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  • One of Britain's richest men inherits billions and avoids paying inheritance taxes

    The Duke of Westminster, one of the richest men in Britian, reportedly inherited the bulk of his father's £8.3bn fortune without having to pay a penny in death duties. The late Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor earned his wealth on the back of a vast portfolio of property and land. The bulk of his empire, however, was passed on through family trusts, which still fall outside the scope of inheritance tax rules.

  • Louise Redknapp on Her Separation From Jamie: "Going Back to Work Has Been a Real Saviour"

    After months of speculation, Louise Redknapp has confirmed that she and husband Jamie are living apart. In an interview with Stella magazine, the singer admitted that while Jamie wanted a third child (they already have two sons, Charley, 13, and Beau, 9), she didn't.

  • Monarch collapse: What's it like to fly home on a CAA replacement plane?

    “I got a phone call from my mother,” says Sam Wood from Cumbria. Mr Wood is one of 110,000 Monarch passengers who were abroad when they discovered their airline had gone bust. A “pop-up airline” mimics the Monarch schedule, with an odd assortment of planes orchestrated by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

  • Girl, 17, sexually assaulted three times by separate attackers on walk home

    Police say the 17-year-old was repeatedly attacked over the course of an hour after she became separated from friends following a visit to a club in Tower Hamlets. A short time later, another CCTV camera showed the girl stumbling along Mint Street being followed by a bearded man on a racing bicycle. Officers said the man followed her as she headed towards Bethnal Green Overground station.

  • Last picture of White Widow's son in Raqqa: Exclusive image of British boy 'killed with mother in CIA drone strike'

    Last picture of White Widow's son in Raqqa: Exclusive image of British boy 'killed with mother in CIA drone strike'

  • 30 pictures taken inside North Korea using a mobile phone

    North Korea is known for having strict entry and exit conditions.  Tourists are often only allowed to go to a few carefully selected areas during visits to the highly secretive  state. Those who choose to visit can find their cameras and phones taken away from them , and reports of what it’s really like is often only spread through word of mouth. But Xiaolu Chu, a Getty photographer, managed to capture a different side of North Korea predominantly using his mobile phone during a visit in 2015. A few of his images were deleted by eagle-eyed officials, but most made it back and have since been shared with the world. Chu says on his website: “This series shows the abject poverty of rural North Korea, snapped along the railway from Russia to Pyongyang and Pyongyang to Dandong, compared to the capital cityscape. “Everywhere are shrines and monuments built in order to celebrate the Kim family, which has ruled the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with an iron fist since its establishment in 1948.”   North Korea will have nuclear weapons capable of reaching US in ‘very short time’, top general warns North Korea ‘aggressively’ jamming BBC’s new Korean-language service Otto Warmbier’s family speaks out on ‘terrorist’ North Korea in first interview after son’s death

  • Kidnapped, held 5 years, US-Canadian family free in Pakistan

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Five years after they were seized by a terrorist network in the mountains of Afghanistan, an American woman, her Canadian husband and their children - all three born in captivity - are free after a dramatic rescue orchestrated by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, officials said Thursday.