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Paris attacks This article is more than 8 years oldHasna Aït Boulahcen: 'party girl' killed in Paris terror siegeThis article is more than 8 years oldFriends and relatives describe how 26-year-old was into drinking and dancing, but suddenly adopted strict Islamic dress six months ago A female terror suspect who died during a police siege in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis did not blow herself up, French investigators have revealed, but was killed when somebody standing next her detonated a suicide vest.

THE BODY BEAUTIFULI have read somewhere that sipping alcoholic drinks through a straw makes the alcohol 'work' more quickly and intensively. Is this true? If so, how? Alan Mazonowicz, Brussels, Belgium Some of the alchohol evaporates from the drink and ends up in your lungs as you breathe. From there, it has a direct route into the bloodstream (much as the nicotine does in cigarette smoke) rather than the tortuous route through your digestive system.

Kyle Rittenhouse This article is more than 1 year oldKyle Rittenhouse launches initiative to fight media ‘lies’ – and Whoopi GoldbergThis article is more than 1 year oldTeen who shot dead two men and injured another during anti-racism protests in Wisconsin has become a rightwing celebrity Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who shot dead two men and injured another during anti-racism protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, has announced the formation of a group to fund lawsuits against reporters – and also Whoopi Goldberg.