A Chinese court declared bankrupt the company at the centre of a scandal over tainted milk that was blamed for killing six children and making nearly 300,000 more ill.

Reality television star Kerry Katona is "devastated" following the death in the US of the man she regarded as her real father.

A convicted paedophile was today jailed for life in the UK for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl just weeks after his prison licence for an earlier sex attack on another child ran out.

Another woman has come forward to claim that comedian Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her, it emerged today.