Georgina Cave's gamble on turning down a university place has been rewarded with a prized job working as an engineer on jumbo jets at Heathrow and Gatwick... more
More than 50 towns were under water today and people were urged to flee their homes as swollen rivers carried floodwaters deep into the Australian state of Victoria... more
Market Report: Goldman Sachs doesn’t always get it right. That seemed to be the lesson for investors today after a stock the City big-hitter tipped only 24 hours ago sank 4%... more
Families who collectively paid more than £6 million for flats at a Bulgarian ski resort claim they have been illegally locked out of their properties... more
These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more
Next week’s G20 meeting of world leaders in London will cost millions but nothing will emerge except hot air and protests. We should have called the whole thing off... more
Gordon Brown has launched an impassioned challenge to Barack Obama over free trade, urging for a "support thy neighbour" deal at the London summit... more
A vicar ordered the removal of a sculpture of Jesus Christ being crucified from the front of his church after branding it "unsuitable" and "a horrifying depiction of pain and suffering"... more
Scotland Yard has warned that hi-tech gangs are raking in hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by cheating in the new British immigration tests... more
It seems as if everyone's holidaying in Britain this year. So what happened when the Mail asked shameless hedonist Michael Winner to take a break in Bognor Regis? Hold on to your kiss-me-quick hats.
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Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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