Pope Francis may have spent months playing peacemaker with Cuba, but today he has shown he is unafraid to take on the ruling Castro family, who he has been highly critical of in the past. Meeting with Cuba's former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro today, Francis presented him with a book written by Spanish preacher Rev. Amando Llorente, a boyhood teacher of Fidel who was thrown out of the country when he came to power. He also used a Mass service in Revolutionary Square in Havana to tell the crowd to serve 'people, not ideologies'.

An adorable little girl's words of wisdom have gone viral after her mother uploaded a video of her pleading with her divorced parents to be friends. Cherish Sherry, from Surrey in Canada, posted the clip of her six-year-old daughter Tiana's heartfelt advice to Facebook. Tiana's three-minute lecture to her mother (main) has been viewed more than six million times since it was posted on Wednesday. After apparently interrupting an argument between her parents, Tiana took her mother inside and while sitting on the stairs, she implores Sherry to try to get along with her father. She tells her: 'I'm not trying to be mean - I'm trying to do my best in my heart. Nothing else than that.' Sherry (pictured with Tiana, inset, said afterwards: 'I was stunned by it.'

Scarlett Leithold, 18, is taking the retail industry by storm after being scouted at the age of just 14 at an airport. The teenager signed with Wilhemina Models at 15, but has now moved on to Next Models. Her profile has risen significantly since she began modelling for Brandy Melville, an Italian brand that has developed a cult following in the United States. She also garned a lot of attention on social media earlier this year when Justin Bieber posted a picture of her on his Instagram account - which attracted more than a million likes.

It is one of the most notorious unsolved burglaries and murders to date. Millionaire grocery heiress Marjorie Jackson, 67, was found dead at her Indiana home in 1977 - and the bags of cash worth at least $3 million that she had stashed about the home in trash bags and drawers were missing. Despite national attention, the case was never resolved, and her estate believes $1.6 million is still unaccounted for.

Allison Williams has tied the knot with her longtime boyfriend Ricky Van Veen (right photo, facing camera). The Girls actress was walked down the aisle by her father, Brian Williams (left, with Allison), just days before he's expected to return to the air to cover the Pope's US visit. Dressed in a handmade couture Oscar de la Renta gown, the American starlet looked incredible as she met her beau at the altar. Alison, 27, who stars in hit comedy drama Girls, and CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky, 34, have been dating for three years, and announced their engagement in February 2014. A representative confirmed to Daily Mail Online that the couple wed on Saturday afternoon surrounded by 'close friends and family at a ranch out West'. It is understood the star-studded ceremony and reception was held at the sprawling 15-acre Bush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming, where guests stay in wood cabins and enjoy horseback rides. Tom Hanks (right photo, center) - husband of Rita Wilson, who plays Williams' mother in Girls - officiated. Katy Perry (inset) attended the wedding with John Mayer (inset) and performed during the ceremony. Clad in immaculate white lace, Williams is the first celebrity bride to receive a wedding gown hand-made by Oscar de la Renta creative director Peter Copping.

Riding a feverish wave of righteous indignation, America pulled off a stunning comeback to win the last five singles matches to turn over Europe and win the Solheim Cup on Sunday. It came after Norway's Suzann Pettersen was the villainess of the piece, perpetrating an act that went so far beyond the bounds of sportsmanship it left her English team mate Charley Hull in tears, bottom left, let alone the opposition. It all centered around the 17th green of a fourballs match held over from Saturday evening, featuring Hull and Pettersen against Brittany Lincicome and rookie Alison Lee. Hull had got the ball rolling with a brilliant birdie at the 16th to square the match. At the 17th Lee had a 12ft birdie putt, which rolled no more than 16 inches past the hole. By the side of the green Hull started walking, in a gesture that golfers everywhere will recognise as the concession of a small putt. All square down the 18th, we thought, as Lee duly scooped her ball up, but then Pettersen stepped in to say the putt had not been conceded. It meant an immediate loss of the hole for the Americans.

With concentration etched on their faces as they eagerly take notes during a lesson, these are the young Syrian children who continue to attend school despite the ongoing conflict. Sat on rows of wooden desks in a makeshift classroom, the youngsters can be seen listening intently and putting pen to paper as their school day continues as normal in the Idlib province of Syria. The pictures emerged today as a ceasefire came into effect between pro-government forces and Islamist rebels, offering brief respite in the northwest province from the recent intense fighting. While the images appeared to show life continuing as normal for the schoolchildren, the walls of the classroom offered a stark reminder of the bloody conflict which has killed thousands in Syria. A lone drawing of a tank could be seen etched on the bare wall of the classroom, accompanied by a scrawling which translates to: 'whom who kills his people is a traitor'.

A White House staff member has died after his bike collided with a car during a charity ride in Maryland. Senior technology advisor Jake Brewer, 34, was taking part in the two-day, 150-mile Ride To Conquer Cancer when he lost control of his bicycle at around 3.40pm on Saturday, crashing into an oncoming car. The married father-of-one, whose wife Mary Katherine is pregnant, was raising money for a friend, who has cancer.

Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage by belittling the 14-year-old Texas teenager who was arrested on suspicion of building a hoax bomb that turned out to be a homemade clock.  The scientist and writer slams Ahmed Mohamed for claiming the clock was his 'invention' and questions whether he, in fact, was trying to get arrested. 'He disassembled & reassembled a clock (which is fine) & then claimed it was his "invention" (which is fraud),' Dawkins wrote on Twitter.

Jackie Collins, who died this weekend aged 77, had a wild, tumultuous life among some of Hollywood's biggest names. She used these relationships to inspire her well-loved books. Brando, as we shall see, wasn't the only star who chased her when she was just 15, and there was even a blind date she had enjoyed while still a teenager in London with an unnamed 'prince' who turned up to pick her up in a gull-wing Mercedes. Her undeniably wild youth notwithstanding, Collins always insisted she was really quite moralistic and that her amoral fictional characters always got their come-uppance in the end.

Thai photographer, Chompoo Baritone has created a photo series to reveal what really goes on outside of Instagram's square frame. By super-imposing the Instagram image on top of another scene, the collection shows the pictures Instagram photographers don't want you to see.

Georgia Bulldogs linebacker Jake Ganus got down on one knee and proposed after his team won 50-20 over the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday. Ganus proposed to pretty girlfriend Peyton Thomas, who said yes.

The images show the Prince, who celebrated his 31st birthday party at The Cross Keys pub in Chelsea last week, smoking on the pavement outside the establishment. The royal, who made high profile appearances to commemorate the Battle of Britain and the delivered a speech at the Rugby World Cup, seems to have asked a friend to light up for him. (Pictured from right: Prince Harry takes a drag on a cigarette, the royal takes the cigarette from friend Elizabeth Wilson, Harry inhales)

Sophomores Alana Ferrente (left) and Ryan Meegan (right) were killed during the Friday crash (inset) on Route 66 in Columbia a few miles from UConn's campus in Storrs. A third UConn student, Hannah Schmidt, suffered serious injuries and the driver of the tractor-trailer was also hurt in the wreck. UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said that the victims 'epitomized the very best of UConn'.

Malin Stenberg, left, from Sweden, became the first woman in the world to have a baby following a womb transplant. She had thought there was no hope but joined a pioneering project with Gothenburg University and 61-year-old family friend Ewa Rosen donatated her womb to Malin. After succesfully giving birth, bottom, initially, she and partner Claes Nilsson, right, wanted to remain anonymous but decided to share their story when Vincent turned one year old to give others hope.

Byfleet Manor (top left) in Surrey, a 17th century mansion on the site of an estate that pre-dates the Domesday Book, was once home to royalty. And in the hit ITV period drama it is Dower House, home to Lady Violet Crawley (center), the acid-tongued dowager played by Dame Maggie Smith. The 6,000 sq ft home was put on the market and sold for $9million. Savills confirmed it was a British person who bought it, with the sale representing a bumper profit for businesswoman Julie Hutton.

Southampton High School Assistant Principal Esther Adler-O'Keefe (bottom and top left) appears in the beginning and the end of the video for Best Friends by rapper J.R. (top left) that also features popular artist Trey Songz. Adler-O'Keefe, who was hired at the school in 2010 at a starting salary of more than $125,000, plays a woman who leaves her house in the hands of J.R. while she goes away with her husband (bottom left). The rap music video features profane lyrics, sex, alcohol consumption, wild partying and drug use (right).

Shutting out the world has allowed them survive more than 400 years. The Hutterites, like the Amish, are a collection of Anabaptist Christian communities whose values stem from the 16th century Reformation. Self-sufficient, they live a removed life where members spend their days working the land and attending church. And yet, like all other teens, most millennial Hutterites can be found on Instagram. Now, in an unprecedented collection of images, photographer Tim Smith offers a unique glimpse inside the traditional - and yet surprisingly modern - ways of one colony in Canada. Amid jumping over straw stacks (top left), Smith sees members of the Deerboine Colony texting and posting on Instagram (bottom right), flashing their new sneakers (top right), and arm-wrestling with members of a neighboring farm as they wind down after the annual fall harvest (bottom left).

Around two per cent - or one in 90 - babies from Salinas are thought to be born with the condition, which occurs due to a missing enzyme during pregnancy. The transition is so common the children are referred to as Guevedoces, which translates as 'penis at 12 years'. One boy, named Carla, pictured (right) with his cousin Catherine (left), said he is going through the transition aged nine after appearing to be born a girl.

There is nothing modest about the Jumeirah sail-shaped hotel Burj Al Arab in Dubai, and that is the whole point. Gold plated iPads in every room, a revolving bed in the Royal Suite and 17 types of pillow await guests. The hotel has attracted celebrities, Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Gigi Hadid, Claudia Schiffer and Kendall Jenner. But is the luxurious experience blissfully refined or ridiculously brash?

The hilarious incident took place in the Scottish town of St Andrews and was caught on camera by one of those watching the scene unfold. The clip has since been viewed more than two million times. The unnamed 'preacher' was armed with a microphone and notes when he took to the town's main street and began ranting that same-sex marriage has 'ruined the economy.' The young bagpipe player, who is out of shot, can be heard approaching the scene before he appears in the corner of the screen (blue shirt, left). As the preacher attempts to edge away from the young bagpiper he continues his slow and steady approach before a passing police van arrives (right).

These poignant pictures of Africa's biggest beasts in the wild show how fragile their lives are in the face of poachers and trophy hunters. In the haunting selection captured by British photographer Gary Roberts, he highlights the dangers faced by the anti-poaching patrol as they try desperately to protect elephants, zebras, lions and cheetahs from the money-hungry poachers. The photographer's extensive work in Tanzania and Kenya brought him into contact with conservationists and experts in the region, who paint a bleak future for the dwindling wildlife of Africa. In his upcoming book, he gathered together these different 'Voices' and noted their fears, hopes and wishes in the uphill fight for the survival of the African wildlife.

Paralysed from the neck down after a triathlon accident, football fan Will Clark found himself no longer able to play on his beloved PlayStation. But his friends helped build the world's first mouth-controlled games console for the 30-year-old, creating a chair with buttons operated by his shoulders and a joystick operated by his lip and chin. And Mr Clark, of Grasmere, Cumbria, can now play his favourite football game Fifa - three years after the accident saw him suffered a spinal injury so severe that he lost the use of all his limbs.

Tattoo artist Ondrej Konupcik's freehand designs feature brush strokes and ink splatters. The 31-year-old, who lives in Znojmo in Czech Republic, sees only one client a day so he has 'enough time' to carry out the painstaking work. His impressive images have included, (pictured clockwise from top left) a wolf, phoenix, tree, elephant and flowers.

The contest takes place annually at Egremont, Cumbria, as part of the town's Crab Fair. This year, 16-time champion Tommy Mattinson was beaten by Gordon Blacklock (right). Egremont resident Clare Spedding (left) won the women's title for the second time. The competition has rules, including a ban on make-up, though manipulation of false-teeth is allowed for those who have them. Contestants have to put their head through a horse collar and 'snarl like a dog, look savage, distort the countenance'.