A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang’s members, a court in central China said.

Millionaire Jimmy Savile was given a council flat after his “ramshackle” property in Salford was demolished, a rape trial heard today.

A Harley-Davidson motorbike that briefly belonged to Pope Francis was sold to a mystery European buyer for €210,000 at a high-profile auction in Paris.

The lesbian daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon who publicly offered millions of euro to any man who could woo her into marriage has appealed to her father in an open letter to accept her for who she is.

Debbie Rowe, the former wife of Michael Jackson, is suing sued the troubled pop singer, claiming he failed to pay her what he promised when the two divorced in 1999.