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UK: Spider eggs discovered in a bunch of bananas have been found to belong to a harmless species — after initial fears that a killer spider was on the loose in Britain.

Debut novelist Eimear McBride has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction only a week after winning the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.

Debut Irish novelist Eimear McBride has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction only three months after failing to win another high-profile award.

WHAT do high-flyers Helen Fraser and Sheryl Sandberg have in common with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet? Simple — all three believe a woman’s success lies in marrying well.