They are the honored few who have been nominated for a famous golden statuette. And last night the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards gathered together at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hill, LA, for the annual Oscar lunch and to pose for this picture - which clearly shows the lack of diversity among this year's nominees. There has been much controversy surrounding the lack of black actors, actresses, producers and directors nominated, prompting celebrities including Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee to publicly announce they will not be attending the ceremony in protest. Among the attendees were (pictured bottom row, left to right: Best Supporting Actress Rooney Mara for her role in Carol, Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio for his leading role in The Revenant, Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence for her part in Joy, Best Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone for Creed, Steven Spielberg, whose Bridge of Spies is nominated for Best Picture and Rachel McAdams, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the film Spotlight.)

The victim, a man in his 50s, was killed in Poplar Row in North Strand (pictured) on the north side of the city at around 7.45pm. He has been named locally as Eddie Hutch Snr (pictured inset left), who is the brother of gangster Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch (pictured inset right), and he was reportedly shot nine times after gunmen burst into his home. It comes after two hitmen dressed as police officers and armed with assault rifles stormed the city's Regency Hotel and executed suspected gang member David Byrne, 33.

A shocking video showed the aircraft wobbling (1) as it touched down at London City Airport, with smoke coming from the tyres as they hit the runway (2). The Alitalia plane then bounced back up again (3) and the pilot managed to safely take the passengers back into the sky (4) as it continued to sway violently. Flight AZ222 - which took off from Milan Linate Airport more than an hour late - was due to land at City at 3.35pm, but eventually did so at 5.13pm. The clip emerged as tens of thousands of people were left without power yesterday as the storm battered Britain with winds of almost 100mph. Coastal communities in Wales and southern England bore the brunt of the weather that created severe problems for road, rail and ferry routes. And a first victim of the storm was feared today after an RSPCA inspector went missing on Sunday after going to rescue sea birds in Cornwall.

EXCLUSIVE: Tears roll down Martha Ayiens' face as she whispers the words that for 18 months she told no one: 'I was raped.' As the schoolgirl sits nursing her nine-month-old son, she tells DAVID WILLIAMS for the first time how she was attacked in the dead of night and wanted to kill herself after discovering she was pregnant following the terrible attack during South Sudan's civil war. In this special dispatch from the border of northern Uganda and South Sudan, MailOnline tells the stories of the tens of thousands fleeing a war of unimaginable cruelty. Broken lives, broken families are everywhere, all with their own disturbing story of escape and of rape, looting, torture, kidnap, child abuse, hardship and murder. It is the worst place in the world to be a child.

The Duchess of Cambridge (pictured) sported thick, dark, waxy-looking brows this week - emphasising crow's feet and shadows and making the skin around the eyes look hollow and saggy. Her eyebrows were noticeably darker and bushier than when she was last pictured in December, and they appeared to have been worked on with a black eyebrow pencil - her right more vigorously than her left. Over the years, they've changed beyond all recognition - and not always for the better. With some help from the experts, FEMAIL traces the Duchess's eyebrow evolution...

The Queen arrived into London's Kings Cross train station today (right) after her extended Christmas break in Norfolk. Her Majesty sat in first class for the one hour and 40-minute train journey from King's Lynn station, at a cost of £54.90. Quite a contrast, then, to the Duchess of Cambridge who made the same journey by helicopter on Sunday with a return cost to the taxpayer of around £3,000. It is understood Kate took the Queen's Flight, the distinctive burgundy helicopter (Kate is pictured inset with the helicopter in July 2014) used by members of the Royal Family on official engagements, to fly to the capital for a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the Air Training Corps, her first engagement (left) as its Honorary Air Commandant.

This is the moment the young man who was once dubbed the world's heaviest teenager walked for the first time in his life. Khaled Mohsen Al Shaeri, now aged 24, (pictured) from Saudi Arabia, weighed an incredible 96 stone at his heaviest. He has now successfully lost 700lbs during an intensive hospital fitness routine. Doctors who treated him the capital Riyadh said Shaeri shed more than two thirds of his weight and that he is still on a health programme to lose more. And now all the hard work was not in vain and that Shaeri has achieved an incredible milestone in his recovery, after a video was posted online showing him walking with the help of a Zimmer frame. The treatment for the young man had been organised at the request of the late King Abdullah (inset) in 2013.

Two trains packed with 'hundreds' of rush hour commuters collided near Bad Aibling, in Bavariajust before 6.50am on Tuesday morning, killing several people. One of the trains derailed in the crash and several wagons overturned after the crash, which took place around 37miles south of Munich. Police have confirmed two fatalities at the scene and one hundred injured, while local radio reports at least eight deaths.

The 12 paedophiles subjected the schoolgirl to repeated brutal rapes and beatings but police ignored her mother's fears when she repeatedly disappeared and told her to keep a diary instead. It was the girl's bravery in giving evidence that helped bring the gang from Keighley, West Yorkshire, to justice. Ringleader Arif Chowdhury, 20, has fled abroad to Bangladesh while on bail. The case can be likened to the abuse of young girls by Asian grooming gangs in Rochdale and Rotherham, where police ignored victims and may also have been scared of seeming racist. A judge jailed the 'contemptuous' gang for a total of 143 years yesterday. Pictured top left to bottom are Tanqueer Hussain, 23, jailed for 13 years, Bilal Ziarab, jailed for 12 years, Nasir Khan, 22, jailed for 13, and Yasser Kaibir, jailed for 15, Zain Ali, 20, eight years, Mohammed Akram, 63, jailed for five years, Khalid Mahood for 17 years, Hussain Sardar, six years, Israr Ali, three and a half years, Faisal Khan, 27, and Saqib Younis, both jailed for 13, and Sufyan Ziarab, jailed for 15 years.

When we are told 1 in 5 children under 11 has experienced mental health issues and 10% of children aged 5-16 have a recognised mental health disorder I can't help but feel sceptical., writes KATIE HOPKINS. These days normal emotional reactions end up being disorders and a child who doesn't like being told what to do by teacher is diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance. Teenage depression is also up by 70% in 25 years, so perhaps others will be willing to join me and challenge this march towards diagnosis and medication when 100% of kids are alleged to have a mental illness.

From the outside, Jason Watkins and Clara Francis look like a couple who have it all. He's one of Britain's most acclaimed actors who starred in the BBC spoof show W1A and was awarded a Bafta for his role in the ITV drama The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies. But what outsiders don't see is the black hole at the heart of their family, left by the loss of their youngest daughter, Maude. Maude died, aged two-and-a-half, on New Year's Day, 2011.

Kimberly Jamieson, 24, from New Zealand, was distraught when her baby son Konan (inset) went missing in October 2014 aged just eight weeks. Tequila Matekohi-Samuels (right), then 18, snatched the baby boy from his cot after staying the night with Kimberly and her partner Harley (pictured left, with Konan and their daughter Kylah). Tequila had suffered a miscarriage and planned to pass the baby off as her own after pretending she had given birth. However, Konan was found safe and well and Tequila was sentenced to four-and-a-half months' home detention for the kidnapping. Kimberly said: 'I still don't know how she believed she was going to get away with her plan. I can't forgive her for what she put my family through, but I do hope she gets the help that she needs.'

Macedonia has begun building a new razor-wire fence parallel to an existing one on its border with Greece to make it harder for migrants to enter the Balkan country. Since November only refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq have been allowed to cross the border on their journey to western Europe, but migrants from other countries have still tried to get across. 'The idea is to send a message to migrants that there is a double fence so give up crossing illegally,' a senior army official said.

The Carnival festival, famed for its scantily clad performers, bikini costumes and eroticized dance routines, has never been a symbol of modesty. But Brazilian medics, in a request unsurprisingly ignored during the wild party, have suggested women should start wearing burqas in a bid to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. The request comes as Rio de Janeiro last night marked the finale of the city's famed samba schools parade, which saw thousands of costumed dancers and extravagant floats (pictured) make their way through the specially designed Sambadrome stadium.

Disturbing video footage filmed during the current hunting season shows a large pod of pilot whales being lured to their deaths in Japan's infamous killing cove (pictured). The 'prettiest' are snatched from the wild to be sold into captivity, while the rest are either slaughtered in Taiji cove or released into the sea, where they are unlikely to survive alone. The video shows a pilot whale, which appeared to have a metal rod stabbed into its spinal cord, escaping from the hunters, only to recaptured and drowned.

Essex-based Scott & Stapleton admitted that the flat priced at £125,000 in Westcliff-on-Sea was being sold complete with mouldy walls, mounds of rubbish and 'fleas to keep you company'. But far from deterring buyers, the agent's honesty brought a flurry of viewers and the property - which only went on the market on Friday - was sold yesterday for £15,000 over the asking price. Rob Kahl, manager of the estate agents in Leigh-on-Sea, wrote the graphic description of the flat, which he claimed would have sold for around £170,000 had it been in reasonable condition.

Emma Watson, 25 and William 'Mack' Knight, 35, were seen together leaving a showing of Hamilton, the hit hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers - in October. The secret date night was months before the relationship became publicly known about. Knight is a Princeton and Columbia graduate who works in Silicon Valley (inset). He is said to have visited her British home in Oxford and vacationed with her this month.

While Instagram has typically been a feminine domain (53 per cent of its total users are women), we're now more likely to turn to a growing number of men for our daily fix of fitspiration. Ben Mudge (left and inset), 25, from Belfast, posts regular photos post 'leg session', while Ali Gordon (right), 26, from Buckinghamshire, has a combined social media following of 200,000, thanks to his smouldering selfies and posts on healthy living. He regularly posts before and after shots of his female clients, as well as the healthy meals he cooks for wife Janice, who he is currently training up for a 250k challenge.

These beautiful snapshots of Japan show the country in a transitional period in the early 1900s when modern buildings and transport were starting to pop up. From cherry blossoms on Sumida River (right), to Tokyo's main entertainment district, Asakusa Park before the Great Kanto earthquake (left) and a woman walking through Hanayashiki, the oldest amusement park in all of Japan (inset), the New York Public Library photographs show the country alive with colour.

Comedian Mar Tarres, 28, who is based in Cordoba, Argentina, has had the last laugh by winning the accolade in a beauty contest after years of enduring cruel comments about her size. Under the title 'Screwed-up Girls Stand up', she bit back at her critics with motivational statuses and carefree photos that saw her enjoying her holiday in a bikini. After being crowned the winner, she said: 'People voted for inclusion, for the right of all women to participate in the contest without distinctions.'

Travelers aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship are furious after the ship knowingly sailed into a massive nor'eater off the coast of South Carolina. As the storm threatens to put the Anthem of the Seas back through a night of stomach-churning swells, Royal Caribbean has decided to turn the ship around and go back to Newark, New Jersey. Passengers were forced to endure a 'horrendous' night of rocking as the ship made its way through the storm with hurricane-force winds. The Anthem of the Seas ship (pictured, insert) experienced 'extreme wind and sea conditions' that were 'not expected', according to Royal Caribbean. Winds of up to 150mph rocked the ship nauseatingly back and forth off the coast of South Carolina. Passengers were told to stay in their rooms starting around 3pm yesterday as furniture slammed about the ship's main halls. No serious injuries were reported, but passengers took to social media to post pictures of toppled furniture (pictured, left, right and center), broken glass, overturned decorations and collapsed ceilings. The ship is carrying 4,529 passengers and 1,616 crew, according to a spokeswoman.

The rare collection of 183 images that have emerged are from the personal collection of devoted Marilyn Monroe fan, James Collins (inset). James was a member of the 'Monroe Six', a group of superfans who followed the actress around New York City in the 1950s. The images are being auctioned in 18 lots through Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, with opening bids starting at $400.

Sara, 22, from London, thought it would be 'hilarious' to have her sister Ellie's gruesome drawings inked on her thighs complete with darkly humorous puns. The pictures, which were a private joke between the siblings show a hangman's noose and the words 'hang in there' on one leg, and a guillotine with the words 'keep your chin up' on the other. But the ink fan told Katie Piper on Channel 4's Bodyshockers that if she changes her mind about the designs she'll simply, 'cross that bridge when she comes to it'.

While 'bronde' locks and 'undone' hairstyles flooded the red carpets in 2015, 'The Tinkerbell' is the latest look on the rise. The chic bun, not unlike the signature do of Peter Pan fairy Tinkerbell (inset), is worn with blunt and edgy bangs that fall around the face. The striking trend has already been worn by Kendall Jenner (left) and Emma Watson (right). Little Mix star Perrie Edwards (centre) and actress Karrueche Tran have also stepped out with the Tinkerbell-inspired do. Leading Sydney-based hairstylist, Anthony Nader, reveals how you can get the style at home - be it with a faux fringe or your natural tresses.

Hong Kong's Lunar New Year celebration descended into chaos after protesters and police, who fired warning shots into the air, clashed over a street market leaving dozens injured. Activists were angered at attempts by the authorities to crack down on illegal food hawkers who had set up stalls in the crowded Kowloon neighborhood, leading to battles with police into the early morning hours of Tuesday. Protesters pelted officers with bottles and pieces of trash, while some threw rubbish bins, plastic safety barriers and wood from shipping pallets at them. They also set fires on the street. Acting District Commander Yau Siu-kei said 44 people, including police officers, were injured and at least 23 people were arrested.

Kate McLeod can't make a custard square - and she's not the only one. The New Zealand home cook shared a photo of her melted attempt of the sweet dessert (left), that looked nothing like it should (right), with the recipe's creator New Zealand's Chelsea Winter (inset). Chelsea was an excellent sport, thanking Kate for sharing her 'custard soup with crispy wafer' photo and offered her some advice in the kitchen. The hilarious exchange prompted others to share their own epic kitchen fails.

Lil' LonDunn by Jourdan Dunn celebrates Jourdan's love of her hometown London, and has been designed by the model with her six year old son Riley as the inspiration. The range is aimed at both boys and girls from age five up until 16, and is an urban, upbeat collection made up of 22 pieces, say the brand. Jourdan says she has been closely involved in the direction of the project from the very beginning, working on all aspects from fabric and fit through to photography and creative campaign style. Her six-year-old son Riley features amongst the children in the first campaign shoot, which will launch in April.

One little girl (pictured) got a big surprise as a giant caribou (right) took a carrot from her tiny hands as it poked its head through their family car during an outdoor safari trip in Quebec, Canada. The little girl squealed with laughter and excitement, but nervously gave the carrot to the huge animal.

Ashley Bouder, 32, a dance with the New York City Ballet since 2000, is six and a half months pregnant with her first child with fiance, finance worker Peter de Florio. The dancer was filmed spinning through more than a dozen pirouettes while continuing to keep up with her ballet practice. Since being posted on Friday, the video has gained over 28,000 likes on Instagram.

New Orleans-based Roux, 2, was born with just nubs for front legs due to a congenital abnormality. Something of a social media celebrity - she has 300,000 Instagram followers - a new video of the adorable cat shows her enjoying life at her home where she lives with owner Jackie Deak Akey who took her in from an animal shelter. Roux gets around by hopping but may need to be fitted with prosthetic legs when she gets older, particularly if the hopping starts to take its toll on her back.