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Cambridge locals catch beggars feigning homelessness

The group walked together to the outskirts of Cambridge’s shopping arcades, before separating to avoid working the same areas. They left Romanian licence plated car in a residential road. read


Lords told to declare EU pensions ahead of Brexit debate

More than 20 peers who worked in Brussels built up lavish EU pensions. They include Labour’s Lord Mandelson who will receive almost £35,000 a year thanks to his former job as trade commissioner. read


Old Etonian friend of David Cameron swaps wife for model

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Dramatic plans by David Cameron’s friend Nicholas Johnston to transform the Devon village of Bantham horrified locals and left them bemused. read


Sir Edward Heath accusers also claim parents ran sex cult

The farce came as police probe incredible claims that the prime minister was linked to a paedophile ring that killed as many as 16 children – making them the worst child murderers in British history if true. read


ALEX BRUMMER: Hallelujah! Unilever brawl is over

The £115billion brawl over control of the British-Dutch consumer products group Unilever has ended in the first round. The would-be buyer, Kraft Heinz, has thrown in the towel. read


working from home skiving? CLARE FOGES

Stroll into many an office across Britain on a Friday and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped into one of those dystopian films where everyone has disappeared. read


Inside the Kim Kardashian heist crime scene

A French television network screened images of the crime scene showing gaffer tape used to bind the star's hands, the gag used to silence her and a video of the robbers. read


Separated from your mobile can lead to PTSD

Children are as panicked being separated from their smartphones as they are being separated from their parents and develop patterns associated with PTSD, according to new research. read


NHS cuts 15,000 beds in six years

The dramatic reduction – equivalent to closing 24 hospitals – amounts to a 10 per cent fall in NHS beds at a time when the health service is under unprecedented pressure. read


Ecuadorian election looks set to swing Assange's way

An exit poll in Ecuador estimated ruling party leftist Lenin Moreno received 39.4 percent of valid votes versus around 30.5 percent for conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso. read


Piers Morgan pulls out of hosting duties at RTS Awards

The presenter, 51, took to his Facebook to explain his withdrawal from the event, held on March 21 - reasoning that he had no desire to 'distract from award winners' with the campaign. read


Jeremey Paxman's ex devastated to be left for young blonde

Jeremey Paxman and Elizabeth Clough have parted after more than 35 years. The 66-year-old presenter is now believed to be living with Jillian Taylor, 36, in his £1.5 million flat in Notting Hill. read


Oxford University considering Paris campus for EU cash

French officials met with senior staff at Oxford University to discuss proposals. The 'satellite' campus could have French legal status making it still eligible for EU funding. read


India doesn't need British aid, says new High Commissioner

Britain sent India £279million in 2014 alone – despite the fact the country has its own space programme and is planning to spend £10billion on a fleet of warships. read


Now Javid claims fury is just based on 'myths'

Sajid Javid risked enraging small firms last night after he wrote an extraordinary letter insisting the row over business rates was based on myths. read


Supermarket chains to get a £200m business rates cut

Superstores operated by Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons are set to benefit while smaller high street retailers will be charged an average of 3.7 per cent more, costing them tens of millions. read


Fiancée of Treasury Secretary appears naked in film scenes

Donald Trump's new Treasury Secretary definitely has an eye for figures, as his glamorous fiancée proved last week in the Oval Office. read


Trump hits back in feud with Scandinavian nation

President Donald Trump sent out a tweet on Sunday saying he was citing a Fox News report when he made reference to a security incident in Sweden during a rally in Florida. read


Trump says ALL illegal immigrants can be deported

Donald Trump may put all of the USA's illegal immigrants in ICE's crosshairs with new orders that allow anyone to be deported, regardless of whether they've committed a crime in the US. read


Audio lands Trump in yet another possible ethical row

President Donald Trump was caught on tape offering his guests the entertainment of gawking at the people he was interviewing for his cabinet. read


Donald Trump reiterates his Syria 'safe zones' plan

At President Donald Trump's campaign-style rally Saturday, he brought up his plan to create 'safe zones' in Syria in lieu of admitting more refugees. read


Sadiq Khan wants Trump's Bahrain trip cancelled

Mr Khan said the tycoon's ban on refugees and travel ban aimed at people from seven Muslim-majority countries were reasons not to be 'rolling out the red carpet'. read


Trump aides 'have secret plan to lift Russian sanctions'

The New York Times reports that among those involved is President Trump's personal lawyer who hand delivered a report detailing the plan to Michael Flynn before his resignation. read


How old men taking over world reveal secret of success

The lesson DOMINIC LAWSON take from the achievements of older men is not that they are especially clever but that their character means they have energy that barely diminishes with age. read


Sen McCain denounces President Trump's attacks on media

One of President Donald Trump's most vocal critics in the GOP slammed the commander-in-chief's vitriolic hatred towards mainstream media. read


Manchester United's Phil Jones sacked his cleaners

Phil Jones, pictured, who is on £80,000 a week, sacked Nigel and Angela Stubbs in November having spent three years working for the Manchester United star and his fiancee Kayla Hall. read


4m could flee Afghanistan if Britain pulls out of country

Sir Michael Fallon said Britain cannot pull troops from Afghanistan because the terrorist groups that existed there when soldiers deployed in 2001 remain and ‘still pose a threat’. read


Toddler with leukaemia is saved by designer immune cells

One-year-old Layla was diagnosed when she was just 14 weeks old. Chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant failed to halt the aggressive disease. She was taken to Great Ormond Street. read


Syrian women imprisoned by government tell their stories

The full extent of the crimes against women in the jails of the Syrian intelligence service were revealed in a report by the centre for women, peace and security at the London School of Economics. read


Muslim parents 'sent school headteacher death threats

Trish O'Donnell, head of Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham, has endured of 'aggressive verbal abuse' and 'threats to blow up her car' from parents pushing conservative Muslim values. read


Scottish police find body in search for missing boy

A major search was launched after the child was reported missing from a property in the Milton of Drimmie area, close to Bridge of Cally in Perthshire at around 11.15am on Sunday. read


Boxer Michael Watson urges police to find his attackers

Michael Watson, 51, and his carer Lennard Ballack were sprayed with ammonia by thugs in Chingford, east London, who smashed into the back of their Volkswagen Golf. read


Crime boss hit on dealers who supplied Leah Betts Ecstasy

A crime boss was caught on tape offering to murder the three Essex drug dealers who supplied the ecstasy pill that led to the death of teenager Leah Betts (pictured). read


Man posed as woman online to get naked selfies from kids

Matthew Anthony (pictured), 32, from Staffordshire, made up two online profiles and chatted to his victims on Instagram, before receiving the shocking pictures. read


The Arctic sea ship that WANTS to be stuck in ice

The £50m Mosaic project will send Russian icebreaker RV Polarstar into the Arctic. It will be frozen into the ice, which moves across the region. 50 institutions from 14 countries are taking part. read


PICTURED: Jeremy Clarkson spotted with new girlfriend

Jeremy Clarkson has been pictured with his stunning new girlfriend for the first time as they arrived together in Barbados. read


Kraft Heinz 'agrees' to withdraw its Unilever merger bid 

Kraft Heinz has 'amicably agreed' to withdraw its proposal for a merger with Unilever, a joint statement between the two companies has announced. read


Putin's critic who fell into a coma leaves Russia

Journalist and pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza (pictured) nearly died two years ago after a 'toxic influence of an unknown substance' caused his kidneys to fail. read


CLAUDIA CONNELL reviews the weekend's TV

The year is 1941 and Britain is under Nazi control in the BBC thriller SS-GB. But at times it feels as though substance was being sacrificed for style, writes CLAUDIA CONNELL. read


Sydney escort reveals all in very revealing Reddit AMA

The 25-year-old woman says she has worked in brothels all over Australia before deciding to set herself up as a private escort in 2014. read


Diana's life in fashion glorious photos

Staged 20 years after her death, and on show at Kensington Palace, her former home, a blockbuster new exhibition is as poignant as it is beautiful, offering a unique insight into Diana's life. read


Carrie Fisher chillingly predicted her own death

The late Carrie Fisher, 60, chillingly predicted she would be dead by February 2017 be writing the date of her passing on a cardboard cutout of Princess Leia, singer James Blunt has revealed. read


Wetherspoons forced to pay £8k more for each pub

Rents and rates specialists CVS predicts 17,160 pubs in England and Wales will receive increased demands in April, adding an extra £70.17million to their bills compared with 2016/17. read


Gap between low and high income households widens

Families earning £1,500 or less a month have an average of £95 in savings. High income families of £5,501 a month have a typical savings pot of £62,885. London families have the most put away. read


Attenborough's back for Blue Planet II... at age of 91!

After 65 years in TV Sir David Attenborough shows no signs of slowing down. Following the success of Planet Earth II the broadcaster will now work on a sequel to the Blue Planet. read


London house worth £900k despite being just 7 feet wide

The property in Hammersmith, west London was built as a Victorian laundry house in the 1850s. It's priced at a whopping £700,000 more than the average home in England and Wales. read


Liz Truss defends press reports of Brexit case

The Lord Chancellor spoke out after Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger complained that some of the Press coverage of the case risked undermining the rule of law. read


Brexit snub for business boss who said Leave

The Whitehall old boy's network is alive and well in the case of John Longworth, writes Andrew Pierce. Ardent Remainers have snubbed his chance at a new post helping to organise Brexit. read


Becky Watts' father reveals he's taking 'a lot of tablets'

Darren Galsworthy said he blames himself for not saving his daughter. The Bristol teenager went missing in February 2015 and step-brother Nathan Matthews was convicted of her murder. read


Hitler's telephone sells for £161,000

The phone recovered from Hitler's bunker went to an unknown bidder at the auction by Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland. read


Karen Matthews 'told shop boss she was convicted of theft'

A source claims Matthews, originally from Dewsbury, said she'd been convicted for shoplifting in order to get a voluntary position at the coffee shop. The source was shocked to find out Matthews' identity. read


UK weather to see Britain hotter than Madrid

Temperatures in the UK will be hotter than Spain, Greece and Saudi Arabia thanks to a 'blast of hot air from the Caribbean' before wind and rain will close in and batter the north from Tuesday. read


Manchester man 'slept through' a ferocious six hour blaze

Sixty firefighters were needed to battle the flames at an industrial building in Manchester. The man emerged unharmed after sleeping through the commotion. read


Britain's first spaceports set for lift off

The new SpaceFlight bill could see space ports established across the UK as early as 2020. Ministers have hailed the sector as the 'future of the British economy' and wants the UK at the global forefront. read


Council tax rises for social care will be swallowed up

The ex-Chancellor’s policy, which will see the minimum wage rise to £9 an hour by 2020, will have a huge burden on firms and councils that employ care workers, as they often paid very little. read


CCTV shows moment leading to Kim Jong-nam's assassination

The CCTV video, from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, allegedly shows the moment which led to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam - the half-brother of the North Korean leader. read


Prisoner is put in a choke-hold and kicked in the face

Stills from a shocking video taken at Redditch's Hewell Prison shows several other convicts casually observing the brawl, which was filmed in one of the Midlands jail's bathrooms. read


Waste giant backs deposit scheme for plastic bottles

Germany and Sweden already operate a successful deposit scheme. Whitehall insiders suggest ministers are sceptical of a similar plan for England. 15m bottles are not recycled every day. read


Former Australia lock Dan Vickerman dies aged 37

A veteran of 63 Tests, who played in three World Cups, he was a widely respected figure in the game, as was apparent from the tributes, following confirmation that he had passed away in Sydney. read


NATO air base in Germany receives false alert

A panic-inducing message brought a brief moment of confusion to airmen at NATO's Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. The bright-red message with 'high severity' read: 'MISSILE INBOUND.' read


CANDIDA CREWE admits her 80-year-old mother help pay

Last year, British parents lent £5bn to the next generation of homeowners — the equivalent to one of the top ten mortgage lenders. Pictured, Candida Crewe with her generous mother Angela. read


Children ‘watched their father stab their mother to death'

Police and an air ambulance rushed to the scene of a double stabbing in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. Pictures on social media show police vans and an air ambulance at the scene. read


Iraqi forces launch push to retake western Mosul from ISIS

Iraqi government soldiers swiftly retook at least five villages and set their sights on Mosul airport, marking a new phase in Iraq's largest military operation in years. read


Man grades groveling letter from ex-girlfriend

US based Nick Lutz received the letter from his former flame apologising for her behaviour but he took the ultimate revenge by picking up on the mistakes in the letter in red pen and sharing it on Twitter . read


Ukip canvasser 'urinated on elderly woman's house'

A Ukip canvasser in Stoke has been caught on CCTV urinating on the fence outside a pensioner's home in the Northwood area of the city before trying to force his way into her home to use her toilet. read


Vogue Paris to feature a transgender model on the cover

Valentina Sampaio from Brazil will grace the front page of the iconic publication for its March edition, becoming the first transgender model ever to do so in a French magazine. read


Proof it's WOMEN who make the first move

American scientist Helen Fisher’s fascinating new book, Anatomy Of Love: A Natural History Of Mating, Marriage And Why We Stray, explores how and why we love the way we do. read


This is what 51 looks like

Married mother-of-three Sharon Green has two blow dries a week at her local salon, uses fake tan all year round and mostly eats white food. Her secret to staying young and active is to never sit down. read


Cancer mother claims her baby son saved her life

Sarah Boyle, 26, from Staffordshire, says she was encouraged to undergo a biopsy after her son Teddy, now one, repeatedly rejected her right breast while feeding. read


Diane Abbott reveals daily racist and sexist abuse

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott became the first black woman ever elected to the Commons in 1987 and said she had always suffered racist attacks. read


Promote women to top roles or we'll cut links, Aviva warns

The subcontractors are thought to include recruitment firms and insurance providers. The warning was aimed at those not involved in initiatives such as 30 per cent Club. read


Four Yorkshire mums ditch families for 3,000-mile odyssey

We were just three days into our voyage across the Atlantic and things were already going wrong. Nothing could have prepared us for the violence of the winds and the unforgiving waves. read


Shangri-La is in Surrey!

Retirement communities like Whiteley Village (pictured) near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, can help women live years longer than the national average- partly due to increased social interaction. read


The emotions stirred by living longer than my mum 

'I’ve long dreaded reaching 52. The age has hung over me like a spectre, taunting me with the irrational fear that, because my mother didn’t make 53, nor would I,' writes LOUISE ATKINSON. read


Iceberg water costing £80 a BOTTLE goes on sale 

Svalbardi water is sourced from icebergs in an archipelago between northern Norway and the North Pole and only enough to fill 13,000 bottles is harvested at a time. read


£5 note with rare Jane Austen inscription worth £50k

An elderly woman found one of the notes, which were engraved with a portrait of Jane Austen by Birmingham artist Graham Short, at Charlie's Bar in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. read


Groom gets $125K ring back after suing former fiancee

A groom whose $235,000 Manhattan wedding fell apart after a very public family feud has finally had his $125,000 engagement ring returned - though it took four months and a lawsuit. read


How hand luggage put in the hold might not be covered

Which? found that the ‘big five’ travel insurance companies - Aviva, Axa, Churchill, Direct Line and LV - exclude valuables placed in the hold from their policies in the case of loss, theft or damage. read


Hamster disappears after escaping cage and scaling wall

Gingy the hamster broke free of her cage and scaled a seven foot wall and was found some six weeks later when she turned up at a care home a mile away in Aberdeenshire. read


Elland Road boxing night ends in mass spectator brawl

Mobile phone footage shows the 'disgusting' scenes which unfolded after a boxing event at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium when fans began brawling. read


Wolverhampto homeless man elated after being offered job

The unidentified man pumped his arms and ran across the road with delight after he was offered a permanent contract at a window supplier in West Bromwich yesterday. read


The Queen's favourite the royal train saved from scrapheap

The Queen's favourite mode of transport has been given a reprieve after it emerged that reports of the royal trains demise had been greatly exaggerated. Test showed it to be in excellent health. read


Charles Bronson 'told Rose West to hang herself'

Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has admitted he urged serial killer Rose West to hang herself, after receiving a fawning letter from her seemingly asking for advice on prison life. read


Donor mum who helped her daughter’s best friends to live

Ella Murtha, 32, from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, decided to donate her mother Tish's kidneys. She received letters from the families of Jane Holmes, 43, and Teresa Saunders, 40, read


Father reveals shock at his twins being adopted by Madonna

Adam Mwale, father of Esther and Stella, claims he was misled into believing their move to the US with pop star Madonna would not be permanent. read


Jeremy Corbyn will stay as leader even if he loses polls

Labour's position looks perilous in both Stoke and Copeland with just three full days of campaigning to go before polls open on Thursday morning. Corbyn has been campaigning in Stoke (pictured). read


Japanese festival sees thousands of men get naked

The men were taking part in Hadaka Matsuri - or the Naked Man Festival - which takes place every year at the Saidaiji Kannon-in temple in Okayama City in western Japan. read


British pensioner ‘stabbed his wife to death in Spain'

Ambulance workers took the suspect, aged 86, away by ambulance after he reportedly tried to harm himself at the home in El Campello near Alicante. His injuries are thought to be superficial. read


Playboy Mansion revealed in stunning new photos

Today, the Playboy Mansion's glory days long behind it and the property has sold for more than $100 million, although Hef, 90, will be allowed to live out his days in the L.A. mansion. read


Top Nasa scientist wants the Moon turned into a planet

Alan Stern, who led a successful mission to send a spacecraft to photograph Pluto believes the rules determining what defines a planet should be re-written to encourage more scientific research. read


Young mother, 23, dies while baby survives in crash

Hannah Davies (pictured), 23, was involved in the one-vehicle smash on the A92 Inverbervie to Kinneff road in Aberdeenshire at around 10.50am yesterday. read


Tom Daley 'had an 18-month affair with a male model'

The Team GB athlete, who is engaged to 42-year-old American film director Dustin Lance Black, reportedly met his 6ft 6ins lover in the street and began chatting online in 2014. read


French knife-wielding attacker shot by police

The unnamed assailant, who is said to be 32 and from the French overseas territory of Reunion Island, struck in the town of Montauban, north of Toulouse, on Sunday afternoon. read


Huntsman launches foul-mouthed rant at saboteurs

Video filmed at a meeting of the Cottesmore Hunt in Owston, Leicestershire, appears to show an outraged man launching into the foul-mouthed aimed at the Beds and Bucks Hunts Saboteurs. read


The £2billion epidemic of waste in the NHS

The Royal Berkshire in Reading almost paid £855 for a simple blackout blind. Some hospitals have been paying twice as much for loo roll as others. Several had to ditch pricey drugs because of faulty fridges. read


Lord Saatchi on what he thinks will cure the NHS

The NHS is the ultimate post-truth world – fake news and alternative facts. When he created the National Health Service, its founder Nye Bevan, explained what he was doing very simply. read


Could batch tasking cure work related stress?

Career coach Caroline Webb has revealed that in order to be calmer at work employees should approach batch tasking meaning we break our to do list down into manageable tasks. read


Staying connected to work 'is linked to heart disease' 

More than half of City workers suffer high levels of stress as they try to balance their office life with their home life and deal with the habit of always being available to do work. read


Six women reveal secretly envy the opposite sex

Last week, Inspire’s favourite male writers told you what they would do if they were female. A lively online debate ensued with many of you wanting to know what women would do in the reverse situation. read


TV wrestler 'dealt cocaine to Princess Margaret'

Police insiders believe that an investigation into the allegations that a TV wrestler dealt Princess Margaret was halted because officials feared that the probe would cause a large scandal. read


Stephen Lawrence journalism scholarship hunt begins

The two-year scholarship and training bursary, is sponsored by the Daily Mail. This year the scheme has teamed up with City, University of London to offer a full fee scholarship for the MA course. read


Boris Johnson has secretly met Tony Blair twice

Boris Johnson this week dismissed Mr Blair's intervention urging people to 'rise up' against Brexit by telling voters to ignore him. read


Top girls' school allows pupils to be identified as male

St Paul's Girls' School, in Hammersmith, west London, made the decision as increasing numbers young people are beginning to outwardly question their gender. read


Drunk milkman smashes float into couple's car and home

Milkman Adam Martin, 28, admitted drink-driving at Leamington Spa Magistrates Court and was banned from driving after crashing his milk float into a couple's home, causing structural damage. read


Stephen Lawrence's killer sues Government for £10k

David Norris, 40, claims he was attacked by three black inmates with a knife and a sock full of tins cans at Belmarsh prison in South East London in 2011. He seeks £10,000 in damages. read


Royal Navy bans 'pin up' posters on ships

British sailors can no longer pin up nude pictures of their wives and girlfriends on board surface ships, submarines and at shore bases. The ban was brought in after complaints. read


Leon Brittan's widow set to sue the Metropolitan Police

It is claimed that a warrant used to search Lord Brittan's homes in London and Yorkshire – six weeks after his death – was 'invalid' because it named him, but not the owner, Lady Brittan. read


How Huntington's Disease ravaged a young mother

Heartbreaking images show the ravaging effects of Huntington's Disease, after 20-year-old Becky Aspinall, from Oxton, Merseyside was diagnosed eight years ago and can no longer walk. read


Cat can let herself out after learning how to open door

Muffin the five-year-old tabby cat stands up on her hind legs, reaches up to pull the handle down, then hooks a paw behind the door of her home in Ely, Cambridgeshire, to swing it open. read


Jeremy Corbyn slams Tony Blair's Brexit intervention

Mr Corbyn, who was quizzed on the comments after addressing Labour's local government conference at Warwick University, said of Mr Blair's intervention: 'Well, it's not helpful.' read


Gunman fires shot through window of family home

A single shot was fired through the upstairs window of the semi-detached house in Tameside, Greater Manchester, at around 3.10am on Saturday morning. read


UK return of chef Ryan Lock who died fighting ISIS

Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex died in Raqqa, Syria in December while fighting alongside Kurdish rebels against ISIS. Dozens of people paid tribute as his body returned today to Heathrow. read


Deaf Salisbury couple hear each other for the first time

Neil and Helen Robinson have both been deaf since birth and communicated through sign language, lip reading and failed attempts at using hearing aids until being fitted with cochlear implants. read


Norma McCorvey dies without reconnecting with daughter

Norma McCorvey, who had been ill for some time, passed away from heart failure at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas on Saturday where she was surrounded by her family. read


How Kremlin's assassins targeted Montenegro PM

The would-be killers aimed to overthrow Montenegro’s government to sabotage its plan to join Nato, Whitehall sources claim. Pictured is Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic. read


Mother who made abortion legal in US then fought to ban it

Norma McCorvey maintained her anonymity under the pseudonym of Jane Roe, and ushered in the landmark 1973 court decision of Roe vs Wade that legalised abortion in America. read


Is Twix a chocolate bar or a biscuit

The discussion was sparked by Pointless host Richard Osman who took to Twitter in an attempt to set the record straight once and for all. read


Spies accused of withholding information over drone strike

The intelligence and security committee (ISC) want more details about the threat terrorist Reyaad Khan, from Cardiff, posed to Britain and whether the risk of 'collateral damage' was properly considered. read


Manchester's worst rated hotels pictured

Pictures show what could be the worst hotel in Manchester. The Merchant hotel has racked up 266 'terrible reviews' out of 389 overall review. One reporter visited to see if the reviews were truly justified. read


'Beirut Beefcake' struggles to find love on app Tinder

Foreign correspondent James Longman, 29, (pictured) has been looking for love on dating app Tinder – using screengrabs of himself reporting on the Syrian conflict from Beirut. read


Single woman organises a wedding ceremony for her birthday

Lynne Gollogly, 39, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, has organised her own wedding despite being single to celebrate her 40th birthday and has even organised two hen dos and a honeymoon. read


George Michael may not be buried until March

Sources said there is a delay over toxicology reports on the 53-year-old, meaning his funeral could happen at least 13 weeks after his death at home in Goring, Oxfordshire, on Christmas Day. read


Man who won £2.5m with fake ticket showed stub to friends

Edward Putman, 51, is believed to have submitted a 'deliberately damaged ticket' to trick the National Lottery into making the payout. He apparently tested out the scam on friends beforehand. read


Pope poses for a selfie with a beaming schoolboy

Pope Francis was visiting the parish of Santa Maria Josefa of the Heart of Jesus in Rome, where he met some children. He cracked a smile when the schoolboy showed him the picture. read


Jeremy Paxman splits from the mother of his children

The presenter, 66, is now living with Canadian-born books editor Jillian Taylor, 37. The pair worked together on two of Paxman's best sellers, including Great Britain's Great War. read


Witch doctors in Malawi hiring ‘hit men’ to murder Albinos

Medicine made from the organs and limbs can sell for £7,000. More than 70 Albinos have been attacked in two years. In Tanzania, 'protectorates' house children in squalid conditions. read


Family recreate scene from Calamity Jane 50 years on

Avril Stone, 69, from North Devon, tracked down the taxi they used to recreate the scene from the musical for her husband, Eric, the driver in the original image, who is terminally ill. read


Mourning elephants refuse to abandon dead friend's body

The elephant was put down by park rangers at the Chobe National Park in Botswana. Heartbreaking footage shows one of the elephants stroking the body with his trunk. read


Child abuser caught beating boy, 7, on surveillance video

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Kordarell Williams, 27, was arrested after footage captured him 'senselessly beating' his girlfriend's seven-year-old son 62 times with a belt in Houston, Texas. read


Astronaut Don Pettit reveals the best of his space snaps

Dr Don Pettit, a Nasa astronaut from Oregan, has spent 370 days aboard the International Space Station, taking hundreds of thousands of photos during three separate stays. read


Patricia Cornwell's new book 'reveals Jack the Ripper'

Crime writer Patricia Cornwell, left, claims she has vital evidence to prove the identity of Britain's biggest serial killer, Jack the Ripper. She believes the renowned artist Walter Sickert is the culprit read


MMA fighter knocked out after dancing in the ring

Overconfident Joe Harding was battling John Segas in the British MMA 18 featherweight title fight in Colchester, Essex - Harding's hometown - last night. read