Australia's newest tennis sweetheart Daria 'Dasha' Gavrilova (pictured left and right) frequently shares her fun-loving, comedic side on her social media accounts - with her family often being duped into taking part. The 21-year-old Russian-born star shares hilarious videos and images of friends, family and her boyfriend - local tennis player Luke Saville - to her 32,000 Instagram followers. On Sunday, Gavrilova was defeated by Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro at Rod Laver Arena on day seven of the Australian Open, slashing her quarter final hopes.

The Queen, 89, and Prince Philip, 94, were joined by Andrew, 55, and their granddaughter Eugenie, 25, who looked eye-catching in a fuchsia fascinator at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham today. Eugenie joined Her Majesty in the car, while Andrew and his 94-year-old father were seen walking down the path from the church.

Australian supermodel Fernanda Ly, 20, (pictured left) has taken the international fashion world by storm since she was discovered as a teenager while shopping with her mum at a Sydney shopping center. Her first runway show was for Louis Vuitton's fall collection and she has been featured on the cover of Vogue in three countries - including Japan (inset).

A speech by indigenous journalist Stan Grant (pictured) has provoked a flurry of controversial criticisms after emerging on social media and has been called Australia's 'Martin Luther King moment'. In the impassioned eight-minute speech, Grant called for Australians to 'be better' than racism. Many viewers argued that they had nothing to feel guilty about (inset) and accused Mr Grant of being racist.

The Pillars cliffs (pictured) an hour south of Melbourne have become a popular cliff-diving spot for young adults and even children this summer, but officials warn there are serious safety risks. Many are flocking to the picturesque spot to take a daring photo of themselves plunging into the water for social media. A woman (not pictured) was knocked unconscious on Tuesday after she tried to backflip into the water.

Not content with merely watching the terrifying predator prowling the underwater environment, the three scuba divers decide they want to get up close and personal off the coast of Mexico. One member of the group decides the only way to attract the shark's attention is by teasing it with some bait. And so some food is floated out of the cage to attract attention. The Great White swims up to the cage, and it is this moment where the diver leans his body between two rungs, and reaching out his hand, pats the beast on the nose.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. A woman who accused police of brutally attacking her has recalled the moment she lay in the street 'choking on her own blood', but officers are adamant that she injured herself as she resisted arrest. Elisha Sherwood was driving in Frankston, a south-east suburb of Melbourne, with her partner Daniel French at around 1.30am on Friday when local police pulled her over and asked to search the car for weapons. Ms Sherwood, 34, claims that she questioned police about the early morning routine search and was subsequently 'tackled to the ground'. Police have refuted the claims of brutality, stating that the couple had jumped out of the car and approached officers in an 'aggressive manner' before they were restrained, injuring three officers.

Almost all eight of this year's Australian of the Year finalists describe their nomination as a humbling experience, with some throwing in emotions like scary, exciting and unbelievable.
The nominees, who range from a former chief of army to a 'medical warrior' who worked with Ebola victims, kicked off their whirlwind tour of events in the nation's capital with a reception hosted by Governor-General Peter Cosgrove.

When Leah Zurek (right of left and left of right), 20, found make up and women's nighties in her boyfriend's house, she was heartbroken and convinced there was another woman in his life. But Ms Zurek, from Wodonga, Victoria, was filled with relief when her boyfriend Jared (inset as a man), now Jasmine (left of left and right of right), came out as transgender. Now, the pair are happier than ever and Ms Zurek has been helping Jasmine with her transition for the past year. 'They are still the same after coming out,' Ms Zurek said, 'they just look different and talk a little different but they still have all the same memories and they still have the same personality.'

Leonie Cavill hated to cook, until she got her Thermomix. The Sydney mother-of-two (left) was so taken with the multi-purpose kitchen appliance, she now uses it for everything. Mrs Cavill started her own blog, ThermoFun, that uses the appliance for everything from steaming a whole chicken (top left) and dumplings (bottom left), to cooking a prawn risotto (top right) and mixing ingredients for a honey nougat delight (bottom right).

Four people have been seriously injured at Sydney's Royal National Park, including one man with head injuries, two people with leg lacerations and one person with cuts to their chin. A similar incident occurred at the rock pools earlier on January 10, when more than 100 visitors were left with cuts, grazes and bruises after a powerful wave knocked terrified swimmers off their feet on a Saturday afternoon.

States across America are beginning the process of digging their way out of record-breaking snowfall this morning after Winter Storm Jonas battered the nation's East Coast on Saturday, wrecking havoc on millions and turning major cities into ghost towns. Almost all areas hit by the storm will get to enjoy above-freezing temperatures and sunlight today as the storm has headed out to sea, which should aid with clean-up in some states but in others lead to problems with flooding and ice once temperatures dip below freezing later in the evening. Ten states declared emergencies during the storm, which resulted in the cancellation of over 12,000 flights canceled across the country while stranding motorists in states for more than 24 hours in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The death toll had reached 19 by early Sunday making it one of the most deadly snow storms in recent history.

As The X Files returns to TV this weekend FEMAIL reveals the famous faces who got their big break on the show. From left to right: Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman played a scientist investigating a mystery in the Arctic; Michael Buble had a bit part as a member of a submarine crew; Lucy Liu was a leukaemia patient; Ryan Reynolds appeared as a geeky high school student murdered by psychically connected twins; and Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer had a small part as a nurse.

Video shows an 18-year-old allegedly 'savagely' beaten by three others who broke his jaw and left him lying by the side of the road last week in Whangamata, two hours south-east of Auckland. Those responsible are thought to be between 14 and 16-years-old, while the video has been viewed 310,000 in just 24 hours.

With some serious 'Kiwi ingenuity' three New Zealand men constructed a makeshift swimming pool in their backyard (pictured), using only timber, a nail gun and some plastic wrapping sheet. The pictures show the three men enjoying their new backyard addition, which looks to be around 4 metres in length and about 1 metre in depth.

Tragic pictures show three dead sperm whales washed up on a British beach just hours after another died when it was caught in a low tide. The whales were found on the Lincolnshire coast this morning shortly after a sperm whale made the fatal mistake of swimming into shallow water at Hunstanton in Norfolk. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) Skegness base tweeted a picture of one of the whales after it was carried ashore with the 6.30am tide.

BA cabin crew go through six weeks of training before getting their wings. They learn to stop choking, evacuate a plane and control tough passengers. MailOnline sent a travel reporter down to have a go at BA's new state-of-the-art Global Learning Academy in Heathrow. Pictured from top left: Caroline McGuire talks to the pilot during evacuation, trying out the emergency slide and learning CPR.

Michael Zajkov, from Moscow, makes painstakingly handsculpted dolls with uncannily human expressions that are snapped up by collectors. His startlingly lifelike creations have earned him an Instagram following of more than 100,000. Michael admits that his dolls, that also have 13 moveable joints, are 'more realistic than is customary'.

The photographs depict the poverty and depression plaguing northeast Britain at a time when many were struggling to adjust to the economic changes underway. First published in 1988 in Chris Killip's seminal work In Flagrante, they are now considered one of the greatest-ever pieces of modern photojournalism and are set to be reissued in a new edition.

These incredible aerial shots show the U.S. in a way you've never seen it before - from suburban housing estates to sprawling deserts, the amazing images show the vast expanse of scenery the country has to offer. Pilot Jassen Todorov, from San Francisco, spent three weeks flying across eight states in a 1976 Piper Warrior plane to capture the amazing shots from high above. Pictured, clockwise from top left: craters in the Red Desert, Arizona; rusting cars at a junkyard in El Paso, Texas; an oil refinery in Houston, Texas; and a pair of islands in northwest Florida.

Set on 350 acres on rugged Lough Corrib, Ireland's stunning Ashford Castle (top left) is a mix of refined luxury and old-world charm, with lavish interiors and sprawling grounds. The most stunning public areas include the Oak Room (top right), where guests can relax and admire the lake views, and the Connaught Room (bottom left), where afternoon tea has been a tradition since 1868. The hotel boasts cavernous guest rooms decorated with antiques (bottom right), and Ireland's oldest falconry school, where MailOnline's Chris Kitching learned how to fly a Harris's hawk named Inca (inset).

Photographer Edward Bishop, from London, who snapped ink aficionados' fingers in the capital and Brighton believes the edgy designs that are difficult to hide are going mainstream and losing their link with gang culture. He started the project in 2009 and has captured different sentiments including (clockwise from top left) a play on words with knuckle 'sandwich'; a 'self-made' woman; a funny twist on the traditional 'love hate tattoo; a Somerset-lover; a person with an inspirational motto and a 'true gent.'

More than a million Hindus in Malaysia celebrated the colourful Thaipusam festival today by gathering at a temple in an offering to the deity Murugan, while many pierced their bodies with hooks (left and bottom right). Hundreds of thousands met on the Batu Caves - an important religious site for Tamil Hindus on Kuala Lumpur's outskirts - with many walking up to 10 hours to the site, capped by a final 272-step climb to its limestone hilltop shrine. Many showed their devotion by the piercing their bodies with long skewers and by bearing the elaborately decorated home-made frames called 'kavadi'. Kavadi can weigh as much as 100 kilograms and are typically affixed to a person's body using sharp metal spikes dug into the skin.

Angry hippos were pictured thrashing in the water and snarling at each other in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. The older hippo decided to assert its dominance after the new male took over the pod. After constant probing by the younger bull (bottom right), the elder hippo decided to retaliate (left). It is rather common for males to attack offspring as they see them as a threat to their family.