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BIOGRAPHYBecoming Ella Fitzgeraldby Judith Tick (Norton £30, 656pp) She wasn’t a beauty, like Lena Horne. She wasn’t sensuous, like Eartha Kitt, or homely, like Peggy Lee. ‘When a girl comes up and looks like me,’ she once said, ‘she…

Prosecutors in Manhattan have reduced assault charges against Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. after it was discovered that he did not actually break his girlfriend's neck on September 11, as was originally claimed. Manhattan…

<!-- <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- The widow forced to carry luggage for a living: Maya, the only female porter in Ludhiana,…

The Norwegian mountaineer accused of stepping over a porter who lay dying on K2 has rubbished the claims, saying she is a victim of 'misinformation'.Kristin Harila, 37, became the fastest climber to scale the world's 14 tallest…

Just two climbers tried to help a dying sherpa on the world's second highest mountain as fellow mountaineers edged around.  Muhammad Hassan, 27, lay seriously injured 1,300ft from the summit of K2 after slipping in a bottle neck area of…