The Duchess of Cambridge was making her second appearance in as many days, and spent the morning meeting families in Woolwich. The engagement is one of her last ahead of the birth of her second child next month. Her visit to the Brookhill Children's Centre is part of her work with children, which she has made a key part of her charity efforts.

These images were taken in 1869 at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, by chief neurologist Sir James Crichton-Browne, known as a pioneer in the field. The images are accompanied by detailed case notes and a diagnosis for each patient, such as 'imbecility,' 'simple mania,' and 'acute melancholia'. While some of the images may appear barbaric by modern standards, the asylum actually pioneered the ethical treatment of the mentally ill.

David Cameron agreed to have a camera attached to his body so we could see what it looked like to walk in No 10 as PM, writes QUENTIN LETTS. It allowed us to see him licking his Hellman's mayonnaise spoon and concocting a lunch of sardines on toast. When he opens the fridge, we copped a sight of a fair few bottles of vino. We also heard him going through his diary to convey what terribly busy days he has and giving Michael Gove a telling-off for being late to a pre-Cabinet meeting. The film ended with the PM retiring at bedtime. We did not - phew - see him leaping into his pyjamas.

A body-camera video of the June 2014 police shooting of Jason Harrison, a mentally ill Dallas man, was released Monday, showing the moments that led to the man's death. The footage shows Harrison holding a screwdriver and within seconds, the officers shot the man multiple times.

Conditions on the farms that supply KFC with 23 million chickens a year have been revealed for the first time in a documentary that shows tens of thousands of birds kept together in huge sheds. The chickens (pictured above) live for just 35 days before they are gassed and chopped into nine pieces. The footage shows the birds living in conditions that activists say are 'oppressive,' but the farmer in charge claims they have 'a very good life.' A spokesman for KFC said all their suppliers meet or exceed UK and EU welfare requirements.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: The unidentified woman, who shared photos of her painful injuries on imgur, admits she was 'f***ing stupid' following the drunken incident in December at Prince Albert in Saskatchewan, Canada. The woman, who lived in NSW but moved to Canada four years ago, says she was 'blackout drunk' when she lost her friends and was last seen at a bar about 2.30am (bottom right). She was found outside a nursing home curled in a ball trying to sleep three hours later and her fingers were already notably purple. She was treated in hospital and was told her fingers would have to blister and swell before they could be popped (right). Her hands are in the process of healing and she can use them again, but her specialist is still concerned about her left pinky and right middle fingertip.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The images, given the disturbing title 'Harvesting of Spies', were taken in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin and published on social media. According to the captions, the four men were accused of being spies for the Baghdad government and had been condemned to death by an Islamic court. Pictures follow the release of two videos by ISIS last week depicting the execution of 'spies' and 'informers'.

A purported Australian jihadist widow has shared a series of propaganda pictures she says shows her 'five star jihad life' - and says she and other female jihadists are 'thirsty' for the blood of their former countrymen. In pictures (left) posted a Twitter account believed to belong to former Melbourne woman Zehra Duman (upper right, her dead partner Mahmoud Abdullatif below), female jihadists are pictured standing under an Islamic State flag, reclining against a clean white BMW M5, wielding machine guns and wearing faceless head-to-toe black dress. In one tweet, Duman said: 'US + Australia, how does it feel that all 5 of us were born n raised in your lands, & now here thirsty for ur blood?'

Wearing a revealing luminous bikini, the wife of Labour MP Simon Danczuk settled into her Spanish sun holiday by taking a series of 'selfies', just in front of a nearby photographer. The images show Karen rubbing suncream all over her body before relaxing on a sun lounger, phone in hand. The Labour councillor, who is due to stand down in May, is also seen emerging wet-haired from the swimming pool before casually strolling along the poolside. The photographs were taken while on a four-day holiday in Costa Blanca with a female friend. They come three weeks after Ms Danczuk alleged that she had been repeatedly raped as a child.

Rebecca Kiessling always knew she being brought up by her biological parents, but it was not until she searched for her birth mother that she found out why. The 45-year-old, from Michigan, US, waited until she was 18 to track down Joann, who revealed she had considered aborting her daughter - and later told her that her biological father was a rapist. Joann, now 77, had been attacked while she was on her way to a shop at night, and dragged to a nearby field. The two have become so close, Joann even walked Rebecca down the aisle when she got married to husband Robert.

With nearly all the votes counted, Netanyahu's Likud party appeared to have earned 30 out of parliament's 120 seats, with the Zionist Union winding up with just 24 seats. The election was widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu (inset), who has governed the country for the past six years. Even before the final results were known, Netanyahu declared victory and pledged to form a new government quickly. 'Against all odds, we achieved a great victory for the Likud,' Netanyahu told supporters at election night headquarters.

Carrswood View is the first permanent traveller site to be developed in Bath but has been open to criticism as the council continues to make millions of pounds of savings cuts and deal with a housing shortage. The site contains eight permanent pitches (top left) built at a cost of £123,000 each. They are equipped with a separate 'utility building' which contains washing facilities (bottom left) and has room for furniture (top right). It has been built on the site of an illegal traveller camp (centre) and is located in the green belt, with each unit being equipped with a grass roof (bottom right) to minimise the environmental impact of the development.

Several thousand riot officers pursued what they said was a minority of violence-minded activists trying to blockade the inauguration ceremony for the European Central Bank's new Frankfurt HQ. Police said one officer was injured by stones thrown near the city's Alte Oper opera house, several private vehicles were burned overnight, and two police cars were set on fire at a police station in the city center. A third police vehicle smoldered a block from the ECB.

Kristel George, 35, left the appliance in a wicker basket just after using it and went downstairs to make breakfast for her sons Patrick, 12, and five-year-old Edenn. The mother-of-two heard a massive bang, and rushed upstairs where she was met with a wall of flames. After trying to tackle the fire with two buckets of water Ms George grabbed her children and their five-month-old bulldog George and ran from the house. Seconds after she fled the force of the blaze blew the window out of the front bedroom of the terraced house in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire.

Consuela Ross, 50, daughter Reyshell Avellanoza, 29, and granddaughter Heather Elizabeth, five (inset, with Consuela's husband Campbell Ross, 73), were photographing the Scottish Loch when they said they saw a shape emerge. The trio said they looked on as the belly or a large black beast broke the surface before descending into the depths. However they were so mesmerised by what they were seeing they only managed to caputred a ring of disturbed water after the monster dived (main).

The designer (centre) gives us a peek inside her latest project on Avenue Road in London's posh St John's Wood and reveals her tricks of transforming a property - whatever the size or budget. Pictured clockwise from top left: The property's elegant stucco façade, plush lounge, modern bathroom and luxurious bedroom.

A desperate woman tried to smuggle her baby past airport security in Papa New Guinea in a backpack as she did not have correct immigration paper for her son. The sleeping two-month-old was discovered by shocked staff at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, after he was picked up in an image by the X-ray scanner.

The seven young actors who became part of cinematic history when they were cast as the von Trapp children in Rogers & Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music have grown into lifelong friends. 'We're beyond friends. We're second family,' said Kym Karath, who played the youngest von Trapp, Gretl. The 1965 Oscar-winning film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound Of Music is celebrating turning 50 this year. The actors are, from left to right, Kym Karath who played Gretl, Debbie Turner who played Marta, Angela Cartwright who played Brigitta, Duane Chase who played Kurt, Heather Menzies who played Louisa, Nicholas Hammond played Friedrich and Chairmian Carr who played Liesl.

Shih Tzuh Bentley was so timid when first rescued, he flinched at human contact. A team of vets spent five hours shaving off the thick matted fur from his coat after he was dumped at the West Yorkshire Dog Rescue by an owner who 'couldn't bear to touch him' (right) But new owners Matthew and Catherine Stroh, from Skipton, North Yorkshire (pictured bottom right with the whole of the Stroh family, (L-R) Harvey (13) - mother Catherine - father Matt and Oliver, 10 with their other little dogs Dexter (Lhasa Apso) and Daisy (Cavapoo) have helped give him a new lease of life and a new lease of life.

Leda Reynolds, from London, found a tin trunk which belonged to her great grandmother, Esther Reynolds (right). Unseen for almost 100 years, they held pictures of her eldest son, Charles Harold (left and circled top centre), who was killed in 1917 at a bloody battle in Ypres, Belgium. His war diary and letters were among the items she treasured. Ester's three sons had dutifully gone off to fight from 1914 to 1918 in the 'war to end all wars' but only two of them had come back. Carefully bundled together were the letters he'd written to his 'Darling Mother', revealing nothing of the horrors he was facing as a serjeant (sic) with the Royal Field Artillery, but instead comparative trivia such as the food was 'not up to much' and how he longed to see her and eat 'real' food again.

Star gazers were wowed last night as the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis danced across the northern and southern hemispheres. The event was spotted in Alaska (pictured left), the UK, as far south as Germany (pictured top right) and across Australia and New Zealand (pictured bottom right). The natural phenomenon is caused by charged particles colliding in the Earth's atmosphere and is typically seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemisphere.

Shocking CCTV footage has emerged showing a woman hitting and kicking her toddler as he lies on the floor all because the youngster accidentally knocked her food to the ground. The woman and her son were in a fast-food outlet in the city of Shiyan when the little boy reached for one of the beef burgers but accidentally dropped it - prompting the sickening attack (pictured clockwise from top left) which was caught on camera in its entirety.

A new book celebrates the success of the intrepid traveller, who only began writing in her early forties and didn't discover photography until she was 60 years old. The fearless Yorkshire woman started writing in 1854 when she travelled to America to mend a broken heart. But it wasn't until 1875 that she found fame with an account of her experiences in Hawaii.

In a new picture series, The House Of Two Sisters, photographer Zoe Barker has documented the quiet, old fashioned home of two unmarried sisters Jean and Joy Taylor who were born in the family home in Ryde, Isle of Wight, and lived intertwined for 86 years. Jean (inset, right), lived in there until her death in 2008 aged 97, sharing a room with her sister Joy, now 99, (inset left) from 1981 onwards. From vintage enamel pots and pans, the Electrolux hoover and candlewick bedspreads to their immaculate, almost spartan, room and neatly arranged dressing table, the siblings' house, which was sold when Joy entered a care home in 2013, provides a glimpse into a vanishing Britain.

The happy sea creature appeared to be in guffaws of laughter (left) as it lay on the North Sea sands at Horsey in Norfolk. He was later seen making a facepalm (top right) gesture, covering his nose with its flipper, before the expressive mammal gave a furtive glance and a cheeky grin to the camera (bottom right). The seal was snapped among the crowded colony by keen amateur wildlife photographer Mark Reeve, 55.

Barra Airport, Scotland - and the world's - only regular beach runway (pictured bottom right) has been selected as one of the world's most stunning airport approaches in a competition which sees the small island airport go head to head with some of the best known destinations. The airport is competing for top spot in a poll by PrivateFly.com, the leading private jet booking service, against some of the world's most iconic airports, including Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Venice, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hong Kong. The beauty of Male in the Maldives (top right), Saba in the Caribbean (top left) and Gibraltar (bottom left) are also shortlisted.