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Madonna's boy (pictured smoking) has been busted for drugs - so did he and his pals inherit a taste for wild parties from their notorious parents?

For every victim she had a different face. To one wealthy property owner, she was an alluring temptress, to another, a high-powered barrister. To yet others, she was a former Wonderbra model, a wealthy heiress or a style guru to celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal. For Matthew Matheou (left), the popular owner of the Green And Pleasant Tea Rooms in picturesque Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswolds, Ryley Cruz (right) was a single mother dying from colon cancer. There seemed no reason to disbelieve her: after all, he had been to visit her in hospital. But she was none of the above. Instead, the 37-year-old dark-haired beauty was one of Britain's most accomplished fraudsters. And when she stood accused in the dock of Gloucester Crown Court before Judge Jamie Tabor QC last week, his summing up was scathing. Tabor told her: 'You are a practised and accomplished liar and a skilled forger... You are, even by the standards of the criminal courts, exceptionally devious.'

The Labour leader appeared to gloss over allegations of human rights abuses levelled at the Cuban revolutionary, saying that 'for all his flaws' he was a 'champion of social justice'. The Labour leader appeared to gloss over allegations of human rights abuses levelled at Castro, leaving opportunist comedians to compare the former Cuban leader to James Bond villains (left) and Osama bin Laden (right). Meanwhile, Mr Junker said Castro had been a 'hero to many', leading to both men facing accusations they had praised a brutal dictator with a 'disdain' for democracy.

While some Cubans are mourning the death of their country's former president, for one German American woman, the passing of Fidel Castro was much more personal. Marita Lorenz (main left and right), who met Castro (main right) in 1959 when she was just 19, says she and the communist dictator had a torrid love affair, which led to the birth of his love child before she tried to carry out an assassination plot against him. But the 76-year-old Lorenz, who now lives in Queens, New York, was still shocked by the news that her first love had died, her son Mark Lorenz said.

While his modish Western admirers liked to call him 'Fidel', the despotic President Castro (left picture, stood right) frightened his subjects who dared not speak his name, writes Peter Hitchens. They feared they would be overheard by ever-present secret police spies who made East Germany's Stasi look like amateurs. Glancing around nervously, they would mime either a beard or a set of epaulettes, before speaking in whispers about the tyrant who dominated every aspect of their hungry, censored lives. No wonder. The 'Committees for the Defence of the Revolution', present in every workplace, school and street, watched everyone, reported every word out of place and ruined the lives of those who spoke out of turn.

It is the fear that runs through the mind of everyone who gets on a plane, and for the passengers of Flight 1549 it was all too real. For four terrifying minutes in January 2009, their lives hung in the balance as the jet headed for the icy waters of the Hudson River in New York. They were saved only by the swift actions of the unassuming pilot, Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger.His story has been dramatised in Sully, a Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Hanks, which is released in cinemas this week. Yet what of those terrified passengers? Here, for the first time in a British newspaper, they reveal their unimaginable terror as the plane smashed into the river at 150mph.

Ed Sheeran, 25, suffered a cut to his right cheek when the princess, 28, swung the blade without noticing the singer was behind her at a party at her father's home in Windsor, Berkshire. Guests at the bash at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire - Prince Andrew's home - were stunned when Beatrice (left) accidentally struck Sheeran with the sword. During the do, Blunt, 42, quipped that he wanted to be knighted and she decided to pick up the blade. But it has been reported she was unaware that the singer-songwriter - who was at the function with his girlfriend Cherry Seaborn - was standing directly behind her. He was then taken to a local hospital to receive treatment for the injury just underneath his right eye before returning to the party (right).

The 14-minute instructional clip is entitled an 'Explanation of How to Slaughter Disbelievers' features a balaclava-clad terrorists showing the best way to kill those who do not support Islamic State. A man's throat is severed by a militant with a kitchen knife and Kurdish soldier is blown up by a hand-made bomb in the graphic propaganda footage. The video makes reference to attacks in Germany, Finland, Russia, the United States, France, and Britain and pays homage to terrorists who have carried out massacres in Europe.

A former inmate who spent more than 20 years on death row in the US after being wrongly convicted or rape and murder has shared his incredible life story which is now being made into a Netflix drama. Cleared Nick Yarris (left), 55, faced the electric chair after being framed in 1982 for the rape and murder of a woman in his native Pennsylvania. He spent 8,057 days behind bars (top right) - much of it in solitary confinement - before DNA evidence finally cleared him and he was released in 2004. The father-of-four who now lives in Yeovil, Somerset, has written a compelling book about the twenty-two years he waited to die, a harrowing experience that has shaped the rest of his life, despite now having his freedom.

WARNING: Don't read if you haven't yet seen last week's episode. A scene from the final episode of the hit BBC series features a desperate and desolate Gemma Webster at a funeral. The tantalising image begs the question: whose burial is she there to witness? Viewers have been gripped as Gemma and her British soldier husband Sam, played by David Morrissey, were reunited with their daughter, Alice, who had been snatched from close to a British Army base in Germany where the family live.

Criminologist Dr Rachel Hoskins urged detectives not to be taken in by the wild allegations against the late former Prime Minister and demanded MPs be alerted to her damning findings. But Wiltshire Police are still pressing ahead with the investigation. One of Heath's accusers - a woman - has made astonishing claims that he was linked to a network of paedophiles who held satanic orgies and stabbed children in churches (file photo). A disciple of author Lawrence Padzer, who wrote Michelle Remembers, has used hypnosis to 'recover' memories from Lucy X. Michelle Remembers caused a sensation with its bogus 'memories' of satanic sacrifice and unleashed a storm of abuse allegations.

A coach full of passengers tonight plunged into a huge sinkhole after a busy town high street was flooded by fast-moving water (left). Those on board the vehicle in Lewisham, south east London, were rescued by firefighters after the coach crashed into a hole caused by a burst water main flood. Pedestrians and drivers were urged to avoid Lee High Road, with pictures on social media showing the area inundated with water from the ruptured pipe. Footage shows a stationary coach unable to move after getting stuck in Inches of fast-flowing water. Police described it as a 'major incident' after the road turned into a 'river', according to locals. Officers cordoned off the area (right) as crews desperately tried to fix the problem. Scotland Yard said the road was closed 'and will be for some time'.

A recent fall in global average temperatures over land has been caused by the end of El Nino - the warming of surface waters in a vast area of the Pacific west of Central America. Some scientists, including Dr Gavin Schmidt, head of Nasa's climate division, have claimed that the recent highs were mainly the result of long-term global warming.

Josh Harris (right in 2009 and inset in 2014, after retreating into anonymity) pioneered webcam technology and made millions after predicting how the internet would grow in the 1990s. Now 56, he lives alone in Las Vegas with an army knife next to his sleeping bag. He believes he is under FBI surveillance and has been for years for his role in a mysterious art installation at the World Trade Center before the 9/11 attacks. The installation saw a group of performance artists apparently remove a window on the 91st floor of the North Tower in 2000 with suction pads and replace it with a balcony (circled left) where they stood, one by one and naked, at 6am on a March morning in 2000. Harris says he filmed the stunt and that authorities think he and others involved in it knew 9/11 would happen.

Cara, 24, (pictured left with Gigi Hadid and Taylor Swift, and right with sister Poppy) along with model sister Poppy, 30, will take over Finolhu Baa Atoll (inset) for a week from next Saturday. Guests are expected to include Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Sienna Miller. The whole shebang has taken six months to organise and guests will arrive by boat or seaplane throughout the week of fun, which will include five fancy-dress parties.

Norway's school leavers spend three weeks at the end of their academic year having sex, drinking copious amounts of alcohol and competing in a series of outrageous dares. The young people of Norway call this stage of their lives Russ - short for Russefeiring and consider it a right of passage into adult life.

Sir David Tang is friends with everyone, from Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow to Kevin Spacey, and Stephen Fry. He says Prince Charles unwittingly committed a terrible faux pas by giving him a gold clock. He accepted it, despite clocks symbolising death in Chinese custom. Pictured clockwise from top left: Sir David with Jerry Hall; Prince Charles; Jeremy Corbyn; Mick Jagger; Pippa Middleton; and Sarah Ferguson.

When Hollywood stars including Matt Damon, Joaquin Phoenix and Minnie Driver filmed an emotional appeal to stop China's brutal dog meat trade, horrified animal lovers from Britain and around the world rallied to the cause. Volunteers from the UK and the US flew out to help charismatic animal crusader Marc Ching - who orchestrated the celebrity appeal - stage a daring bid to shut down slaughterhouses and rescue 1,000 dogs from the dinner table. The animal lovers promised to find homes for the dogs in the West. But a Mail on Sunday investigation has found that - unknown to his Hollywood backers and donors - Ching's high-profile operation deteriorated into farce, and ended with hundreds of dogs suffering slow and excruciatingly painful deaths within days of being rescued. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT.

The images were taken by John Thompson, a photographer who wanted to show the reality of life in the 1800s. The pictures capture the lives of street beggars, chimney sweeps, street doctors and market sellers among many others.

More than 100 people gathered in Bolton town centre (inset, bottom; right) to demonstrate against the planned construction of the mosque in the suburb of Great Lever. The main group of 'Stop the Mosque' protesters were given a police escort from the railway station into the town's main square. Some masked protesters pulled Nazi salutes,(left) and one had a swastika tattoo.

A massive hawk was caught on camera devouring a helpless pigeon in front of a crowd of Columbia University students in Manhattan, New York, on Saturday afternoon. The amazing footage starts by showing the hawk towering over its prey, as feathers are seen strewn across the grass. It then picks at the lifeless body of the pigeon, ripping shreds of meat off with its powerful beak. 'It was right in the middle of campus, outside the business building,' the student told DailyMail.com. 'I've never seen anything like it... It was amazing. The hawk was guarding the food. It was literally standing on it, it was pretty gross to see and hear the sound.'

The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, has said he was not trying to 'pimp' Prince Harry (left) when he introduced him to a group of beauty queens (right) after joking about his new girlfriend, US actress Meghan Markle. Mr Browne said in front of 300 guests last week: 'I believe we are expecting a new princess soon. I want you to know that you are very welcome to come on your honeymoon here.' Afterwards, he introduced the Prince to a group of scantily clad dancers, and said: 'Whatever is done here, stays here. So do not worry.'

Clearly the perfection of Downton Abbey has influenced creator Julian Fellowes's own pastoral dreams, as he is spending millions trying to restore his rural idyll by buying swathes of land around his Dorset home. The screenwriter (right) - who is planning a movie version of Downton Abbey - has been quietly buying land on the borders of his 16th Century manor house (top left). Since buying Grade I-listed Stafford House for £1.5 million in 2002, Lord Fellowes has forked out a further £4.4 million to buy neighbouring properties, including a 355-acre farm (bottom left).

Jason Harrison, 29, (inset) was jailed for more than four years after he left Adele Bellis, 24, (left) with one ear and partially bald when he hurled sulphuric acid in her face in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 2014. He was helping Miss Bellis' jealous boyfriend Anthony Riley carry out his horrendous plans. But Harrison wrote her a letter of apology from jail and Miss Bellis agreed to meet him because he too was a 'victim'. But he has now changed his mind which has left Miss Bellis (pictured right, before the attack) feeling upset as she thought his letter was genuine. She said: 'I thought his letter was genuine. Now I can't help thinking it was all lies. He only wrote the letter so the judge would give him a shorter sentence.'

A video, filmed in an unknown location, shows three girls being asked to scoop the stuffing out of the cooked turkey, as their family prepares to carve the bird for Thanksgiving dinner. The girls obey and don't look too thrilled pulling out stuffing out of the bird in the first place. But their mild discomfort escalates to full-blown disgust (pictured) when one of them starts pulling something out of the turkey that turns out to be a raw Cornish hen. As the shock wears off, the girls start giggling. Their father steps back behind the kitchen counter and grabs the raw, smaller bird (upper left), explaining: 'Turkeys have eggs, they don't have babies.'

David fell in love with his wife Teo after they met at a barbecue he threw at his mock-Elizabethan home in the picturesque Surrey countryside. The couple are now selling the property as they hope to move to Palm Beach in Florida. A unique three-bedroom home, it comes with a swimming pool and specially designed office built around a tree, which is accessed by a spiral staircase. The property is now on the market for £1.8million.

Dashcam footage captured the man as he crossed the road on the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street, in London. As he steps out into the road he immediately trips and spills his vegetables all over the carriageway. He is actually lucky his accident does not end in more serious circumstances, as the light is still green for cars when he moves, but the driver of the vehicle filming is alert and applies the brakes instantly. But many of those around him are feeling charitable, and a mass effort to help him ensues from people on both sides of the road.

24-year-old mother orangutan Fei Fei gave birth to the cute male cub at the end of last month. Incredible photographs show the mother proudly showing off her baby for the first time, cradling him in her arms. Fei Fei arrived at Shanghai Zoo in July 2012 from the Philippines, along with the cub's father Bin Bin. It is the first time that a baby orangutan has been successfully born at Shanghai Zoo.

A woman brought her best friend to tears by surprising her with a kitten after her pet cat died. In a video, filmed at an unknown location, posted to YouTube on Friday, one woman clutched an adorable, black kitten, and greeted her friend at the door. The friend was left with her mouth hanging open in shock before she hugged her friend, cuddled the kitten and burst into tears.