It is a basic human right to end one’s life. It is not a privilege earned by intolerable suffering writes Terry Prone

An 86-year-old man who carried out a mercy killing by shooting his ailing wife in the head has been given probation after an emotional hearing where family members spoke tearfully on his behalf.

This is a new version of Oscar Wilde’s classic tale of the handsome young man of the title (Barnes) who sells his soul for an eternity of staying handsome and living a life of debauchery while a portrait in the attic turns ugly and terrifying.

Eight times married actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was falling in and out of a coma in a Los Angeles hospital today two days after he car hit a lamp poll as she set off on shopping trip.