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Royal Wedding: Royal Mail celebrates with new stamps

The collectibles will feature William and Kate’s official engagement portraits taken by fashion and celebrity photographer Mario Testino.

Mac on… Anne the Performing Elephant

A circus owner has been accused of appalling cruelty to a performing elephant.

Disgraced professor who mocked assaulted TV reporter Lara Logan lands research job at top university

Nir Rosen handed the position a month after his ‘cruel and insensitive remarks’ about the reporter who was beaten and molested in Egypt

Coalition turns sights on Tripoli as explosions and anti-aircraft gunfire is heard in Libyan capital

Dramatic images today showed rebels firing missiles at Gaddafi forces as they advance west up the coast of Libya, closing in on the dictator’s hometown of Sirte.

Royal wedding 2011: Ashtrays and fridge freezers… the ghastly tat marking the big day

From cufflinks to condoms, no Royal wedding would be complete without a collection of souvenirs even the most ardent royalist would do well to love.

Libya war: Iman al-Obeidi arrested for telling world about Gaddafi troops gang rape

She defied government minders to storm into a hotel in the heart of Tripoli to tell her ordeal to foreign journalists – and the television pictures have gone around the world.

Libyan rebels drive West as ‘Gaddafi withdraws in face of coalition air strikes’

A huge convoy of military vehicles was seen leaving Gaddafi’s stronghold of Sirte and moving towards Tripoli in a sign that the town may be the next of his bastions to fall.

Sian O’Callaghan murder: Taxi driver Chris Halliwell charged by police

Father-of-three Halliwell, 47, is due to appear before magistrates in Swindon tomorrow. Police are still working to identify a second set of human remains.

St Pancras Renaissance: Opens after £150m restoration

St Pancras Renaissance, once the Midland Grand Hotel, was described as ‘too beautiful to survive’ by poet Sir John Betjeman.