Two brothers who used their UK printing firm’s Christmas and New Year break to churn out £1.2m worth of fake banknotes have both been jailed for seven years.

Just a week after a New Delhi court decriminalised homosexuality, the first gay “marriage” has taken place in India.

Authorities took control of all private boats in the five flood-hit districts of Bihar state today as desperate villagers hijacked rescue vessels and looted food and other essentials while flooding spread to new areas of northern India along the Nepal border, officials said.

Two artists have depicted the Beckhams as Hindu deities.