Questions are being asked as to how the EgyptAir hijacker was able to stroll unhindered through airport security at Alexandria, despite being rigged with a fake suicide vest and explosives. It comes just weeks after British intelligence officers were sent to the country to improve airport security, following the downing of a Russian jet in October which killed all 224 passengers. The British team were in October said to be focussing efforts on the security of aircraft, the screening of staff and passengers and the screening of luggage. But today's events are prompting accusations of a security blunder, likely to further damage the country's reputation for aviation safety.

Sean Astin paid tribute to his mother Patty Duke shortly after her death on Tuesday. Sean posted a photo of his mother holding him when he was a baby on Twitter, writing; 'This morning Anna Pearce closed her eyes & ascended to a beautiful place.' Duke, who was born Anna Duke, died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at the age of 69. 'She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon,' said her rep Michael Stubbs in a statement. 'She will be greatly missed.'

34-year-old Ivanka gave birth to her third child with husband Jared Kushner at a New York hospital in the early evening on Easter Sunday, and left the hospital at lunchtime on Tuesday. Wearing a bright red floral dress, the businesswoman glowed with happiness as she made her way into her Park Avenue apartment, while Jared, 35, carefully carried their newborn in a car seat. Earlier in the day, Ivanka shared an image of Jared and their four-year-old daughter Arabella posing with Theodore in her hospital room.

Meet Arsenal soccer club tycoon Alisher Usmanov's glamorous niece-in-law, an Uzbek 'princess' who dresses Russia's oligarch kids in costumes costing £5,000, equivalent to the annual pay of 13 people on a minimum wage in her native Uzbekistan. Widow and heiress Diora Usmanova, 27, is facing a furious backlash over her ostentatious displays of opulence in one of the world's poorest countries outside Africa. Her new uber-posh couture-for-kids outlet in Moscow offers pearl-encrusted dresses based on the designs of Russia's tsarist past, but she has been slated for 'hypocrisy' and 'immorality' - and accused of being out of touch with the life of ordinary people as the country's old Romanov rulers.

The 20-year-old Grammy nominee posted pictures to Instagram of an IV drip in her arm after she was publicly accused of being unfaithful to her 24-year-old NBA star boyfriend Kyrie Irving. The Do It singer was reportedly found unconscious by her friends at home, before she was taken to hospital. She allegedly cheated with rapper ex-boyfriend Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, better known by the stage name PARTYNEXTDOOR. Kelhani was in a relationship with the artist months ago, but when it ended she moved on to Irving, who is point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers. When she recovered, she immediately took to social media to address rumors about why she wanted to end her life. In a since deleted post on social media, she wrote: 'I wanted to leave this Earth. Being completely selfish for once. Never thought I'd get to such a low point.' However she insisted no one was 'cheated on'.

Bill Walton (left playing for the Portland Blazers in 1975) is opening up about being fired from ESPN in a new interview (right, inset). The legendary basketball player, who began working as a commentator shortly after retiring from the NBA in 1990, says that being let out of his contract early by the network in 2009 was so difficult he began to contemplate taking his own life. 'When I was lying on that floor - and I had nothing - I was going to kill myself if I had a gun,' Walton said in an interview.

Shattered ceiling tiles and trailing wires hang down over the abandoned luggage of terrified holidaymakers, as haunting images of response crews clearing Brussels airport emerge. The photographs, taken just two days after the double blast that killed 20 people as they waited to check in, show the previously bustling hall to be empty of passengers. Escalators have stopped, glass windows are shattered and twisted plastic chairs are covered with dust following the explosions. It comes as Brussels authorities predict the airport will remain closed for 'months' to come.

A Kurdish ISIS militant has beheaded three prisoners in an extremely graphic ISIS video purportedly filmed in Iraq. The harrowing footage shows the large, heavily bearded fighter ranting to the camera, threatening Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish president Masoud Barzani. The propaganda video comes as ISIS have suffered heavy losses north of Raqqa, with Kurdish forces gaining significant ground in Hasakah province.

Surrounded by jihadists near the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Alexander Prokhorenko (pictured, with his pregnant wife Ekaterina, left), 25, ordered Russian warplanes to obliterate the area. He was deep inside ISIS territory identifying 'crucial ISIS targets' and passing the coordinates for strikes to the Russian air force. But when he left for his final mission two months ago, his wife Ekaterina believed he was being deployed to the Russian Caucasus region. Alexander said he felt like 'the happiest man in the world' when the two wed 18 months ago. Ekaterina is pregnant with their first child, but does not know if it is a boy or girl.

Kijito the silverback gorilla was filmed charging and jumping into the glass when the visitor has his back turned to the Nebraska enclosure. Bizarrely, the man seen in the video seems fairly unfazed by the attack and remains straight-faced throughout. According to the filmer, the very same gorilla broke a window at the zoo last year. 'He is quite the character and plays with us whenever we go to the zoo,' she wrote online.

The latest challenge baffling the internet is a logic puzzle for children that involves studying a picture of tourists at a holiday camp site and answering a list of nine questions. Puzzlers must use the black and white image, believed to have come from an old children's magazine, to answer nine questions, including what time of day it is; what the date is; how the party got there and what way the wind is blowing.

The incident was captured on a camera phone and showed Glen Grays in his US Postal Service uniform on his route in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on St Patrick's Day. The 27-year-old said he was doing his job when a car almost crashed into him, prompting him to shout at the driver in frustration. He claimed the car then stopped and reversed back to him before four members of the New York Police Department dressed in plain clothes exited the unmarked vehicle. After a confrontation Grays was arrested and taken to the precinct. Grays was issued a summons for disorderly conduct and is required to attend court in May. The New York Police Department said the matter is under internal review.

High school student Madi, 16, has sparked a backlash after writing a thread on 'weird things British people do,' from grammar and spelling to cuisine and 'pale' skin, angering Brits on Twitter. Her first tweet on Monday evening said: 'im gonna do a thread on weird things British people do,' and she followed it up with dozens of tweets that led to her being labelled 'stupid' and 'uneducated'. As the barrage of abuse poured in, she announced she was turning off her Twitter notifications and said: 'someone called me a fatty because I asked why there's zig zags on the streets.'

Olga Romanoff, 65 (left) is the daughter of Prince Andrew Romanoff, who is the eldest nephew of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II. Her new book promises to tell about her life in the 30-room Provendor House in Kent (bottom right). Ms Romanoff, who grew up with a constant chaperone and a private ballet teacher, will reveal stories of her father roller-skating through the palace corridors and the time she jumped out of a palace window to run off with her dogs.

UPDATED Charli Jones Parker, 30, was arrested Monday on charges of having sex with a student. Parker is a basketball coach and teacher at Pickens Academy in Carrolton, Alamaba - a Pre-K through 12-grade institution. According to the school's website, she taught physical education, computers and elementary school. A school official told Daily Mail Online on Monday that Parker was suspended from her position Pickens Academy. Parker's husband is also a teacher and coach at the school.

A new biography of Meryl Streep reveals how Dustin Hoffman preyed on the loss of her lover John Cazale (inset with Streep) and even hit her to make her 'more vulnerable' - and also take out his own rage at his his soon to be ex-wife Anne Byrne (right with Hoffman). 'That's what would fix the Joanna problem: an actress who could draw on a still-fresh pain, who was herself in the thick of emotional turmoil. It was Meryl's weakness, not her strength, that convinced him,' the biography claims.

NEW Wendi Deng was pictured shopping in St Bart's before boarding friend Roman Abramovich's yacht on Monday. The Chinese-born businesswoman, 47, was pictured on St Bart's the same day her ex-husband Rupert Murdoch and his new wife Jerry Hall attended a gala together in New York. Murdoch and the former wife of Mick Jagger tied the knot in London on March 4. Deng was married to Murdoch from 1999 until 2013, when he filed for divorce after reportedly growing suspicious of her close relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Deng and Murdoch have two daughters together, 14-year-old Grace and 12-year-old Chloe.

Marco Muzzo (pictured in black, left), 29, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm. Daniel Neville-Lake (top right), nine, his brother Harrison (top left), five, and their two-year-old sister Milly (top center) and their grandfather, Gary Neville, 65, died last September after the van they were in was hit by a speeding Muzzo, who was driving an SUV, in Ontario. The children's mother (left in bottom right picture) sobbed quietly in the courtroom as Superior Court Justice Michelle Fuerst handed down the sentence in Toronto on Tuesday. She also banned Muzzo from driving for 12 years. 'The sentence is 10 years and none of my children saw 10 years,' Jennifer Neville-Lake said after the sentencing.

The reality TV restaurant owner and her husband Ken Todd are setting up a foundation to end the annual Yulin dog meat festival in southern China. It kills thousands of dogs to celebrate summer. The couple, pictured (left) with some of their eight dogs at their Beverly Hills home have already organized a march last October and are now setting up a foundation dedicated to ending the barbarity. At the festival, held annually to make the summer solstice (top right and bottom right) animals are abused before slaughter in the belief that adrenaline makes the meat more tender. In turn tender meat is said to improve sexual potency - fueling the trade. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

A Milwaukee mother, 21, died on after police say she jumped into Lake Michigan (pictured) with her two-year-old child in a suicide attempt. on Monday. The child miraculously survived.Footage of the rescue shows emergency personnel holding the child in a blue blanket (pictured left) and carrying him to safety. Miraculously the child was revived and Officer Tim Ptaszek called the baby's cries 'the greatest sound in the world.

NEW Celebs have high-end designer clothing at their fingertips, but that doesn't mean they don't enjoy a too-good-to-be-true bargain item just as much as the rest of us. Stars like Kendall Jenner, 20, Gigi Hadid, 20, and Cara Delevingne, 23, have all been spotted recently in stylish-yet-affordable fashions. FEMAIL found their exact pieces. The best part? Everything is under $150!

Kahlua, a purebred yellow Lab in Atlanta, Georgia, is so well-mannered at just 11 weeks old that he knows to pray before he is allowed to eat his dinner (main). In a video posted by the puppy's owner, Chris Credendino, Kahlua - who goes by the nickname Curly - is seen waiting to say grace before having any of his dog food, even though the meal is sitting right in front of him. Only once the grace is finished with 'Amen', he gets up and starts to eat (inset).

Javier Manjarres, 43, who runs blog The Shark Tank in Florida, was arrested Saturday for allegedly shooting at Jason Holowinski, 36, after he got into an argument with sister Olga Manjarres. Olga told officers she had been in an argument with Holowinski when he grabbed her neck and told her to leave the house. Holowinski, who denies grabbing Olga, claims that when he later went to pick her up outside a shopping mall, Manjarres jumped into his car, punched him in the face and then fired three bullets into the driver door of his truck.

Katie J Robinson (left), 23 and Jason D Thomas (right), 34, of Sidney, Maine, have been charged with unlawful possession of heroin and endangering the welfare of a child. A grand jury indicted them last week. Thomas and Robinson took their daughter to the hospital in July last year. There, the little girl, who was one year old at the time, tested positives for opiates. The parents were arrested in December last year after an investigation. Both had previous drug-related convictions. They were charged with child endangerment in August last year, when officers found two jars of marijuana in the front seat of their car while a 14-month-old child sat in the back.

Footage of the filthy dorm room thought to be in Guangzhou, China, appeared online. It showed litter, like empty water bottles and disused paper, everywhere. Two of the women living there were reportedly driven out by the smell. The video has been seen by hundreds of thousands of web users in the country since it appeared last week.

Rachel, 28, is the Golden-Globe-winning star and co-creator of The CW's musical show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. On Monday night's episode, she sang a song called Heavy Boobs about what it's like to be weighed down by big breasts. She says her breasts are 'dense like dying stars' and have been known to trap food that falls out when she gets undressed. She also also explains how it's difficult to run, as she and her back-up dancers dance and bounce around. At the end of the clip, though, they moan about how much that bouncing hurt. Still, she notes that it isn't all bad, and she knows her breasts look great in a shirt.

This is the remarkable moment a pair of Komodo dragons tore a goat to pieces after hunting the animal in a pack on the remote Indonesian island they call home. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to their prehistoric dinosaur ancestors, the photographs show the dragons made short work of the doomed goat. The gory scene (pictured) was captured by photographer Julia Sundukova, from Russia, while visiting Komodo Island, Indonesia.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Mansoor Patel (right) was celebrating the marriage of his son Shekhar in India, when a guest (circled left) accidentally shot him from just a few metres away. Footage, believed to have been captured in Madhya Pradesh, shows the moment the 38-year-old appears on screen, seemingly dancing and enjoying himself. Men can be seen firing rifles into the air and reloading as music plays in the background during the celebration. But moments later, and as another gunshot rings out, the video shows Patel collapsing to the ground (top left).

The man tries Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset in a Russian shopping mall. He 'rides' a rollercoaster which to the onlooker ooks fairly unexciting and not that fast, but obviously convinced the man as when the assistant pushes him physically as the ride plummets down he yells in terror. Convinced he's plunging downwards the man screams and kicks in terror. In fact his reaction is so extreme that various other shoppers rush over in alarm. Eventually the headset is removed and he laughs hysterically, his head in his hands.

A viral video shows the spoilt son of a Russian oligarch persuade women to wash his car in their underwear for a YouTube video - but is it all just a stunt? All the women appear to be strangers but online commentators suggest it may all have been faked. For a fee which the woman themselves negotiate they then strip down to their underwear and wash the car as music blares from the speakers.

Horrifying photos have been released of a naked high school teacher in China trying to rape a student. The incident occurred on March 28 at Taiping High School in Lingshan County. Teachers intervened and managed to free the student from the man surnamed Huo. The Publicity Department of Lingshan County released a statement today confirming the incident. It said Huo has a suspected mental illness and works in the laboratories of the school.

Nestled on top of a large cliff in New Mexico is a sleepy commune that is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America. Acoma Pueblo in Valencia County has been occupied by the Acoma people for over 800 years - though today it only has 50 full-time residents (pictured centre are residents in 1897) and no electricity. In the 1950s part of the rockface was blown up and a road was constructed to the top. But before that the only way to visit the site - which is 360 feet above the desert (top left and bottom right) - was up a near-vertical staircase carved into the golden rockface.

Images include dolls fitted with gas masks (left) discarded among the rusting beds of a nursery in the town of Pripyat near Ukraine's northern border with Belarus. Others show stray cats and dogs wandering around the empty Soviet-era town next to buildings that have been almost completely taken over by trees and undergrowth over the last 30 years. They also show radioactive warning signs (bottom right), abandoned tower blocks and a crumbling amusement park with bumper cars (top righ) and a Ferris wheel creaking in the wind.

This shocking footage shows the alarming moment a bus conductor grabbed an elderly pensioner and forced her off the coach because she could not pay for her fare. The conductor gripped the woman's arms when she refused to buy a ticket on the bus in Yekaterinburg, central Russia. As the woman struggled with the driver, he was heard saying: 'Come on, let's go, come on!'

Yu Bing (right) from Qiqihar, China, has had over 20 operations including two nose jobs in the past two years. The woman, who runs a fashion business, admits wanting to be like Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (left), who is currently the fourth highest paid actress in the world. Her mother (inset) is desperate for her to stop and appeared on a talk show to threaten to disown her. She is pictured here before her procedures in the inset.

A photograph capturing the look of sheer joy on a child's face before he leaps on to his sleeping grandfather has been named the winner of one of the world's most prestigious open photo competitions. Named Wake Up Call, Alex Ingle's photograph shows the young boy preparing to jump onto his grandfather's legs while the unsuspecting elder family member naps on the couch after an Easter lunch (pictured top left). Winners of other categories in the open competition include shots of farmland in eastern Europe (bottom left), a spectacular waterfall in Iceland (top right) and a polar bear (bottom right).

A video shows the moment the man is flung off his feet and down a flight of stairs after the raging beast slams into him head first. He is seen the taunting the beast which stares him down unamused. After a dramatic fall the man crashes head first into the stairs below and tumbles down unconscious. People swarm in to come to his aid as the bull prances round the edge of the ring in triumph.

MailOnline Travel's James Dunn takes a tour of the sights that feature in Steven Spielberg's Cold War spy thriller and discovers along the way just why Berlin is a world-class city. Dunn visits the world-famous Glienicke Bridge, which is the centrepiece of the film's gripping finale (top left and top right) and stays in the luxurious Hotel Adlon Kempinski (bottom left), which is just a stone's throw from the Brandenburg Gate and on the site of the infamous 'dead zone', where defectors would be shot as they tried to cross from East to West.