Working mothers Jessica Cunningham, Grainne McCoy and Frances Bishop make up three of the five semi-finalists, when it reaches the gruelling interview stage on Thursday night. read
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, chief of the defence staff, said foreign militants were being moved from their shrinking stronghold in Iraq and Syria. read
Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. in a different breach from the one disclosed in September exposing 500 million accounts. read
New recommendations made by the Law Commission said that husbands who hadn't paid up should be banned from driving for a year or have their passports confiscated until they do. read
Prince Harry and his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle were spotted while out on a date to the theatre in London to see the comedy Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo last night. read
Sweden's Civil Contingencies Agency has sent out a letter to all local authorities telling them they must be better equipped to respond to the threat of war following Russian aggression. read
The footage appears to show children hammering away on railway lines and hauling bricks and rubble in Chagang in North Korea as they are being 'forced to work for 10 hours a day'. read
Every new mother will be warned to look for signs of sepsis in their baby in an all-out war on the illness. From today, the NHS will distribute a million leaflets in casualty departments across Britain. read
Sepsis is a devastating condition which kills too many babies every year. The problem of sepsis is now every bit as urgent as meningitis, writes JEREMY HUNT as he launches new campaign. read
The newly kitted out property, which is rented out for £100 a night in Gants Hill, was left with smashed furniture and vomit smeared up the walls after police forced the youths to leave. read
The blaze broke out at Fleet services near Basingstoke on the M3 motorway and at one point more than 50 firefighters were battling the flames that quickly spread through the building. read
Almost one in seven airplane pilots are suffering from depression, research has revealed. Pilots reporting symptoms like suicidal thoughts, trouble concentrating and feelings of failure. read
Audience members said the cast and crew of World War II movie, Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Gibson, were 'overwhelmed' as they soaked up the plaudits earlier this year. read
FEMAIL has rounded up some of the products for splashing the cash or being a little bit more frugal. Options include a vintage alligator-skin Birkin bag for £69,000. read
Quite a few Tory MPs were guffawing at Boris Johnson’s expense again yesterday. Labour MP Peter Dowd (Bootle) had come up with a corker for the first question at PMQs. read
James Bond's background as a privileged white heterosexual public school-educated man might have damaged the Skyfall's chances of scooping a gong if today's rules were applied. read
BBC deputy director of radio and royal liaison officer Graham Ellis arranged for it to be launched (as part of Woman’s Hour’s 70th anniversary celebration) by Camilla. read
Jackie Murrell, 72, says her sex life with husband Tony is still very active. However, her 40-year-old daughter Kelly says as a working mum her sex life isn't as strong. read
Fewer children are smoking or drinking alcohol than at any time in the past two decades, NHS figures reveal. One in six – 17 per cent – of those aged eight to 15 said they had tried alcohol. read
Nice young women of past generations didn’t talk dirty. It wasn’t done. They talked of love and romance and handsome men (even my generation used the word ‘swoony’), writes LIBBY PURVES. read
Here, SUSIE DENT, the lexicographer and the self-styled ‘woman in Dictionary Corner’ for the TV words and numbers quiz Countdown, offers some less well-known gems from the winter. read
Theresa May and the OED appear to have a disagreement on their hands. For while the Prime Minister declared that 'Brexit means Brexit,' the OED has come up with its own definition. read
A video by Harvard physicist, Dr Greg Kestin, shows that just one tablespoon of olive oil poured over water can spread out within minutes, calming the waves around you. read
Lea Ledesma, 48, gave Ali Huseyin, 76, AB-type blood meant for Irfan Hussain, 37, who was blood group O, at London Heart Hospital in Marylebone. read
The giant Unite union said BA cabin crew voted to strike over pay, with walkouts starting as soon as December 21. The move threatens to wreck the holiday plans of thousands of families. read
The move is also designed to help with recruitment as some prospective employees are put off by the need to understand their home nation’s language. read
Meals on wheels for vulnerable pensioners have been axed by 45 per cent of councils since 2010, figures show. Others have increased their fees by an average of 20 per cent. read
Margaret Gallagher, who requires crutches, slammed the parking warden who issued the fine in Derbyshire despite leaving the doctor's note on the windscreen. read
The Prime Minister has warned that Europe is dealing with global mass migration issue with no other way of controlling it. She will address the European Council summit in Brussels on the issue. read
The NSPCC’s dedicated UK football abuse hotline has received more than 1,700 calls since being launched just three weeks ago, with three out of four calls coming from victims themselves. read
The head of the NHS has demanded the pensions triple lock and the free bus pass be scrapped to enable more money to be ploughed into elderly care. read
Camilla Cavendish was among 13 peers appointed by former PM David Cameron. She had been his policy chief for just a little over a year when she earned the seat in the House of Lords. read
The Prime Minister (pictured), who was at the centre of the 'trousergate' row, arrived for the star-studded Military Awards in London, with her husband Philip. read
His model wife Faryal Makhdoom Khan, 25, claimed last week that for the past three years she had been bullied 'physically and mentally' by her in-laws, who live in Bolton. read
The figure is three and a half times higher than in 2006 – and some countries saw an increase of nearly 50 per cent on last year. read
The kingdom's education ministry is thought to be preparing a project called 'Immunity' which is described as 'inoculating' children from ideas that could threaten their 'ideological security'. read
Liz Hodgkinson says at 71 she's becoming well seasoned in the death of friends and a year ago, for instance, a former boyfriend died. read
Kate Lawson, 21, a Northumbria University nursing student, is addicted to swimming off the Northumberland coast near her home in Alnwick. read
The lights of the Eiffel Tower in Paris were switched off tonight to show support for the people of the shattered Syrian city of Aleppo and protest the 'unbearable' situation. read
Under siege for the president's refusal to take military action to protect Syrians from being slaughtered by their brutal dictator, the White House tarred and feathered Russia on Wednesday. read
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and Green leader Caroline Lucas have both urged the deployment of unmanned drones because of the risk of sending in aircrew. read
Aleppo was once a thriving commercial centre with more than two million inhabitants. Now much of it lies in ruins. Hospitals have been bombed; children maimed, mutilated and murdered. read
Once famous for textiles, soap and its UNESCO-listed citadel, Aleppo was Syria's economic hub and of huge historic and cultural importance - it has now been reduced to rubble after a fierce civil war. read
Rebels in the city say the truce deal to stop the shelling will be implemented once again later tonight to allow the safe evacuation of fighters and civilians in eastern Aleppo. read
New changes made by the College of Policing will require candidates to have studied policing, complete a conversion course or apprenticeship. Critics say the move will add a bill of £3 million. read
People up and down the UK have proven you don't have to have a fir tree to celebrate Christmas with many building them out of unusual objects including egg boxes, wine bottles and rubber gloves. read
Millions of households could save up to £260 a year on their energy bills simply by switching to the cheapest deal offered by their existing supplier, an official price league reveals. read
Families are being left to the mercy of scams and unfair trading costing the nation of £15billion a year, warn watchdogs. read
This year’s little black dress is no longer quite so little, with sleeves to slim your arms and wide skirts to trim your tummy. read
Lorraine Candy says she's standing firm and continuing to take her childrens' mobiles away at 9pm on school nights. read
The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel has been ordered to improve its security measures for infants after inspectors found services to be inadequate. read
Seven months ago, Lucy Alexander's bright 17-year-old son took his own life when he jumped in front of a train near his home in Worcester. read
At least 20 high profile people are at the centre of Scotland Yard investigations, Britain’s top police officer said yesterday. They were described as 'very significant figures.' read
The RMT's Mick Cash was blocked from joining a session at conciliation service Acas as the walkouts by drivers entered a second day, bringing all services to a halt. read
Under this asinine deal, the Government will pick up the tab for a £38million shortfall in fare revenue caused by the walk-outs, while shelling out up to £15million compensation to passengers. read
Natasha Pearson (pictured) is studying politics, law and media at Collyer’s College in Horsham, which should be a 45-minute train journey from her hometown of East Grinstead. read
All-out strikes could be banned and Britain's largest rail company broken up because of the misery and mounting anger over the Southern strikes - the worst rail dispute in a generation. read
The Duchess of Cambridge, 34, attended Cub Scout Pack meeting with the Kings Lynn District on Wednesday to help youngsters celebrate 100 years of the organisation. read
Page does not say what he and Charles spoke about but on the same day he posted online about the damaging effect of 'overpopulation' on Britain, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE. read
Zimbabwe's ruling party says the country's 92-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, is certain to be endorsed as the party's presidential candidate for elections in 2018. read
Today, stickers impregnated with active skincare ingredients are an increasingly popular way to ensure that vitamins and minerals are absorbed into the skin. read
Abi Rose, 39, a married stay-at-home mother from North London, blames her late-night shopping habit -which costs her more than £5,000 a year - on a fear of missing out on good deals. read
Silas Duane Boston, of Sacramento, CA, now 75, told a friend in gruesome detail about killing a young British couple, Peta Frampton and Christopher Farmer, in 1978, He is now charged with the murders. read
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said women should have the same right to choose their clothing as men. But she was heavily criticised in Saudi Arabia for not wearing traditional clothing. read
Scientists have grown a super-wheat which produces a harvest a fifth larger, without being genetically modified. They produced the monster wheat using a simple crop spray. read
Donald Trump and Silicon Valley executives broke bread today after a contentious presidential campaign, agreeing to a meeting with the president-elect in his Manhattan Tower. read
Illegal immigrants are being identified on social media with enough details for authorities to find them as their wronged exes plead with the president-elect to deport them. read
Ivanka Trump is looking more and more like she'll be fitting into the shoes of the first lady, as Melania Trump takes a backseat role. read
Trump said he was approached by the head of Cadillac at the timer, and agreed to design two distinct versions of the limousine - the Trump Golden Series and the Trump Executive Series. read
Craig Murray, former British ambassador and associate of Julian Assange, told the Dailymail.com he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. read
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta became the victim of a cyber attack when he was sent an email claiming to be from Google in March saying he needed to change his password. read
The White House rejected robust responses that might have gotten Moscow's attention following the election hack, a detailed reconstruction reveals. read
Dr Chris Steele slammed Melinda Messenger on This Morning on Wednesday as she revealed why she won't be giving her daughter Evie, 13, the HPV vaccine. read
Researchers from University College London explored why humans do not have a baculum, yet both ancestral primates and carnivores did (stock image). read
As many as one in 20 women suffering partial deafness could blame their painkiller use, a study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US found. read
Oxford University scientist Charles Michel says he's perfected cheese and crackers. He says the trick is to have six layers and cater for all five tastes, including umami. read
The London-based luxury department store and tea rooms has been accused of denying workers a share of tips and service charges unless they agree to a pay cut below £7.20 per hour. read
From a woman eating her peas one at a time to somebody pronouncing 'coleslaw' as 'cold slaw', these are some of the most hilarious reasons people have broken up with their other halves. read
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Marie Hind, 34, of Gosport, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, struggled to walk after waking up with the bite, which turned black and grew larger within days. read
It's the latest hipster fad that forecasters predicted would be killed off in 2016. But it looks like beards are here to stay for a bit longer after eight of the world's '10 sexiest men' had facial hair. read
The extraordinary assertion was made by an expert from the European Council on Foreign Relations, who said the foreign powers could collude to destabilise Germany ahead of next year's election. read
Hussein Khavari, 17, accused of the sex killing of Maria Ladenburger, 19, in Freiburg, Germany, had previously thrown a 20-year-old woman off a cliff in Corfu, it has emerged. read
Harinder Kumar, 31, pictured, Talal Chowdhury, 30, Shaheen Ahmed, 33, and Mohammad Hasan, 37, were convicted of rigging English tests for more than 800 bogus overseas students. read
Boulder police and prosecutors are planning a new round of testing on DNA evidence found in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case that will allow them to access the FBI database, 20 years after her death. read
The 20-year-old rapist - named only as Amir A. in court - attacked the child at a swimming pool in Vienna. His victim was left with horrendous injuries and is still suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. read
Adrian Brown, 38, allegedly knifed Muhammed Aksar Ali just before their train arrived at Forest Hill Station, south-east London around 1pm on Monday. read
Shocking dashcam footage has caught a dangerous Porsche driver cutting up furious motorists as he raced through rush hour traffic in Liverpool. read
There are gifts to suit everyone, from globetrotters to beauty lovers and fashionistas. Some of the items have had their price tags slashed by more than half. read
Ben Emmerson, a senior QC, was suspended from his job on the inquiry at the time time the claims were made and he subsequently quit his post as senior counsel. read
Bryony Freestone, 19, from Northampton, was found washed up on a Koh Chang beach at 9am on August 14 while away in south-east Asia with friends. read
The 72-year-old victim was reportedly shot when four men tried to steal his Jaguar outside the Hare and Hounds in Bradford, West Yorkshire yesterday. read
Car insurance has soared by an average of £100 this year, new figures revealed yesterday. Motoring cover is now 12 per cent higher than it was just four months ago, says a consumer website. read
Researchers from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, found people with albuminuria in their urine were significantly more likely to develop cognitive impairment than people who did not have it in their urine. read
Photos of the ancient city of Derinkuyu reveal how 20,000 people - including livestock and entire food supplies - could have lived 18 storeys beneath the earth. read
Jayne Fisher, who was head of Sinn Fein’s London office, is due to start working in the Labour leader’s office in January, according to a Labour source. read
News of the latest pay hike for MPs will cause fury among public sector workers who have been subject to tough austerity restrictions since 2010. read
A driver does what many motorists have dreamed of and confronts a traffic warden for breaking parking rules.The cameraman lectures the warden for parking in a 30 minute bay in Stroud 'all day'. read
Just when you thought the Labour party couldn't become less harmonious, their MPs release a Christmas single so out of tune that some are dubbing it the worst festive song of all time. read
Lorraine Burnett, 37, from Dunfermline, danced all night in heels, which doctors believe led to a devastating heel infection. Two years later, she was advised she would need a lower leg amputation read
Oliver Bunford, from Louth in Lincolnshire, shelled out £40 for a new iPhone but when he found it was faulty the youngster was told 'I don't care' by its conman seller on Facebook. read
A touching video released by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford on Wednesday shows Eva and Erika Sandoval being brought together for the first time six days after surgery. read
The unmarked HGV gives officers a better vantage point to see people using their mobile phones at the wheel, but the truck has captured far more unusual crimes since going into operation in Devon. read
Ken Marwood, 82, was visiting a friend in Darlington when he fell in the garden, hitting his head on the hard ground, at about 10.30am yesterday. read
Banks say that the move is to tackle fraud, but that customers can opt out the program. Critics say that tracking customers through their mobile phone data raises privacy concerns. read
German scientists said the breakthrough could lead to victims being diagnosed before they reach an advanced stage - when treatments and lifestyle changes are less likely to be effective. read
Experts at Duke University in North Carolina, suspect that a key reason married people tend to do better following a stroke is simply because they have someone to look after them. read
A rare silver £2 coin could fetch up to £350 online due to an imperfection that occurred during the minting process, with normal coins featuring dents around the Queen's head. read
Chloe Lattanzi and her fiancé James Driskill are building a cannabis farm in Oregon, where recreational marijuana is legal. The business is believed to be in the early stages. read
Every year AFP, which has photographers around the globe, chooses a selection of their most powerful, moving, shocking or fascinating images, offering a look back at the highlights of the year. read
Guests at the Swallows Leisure Centre, inset right, in Sittingbourne, Kent, were shocked when they saw the reindeer during last weekend's Christmas festival and posted their outrage on social media, left. read
A hilarious video shows father and daughter Rick Harnsberger and Holly Wolff, from Ohio, breaking out all kinds of moves as they take to the dancefloor on her wedding day - leaving guests wide-eyed. read
The drugs, which also included 50 kilos of cannabis, was shipped into Britain in 15 months through the UK's biggest airport - 11 suspects, including three baggage handlers, were arrested. read
The Gallows Exhumation Project was launched in March this year. It was preceded by the walkabout at the Pretoria Central Maximum security prison. read
This is the shocking moment that Mr Cheeky, a ginger tabby cat was stolen outside his owner Ollie Wilson's home in Hove, East Sussex leaving the 54-year-old journalist devastated. read
An amateur footballer was left lying in a muddy puddle for three-and-a-half hours with a double leg break because of a lack of ambulances in Bournemouth, Dorset. read
Rachel Webster, originally from Brigg in north Lincolnshire, says she was roughly treated and humiliated by investigators from the Iraq Historic Allegations Team. read
Rome's annual Christmas tree has been dubbed the 'saddest in the world with drooping limbs, lackluster lights - and not even a star on top.'The barren tree stands in the centre of the city at Piazza Venezia. read
A damning new report has revealed Luke Jenkins, seven, died at Bristol Children's Hospital after a nurse walked off during cardiac arrest rather than pressing an emergency button. read
Svetlana Roslina, 24, dropped her mobile phone into the vat of sweet mix and reached in to retrieve it, but fell, and couldn't get out, according to reports. read
Noel Hopkins, three, from Scotland shot to fame when his mother Laura shared a clip of him blaming a superhero on scrawling lipstick all over a mirror. He was treated to a surprise on This Morning. read
Nishanthan Gnanathas, 31, of Sutton, South London, who was the best man, hit his head on a wire balustrade when he was pushed from a yacht by Andre van Eck into the River Tagus in Lison. read
Royal twins Jacques and Gabriella, two, have joined their parents Prince Albert, 58, and Princess Charlene, 38, to give out Christmas gifts to children at Monaco's royal palace for the first time. read
Recent research has revealed the traditional Christmas dinner contains close to 6,000 calories - but nutritionist Dr Michelle Braude says it's not all bad for you. read
Dietitian Helen Bond reveals her top 20 tips to stop IBS-related symptoms during the party season - including avoiding the mini quiches and mince pies at the office Christmas party. read
A daredevil biker is being hunted by police after a video was posted online showing him pulling stunts on a school roof. The rider tried to do a trick from one level of the roof of Mascalls Academy in Kent. read
The LRA is thought to have murdered tens of thousands of people and abducted at least 30,000 children, forcing them to become soldiers or sex slaves while some had their faces mutilated. read
TV channel France 2 went undercover in various areas with high Islamic populations in Paris to show how conservative Muslim men are enforcing social segregation in public spaces. read
Surrey Police said 10 adults and three children were removed from the HGV in Chertsey at around 3.10pm on Tuesday. read
Moaza Al Matrooshi, 24, from London, had her ovary tissue removed before she underwent chemotherapy to battle a blood disorder she was born with, which is known to damage the organs. read
The Wellcome Trust, the world's second biggest charitable foundation revealed one of its team earned the significant amount. This is believed to be Danny Truell, chief investment officer. read
When an explosion at 36-year-old Maria Ines Candido da Silva's workplace in Russas, north east Brazil caused her severe burns, doctors dressed her wounds with the skin of a Tilapia fish. read
The Southend United striker is accused of being part of a telephone banking scam in February last year in which a vulnerable person was targeted. read
Researchers from University of California, Davis and the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, or NERR say that climate change could lead to similar incidents. read
Lisa Curtis, 48, is believed to have met the former England manager when he was a client of hers at Healing Hands Holistic Therapy in Maidenhead. read
Richard Ford, 38, an inmate at Nottingham prison, who threatened to murder ten people and have sex with their dead bodies has been sentenced to an extra 45 years behind bars. read
Khari Gordon, 22, was arrested on Monday night after shooting Captain Michael Schulman and Jeffrey Martin in the parking lot of Zaxby's restaurant in Lavonia, Georgia. read
Today Kennecott, nestled in the south central Alaskan mountains of Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, is a derelict wooden shell, in a gradual state of decay. read
Pokemon Go was what the world wanted to know the most about in 2016. Euro 2016 was Britain's top trending search, while the US searched most for Powerball. read
Aiden Grimshaw, 25, from Blackpool, has been banned from driving for 20 months after he was caught at twice the drink-driving limit when he left a gig at his local golf club. read
Christmas is coming and many shoppers are still stumped for ideas. MailOnline Travel has put together a catalogue of more than 50 gift options to suit every budget. read
The 22-year-old (pictured) reality TV star was two-and-a-half times over the drink drive limit when he was arrested and spent the night in custody on August 15 this year. read
Pamela Gower (pictured), from Hebburn in South Tyneside, died in September after falling 15,000ft to the ground. She had twice decided not to jump alone before the fatal fall. read
The 113 drawings depict the unfilmed ending, in which Michael J Fox's character Marty McFly travels back to the future using the power of a nuclear test conducted by the US Army. read
Photographer David Jenkins captured the heated moment two lions engaged in an aggressive play fight at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe, Africa - pawing at each other with their teeth bared. read
Pictures show newborn babies at Christmas. And whether they're sleeping in Santa hats, pulling funny faces or snuggled in nappies and festive ensembles, Christmas doesn't get cuter than this. read
MAC: 'Yeah. I want a train set. But I'll decide who opens and closes the bloody doors! Okay?' read
Men and women were asked to picked out the stars with the most desirable body parts, with Hollywood hunks including George Clooney and Chris Hemsworth scoring highly. read
A cheeky German Shepherd was filmed shoving a cat's face into some snow. Lindsay Roy-Bernatchez, of Canada, filmed her poor ginger cat, Kiwi, having his face pushed into the snow. read
Ashley Williams Sistrunk created a heartwarming Christmas photo that included her husband, Brandon, who is deployed in Iraq for the holidays. The photo also included their four children. read
Wherever he goes, Robbie Williams attracts a gaggle of screaming fans. But none was more excited to meet her hero than 67-year-old Pat from Manchester. read