ROONEY MARA will become a big screen star on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend, having accepted the poisoned chalice that is Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

TWO members of an expedition who were injured in a polar bear attack in which a 17-year-old boy was killed were due to return to Britain last night, the trip organisers said.

The grieving family of the Englist schoolboy who was killed by a polar bear while on an adventure holiday in north Norway paid tribute to him today as “strong, fearless and kind”.

A mother was today remanded in custody charged with stabbing her baby girl to death.