Princess Charlotte, five, posed for her obligatory first day of school family photo in her uniform this morning beside her brother Prince George, six - on the familiar steps of Kensington Palace.

Prince George, 6, is already proving a popular pupil among his peers at £18,000-a-year school St Thomas's Battersea, inviting peers back for play dates at Kensington Palace.

The former prime minister donned a breathing apparatus and oxygen tank in 45C heat as he fought a fire that engulfed a home in Bendalong over the weekend.

The pictures were taken by photographer Sam Gregg, 30, in the Klong Toey slums in the country's capital which are home to around 100,000 people.

The Pope made the comments during a three-week meeting to discuss the priest shortage in the Amazon. The Vatican are considering ordaining married men and giving women ministries.

According to the Columbia Police Department, Amanda Jardinez had taken six juveniles - including her two children - inside of a Columbia Walmart. She left with her boyfriend, James Holovich.

Lieutenant General Scott Howell, of Cadiz, Kentucky, has been credited with helping plan and lead the dramatic raid to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria on Saturday night.

The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, met Syrian filmmaker Waad al Kateab at the BAFTAs on Sunday, and told her how moved she was by her documentary For Sama, The Mirror reports.

Mr Livingstone, whose former role saw him in charge of the London Underground, held up a service for two minutes at Willesden Junction in north west London this morning.

Mick McCarthy says he is 'hugely disappointed' after being replaced by Stephen Kenny as Republic of Ireland manager with the delay to Euro 2020 having brought forward the bizarre succession plan.

The country's record goalscorer - who has two years to run on his £220,000-a-year contract - had assumed he would be part of Kenny's coaching staff having served under Mick McCarthy.

Robbie Keane, who is also Jonathan Woodgate's assistant at Middlesbrough, is furious he has been left in the cold despite having two years to run on his £220,000-per-year Ireland contract.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY IAN LADYMAN: There was a time when Mick McCarthy thought football was straightforward -but it didn't last very long into his career.

The late veteran newspaper diarist Kenneth Rose reveals more of the Royal Family's intriguing secrets in his private journals.

The Duchess of Cambridge (pictured this afternoon) has remained in London while Prince William faced his brother at the Norfolk estate with the Queen and Prince Charles.

A source has told Us Weekly that the Queen, 93, is concerned she will miss out on seeing her youngest great-grandson grow up as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle build a new life in Canada.

EXCLUSIVE: Heartbreaking footage also showed meat birds convulsing on the faeces-covered floor, with splayed legs and chemical burns at Moorah Farm in Essex, run by Hook 2 Sisters.

EXCLUSIVE: Joanna Lumley has called on the UK's largest supermarket to 'put their money where their mouth is'. MailOnline revealed chickens with chemical burns at a farm that used to supply Tesco.

Bella wowed in a show-stopping look as she proved to be the life and soul of the bash - which was also attended by Cindy Crawford and Sara Sampaio.

Kendall Jenner put on another dazzling sartorial display as she left her hotel in Paris on Wednesday.

Kendall Jenner, 22, took a moment to sample the culture when she tucked into a crêpe while she strutted her stuff in a barely-there mini dress on Thursday.

The television personality, 22, opted for comfort in a lavender knitted co-ord which sheathed over her trim frame as she left her hotel in Paris on Friday.

After finding herself in the spotlight kissing fellow cyclist Jason Kenny, Laura Trott has publicly confirmed the beginnings of a new relationship.

Victoria Pendleton's relationship with coach Scott Gardner sparked such an outrage with her management and teammates that he was forced to resign.

RICHARD MOORE: How quickly they forget. Four years ago Laura Trott, at 18, performed well if not spectacularly at the Delhi Games. Two years later she was double Olympic champion.

Two of cycling’s governing bodies pledged their support for Glasgow 2014 and distanced themselves from claims by the sport’s ‘golden couple’ Jason Kenny and Laura Trott that the Commonwealth Games are a ‘devalued’ competition.

Sir Chris Hoy has advised Jason Kenny and Laura Trott to experience competing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow first before passing judgment on its relevance.

Two years after starring at the London Olympics in 2012, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny have announced they are getting married.

The 22-year-old tweeted: 'Merry Christmas everyone :) I've had the most amazing couple of days thanks to @JasonKenny107 and the whole family #engaged X'

The golden cycling couple went to the couples-only Ocho Rios in Jamaica for a well-earned break from their training. The pair announced their engagement over Twitter last December.

Their haul of medals makes them equals on the bike, but off the track it is a different story for British cycling’s golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott - at least when it comes to money.

Team GB will be targeting another clutch of medals as the Olympic Games enters its 11th day in Rio. Join Sportsmail's LUKE AUGUSTUS for all the action from Brazil as it happens.

MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Little more than an hour after Trott, re-established herself as Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian, Kenny stood shoulder to shoulder with Sir Chris Hoy.

Olympic cycling champion Laura Trott swapped her kit for a more glamorous look when she attended an event in Manchester on Saturday.

In their own frank, entertaining and self-effacing words, JASON KENNY and LAURA TROTT describe how love blossomed, and the haphazard planning leading up to their big day.

Laura Kenny (formerly Trott) will race in the Revolution Cycling Champions League at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London, formerly the Olympic Velodrome, on December 2 and 3.

The Scot won his second Wimbledon title, took gold at the Olympic Games in Rio in August and achieved world No 1 status for the first time while also becoming a father.

MATT LAWTON - EXCLUSIVE: As Sportsmail revealed last month, their inclusion in the first post-Rio squad was under review with Laura now expecting their first child.

The nation's favourite cycling couple received CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) accolades in London for the string of gold medals they won for Team GB at Rio 2016.

Laura Kenny will return to competitive cycling just over six months after having her first child. The four-time Olympic champion announced the arrival of their son Albert in August last year.

Laura Kenny helped Great Britain qualify second fastest in the women's team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in her first outing since giving birth six months ago.

The Essex-born cycling star, 26, a four-time Olympic champion, took to Instagram to ask followers if the 'mum guilt' over leaving her son Albert, nine months, will ever go away.

Laura Kenny's dream of winning three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics is in doubt after she was declared only fit enough to race in one event at next week's track cycling World Championships. 

DAVID COVERDALE IN BERLIN: Kenny was left with a bloodied face after crashing in the omnium scratch race at the Track Cycling World Championships on Friday.

Mia Wilson, 23, was on a First Bus in Leeds when she says a row broke out between a mother and the bus driver about a pram occupied by a cat (circled) taking up the remaining pushchair space.

Distance legend Kenenisa Bekele has revealed he will go head to head with Eliud Kipchoge in a fascinating clash of the titans at the London Marathon in April.

The UK will be battered by more than a month's worth of rain in just one day today with forecasters expecting a three-inch deluge combined with 40mph winds - but better weather is on the way.

The Met Office earlier issued a severe 'yellow' warning for rain in Northern Ireland and Scotland and warned that the wet weather could cause travel disruption.

Warm air from Spain will bring dry and sunny weather across the UK this weekend, starting on Friday, according to the Met Office, with temperatures soaring.

Britain has endured severe conditions in recent days with a week's worth of rain falling over the South West in six hours this morning, after the coldest night of autumn so far yesterday bringing -10C (14F) lows.