The expert’s guide to how you really CAN take years off your face: Top dermatologist reveals the facts (and fiction) about anti-ageing your skin

Ever since I was a teenager in the early Nineties, I’ve been obsessed with skincare.

I was desperate to find a cure for my dreadful acne — my terrible skin was a source of deep embarrassment, and for years held me back.

In the end, it wasn’t apple cider vinegar, home-made sugar scrubs, toothpaste, TCP or peel-off masks that eventually improved it; it was seeing a dermatologist.

These days, I’m no longer a spotty teenager, I’m a qualified dermatologist myself and a spokesperson for the British Skin Foundation, specialising in both beauty and medical skin problems with a particular fascination with anti-ageing.

The process of getting older outwardly can be seen in the skin before any other organ of the body. Growing old cannot be hidden, unlike many other medical issues. We are living longer than ever before and the anti-ageing market grows ever bigger, bombarding us with celebrity endorsed potential ‘cures’, some of which are utter rubbish.

It drives me mad, the amount of bad information out there. Over the past ten years, I’ve seen hundreds of patients, many of whom, faced with a barrage of anti-ageing advice, are crying out for clarity.

Tiangong 1: Chinese satellite crashes to Earth, mostly burns up on re-entry

Chinese space authorities say Tiangong 1, the country's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, mostly burning up over the central South Pacific. The China Manned Space Engineering Office says online that the experimental space lab re-entered around 8:15 a.m. local time Monday.

The tumbling spacecraft posed only a slight risk to people and property on the ground, since most of the 8.5-ton vehicle was expected to burn up on re-entry.

Officials at the Joint Force Space Component Command said the satellite re-entered after 8 p.m. ET. Their statement mentioned that the reentry was confirmed "through coordination with counterparts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom":

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NASA SCHOCK: Huge 'alien herd of animals found in space probe images of Mars'

MARS could be flourishing with Earth-like life according to a shocking conspiracy theory sparked by these NASA images. Pictures taken from above by space probes reveal there is a thriving ecosystem supporting life on the Red Planet — according to wild claims spreading online.

A video uploaded to YouTube shows the pictures which show a cluster of objects on the planet’s surface spanning for miles.

And another angle appears to reveal other parts of the area rumoured to be feeding zones for the "alien animals".

conspiracy theorist Neal Evans claims this is proof of life on the Red Planet — alongside an entire environment capable of supporting them.

'Satan 2' nuclear missile again test-launched by Russia, as Putin brags of 'invulnerable' arsenal

A new intercontinental ballistic missile hailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as being able to fly over the North or South Poles and strike any target in the world reportedly was test-launched for the second time Friday.

Russia’s defense ministry released a video purportedly showing the Sarmat ICBM blasting off in spectacular fashion from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in its northern Arkhangelsk province, the move coming just hours after the Kremlin announced it would expel 60 American diplomats and close the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation for U.S. measures taken in response to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in Britain.

The video shows the missile – dubbed “Satan 2” by NATO -- rising out of the ground and seemingly floating in the air for a brief moment before more flames erupt, kicking up massive clouds of smoke and snow.

"No defense systems will be able to withstand it," Putin said about the missile during his state-of-the-nation speech in early March.

Two teens charged in brutal beating death of New Jersey man

Two teens have been arrested and charged in connection with the brutal beating death of a 36-year-old New Jersey man.

Authorities say Sebastian Aguilar was attacked by multiple people Wednesday night while walking in Guttenberg, a small town just across the Hudson River from New York City, NorthJersey.com reported.

Police found Aguilar lying on the ground around 10:15 p.m. and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he died at 7:40 a.m. Thursday, NJ.com reported.

The exact cause of his death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner.

Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent heart surgery and is now in stable condition

Arnold Schwarzenegger had heart surgery on Thursday and was in stable condition as of Friday, his spokesman Daniel Ketchell confirmed to The Washington Post.

Ketchell said on Twitter that Schwarzenegger, 70, underwent a planned procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to replace a pulmonic valve. He said the valve was "successfully replaced."

TMZ, which first reported the surgery, said complications arose in the valve replacement and Schwarzenegger required an "emergency" open-heart surgery, though Ketchell did not appear to confirm that in his statement on Twitter. The Post said he "noted that an open-heart surgery team was on hand during the procedure, but downplayed its seriousness."

Could enemies sabotage undersea cables linking the world? Fears rise as officials say Russian ships are showing increased interest in the 400 fiber-optic communication cables spanning the oceans

Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths.

Is Moscow interested in cutting or tapping the cables? Does it want the West to worry it might? Is there a more innocent explanation? Unsurprisingly, Russia isn't saying.

But whatever Moscow's intentions, U.S. and Western officials are increasingly troubled by their rival's interest in the 400 fiber-optic cables that carry most of world's calls, emails and texts, as well as $10 trillion worth of daily financial transactions.

'We've seen activity in the Russian navy, and particularly undersea in their submarine activity, that we haven't seen since the '80s,' Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the U.S. European Command, told Congress this month.

Without undersea cables, a bank in Asian countries couldn't send money to Saudi Arabia to pay for oil. U.S. military leaders would struggle to communicate with troops fighting extremists in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Rapper Fabolous Arrested After Allegedly Attacking ‘L&HH’ GF & Baby Mama Emily B — Report

This is awful. Fabolous has been arrested for domestic violence after allegedly assaulting Emily B, according to a bombshell March 29 report. Here’s what we know.

Fabolous, 40, was arrested the night of Wednesday, March 28, after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and baby mama Emily B, as TMZ reports. Emily “first contacted police” and told them the rapper “had hit her,” sources claim to the site. Fabulous then reportedly turned himself in to the police in Englewood, NJ, where he and the Love & Hip Hop star live.

Former vice mayor of China’s Lyuliang City sentenced to death for corruption

Zhang Zhongsheng, former vice mayor of Lyuliang City in north China's Shanxi Province, was sentenced to death on Wednesday for taking bribes, the Intermediate People's Court of Linfen in Shanxi Province said.

These 5 signs mean you're far more successful than you realise

  

Sometimes, we might not feel super successful.
But that doesn't mean it's true.
There are a number of ways you can be successful without even realising it.

Success is tricky and hard to define because it differs from individual to individual. My mother, who never held a corporate job her whole life, achieved great success as a homemaker raising kids and creating a nurturing home environment.

Others will define it through a fat bank account, number of deals closed, books written, races won, or promotions received. Warren Buffett himself defined success by one's ability to say "no" to as many things as possible.

Your friend, boss or partner could be spying on you right now using Whatsapp

We don’t wish to alarm you, but someone could be using WhatsApp to spy on you. A new iOS app for iPhone is claiming to be able to use WhatsApp’s public online and offline status in a creepy new way. It’s called ChatWatch and aims to help people find out ‘friends, family or employees’ activity’ – even when they have hidden the ‘last seen’ function.

 All you need to do is pay it $2 per week to monitor a pair of numbers and it will tell you when they are on or offline. You can pay more to snoop on up to ten people at a time. ‘Find out when they went to bed, how long they slept, even compare chat patterns between people you know, and we will tell you the probability of them talking to each other during the day, using artificial intelligence,’ the app wrote.

'Fake' Indian journalists held in Australia over human trafficking

An Indian journalist has been charged with people smuggling after he allegedly helped eight people enter Australia using fake media credentials.

The group told officials at Brisbane airport that they had arrived to cover the Commonwealth Games.

If convicted of human trafficking, the journalist, who had a valid media pass, faces up to 20 years in jail.

The Commonwealth Games will be held in Australia's Gold Coast between 4 and 15 April.

Driver plows into people in San Francisco, critically wounding 4

A driver plowed a vehicle into several people in San Francisco on Wednesday, critically wounding four, before fleeing the scene and triggering a manhunt, police said.

"Driver of vehicle in a physical altercation with five subjects and struck five subjects with his vehicle," San Francisco police said in a statement.

Police were searching for the driver and the five victims were transported to the hospital, police said, adding that four had life-threatening injuries.

Nasa plan to hunt for extraterrestrial alien life using James Webb Space Telescope postponed

Nasa has once again postponed its plan to use an alien-hunting space telescope to search for traces of extraterrestrial life way out in deep space. It has announced another delay to the launch of its next-generation space telescope until at least 2020. Top officials said Tuesday that more time is needed to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope, which is considered a successor to the long-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

 It’s the latest in a series of delays for the telescope, dating back a decade. More recently, Webb was supposed to fly this year, but last fall NASA pushed the launch back to 2019. ‘Simply put, we have one shot to get this right before going into space,’ explained Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator of science.

China banned all mention of Kim Jong Un while he was in Beijing — so people called him 'fatty on the train' instead

China tried to keep Kim Jong Un's visit to Beijing a secret earlier this week.
Many people were speculating, so authorities decided to censor terms and nicknames relating to the North Korean leader.
To circumvent the ban, some internet users called Kim "fatty on the train" and "the obese patient."
As China banned all mention of Kim Jong Un on its internet during his secretive visit, people on the internet dodged the ban by calling him "fatty on the train" instead.