56 minutes ago Cheryl's worst nightmare come true: Death of Liam Payne is the latest drugs tragedy to blight the singer's life and leaves her son Bear, 7, without a father

As news of Liam Payne 's death at the age of 31 reverberates around the world, he leaves behind a seven-year-old son, Bear, whom he shares with Newcastle-born singer Cheryl.

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81 minutes ago The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – lessons in chemistry

An artful account of a scientific genius and her female disciples leaves Marie Curie’s inner life an enigmaTo write a biography of a figure as well known as Marie Curie and still offer something fresh or surprising is no easy undertaking. The double Nobel prizewinner is, as author Dava Sobel acknowledges, the only female scientist most people can name. She has inspired more biopics and biographies than I can count, including those written by her two daughters. Parents of young children will have encountered her story in almost every one of the worthy children’s anthologies that adorn school bookshelves: she features in Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, She Persisted Around the World and Little People, Big Dreams.To help shed new light on such an iconic figure, Sobel, a bestselling writ...

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1 hour ago Liam Payne’s devastating comment about ‘hitting rock bottom’ leaves fans in shock

Liam Payne, one fifth of world-famous band One Direction, fell to his death in Buenos Aires on Wednesday

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2 hours ago Liam Payne claimed having Bear 'ruined Cheryl relationship for right reasons'

One Direction star Liam Payne has tragically died in Argentina after falling from the third floor of a hotel, leaving behind his eight-year-old son Bear, who he shared with Girls Aloud's Cheryl

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4 hours ago Ministers speed up ‘skills passport’ for workers to move to clean energy jobs

Scottish and UK governments to sign deal on boosting green energy supply chains and infrastructure

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4 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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4 hours ago ‘I had a secret affair with my cousin – and I wish we’d come clean sooner’

When Sandra* set eyes on her 18-year-old cousin, it was love at first sight. It took them 20 years to finally confess their feelings for one another, but their relationship still felt like a guilty secret, she tells Charlotte Cripps. And it wasn’t until a horrifying diagnosis that the pair finally decided to tell the truth

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4 hours ago People are only just realising genius reason behind the bite in Apple logo

Apple's iconic logo is recognised around the world and there's many theories surrounding what it means and the reason there's a bite taken out of it - but the answer isn't as tricky as people think

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6 hours ago Arsenal news: Gunners backed for title charge as Man Utd icon makes shock admission

Arsenal are back in action this weekend as they take on Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday evening and Mikel Arteta will be keeping his fingers crossed that the Gunners have a clean bill of health ahead of that game

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