BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Parliament under lockdown after 'multiple' gunmen shoot soldier standing guard at National War Memorial before opening fire inside the Parliament halls

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A gunman has shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial before multiple gunmen fired dozens of shots inside the halls of Parliament in Ottawa. Police have said there are 'two or three' gunmen inside the building and one of the gunmen has been killed. After Parliament was placed on lockdown, police swarmed downtown Ottawa as other shootings were reported at the Rideau Centre mall and the Chateau Laurier Hotel. Footage taken inside the Parliament building shows the terrifying moment shots were fired in the hallways. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Harper was safe and had been evacuated from Parliament Hill. He will make a statement about the attacks later today.

Teenage sailor who hanged herself the day after 17th birthday had been taking controversial acne drug linked to depression 

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Jessica Eales, who had recently represented Great Britain at the Isaf Youth Sailing World Championships, was found hanged in woodland in July at Sway in the New Forest, about a mile-and-a-half from her family home in Lymington, the day after her 17th birthday. An inquest has found that the medal-winning sailor and straight-A student had been taking Dianette, a hormone treatment for acne, before she died.

Support for staying IN the European Union surges to a 23-year high... all thanks to the rise of Ukip

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Some 56 per cent of people now say they would vote to stay in the EU in a referendum, the highest level since 1991 and up 12 points since 2012 when Ukip were on just 3 per cent in the polls.

How to boost YOUR mobile phone's battery life: Interactive guide gives tailor-made tips for individual handsets

EXCLUSIVE: The guide was created by Glasgow-based liGo. It reveals specific ways to conserve battery life on various smartphones including Apple's iPhones and HTC's One range.

Aldi makes latest play for the middle classes as it introduces affordable organic range of produce to its stores

Aldi is introducing the range over the next coming months and it will be in place by January 2015. The directors of the store wanted to make organic produce available to all.

Boomerang generation who don't fly the nest cost parents £1.2k a year - forcing a third to cut spending on basics

The research comes as figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that more than a quarter of adults between 20 and 34 are still living with parents.

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Woman left with horrific burns after her pony's drinking water was spiked with dangerous poison which accidentally splashed on owner's face

Mother-of-two Mandi Knight, 46, accidentally splashed the water on herself as she moved the bucket of drinking water out of her pony's way at a livery yard in St Austell, Cornwall.

Not such a simples pad for meerkat millionaire: CompareTheMarket.com boss lives in South Africa's biggest home

Named Palazzo Steyn, the vast pile, left, is the home of Douw Steyn, 62, inset with wife Carolyn, the South African entrepreneur who set up the insurance firm behind the meerkat adverts in Peterborough in 1992. The television ad campaign featuring meerkat Aleksandr Orlov, bottom right, helped Mr Steyn's fortunes more than double, and as a result, he has splashed out on a new-build home for himself in the countryside outside Johannesburg, complete with aqueduct.

British tourist on holiday in Tunisia told local man to 'come and stay if he was ever in Wales' - a month later he turned up, refused to leave and 'ate her out of house and home'

Nebil Jouini, 28, pictured, stole from the 67-year-old woman he had met in a hotel in Tunisia after going to stay with her at her Cardiff home and she told him to contact her if he was ever in the city.

Taxi firm in Rochdale offers white drivers on demand after two of Pakistani origin were jailed for sex-grooming of girls in town

Rochdale minicab firm Car 2000 is offering the choice after two taxi drivers of Pakistani origin were jailed for their part in the sex trafficking and rape of young white girls in the town.

World Boxing Council shortens women's bouts because of periods

In a statement published on its website, the Mexico City-based non-profit said its first World Female Convention decided to shorten championship bouts from 12 rounds to just 10.

Taxpayers forced to pay out £2.5m a MONTH in overtime wages to clear 500,000 backlog of summer holiday passport applications

Undated handout photo of boxes of passport applications which are being piled up, taken by a member of staff, who wants to remain anonymous, in a second-floor room in an office in Liverpool which is normally used for meetings and induction sessions. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday June 11, 2014. Workers said they were having to meet in a stationery room instead, which has led to complaints about health and safety risks because the rooms are so packed. There are between 15 and 20 applications in each box. See PA story POLITICS Passport Boxes. Photo credit should read: Handout/PA Wire
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The Passport Office paid out £6.75 million to staff for working extra hours during July, August and September as they attempted to a clear a backlog of thousands of applications.

New 'macho' law in Russia planned to give state handouts to men who have children with more than one woman

Men who have children by different women should be paid a special allowance by the state for increasing the population, Russian MP Valery Seleznev claimed.

Pressure mounts on child abuse inquiry chair to quit after victims say she is 'beyond the pale' for dining with top Tory Leon Brittan

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Fiona Woolf admitted she entertained the former Home Secretary and his wife three times at dinner parties at her house, and twice went to his central London home for dinner.

Class 3C here are my bones! Romanian headteacher donates his own SKELETON for students to learn about anatomy 

A Romanian school has been told they can keep the bones of their former headmaster who donated his body to science to teach future students about anatomy.

Student jailed for slapping a sleeping woman in the face with his penis while a friend filmed it on his phone

John Luke Dale, 21, stripped down to his boxers and shoved his manhood in the woman's face before hitting her across the cheek with his penis while she slept at a party in Nottingham.

3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that once held a mummy discovered in living room of Essex pensioner 

An Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, which is 3,000 years old, was found standing on display in the home of an Essex pensioner. Experts say the find of the coffin is 'incredibly rare.'

Trainee teacher is sent away from Catholic school on first day because her arms and neck are covered in tattoos (but who hired her in the first place?)

Mother-of-two Charlotte Tumilty claims she was sent away from her first day at a new job at St John Vianney's Primary School, below, in Hartlepool because her arms and neck are covered in tattoos. The 26-year-old says she was told the inkings on her feet, hands and neck were inappropriate but the schools says she was simply asked to just make sure they were covered up.

Wife of fraudster who pretended to be in a coma for two years wrote self-pitying letters claiming husband couldn't move or speak and tricked MP into intervening on his behalf 

Helen Wright wrote the letters trying to convince people husband Alan was in a coma and even tricked their local MP Geraint Davies into intervening in his case as he dodged court for his crimes.

Cameron challenges Miliband to let international inspectors into the NHS in Wales to expose failings on Labour's watch

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The Prime Minister said the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) was welcome to visit the health service in England to compare it to scandal-hit Wales.

Get off my bench! Labour's 'awkward squad' of working class MPs try to ambush Ukip's Douglas Carswell to steal his seat... but he goes campaigning in Rochester instead 

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EXCLUSIVE: Mr Carswell lost a behind-the-scenes battle for the best seats in the House of Commons - after a secret ambush by Labour MPs at 8am this morning, MailOnline can reveal.

Toddler drowned in swimming pool of family's £3million mansion after being left alone watching TV for just five minutes

One-year-old Arthur Belmonte was dragged from the pool by his father after he was found floating face down at the property in Ascot, Berkshire, an inquest has heard.

Carer caught assaulting teenager with severe learning difficulties after suspicious family install secret camera in his room 

Stanley Nkenko was caught on camera hitting Zak Rowlands, who has learning difficulties at a Lancashire care home. He was caught after his father Paul installed a secret camera.

Nurse left epileptic patient unconscious for six hours after brain haemorrhage because she decided to let her 'sleep it off'

Heather Woodfield from Springfields Nursing Home in Barry leaves a NMC tribunal at Temple Court  in Cardiff where she is accused of professional misconduct.\nA NURSING home resident who suffered from epilepsy died after being left unconscious for six hours, a professional conduct and competence committee has heard.\nNurse Heather Woodfield failed to call an ambulance despite concerns being raised by fellow staff members at Springbank Nursing Home in Barry, a panel from the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told.\nGiving evidence at the hearing in Cardiff, healthcare assistant Lijomol George said: ¿I did not understand why Mrs Woodfield did not call a doctor.¿\nShe added: ¿I told her I was concerned that the resident was not well as she was not responding to us.¿\nRepresenting the nurse, Daniel Neill suggested Mrs George had never voiced her concerns about the resident to his client.\nThe panel heard the resident died in hospital on July 23 last year due to bleeding inside her skull.

Nurse Heather Woodfield, 61, failed to seek medical assistance after the patient was found unresponsive at Springbank Nursing Home in Barry, South Wales, and put her to bed.

The Jane Austen rules to 21st century dating: New guide offers advice on modern relationships as the author 'would have written it'

A fan of the famous 19th century author believes many of Austen's lessons on love, found in her famous tomes such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, still ring true today.

What your dog can say about you: Choice of pet can reveal your personality (with owners of Yorkshire Terriers being the happiest)

The study of pet owners found a typical owner of a Yorkshire Terrier laughs ten times a day - more than any other - and describe themselves as the happiest people.

Why shift workers should avoid tucking into steak, brown rice or green veg at night: Iron-rich foods 'disrupt the body clock'

Researchers at the University of Utah found that eating iron-rich foods disrupts the way the liver regulates blood sugar. This leads to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes and cancer for shift workers.

Terrifying moment car tries to join the motorway and ends up being shunted sideways by a lorry for 100 metres

The Honda Civic was filmed as it attempted to pull onto the M25 between two lorries. But the footage shows the driver badly miscalculated the gap between the two vehicles and it is soon careering dangerously across the lane. The rear of car is clipped by the front wing of the lorry - causing it to flip sideways and parallel to the front grille.

Now that is a surprise: Drug dealer hid crack cocaine and heroin in plastic egg found inside children's Kinder chocolate

Police discovered Warren Christopher, of Epsom, Surrey, had concealed a large amount of the illegal class-A drugs inside the plastic containers that come with the children's treat. File photo

Join us or die: ISIS fighter, 15, says jihadis threatened to behead him if he didn't join their ranks and describes how young men are drugged then forced into suicide attacks

A prisoner accused of having fought for ISIS in northern Syria has described how the terrorists threatened him with murder if he did not join their reign of terror. While many of the prisoners deny being involved, teenager Kareem Mufleh (right) readily admits his links to ISIS - claiming he had been threatened with beheading if they did not join the terror group. 

On the streets of Kobane: New ISIS video shows heavily-armed jihadis on patrol as American warplanes circle overhead 

The footage shows jihadists wandering rubble-lined roads and entering destroyed buildings while the sound of intense gun fights is heard nearby.

Hundreds of ethnic Kurds turn out for funerals of two men and a woman barely out her teens who died battling ISIS in Kobane

The funerals of two men and a woman barely out her teens were held in the Turkish village of Suruc, within clear sight of the Kurdish fighters' besieged hometown over the border in Syria.

Syria destroys two warplanes used by ISIS to train fighter pilots for terrorist 'airforce'

Monitoring groups in the war-ravaged country last week claimed to have seen the fanatics flying three captured warplanes over short distances from an airbase in Aleppo.

A Labour MP will be next to join UKIP, Carswell boasts as desperate Miliband promises immigration crackdown to shore up leadership

The Labour leader announced the tougher new measures on immigration after saying he recognises that Nigel Farage and Ukip is a threat that his party can no longer ignore.

Miliband's 'women problem': Labour leader lags far behind Cameron as ex-postman Alan Johnson refuses to join the fight

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Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson (pictured) has been touted as MPs' favourite to replace Mr Miliband, but he has vowed to stay on the backbenches until at least the election.

Ken Clarke warns Cameron to 'ignore daft' Tory MPs trying to compete with Ukip for 'bigoted' voters on immigration

The former Chancellor suggested the PM should let right wing MPs defect to Ukip so the party could get back to 'common sense'. He said: 'We mustn't compete with ignorance and bigotry,'

A 7-day test for cancer: Ed Miliband makes pledge that patients will wait no more than a week between reporting cancer fears and getting test results 

The Labour leader says the costs of the pledge will be met by a £150millon-a-year tax on tobacco companies, but medical chiefs warned 'simply buying new equipment' was not the answer.

'Sorry Ed, you're a complete disaster as our leader... so stand aside now' says former MP ANDREW MACKINLAY 

Last week's by-election results confirmed what many of us in the Labour Party have been thinking for months - that Ed Miliband needs to step down as leader and make way for an election winner.

Woman who had no idea she was pregnant gives birth at GP surgery after going to appointment for stomach ache

Clare Evans, 24, from Newport, South Wales, was complaining of abdominal pain and called her out-of-hours GP surgery. They advised her to visit the doctors in case it was a kidney infection. When she arrived she was asked to give a urine sample. but when she went to the toilet her waters broke.She was examined and doctors could see a head and said she was 9cm dilated. Her contractions were so close together she was unable to go into an ambulance, so she gave birth in the GP's treatment room with the baby delivered by her GP and partners and the surgery staff. She also managed the 30 minute birth with no pain relief. Baby Erin Louise Roberts was born weighing 6lbs 12oz. Despite the shock of finding out she was pregnant, Ms Evans says she loves being a mother. 'I love motherhood, even though it was completely unexpected I wouldn't change it for the world' she said.

Back on the airwaves after more than a decade: Former ITN and BBC newsreader whose drinking left him bankrupt and sleeping rough admits 'alcohol broke me'

Ed Mitchell has returned to the airwaves and will present a slot on Share Radio. He lost his job and was left homeless and bankrupt after a lengthy battle with alcohol and mounting debts.

We bought an £800 VW Golf on eBay on Sunday ... and it exploded in flames on the Monday school run

Nicky Keefe collected the VW Golf convertible from private sellers on Sunday. The following morning, the car burst into flames as she was driving her three children to school in Cheam, Surrey.

Footballer has face ripped open by controversial bladed boot after another player wearing them catches him on the chin

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Gary Fawcett, 30, was playing for his team, Garstang FC, against Eagley in Bolton, Greater Manchester when the horrific accident happened

BBC uses anti-terror spy powers to track down licence fee dodgers who do not pay annual £145.50 cost

Designed to catch terrorists, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act is being used by the BBC to catch licence-fee dodgers - something culture secretary Sajid Javid, pictured, may stop.

New chairman of BBC Trust looks likely to rubber stamp move of youth channel BBC Three to internet only

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The shows that will be available first or solely on iPlayer have a heavy publicservice ethos and look to have been commissioned with one eye on licence fee renewal in 2016.

Rona Fairhead, chairman of BBC Trust, has said that the BBC must adapt to more people watching programmes on iPlayer (pictured) and the loophole that allows them to watch for free closed.

Outspoken opponent of mass immigration Sir Andrew Green given seat in the House of Lords by David Cameron

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The Prime Minister personally nominated the chairman of MigrationWatch to become a crossbench peer, as a former diplomat and for his role in the immigration debate.

Dark web is new battleground for GCHQ: Outgoing head of listening post says staff are focusing on 'plotters, proliferators and paedophiles'

GCHQ now concentrates on the so-called 'dark web' of the internet inhabited by 'the plotters, the proliferators and the paedophiles', its outgoing head stressed yesterday.

More pupils than ever win exam appeals: Fears over quality of marking after number of complaints rockets 50% in a year

Record numbers of pupils are winning appeals against their GCSE and A-level grades amid mounting concern over the quality of exam marking.

Spinal cord miracle man was paralysed in knife attack by love rival: Fireman was stabbed 18 times after he tried to stop him vandalising his car

Walking miracle Darek Fidyka was paralysed from the waist down in a frenzied knife attack by a love rival but is now able to walk again thanks to a pioneering British treatment.

How far would YOU go to cover up for a friend who had committed murder? Secret camera experiment reveals how ordinary people are prepared to hide evidence and lie to police to protect their pals

Using actors posing as police, hidden cameras, and rooms wired up with secret microphones, each person was lured to a central London location and told that the friend, who was in on the plot, desperately needed their help. They were told there had been a violent incident the night before, directed to a 'bloody' shirt,  and asked to hide it  - with all of the four doing so with barely a second thought. The real test comes when 'police' knock on the door, asking for the whereabouts of their loved one. While each lies to say they don't know - two of the 'marks' make a break for the stairwell when the fake officers tell them they need to be taken in for questioning.

Dog breeder who lost his arm after being savaged by his own American bulldogs arrested after his remaining animals attacked three people

Dog breeder Stephen Potts, who nearly died after being savaged by his own pets, has been arrested after the animals went on another violent rampage.

Heroin addict thug who attacked three tourists with claw hammer during violent robbery at luxury hotel found guilty of attempted murder 

Philip Spence, 32, faces a full life term after bludgeoning wealthy Arab sisters Khulood, Ohoud and Fatima Al-Najar and leaving them for dead as they slept in London's Cumberland Hotel.

Boy racer who killed his girlfriend while driving at 'ludicrous' speeds is jailed for six years 

A boy racer who killed his girlfriend while driving at 'ludicrous' speeds was jailed for six years today. Paul Reddan, 21, was racing another car when he lost control in a crash.

'Healthy' honey sees sales overtake jam as customers look for alternative to sugar

Sales of honey have overtaken jam for the first time at Waitrose with shoppers apparently willing to pay a little more for a product perceived as natural and healthy.

Would YOU tell your family you had cancer? 25% of patients say they considered keeping the bad news from loved ones

The poll, commissioned for Bupa, also found women were more likely to keep a diagnosis to themselves - even from their spouse.

Could your walk signal dementia? Scientists find link between subtle changes to a person's gait and their brain function

Pat Carless and her husband, Stan (who suffers from Dementia) from Hednesford near Cannock, Staffs. Pat was sold a product by Lloyds Bank that did not deliver as promised.

Subtle changes in the way someone walks could be an early sign of dementia, a study found. Scientists say it could mean a person's gait could be studied for warning signs of the disease.

Outrage as GPs are paid £55 incentive to diagnose dementia

The move is a response to fewer than half of cases being picked up by GPs, but leading family doctors say patients could be wrongly diagnosed causing needless anxiety.

Part-timers add to NHS recruitment crisis: Report finds growing number of GPs who juggle family life or managerial roles

Many work a few days a week and quit well before retirement according to a report in the British Medical Journal, which said: 'Those we do have are stressed and burning out'.

Finally laid to rest after 100 years: Moving ceremony for 15 British WWI heroes as they are buried in northern France exactly a century after they were killed in action following DNA identification

Proud descendants of the First World War Tommies attended a hugely moving ceremony in the village of Bois-Grenier, near Armentieres, on the Belgium border. All the men served with the York and Lancaster regiment, and were killed in an October 1914 offensive during the so-called 'Race to the Sea'.

Argentinian Ambassador demands apology from the BBC for Jeremy Clarkson's claims over Top Gear's H982 FLK number plate

Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro has demanded a public apology from the BBC following the row over a Top Gear special filmed in the South American country.

Alicia Castro has lodged a formal complaint in a meeting with BBC TV Director Danny Cohen over Jeremy Clarkson's 'provocative behaviour and offensive remarks' after filming in Argentina.

Falklands heroes: Veterans who 'cleaned up' after the war finally given their campaign medals by David Cameron after 32 years

The soldiers arrived on the islands after the conflict ended in 1982, but still had to negotiate land mines and war graves.

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Footage captures ultimate bird's-eye view of Paris... as camera is strapped to back of an EAGLE soaring over city at 111mph

A white-tailed eagle with a camera strapped to its back was released from the Eiffel Tower by its handler, flying over the Seine and down into the Trocadéro Gardens in the French capital. The stunt was organised by an organisation to draw attention to the plight of the white-tailed eagle which has been extinct from France for 50 years.

Welcome to the lounge in the sky: China Airlines unveils stylish aircraft complete with tea-tasting area, cocktail bar... and plane seats that convert into a sofa

Taiwan's China Airlines Boeing 777-300ER plane has seats that convert into sofas, a tea-tasting area, a coffee saloon and cocktail bar, and even a library so passengers can sit back and read a good book.

Now that's a wizard idea! London hotel unveils Harry Potter themed room, complete with potions, cauldrons and spell books

The Georgian House in Victoria offers die-hard Harry Potter fans the chance to stay in their own Hogwarts-themed Wizard Chambers, all that's missing is the boy wizard himself.

Now that's a sleeper car! Upscale hotel in historic US train station converts 13 authentic 1920s Pullman rail cars into luxury suites

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While paying tribute to a romantic period of rail travel, each car at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Indianapolis is named after 20th century personalities such as Winston Churchill.

'Justice has NOT been done - only Oscar knows the truth': Reeva Steenkamp's parents hit out as athlete faces just 10 months in jail for killing their daughter

Pistorius, 27, known as the Blade Runner, was yesterday jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (right), 29, but could be out of prison in one-sixth of the time. The sentence has been criticised by some as too lenient and sparked calls for it to be increased. Miss Steenkamp's parents, June and Barry (centre), said they accepted the sentence and 'don't want revenge' or for the double-amputee (left) to 'suffer with his disabilities' while prison.

Pistorius survives his first night in solitary: Amputee 'coping' in grim jail and managed to get some sleep - despite gang leader threatening to order a 'hit' on him

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The convicted killer was dressed in an orange prison-issue jumpsuit and seemed to be coping 'so far so good' when he was seen by a prison official at Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.

Now Russian snow plough driver admits he DID drink alcohol and 'lost his bearings' when he accidentally drove onto runway causing crash that killed Total oil boss

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Vladimir Martynenko's lawyer also acknowledged his client may have had a 'remedy' which included 'a few drops' of alcohol after yesterday angrily denying claims his client was 'drunk'.

Two new sightings of 'crippled Russian submarine' as Sweden says it is ready to use 'anything' to force it to surface

Swedish forces have been scouring the sea off Stockholm since Friday, after what the military called three credible reports of activity by foreign submarines or an underwater vehicle. 

New lead in hunt for Flight MH370 as experts say 'contrails' could be key to finding plane amid claims it is NOT in ocean at all

Aron Gingis, from an Australian environmental company, says MH370's path could be revealed by analysing images of clouds, as their patterns are changed by planes' 'contrails'.

He's back! Sarkozy appears with Carla on the campaign trail as he vows to clamp down on illegal immigration 

Nicolas Sarkozy, 59, left, vowed to end social welfare payments to illegal immigrants in France at a campaign rally in Nice where he was joined by his supermodel wife Carla Bruni, 46, right.

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Is this spinal breakthrough on a par with man walking on the moon asks PROFESSOR COLIN BLAKEMORE

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Research by a British scientist 16 years ago has helped a paralysed man Darek Fidyka (pictured) to walk again. Prof COLIN BLAKEMORE, a neuroscientist, hails the marvellous achievement,

Sorry Sir Nicholas, you may be a High Court judge but you're wrong - marriage is special says SARAH VINE

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Marriage is difficult but so important says SARAH VINE and isn't it funny how Amanda Holden's (pictured) 43-year-old derrière is almost as smooth as her forehead?