Dawn Brancheau, 40, was grabbed by the waist and shaken violently by the rogue whale at the Orlando theme park - one of the biggest attractions for British holidaymakers in the US. The whale was still being allowed to perform despite being responsible for the deaths of two other people in attacks.
Up to 1,200 people lost their lives needlessly because Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust put government targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient care, a report has found.
Emma Jones, 24, was working in an international school in Abu Dhabi - and was afraid she could be jailed over the images.
The re-analysis, which was approved at a conference in Turkey comes after the climate change email scandal which dealt a severe blow to the credibility of environmental science.
Veteran radio host Tony Kornheiser sparked outrage when he said Hannah Storm's top was so tight that she looked like she was wrapped in 'sausage casing'.
Argentina ramped up the diplomatic row over the Falkland Islands last night, dragging the UN Secretary General into the affair.
More than half of mothers with children under 13 have never married or lived with a boyfriend and find it ‘rewarding’ to stay at home supported by state handouts, it said.
Almost a year after the 35-year-old disappeared, police will appear on BBC's Crimewatch to reveal the new evidence, including the last known images of her alive. Miss Lawrence was last seen on March 18, and failed to arrive for work the following morning.
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The Prime Minister indicated that he has as much trouble controlling his party as the England manager has with wayward stars John Terry and Ashley Cole.
The taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland today posted losses of £3.6bn - just hours after announcing it would hand staff bonuses of £1.3bn.
People who assist the suicide of loved ones are unlikely to face the courts but DPP Keir Starmer has warned mercy killers will face the full force of the law.
The large dump is off the U.S. coast and was discovered when researchers collected more than 64,000 tiny pieces of plastic.
Shannon Corr, 15, repeatedly visited GPs for over two months complaining of agonising pains in her right knee and shin that left her struggling to walk.
The Public Accounts Committee report says pensioners are 'poorly served' by HM Revenue and Customs.
Scores of viewers complained about the golfer being the top story on the day 1,600 workers lost their jobs as the North-East's last steel plant was shut down.
Cipriani has gone a step too far by cheering for Wales against England, and mocking national coach and World Cup winner Johnson.
Another group of mountaineers watched as the two men were hit by a wave of snow on the iconic Buachaille Etive Mor at the head of Glencoe.
Figures released today show that the pregnancy rate in under-18s has fallen, but only by 13 per cent since 1998.
The attack by Greek deputy prime minister Theodoros Pangalos came as new protests about the economy turned violent.
Many of the soups that shoppers have relied on to see them through the big freeze contain more than the daily recommended limit of salt in a single serving.
The £4million 16th century painting - Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist - was originally unearthed during a house clearance in 1993.
One of the six new British passports is in the name of a dark-haired woman calling herself Gabriella Barney. Up to five women are now believed to have been part of the hit squad.
Hannah Meredith listed the evils associated with the drug as she faced up to her addiction before she died aged 17 in October last year.
Dylan Keetley was interrogated by detectives for more than three hours. Officers even wanted to take his fingerprints and DNA, but his parents refused.
The doctor brother of Shadow Chancellor George Osborne was suspended for six months yesterday.
A local council complained to a group of elderly volunteers that the 43 bags of waste they collected was too much for a three-man dustcart crew to pick up. The complaint was all the more surprising as the council had approved the operation and provided the bin bags and litter picking sticks. ...read
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THE PARANORMAL OR TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY?
MAY THE FORCE 
PUTTING THE FAB INTO PREFABRICATED
BOY BEATS HIP PAIN WITH SNOWBOARDING
BETTER THAN WATCHING THEM ON TV
WHERE OLD PLANES 
ARE YOU LOOKING 
IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO, A COMIC!
'I SAW AN OPENING AND SLOWED DOWN' THE PARANORMAL OR TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY? MAY THE FORCE 
She’s not averse to slumming it in first class on a public train, for short hops. But the Queen is the last person you'd expect to see nipping through the gates on the Tube. And it probably wasn't a bad idea to get acquainted with the system - particularly as she suffered a transport crisis later in the day. ...read
Chief Inspector Kim Molloy, regarded as a ‘rising star’ within Nottinghamshire police, was stopped by security staff leaving a Tesco Extra in Top Valley.
Three complaints about unfair competition have been made against the world's number one search engine.
Market trader Christopher Sims was told police were unable to retrieve his £1,000 vehicle because it would mean a major operation that would put lives at risk.
Europe has insisted it will push through controversial plans to treble maternity pay amid mounting fury from British business leaders.
West Yorkshire police force iis turning fiction into reality by advertising for would-be Miss Marples to help its murder squad.
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ALL ABOARD THE NOSTALGIA EXPRESS
MAN HAS TATTOO TO WIN FREE RAIL TRIP
CAT SWINGING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION
THE BUILDING THAT QUIVERS IN THE WIND
IS THIS WHERE RICHARD III DIED? 
ALADDIN'S CAVE OF STOLEN SHOES
MEERKAT PUCKERS UP TO GIRAFFE REARRANGE MY FACE? ONLY A SCRATCH ALL ABOARD THE NOSTALGIA EXPRESS
This is the dramatic moment a woman motorist was saved from drowning by a brave firefighter standing up to his shoulders in swirling floodwater. The victim was swept down river in her car after ignoring warning signs and driving into a ford which is normally only inches deep. ...read
Under the scheme an estimated 150,000 poor youngsters aged between three and 14 were sent to a 'better life' in Commonwealth countries.
A former cancer patient has given birth to a 'miracle' child, two years after she had a revolutionary ovarian transplant.
The Shadow Chancellor said 'savage and swingeing' spending cuts and 'dramatic' tax rises would be forced on the country by a collapse in international confidence.
A group of eminent scientists and education experts claim that reforms have damaged the rigour of exams, particularly in maths and sciences.
The Conservatives were handed sums worth more than £10million in the last three months of 2009 while Labour received just under £5million.
Motorists who buy electric and other ultra-low-polluting cars will receive a 25per cent discount up to a maximum of £5,000 off the price, the Government announced today.
Seeing an hourglass figure activates the part of men's brains associated with feelings of 'reward', according to a new study.
We are such creatures of habit that scientists can accurately predict where we'll go and when we'll go there the vast majority of the time.
Corporal Liam Riley, 21, who was killed by a roadside bomb as he tried to save a friend's life, was described by his training mate Prince Harry as a 'legend'. More than 500 people packed into Sheffield Cathedral to pay their last respects to the fallen soldier.
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