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After Michael Douglas' claims, the doctors' verdict on oral sex: There's only a 'very small' risk of cancer
Monday 03 June 2013
Michael Douglas may have been displaying admirable candour when he told a journalist this weekend that his throat cancer had been caused by a virus “which…comes about from cunnilingus” – but he also sparked a minor health scare.
The Government must do more to stop India's plague of acid attacks
Monday 03 June 2013
Campaigners want the sale of acid to be regulated in future
Style shrinks: Our experts analyse Joanna Lumley's colourful contribution to Chelsea
Sunday 02 June 2013
The hat/make up
Turkey: Almost 1,000 hurt as Istanbul anti-regime protests continue
Sunday 02 June 2013
Turkey's fiercest anti-regime demonstrations for years continued yesterday with tear gas and water cannon used against protesters as they clashed with police in Istanbul.
Revenge is a dish best served as a hot pie
Friday 31 May 2013
Out of ideas for a dinner party? Why not serve up a dish made out of the heads of two children stewed in their own blood encased in a pie-crust of their ground down bones? Such is the notoriously grisly fare of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and, in a cheeky nod to the play's nasty nosh, two chefs at the RSC's Rooftop Restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon have devised a Titus Andronicus-themed pie with a steak and KIDney (boom boom) filling as a culinary accompaniment to the RSC's new production.
Frenchman jailed after attempted bank robbery using underwear as a mask
Friday 31 May 2013
Daniel Anfray was recently released from jail for drink driving
British and Irish Lions 2013: Sir Clive Woodward slams quality of Barbarians and questions point of fixture in Hong Kong
Friday 31 May 2013
The Baa-Baas were ripped apart by England
Alcohol problems soar in decade
Thursday 30 May 2013
Hospital admissions for people with alcohol problems have topped 200,000 for the first time, while increasing by 41 per cent over the last decade.
April Jones murder trial: Mark Bridger, the trusted neighbour who was an alcoholic with an obsession with child pornography
Thursday 30 May 2013
The five-year-old's killer went to great lengths to cover his tracks
Full coverage of Mark Bridger guilty verdict
Thursday 30 May 2013
Mark Bridger has been sentenced to a whole-life tariff for killing schoolgirl April Jones in October of last year
Prescriptions to treat alcoholism soar by almost 75% in last decade
Thursday 30 May 2013
Data also shows the number of alcohol-related hospital admissions has doubled
Woolwich attack: Anti-fascist groups plan counter-demos as EDL marches spread across Britain
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Hackers target far-right group in retaliation for ‘capitalising’ on Drummer Lee Rigby’s death
James Lawton on England v Republic of Ireland: Here's hoping England's dark days are in the past
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Every other nation had dealt with the problem. Why not England?
- 1 Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
- 2 Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, banking standards commission tells George Osborne
- 3 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 4 Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
- 5 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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