8 h. ago Madeline McCann's parents seen at annual vigil for missing girl for first time in years

Missing Madeleine McCann's parents Kate and Gerry have been spotted at a prayer vigil for the their daughter 18 years after she disappeared while on holiday in Portugal

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45 h. ago Original Gone Girl makes bombshell claim as she breaks silence for the first time in almost a decade after kidnapping hoax that captivated the world

Sherri Papini vanished from her home in California, on November 2, 2016, sparking a frantic search until she turned up three weeks later.

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9 d. ago EastEnders star Danny Walters becomes a dad for the first time as he shares sweet photo

EastEnders star Danny Walters has become a father for the first time after his girlfriend Maddi gave birth to a baby girl, with followers rushing to congratulate the pair

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1 week ago Lady Pamela Hicks shares her life lessons as she turns 96: Queen's bridesmaids reveals how she was 'brought up to love everyone'

The aristocrat was pictured at different stages of her life, from the time she was a young girl to serving as a bridesmaid to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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2 w. ago How turning 40 made 'poor little rich girl' billionaire heiress Athina Onassis realise it was time to come out of the shadows and emulate her legendary grandfather

She's the last surviving member of the 'cursed' Greek shipping dynasty, and has spent her life avoiding the spotlight.

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2 w. ago The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yardYou can see a whole world – submerged, waiting, ready to burst forth – in the face of any adolescent girl. In Sally Mann’s At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, she captures this special, unstable time of life. In this image, a plaited-haired girl sits in a chair, head in hand like a world-weary grownup. This is Olivia, “with that ruined prayer in her eyes”, as Mann describes her. In the background, a phalanx of dark trousers hangs from two washing lines that cut across the image and lead our gaze towards her grandmother, who dangles the now-empty plastic laundry basket over one shoulder.“This is just half the day’s laundry,” Mann tells us in a loose narrative that runs through a reissue of the well-known 1988 publication by the artist notorious for capturing girls on the threshold of womanhood with unnerving perspicacity. The...

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3 w. ago Teen's shock confession as missing girl found underneath his bed after cops hear 'shush'

The girl, who was under 13 years old at the time, was said to have never co-operated with the police investigation after being tracked down and is believed to have lied about her age

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3 w. ago Bella Thorne accuses Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals on movie set

Actor claims working with Oscar nominee on set of thriller Girl is ‘one of the all time worst experiences’ of her lifeBella Thorne has accused fellow US actor Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals with a metal grinder on the set of a movie that they filmed together during what she described as “one of the all time worst experiences” of her career.In a story on her Instagram account on Friday, Thorne alleged that the episode was part of a broader campaign to humiliate her while they collaborated on the 2020 thriller Girl. She wrote: “This fucking dude. GROSS” and relayed the account in writing over a copy of a BBC article reporting that Celebrity Big Brother’s producers had reprimanded him for aiming homophobic comments at singer JoJo Siwa while they competed on the reality show. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago "I know exactly what happened": Alleged victim in Rochdale sex abuse trial denies drink and drugs affected her memory

Girl A was giving evidence at the trial for a second time

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