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Through the popularity of his television show and his mellifluous tenor voice, Andy Williams, who has died aged 84 after suffering from bladder cancer, was one of the best-loved figures in American popular culture. In a career that spanned eight decades, he sold more than 100m albums. Ronald Reagan described Williams's distinctive voice asa "national

As many as 100 members of a Colombian doomsday cult, which believes that an extra-terrestrial spaceship will save the faithful before the world ends, have disappeared into the mountains of northern Colombia.

An interviewer from the Guardian once spent four hours recording Dame Thora Hird, who has died aged 91, stopping only because he ran out of tapes. "Listen to this," he enthused afterwards, and turned up the sound of her singing a rude ditty about "balls" (rhymed with "orchestra stalls") that she had written 60 years

We have only slept together twice in the past year. How can I love and be in a relationship with someone I no longer desire? Im 31 years old and Ive been with my girlfriend for nearly three years now, but weve struggled with sex over the past 12-18 months. Ever since we started dating

Gwyneth Paltrow says her memory has deteriorated since she gave birth to daughter Apple last year. "I used to have a fantastic memory and now I can't remember what day it is," the Oscar-winning star of Shakespeare In Love confessed during a talk to London drama students. Paltrow will next appear in the low-budget Sony