NEW Brussels has been put into security lockdown after Belgian intelligence received 'precise information' of a planned Paris-style ISIS attack in the capital. Belgium's prime minister Charles Michel confirmed that the decision to raise the terror alert level in Brussels was taken 'based on quite precise information about the risk of an attack like the one that happened in Paris.' Service has been halted on the Brussels subway system and heavily armed police and soldiers are patrolling the Belgian capital amid a high security alert. The country's national security center has raised the terror threat level to Level four after fears of a 'serious and imminent' terror threat involving 'weapons and explosives'.

Protesters (top right and inset bottom left) have rallied across the nation in support of refugees after Donald Trump (left) said he would force Muslims to register and carry ID cards stating their religion. Demonstrators in Washington and Vermont called for Trump and other Republican presidential candidates to relax their stance towards refugees. Trump was branded 'abhorrent' after he said on Thursday that he supported registering Muslims, with comparisons made between his plan and the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany. Meanwhile Ben Carson was also accused of creating a 'toxic environment' for Muslims after he compared Syrian refugees to 'rabid dogs'. A Thanksgiving '#RefugeesWelcome' dinner (bottom right) was also held in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the local Yazidi community mixed happily with neighbors.

The grievances of the Islamic terrorists who have brought carnage and bloodshed to the streets of Paris twice this year reach far back into history, writes TOM HOLLAND. In their minds, it is not simply wanton violence, but the continuation of a struggle which has raged for more than a millennium. That is what Osama bin Laden was talking about when he warned the Muslim world back in 1996 'that the people of Islam have always suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the Zionist-Crusader alliance'. Today, ISIS (inset) nurtures its resentments in a similarly poisonous manner. Main: The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks saw the most famous of Christian capitals transformed into a bastion of Islam.

The married father of five arrested over the death of seven-year-old Gabriella Doolin claims evidence police found connecting him to the murder is not what it seems. Timothy Madden, 38, was detained on Friday after three or four interviews with police, during which they allegedly found blood on his clothes. However, in his first interview since his arrest, Madden told WDRB the blood brushed onto him when he walked past a fence. He later said the blood came from brushing past a trash can.

The daughters of the Duke of Rutland are causing a stir in British high society with their rowdy antics and lives they share on Instagram. We haven't heard the last from Lady Violet, 22, Lady Alice, 20, and Lady Eliza 18 Manners who been compared to the Mitford girls even though it might be more accurate to liken them to the Earl of Grantham's lively daughters in Downton Abbey.

The Slovenian-born model defended herself against suggestions the topless photoshoots of her past may hurt her husband's run for president in her first interview since the Republican race started. 'I think people will always judge, and maybe they will say, ''Oh, the past that you have, the way you were modeling,'' (but) that's part of the job that I was doing,' Melania said on ABC's 20/20 Friday night, in her first interview since the Republican primary race kicked off earlier this year. : 'I was a very successful model and I did some photo shoots. Yes, there were a little risky, (but) nothing more than you see each year in Sports Illustrated.'

Ashley Wade, 22, allegedly slit Angelikque Sutton's (inset right) throat and performed a makeshift Cesarean section on the heavily pregnant woman at Wade's apartment in the Bronx, New York (cordon outside crime scene pictured). Wade is then said to have ripped the baby girl from her dead or dying mother's stomach and was found cradling the newborn child - who survived - by her boyfriend. It is believed that the mentally disturbed woman was trying to snatch Ms Sutton's baby because she had been telling neighbors she was pregnant. Ms Sutton, 22, died but her baby survived.

The man was subdued by two off-duty cops after entering the busy Fifth Avenue Apple Store at 3.55 pm Friday brandishing a samurai sword, terrifying the hundreds inside. Customers fled back into the store as the suspect made his way down the glass-encased spiral staircase - the only street entrance into the subterranean complex - waving the sword (main). Security were able to stop the man before he was restrained. There were no injuries and police say it was not a terror-related incident. The incident occurred as New York remained on high alert after the Paris terror attacks and ahead of the holiday season that formally kicks off with the Thanksgiving parade next Thursday.

Facebook allows up to four months of maternity or paternity leave. Zuckerberg said Friday he will take two months, in what is being seen as encouragement for employees to use their parent benefits. It is stark contrast to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who is expecting twins around the same time as Zuckerberg's child, but has said she will take a 'limited' maternity leave of about two weeks. Comparatively, Google gives 18 weeks maternity leave and 12 weeks paternity, Microsoft gives 12 weeks, and Netflix allows for one year maternity leave.

The beleaguered Duggar, 27, makes an appearance on 'Jill and Jessa: Counting On', a spin off of the show that made her husband's family famous. In a teaser clip, Anna's eyes are filled with tears as she admits: 'It was heartbreaking to hear what had happened.' Right: Josh and Anna welcomed daughter Meredith Grace in July.

The man - identified on the receipt as Jason Paul Naglich (right) - dined alone at the Bamboo Thai Bistro in Redondo Beach last week, but decided to make a political statement about immigration on the bill (left). Instead of paying the gratuity, he wrote: 'Tip for U.S. citizens only.' A 15 percent tip on would have been $3.43. However when the receipt was posted on social media, Naglich was inundated with hate, while locals rallied around the waitress, who is authorized to work in the U.S.

Her first child is due any day now. And Lauren Bush Lauren cannot contain her excitement. Taking to Instagram on Friday, the model - and granddaughter of former president George H W Bush - shared a beloved clip of the stalks in Disney movie Dumbo as they carry newborn babies to their expectant families. 'Hoping Mr. Stork delivers our bundle soon!' Bush wrote. 

Cassandra Cruz (left), 33, says she shared 'a single sexual act' with Charlie Sheen (right) in 2012 without using a condom, but didn't learn he was HIV positive until a year later, when he said the disease was 'undetectable'. Lisa Bloom, the attorney representing Cruz, added that when Sheen told her of his diagnosis, it was done in a way to persuade her that unprotected sex with Sheen was safe. Bree Olsen, another former porn star and one of Sheen's 'goddesses', also came forward this week to accuse the star of not telling him he was infected while they were having sex, as did fellow 'goddess' Natalie Kenly. It is thought that six women are currently preparing lawsuits against Sheen.

Joey Feek, of country duo Joey + Rory, was diagnosed with stage IV cervical cancer in June 2014. She received her diagnosis just months after giving birth to daughter Indiana. This week Joey revealed her Christmas wish is to make it to Indiana's second birthday in February. Feek left the hospital last month and began hospice care to spend as much time as possible with her daughter.

The actress, 33, took to Twitter to slam commenters who said she look 'fat' and 'ugly' at the premiere of The Good Dinosaur on Tuesday. Anna said that just because she wasn't wearing a skin-tight dress doesn't mean she's pregnant, and told them she doesn't care if they don't like her dark hair.

Georgia Southern College senior Emily Faz (left) was fired from her job at Wild Wings Cafe this week after she criticized Black Lives Matter (right) on her Facebook and said she'd make them regret 'knowing what a movement is.''I swear if I see this B.S. at Southern I will make you regret even knowing what a movement or a hashtag is, and you'll walk away with your tail tucked,' wrote Faz along with the link to the news article. 'The whole black lives matter movement is misguided and out of hand. Maybe no one likes or takes y'all seriously because no one can see past your egotistical [expletive]. Some people might just look past it, but fair warning I am not one. All lives matter, that has always been the case, and you part of the problem if you think otherwise [sic],' she added in her fiery post.

Ernest Shackleton (inset) and his crew struggled to survive for months against the odds in the punishing conditions of the Antarctic. They were left stranded after their ship the Endurance became trapped in the ice (left and right) before being crushed. A new exhibition will open at London's Royal Geographical Society on Saturday, 100 years to the day that the magnificent ship sank beneath the Antarctic ice. Haunting photographs in the exhibition reveal never-before-seen insights into the day-to-day struggles of the 28-man crew, trapped and fighting for their lives in the 'world's last great wilderness'.

Sarah Hosseini , a former television producer and writer living in Atlanta, has shared her struggles with her dwindling sex drive following the birth of her two children in an essay explaining that she rarely thinks about having sex with her husband - or anyone else for that matter.

When the world-famous feminist wrote the letter to author Amis, right, in 1976, she was in a relationship and hoping to have a baby with another man, old Etonian James Hughes-Onslow. In the end, Greer, left, never sent the letter - and now doesn't want it published. But is it because it shows off her softer and more vulnerable side, asks the Daily Mail's Geoffrey Levy.

She received backlash off body shamers last week after she uploaded an image of herself wearing a yellow two piece bikini. And on Saturday model Bridget Malcolm hit back at the haters who labelled her as 'anorexic'. 'It is a horrible psychological disorder men and women have to go through,' she told the Daily Mail Australia while adding women should be supporting one another not spreading hurtful statements.

An adorable youngster couldn't stop giggling after playing the popular 'pie face' game with his parents. The unnamed little boy, who is believed to be from America, is filmed in hysterics while having a pile of whipped cream splatted onto his face. The laugh-out-loud video was posted to YouTube by Break Clips on November 19.

Poignant footage captures the mammals gathering in a tiny circle, clinging together to protect themselves from injury as the men drive the animals towards the netted shoreline in the cove. The video taken by the Dolphin Project , who are dedicated to the welfare of the animals, show the family as they swim through the waters in Taiji. The group wrote on Facebook: 'This poor pod.They won't leave each other's side.' The project told The Dodo website that there were around 40 whales of all ages clustered together.

The Golden Retriever - now nicknamed Tiger - was covered in black stripes in the cruel gag in Serbia (inset). Volunteers (main) from an animal welfare group had to clean up the dog before he was found a new home. The animal group said if the paint had not been removed the chemicals in it would have been life-threatening as they would have penetrated through the skin. They also said that if the dog tried to lick its fur it might have ended up swallowing the potentially poisonous paint flakes.

London-based photographer Mikael Buck took the incredible photos using a Sony 27R II camera with a 90mm macro lens and macro filter. His subjects were some of the 10 most common bugs in homes in west Europe such as the house spider (left) woodlouse (top right) and ladybird (bottom right) according to conservation charity, Buglife.