Children carrying handguns are ordered to take part in a training mission, going from room to room in an abandoned building (bottom left) in Raqqa, Syria, searching for tied-up captives. One man is shot in the leg before receiving a point blank head shot while another terrified prisoner is cornered on a roof (top right) before plunging to his death (bottom right). The 34-minute video, called My Father Told Me, shows so-called cubs of the Caliphate in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa going through military drills (top left) and learning how to use handheld rocket launchers. Brainwashed youngsters aged between nine and 13 also learn martial arts and how to fire machine guns during the film.

A pilot, identified as Capt. Tekad Purna, for Indonesian low-cost airline Citilink repeatedly dropped his belongings as he went through security at Surabaya airport on Wednesday morning. The pilot is believed to have made it as far as the cockpit before he was replaced by another captain when many passengers staged a walk off. The travellers were reportedly alerted to his alleged state of intoxication when he made an incoherent flight announcement while preparing for take off. Citilink confirmed he had appeared ‘physically unfit’ and an investigation is ongoing.

Rupert Murdoch's famed ex-wife Wendi Deng has spent the holiday period with a handsome Hungarian model. The 47-year-old was pictured strolling hand-in-hand along a beach in St Barts with her 6ft 2in lover Bertold Zahoran on Wednesday. Since her split from her octogenarian ex-husband in 2013, Deng has swapped one toyboy for another.

Todd Fisher says his mother was in a peaceful state when she died on Wednesday, a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher (Reynolds is pictured with her two children at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards on the left). The 84-year-old Hollywood legend suffered a stroke while at her son's house (bottom right) to plan her daughter's funeral (mother and daughter pictured top right). 'I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie,' Reynolds reportedly said. Fisher died Tuesday - three days after suffering a sudden heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles.

In one reference to the crash, which claimed 92 lives, the French magazine depicted a jet hurtling downwards along with words translated as: 'Bad news... Putin wasn't on board'. Some 68 members of the Alexandrov music and dance ensemble perished when the military aircraft crashed into the Black Sea on Christmas Day. The satirical magazine also published a cartoon showing a choir member from the ensemble making a wailing sound 'aaaaaa'. 'It is degrading for any human being to even pay attention to such a poorly-created abomination,' said the Russian Defence Ministry's spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov.