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Jeremy McGovern’s son, Huson, stole the show on Saturday afternoon, as his dad completed a lap of honour at the Optus Stadium.The Eagles legend returned to the field at the 60,000-seater stadium to bid goodbye to West Coast fans…

When Jack Alexander and his partner Laura went for their early 16-week baby scan, they were delighted to discover they were expecting identical twin girls. But their happiness quickly turned to 'devastation' as they were told their…

On the morning of May 30, Matthew Christopher Pietras was found unresponsive in bed inside his New York City apartment.The 40-year-old socialite and patron of the arts had died suddenly in the night - just 48 hours after a $15million…

In the unusually deserted and silent corporate office, a very familiar, fruity voice came over the phone speaker, loud, clear and enthusiastic.‘Keep the pedal to the metal!’ boomed one of the Duke of York’s few remaining supporters. As…

A teenager who gave up his flat at 16 to live on a train for two years has revealed how to really get a good night's sleep onboard. Lasse Stolley, 18, from Fockbek, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, has spent the past 24 months sleeping on…

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe (Faber £25, 304 pp)When it came to the women in Picasso’s long life – he was 91 when he turned up his toes in 1972 – time after time the pattern was…

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe (Faber £25, 304 pp)When it came to the women in Picasso’s long life – he was 91 when he turned up his toes in 1972 – time after time the pattern was…

Exhausted by the stresses and strains of modern life, Thomas Thwaites decided to forgo home comforts and test if the grass really was greener elsewhere - by living as a goat in Switzerland.The then 35-year-old from London was so serious…

 Ninette's War by John Jay (Profile Books £20, 352pp)In autumn 1939, 12-year-old Ninette Dreyfus was given a red leather diary embossed with her initials. Her first diary entry, on September 3, read: ‘At eleven o’clock, the newscaster…

On the run after the collapse of her husband Bashar Al Assad's dynasty, the former First Lady of Syria was once called 'A Rose in the Desert' but now she is a figure of reviled hatred likened to Lady Macbeth.For years Asma Al Assad, 49,…