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A mum whose baby died claimed child benefits for almost 15 years since while dressing up a doll and pretending it was her daughter. Alison Christie Mains, 41, pocketed than the equivalent of £113,000 in taxpayers' money with the elaborate con. A court heard the defendant...

Commuters have been stunned after sickening video emerged of the horrible state of train seats. One daredevil commuter took it to himself to find out the amount of dust stored in the seats of one train in Canberra, Australia. Video shows him repeatedly whacking the mouldy-looking upholstery until...

A married couple are both in a relationship with the same woman after they met through the dating app Tinder. The love triangle happened after Rosie Haley, 24, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, came out as bisexual. She and her husband Ty, 23, an Australian defence force member,...

Almost 300 holidaymakers, families and business people took off from Amsterdam on July 17, 2014, never to see their loved ones again. They were all on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and could never have imagined the passenger plane would be gunned down as it flew over eastern...

The moment a British tourist was potentially paralysed in a water park accident was filmed by horrified friends. David Briffaut, 23, is now in intensive care in hospital in Alicante, Spain, with mum Lorraine, 55, by his side. He is undergoing emergency treatment after breaking two vertebrae in...

The heartbreaking final words of a teenage festivalgoer who died after taking up to nine MDMA pills have been revealed. Callum Brosnan, 19, died as a result of MDMA and cocaine toxicity after partying at the Knockout Games of Destiny dance festival, in Sydney, Australia. The young...

British-Iranian prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been transferred to a mental health ward, according to her husband. An Iranian court previously sentenced Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, who was arrested in April 2016, to five years in prison for spying, a charge she vehemently denies. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe said she...

Fathers have been forced to put their children in plastic bags and drag them across a flooded river so they can go to school. According to Voice of Vietnam, about 50 children from the Huoi Hai Village in north-west Vietnam have to cross the Nam Ma river to...

A teenager collapsed and died at a train station after taking nine MDMA pills at an electronic dance festival, an inquest has heard. Callum Bronson, 19, swallowed the capsules of mind-bending powder before the Knockout Games of Destiny event in Sydney, Australia. He later became unwell - and...

Two women and a child were rushed to hospital after a plane slammed into their kitchen and living room as they were eating breakfast. The residents, who have not been named, were found to be suffering "deep psychological shock" after the incident in Stanitsa Novoschedrinskaya, Chechnya,...