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Fadi Fawaz's desperate call to 999 handlers has been leaked after he realised his popstar lover was dead on Christmas Day. George Michael was found in his house in Goring last year. In a desperate phone call, Fadi tells the female call handler that George is 'cold' and 'blue' and confirms that resuscitation will not help. He says he has been waiting for the singer to wake up for 'hours' and then tried to wake him for an hour before placing the frantic call.

If it is difficult to comprehend that Christie Brinkley - resplendent in a daring cut-out costume - is 63, it is harder still to believe it's been 38 years since she first graced the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, and that the two women posing with her for the cover of this month's legendary Swimwear Issue are actually her children. So how has Christie kept the years at bay? From clip-in hair to colour coding her food, not to mention Botox injections in her neck, here are the surprising secrets behind the model's preternatural youth...

What a contradictory conundrum Lulu's (above right) life has been. One of the most interesting chapters was that fling with Bowie (above middle with Lulu) in the 70s. It was outlandish at the time. She was the slightly kooky pint-sized Scottish singer with the huge voice; he was, well, David Bowie. 'Has there ever been an odder couple?' is how she herself summed it up in her autobiography I Don't Want To Fight.

He was the legendary proprietor of Basil's Bar, where for years celebrities and royalty have partied out of sight of the paparazzi on the exclusive island of Mustique. Here, for the first time, Basil Charles - now 70 - tells his story. From leg wrestling with Jerry Hall, to his long-term romance with the Viscountess Virginia Royston, Basil (pictured main) tells his stories about life on the island, where the royals could let their hair down and be free from the social structures of life back in the UK. From playing tennis with Pippa Middleton, bottom right, to seeing Princess Margaret, top right, in her most relaxed state, Basil's position behind the bar gave him a unique perspective on royal life. He also tells all about his seven year romance with Viscountess Virginia Royston (together inset) who he met in 1975 when Colin Firth brought her to the island. Basil has now given up his role behind the bar but stays on as an ambassador.

A brave 11-year-old girl stuck in a car wreckage died saving her three-year-old cousin moments before a lorry ploughed into her on the M61. Iman Javed (pictured with her cousin Aaima Vasim) was a backseat passenger in a Volkswagen Sharan being driven by her father Iqbal on the M61 near Preston in heavy fog. The car was smashed by a Renault Clio travelling in the same direction. 

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is going by her middle name as a moniker to register companies including Strawbugs and La Luna as she runs her affairs from a hotel bar. Until last summer, the duchess was renting an apartment in exclusive Eaton Square at £8,000 a month to conduct business meetings, but she has been running an informal residence at the bar in the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge, and now the Library Bar at the Lanesborough.

Following the BBC dramatisation of the fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews (left), inevitably the first couple out of the gates for comment were the McCanns (right). A source close to the family is said to have told the press the drama is appalling and insensitive. Well here's a new idea for the McCanns: this time it's not all about you. This is not your story to tell, writes KATIE HOPKINS.

The recent arrival of a giant yew hedge at William and Kate's London address has suddenly presented the tantalising glimpse of a future when the Queen is no longer with us, and Prince Charles is King. Recently, the Mail revealed that mature trees - more than 200 - have been brought in at a cost to the taxpayer of £20,000 to create a secret garden at Kensington Palace, so Prince George and Princess Charlotte can enjoy a London playground shielded from prying eyes.

When Lord Monson's son died in a Kenyan jail after being arrested on suspicion of smoking cannabis, his solace was his other boy, Rupert. Now he has gone too, a victim of the skunk form of the drug. Here, the peer (inset) talks of his loss and crusade to change drugs laws. His son Alexander (left) died in 2012, aged 28, and his family believes he was beaten to death by a police officer. Rupert (right) took his own life in January after months of severe psychosis, which his family believe was caused by the super-strength cannabis. Now the peer hopes to isolate the drug and stop it ruining other lives.

Laszlo Toroczkai, 47, (top centre) and his team of bounty hunters (top) have caught hundreds of immigrants trying to make their way into Hungary. He is the mayor of a small town of Asotthalom, on the border with Serbia. During the refugee crisis in 2015, thousands of immigrants started pouring into his town across the unprotected border each day (bottom). The border with Serbia is now protected by 100 miles of forbidding wire fencing.

Tess Newall, 29, from Haddington, East Lothian, believes her great-great-grandmother's unique lace wedding gown which was made around 1870 has been sold after her dry cleaners went out of business. Her desperate Facebook appeal has since been shared more than 15,000 times in a matter of hours as people around the world told her they would spread the word.

The American singer-songwriter Anastacia (above) has never been a shy and retiring type, so it's little wonder that when it comes to summing herself up she goes for a colourful label. 'I consider myself the Liz Taylor of music,' she says with a hearty guffaw. Not, you understand, because like the late movie star she's amassed a large collection of ex-husbands or jaw-dropping jewellery. Instead her affinity derives from something altogether less desirable. As she puts it, 'She and I have had a lot of diseases between us - but we've made them look very glamorous.'

For brides and grooms that just got hitched in the 1960s and 1970s, nothing was more romantic than a honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains, hidden away in northeastern Pennsylvania. The view was spectacular with a landscape of rolling mountains, waterfalls and thickets of green forests and the secluded feeling was perfect for lovebirds. However as time went on, couples' love waned thin and they soon replaced the lush forests for more tropical destinations. Now the once popular resorts are ghosts of the pasts, as iconic heart-shaped jacuzzis sit empty and served as a hideout to FBI's Most Wanted fugitive Eric Frein.

The historic heatwave that has left Sydney sweltering had people flocking to the beach to try to escape the heat. Thousands crowded the sand (main) and hit the water (inset) to get some relief from 40C-plus temperatures and stultifying humidity. Forecasters held out some hope for cool change that may come through later on Saturday, but temperatures were expected to pick up again on Sunday. Parts of New South Wales now faces unprecedented catastrophic fire danger. Temperatures reached a blistering 47C in the outer suburbs as the city sweltered through yet another scorcher on Saturday.  

A hilarious video filmed during Laura and James Russell's wedding in Cornwall shows adorable French bulldog, George trotting into the ceremony in his specially designed wedding suit to save the day when the best man 'forgot' the rings. The video has since been viewed on Facebook more than 7 million times.

The book features 31 of Kate's most memorable outfits, including Kate dancing in a headdress and 'grass skirt' (centre) in the Solomon Islands and wearing a cowboy hat (right) at a rodeo in Canada. The colouring book is raising funds for Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that are responsible for Kensington Palace. Colour in Kate will be sold in the Buckingham Palace gift shop.

What if we'd lost the Battle of Britain? What if America hadn't entered the war and Hitler and Stalin had remained allies? What if the Germans had invaded Britain and southern England was now occupied territory, while the North was locked in a bitter battle for its independence? This dystopian vision is the world into which the BBC's brilliant new Sunday night drama SS-GB (pictured above) plunges us. Based on a cult 1978 book by spy writer Len Deighton, it follows the fortunes of Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer, known as 'Archer of the Yard', who soon finds himself entangled in a murder that could have grave political repercussions.

Jessica Sharman (pictured left and right with her boyfriend, Richard Bishop, 25), 19, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was on the way to work last March when she had a fit that left her unable to remember her own name. She had to 'meet' all of her family again, and was left struggling with her relationship after she had no recollection of her boyfriend. However, he attempt to end their relationship was met with resistance from him, and she fell back in love with him after he helped her recovery. Forced to stop working, doctors warned there was only a slim possibility that she could regain her 19 years of memory. But she is yet to recollect anything from before her seizure - and has been told there is a chance it could happen all over again. Inset, the Adam Sandler film 50 First Dates, in which he wins over a woman with memory loss everyday.

When she was a little girl, Kimberley Taylor was painfully shy. Back then, Kimberley - or 'Kimmie' as she is known - lived in Darwen, a quiet market town in the heart of rural Lancashire, with her parents and elder sister Samantha. How could her family - how could anyone who knew her in those days - possibly have imagined what the future held for her? For Kimberley Taylor, now 27, didn't follow her father into the classroom after studying maths at university. Instead, she has taken on the battlefield name of 'Zilan Dilber' (shown left). Extraordinarily, Kimberly 'Kimmie' Taylor and Zilan are one and the same. Miss Taylor (pictured top and bottom right), it emerged this week, is believed to be one of the first British women to travel to the hell-hole to take up arms against ISIS. So how did this quiet, bright young woman end up taking herself off to one of the most dangerous places on Earth to fight ISIS?

An Ole Miss student who is suspected of being on drugs was filmed headbutting a deputy as he was being taken to court Thursday morning. The bizarre footage shows Daniel Stewart Berry, from Brandon, Mississippi,  cursing at police officers before physically assaulting one as he headed into court. Berry was arrested for robbing the West Union Quick Stop on Highway 30 on Tuesday. However, he was detained by customers before officers arrived to arrest him.

Marine Le Pen has released a new video in her campaign to be elected President of France on May 7. The video features the Front National President, 48, riding a horse, flying in a helicopter and even sailing a yacht. It symbolically begins with her walking on the shores of France and notably features no non-white faces in keeping with her anti-immigration stance.

Maddie left New Orleans hospital holding her mother Jamie Lynn Spears' hand on Friday just days after regaining consciousness after she crashed her ATV into a pond.

The family on the TV reality show 'Sister Wives' and several hundred other protesters in polygamous relationships and their supporters said Friday they won't stop fighting for the legal right to plural marriage. Holding signs that read, 'I love all my moms,' and 'If we were gay, we'd be OK,' the group rallied in the rain on the steps of the Utah Capitol on Friday afternoon. The demonstration comes a month after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Kody Brown and his four wives on the TLC show 'Sister Wives' challenging Utah's bigamy law.

Footage shows the woman washing the elephant with a sponge while in a river in Thailand. She is seen splashing water at his trunk before continuing to sponge him down. But clearly unhappy at being touched, he reacts by throwing her into the air with his trunk. The woman is seen getting back onto her feet at the end of the clip, seemingly unhurt.

An adorable dog thought his owner's treat looked really yummy, but tried to play it cool when he was caught begging. A sweet video showed a man and his best pal enjoying some quality time while lying on their bed. The man was enjoying the tasty snack when noticed his hungry pup staring at him. But when he turned his head, the fluffy white dog pretended he wasn't begging by looking the other way. The man continued to eat his snack and the pup whipped back around to stare at his owner's treat once again. Possibly sensing his canine friend was secretly begging for his food, the man turned his head slowly in an attempt to catch his pup in the act. But again, the cute dog turned his head at the same time. The adorable video was captured in Cypress, Texas on February 8.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol captured dramatic footage of an 18-wheeler tipping over and smashing into a patrol car on Interstate 80 near Elk Mountain, Wyoming. Wind gusts were nearly 70 miles per hour when the crash occurred. Three troopers were outside of their vehicles assisting drivers who were involved in other crashes along the interstate. Nobody was injured, including the two occupants of the truck.

Deb Larcombe, from Queensland, Australia, says her son Jeremy, who died when he was just an hour old, can be seen in this photo, looking over her daughter Taylah, who was his twin. The mother-of-six, pictured right with Taylah, said she believes Jeremy, seen in ultrasound, inset, was there as a friend and is guarding his sister who survived their birth. Jeremy had an extra chromosome, and a condition called Edwards Syndrome, and faced low likelihood of surviving birth. The photo was taken as Deb prepared to marry her husband Wayne in secret.

Jordan Rhoades, 20, from Indiana, hurled at least four chairs across a Bartholomew County courtroom on Friday. The man became violent after hearing his one-year prison sentence after he violated his probation and began to forcefully throw chairs at the judge and staff. Rhoades slightly hit the prosecutor and damaged a computer during the outburst.

The animals were found wandering close to their enclosures in Nour Park, Iraq. They are being cared for by the Kurdistan Organisation for Animal Rights Protection. The lion is now being fed by a local butcher, while children visit to throw apples and hand lettuce leaves to the bear. A pair of bears initially survived by eating their own three cubs - but one later died after being attacked by the lions.