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'We have attempted three flights over the past few weeks, each one of them cancelled as Alex's condition deteriorated further just prior to depature as the poison worked through his body causing further complications,' they wrote in an update.

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Four fascinating seasons of The Sinner await to be cracked open, each one focused on a murder committed by an unlikely offender in even stranger circumstances. Season 1 follows Jessica Biel's Cora, who stabs a man to death on a beach in a sudden frenzy, but has no idea why. It's up to Bill Pullman's Detective Ambrose to unravel the shockingly disturbing events embedded in her psyche that lead to her being triggered.

Whalen, the former WNBA star who was recently inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, is staying on as a special assistant to athletic director Mark Coyle in a deal that runs through April 2025, the university announced.

Taylor's wife Anne Coolidge-Taylor, 53, is sticking by him — at least temporarily — but their 18-year marriage faces fresh stress today as spurned Joya, 38, tells DailyMail.com: ‘He could not keep his d**k in his pants.'

Whalen had career averages of 11.5 points and 4.9 assists per game in 480 career games (476 starts) in the WNBA.

She was part of four WNBA title teams with the Lynx, a five-time All-Star and a three-time All-WNBA first-team selection.

"It was an honor of a lifetime. I am grateful to my assistant coaches and staff and want to thank them for everything they did for our student-athletes during the last five years. We did things the right way and created a lot of memories, but now is the right time for me to step aside and return to being a proud alum. I look forward to supporting and cheering on the next head coach."

'We are so overwhelmed and humbled by the amount of love, support and kindness we have received, and thanks to the generosity of you all, our journey to bring Alex home is now underway,' Ms Shorey-Kitson wrote.

After a few weeks she hired a car and headed for Turkey, crossing a minefield on foot while pushing her youngest child in a buggy for the final few miles of the journey.She has not spoken to Georgelas, who changed his name to Yahya al-Bahrumi, since 2015 and it's believed he died two years later.

Dr Hilary Cass is a retired paediatrician and makes clear in her introductory letter to young people who feel they need help around identity that she is not suggesting closing down the services they need, but proposes more and better care than what has been on offer from the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in London.

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Initially Cobra Kai, a series based on the Karate Kid films, might sound like a cynical money-making spinoff of the martial arts franchise. But it's become one of Netflix's most popular shows, thanks to well-written characters and a good measure of nostalgia. The series follows Johnny Lawrence, 34 years after he was jump-kicked in the face by Daniel LaRusso. Taking this subversive viewpoint, Cobra Kai is four seasons of self-aware, light-hearted and full-of-heart fun.

Which is what happened to Keira.

At 16, far too young to give informed consent, she was referred to GIDS. After just three appointments she was prescribed puberty blockers to stop her periods and breasts developing before starting to take the male hormone testosterone a year later. 

It was a report by Dr Michael Biggs, associate professor of Sociology at Oxford University, together with the experience of Keira Bell, a young woman who had been treated at GIDS with puberty blockers and prescribed cross-sex hormones as a teenager, that alerted me to the dangers of the treatments on offer. 

But life was so grim there that within weeks the mother-of-four and so-called ‘First Lady of ISIS' had fled to Turkey, eventually settling in the US where she abandoned radical Islam and embarked on a new life preaching the dangers of extremism.

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Margaret Qualley shines at the heart of this miniseries based on a memoir. Maid follows Alex, a young mother trying to support her daughter by working as a housecleaner. Alex's task is made vastly more difficult thanks to an abusive relationship, poverty, homelessness and more. But it's not all heavy subject matter, with light and charming moments that give Maid that extra sheen. A moving story expertly crafted, Maid is a superb watch and cements Qualley as a major star.

Mila began dating her former That '70s show co-star Ashton Kutcher (pictured together in 2021) in April 2012 and were engaged less than two years later. Mila and Ashton married in July 2015 in Oak Glen, California 

‘I said, are you still sleeping in the same bed?

He said yes. Then you don't have anything to worry about honey, I said, because the first thing a woman does when she's really mad is kick her husband out of bed.‘

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This miniseries carves itself firmly into the Western genre, with a female-led cast boasting Merritt Weaver and Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery. With its 1880s New Mexico vistas swirling around it, Godless draws up the violence in a tale that sees an outlaw on the run from his boss seek refuge with an outcast widower. Oh, Jeff Daniels is in this too, if the show wasn't enticing enough.