The Duchess, 33, resumed her royal duties on Tuesday with a packed diary of public engagements on a visit to a child mentoring programme in north London. Kate paid a visit to learn more about the work of Chance UK's early intervention child mentoring programme at an event hosted by the charity at Islington Town Hall. Thrifty Kate chose to recycle a dress from 2012, and the fitted design with pleated skirt highlighted her slender frame.  Kate previously wore the grey pleated dress on an engagement in Dulwich with her father-in-law, Prince Charles, in 2012.

David Thomas, 50, died alongside his son Stephen, 18, from Swindon when the Leviathan II capsized while whale watching off the Canadian coast. Mr Thomas, was on holiday with his youngest son, who was a talented photographer and won a prestigious international competition last year for people with Down's syndrome. Mr Thomas's wife Julie was also on board the boat at the time of the tragedy and escaped with minor injuries. She is currently being treated in hospital. Her eldest son Paul is currently on his way to Canada to help support his mother.

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth shot more scenes for the upcoming third Bridget Jones film on Monday, and were joined for the first time by the leading character's on-screen offspring. The actors have been tirelessly working on Bridget Jones' Baby, and were out once again - this time at a church in Oxfordshire - to continue filming on what appeared to be a Christening scene.

There are nine pictures of Hollie Gazzard with her ex-boyfriend Asher Maslin (pictured inset), who stabbed her 14 times, still visible on her Facebook profile page which are causing her bereaved family distress. Her father, Nick, (pictured left with Hollie) says despite asking the social media giant to remove the pictures, the company has so far refused. Violent Maslin attacked the 20-year-old hairdresser in front of horrified colleagues as she worked at Fringe Benefits and La Bella Beauty salon in Gloucester city centre on February 18, 2014.

The 'chaveiros' - or 'key holders' - rule Brazil's toughest jails, selling crack cocaine to inmates, charge them taxes, order henchmen to kill those with unpaid debts and pay the guards to turn a blind eye, according to an investigation by Humans Right Watch (HRW). The 'chaveiros' rule the prisons with an iron fist and have control over their cell block with a mandate from bosses to 'maintain order'. While most inmates live in overcrowded sweat boxes, the top dogs have their own private cells with TVs, fridges, fans, bathrooms and even have their own personal servants, known as 'chegados'.

First year Paula Ursu, 18, has only been at London's Royal Holloway University for a few weeks and has already been getting strange comments and looks about her appearance. The law student explained that she has been asked why she makes so much of an effort and gets judged for wearing make-up, heels and doing her hair.

The Spectre Royal World Premiere was held at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday night, and was as spectacular as fans could have hoped for. And after the main event - which saw James Bond leading man Daniel Craig walk the red carpet with his glamorous co-stars, and joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry - the stars headed on to the after party at the The British Museum.

According to a London-based wedding planner, super-rich couples from the North African country can easily blow a small fortune on their nuptials, from spending £100,000 on a designer wedding dress to £150,000 on alcohol. In-demand event maestro Elizabeth Aisien says London has become the destination of choice for Africa's wealthy elite when they tie the knot. 'It is not unusual to spend a million. One of the weddings I planned spent £50,000 just on flowers,' she reveals on Channel 5 show Eamonn & Ruth: How The Other Half Lives.

Peter Simon, 67, (pictured with daughter Zara), is combining a row of houses in his west London neighbourhood ( to create a palace with underground swimming pool, gym, wine cellar and two flats (right). The hippy chic tycoon and ethical fashion pioneer worth £600million has outraged other residents by embarking on a huge programme of building works at his 19th-century home in West London. Mr Simon was left red-faced last week when his High Street chains Monsoon and Accessorize were shamed for failing to pay some workers the minimum wage, but that's nothing compared with the opprobrium he faces at home. The works, which are expected to take more than a year to complete and cost more than £1 million, involve extensions and the digging of two basements beneath the period properties. One angry neighbour said: ''What's so frustrating is there's nothing I can do about it. I got in touch with the council - I wasn't the first to complain. I can't do yoga at home any more. I can't meditate either. My stress levels have definitely increased.'

Las Vegas, Dubai and Cancun are some of world's best-loved destinations, but they were little more than sand 100 years ago. MailOnline rounds up the best and worst purpose-built cities. Pictured clockwise from left: Dubai, Atlantic City and Cancun.

The clip shows the unidentified cyclist travelling at speed along the busy road in Bristol (pictured top left) before he begins to pull out in order to overtake a car in front, which is slowing down (top right). As the car begins the manoeuvre the cyclist realises he is about to be hit and unsuccessfully tries to swerve out of the way - (bottom left) but was clipped by the car's front bonnet, sending him flying (right). The scene jolts sickeningly as he hits the front bonnet, falls off and rolls several times into the road.

Soldiers stormed the compound in Hawija, Iraq last week, rescuing 69 prisoners who had been suffocated, electrocuted and brutally beaten by the jihadis. The Kurdistan Region Security Council has now released a video of the captives arriving in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and speaking of their time in the jail. Speaking about the horrors he witnessed as a prisoner, an emotional Saad Khelef Ali Feraj (third from left), a police officer from Hawija, said: 'Torture techniques included electric shocks, plastic bags over the head, beatings with a cable and a piece of wood - torture that no human may have ever witnessed. My brother, who was an officer, was taken and beheaded. They gave me only his head, without his body. I buried his head.' Special Forces Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler was killed during the raid - the first American casualty in the war against ISIS.

Mark Christie, 43, from Dover, replied to Gwen Bryne's (pictured together left) Gum tree advert for a £200 set of bunk beds (right). After driving to pick them up, the pair hit it off and agreed to meet up for lunch a few days later. They have recently bought their first property together in Kent, where they live with Mark's daughter Jasmine, eight, and Gwen's children Madeline, 11, and Leo, nine.

The Total Honesty Tuesday campaign encourages Instagram users to post realistic images of messy houses and mundane lives in a backlash against the pressure to portray a perfect life on social media. Posters have shared images of the overflowing laundry baskets, half painted walls and suitcases they failed to unpack weeks after a holiday under the hashtag #totalhonestytuesday.

Model Renata Bresciani, from Miami, swapped her white dress for a shimmering playsuit to perform the racy routine with her bridesmaids in a video that's been viewed 900,000 times. The quintet are seen strutting, winding and grinding and even twerking to songs including Aretha Franklin's You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman', Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Beyonce's Love On Top and Countdown, while her appreciative husband looks on.

Taken in 1943, the black-and-white pictures capture how daily life in Jersey was transformed during the occupation of the Channel Islands in the Second World War. Shop signs are replaced by ones written in German (left) as Swastikas hang from the windows (left and top right). In one image, a British policeman directs traffic in front of the 'Frontbuchhandlung' or 'front bookstore' on one main street (bottom right).

The 33-year-old, who left her millionaire husband for an American rapper before taking up with a record producer from Watford, queued with other customers at a money exchange at London's Marble Arch. After looking at her phone the mother-of-three then collected some money and put it into her rucksack before walking off. It is not known whether she was selling an item or collecting some money that had been transferred to her.

Gary Neville has been pictured paying a visit to the £1.5million building he and Ryan Giggs have allowed at least 30 homeless people to stay in over winter. The former Manchester United and England footballer spent an hour greeting the group of squatters as he and his representatives checked on the building's upkeep. Last week the group of homeless people thanked Neville after revealing that he had paid for showers, toilets and hot meals in addition to agreeing to let them stay at the Manchester Stock Exchange (inset) over winter.

Captured on camera in Essex the bricklayer is recorded by a co-worker assembling a driveway in super quick fashion. After just 30 seconds the man has put down more than 40 bricks, but he still has more than half the time left and no intention of slowing down. The video concludes with the man laying a staggering 152 bricks in an unbelievable time of just one minute 40 seconds.

Newly uncovered pictures show the leader of Nazi Germany and his entourage visiting the small Bavarian town of Oberammergau in 1934 for a performance of the Passion Play. It was said that the dictator ordered one of his henchmen to ensure the event, which attracted over 400,000 people, conformed to his vision of a Aryan race in order to boost support for his anti-Semitic views.

Harvey Robertson was on a boat trip on the west coast of Greece, 20 miles south of Albania, when he took pictures in a sea cave. He was shocked to discover an unidentifiable creature that evokes images of Greek mythology had been captured on film.

Make-up artist Tara Hudson (pictured, left and inset) has lived as a woman all her adult life and has gone through six years of gender reconstruction surgery. However, after admitting a charge of assault, she's been told to spend 12 weeks locked inside HMP Bristol - an all men's jail. Her mother Jackie Brooklyn (right) has been left outraged by the decision, insisting her daughter's doctor had even confirmed that the 26-year-old is now a woman. She's now written to prison bosses demanding Tara be moved.

The chilling vision begins with three men sitting in the venue when a bar-stool begins to inexplicably wobble back and forth. The startled men rush over to inspect the chair when a tiny white figure emerges and scampers past them. The haunting one-and-a-half minute vision was recorded in a restaurant and bar in Singapore's Chinatown district.

These remarkable photographs capture air travel in all its glory between the 1930s and 1970s. It was a golden age of flying - glamourised by first class passengers being fed from silver service food trolleys (bottom right) and celebrities posing next to planes before jetting off around the world. Or in the case of Playboy's Hugh Hefner (top left), posing on a rug with his girlfriend inside his luxurious customised DC-9.

Pro shooter Kirsten Joy Weiss, from the US, is pictured with the Halloween pumpkin she created using a gun. In a new video she's seen shooting a pumpkin at the driving range to create a smiley face, and encourages fans to enjoy this 'fun and creative' activity with their family and friends . She tells fans they will need a pumpkin of any size, a safe shooting spot, a gun and some creativity. As she loads the rifle's magazines, she describes the activity as a 'shooting game', which can be enjoyed with family and friends.

The child was at the 'Solnechny' shopping centre in the city of Novy Urengoy in north-central Russia with her aunt when the drama unfolded. CCTV footage shows the youngster playing with the escalator by placing her hands on the black plastic rail and letting them be carried up. However as she started to get more adventurous, she started holding tighter onto the black rubber, and was eventually picks up and dragged upwards. Her aunt, who had been on the phone, managed to grab the child's arm (left) - but as the youngster toppled over the edge, she could only hold on for a fraction of a second (centre) before losing her grip. After vanishing down the gap (right), the girl plunged to the first floor of the shopping mall, crashing to the ground.

Leah Kilpatrick captured footage of the determined rodent at her home in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire trying with all his might to gain access to the wheelie bin. The clever squirrel managed to work out that the dark grey bin was the one containing food scraps (inset) and even stood on a neighbouring bin while lifting the lid into the air (main). But despite his best efforts the rodent was unable to bag himself a snack.

Italian fashion photographer Amadeo Turello has been collecting black and white pictures of women by top photographers since 1992. Today the striking images, which include Helmut Newton's photo of an underwear clad model from 1972 (left), a 1939 shot of Frida Kahlo (inset); FC Gundlach's image of a swimsuit-clad Christa Vogel in 1958 (right), will go under the hammer at the Artcurial auction house in Paris.

Food artist Annabel Lector, from Birmingham, created an array of cakes and puddings that looked uncannily like body parts for a revolting Halloween feast for 150 people. Her gruesome creations included (clockwise from top left) a panna cotta heart; a plate of bones made from lemon biscuits; a woman's corpse baked from meringue, marshmallow and macaroons; and a dead body covered in macaroon 'snails'.

From traditional buffalo racing in Bali (main) to villagers sleeping on a train in Bangladesh (bottom right), talented photographers have travelled the earth to illuminate all of its corners, in a number of spectacular photographs.The images have been unveiled as part of the 2015 National Geographic Photography Contest .