Amal Clooney and Cherie Blair are going head-to-head in the case of jailed ex-president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed - the country's first democratically-elected president. Amnesty called his 2012 imprisonment a 'travesty of justice'. Mrs Clooney has flown to the Maldives to work pro-bono to secure Nasheed's freedom, but Cherie's London-based legal firm Omnia Strategy has taken the side of the Maldivian government.

There were some very opposing views of actress Kate Winslet at the Toronto Film Festival this week. On Monday night it was not her acting that divided opinion, but her rather splendid figure, clad in a Badgley Mischka figure-hugging ball gown, as those on two sides of the catwalk were afforded a completely different Kate to the gawpers across the way. Kate, like me, seems to have one of those bodies that appears to occupy three parts of the dress-size spectrum: a size 12 from the front (left), a size 10 from the side (centre) and a size 14 from behind (right), writes JULIA LAWRENCE.

The Beverley Sisters spent their lives literally side by side, meaning the chasm left by Joy's death, aged 91, last month following a stroke is physical, palpable, writes FRANCES HARDY. Whenever they performed, gave interviews or appeared in public, the line-up was unchanging. On one side was Babs, on the other was Teddie, and in the middle, flanked by her younger twin siblings, Joy. No matter which hit it was - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, How Much Is That Doggy In The Window? or their matchless signature tune Sisters - the formation did not vary: Teddie, Joy, Babs, that glorious combo, The Beverley Sisters.

Thousands of fans were on the edges of their seats at Twickenham tonight as they watched England triumph over Fiji in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. And the Duchess of Cambridge was no different. Dressed in a smart blue coat, the mother of two was remarkably animated (top left and top right) as she watched the tournament's opening game. At one point, she leaned back against her husband (bottom left) - who was viewing the game through a pair of black-framed glasses - with her mouth wide open. She later broke into a smile and applauded enthusiastically (bottom right) as England's Mike Brown scored the team's first try at Twickenham Stadium in London. Although England were made to work tirelessly against the underdogs, they managed to clinch their 35-11 victory with a late flourish.

Singer Camilla Kerslake (left) is the girlfriend of England Rugby captain Chris Robshaw, while lads' magazine model Chloe Madeley (right) is James Haskell's partner. The fiercely ambitious England WAGs deny reports of a rift. So what's the truth?

A special investigation looks into what is known about 'Nick' (pictured left), his connections to new deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, and suspicions about his VIP Westminster paedophile ring claims. One of the perpetrators he named was former Prime Minister Edward Heath (bottom right). Another was ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan (top right). A third was Harvey Proctor (right, centre), once a Tory MP. But there are terrible ambiguities surrounding Nick's case that could now deter victims from coming forward and also damage trust in the forthcoming judge-led inquiry into historic allegations of child abuse. Senior officers at Scotland Yard are expected to face a grilling over the fiasco, which led to a murder investigation being opened without any bodies and without anyone knowing who it was that had actually been murdered.

Comedian Michael McIntyre, 39, has infuriated his neighbours in London's leafy Hampstead with proposals for 'destructive' changes to his £5.6million family home. The father of two wants to enclose the first-floor terrace, making it part of his study, and turn the roof of the extension into a new terrace. Since submitting the proposals in July, McIntrye has added French doors along with a Juliet balcony and sash windows to the plans. McIntyre lives in the semi-detached house with wife Kitty, 39, and their children, Lucas, ten, and Oscar, eight.

Photographs have emerged of a more than 12ft high mountain of dinghies and life-jackets, left abandoned on the Greek island of Lesbos, by migrants and refugees entering Europe. Tens of thousands of people have already made the perilous crossing from Turkey to the southern Greek islands this summer, but the route is also one of the most deadly ways to reach Europe.

They are the memories that parents will treasure for the rest of their lives. But not all family photographs of newborn babies turn out the way mothers and fathers had planned, as new book Born to Be Awkward proves. These hilariously awkward family snaps show how even the cutest of creations - babies - can ruin a picture.

Lynda Blackwell, the Financial Conduct Authority's head of mortgages, told a debate that older people who 'sit quite happily in a very big house' should be encouraged to downsize. Ms Blackwell, who lives in a £1.28million house with five bedrooms in south London, was accused of making 'lazy and wrong' assumptions and blaming retired people for the problem. Older people's groups were furious at the suggestion they were blocking the market for younger buyers, saying many could not downsize even if they wanted to because of a chronic shortage of retirement housing.

When John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth wrote Fawlty Towers - first shown 40 years ago today - they had no idea they were creating an anti-hero and a hotel that would become national institutions. Pictured left to right are the actors and below their famous characters Andrew Sachs (Manuel), Booth (Polly), Cleese (Basil) and Prunella Scales (Sybil).

This week, Sir Bruce Forsyth releases his autobiography Strictly Bruce: Stories Of My Life - a collection of tales from his early years and his astonishing 75-year career in showbusiness. Here, in these moving extracts, we share some of the best with you...

Oxford-educated psychotherapist Marigold Johnson is known for her gloriously waspish wit. As well as being a mother-of-four, she has an MBE for her work on the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Those who know Marigold say her own wit and brilliance has been overshadowed by the career of her noisy husband (pictured with Marigold, right), who edited the Left-leaning New Statesman magazine before crossing the political floor to Margaret Thatcher's side in the Seventies. Even the family of London Mayor Boris Johnson (inset) doesn't escape her searing truthfulness.

Research by the Daily Mail shows that dozens of killers, rapists and violent attackers are escaping with much lower sentences than that of Royal Marine Alexander Blackman (pictured). A court martial convicted the sergeant of murder after he shot a Taliban insurgent who was already fatally wounded. Marine Blackman (left) was given life for a 'moment of madness' in battle but, clockwise from top left, Lewis Gill, 21, John Burton, 72, Stuart Walker, 30, Neil Hotchkiss, 33, Michael Grieves and Steve Clark all received lesser sentences in the civilian courts despite committing appalling crimes.

Cameron Brown was sentenced to life without parole today for first degree murder of his daughter Lauren Key. He threw her off a 120ft cliff because, it was argued, the former baggage handler didn't want to pay her mother $1,000 a month in child support. Lauren's mother, Sarah Key-Marer, broke down in tears as she told the court 'We are all so broken without her. Mr Brown - you will never take her memory from us,' she said directly to the murderer. She tells Daily Mail Online how she has coped with the pain of the past 15-year nightmare in an exclusive interview. 'I had such a bad feeling,' says Sarah of the day Brown had visitation. Brown always denied killing his daughter - but after three trials he was finally found guilty of the callous murder in May.

Julio Savala Lopez Jr (inset), 32, from Las Vegas, Nevada, posted the snapshot of his 18-month-old Siberian husky Yuka on Imgur on Sunday. The image, which has been viewed more than two million times since it was shared, shows Yuka dropping her jaw and widening her eyes in disbelief (right).

The radio presenter revealed last week how she found the coconut crab - so-called because it can crush coconuts with its pincers - in her suitcase on her return from the Pacific island of Mogmog. The mother-of-two (left) was on the island filming a new TV show and believes the locals might have put the crab in her luggage 'as a gift'. She said later decided to release the crab (right in file image), which feeds on rats and can grow to more than 3ft long, on Hampstead Heath (inset). But her actions have now been slammed by experts, who warned the giant crab could start killing native species.

The phone of Emily Clark of Powder Springs, Georgia who died in a tragic car crash last April was returned to her family last week with hundreds of unseen photos of the Clark's in happy times.Also found in Emily's iPhone which was protected in a turquoise case were texts from the day of the crash from Emily's family and even one of her professors asking if she was OK. Sadly, she did not survive and could not answer her friends and family's desperate plea for her to contact them.

Beijing based environmental monitoring project, the World Air Quality Index is publishing real time pollution maps across the world (pictured) to reveal levels of harmful particulate matter. PM2.5 particulates from car fumes and fossil fuel burning are thought to pose a high risk to human health. The maps allow city residents to see when are the best times to venture outside.

A remarkable map shows German plans for Operation Sealion - the invasion of Britain. As well as marking the arrangement of German forces and planned invasion routes, the map shows some creative doodled additions. Three cartoon ships can be seen steaming across the Channel towards England, trailing clouds of smoke behind them and over Kent, the German planner has drawn in a stick figure paratrooper.

Authorities have identified 'Baby Doe' who was found dead on a Boston Harbor beach last month, a law enforcement official says. The girl has been named as Bella (inset and left), the daughter of 40-year-old Rachelle Bond (bottom left and the mother pictured with her daughter center). The official said police searched a Boston home in Mattapan on Thursday and have been in contact with family members. Bond and her boyfriend, 35-year-old Michael McCarthy (top left), have been arrested in connection with the girl's death. McCarthy faces a murder charge while Bond faces a charge of accessory after the fact of murder. They are expected to be arraigned on Monday. McCarthy is not the girl's biological father, a law enforcement source said. Bella's body was discovered on June 25 on Deer Island in Winthrop. A computer-generated image of her (inset right) brought about an estimated 60million views in two weeks as a massive social media campaign was launched to try to find out what happened to her.

Paddle-boarding couple Tyler and Lauren were out on the Weeki Wachee river in Florida when the group of manatees approached before swimming underneath them. In footage captured by paddle boarding shop Sup Weeki, the group of mammals, which can reach 13ft long and weigh up to 1,300lbs, come up to inspect the boards, before swimming away downriver. The creatures are endangered, thanks largely to over-hunting by humans, but their numbers are now rebounding thanks to their protected status.

Trading standards chiefs have released images of the sinister 'tags' that criminal gangs are using to tell other would-be burglars how best to rob homes, and who to target. The symbols are used up and down the country by burglars, with similar instances reported in Devon, Yorkshire and West Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Based on Earth being the size of a half-inch marble, the team calculated the scale sizes of each orbit and planet, which were represented by balls and lightbulbs. They then shot time-lapse images (inset) of their cars driving around the orbits over 36 hours from the vantage point of a nearby mountain. The project was captured in a short film, titled 'To Scale: The Solar System' by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh.