When Beyonce stepped out in New York this week in a revealing pink dress, she looked different. Closer inspection confirmed the reason - her skin paler than ever. With her tumbling blonde hair, the world's highest-paid black music star of all time looked more Caucasian (centre, right). Not only does it send the message that she is not good enough as she is, it also suggests that Queen Bee (pictured centre left in 2004) thinks she must alter the very fabric of her being to make herself more palatable to the masses. So why do all these women want to be whiter? Because the beauty ideal they all aspire to is blonde, blue-eyed; Aryan, no less. Pictured: Michael Jackson's sister Janet in 1980 (top right) and looking very different in 2013 (bottom right) and Rihanna at a Grammys party in 2007 (bottom left) and sporting a blonde hairstyle in 2012 (top left).
Robbed by cyber hackers: Conmen who stole TalkTalk customers' details are raiding their bank accounts
The fraudsters started cold-calling targets even before the broadband firm realised that customer details had been stolen. The company alerted Scotland Yard and the major banks on Wednesday, going public about the hack on Thursday night. But by then some of the four million TalkTalk customers whose sensitive data may have been leaked were being contacted by criminals.
- Why DO so many of my fellow black stars want whiter skin? MICA PARIS poses question as Beyonce reveals her palest shade yet
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- EDWARD LUCAS: Plain truth is we've all been far too complacent
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- Ex-Coronation Street star Peter Baldwin dies aged 82: Tributes for ‘wonderful actor’ who played Derek Wilton on ITV soap for 21 years
- Have scientists cured baldness? New drug reveals regrowth in mice in ten DAYS
- Orphan boy of 16 was abandoned by the state to bring up his sister and brothers: 32 years on, council admits failings and pays family £100,000 compensation
- Christmas is ruined: Mother of four 'devastated' and left with £3,300 debt after falling for Facebook scammer who convinced her to sell iMacs on eBay
- Coroner calls for homicide inquiry into five-month-old baby girl who 'died of shaking injuries' after being bottle-fed by her father
- Britain's tallest crook 'Tiny' who was freed from jail because prison beds and clothes weren't long enough is back behind bars
- Grey, wet... it must be half-term: Heavy rain is forecast for the next week with downpour set to strike Rugby World Cup semi final
- Depressed mother-of-two, 35, left her baby in his pushchair beside the tracks before she stepped into path of speeding train
- Girl, 15, among four charged with murder after father stabbed near playground in street confrontation
- Inside the world's oldest flying Spitfire: BBC documentary crew get exclusive access to the fighter which was shot down once and crashed three times and yet refuses to die
- UK will foot the bill for EVERY migrant on Cyprus base whether they claim asylum or not
- Well, you can see it from space! Huge display of Stormtroopers assembled at the Great Wall of China to promote the new Star Wars movie
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- What's so funny? Ole Miss frat brothers smile for their mugshots despite being charged with beating student 'within an inch of his life' in 4am assault
- Michael Jackson's doctor Arnold Klein - the rumored sperm donor who fathered children Paris and Prince - dies wheelchair-bound and bankrupt aged 70
- Women accused of witchcraft are filmed being stripped, tied up and burned by mob before one of them dies as they deny 'invisibly taking out a man's heart' in Papua New Guinea
- Thieves get their comeuppance when prankster ties back wheel of ‘unlocked’ bicycles to a tree and films them suffering painful looking faceplants as they try to ride off
- Learn to be dead for the day: Suicidal people are locked into coffins in bizarre 'death experience' schools in South Korea where 40 people kill themselves every day
- Wife forced to have sex with 2,700 men: Husband on trial after making £5,000 a month 'hiring out' spouse over four years
- Pictured: The incredible moment a massive section of mountain breaks off and plummets 1,000 feet, destroying the forest below
- EXCLUSIVE: Designer Donna Karan cheated on her husband for YEARS with the married love of her life and was so nervous when she met BFF Barbra Streisand for the first time she had to pop Valium
- Women allow themselves to be filmed stripping naked in the middle of a Russian nightclub to win an iPhone (and it isn't even a new model!)
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- Swedish sword killer left hand-written 'suicide note' before launching racist hate attack on migrant students... as CCTV shows he left white-skinned pupils alone while hacking dark-skinned children
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Orphan boy of 16 was abandoned by the state to bring up his sister and brothers: 32 years on, council admits failings and pays family £100,000 compensation
James Hawkins from Liverpool, left, pictured today with one of his brothers Anthony, centre and sister Colette. He was just 16 when their parents, James and Eileen, top right, died of alcohol poisoning in a freak accident in 1983. James, who was just 16 at the time, was the eldest child, a year older than his sister Colette. His brothers Anthony and Steven, pictured bottom right, did a milk round to help earn more money for the family.
After years of intrigue has this Kremlin defector solved the riddle of the spy in the bag? Former Russian major claims KGB was trying to recruit Gareth Williams
To those acquainted with the dark arts of international espionage, the strange death of Gareth Williams (left) appeared to bear all the hallmarks of a 'wet job' - the grisly name for an assassination carried out by people trained to kill. Now former KGB major Boris Karpichkov (right), 56, has claimed the same hitmen he says killed Williams, whose body was found inside a North Face holdall (inset) in his Pimlico flat in August 2010, are comin
Being 007 has left me so battered I need a knee op, says Daniel Craig as he reveals he injured himself filming Spectre fight scene
Daniel Craig, 47 (right), has revealed that just because the daring escapades he portrays on screen are fictional, it does not mean he is safe from injury. He told yesterday how he is set to go under the knife yet again because of a knee injury he picked up while filming a fight scene for Spectre (pictured inset) with the hulking villain Mr Hinx. And this is far from the first time Craig had taken a beating in the line of duty. The sculpted body that emerged from the sea during 2006's Casino Royale has been repeatedly put through the ringer (shown left) during his nine years as Bond and, with the stunts becoming more breathtaking in each film, the injuries are becoming more serious. But Spectre's knee injury appears to be the most serious knock yet, requiring two sessions of surgery to put Craig back on track. The knee injury threatened to halt filming for six months and push back the release date for the film until 2016, but the actor was determined to work through the pain.
Spanking GP was secret bigamist: She's the doctor who landed in court for an over-zealous Fifty Shades romp with her millionaire lover. But that's not the half of it...
She's become notorious in her leafy home town of Orpington, Kent, as the 'spanking GP', thanks to a bitter court battle with her multi-millionaire ex-lover. So what will the former patients and well-to-do neighbours of Dr Elvira Blakemore make of the latest revelations about her tumultuous love-life? For the Mail can reveal that Dr Blakemore is not only partial to some rather eye-popping sexual habits, but that she is also a bigamist.
Child rapist is jailed for life after he is caught on CCTV snatching girl, 6, off the street just days after finishing sex offenders' rehab course
Imran Khan, 34, (left) was released on licence for abusing a 12-year-old girl and days after completing a course to supress his 'urges' he struck again. CCTV revealed how he found the new victim (circled in yellow) after 'doing laps' of Burnley's streets in his car (circled in red and bottom right) for 30 minutes. After seeing the youngster riding around on her bike he bundled her into the boot of his car. He then dumped the terrified child in a dustbin after exposing himself.
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WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Fury as Corbyn hires aides who defended Lee Rigby murder and called Labour ministers 'vile and racist'
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- Many refugees walking across Europe are 'fit young men looking for work', says Philip Hammond
Lake District and Yorkshire Dales to be expanded to create England's biggest national park - fixing '60-year-old bungle'
The two areas will flow almost continuously as one great park with the Yorkshire Dales to be increased by 23 per cent and the Lake District, three per cent. Campaigners said the move will correct a bureaucratic bungle made over 60 years ago. Pictured is Lake Buttermere in the Lake District, and a map showing the new boundaries.
'R u okay with my age?' Newlywed paedophile arrives to meet '11-year-old girl' for sex after grooming her online... only to be confronted by 'Dark Justice' vigilantes who had lured him into trap
Dark Justice, while posing as 11-year-old 'Amanda', arranged to meet Hazaa Said (pictured main and inset), from Oman in the Gulf who had been married for just a matter of months, in Newcastle. He had exchanged explicit messages with the fake schoolgirl (right) and even sent a picture of his genitals. He has become the sixth pervert to jailed after being snared the group which poses as schoolgirls online to trap men who are interested in underage sex.
Is the National Trust to blame for one of our grandest houses going up in smoke in Britain's worst heritage disaster since Windsor Castle fire?
The clearing-up of Clandon Park, near Guildford in Surrey (shown right), still has a long way to go, even though many months have passed since the conflagration which caused all this. That this salvage operation is still a work in progress reflects the severity of the blaze (inset) which destroyed the ancient seat of the Earls of Onslow in April this year (shown top left). Even now, no one is sure quite how many treasures have been lost. And six months on, there are more questions than ever. Last weekend, the gates to the gardens closed for good. Nothing more has been decided. But the longer all these questions go unanswered, the more outsiders, art historians and members of the family who gave this great home to the nation in 1956 are demanding an explanation. Meanwhile, the National Trust has a single stock answer: 'Wait and see.' Pictured bottom left: The ornate plasterwork and stunning fireplace in one of the house's 80 rooms before the blaze.
Haunting moment a child's toy car is taken away by crash investigators as a toddler is airlifted to hospital with facial injuries after horror collision in town centre
Witnesses said the little girl and a two-year-old boy were thrown from their pushchairs when a VW being driven by a 89-year-old woman mounted the curb in Guildford, Surrey. The little girl and a man in his 60s were flown by separate air ambulances to St George's Hospital, south London and a woman with leg injuries was taken by road ambulance to the same hospital. All three are said to be in a serious condition. Crash investigators were seen examining and clearing up the scene, including removing a red children's toy car buggy (main image and top left).
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Captain Kate: Duchess of Cambridge takes the wheel as she and Prince William board famous Dundee ship
Resplendent in a bespoke blue coat by Scottish designer, Christopher Kane, and suede knee length boots, the mother-of-two joined Prince William to highlight mental health issues affecting young people on their first official visit to Dundee on Friday. The visit focuses on the mental wellbeing of youngsters, which is a major priority for William and Kate, who are known as The Earl and Countess of Strathearn in Scotland. The couple will meet with young people dealing with mental health challenges, take part in an anti-bullying workshop and hold a private meeting with leaders in Scotland's youth mental health sector.
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Migrants storm the gates of Lesbos as UN warns women and children are being forced to have 'survival sex' with smugglers to continue their journey into Europe
Hundreds of exhausted migrants scrambled over each other - and the through a squad of riot police - at the Moria registration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos today (main, and top and bottom right). These latest scenes of desperation come amid a stark warning from the United Nations that migrant women and children are being forced to have 'survival sex' with smugglers to continue on their journey into Europe. UNHCR Spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said some of the stories of sexual abuse came from 'overcrowded reception sites' such as in Greece, the main point of entry for hundreds of thousands of migrants, but it appears to be happening in 'every single country'. More than 600,000 - a third of whom are believed to be women and children - have arrived in Europe this year. Greece took in a record 48,000 migrants in just five days this week - with more than 20,000 of them landing on the island of Lesbos (inset).
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