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Princess Anne’s daughter and her rugby player husband (pictured at the royal wedding in May, left), who already have four-year-old daughter Mia Grace (inset), welcomed a little girl on Monday, as a ‘delighted’ Princess Anne joined the Queen at Ascot (right). The new arrival, whose name has not yet been announced, was born at Stroud Maternity Unit in Gloucestershire, weighing 9 lbs 3 oz, making her the heaviest royal baby in recent history.

Pictured: Alena and Sasha Parker, 37, fiercely protested their innocence when they were arrested outside a luxury hotel in the Gulf state in August last year. The incident began after paramedics tried to help Alena Parker who had hurt her hand after leaving a drinks reception at a hotel in the upmarket Al Barsha district on 4 August, 2017, the judge was told.

Harrison Scott-Hood, 23, (pictured left with his art agent mother) who was known as 'Lover' in the graffiti community, travelled to Loughborough Junction, south London, from Muswell Hill in the north of the capital but died after being struck by a train at night. The privately-educated fine art student, whose mother Susie is a successful painter and art agent, was found dead alongside 19-year-old Alberto Fresneda Carrasco (right, top left), who was known as Trip and also lived in north London. The final victim was 23-year-old Jack Gilbert (right, top right), nicknamed K-Bag, and all three friends are believed to have been hit by an out of service passenger train shortly after 1am as they painted on walls in south London (bottom right) after dark. Mr Scott-Hood's parents Susie and Perry said today: 'We are completely heartbroken by the loss of our only son, Harrison. He was the love of our life, a kind and beautiful young man and we were beyond broken by this news'.

Robbie Lea (inset) drowned in Lee Valley Park, Hertfordshire, despite the Duke of Cambridge piloting an air ambulance (pictured, right) to the scene. Emergency services led a desperate search for the boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene (pictured, left, Prince William in the park after landing for the rescue mission). Today an inquest in Hatfield found Robbie had drowned after meeting with his friends and swimming out to an island.

Drone footage has captured the moment a 75-year-old was found in a marsh following a desperate overnight search and rescue operation. Some 50 people took part in a huge search to find Peter Pugh after he was reported missing when he vanished during an evening walk with friends in Norfolk. Police have now released footage of the moment a drone spotted Mr Pugh in the 420-acre Titchwell Marsh, suffering hypothermia.

Rare photos of curiosities, along with circus programmes, feature in a scrapbook which a circus enthusiast compiled more than 100 years ago. Pictured left: 'Uranus', a 7ft 3in German giant whose real name was Jakob Nacken; top right, a man balances sharp knives on his face; centre bottom, Alfred Langevin, and his eyeball smoking feat; bottom right, a now politically incorrect 'fat lady'.

Some of the country's brightest thinkers and the leaders of tomorrow let down their hair for one night as they celebrated the end of their exams at Cambridge University's infamous May Ball. Students stripped off, hopped into inflatable boats and even leapt into the river (shown bottom right) after an all-night party at the Trinity Great Hall, as they wandered through the cobbled streets (shown top right), champagne bottles in hand. Still clad in dinner jackets, top hats and glamorous floor-length dresses, hordes of students teetered home arm-in-arm following the lavish event and prepared to carry on the celebrations with punt rides on the River Cam. The occasion is notorious for giving the young revellers a chance to frolic in the streets as they celebrate the end of their exams. Many of the ladies ditched their heels to clamber home and shielded their eyes from the morning sun, while young men undone their bow ties and unbuttoned their shirts.

Andrew McInnes (inset top) and William Cooper (inset bottom) died of smoke inhalation after the blaze started in a toaster in their kitchen on the night of June 26 last year. An inquest heard how nearly every available space was filled with junk at their three bedroom terraced house in Lowestoft, Suffolk. The pair's back door was also blocked with a freezer and the front door was deadlocked, meaning firefighters had to break windows to gain access. Firefighters then had to battle their way through heaps of clutter inside the house to reach the pair.

Supporters up and down the country partied long into the night after the 2-1 victory over Tunisia, with some likening it to the scenes when the country lifted the trophy in 1966. They brought town and city centres to a standstill and pubs and other venues saw raucous celebrations as beer was sprayed into the air and fans clambered on top of each other. One video taken at the O2 Academy in Leeds showed fans erupting in joy as drinks went flying and smoke cannons fired into the air. In London’s Flat Iron Square supporters clambered on top of each other after the goal went in (right). One fan said on Twitter: 'Celebrate like its 1966.' Another said: 'I think I may have been asleep for three weeks. Woke up and from the news on the BBC, England seem to have won the World Cup’ (inset). Captain Harry Kane (inset top) scored the injury time winner that triggered the jubilant scenes last night.

Irina Chigirinskaya, who has described flying commercial planes as a 'horror' and getting a diamond Rolex aged ten as normal, married partner Moris Mirelli, 23, (pictured inset with the bride) in a lavish £1.2 million ceremony in front of 1,500 guests, held at a golf club near Moscow owned by a friend of Donald Trump. Chigirinskaya is the daughter of billionaire construction tycoon Alexander Chigirinsky, 55, a friend of Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich. The cost of her wedding dress, by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad, has been estimated at £165,000, and the food alone is thought have cost more than £350,000.

Xi Jinping heaped praise on Kim Jong-un on Tuesday for his summit with President Trump last week, saying he is dedicated to improving relations between China and North Korea. The two leaders were pictured meeting alongside their wives in Beijing (left) and warmly shaking hands (top right) after Kim had earlier flown into Beijing airport and taken a motorcade to the venue (bottom right), in contrast to his first trip to China when he went by train. This was also the first of Kim's China trips to be announced beforehand, with the other two only being announced once he had left the country.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi is shown in an orange jumpsuit, kneeling before a masked jihadist near the centre circle of a packed stadium in Russia (left). In the foreground, a bearded extremist can be seen with a suicide bomb connected to a trigger button. A caption urges fanatics to be 'ready and steady for the season of hunting is soon'. Mocked-up images also show a militant examining a screen showing World Cup venues - dubbed 'targets' for lone-wolf jihadists (top right). A third shows a militant carrying a bomb on to a football field through flames (bottom right) while a final poster simply says 'kill them all' (inset).