Luxury beauty gifts – or even those more affordable beauty gift sets – make for the most appreciated and enduring of all gifts for her. I think we can all agree on that. No longer reserved as a seasonal novelty, the best beauty gifts are now a year-round offering, cementing them as a stellar choice not just for Christmas but Eid, Diwali, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, too.

A former Miss Teen Colorado runner-up has sued Pornhub after saying she was sex trafficked and raped by a notorious porn producer who was also an FBI Most Wanted fugitive.   Kristy Althaus, whose life and career was ruined when GirlsDoPorn released the X-rated footage that she says she was coerced into filming when she was just 18 years old, has filed a federal lawsuit demanding justice for the trauma she's faced.

Amazon Prime Video has renewed “Harlem” for a third season. From “Girls Trip” and “The Blackening” writer Tracy Oliver, “Harlem” follows four best friends in Harlem — Camille (Meagan Good), Tye (Jerrie Johnson), Quinn (Grace Byers) and Angie (Shonique Shandai) — who navigate new phases of their careers, relationships and big city dreams together. Season 1 of “Harlem” premiered December of 2021, while Season 2 aired in February of this year.

Jewish children and their families transformed streets around the world into a colourful carnival today as they dressed up as kings and queens, clowns, animals and even superheroes to celebrate the traditional festival of Purim. The holiday commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia after a beautiful queen, Esther, foiled a royal advisor's plot to annihilate all the country's Jews in just one day. It is traditionally marked with parades, the giving of presents, and by observers sporting a host of colourful costumes which traditionally take their cue from the Biblical story of Esther, but can also include anything from sailors to Superman, as these photographs taken today in Stamford Hill, north London, show.

UK newsThe businesswoman, the £17m necklace and a criminal secretFish trader facing Italian jail sentence named as architect of Tokyo jewel robberyIn the fish markets of Peterhead, Dorothy Fasola was well-known as the Fiat-driving seafood exporter who drove a hard bargain. But the widowed businesswoman had a secret life: as the alleged mastermind of an audacious jewellery theft in Tokyo, and as an armed robber and counterfeiter on the run from Italian justice.