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David Bowie's wife Iman Abdulmajid is seen for the first time since husband's death

Model Iman Abdulmajid has been seen for the first time since her beloved husband David Bowie passed away from cancer. read


Jade Douse 'smashed student over the head with a champagne flute'

Stylist Jade Douse, 25, became involved in a row with student Anna Zandman at a fashion networking evening at the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens. read


Millionaire plumber is ordered to pay his former cleaner girlfriend huge slice of his fortune in court battle - even though they were never married

John Hoggins, 62, paid the deposit and mortgage costs for their £650,000 home in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, but a judge ruled it belonged to his girlfriend Greta Cerniauskaite (pictured) read


Russia could overrun Eastern Europe in THREE DAYS, according to US predictions

A think tank of US military officers and civilian officials believes America and its allies do not have the troop and tank numbers capable of halting a Russian advance across the Baltic. read


Sheldon man roasted to death on his poolside sunbed in Ibiza

Neil Murphy (pictured on another holiday), from Sheldon, Birmingham, had paid nearly £1,000 to go on the solo week-long holiday at the Mare Nostrum Hotel in Playa d'en Bossa in August. read


Terry Wogan's childhood friends reveal he was 'useless' at school 

Jim Sexton and Mick Neville were both at school with the broadcaster in Limerick and remained in touch with their old friend for decades afterwards. read


Man who tried to claim £250,000 with a FAKE scratchcard receives a hilarious response from the National Lottery - advising him to use glue next time 

Jonny Smith, from Ossett, West Yorkshire, claimed he had scooped the jackpot on Facebook but pointed out there was some fire and ink damage. The National Lottery refused his ticket. read


Afghans who beat pensioners on Munich train were rejected for asylum

EXCLUSIVE: Three migrant men who attacked two pensioners on a subway train in Munich in shocking video had been living in Germany for four years, despite their asylum requests being rejected. read


Moment Prince Harry's camp in Afghanistan came under attack from the Taliban as he did 'punchy job' as forward air controller 

The dramatic moment Prince Harry's camp came under attack from the Taliban in Afghanistan has been revealed in a candid new book, with his fellow comrades telling how he did a 'punchy job'. read


Mother who blamed headaches on tiredness is diagnosed with a BRAIN TUMOUR

Emily Corrigan, 28, from Watford, considered herself perfectly fit and healthy until she passed out last July. Part of her skull had to be removed to get rid of the tumour, leaving a huge scar. read


India Chipchase 'was turned away from nightclub for being too drunk before her death'

The 20-year-old, who worked as a part-time barmaid, had been drinking with friends on Friday night before they became separated on Bridge Street in Northampton. read


Wetherspoons pub evacuated after a rat 'ran up customer's leg and took a chip out of his hand' 

Mechanic Reece Combs, 22, was tucking into his meal with girlfriend Lucy Wrenn at the Albany Palace pub in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, when the uninvited dinner guest struck. read


Waitrose Chichester cafe swaps china for PAPER plates and cups 

Angry regulars in the Waitrose store, in Chichester, complained to bosses when the shop's restaurant started using the disposable items (pictured) to serve their food and drinks. read


Geraldine Newman bludgeoned to death alongside her 2 children pictured

Paul Newman, 42, is believed to have killed Geraldine Newman, 51, pictured, before murdering their daughter Shannon, 11, and son Shane, six, in Allerton Bywater, near Leeds. read


Georgia's oldest Death Row inmate Brandon Astor Jones is executed by lethal injection

Brandon Astor Jones was sentenced to death after he was convicted in the 1979 shooting of a suburban Atlanta convenience store manager, Roger Tackett. read


Lesbian wins court battle with ex-girlfriend over seven-year-old IVF daughter

In what has been described as the first case of its kind, Supreme Court justices in London ruled that the non-biological mother of a seven-year-old IVF daughter could fight for custody of the girl. read


Royal aide to Charles and Camilla was four times over the drink drive limit while on the morning school run

Gemma Kaza, 41, who is the heir to the throne's Inventory Controller, was in court over the incident in south-west London last week. read


Could taking antibiotics increase your risk of STDs? Drugs 'block the immune system's ability to fight the herpes virus'

Scientists in Korea and Japan found the drugs disrupt the bacterial diversity of the vaginal mucosa, which in turn, blocks T-cells from migrating to the vaginal tissues to fight the virus. read


Louise Wolstenholme lying unconscious in the road was crushed to death

Louise Wolstenholme, 52, fell over and knocked herself unconscious in the street in Bolton - and two vehicles then drove around her rather than offering help. read


Cancer claimed life of woman who visited doctors FIFTY-EIGHT times

Jeanette Scully, 47, died of a rare and aggressive type of cancer in August. It is 'unlikely' she would have survived had it been diagnosed earlier, an inquest at Sunderland Civic Centre ruled today. read


Narborough Road in Leicester with shopkeepers from 23 different countries

Business owners on Narborough Road in Leicester hail from four continents including countries such as Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan read


Zika virus to hit the UK as travellers return from Latin America, doctor claims

Dr Nick Beeching, a tropical medicine consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, said the risk was so high because the area has become an increasingly popular tourist destination. read


First sexually transmitted case of Zika virus is confirmed in the US, health officials warn

Dallas County health officials said they received confirmation from the CDC that a patient has become infected with Zika virus through sexual contact with an infected partner. read


Aberdeen woman admits trying to steal a baby from its pram on a bus TWICE

Joan Smith, 44, attempted to take the eight-month-old twice as the child travelled with its 31-year-old mother in Aberdeen. She admitted plagium, which is kidnapping a child, at the city's Sheriff Court. read


10 interview question responses you should know off by heart

Whilst you may know what animal you'd be and how to sell a fridge to an eskimo, it's actually the more straightforward questions that can catch an applicant out - and they're the most vital. read


Karen Danczuk posts VERY revealing lingerie selfies from her bed

The selfie queen has posted even more revealing pictures on her Twitter account, this time shamelessly plugging a lingerie brand with some sultry bedroom snaps. read


Amazon boss appointed to Department for Work and Pensions board

Doug Gurr, president of Amazon China, has been appointed a non-executive director to the DWP board in a move that is likely to have been sanctioned by Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith. read


Tory MPs blast David Cameron's draft EU deal with Brussels

David Cameron presented the offer insisting he had secured the 'strongest ever' package to cut abuse of free movement and telling MPs Britain has a pathway to a 'fresh settlement' with the EU. read


David Cameron's 'emergency brake' on EU migrants is only fixing Tony Blair's failure

Jean Claude Juncker's remarks at the European Parliament were seized upon by Nigel Farage as evidence David Cameron's draft deal was 'rather pathetic'. read


Who will lead the Tory Eurosceptics? 'Five cabinet members' set to join front line of battle to get Britain out of Europe as Cameron faces backlash over EU deal 

As David Cameron faced a growing backlash over his draft deal with Europe, former defence secretary Liam Fox led calls for cabinet members to be set free from rules stopping them speaking out. read


Sorry Dave but your 'deal' is too little, too late to keep us in Europe - so stop FIBBING to us!

David Cameron's 'deal' with Europe smacks of nonsense goals set by departments and failed to get Britons the things that really matter, writes KATIE HOPKINS. read


David Cameron once mocked plans for a 'red card' for national parliaments to block unwanted EU laws

The PM was seen laughing in 2008 as William Hague launched a damning assessment of the Labour government's suggestion that a 'red card' would enhance the role of national parliaments. read


David Cameron's EU deal on child benefit is set to create 'havoc' for the DWP

Changes set to be agreed in Brussels will lead to the country paying 28 different rates of child benefit. EU workers will also get varying amounts of tax credits. read


Bargain hunters queue up outside new 25p easyFoodstore before doors open then clear shelves so thoroughly it has to close early

Dozens of savvy shoppers who queued outside the north-London store today in the hope of bagging similar deals are said to have been left disappointed as shelves were emptied in hours. read


Teacher in a race row with Michael Gove is struck off

Kay Johnston, 59, was struck off by a tribunal after she was caught on camera striking the pupil, who has learning difficulties, and knocking him off his chair onto the floor at a London school. read


Schoolgirl, 11, writes heartbreaking letter to burglars who crept into her room and stole her birthday presents 

Paris Mulholland (pictured) wrote the letter to the thieves to let them know how she felt after they raided her home in Intake, Doncaster, last month and stole her presents. read


Ed Boland in The Battle for Room 314 tells of terror at his New York high school

Ed Boland left a 22-year career as a nonprofit executive to teach in a tough inner city school on Manhattan's Lower East Side. These excerpts are from his provocative new memoir. read


Holly Willoughby giggles as This Morning broadcasts 'live from a vagina'

The ITV show broadcast 'live from a vagina' as they tested the £149 'Elvie', which looks like a computer mouse and is inserted into the vagina like a tampon - leaving the presenters giggling. read


Jeremy Kyle guest reveals her wedding was the worst day of her life

Kristy Sutton, 27, was abused by family friend George Spooner as a child. Kristy, from Kin's Lynn, Norfolk, told no one and even invited her rapist to her wedding for fear of upsetting her family. read


Landlords could flood the market with half a MILLION homes

The Chancellor has unveiled an end to many of the tax breaks offered to landlords and punishing stamp duty penalties on buy to let purchases in a bid to free up the market for first time buyers. read


'Enjoy your meals in the cafe at B&Q': Restaurant boss fed up with negative TripAdvisor reviews hits back at his critics

Peter Volans, who owns Brasserie Hudson Quay, in Middlesbrough, said he takes the decision to reply to negative reviews of his restaurant 'to give the public a balanced view'. read


British Airways plane en-route to London from the Bahamas diverts to Canada due to 'problem with the toilet'

Flight 252 had set out of Nassau in the Bahamas en route to Heathrow, when the pilot took the decision to land at St John's International Airport in Canada. read


Josh Hadfield who developed narcolepsy after H1N1 swine flu jab awarded £120k

Josh Hadfield, from Somerset, developed narcolepsy after the Pandremix vaccine 6 years ago. The vaccine is associated with a 14-fold increase in a child's risk of developing the condition. read


Western Isles is the happiest place to live in the UK and Liverpool is the saddest

A major study by the Office for National Statistics asked people to rate their happiness on a scale of one to 10. Four of the top happiest places in the UK were all in Scotland, with the fourth in Cheshire. read


Welsh motorists cover up Union Jack flag with Welsh Flag's DRAGON stickers

Y Lolfa in Aberystwyth has produced the stickers because they say the 'Britishness being imposed' on Welsh people by the government is 'completely unfair'. read


Linda Pereira who claims 'brain eruption' has left her with Foreign Accent Syndrome

Linda Pereira, 50, from Georgia, has been mistaken as being from a host of countries including Sweden, Germany and South Africa. She said the accents started after an 'eruption' in her brain. read


Carla Ilene Caiazzo gives birth to baby after jealous boyfriend 'set her on fire'

Paolo Pietropaolo, 40, is facing an attempted murder charge in Italy after pouring a bottle of alcohol over Carla Ilene Caiazzo and set her alight after she told him she was leaving him for someone else. read


ASBO family are spared jail despite breaching their latest court order 18 times

The Birch family, who were hit with an ASBO last year and later evicted from their Gloucester home, repeatedly ignored the terms of an injunction banning them from shouting in public. read


Hospital technician left in a wheelchair with crippling spinal damage after bending over to pick up a balloon after Halloween party 

Since the freak accident, Claire Brown (pictured), 27, from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, has developed a rare condition called Functional Neuological Disorder. read


Stonehenge burial pit for the Neolithic elite contains a 'surprising' number of women: Find suggests females played a key role in the society and had same rights as men

Researchers from University College London have spent years sifting through and analysing the remains of adults found in a monument since 2008. read


Shoreham airshow disaster pilot 'is being probed over another incident a year earlier where he terrified spectators by flying too low' 

Investigators probing the Shoreham air disaster which claimed 11 lives are investigating a previous incident at an air show flown by pilot Andy Hill where he appeared to fly too low during a display. read


Neuroscientist find region in brain that forms words and how it can be damaged

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, studied 15 years’ worth of cases in which 33 people were left with spelling impairments after suffering strokes. read


Rising number of women having surgery on their vaginas for comfy bike rides

Harley Street surgeon Angelica Kavoumi said there has been a rise in demand for the procedure, which involves cutting off part of the inner labia to top it from rubbing against the seat of a bike. read


How to break the habit of being with the SAME type of man and meet Mr Right

Sexpert Tracey believes many of us are having 'revolving door' relationships even though it's not working out. Here she reveals how to break the habit and find happiness with Mr Right. read


Simon Cowell kept Prince Charles and Camilla waiting for TWO HOURS

The 68-year-old donned her gladrags as she joined her husband at a star-studded dinner for supporters of the British Asian Trust in London. read


XLS diet pill TV ad is banned for 'fat shaming' healthy young women into losing weight

A television advert for XLS Medical diet pills, which are sold on high streets across Britain, has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for 'fat shaming' healthy young women into weight loss. read


Tesco's 'rude' Valentine's Day gift suggestions from whipped cream to CUCUMBERS

Customers have taken to Twitter to share their bemusement over the lewd suggestions. Both products have been pictured in the store marked with an 'ideal for Valentine's' sticker. read


BMW owner leaves his £80,000 car across the MIDDLE of the road

The black BMW (pictured) caused chaos in Wollaton Street, Nottingham, when it blocked traffic in both directions during rush-hour on Monday evening before it was towed away by police. read


Lanarkshire taxi driver wins £1million on EuroMillions draw

Pensioner Arthur Howard, 73, who works at Kelvin Kabs in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, scooped the win on Friday's Euromillions raffle. read


Raphael Schumacher who accidentally hanged himself on stage is 'deteriorating'

Raphael Schumacher, 27, was appearing in Mirages, an experimental theatre production staged in Pisa, Italy, when he accidentally hanged himself on stage when a scene went horribly wrong. read


Thief steals £8,000 Banksy print from Airbnb property and trash flat

Jack Clarke, 33, and Dominic Jones, 32, decided to rent out their flat in Islington to make a bit of extra money when Mr Clarke went away to Yorkshire for a wedding. read


Woman who suffered brutal beating by police officer that was caught on CCTV is found dead in her prison cell 

Sarah Reed, 32, who was punched three times and dragged by the hair by officer James Kiddie in a horrific attack at Uniqlo in Regent Street, London, has been found dead at Holloway Prison. read


Aldi beats Waitrose and Sainsbury's to be named the best store in the UK to buy wine

The discount store was named 'Multiple Wine Retailer of the Year' at the Drinks Retailing Awards, an event designed to acknowledge and celebrate the best drinks merchants in the UK. read


Shop workers WILL be allowed to refuse to work Sundays after opening hours change

Ministers plan to change the law in the UK to lift the six hour opening restriction on large stores, however this will be balanced by giving employees new rights to refuse to work on a Sunday read


MTA Grand Central employee hopes the boy who jumped in front of a train 'suffered'

The message was overheard by the passengers of a train stuck at Grand Central while the police investigated (pictured). The boy, 16, went to Fordham Prep in New York. read


Indiana home where 'possessed' children were chanting torn down

An home tin Gary, Indiana hat has long been reported to be a hotbed of demonic activity according to visitors and even possessed one of its residents has been demolished. read


Bride spent eight months crafting her entire wedding from scratch

Marrianne Mercer, 32, from Kent, spent eight months handcrafting everything for her wedding from the cake to decorations and confetti and saving an estimated £10,000 in the process. read


British grandmother Fran Davies faces deportation from Australia over illness

Fran Davies, 75, emigrated from Hartlepool, South Tyneside, to be with loved ones in Perth following the death of her husband. read


Dominatrix Paige Baron who walks a man on a LEASH is paid £1,000 to humiliate him

Paige Baron, 21, has earned £9,000 in three months for being a dominatrix. A video of the Birmingham mother went viral showing her walking a man through the streets like a dog. read


Video shows gang of youths throw a PETROL BOMB at police in Liverpool

As many as 20 police cars and riot vans were called to the scene on Townsend Lane, in the Anfield area of Liverpool, after violence erupted and a petrol bomb was thrown at officers, hitting one. read


Disabled ISIS murderer crucifies one of three ‘spies’ killed in Libya

One of the photos shows an ISIS fighter sat in a wheelchair next to a man kneeling in an orange jumpsuit while tied to a rope before the 'crucifixion' in Sirte, central Libya. read


Channel 5's Big Benefits Handout makers deny it exploits the poor

The Big Benefits Handout will show three families from Hull and Merseyside being given their annual benefits allowance in one go to see if that is more efficient than weekly handouts. read


Indian girl has had ONE THOUSAND giant ants removed from her ears

Shreya Darji, 12, from Deesa, in Gujarat, western India, has around ten live ants crawl out of her ears daily and so far, doctors have removed more than 1,000 ants from her ears. read


Indonesian known as 'the tree man' due to disease dies

Dede Koswara died in an Indonesian hospital on the morning of January 30 after having resigned himself to the debilitating illness which had tragically come to cost him his, job and independence. read


Why 'employee of the month' schemes don't work: Making examples of hard-working staff causes colleagues to feel unmotivated

Researchers from Harvard Kennedy School and the University of California have found that exposure to exceptional performance can push us away from attaining higher-level performance. read


Millions of workers have started taking their holiday again as confidence returns following the recession, official data reveals

ONS data found that people are putting in fewer hours than two years ago – with the amount of time they spend working falling back to the levels recorded before the onset of the downturn. read


Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company perform Hamlet at the Calais Jungle camp

Shakespeare's Globe theatre's touring production of Hamlet will be performed at a makeshift theatre built by volunteers in The Jungle camp in Calais on Wednesday. read


Neo-Nazis warn of 'year of violence' following attacks on child migrants in Sweden

Anger at open-door immigration policies is consuming Sweden, and exposing a dark history of right-wing politics that has penetrated some of the country's best known firms and even its monarchy. read


German mayor's advice to children sexually harassed by migrants sparks fury

Some 100 people from Bad Schlema, in eastern Germany, were gathered at a hall when the town's mayor told them to tell their children not to 'provoke' asylum seekers. read


King Abdullah says Jordan is at 'boiling point' because of the number of Syrian refugees

King Abdullah says the flood of refugees from Syria has put a huge strain on Jordan's education and healthcare systems and urged the West to help out at this week's conference on Syria in London read


Paris shanty town smashed to pieces after French police swoop in dawn raid

The makeshift camp was set up on an abandoned railway line called La Petite Ceinture in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, Paris. read


Wolfgang Herles claims says German media 'can't report on sex attack outcry'

Wolfgang Herle's accusation comes as Germany grapples with accusations media ignored hundreds of sex attacks committed by migrants during Cologne's New Year celebrations. read


European cities say influx of migrants has had a negative impact

A wide-ranging study by the European Commission in 83 cities analysed people's quality of life by asking them to rate factors from education, housing, happiness and the impact of migration. read


Formerly overweight woman reveals how getting fit destroyed her marriage 

Angela Crickmore, 36, from London, weighed 13 stone and had trouble walking. At 5ft 1ins, Angela decided to lose weight - shifting five stone - however, it resulted in her marriage ending. read


OJ Simpson murder trial witness Bettina Rasmussen on finding corpse

Bettina Rasmussen, who discovered Nicole Brown Simpson’s bloodied body on the night of June 12 1994,  has hit out at the new FX miniseries about the murder and trial of O.J. read


Playboy Playmate Angie Vu is avoiding lesbian sex during her jail sentence

Angie Vu, 32, is currently locked up at a New York City jail as France tries to get her extradited on charges of parental abduction. read


Mother’s fury after her teenage daughter who walks two miles to school every day is banned from wearing ‘modest and practical’ shoes by her teachers 

Kasia Kowalska-Trela, from Eccles in Greater Manchester, has slammed staff at St Patrick's Roman Catholic High School as 'blind and stupid' after they complained about her daughter's footwear. read


Car maker Tata changing the name of Zica model to avoid Zika virus confusion

India's biggest car maker has been heavily promoting the small hatchback - whose name stands for 'zippy car' - with a marketing campaign starring Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi. read


Airlines and travel firms say only pregnant women can change holiday plans if they're worried about the Zika virus

Firms including British Airways, Thomas Cook and Thomson are refusing to commit to helping women who are not yet expecting, but are hoping to become pregnant soon. read


Look this way when I'm talking to you! Saucy news channel launches English lessons in which the tutors are completely NAKED in effort to grab students' attention

Spanish-speaking naked news site Desnudando Las Noticias, based in Venezuela, came up with the idea and hope their USP will help people learn a new language - if they can concentrate that is. read


'Intimacy coach' Kim Anami lifts weights with her vagina

An 'intimacy coach' who can lift coconuts, household objects and even a surfboard using her vagina is encouraging other women to develop their pelvic muscles read


OJ and Nicole Simpson's daughter Sydney steps out to walk her dog

Sydney Simpson, 30, was photographed leaving her home in St Petersburg, Florida on Friday to walk her dog just days before the premiere of American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson. read


Fountain of youth drugs are 'in the pipeline': Anti-ageing pills successfully tested on mice provide hope for human trials

Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, tested a drug on mice to boost their lifespan by clearing out old cells, and believe a pill that does the same for humans is within reach. read


RMT Tube strike boss Steve Hedley says Tories should be 'taken out and shot'

Steve Hedley, assistant general secretary of the RMT union, claimed the Government's benefit cuts are 'killing three disabled people every week' as he made a series of sweeping allegations on live radio. read


'I don't respect female journalists. Interview denied': 'Pro-rape' US pick-up artist causes outrage in Australia - and now he wants to bring his vile views to Britain

Daryush Valizadeh, 36, from Maryland, has sparked global criticism for a series of blog posts on his 'anti-feminist' website detailing ways of luring women in different countries into sex. read


Vladimir Putin's mystery eldest daughter Maria 'pictured' for the first time

Putin's mysterious eldest daughter Maria, 30, has been outed by Russian media as a PhD student studying dwarfism, who has a penthouse in Moscow and is a fan of TV show Little Britain. read


Father-of-four who drunkenly tattooed a penis on his leg with a DIY kit has the inking removed - after seven months of rows with his furious wife

Stuart Valentino, 34, from Portsmouth, made the drunken mistake a year ago after a night out. However, the inking left his wife Sam furious and he feared losing his job as a lorry driver. read


Bizarre pink worm found in the ocean depths is named 'churro' because of its similarity to the Spanish pastry

Xenoturbella churro is among four bright fuschia flatworm-like animals found near hydrothermal vents and a whale carcass off the coast of California (illustrated). read


Mystery of what causes deep earthquakes is solved: Brittle mineral found miles beneath Earth's surface snaps to create tremors

Researchers at Brown University in Rhode Island believe a mineral called lawsonite (pictured) is to blame for earthquakes that occur at extreme depths below the Earth's surface. read


Open Effect study claims Basis, Fitbit and Jawbone fitness trackers leak data

Whether you realize it or not, your fitness tracker could be leaking your personal data to anyone who knows how to access it, according to a study from Open Effect and the University of Toronto. read


Mother who refused to walk down the aisle in a size 24 wedding dress finally books her big day after losing TEN STONE in one year

Emma Creedon, 33, from Luton refused to book a date for her wedding after reaching 22 stone and dreading dress shopping. The mother-of-four has now set a date after slimming to a size 12. read


Microsoft snaps up SwiftKey in £174m deal

Eight years ago, two former Cambridge graduates shared a belief that there had to be a more efficient way of typing on smartphones. read


Matthew Medlin injects meth during four-hour standoff with cops

See the decline of the convicted sex offender who injected himself with meth during a four-hour standoff with Portland police on Saturday. read


3429553 President Obama makes his first visit to a U.S. mosque to address concerns of Islamophobia with American Muslims

President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, working to confront bias that Muslim-Americans say is increasing at an alarming rate. read


The nine popular tourist holiday destinations with shockingly high murder rates (and Jamaica tops the list)

The World Health Organisation has revealed nine countries for homicides including Jamaica, where statistics reveal that in every 100,000 people, 45.1 have been killed. read


Every hour spent inactive can increase risk of Type 2 diabetes

The scientists, from Maastricht University, calculated that each hour spent sedentary increases the chance of being type two diabetic by 22 per cent. read


Forget flash cars and designer bags, being ECO-FRIENDLY is the new status symbol: Buying Fairtrade and giving to charity are the latest ways to keep up with the Joneses

Economist Ryan Murphy from Southern Methodist University in Texas said fast cars, gaudy diamonds and grand parties have fallen out of fashion because they are seen as being distasteful. read


Mother saves £20,000 in TWO YEARS by using coupons

Kez Richards, 26, from Highbridge in Somerset, spends at least an hour every morning trawling the internet for deals and discounts. She has saved £20,000 since 2014 by using vouchers. read


Queen Letizia sports favourite black and white outfit for the FOURTH time

Queen Letizia, 43, turned to a winning outfit formula yet again for a visit to the Forum Against Cancer in Madrid, sporting the same Hugo Boss ensemble she's worn on three previous occasions. read


Rebecca Vowles breached a restraining order banning her from contacting ex

Rebecca Vowles confronted millionaire ex husband Max Walker outside court after the two battled it out over their £2million Dorset mansion. read


Merthyr Tydfil traffic warden sent threats after giving ticket to broken down driver 

The female warden slapped a motorist with a £60 fine after she ran out of petrol on a road in South Wales. A photo of the incident was posted on social media causing outrage in the local area. read


Nicole Lampert's account of her neighbour Alexander Litvinenko

The image that springs to my mind of Alexander Ltivinenko is of a physically imposing figure with a ready smile. The former spy was also my next-door neighbour in a leafy North London suburb. read


Average Briton will be in debt until they are SIXTY-NINE says new study 

Britons typically expect to be clear of their debts - including mortgages - by the time they are 57, according to the report by economics consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research. read


Lord Lucan is officially declared dead

The court order, granted in London will allow George, currently Lord Bingham, to adopt his father’s title, and with it the infamous name of Lucan. read


ICE BOMB falls from an aeroplane in Kent and leaves a crater a foot deep

Kevin and Claire Spencer, from Swanley in Kent, were given quite a shock when a falling chunk of rock solid ice smashed into their garden - landing just 12 feet from their home. read


Isle of Man could become the world's first self-driving island

The Manx government is currently trying to tempt car and technology companies to the Isle of Man to road-test their driverless vehicles, like those unveiled in Greenwich (pictured). read


Popcorn sales rise as crisp sales are smashed but which is more healthy?

Popcorn sales in the UK are up 169 per cent in the last five years at the expense of traditional favourites like ready salted and salt and vinegar crisps, but experts say they are no healthier read


Paraglider breaks 15 bones as he smashes into 300ft-high Devon cliff

Ex-Army officer John Milner, 61, broke seven ribs, two vertebrae, cracked his shoulder blade and his shattered his pelvis in five places in the crash into cliffs at Beer Head on the south Devon coast. read


Keighley couple face jail for stealing laptops from hospital cancer ward

Kim Ager, 34, and Matthew Ingham, 37, claimed their son Callum, 10, who suffers with neuroblastoma, had taken items from Leeds Royal Infirmary while undergoing treatment for cancer. read


Average water bills to rise to £389 despite report blasting regulator

Last month, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee blasted water regulator Ofwat for 'consistently overestimating financing costs' when setting price limits for suppliers. read


Mother of girls with microcephaly like the Zika Virus speaks of joy and struggle

Gwen Hartley, 40,  from Kansas, has two daughters with microcephaly - and despite them weighing just 42lbs combined, she insists that her girls lead happy, normal lives. read


Video shows hit-and-run Nottingham driver ram into a cyclist and leaves him unconscious

The cyclist captured the moment a Volvo ploughed into the back of him and knocked him off his bike on his helmet-camera as he crossed a roundabout on London Road, in Nottingham city centre. read


Buddhist monk 'left unable to meditate' after fatal car accident

Sangthong Phensrisai was travelling to his home city of Edinburgh from London as a front seat passenger when the driver lost control of the car, killing three people. He's now suing the driver for lost earnings read


Madonna lookalike Chris America had gap DRILLED between teeth to copy the singer

Chris America, 51, from Washington D.C., admits keeping up with the Queen of Pop is hard work. She owns 200 wigs and 60 outfits. She was spotted in 1984 and has appeared on TV and on front covers. read


Inside Marlon Brando's 12-islet Polynesian paradise Tetiaroa

As the Bafta-nominated biopic Listen to Me Marlon builds on acclaim for the actor, MailOnline Travel takes a look behind the scenes, at a hideaway island that inspired this extraordinary talent. read


Stephen Hawking says Mini black holes could power the world's electricity supply

The comments were made in the Professor Hawking's second Reith lecture. He added that a mountain-sized black hole would give off X-rays and gamma rays, at a rate of about 10 million megawatts. read


Nine popular attractions destroyed by climate change and tourists

From a glacier in Bolivia to a lake in Cambodia and a waterfall made of fire in Yosemite, a list of nine attractions around the world highlight those consigned to the history books. read


Google to show special ads to would-be terrorists

The announcement of the pilot project was made by Dr Anthony House, a senior Google executive, while giving evidence to MPs in the UK parliament last week. read


TfL say motorists' uncertainty on unmarked roads found to make them drive more carefully

Plans for a pilot scheme across 200 sq miles of north Norfolk could see centre lines removed on minor rural roads and a blanket 40mph speed limit imposed instead of the current 60mph. read


Inside Channel 4 documentary Obsessed With My Body

Junaid Ahmed, 21, from Peterborough is a beauty junkie who treats every day like a 'photo shoot'. He stars in a Channel 4 documentary investigating the changes in male grooming habits. read


Yahoo sacking 1,700 workers, closing 5 offices and 'exploring strategic alternatives'

Yahoo is laying off about 1,700 employees, closing five offices and shedding some of its excess baggage in a shake-up likely to determine whether CEO Marissa Mayer can save her own job. read


Couple who dress as Princess Anna and Kristoff from Disney's Frozen want dream wedding

Louise Lanza, 22 and Peter Sackett, 26 from Hertfordshire are due to get married next year. In order to pay for their wedding the pair have set up their own children's party business. read


Biggest London Underground union RMT urges its members to accept bonus

An executive of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union decided to urge members to accept the latest offer from the London Underground, clearing a big hurdle for an all-night service. read


Afghan insurgents kill 10-year-old boy who joined militia

Wasil Ahmad, was killed by insurgents in Tirin Kot, the capital of the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, local police have revealed. read


Nasa will send a tiny torch to the moon on Orion and Space Launch System

When the world's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), launches in 2018, it will carry with it 13 small satellites. Today, Nasa revealed new details of seven of these 'cubesats'. read


White children are TWICE as likely to suffer broken bones than their black or Asian friends 

University of Southampton researchers also found a wide regional variation, with the highest fracture rates in Wales, where children were almost twice as likely to break a bone as those living in London. read


Boyfriend who asked girlfriend to dye his beard ends up looking like DAVID GEST 

Ethan Mills, of Norfolk, let girlfriend Fifi Couma loose on his stubble with a hair dye product in the hope of making his beard more pronounced - but his plan backfired spectacularly read


Matthew Kelly is still haunted by false sex allegations

Former presenter Matthew Kelly, 65, has admitted that he's still haunted by false allegations of sexual abusing young boys made against him in 2003, in his first interview in more than a decade. read


Images show Kenyan toddler so ill he looks like a newborn

Tiny babies lie recovering from malaria, malnutrition and pneumonia at the Lodwar County Hospital in north western Kenya, where British charity Save the Children is battling against deadly diseases. read


Norfolk caravan park turns away widowed grandmother because she’s SINGLE

Annette Gration, 58, from Skegness, Lincolnshire, was refused entry to Searles Leisure Resort, in Hunstanton, Norfolk, because she was 'single' - as she mourned the death of her husband Phil. read


Yawning is MORE contagious among women due to their higher levels of empathy

Yawns are an emotional signal that women are better able to respond to empathy, according to experts at Pisa University in Italy. read


Google's post box which they use to funnel £8BILLION of profits pictured

The PO Box is used by Google to funnel some £8billion in profits a year to the Caribbean island of Bermuda which happens to have zero corporation tax. read


Leading suffragette’s antics shamed her war hero uncle Lord Kitchener who wanted her to put her feminist beliefs to one side 

Frances Parker, who was born in New Zealand, ignored her uncle's 'disgust' and went on to be jailed, force fed and abused as she played her part for the fight for women's votes. read


Brain scans could detect depression BEFORE symptoms appear: 'Striking differences' identified in circuits controlling feelings and thinking

Scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute examined brain scans from two groups of children, those at risk of depression due to family history and those at low risk. read


Has Samsung leaked details of its own handset? Galaxy S7 Edge image appears on the firm's site (but is quickly removed)

Dutch website Galaxy Club spotted the leaked image of the Galaxy S7 Edge handset on the South Korean firm's developers website, along with illustrations showing Edge panels. read


Lloyds Banking Group warns staff that 1,755 face the axe

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed to This is Money that it has axed 1,755 staff today as part of a cost cutting exercise - 740 of these are Halifax branch workers. read


Diesel the police dog who died during Paris terror raid 'shot dead by officer's bullet' 

The Belgian Shepherd was killed as police stormed a flat in Paris, France, on November 18 - three days after ISIS extremists had murdered 130 people in the city. read


George Osborne urged to recoup some of Facebook's £1.7billion tax liability fund

The tech giant is not planning to use any of its tax liability fund to pay the UK taxman, despite paying just £4,327 tax in the UK in 2014. It is currently challenging a HMRC audit into its tax affairs. read


What fruit and vegetables SHOULD look like from the banana to the watermelon

Humans have been modifying crops since the birth of farming and our food has dramatically changed. Images show what fruits and vegetables once looked like and what we turned them into. read


A male and a female driver in Ledbury, Herefordshire argue during a stand-off in a narrow lane 

A video filmed by Mark Coates in Ledbury, Herefordshire shows his argument with a female driver when the two become stuck opposite each other in a narrow lane. read


British Airways relaunches direct flights to Iran between Heathrow and Tehran following the lifting of sanctions

The service, which was suspended in October 2012 amid instability in Iran, will resume in July following the lifting of sanctions in the Middle Eastern country. read


McDonald’s sausage and egg McMuffin was green and black in photo

Laura Cliffe, 22, of Essex, had gone into the fast-food chain to pick up some breakfast and initially thought her food was mouldy but the store says it was just a result of overcooking. read


'Stellarator' reactor gets set to mimic conditions inside the SUN

The doughnut-shaped Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (pictured) was first tested in December by researchers in Greifswald, Germany using helium. read


Footage shows car careering across M5 on its ROOF in West Midlands

The four-month-old was strapped into a baby seat when the family car flipped as it travelled on the outside lane of the M5 in the West Midlands. Defying the odds, all those on board survived. read


Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall wears a coat to attend children's literature festival

The 68-year-old wife of Prince Charles appeared in high spirits as she stepped out in a vibrant technicolour coat to attend a mini literature festival in Peterborough Cathedral. read


Somalian Daallo Airline passenger jet catches fire minutes after take-off

Mohamed Nur told how an elderly passenger caught fire and was pulled to his death at 14,000 feet after a huge blast tore the side of Daallo Airlines Flight D3159 five minutes after take off from Mogadishu. read


Saudi court commutes Palestinian poet's death sentence to jail, lashes-lawyer

Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, 35, was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for apostasy and abandoning his Muslim faith after a witness claimed to have heard him cursing God. read


Australian shepherd cross Maggie separated from her litter sneaks out to comfort puppies

An Australian shepherd cross named Maggie was caught on surveillance cameras sneaking out of her kennel in a desperate attempt to cuddle with two nine-week-old puppies, Hannah and Kari. read


Singer goes to court to deny he is the father of a woman's twins... and accuses the woman of using stolen sperm he'd donated

Maelo Ruiz, 49, claims Karla Ankara Toledo Cova is a crazed fan and that she robbed a sperm bank where he had placed 'semen deposits' for his wife in case he died to inseminate herself. read


Japan vows to SHOOT DOWN North Korean rocket if it is deemed a threat

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned North Korea's 'serious provocation' and Japan issued an order to 'destroy' the missile with surface-to-air weapons if it threatened to fall on its territory. read


Too Fat To Work's Stephen Beer 'cheated on his wife with transgender Melissa Ede' 

A transgender cab driver has claimed that benefit scrounger Stephen Beer wanted to sleep with her, leading the 25-stone slob and his wife to go on the Jeremy Kyle show and take a lie detector test. read


Teenage girl finds a live RAT in family's Tesco delivery crate

Beckie Richardson, 19, was unpacking the delivery from Tesco with her mother Sue at their home in Essex when she noticed the rat among the groceries. read


Apple's 'spaceship' campus taking shape in drone video offering sneak peek

Drone footage released this week of the Cupertino Campus 2 in California, shows the shell of the huge building, and a curved glass exterior which will line the inside of the 'spaceship'. read


Woman accuses India's hockey captain Sardar Singh of 'blackmailing her to have abortion' 

The 21-year-old, named in India as British hockey player Ashpal Bhogal, claims Sardar Singh refused to marry her after ordering her to end the pregnancy against her wishes in 2015. read


The People v OJ Simpson sees a suicide attempt in Kim Kardashian's bedroom

The premiere episode of the highly anticipated new series The People v. OJ Simpson opened with the grisly death of the former football great's ex-wife m- and the evidence used against him at trial. read


British lifeguard Gareth Vincent Hall admits raping 10-year-old girl in the U.S.

Gareth Vincent Hall, 22, flew to Eugene, Oregon, in April last year after grooming the girl from his home 5,000 miles away in Talysarn near Caernarfon. read


Leanne Barnes told her Tinder boyfriend she had breast cancer on first date

Leanne Barnes, 24, a sales assistant from Sheffield, told her new boyfriend she was facing cancer on their very first date - but he insisted on standing by her throughout her ordeal. read


Cristiano Ronaldo 'eyeing $23million apartment' in NYC's Trump Tower

The football legend is reportedly keen to snap up the newly available space in Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's famous building. read


Britain's only desert in Dungeness Estate lays crumbled and abandoned

Manchester-based photographer Robert Walker captured the images of the ghostly Dungeness Estate in Kent, during a trip in February 2015. read


Saudi man has a smashing time when he rides a hoverboard through window

This comical video shows a hapless father in Saudi Arabia trying on the balance board - with a disastrous result - ending up with him crashing head-first through a glass door. read


China Southern Airlines passenger finds out she is the ONLY passenger on her flight

One lucky lady got the ride of her life when she boarded the domestic flight in China, only to realise there was no one else on the plane but her. No crying babies, no drunks and no smelly feet. read


'I thought I was too big to bend': Plus-size yogi who battled binge eating and anxiety reveals how twisting her body into complex poses helped her learn to love it again

Dana Falsetti, 22, from New Hope, Pennsylvania, turned to yoga after she shed more than 70lbs from 300lb frame but still felt unhappy with her body. read


Spot the climber! Mountaineer is barely visible on the craggy Alaskan rock face he is scaling

With the snowy Alaskan mountains in the backdrop, this climber is barely visible as he scales the craggy rock. It is in fact Briton Will Sim who, along with Jon Griffith who scaled Mount Deborah. read


The real Dad’s Army photos show just how spot-on classic BBC sitcom was

These incredible vintage photographs give a fascinating insight into the ways of the Home Guard – and show just how close to reality British sitcom Dad's Army really was. read


GLITTER freckles are the latest make up trend to sweep Instagram

Glitter freckles are the latest trend to sweep social media with women taking to Instagram to share photos of the colourful look. read


Cockpit photos reveal cityscapes, sprawling deserts and even a volcano

Stunning snaps were taken by 29-year-old photographer and pilot Felix Gottwald, from Dresden, Germany, on flights from and to Egypt, Uruguay, Argentina, Germany and Africa. read


Fairground ride at Bray, County Wicklow, Dublin breaks down so owner has to PUSH it around the track (to some very ironic cheers) 

A roller-coaster operator at a funfair in Bray, County Wicklow, Dublin decides to push the children's ride around the track himself after it breaks down. Some of the children scream and others are unhappy. read


Fancy spending a night in a boot-shaped house or a clock tower in central London? The most bizarre Airbnb listings revealed

While most of its 1.5million listings are nothing out of the ordinary, the San Francisco-based website allows adventurous tourists to stay in a see-through bubble, dog-shaped inn or a tipi. read


So-fa, so good! Watch the world's most bizarre motorcycle courier jobs as a large COUCH and a pair of PIGS are spotted on roads of Neiva, Colombia 

The video was captured by a passing motorist in the city of Neiva, Colombia. The sofa is wedged between two men, blocking the driver's view behind and the passenger's view in front. read


Mac on... genetically modified embryos

'Hello, GM labs? This time we'd like to hear the pitter-patter of a tiny cordon bleu cook...' read


iPhone images of Toronto and London reflected in puddles

A photographer has come up with an innovative way of showcasing Toronto's most famous landmarks - by captured their mirror image in a puddle. read


South African man has hilarious reaction when lightning nearly hits his girlfriend

The spine-tingling clip shows the woman heading for the sea to make the most of the sizeable waves brought on by a thunder storm over the Australian city of Sydney when a huge lightning bolt hits. read


Climate change means sea levels could rise by 10ft if temperatures continue to soar

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh were able to gauge how levels of ice covering the land in West Antarctica (pictured) have changed over hundreds of thousands of years. read


Emotional support TURKEY spotted going through airport security checks

A passenger in an airport in the US was baffled to spot a turkey waddling through airport security at San Francisco Airport and shared the picture along with a heartwarming back story. read


Saturn's opaque rings may not contain the most material in optical illusion

Experts from the University of Idaho, Moscow and Cornell University in Ithaca New York have 'weighed' Saturn's brightest ring for the first time to show opacity doesn't necessarily equal density. read


Clever canine carries the shopping from the car and into the house in a cute video

Bullmastiff Millie from Kincardine, Scotland ferries three loads of groceries from the car to her front door in a video which has been viewed more than one million times on Facebook. read