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Starved, beaten, poisoned: The tragic death of Daniel Pelka at hands of mother and partner

Mother and her partner ‘took relish’ in reign of torture that led to murder of four-year-old boy

Sergei Filin as artistic director, left; post attack, right

Bolshoi's Sergei Filin left blind in one eye by acid attack

The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre Sergei Filin has undergone 22 operations and has been left blind in one eye after the acid attack which plunged the famous ballet company into crisis six months ago.

Police investigate possibility that Satanic cult killed and mutilated pony on Dartmoor

Dartmoor’s Livestock Protection Officer said she feared 'witches or devil worshippers' could be behind the slaughter.

Cells to restore eyesight are grown in lab and transplanted into blind mice

Artificial photoreceptors integrated into retina after being transplanted into blind mice

Damn this hot weather to hell!

It’d just be nice if there was some acknowledgement that not everyone thinks these high temperatures are paradise

Ed Cowan trudges off after falling to Joe Root

Ashes 2013: Far from a crisis as baggy Greens outplayed but not outmatched

The Aussie angle: Had Broad walked Agar’s impact on the match might have been greater

In the eye of the beholder: beauty looks for this summer

A delicate glow or all-out glamour, there’s a beauty look for everyone this summer, says Rebecca Gonsalves

Stuart Broad celebrates as only he knows how after taking Waton’s wicket

The Calvin Report: Walk? Only if the car runs out of petrol

Don't listen to the self-appointed guardians of Stuart Broad's conscience. These are the Ashes – hard, tense Test cricket with no prisoners taken

Tim Key: ‘I captained my school football team in 1992 so I’m no stranger to the big stage’

This week I scored such a beautiful goal at football, I really need to lay it down in print. It was as sweet as a plum; a dipping volley right off my laces that left the goalkeeper helpless – confused and gaping, like a teenaged giraffe coming face to face with a mirror for the first time. It was sublime. People need to be told about it.

David Price is ruled to be unable to carry on boxing as he loses to Tony Thompson

Boxing: David Price suffers second defeat to Tony Thompson to destroy any world title hopes

English heavyweight stopped in fifth round by American

Fiona Maddocks: Her life of Hildegard is both scholarly and very readable

Paperback review: Hildegard of Bingen, By Fiona Maddocks

Every woman needs some turbot liver

Zoomable contact lenses, source: UCSD

New contact lenses offer 2.8x optical zoom

Invention aimed at helping individuals with age-related sight degeneration

Dr Canavero suggests that the realigning of head and body could also be achieved using “electrofusion”, in an approach not entirely unlike that of Mary Shelley’s Dr Frankenstein

Human head transplants a 'feasible enterprise' says Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergio Canavero

Doctor claims research on the complicated surgery could see results in just two years

Ann Coffey says she wants a system fit for purpose that protects children

'No mercy' for those who fail to protect children, says Ann Coffey

Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for runaway and missing children and adults wants a care system which is 'fit for purpose'

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Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

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