Barack Obama has become the first US president to openly support gay marriage. In an interview broadcast on US TV network ABC yesterday afternoon, Obama said that after careful consideration, he had decided to speak out in support of gay rights. In pictures: Barack Obama’s girls “Over the course of several years as I have […]

Prince William and Kate Middleton appear to have the ultimate fairy tale romance but just five years ago, William dumped his loyal girlfriend so he could spend more time clubbing with his friends. Now, British author Penny Junor has revealed why William ended his relationship with Kate — and what sent him running back — […]

Babies aren’t born racist, but a new study has found that they start discriminating against other races by the time they are nine months old. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts studied 48 Caucasian babies and found that as they got older, they found it easier to interact with white adults than adults from other […]

Just eight months after his mother’s tragic death, Prince William, then 15, was forced to meet the woman who had caused Diana years of heartbreak — Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles had told his young sons that he was in love with Camilla — who Diana nicknamed “The Rottweiler” — two months before their mother died […]

Princess Diana was “mentally unstable” and a bad mother who permanently damaged her sons, a controversial new book has claimed. In life, Diana was praised for her devotion to William and Harry, but author Penny Junor says the young princess was actually a manipulative and damaging mother. Junor details Diana’s terrible treatment of her little […]

Monaco’s Princess Charlene cried throughout her wedding day, and if French magazine Voici is to be believed, things haven’t improved in the months since. Charlene, 33, is reportedly “depressed” because she hasn’t fallen pregnant as quickly as she had hoped. “Charlene has made the subject of pregnancy a taboo topic around the royal palace,” Voici […]

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Who would have thought that an all-purpose medicine could smell so lovely? Well-known for its use in making perfume, soaps, and scented sachets, lavender — either as a tea, tincture or ointment, or essential oil — has been used in healing for centuries. Infection fighter Along with garlic and cloves, lavender was an ingredient of […]

Working nights may lead to more than just sleep deprivation, according to a study published in the American Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which reported a startling 60 per cent...

Referred to as Myanmar by the military junta, Burma is being hailed as "the next Thailand", a country seldom visited at present but one that promises to eclipse its neighbours in popularity.