Children Ivanka, Donald Jr and Eric Trump joined Melania at the GOP debate on Thursday to support Donald Trump in his efforts to win the support of the Republican party. Donald Jr posted a photo to Twitter of the stage before the debate kicked off, with the caption, 'Front row at the @FoxBusiness @GOP debate'. Trump and Texas Sen Ted Cruz were at the center of a shrinking field of top-tier candidates at the beginning of the debate, and are locked in battle for first place in the February 1 Iowa caucuses.

Hillary Clinton also promised 'quite the showdown' with Donald Trump if he wins the Republican nomination for president during her appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show. Appearing on the New York chat show for the second time during this presidential race, Clinton was mocked by Fallon over her emails during a job interview skit where she was asked about her credentials for the role of President. At the end of the 'interview' Fallon asked whether there was 'an email address we can reach you [on]?' to which Clinton laughed before shaking his hand. She also admitted that she watches the Republican debate performances with husband Bill, and that the pair often mock the arguments of the candidates.

Celine Dion will not be resuming her residency in Las Vegas until February after the tragic death of her husband René Angélil, who lost his battle against cancer on Thursday aged 73. The 47-year-old pop diva immediately canceled her performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday and Sunday and an official announcement confirmed she will is not scheduled to return untill February 23. Angélil, who had fought cancer for almost 20-years, passed away at the couple's Vegas home just two days shy of his 74th birthday and one month after their 21st wedding anniversary on December 17. In a statement posted to her official Facebook page, Dion said he beloved husband had a 'long and courageous fight against cancer. The family wishes to live the mourning in privacy.'

Lt David Nartker, 27, who was filmed apologizing after two Navy vessels drifted into Iranian waters, attended the US Naval Academy where he studied aerospace engineering. He grew up in Chicago and currently lives in California, according to his Facebook. Several videos on his page show him firing guns. Nartker was one of ten crew members aboard two Riverine patrol boats captured in the Persian Gulf Tuesday after apparently losing power.

The British actor, known for his roles in films such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Die Hard as well as the wizarding film franchise, kept his fight with illness private before his death at 69 this morning. Potter author JK Rowling led the tributes to Rickman today, calling him 'a magnificent actor and a wonderful man', while co-stars including Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson told how he had mentored them early on in their careers. Rickman revealed last year that he had secretly married his partner Rima Horton in New York in 2012. His close friend Emma Thompson was among those paying tribute today, and implied she was with him hours before he died, saying: 'I have just kissed him goodbye.' Pictured: Rickman in London last month (left), and as Snape in the Potter movies (right). Also pictured are tweets from JK Rowling and Watson (left inset).

The 37-year-old British barrister, who is in Washington D.C. this week on a business trip, appeared on NBC News tonight to discuss the current human rights issues in the Maldives. Clooney has been lobbying Congress to level sanctions against regime leaders in the Maldives in an effort to release her client -the country's former president, Mohamed Nasheed - from prison. 'I am still doing the same jobs as I was doing before (I got married). If there is more attention being paid than there was before, then that's good,' Clooney said of her new-found celebrity.

Senegalese illegal immigrant Cheik Tidiane Diaw, 25, was arrested by police after the murder of Ashley Olsen, 35, in Florence. Sources said he confessed to killing her after they had sex. Diaw (left) was arrested after a DNA match to a used condom and cigarette found in the toilet of Olsen's Florence apartment (inset). The American artist (right) will have her funeral in the city tomorrow. She met Diaw at a sleazy club before returning with him to the apartment, He told officers he punched and strangled her when she told him to leave.

The Tonight Show host was spotted making his way through a Manhattan park , one day after NBC Entertainment boss Bob Greenblatt denied the comedian has a drinking problem. The comedian, 41, who has sparked worried chatter over his hard-partying ways after a number of falls, bundled up in a dark navy coat and khakis

Oscar-nominated duo Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy led the way as The Revenant had its UK première at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, London, on Thursday night. Fresh from scooping the Best Actor award at Sunday night's Golden Globes, Leo was typically dapper in a knee-length overcoat, white shirt and patterned navy tie.

Prosecutors on Thursday morning charged a second 16-year-old girl as an adult in an alleged plot to unleash a deadly attack at Mountain Vista High School in Colorado, in December. Brooke Higgins, right, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, saying she researched places where teens could by guns online. Higgins wrote in her journal that she wished she could have been part of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and did internet searches for female mass shooters, prosecutors said. Sienna Johnson, left, was previously charged upon her arrest in December.

Sean Penn is to break his silence on the circumstances that lead to him meeting Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Mexican officials have said security forces located the whereabouts of the world's most-wanted trafficker thanks to a secret interview with the U.S. actor. The Sinaloa cartel leader was on the run from Mexican authorities after escaping jail but Penn has batted away claims he should be indicted. He will be sitting down with CBS News' Charlie Rose to explain himself.

The pranksters, brothers Jeremy and Jason Holden (top right), kitted out an ordinary push-along bike with shock devices in the handlebars and seat before leaving it out in the street in Los Angeles, US. They sat quietly in hiding as they waited for passers-by to pick up the seemingly-abandoned bike in Hollywood, filming every moment with a number of handheld cameras. When an unknowing member of the public picked up the bike and tried to make-off with it, the brothers - using a handheld button - allowed the shock devices to release small charges. Over a number of hours, they filmed several people trying to steal the bike - and then being thrown from it (left and bottom right) after being shocked by the electric zap.

A black teenager is seen being shot dead by a white Chicago police officer as he runs from the man in broad daylight in 2013 surveillance video recently released from the incident. Video emerged of the death of 17-year-old Cedrick Chatman's death on Thursday afternoon, shortly after a a federal judge granted its release. An officer killed Chatman on January 7, 2013 during a foot chase after he was suspected of carjacking according to authorities. His family had asked that the video be made public as it sued the city over the shooting, arguing it would counter the city's narrative that Chatman posed a danger to police.

The code name 'concert' was used in the terrorist attack in central Jakarta that killed seven people on Thursday when multiple explosions hit the city's central business district (left, right). It was a reference that may well have been linked to the attacks in Paris (inset) on November 13 when gunmen and suicide bombers hit a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, almost simultaneously, killing 130 people dead and leaving hundreds wounded.

Reality star Megan McKenna shocked her Celebrity Big Brother housemates and viewers after she launched a foul-mouthed torrent of abuse at fellow contestant Tiffany Pollard during Thursday night's episode which resulted in her being issued with a formal warning by show bosses. The Essex native, 23, controversially labelled the US reality star, 34, 'a ghetto c**t' in the Diary Room, before members of the Channel 5 show's security team were forced to enter the house and restrain her. Horrified audience members watching at home took to Twitter to express their shock at the almighty outburst, with many accusing the Ex on the Beach star of 'racism'.

The images, which have been circulating on social media sites including Imgur and Reddit, show that many are happy to share their worst moments with their friends and even strangers on the photo-sharing app. One person created chaos when a bee entered their car (clockwise from top left), while another revealed they want to be loved like their dog loves pizza, a man in camouflage goes into hiding, someone reveals they have 'Twix' up their sleeve, a sober person has the last laugh and a dog waits in line behind cuddly toys for a treat.

Country music husband-and-wife duo Joey and Rory are releasing new music, even as Rory Feek writes that his wife, Joey, is dying from cervical cancer. Rory Feek has been documenting his wife's struggle with cancer in an online blog and wrote last fall that they had decided to end treatment after the cancer continued to spread. In the latest post on Saturday, he wrote that her pain was increasing daily. The duo's new album, Hymns That Are Important to Us, will be available on February 12, just three days before the Grammy Awards, where the couple is nominated for best country duo/group performance with If I Needed You. The new album includes the song When I'm Gone, which they recorded just after one of Joey's first surgeries.

Christian de Berdouare, a CEO who bought the former Medellin Cartel leader's home in 2014, says he plans to demolish the property but is worried there may be drugs, money, or bodies inside. According to a 2009 book published by Escobar's brother and former accountant, Roberto, the cocaine kingpin took to hiding money inside his properties after earning so much he was unable to launder it quickly enough. At the height of his powers in the Eighties, Escobar was reportedly earning $30billion per year supplying 80 per cent of America's cocaine.

Paula Williams, who lives in Lubbock, Texas, posted the emotional footage to Facebook and explained that her son's puppy Kase went missing from their home about a month ago. She said that the dog was eventually found down the street from where they live - a family had taken him in and kept him warm and fed. Paula decided to record the moment she shared the good news with her son and captured his sheer delight at being reunited with the puppy.

Rosalind Ross, the girlfriend Gibson brought to Sunday's Golden Globes is not relishing the 'negative attention' caused by her relationship, a friend tells Daily Mail Online. Ross (left and inset) was seen leaving with her boyfriend, a grandfather of three, from an after-party on Sunday night, a rare public display. The equestrian champion's former sporting partner, Devon Maitozo, says she just wants to 'get on with her life'. But in 2011 she was happy to take the limelight, posing with Maitozo for a nude shoot for ESPN's magazine's body issue (right).

At first glance this looks like a 'disturbingly' graphic picture, but if you take a closer look you will see it is actually just a very awkward optical illusion. The photo, which shows a bald man stooping down to give his baby a kiss, has attracted more than three million views on social media site Imgur and thousands of comments. It initially prompted confusion for many viewers, who mistook the father's hairy shoulders, bald head and left ear for his bottom. And many then took to social media to express their relief after realising it was actually just a tender family moment.

In a suburb outside of Washington D.C., six ladies - Charrisse Jackson Jordan, Robyn Dixon, Karen Huger, Gizelle Bryant, Katie Rost and Ashley Darby (in order on left) - are busy raising their families and hitting the social scene. Bravo's Real Housewives of Potomac promises to bring on the drama. It all begins in the season opener with Gizelle and Charisse facing-off after Gizelle brings her uninvited hair stylist to Charisse's home for a crab boil.

Patrick Giblin (left), 37, was put up for adoption on September 27, 1978, after his parents conceived him as teenagers and decided to give him up and their families stopped them from seeing one another. When Giblin had a son of his own as an adult, he decided to embark on a quest to find his biological parents. Giblin reached out to the adoption agency, and he found out that his mother, Stephanie (center), had left her contact information with the company when her son would have been about 18 years old. After reconnecting with Giblin, Stephanie contacted her son's father, Todd Ripple (right), and it was like no time had gone by in the 35-plus years they had not spoken. Since reconnecting, the couple have remarried and met Giblin's adopted father (inset, with his wife and Giblin). The family see each other frequently.

An elaborately designed Arizona mansion just hit the market and it's sellers are attempting to set a new record for the state with it's $35 million asking price. Surrounded by lush palm trees, The 12-acre gated property is located in Paradise Valley, an affluent community situated between Scottsdale and Phoenix. With views of Camelback Mountain, the main house has five bedrooms and measures to be more than 30,000 square feet.

Photographer Mihaela Noroc, 30, from Romania, travelled the world for The Atlas of Beauty series, taking pictures of natural-looking women. She hopes to promote diversity and has been to 45 countries including (clockwise from top left) China, Havana in Cuba, New York, Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, and Oxford, England. Mihaela told FEMAIL: 'Every day, when we watch mass media we see an atlas of wars, conflicts and fear. People are fighting just because they are different, because they have a different religion, culture or race. More than ever, I think our world needs an Atlas of Beauty to show that diversity is something beautiful, not a reason for conflicts.'

Kokichi Sugihara, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, developed an optical illusion that shows a four-way ramp structure and some balls that appear to travel up the slopes (main). The mathematician has made hundreds of similar tricks after coming up with a computer program that interprets two dimensional line drawings as three dimensional objects. The effect is that the brain is tricked into seeing structures that are impossible, such as ramps that appear to go up when they are really facing down.

Christopher Jones has shared photographs on Imgur that document the challenges of caring for his grandparents, who have been married for over 60 years. - Mr Jones decided to move in with the elderly couple since no one in the family could afford a nursing home.

Footage of a determined boxer dog's antics while clinging to his ball (pictured) were featured on America's Home Videos in 2013 but recently made a comeback on the internet on Reddit..Since being re-posted as a gif by Reddit user SlimJones123 on Wednesday, the hilarious video has racked up nearly 1 million views. In the footage the unnamed boxer can be seen holding onto his big blue bouncy ball with his two first paws and walking on his two back paws as though he were a human being.

Heartwarming footage shows the bears - many of which were previously forced to perform on the streets - lolloping along a small tarmac path as the delivery driver makes their way into the centre in Agra, India. The worker shooting the video can be heard laughing as more and more bears join the excited furry group. Nearly 800 people have 'liked' the video and it has been shared nearly 200 times.

Tarmo Tolvanen made the decision to try and rescue the animal after discovering it on the icy surface of Lake Saimaa in Finland. The Saimaa ringed seal, which is an endangered species, had been stuck on the bank of the lake for days and appeared to quickly realise what the fisherman was doing. Footage shows Mr Tolvanen carefully walking over the ice before using a chainsaw to cut a square in the ice (left). The seal can then be seen shuffling over (top right) and poking its nose into the freezing water before finally taking the plunge (bottom right).