From L.A Noire to The Binding of Isaac; the sale took in some great titles this year

The news that the perennial OK! cover star Kerry Katona is to play Marilyn Monroe on stage in the forthcoming production of Norma Jeane The Musical was met with appropriate snorts of laughter. But do the blondes have more in common than it might first appear?

The swamps to the east of New Orleans are an exciting place for a boy. Nine-year-old Terence "Skid" Beaumont is the youngest of four brothers. His father, Alrick, decided to build a shack here, prompted by a vision after a drunken bender. He was convinced he was set to make a killing from his property speculation, because New Orleans was bound to expand over the mire. That never happened and so the Beaumonts are stuck in the mud.

Mr Monteith, 31, was found dead at Vancouver’s Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel

Mr Monteith, 31, was found dead at Vancouver’'s Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel

After her controversial comments made on This Morning last week, the former Apprentice contestant said she disagreed with treating addiction

Conservative lawmakers voted for the bill to pass but later realised that a change in the language could allow gay marriage.

Ulrich Seidl, 113mins. Starring: Maria Hofstätter (18)

It is not every day that a recovering heroin addict shares a stage with the Mayor of London to discuss drugs on BBC's Question Time.

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Manufacturers to face tough new tests before they can sell devices that help smokers avoid the lethal effects of tobacco

In 2008, Steve Wright, a forklift truck driver dubbed the “Suffolk strangler”, was jailed for life for murdering five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich.

Preacher, described as ‘dangerously charming’, progressed from shoplifting to turning young men into jihadists

As new research claims to hold the key to suppressing the irritating sensation, Steve Connor explains what causes an itch