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After my mothers death, I turned to a man I barely knew, but it only brought heartbreak. Now Ive cut ties and its liberating When my mother died in my early 20s, I hoped my estranged father might become the parent I so badly needed. Our relationship was never the stuff of John Lewis

The actor Marpessa Dawn, who has died aged 74, played the exotic and mysterious female lead in the 1958 Academy award-winning film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). Known throughout her life simply as Marpessa, she would never fulfil the promise of that performance as the doomed Eurydice, on whom the devil has staked a claim, but

The tabloids dubbed her the honeytrap girl when she was tried for the murder of Gagandip Singh in 2012, alongside two others. Was the truth more complicated? Mundill Mahil knows it sounds cheesy, but as a girl she wanted to save the world. She was a model student. At Rochester grammar school, she got 10

It was cold, clinical, scientific testimony that finally robbed Oscar Pistorius of his composure. A pathologist's report from the witness stand of the austere courtroom, detailing the devastating impact of three hollow tipped bullets on the body of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was punctuated by the gutteral sounds of the sporting celebrity gagging and vomiting

Research finds probiotics caused very severe disturbance in gut when taken in conjunction with antibiotics Probiotics, hailed by some as a cure for all kinds of digestive ailments and recommended by many GPs alongside antibiotics, may not be as universally beneficial for gut health as previously thought.