Sheffield (pictured) has had vitiligo since the age of 12, leaving her with pale patches on her skin. Now she has defied expectations to become a successful beauty queen. read

Two videos show US cars using the new software swerving out of their lane. Tesla says the autopilot functionality is still in test mode and full 'hands-off' driving is not recommended. read

Almost 500 burials have been found on the site of Marsh Creek in California. Eight of these bodies were interred with an extra skull (pictured) and seven were buried missing their skull. read

Shelley Christopher, 36, stabbed Richard Brown 29 times before turning on their daughter Sophia after believing she had been instructed by a light bulb in the ceiling at their home in Notting Hill, London. read

The man, who the Serbian Interior Ministry said was 'intoxicated, aggressive and rude', was taken off the Sun Express flight from Dublin to Izmir on Saturday after the plane landed in Serbia. read

The young girl is seen looking at the spooky display in a shopping hall while holding the hand of a moving monster before a ghost statue springs into life giving her a huge fright. read

These cringe-worthy school portraits have been posted to a photo sharing site by amused parents or the stars of the pictures themselves. read

About 390 South Koreans were reunited with some 140 family members from the North, many of whom have not laid eyes on each other or had any contact for more than 60 years. read

The unnamed employee, who was in his thirties while working at the plant following the 2011 disaster, is suffering from leukaemia. read

To protect against allergies, children should be introduced to foods like peanuts and eggs at four months old and then be regularly fed them, experts from Manitoba University, Winnipeg, advise. read

Sona Avedian, 33, of Austin, Texas, says she always wanted to be a woman, but suppressed her feminine side and instead 'overcompensated' to become a hulking, gun-toting soldier. read

In the first 15 months of gay weddings being legalised, 1,500 more women tied the knot than men which experts suggested could be a sign than men are ‘commitment-phobes’. read

Doting mother Jessica Sands from Wallasey, Merseyside, started drawing the mark after a haemangioma grew on the face of her seven-month old daughter, Madison (pictured together). read

The discovery was made in a giant tomb in Kemerovo region with the remains belonging to the mysterious Tashtyk people, famed for their elaborate funeral rites. read

Cardiologist Dr Marta Bavolarova, from Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Kosice, Slovakia, found a sharp intake of air interrupted the drop in blood pressure, which can lead to fainting. read

The series of snaps show the stormy skies over Genoa, Italy, as the tornado, known as a waterspout when occurring over water, sweeps over the sea. read

At his Winter 2016 show, São Paolo designer Ronaldo Fraga had two models, a man and a woman, unzip their red-and-pink robes to stand topless in front of the crowd. read

Two girls from prestigious school Methodist Ladies' College in east Melbourne disciplined after rumours they became romantic linked to two males on school trip to a Tanzanian school. read

Arthur Holland, 69, who was suffering from cancer, has died just 18 days after marrying his childhood sweetheart Val Cowen, 64, in a touching ceremony at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary (pictured). read

Gong Xunhui from Chengdu, China, has had motor neurone disease for 13 years. She is paralysed and cannot talk but her blinks can control a computer. She hopes to sell it for charity. read

Her sister Kendall was walking the runway, but Kylie Jenner managed to steal some attention for herself on the sidelines. read

First prize this year was awarded to Australian Ralph Grimm for his stunning image that brings you eye-to-eye with a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen grain. read

Luci Mayer, 21, has launched an appeal to find her biological father. Her mother Mig Mayer, 55, had a one-night-stand with the man in late 1993 or early 1994 when living in Rye, Victoria. read

The owners of the Great Dane named after the mythical Loch Ness monster have filmed the moment the 140-pound dog went to town when they covered the pool up for the season. read

'Honestly. Directions to the gents would have been enough, Mr Cameron.' read

The hotel is part of an £8billion riverside development to transform the 42-acre former brownfield site in Battersea, London, into homes, shops, cafes, offices and public space. read

The footage was captured in Brazil and shows the heavy truck plummeting into a ravine after the driver attempted to cross a rickety wooden bridge and failed miserably. read

Kids do the funniest things - and plenty of japes that leave parents open-mouthed in horror. A photo of a little girl who appears to have etched a note on the side of her father's car is proving an internet hit. read

The 26-year-old from Brixton, South London, met the Jamaican sprinter through a mutual friend and the pair began dating in 2013 but they reportedly ended the relationship due to his busy schedule. read

Experts from underwear brand Curvy Kate claim to tell a woman's correct bra size from a single photo. Intrigued, Caroline Garnar, 30, from London, sent her picture and was shocked to be told she's a 30G. read

Among the military structures pictured are those at Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, Hayling Island in Hampshire, Brean Down in Somerset and Studland Bay in Dorset. read