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• 'Here is your bride... please don't beat her': As Taliban recognises child marriage, Afghans 'marry off' girls and BABIES - and can only hope they are not raped before they even hit puberty

  In Afghanistan, the practice of selling daughters to older men for financial gain has become a normalised response to deepening poverty.

• Alan Titchmarsh buys £2.6m luxury five-bed home from Omaze winner who got it for price of a £10 raffle ticket

  Mr Titchmarsh, 77, and his wife Alison moved to the luxury five-bedroom property last November after downsizing from their grand manor house, where they had lived for more than two decades.

• How Marxist activists will flood schools with radical propaganda, even targeting dinner ladies

  A rallying cry rang out across the Brighton Centre last month. It belonged to Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of Britain's largest teaching union.

• Why even diehard Democrats are turning against Obama over the $850million giant trash can they say is just a monument to his rampant egotism

  It looms over the poverty-stricken South Side of Chicago like a vast meteorite that has just plunged to Earth and embedded itself in the Windy City.

• Moment terrified reporter dives for cover as gunman who opened fire at White House and 'believed he was Jesus Christ' is pictured

  Correspondents stationed near the White House said they heard what appeared to be repeated gunfire on Saturday, triggering an immediate security response around the grounds.

• Revealed: The towns where a THIRD of first-class letters are delivered late - despite the cost of stamps more than doubling since 2020

  Official figures show Royal Mail is failing to hit first-class delivery targets in any of the UK's 124 postcode areas.

• First photos from Don Jr and Bettina Anderson's Bahamas wedding party revealed: Couple's agonizing venue choice and bride's touching tribute to 'best friend' groom

  The new bride took to her Instagram Stories to share a look at their wedding bands along with a gushing message to Don Jr.

• EXPOSED: Inside 'evil' world of UK's most secretive religion, as survivors tell JANE FRYER of abuse, bizarre sewage customs, Cotswolds property empire - and chilling fate of followers' cats and dogs…

  They are notorious for the highly secretive nature of their communities and interminable religious services - seven days a week and five, or even six, times on a Sunday - in their Gospel Halls.

• Secret life of former Blue Peter star John Leslie in resort where Maddie McCann was snatched: Six years after he was cleared of sex crimes, we track millionaire 'DJ Johnny Sunset' to Portuguese hideaway…

  The sun is setting over the Algarve and at a small terrace bar overlooking the padel courts, the DJ has settled into his early evening, crowd- pleasing, stride.

• Unions plot worst ever school strikes: Mail on Sunday uncovers 'war plan' to exploit Labour law change and cripple education system with national walkout

  The National Education Union (NEU) is set to hold the country to ransom with walkouts in most schools after Christmas , disrupting exam classes and forcing parents to find childcare.