As people struggle with their New Year resolutions to 'enjoy' Dry January or Veganuary, these dubious pleasures have thankfully passed soapland by, writes JACI STEPHEN.

In this week's EastEnders, Martin and Kat attempt to protect Kush after he shoves Leo off a balcony. Meanwhile in Coronation Street, Daniel thinks Bethany is his dead wife after he wakes from a nap.

In this week's Coronation Street, Rita receives a request to scatter her ex-husband's ashes in her old haunt. Meanwhile in EastEnders, Bobby and Dennis become fierce rivals.

In this week's Coronation Street, Maria was briefly back kissing doctor Ali, perhaps finally realising that if Gary puts up with his barber doing that to his hair he's mixing with the wrong set.

In this week's EastEnders, Mick and Linda are rewarded with a boat trip on the Thames for winning 'Best pub'. Meanwhile in Coronation Street, Chesney vents over bringing up four infants.

In this week's Coronation Street, Bethany is accused of planning to run off to London with Daniel and Bertie. Meanwhile, in EastEnders, prison-based Whitney claims she acted in self-defence.

In this week's EastEnders, Tiffany's wedding ring is stolen. In Coronation Street Sarah and Adam look set to tie the knot, despite Sarah's fury her daughter is moving to London with Daniel.

In this week's Coronation Street Ali is loaded into an ambulance after Gary partnered with Sharon to get revenge. Meanwhile in EastEnders, Jay practises proposing to Lola.

In this week's Coronation Street, Evelyn reconnects with her old flame, bearded Arthur. Meanwhile, in Eastenders, Ben is visited by Danny, who has a proposition for him.

In this week's Emmerdale Rhona is upset when Kim insists she won't get Graham's money. Meanwhile in Eastenders love and lust are in the air, with Ben admitting he loves Callum.

I was all set to move to Loch Long, where The Nest is filmed, but unless I could live in Cape Cove, home to Dan (Martin Compston) and Emily (Sophie Rundle), I'll stay put

The mammoth remains, preserved in permafrost, were found this summer on Kotelny Island, part of the New Siberian archipelago in the Russian Arctic.

The House Oversight Committee chairman is demanding the White House hand over records of Trump-Putin meetings, and wants to know if Trump destroyed a translator's notes.

Ivanka Trump will be joining her father on his trip to Japan, where she will speak at a 'Women's Empowerment' event connected to the G20 summit in Osaka.

Chief of Protocol Sean Lawler has left his post, following reports of a possible internal probe of allegations of intimidation and harassment.

Theresa May Vladimir Putin (pictured) will hold face-to-face talks during the gathering in Japan this week over how to stabilise ties between the countries.

Theresa May and husband Philip touched down in Osaka, where world leaders are gathering for the G20 summit of powerful nations.

President Donald Trump arrives in Japan for talks with Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other leaders after demanding from aboard Air Force One that India pull back tariffs.

Theresa May will today tell Vladimir Putin to hand over the two agents who carried out the Salisbury chemical attack on Sergei Skripal, when the leaders meet at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan

The Russian President will meet Theresa May at the G20 in Russia today where the Prime Minister will demand he admits to the Novichok attack and hand over the two spies sent to kill Sergei Skripal.

Theresa May is holding face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan in an attempt to thaw relations between Russia and Britain as she prepares to quit as PM next month.

Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the race to succeed Theresa May as he questioned how a democratic country could install a new prime minister without a national vote.

Theresa May greeted Vladimir Putin with the frostiest of handshakes as they met in Japan in a meeting which had been soured before it began by the Russian President's attack on Western views.

President Donald Trump caught up with Argentina's first lady María Juliana Awada Baker during a G20 photo op, chatting with her several times during a photo event.

President Donald Trump has landed in South Korea with daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, and a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un may be on his agenda.

Putin's decree released on Wednesday formalizes Russia's departure from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with the United States following Washington's withdrawal.

Bernie Ecclestone, 88, also said he thought Putin should be running Europe and that the invasion of Crimea was just to 'bring Russia back together.'

A campaigner for better facilities for disabled people in Russia has found a heart-stopping way to highlight his cause by posing on a precarious ledge some 40ft above the ground in Samara, Russia.

Theresa May said she had 'lived' politics for 50 years, and knew about its potential to 'improve people's lives'. But she said an inability to compromise was poisoning national life.

U.S. Southern Command tweeted video and images from the incident on Friday. They say the SU-30 Flanker 'aggressively shadowed' a U.S. EP-3 aircraft.

The Platoon director, pictured left with Putin and inset with his daughter, spoke to Putin on June 19 for his latest film about Ukraine.

The Russian President used the craft, a C-Explorer 3.11, to explore the Soviet Shchuka-class submarine Shch-308 which sunk in the Baltic Sea in October 1942 after hitting a German mine.

Environmentalists have warned that the scale of the blazes, across central and east Russia, could accelerate global warming, aside from any immediate effects on the health of inhabitants.

In a phone call between the leaders, Trump is said to have offered American assistance to help stem the blaze, which has now engulfed in excess of 7 million acres of Siberian woodland.

President Donald Trump said Thursday Vladimir Putin 'appreciated' his offer to help with forest fires raging in Siberia, and that the two men did not discuss Russia's election interference.

U.S. diplomat Jon Huntsman has resigned as Donald Trump's ambassador to Russia.

The Russian president's involvement in the deadly poisoning in Salisbury is understood to have been assessed by British intelligence agencies as well as Scotland Yard.

The spike in radiation in Russia yesterday may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests, according to news reports in the country.

The Sukhoi-made Okhotsk - meaning Hunter - only made its maiden flight this month and Russia boasts it is 'almost undetectable' to Western enemies.

Steve Bullock, 2020 presidential candidate, on Sunday compared Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin vowed to prevent the emergence of mass protests yesterday speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron in southern France .

Russia's Soyuz rocket with Vladimir Putin's six-foot tall humanoid robot on board has failed to dock at the International Space Stations. The setback has been blamed on issues with docking systems.

Patrick Byrne, who stepped down last week from the company he founded, made the claim in a lengthy blog post on Tuesday detailing his relationship with Butina.

O'Donnell claimed on the air that a source had told him 'the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.' Trump's lawyers threatened to sue.

Russian journalists noted that the blonde ice cream seller at the MAKS-2019 international air show on Wednesday was the same woman who sold Putin his cone two years ago at the same event.

'I love it when you call me señorita,' Trump appears to sing, one auto-tuned note at a time, with each word drawn from a different speech. 'I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya.'

Donald Trump's absence from an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland in WWII is stoking fears that the security alliance between Washington and Warsaw is weaker than the two governments have let on.

Volodymyr Tsemakh, an alleged separatist in the area where the Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down in 2014, was freed by a Kiev appeals court today pending further investigation.

Vladmir Putin (pictured) said he offered to 'balance everything out' by offering the Kremlin's weapons to Trump at the G20 summit in Japan in June.

Putin (pictured today) voted in Moscow elections which have taken on a rare significance after a series of candidates were detained and barred from the ballot, sparking mass protests.