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Fitness trackers will be, without doubt, at the top of many Christmas lists. They look like trendy watches, but contain high-tech gadgetry that tells us how many steps we take, distance covered and calories burned, our heart rate, quality of sleep, and a host of other data recorders. However, recent studies have found they make little difference to weight loss, and now doubts have been cast over what these devices, many of which cost upwards of £100, claim to do.

She's set to become America's First Lady, with a life cossetted in the extravagant luxury afforded only to the super-rich. And although Melania Trump's existence today (left) as the wife of a billionaire is far removed from her childhood (inset) in a communist state, it is the fulfilment of the dreams that she nurtured living in her own white house as a 16-year-old. Now The Mail on Sunday has gone back to the young Melania's home town, spoken to some of her school friends - and tracked down that white house built by her father (top right).

Meghan Markle's attitudes to relationships, the death threats she's received, and some of the dubious TV jobs she's taken can be revealed - thanks to a wide-ranging conversation she had with Mail on Sunday columnist Piers Morgan over a dirty martini in a London pub. Piers met the American actress in London in June, months before the world learned about her Royal relationship. She hinted about a 'persistent' man in her life - and the very next night, she was seen with Prince Harry at fashionable members' club Soho House.

More than 40 leading musicians, actors, sportsmen and other personalities appear in this new version of the famous sleeve of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band record, released in 1967. But can you name them all?

Devastating CCTV footage from China shows a grandmother accidentally dropping her four-month-old grandson 30ft down the side of an escalator to its death after she lost her footing and let go of him. The baby boy was reportedly rushed to hospital but died in the early hours of this morning.

The Queen (pictured right) and other members of the Royal Family descended on the Royal Albert Hall for the annual Royal Festival of Remembrance. This year marks the centenaries of the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Jutland, the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War and the and the 80th anniversary of the first flight of the Supermarine Spitfire. Other royals at the service on Saturday included the Duke of Edinburgh (right, with the Queen), the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall (middle).

In this, her first full interview, Joanne, Countess of Cardigan, reveals the extraordinary story of how a vicious attack by a stranger ultimately led her to meet - and then marry - one of Britain's most colourful, and controversial, aristocrats.

Julian Lloyd Webber has launched a fight against the illegal brothels - which masquerade as health centres - in South Kensington, London after his wife, the internationally acclaimed cellist Jiaxin Cheng, was mistaken for a sex worker. 'What annoys me is that many shops work so hard to try to pay very high rents through legitimate means, and then you have other kinds of shops getting away with you-know-what,' the conductor said.

The supermarket's 90-second film is to air during the X Factor Results show on ITV1, but you can watch the red-breasted bird's perilous journey before anyone else here. The commercial tells the story of a robin making his way from Scandinavia to a UK garden, where he knows a mince pie is awaiting him.

Paris' Bataclan concert hall turned away two members of Eagles of Death Metal who were playing during the ISIS attack at the venue last year. They tried to enter the venue for Sting's gig as the hall reopened to mark the anniversary of the massacre which killed 90 innocent music fans. But director Jules Frutos refused to let them in after frontman Jesse Hughes earlier this year suggested that Muslim staff were involved in the gun and suicide bomb attack on November 13, 2015.

In their own words, JASON KENNY and LAURA TROTT describe the childhood setbacks - such as the time Laura kept blacking out - and near-misses - such as the time a van nearly knocked Jason flying - that could have stolen their chances of glory

Alison Hewitt was subjected to a vicious campaign of harassment by her ex-boyfriend Al Amin Dhalla (pictured together left), who also targeted her mother and stepfather, torching their 500-year-old thatched cottage. He then armed himself with a crossbow (pictured), a large knife and a claw hammer and drove to Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex, where Alison worked, and posed as a doctor to try to access her shift rota (right). Described in court as a psychopathic narcissist, Dhalla, a former City auditor, was jailed indefinitely in June 2012 - for harassment, arson, being reckless as to whether life is endangered, possession of an offensive weapon and damaging property - and told he would serve a minimum of six years. But Sussex Police tipped off crime writer Peter James (inset) who turned her horrific ordeal into the novel Want You Dead.

Antarctica is 14 million square kilometres of ice-covered landmass with temperatures dropping to below -90 degrees C. Striking images show the vast landscape of the continent which is home to the to the coldest, windiest and driest conditions on the planet. Scientists don climbing gear to squeeze their way through the naturally formed ice caves dotted around the vast area, top centre. Scott Base in New Zealand, bottom right, is vital to the their survival when exploring the continent and are kept company by the wildlife including penguins, bottom centre, and whales.

An adorable video of dogs leaping through tall grass is making the rounds online as half a dozen pooches prance like antelopes. The 40-second clip posted to YouTube on Wednesday shows the excited pups being let loose in a field of tall green grass. The dogs of all different breeds and sizes dart off into the field without a care in the world.As they leap through the grass, they seem to be swimming like dolphin in water. Each dog pops up as it leaps through the grass and then disappears as it land again. The woman filming the dogs laughs as the goofy pups leap through the field.

Reza Rezamand, 31, drove himself to A&E; after receiving a bite to the hand outside his local gym in Stoke-on-Trent, where doctors kept him overnight and pumped him with 16 powerful antibiotics. During his stay his feet would balloon to twice their normal size, and after being rushed to a second hospital doctors discovered he had sepsis. Reza, who went on to make a full recovery, had been told by doctors that there had been a 30 per cent of him dying from the infection. It comes after Britain experiences a mini-invasion of the multi-coloured harlequin ladybird, which carry diseases with them and are killing off the native red ladybird.

Tan Shukla probably wished he stayed at home on Saturday after his $180k Ferrari exploded into flames after he stopped to use an ATM in the Sydney suburb of Lalor Park. And if things weren't bad enough, Mr Shukla's ATM card and money were pinched, while a man helping extinguish the fire then preceded to steal the Ferrari owners laptop.

While the rest of the country anxiously awaited the results of the presidential election, the Scudder family from Murrieta, California, spent Tuesday afternoon finalizing the adoption of Veronica, three, and Preston, one. Kylie, who is now the siblings' older sister, proudly took to Twitter after the adoption was made official to share photos of Veronica and Preston beaming for the camera.