For centuries members of Europe’s royal families often married their close relatives. The practice, which stretched across countries including France, Spain and Austria, helped consolidate power, titles and thrones. But it also led to problems. Offspring born to mothers and fathers who share their ancestry are more vulnerable to birth defects and harmful DNA mutations. This … Read more
It is Dean Radford’s description of what happened in court which makes you wonder where he found the resolve to keep up the fight against the Southampton football coach who abused so many young players like him. Radford’s February 1989 evidence against Bob Higgins, offered at a time when very few felt able to speak … Read more
People are opening up about their long-held family secrets, revealing the surprising things they learned about relatives — and themselves — when they got older. Reddit user u/Flash_Dimension kicked off the tell-all thread, asking other users: ‘Once you were old enough, what were the dark family secrets you were finally let in on?’ The question … Read more
Kate Lawler has admitted that she’s in ‘the darkest place.’ The Big Brother star, 40, who gave birth to daughter Noa just a month ago, took to Instagram on Tuesday to get candid about life with a newborn baby, confessing that she feels like she’s ‘failing’. While hitting back at ‘dog mum’ trolls, who came … Read more
Doctors are warning that the US will see the ‘darkest days in modern medical history’ in the weeks after Thanksgiving as the daily COVID-19 death toll hits the highest since May and hospitalizations continue to surge to record highs. Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways in the days leading up to … Read more
He is known for resolutely putting on a happy face. But in the new People issue Michael J Fox, 59, revealed the ‘darkest moment’ that left even him unable to find an ‘upside.’ The nightmare period came in 2018 after he suffered a spinal tumor. And then right after he got it excised, the Back To … Read more
Britain today recorded 367 more Covid-19 deaths in the darkest day of the pandemic since the end of May, amid hopes the outbreak could finally be tailing off. Government statistics suggests the second wave — which was driven by children returning to school and students going back to university — is continuing to slow down … Read more
Mitchell Johnson candidly spoke about his struggle with depression during his interrogation on Monday night’s episode of SAS Australia. And the 38-year-old former cricketer thanked his wife for her support by sharing a throwback photograph of the couple after the confronting scenes aired. ‘Thanks to my beautiful wife Jess for the amazing support she has … Read more
A new United Nations’ report shows that if the closure of air routes and tourism were to last eight months then the output loss to the world economy would be £1.65 trillion, or 2.8 per cent of the total.
They presided over one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history, in which up to 960 sub-postmasters had their lives ruined after they were wrongly accused of pilfering, fraud and false accounting. Staff were plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare after money seemed to vanish from their tills. They were pilloried even though the … Read more