When Bashar al-Assad last week scuttled to Moscow he finally exploded the myth of Vladimir Putin 's strategic genius. He made his Kremlin patron look a total fool.
Surveillance data from the UK Health Security Agency show one in five tests (18.6 per cent) for flu carried out at the end of last week came back positive for the influenza virus.
The streams finally crossed to give Donald Trump a positive favorable rating in a key poll average. It came after he was named Time's 'person of the year' and rang the bell at the NYSE.
Reclaiming her power on stage last night, Ms Halliwell appeared poised and confident as she chose to read 'All My Life I've Belonged to No Man' by 1800s radical feminist, Flora Tristan.
MIKE KEEGAN: Officials were moved to carry out searches after a medical emergency took place during the glitzy bash, which was attended by around 500 club workers.
Scott Jeff and his partner Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell concealed the death of Gleason-Mitchell's daughter Isabella after Jeff had battered her to death in Ipswich.
NIK SIMON: It is an 80-mile drive from his home in Somerset but Vickery's personal journey to the show stage has been less straightforward. Queen's Honours, delight, divorce, bankruptcy.