46 h. ago Chilling theory explains why dead Brit backpacker Peter Falconio's body will never be found

Retired Aussie cop Colleen Gwynne has revealed why Peter Falconio's remains will never be found as author Robin Bowles says Bradley John Murdoch will make an 'explosive' death bed confession

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5 d. ago Live updates as former teacher Daniel Gravell sentenced for raping teenager

Daniel Gravell, 43, raped his victim at a house in Carmarthen in 2002. He also took pictures of a different woman while she was naked without her knowing

Society

1 week ago That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artistSamson, a huge muscular hunk of a man, slumbers in the lap of his seducer Delilah, in a bedchamber sumptuously lit by candle. As Delilah looks down on the unconscious form of the great biblical hero, her accomplice is cutting the very tangled locks that hold his superhuman strength. Meanwhile, at the door, soldiers are waiting by torchlight. At the heart of it all is Samson’s rippled naked back, nestled on the woman’s pink silk skirts.Is this a painting by the Flemish baroque master Peter Paul Rubens? Hell, yes. The wonder is that anyone would ever think otherwise. And yet some do. Michael Daley and his campaigning group ArtWatch UK, and the art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis (among others), are getting traction with their claims that the National Gallery owns a “fake” or “modern copy” and is c...

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3 w. ago British tourist is found dead on the Algarve just days after another Brit's body was found when he vanished during stag do

A British tourist has been found dead on the Algarve, just days after another Brit's body was discovered following his mystery disappearance during a stag do.

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3 w. ago 'Naked' British tourist is found dead on the Algarve just days after another Brit's body was found when he vanished during stag do

A 'naked' British tourist has been found dead on the Algarve, just days after another Brit's body was discovered following his mystery disappearance during a stag do.

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3 w. ago Body of missing Brit found in Malaysia after week long search

The missing 25-year-old's body has been found after a week long search

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3 w. ago Body found in search for missing Brit Greg Monks after he vanished on Portugal stag do

Greg Monks, 38, disappeared in the early hours of last Wednesday morning as he partied with friends in Albufeira, and now a body has been found in the search for him

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3 w. ago Police say they have found the body of missing Brit Greg Monks in a ravine a week after he vanished during stag do trip to Portugal

Mr Monks, from Glasgow, vanished in the early hours of last Wednesday morning after travelling to Albufeira for a stag do with friends.

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3 w. ago Body of Brit woman found naked on Thailand's notorious Full Moon Party island

The woman's naked body was discovered by a local villager washed ashore on a beach in Koh Phangan, southern Thailand, this morning

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3 w. ago BREAKING: Brit woman's naked body found on notorious Full Moon Party island in Thailand

Police raced to the scene and found a 54-year-old British woman washed ashore on a beach in Koh Phangan, southern Thailand - she had been discovered by a local villager

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3 w. ago Mystery as naked body of British woman is found on beach on Thai Full Moon Party island

The Brit was wearing only an orange bra when her body was discovered face-down on the beach by a villager early this morning. Police discovered her orange underwear drifting ashore nearby.

Society

4 w. ago Body of missing Brit found in Italy after he vanished on New Year's Day

Aziz Ziriat, 36, went missing while on a hiking trip in the Italian Dolomites with his friend Samuel Harris, 35 - Samuel's body was found back in January but Aziz's remains were found on Saturday

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last month Naked woman, 20, issued horrifying scream before she was found dead with throat slashed

Kristin O'Connell, 20, travelled to Ovid, New York, to visit James Vermeersch, whom she had been exchanging letters with, before she was horrifically murdered in August 1985

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last month Horrifying death of woman found naked with throat slit after 'blood chilling' scream

Kristin O'Connell, 20, was found naked in a cornfield with her throat slashed after she went to visit a man she'd met on Spring Break and was horrified to learn he had a girlfriend

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