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Trumps attend black tie dinner in Washington D.C.

The pair arrived at the candlelit event held in the Main Hall of the city's busy Union Station, after a concert at Lincoln Memorial. read


Corrie McKeague's former date questioned by police

The 28-year-old said she met him through a swingers' website five months before he disappeared on September 24. Corrie, 23, vanished during a night out in Bury St Edmunds. read


JAN MOIR on the 64 year old who had a baby

The fact that Dame Julia Peyton-Jones has had a baby at 64 is being regarded as not just a personal victory for her but a triumph for feminism in general, writes Jan Moir for the Daily Mail. read


CIA’s secret plan to give the Falklands to Argentina

Early indications by the CIA pointed to Britain 'underestimating' the Argentinian military in a war which was fought 8,000 miles away from London. read


Man eaten by CROCODILE at Cahills Crossing near Kakadu

A man, 47, has been taken by a crocodile at a notorious river crossing near Kakadu National Park after wading into the water while two women watched. read


'Patients who won't learn English are crippling NHS'

The health service used to be one of the best features of this country. It deserved the widespread admiration it received, not only for its principle of equality of treatment for all, but because of its standards. read


Anti-Trump protesters pepper-sprayed in Washington DC

A massive crowd of anti-Trump protesters have been seen clashing with police and being pepper sprayed in Washington DC. read


Trump and family enjoy inauguration concert in DC

Donald Trump is heading to the  White House. The president-elect was seen in his motorcade departing Trump Tower on Thursday morning as he heads down to his new home in Washington DC. read


Philip Hammond blasts Trump in thinly veiled attack

Although he did not mention the incoming US President by name, the Chancellor said there were no easy options for governments around the world in the face of mounting discontent. read


Melania Trump makes speaking debut in DC and earns a kiss

After an entreaty by her husband, Melania Trump gave remarks in Washington about the hard work ahead, invoking her husband's campaign slogan to a gathering of GOP lawmakers. read


Farage arrives in Washington for Trump's inauguration 

The former Ukip leader, is attending the ceremony in Washington DC, where Mr Trump arrived on Thursday as he prepares to be sworn in as US president. read


DAILY MAIL: Now a President who respects Brexit Britain

It is hard to imagine how the build up to today’s inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States could have been more acrimonious or mired in controversy. read


Alec Baldwin brings Trump impression to New York protest

Alec Baldwin took to the podium at an anti-Donald Trump rally in New York on Thursday night to carry out his impression of the president-elect as thousands gathered to protest his inauguration. read


Donald Trump will be our number one ally thanks to Brexit

Fasten your seatbelts for the inauguration today of Donald Trump - he is far and away the most unlikely, unorthodox and unpredictable leader ever in the Oval Office, writes JONATHAN AITKEN. read


CNN says Trump's death would lead to Democrat president

CNN has sparked furious accusations of inciting violence against Donald Trump after it claimed an Obama appointee would take over if the President-elect was killed at his inauguration. read


Billionaire New York Jets owner is Trump's UK ambassador

Woody Johnson, who owns the NFL team and is a Johnson & Johnson family heir, will be the USA's ambassador to London during Brexit, Trump announced at a speech in Washington. read


Jon Voight kicks of Donald Trump inauguration concert

The actor celebrated Trump's election which he said had 'answered all our prayers' but sympathized with the businessmen whose 'only desire' he said was 'to make America great again'. read


Malia Obama went on a secret trip to South America

A photo has surfaced showing the first daughter smiling on a mountainside with a group of other young people during an excursion in Bolivia at the end of last year. read


Ivana Trump heads to DC for Donald's inauguration

Ivana Trump was photographed leaving her NYC townhouse on Thursday and making her way down to Washington DC, where on Friday she will watch as first husband Donald is sworn in. read


Ivanka Trump and family step out ahead of inauguration

The 35-year-old looked stunning in a green dress and matching coat as she left her building with her husband Jared Kushner, 36, and three children, Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore. read


Trump mocked for photo of him writing 'inaugural speech'

'Writing my inaugural address at the Winter White House, Mar-a-Lago, three weeks ago,' Trump tweeted. 'Looking forward to Friday. #Inauguration.' read


Ivanka Trump says there's one First Lady and she is not it

Ivanka Trump finally broke her silence about rumors that she might fill the role of first lady when her father takes office on Friday saying that she found that suggestions' sexist' and 'inappropriate.' read


Obama commutes 330 drug sentences on last day as president

Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes on Thursday, bringing his bid to correct what he's called a systematic injustice to a climactic close. read


Shots fired in Bourke Street Melbourne after car chase

One person has died after a car ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne's city centre during the lunchtime rush, injuring at least 20 people. read


David Beckham is the Desert Island Discs castaway

Over the past seven and a half decades, the illustrious castaways on Desert Island Discs have ranged from Margaret Thatcher to Bruce Springsteen. read


Mexican drug lord El Chapo extradited to the US

The notorious Mexican drug lord, El Chapo, has been extradited to the US, the Mexican government announced in a statement on Thursday evening. read


Waterloo and Westminster bridges closed due to WWII bomb

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said that it is not clear how long it will take to secure the area or when traffic is likely to return to normal. read


The Print Room casts white actors in Chinese roles

The Print Room, in Notting Hill, West London, has been branded 'racist' after they cast four white actors in East Asian roles in a new production of Howard Barker's play In The Depths Of Deep Love. read


Shortage of nurses in almost EVERY hospital in Britain

The ‘worrying’ analysis, based on data from 224 NHS hospitals, also suggests nurses are being increasingly replaced by cheaper, unqualified healthcare assistants. read


Top 10 best (and worst) performing secondaries at GCSE

The Henrietta Barnett School in Barnet (pictured) came out on top last year, with an average scored of 78.5 per pupil - meaning children were almost averaging As. read


Just imagine if your rubbish was collected once a month

Horror stories abound of vermin feasting on stinking bins, householders forced to make endless trips to the tip or burn their rubbish and of dirty nappies piling up in flimsy plastic bags were reported yesterday. read


Monthly bin collection will worsen streets say MPs

Councils in Conwy, north Wales, and Falkirk in Scotland are forcing householders to wait four weeks to have their bins emptied in a bid to meet tough EU recycling targets. read


Tom Daley says Olympic diving twists almost crippled me

The 22-year-old British Olympic star has been left with a potentially crippling back condition and a warning from doctors that he could even end up in a wheelchair as he eyes up Tokyo 2020. read


Deliciously Ella: I don't want to be a clean-eating queen

Her passion for low-gluten, dairy-free cooking saw her dubbed ‘queen of clean’. Now she wants to distance herself from the phrase completely after criticism and has denied being an advocate of gluten-free. read


Mothers share the lies they told their children growing up

From the ice cream van being all out of treats to the internet switching off at 7pm, mums around the world shared the most 'terrible lies' they ever told their children. read


KATIE HOPKINS on missing RAF man Corrie McKeague

Ask any parent their worst nightmare, and it's anything happening to their kids. Even as we get older, our mums still like to know that we are safe, writes KATIE HOPKINS on missing Corrie McKeague. read


What the drawer underneath your oven is REALLY for

Most people use the drawer under their oven to store baking sheets or pans. But the space is actually a warming drawer where you can keep food hot. read


Alexander Armstrong discovers he is a Pointless answer

Contestant Linda was asked to identify  an 'artist who featured in the top 40 biggest albums list of 2015' by Alexander Armstrong and she gave his name following the release of an album in 2015. read


Mother who fed daughter drugs before death jailed

Michala Pyke fed her daughter, Poppy Widdison, so the little girl didn't get in the way of her relationship with John Rytting. Poppy died in June 2013 at Rytting's home in Grimsby. read


Give early scans to cut prostate cancer deaths

Potential sufferers should be given MRI scans as soon as suspicions are raised and the £315 screening test doubles the rate tumours are spotted which could slash painful biopsies by a quarter. read


Obese people more likely to survive heart operations

A new study, by scientists at Leicester University, suggests being overweight has a protective effect when patients have heart surgery. The study analysed records from over 400,000 people. read


London woman can't get on bus because of buggy user

A video shows wheelchair user Kerdesan Gallardo attempting to get on a packed bus (pictured) outside the Supreme Court in London, having just heard a judge decree she should be given priority. read


Prince Charles says climate change is 'wolf at the door'

Prince Charles has urged world leaders to take immediate steps to combat climate change which he thinks is the ‘wolf at the door’ threatening the planet. read


Boeing and Airbus design planes to put an end to jet lag

Travelers start to feel jet lag symptoms when the cabin pressure surpasses 6,500ft. Now, Boeing and Airbus, have designed planes, made of plastic, with cabins that stay pressurized at 6,000ft. read


The Amazon tribe that kills and eats monkeys 

British photographer Pete Oxford took these amazing photographs of the Huaorani tribe, who live in the rainforests of Ecuador, by a tributary of the mighty Amazon river. read


I do not regret my terrorist past, says McGuinness

The veteran Sinn Fein politician was revealed last week to be suffering from the rare disease amyloidosis and was said to have just six years to live. read


Theresa May sends retirement message to Martin McGuinness

The Prime Minister said the outgoing Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland's role in the peace process had been pivotal (Mrs May and Martin McGuinness pictured). read


Trapped guests in doomed Italian hotel buried under snow

Up to 38 people are believed to have been killed when the hotel, in the village of Farindola, was crushed under a 6ft wall of snow yesterday as four earthquakes hit the central region of Abruzzo. read


Senegal army announces 'We have entered Gambia' 

Senegalese troops have charged into Gambia to support new President Adama Barrow as he remains in a bitter showdown with longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh, who refuses to step down. read


Andrew Wardle: Man born without penis has bionic one made

Andrew Wardle, 44, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, was born with an ectopic bladder, meaning it formed on the outside of his body. read


Child sex slave sold into Belgian ring recalls abuse

Anneke Lucas, 53, was sold into a murderous paedophile network in Belgium when she was just six years old in 1969. There children were raped, tortured and murdered. read


Quentin Letts on the sycophantic MPs congratulating Bercow

Andrea Leadsom proved herself to be a reasonably competent Environment Secretary during Environment Questions in the House of Commons on Thursday morning, writes QUENTIN LETTS. read


Can YOU answer this notoriously difficult question?

Playbuzz have released what is known to be a notoriously difficult brainteaser where users must identify the question master's relationship to a woman called Teresa. read


Lord Forte employs his kids to stop family feud

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Sir Rocco Forte, 71, has given jobs to his children Irene, Charles and Lydia. His father was forced to step down as chairman of his hotel empire aged 83. read


£300m of art treasures lost overseas to foreign buyers

Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, claimed institutions in the UK do not have enough power to stop wealthy overseas buyers exporting many of the country’s most precious works abroad. read


Theresa May warns extremists could take over at Davos 2017

Theresa May has made a broad pitch to position the UK as a champion of free trade and commerce but warned the Davos elite that they must help make society fairer. read


'You're going back to the 1970s!' EU leader taunts May

Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem made the incendiary claims to Holland's NRC newspaper in response to the Prime Minister's historic Brexit speech. read


Latest Labour attempt to BLOCK Brexit revealed

Four shadow cabinet ministers are reportedly lobbying for the party to block the vote to trigger Article 50, the formal mechanism for leaving the European Union. read


Boris Johnson plays cricket at Calcutta sporting academy

The Foreign Secretary took out his frustration on a series of deliveries from schoolchildren at a sporting academy in Calcutta. read


Theresa May's Brexit demands are BACKED by the public

Nearly half of voters also backed her threat to walk away from negotiations and her stance that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’. But only one in five believe EU leaders will agree to her demands. read


Barclays: UK will still be the 'financial lungs' of Europe

In Davos, Barclays chief executive Jez Staley spoke about the prospects for the City after Brexit while the bank's chairman John McFarlane said the Government supported of a three year deal. read


Vienna Philharmonic Ball graced by debutants

Held in the halls of the Musikverein building in Vienna, Bösendorferstrasse, the packed audience watched as conductor Semyon Bychkov led the orchestra. read


Singer of ‘La Lambada’ Loalwa Braz found dead

Loalwa Braz was the lead vocalist for the international hit song released by French group Kaoma in 1989 and was found dead in the coastal district of Sequerema near Rio de Janeiro. read


Bin Laden thought ISIS were too 'brutal and violent'

In the final hours of his presidency, Obama released a new batch of documents obtained in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound. read


Grandmother who stood on her stairlift died after fall

Renee Hall, of Datchet, Berkshire, ignored her family's warnings to sit down on the device instead of standing up on the footrest, a coroner was told. File photo. read


Mother killed herself after losing baby and boyfriend

Kirsty Farbrother (pictured), 21, from Burton in Staffordshire, was found dead in her home by her mum Tracey, 46, who lived with her, on January 10. read


Will Accession Declaration be changed for Prince Charles?

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby offers ‘remorse’ for the violence suffered by Roman Catholics during the Reformation 500 years ago - but royal watchers wonder what it could bring. read


Bristol house prices rose faster than other cities in 2016

Property values in Bristol increased faster than any other major UK city - and the North-South house price gap could narrow as buyers search for value in affordable cities outside London. read


Prince Charles and Camilla's gifts from around the world

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall accepted expensive watches from one of the Arab world’s bloodiest regimes according to a list of weird and wonderful gifts given to Royals. read


Desperate Scousewives's Elissa Corrigan beats firm VCS

Elissa Corrigan, 31, was stung with 19 parking tickets from Vehicle Control Services Ltd in just one year, despite leaving her car in one of the spaces provided outside her apartment in Liverpool. read


Soldier convicted of attempted murder of friend in Windsor

John Watson launched an early morning ambush on fellow soldier Private James Dicks after discovering he was having an affair his wife Lynsey, Reading Crown Court heard. read


Key to staying young revealed by Dr Elizabeth Blackburn

Too many fizzy drinks can age you as fast as smoking, making parts of the body almost five years older biologically, says Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, from the University of California, San Francisco. read


The foods you should eat for every mood

From egg yolks for concentration to sweet potato to relieve anxiety, the nutritionists have shared the ultimate guide to boosting every mood with the right meal. read


Earl of Cawdor will face trial in drugs case

Jack Marrian was held after 220lbs of cocaine was discovered in a shipment of sugar his company was moving from Brazil to Uganda, via Kenya. read


Age UK finds 600k OAPs go shopping to beat loneliness

A report by Age UK found one in 25 older shoppers rely on a visit to a big name store for company and conversation. Millions more see a grocery shop as a reason to get out of the house. read


Bagpipe band perform version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck

A Spanish bagpipe band have performed an astonishing version of rockers AC/DC's famous song Thunderstruck. Their video became a social media favourite after it received 1,000,000 views. read


Iraqi troops discover failed fighter jet attempt by ISIS

Photographs show the unfinished plane in eastern Mosul, which was finally recaptured by government forces on Wednesday. An Iraqi soldier can be seen posing in the jet. read


Sunderland wife finds lost wedding ring 20 YEARS later

Ann Westland, from Sunderland, was distraught when she lost the ring while digging in her back garden in 1997. The 55-year-old had even used a metal detector to find it. read


The Queen returns to official duties first time after cold

The Queen was all smiles as she made her annual visit to the Sandringham branch of the Women's Institute this afternoon, her first official engagement of 2017. read


Israeli shames visitors to Berlin's Holocaust memorial

Artist Shahak Shapira has called his page Yolocaust, combining the words Holocaust and the hashtag shorthand for 'you only live once' to highlight the inappropriateness of some people's posed pictures. read


Istanbul killer was sent three women by ISIS as reward

Alleged killer Abdulkadir Mashaipov was sent three women by the terror group as a prize for gunning down 39 people inside the Reina nightclub in Istanbul during New Year's Eve celebrations. read


Victoria husband murdered mum for talking to another man

Father-of-eight Robert Bance, 53, from Plymouth, was jailed for the 'ferocious' attack he carried out on his wife, Victoria, last October. read


BGT's Amanda Holden can't stop copying Gwyneth Paltrow

It seems that there is no look-at-me ruse Gwyneth has attempted that Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden hasn’t then had a go at herself, including a white tuxedo and shorts combination. read


AI scores higher than the average person on standard test

Northwestern University's new computational model scores within the 75th percentile, better than the average person, on a visual reasoning test known as Raven’s Progressive Matrices. read


Southern Rail guards and drivers to strike again next week

Strikes by Southern Railway guards and drivers in the RMT will go ahead next week after its 'exclusion' from talks between Aslef and the company, the union said. read


Man banned from having sex without telling police JAILED

Geoffrey Ball (pictured) was sentenced to 16 months in prison after meeting a 50-year-old woman in a Yates's pub, before going back to her home in Middlesbrough. read


Shake Shack CEO says NEVER leave tips for waiters

Shake Shack CEO Danner Meyer has revealed the dark history of tipping on podcast, The Sporkful. He says tipping used to be a way for restaurants to get around slavery laws during the US civil war. read


Homeless man jailed over Kayleigh Haywood texts

Bruce Cordwell admitted messaging and trying to meet the 15-year-old before she was abducted and killed by two men in Ibstock, Leicestershire. read


Muslim girl who claimed she was pushed 'cried wolf'

A young Muslim girl who claimed she had been the victim of a hate crime at a train station and pushed onto the tracks has been accused of making it all up. read


The women ADDICTED to donating their eggs

Kelly Parsons, Carrie Turner and Vicki Robson are all addicted to the practice. Thirty-six-year-old Kelly said she feels an 'intoxicating thrill' after donating eggs even though it's painful. read


Husband, 61, stabbed his spouse with an 8in carving knife

Russell Worthington, 61, of Amesbury, Wiltshire, who denies wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, allegedly stabbed Gail, 63, before telling a 999 operator he had just killed her. read


Rebecca Deferia smiles as she is cleared of hiring hitmen

Rebecca Deferia, 30, had been accused of paying a gang £12,500 to shoot 38-year-old Jonathan Catchpole at his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. read


Mother who treated stepdaughters as slaves is jailed

Caroline Sharp, from Brigg, North Lincolnshire, subjected the girls to 'the childhood of nightmares' with one of the youngsters being denied a bath for six weeks. read


Mother is cured of somebody else's addiction

Karen Louise, from West Yorkshire, 36, claims she has been left unable to drink fizzy pop after accidentally being cured of someone else's Coca-Cola addiction during a group hypnotherapy. read


It's not just courgettes! Other vegetables now in crisis

Bad weather in southern Spain and Morocco has devastated crops of lettuces, celery, peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cucumbers, aubergines, as well as courgettes, wholesalers say. read


Could VR be used to secretly fulfil bizarre fetishes?

Dr Trudy Barber, from the University of Portsmouth, told MailOnline a virtual environment may be the future of sex, allowing people to play out bizarre fetishes (stock image), read


Nicole Kidman hits back over questions about Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman, 49, snapped back at Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray today when the presenter quizzed her about her husband Keith's battles with alcoholism. read


Prince Harry becomes patron of Rhino Conservation Botswana

Harry, 32, has been named as royal patron for Rhino Conservation Botswana after he joined an RCB operation to help save rhinos in the country, which he calls his 'second home', in September. read


Amanda Abbington questioned Martin Freeman's colleague

According to The Sun , the actress, 42, was left 'furious' and 'demanding answers' regarding the 45-year-old's friendship with a female showbiz researcher he ofte n worked with. read


Gloucester Cathedral remove video of Imam after complaints

The traditional Muslim invocation to worship was performed in front of 1,200 people at the launch of a Faith Exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral but a video has been removed from Facebook. read


ISIS carry out mass execution of 'spies' and Iraqi solders

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Captured Iraqi soldiers and prisoners accused of being spies are either shot in the head or have their throats cut in the grim video, filmed in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. read


Adam Standing hanged himself because of debt on TEN cards

Adam Standing (pictured) was found hanged in a wooded area near his home in Banbury. The YouTube personality had kept financial issues from his family and may have struggled with depression. read


£50bn mines could be Europe’s sole source of lithium

Mining company Cornish Lithium wants to use new technology to extract lithium from hot spring brines in the granite stores (circled in red) deep underground in Cornwall. read


Friends and family say goodbye to Rick Parfitt at funeral

The private service is taking place at Woking Crematorium in Surrey after the veteran musician died aged 68 on Christmas Eve after suffering a severe infection in a Spanish hospital. read


Teaching your child Mandarin may help them play the piano

Children between the ages of three and five who could speak Mandarin were better at processing pitch, a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found. read


Autistic woman killed herself with cocktail of painkillers

Andromeda Brown, 21, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (court, pictured), was found unconscious and 'stone cold' on her bed by her mother, Mona, in June last year. read


Katie Rough's mother appeals about her missing 30 minutes

Katie Rough was found with 'lacerations to her neck and chest' in an alleyway a mile from her home in an affluent area of York on Monday, January 9. read


A fifth of men don't feel guilty about one night stands

While it is conceivable that women feel more regret due to them not having as much pleasure, evolution could be to blame, Norwegian researchers discovered. read


Man killed himself after he's duped into £1m cover-up

Simon Kenny (pictured) and Emma Coates ransacked the customers’ funds at CK Solicitors in Selsey, West Sussex for four years - leading to the death of their accountant Robert Foskett. read


Woman who ‘poured boiling water over ex's friend' on trial

Konstancija Tairova, 26, is on trial at the Old Bailey in London accused of pouring boiling water over her former partner's friend after he tried to intervene in their 'break-up argument'. read


Inside the Nazis' infamous Mauthausen concentration camps

Up to 320,000 people died at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where prisoners were forced to perform back-breaking work at a quarry. WARNING: Distressing images. read


This rainbow emoji text can CRASH your iPhone

The bug was first revealed on YouTube by Oregan-based EverythingApplePro and Preston159.com, who discovered that it affects any iOS device on iOS 10 or above (stock image). read


Flaw in Samsung's SmartCam could let criminals spy on home

Hackers told South Korea-based Samsung about a way of gaining access to the cameras in August . While the rectified that issue, yet another flaw has now been found. read


Playing fetch could damage dogs' legs

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna analysed the effects on the locomotor system on 10 dogs in a special movement lab. read


Research reveals why time seems to fly by or slow down

A researcher at Eckerd College in Florida has looked at why a few minutes may seem to last 'forever' when we’re waiting for a light to turn green. read


France to allow under-18s to watch real sex in films

France's culture minister Audrey Azoulay (pictured) will announce that under-18s will no longer be automatically blocked from seeing a film that contains non-simulated sex. read


This Morning viewers SLAM Holly Willoughby

This Morning viewers have slammed Holly Willoughby for ringing up a resident show expert for advice on fixing her broken boiler. read


Prince Louis and Princess Tessy interview before divorce

Prince Louis and Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, above, opened about their ten year marriage in a touching joint interview less than four months before announcing their divorce this week. read


Can YOU solve this scary mystery?

The video, posted to YouTube by user Mrbunnyfingers, believed to be from the US, has already been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and is leaving the Internet divided. read


Pastor claims to have cured a woman's 'vaginal warts'

Pastor Zendile Andries November of Victorious Faith Ministries in Bloemfontein, South Africa, asked the woman if she had 'pimples on her vagina'. The woman replied: 'Yes.' read


Dennis Hobson is first Briton to be cryogenically frozen

Dennis Hobson (pictured with his son), from Sheffield, died last week. But instead of having a funeral, he will be submerged in temperatures of -196C at laboratory in the US. read


BBC's 'Spy in the Wild' sees orangutan use SAW to cut tree

The scenes were filmed in Borneo as part of the BBC One series 'Spy In The Wild', which features eerily realistic robots disguised as a series of different animals. It will be shown in the UK tonight at 8pm. read


Harvard reveals incredible shape changing building blocks

The Harvard 'toolkit' for building shape-shifting blocks on a large scale. Using design and computational modeling, the team identified different arrangements and created a blueprint. read


Managers reveal reasons they fired an employee on Reddit

From being caught pulling a sickie to being captured on camera and not listening to warnings, managers took to Reddit to reveal the stupidest thing an employee did that forced them to be fired. read


Drug dealing couple claimed £40,000 in child tax credits

Shiraz Sharif, 45, (pictured) and his wife Salina, 46, from Manchester, have been sentenced to jail after being found guilty of drugs and money laundering offences. read


'Taylor Swift' Xia Vigor's mother defends routine

Little Xia Vigor appeared on a Filipino talent show this week with a rendition of Swift's 2008 hit You Belong With Me which has since gone viral. read


Mother of 'Taylor Swift girl' hits back at critics

Xia Vigor (pictured), the seven-year-old British schoolgirl who divided opinion with her Taylor Swift impersonation on Filipino TV, has spoken of her delight at becoming a global star. read


Shocking response of thug accused of kicking husky puppy

Thomas 'Skinny' Millar, from Doncaster, has been accused of carrying out the attack and told friends asking for an explanation online: 'And life still goes on'. read


People smuggler tried to sneak Iraqi man in his boot

Ibrahim Erkal (pictured), 34, from Swindon in Wiltshire, claimed he had been in Paris for a two-day 'sightseeing trip' when suspicious Border Force officers stopped his Mercedes. read


Tina Norman loses anonymity bid in divorce case

Tina Norman, 53, of Epsom, Surrey, had argued at the Court of Appeal (pictured) that her financial affairs with her former partner Robert Ellis Norman were 'private business'. read


Ex-UKIP treasurer Andrew Reid fences off Pooh Sticks site

Wealthy City lawyer Andrew Reid erected barbed wire fences on his 845-acre Oxfordshire farm in a bid to stop locals using the meadows for walks and picnics. read


Hidden lives of the Victorians are revealed

William Gladstone, the former Liberal Prime Minister, may have been a man of many parts, but a left forefinger wasn’t one of them. He lost it in a shooting accident when he was a young man. read


'Ghost' caught on camera opening lantern door in Wiltshire

Selena Wright, 45, and her friends were looking for investigation locations and visited The Antrobus Hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire, when they noticed a candle lantern door was opened on the bar. read


Plumber covered in RAW SEWAGE after trying to unblock pipe

The footage, believed to have been recorded on a mobile phone in northern England, shows the worker trying to fix a pipe - before he is knocked to the ground after being showered with sewage. read


Mac on... Remoaners and La La Land 

'Sorry, we're full. The UK's leading Bremoaners are having an anti-Brexit meeting in there.' read


Female MPs start fighting and pulling each other's hair

One handcuffed herself to the Turkish parliament's rostrum to protest against the controversial reform package that would give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office more control. read


Brothers strained over restoration project in Lancaster

Matt and Jimmy Whittle work together restoring a water filtration plant in Lancaster. A builder by trade, Jimmy is left to do all the work solo and the project tests the family bond. read


Confident Jenga player pulls off amazingly brave move 

Bullish board game player Jonathan Lopez, from San Bernardino, California, was left with a limited choice of moves when he stepped up to the giant wooden game. read


Cambridge University's famous cherry tree is cut down

The cherry tree at the front of the Old Court at Cambridge University's prestigious Clare College was cut down on Thursday. read