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It was past bedtime and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel should have been drifting into a comfortable sleep in the safety of her family home. Until 10pm on Monday, the day had been completely normal for Cheryl Korbel, 46, and her three children at their terraced house on Kingsheath Avenue, Liverpool. But outside, around 100 yards along the road near the corner of Finch Lane, a nasty gangland confrontation suddenly flared up. It had nothing to do with the Korbel family, but within seconds there was horror and bloodshed inside their well-kept home.

Little Olivia Pratt-Korbel was likely the tragic victim of a vicious 'tit-for-tat' war among 'feral' gangsters in Liverpool which has gone on for weeks when she was killed by a balaclava-clad gunman who stormed into her house while chasing a suspected rival, her horrified neighbours claimed. The nine-year-old was senselessly and callous murdered by a masked maniac after a 35-year-old man - who was completely unknown to her family but known by police as a criminal - broke into her terraced house in Kingsheath Avenue, in the Dovecot area of Liverpool on Monday night, in a bid to get away from a shooter, police said. Her mother Cheryl Korbel, 46, was shot in the wrist as she tried to close the door on the gunman while Olivia - who was stood behind her - was shot in the chest. Neighbours believe that the attack may have been connected to a shooting at a children's playground just yards from Olivia's home on August 8 - just two weeks ago - where gunmen riding a dark-coloured car shot at a man on an electric bike. Nobody has been arrested for the incident.

In a wide-ranging discussion on the first episode of her long-awaited 'Archetypes' podcast with guest Serena Williams, entitled 'The Misconception of Ambition', Meghan spoke about double standards women face when labelled 'ambitious'. She added: 'And apparently ambition is a terrible, terrible thing. For a woman that is, according to some. So since I felt the negativity behind it, It's really hard to unfeel it.' But her swipe has been slammed as 'a smack in the face for Harry and a punch towards the Royal Family'. Royal commentator Angela Levin also pointed to the hypocrisy of the remarks, suggesting that Meghan 'would still be a D-list celebrity if she had not married a prince'. She also said Meghan had come across 'ungrateful and a victim' when she had 'so many chances others had not', adding that many royals are ambitious and have had success both in their own careers and in terms of raising money for charities.

BEL MOONEY: It was high time that the £18million deal with Spotify, signed in 2020, got off the ground, and of course the first episode - entitled The Misconception of Ambition - had to be a cracker. And certainly the potential was there for two high-profile women to do as billed - investigate the 'labels that try to hold women back'. Since Serena is one of the most successful and fearless players in the history of her sport, I was keen to hear her analyse her ambition and desire to win, and to reflect on the personal cost of her dazzling triumphs; to find out what originally put the steel in her spine and to hear her serve up some devastating backhand shots against male put-downs. But it didn't happen. This bizarre, saccharine and faintly queasy schmooze-fest between Meghan and 'my dear friend Serena' (as we hear over and over again) tells us next to nothing at all about the making of Serena Williams's towering ambition.

Meghan Markle has declared that she is going to 'be myself and talk and be unfiltered' in her new Spotify podcast, in a hint that she is planning on dropping more 'truth-bombs' about the Royal Family - just hours after firing a new broadside at the Windsors. In a new video promoting her long-awaited Archetypes podcast - which has taken two years to get off the ground after the Sussexes signed a lucrative deal with the audio streaming giant estimated to be worth around £18million after they quit royal duties - the duchess said 'people should expect the real me in this and probably the me that they've never gotten to know'. She said: 'People should expect the real me in this and probably the me that they've never gotten to know. Certainly not in the past few years, where everything is through the lens of the media, as opposed to: "Hey, it's me". I'm just excited to be myself and talk and be unfiltered and... yeah, it's fun'. It comes after the former Suits star also hit out at those who criticised her for being 'ambitious' when she started dating Prince Harry , during a wide-ranging discussion on the new episode with her close friend, US tennis great Serena Williams.

The relieved family of student nurse Owami Davies have described their 'deepest gratitude to each and every one of you wherever you are, whoever you are' for helping find the 24-year-old after she went missing nearly eight weeks ago - and was discovered 'safe and well' in Hampshire 100 miles from home. Fears for her safety had been mounting over the past two months after the King's College London nursing student was last seen walking north along London Road in Croydon on July 7 after leaving her family home in Grays, Essex three days earlier - having told her mother she was going to the gym. Despite the arrests of five people and numerous appeals for information, some 50 officers were struggling to locate Miss Davies as they trawled through 117 reported sightings of her and 50,000 hours of CCTV footage as they frantically worked to retrace the student nurse's steps. The 118th report, made in response to a media appeal by a member of the public, at 10.30am today was the one which led to her being found.

DAN WOOTTON: Now I've always been a fan of Mr Styles - he's a real talent whose career I have supported since first meeting him as an enthusiastic teen with stars in his eyes in the canteen backstage at the X Factor, where he effortlessly flirted with virtually every glamorous woman in the vicinity, especially those twice his age. However, I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with his constant and insincere attempts to insert himself in the so-called LGBT+ community with incessant references to the 'journey' of his sexuality, which actually involves dating a parade of beautiful women and no men. In an embarrassingly fawning new interview with Rolling Stone, Harry has again tried to create a mystery around his sexual orientation while promoting his new film My Policeman, where he plays a closeted cop in 1950s Brighton.

The incident took place in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on Monday when the pilot, who is fully licenced and certified by the Civil Aviation Authority, was threatened by  a man. During the footage, a man can be seen approaching the drone pilot carrying what appeared to be a black handgun. The video showed the man point the weapon at the drone pilot. Police said they arrested a man on suspicion of possessing a firearm with the intent to cause fear. Armed officers seized the weapon which was described as an air rifle.

During a conversation with her close friend, tennis great Serena Williams, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, recalled how Archie, now three, narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom on the Sussexes' royal tour to South Africa in autumn 2019. In the episode, released on Tuesday, Meghan spoke of her distress after learning of the near-miss soon after delivering an empowering speech to girls in the Nyanga township in Cape Town, before rushing back to see Archie and then having to leave him to carry out another official engagement. She praised Archie's then nanny, named only as Lauren - a Zimbabwean who liked to tie him on her back with a mud cloth - as 'amazing' when recalling the incident. Meghan added that Lauren stayed with the family until they left for Canada - before the Duchess and Prince Harry moved to the US after stepping back from their roles in the royal family. It comes after Harry and Meghan were 'forced to let go' of one of Archie's night nurses during her second shift with the couple 'for being unprofessional', their biography Finding Freedom claimed in 2020.

The 20 questions every man should ask on a first date. After one woman laid out her checklist for the ideal man, DAVID SANDERSON bites back with his own first date audit: do you take photos of your breakfast, do you read at bedtime, and how much do you drink at wine o'clock (honestly)?

Thousands of small businesses, which fought to survive the pandemic, are now on the verge of collapse due to the cost-of-living crisis. There were 20,200 fewer businesses between April and June this year than there were during the same period last year - the largest loss recorded by Labour researchers in five years. T & P. A. Murray on Gloucester Road, Bristol closed its doors for the final time this month after its annual energy bill rose from £7,000 to £22,000.

Jennifer Lopez has shared a look at her stunning Georgia wedding to Ben Affleck on Saturday. On Tuesday morning the 53-year-old singer and actress took to her website OnTheJLo.com to share a photo while in her wedding dress. The Marry Me star was in closeup with frosty pink makeup on as she wore a white veil.

BETH HALE: By the time Prince William was the age that his eldest son is now, he had already completed his first year at boarding school. That one - Ludgrove, in Wokingham, Berkshire - was among the educational establishments the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited when looking for a new school for Prince George, who celebrated his ninth birthday just a few weeks ago. But ultimately - tellingly - it was not their final choice. Instead they alighted upon £21,000-a-year Lambrook School, near Ascot, just a 15-minute drive from four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage which, from next week, will become their new home on the Queen's Home Park estate at Windsor.

Pandering police appeared to come to the aid of eco-zealots who caused chaos by blocking roads and digging tunnels near oil plants during a demo yesterday by feeding them water as they sat with their hands glued to the ground - amid mounting anger at Britain's ' woke ' forces. Around 30 anarchists from XR-affiliated Just Stop Oil disrupted morning rush hour in Grays, Essex, with 10 staging a sit-down protest on a road next to the M25 while others occupied a nearby oil terminal and others blocked access roads to the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire. Among those at the Grays protest was retired vicar Mark Coleman, 63, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who regularly takes part in climate change demos. He was fed water by at least one officer - even while the group's antics caused travel hell for hundreds of motorists. Though officers made more than 20 arrests, the scenes are likely to fuel fury at what critics have called the increasingly 'light touch' policing of many of Britain's forces.

Adam Peaty has split from his girlfriend Eiri Munro after three years together and apologised for 'letting down' his partner and their son. The Olympic swimmer and former Strictly contestant, 27, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the sad news with his followers. He said that the couple had decided to go 'their separate ways' but that their son George, two, remained their 'priority'.

Russia is planning attacks on civilian targets today, Ukraine's Independence Day, it was claimed yesterday. The threat emerged last night in an intelligence report declassified by the US State Department. In another sickening move Russia may also use today's anniversary to start trials of Ukrainian prisoners of war - with the defendants forced to watch proceedings from cages. Pictures have emerged of huge steel cages being constructed inside Mariupol's philharmonic hall where the trials are due to be held. President Volodymyr Zelensky promised a 'powerful response' to any attacks on Ukrainian soil today.

RICHARD PENDLEBURY: The shattered hulks of dozens of Putin's tanks, armoured fighting vehicles and other heavy equipment stretch from block to block along Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's main boulevard; a vivid demonstration of Ukraine's surprise success in resisting the Russian invasion. We're exactly six months into Europe's most dangerous conflict since the Second World War. Winter has become spring and now high summer and tomato vines laden with fruit are growing through a fissure that runs across a collapsed highway where it traverses the Irpin River. I can guess why they are there. In early March, I had stood on that very spot, in a snowstorm, as refugees filed across the river via a makeshift wooden pontoon.

He has been vocal about his plans to turn his passion for cooking into a career as a chef. And Brooklyn Beckham put his culinary skills to the test as he showed his legions of social media followers his recipe for making homemade pizza. The 23-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham posted a clip of himself whipping up a fresh pizza to Instagram on Tuesday - but left some viewers unimpressed with his ingrediants.

Holly, now 42, has teamed up with fellow ex-playmate Bridget Marquardt for a brand new podcast, called Girls Next Level. In the first episode, which premiered on Monday, the two women shared some intimate details on what it was like to have sex with the magazine publisher. They admitted that they wanted to 'get it over with as quickly as possible' and that 'none of the females were into it.' The ladies detailed sleeping with Hugh in front of other woman, who would 'talk s**t about them,' and claimed the intimate act sometimes only lasted one minute. Holly added that the women all thought of having sex with Hugh as a 'chore,' but said they had to do it out of fear that they'd be 'kicked out of the house.' She claimed that Hugh would sometimes not even move during sex, calling him 'a bump on the log in the middle of the bed.'

Spanish police are said to have arrested a 21-year-old British man after locating witnesses to the alleged attack. Officials are also looking for another tourist was also involved. According to sources from a group of taxi drivers, the incident on the Spanish island of Majorca began when the 'intoxicated' tourist, who was walking down the street accompanied by two other men, climbed onto the hood of the taxi.

Eugen Sabau, 46 was badly injured following the shooting rampage in Tarragona which left three of his former colleagues and a police officer with gunshot wounds. Police shot Sabau several times, leaving him paralysed from the neck down and with one leg after the other was amputated. He was also in chronic pain since the incident in December 2021.

ANTONIA HOYLE: My kit is kept in the porch, jostling for position with the dog food and children's trainers. Admittedly, its presence isn't the most elegant way of welcoming people into our home, and has an irritating habit of tripping us up en route to the freezer. But my family has been warned to move those three sets of dumbbells and chrome barbell at their peril. They know they are more integral to my middle-aged body than any amount of spinach smoothies or exfoliating scrubs, because they give me what every woman over 40 should have in her anti-ageing armoury: muscles. I've long been an enthusiastic exerciser, running since I was a teenager for the endorphins it generated. But without the strength I've recently acquired in my arms, legs and abdominals, my body would be starting to flag - the cardio I focused on for fitness in my youth now not enough to maintain it alone.

Edna Martin, 87, and her husband Simon, 47, have been married for 17 years and have appeared on This Morning several times. Gushing viewers took to Twitter to wish the couple well as Edna discussed a frightening time when she thought she might lose Simon as he waited for a kidney transplant and grew weaker. People branded the couple 'lovely' and said 'it's not about age'.

A self-proclaimed psychologist who goes by @rootcausepsychology took to TikTok to reveal his 'third eye' tattoo on his forehead. The social media user admitted he got the tattoo to feel more enlightened and because he was 'so fed up of living in fear'. At the end of the video he added he was going to get a $50,000 loan and take strangers on a shopping spree while teaching them about spirituality. Users quickly filled his comments section, expressing concern for his mental state, with many asking if he was 'ok'.

In the performance, actors dressed as sheep are led around the city by a shepherd, who takes them to a pen before 'shearing' them. There, he might feed the 'sheep' lettuce which they eagerly chew up, lapping up the greens from the hands of audience members. He also 'milks' the sheep - a mechanism which remains a secret to audience members.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden (pictured) visited Gardsjo Farm in Heby, in Uppland. The future Queen, 45, opted for an oversized powder blue shirt paired with straight cut indigo jeans and practical trainers. She spoke with farmer Louise Gårdenborg (pictured right with the Crown Princess) about biological diversity in agriculture. She was seen walking around the farm with Louise's daughter Barbro and others as the farmer spoke in detail about agriculture.

Soner Büyümez was working on a farm in a remote region of Turkey shortly after the landslide had occurred earlier this month when he heard what sounded like an animal howling for help. The vet ran towards the site of the landslide in search of the source of the desperate sound, and quickly stumbled upon a stray dog (right) who was buried in a small burrow up to her neck in dirt, unable to move. The vet and his colleague managed to free the dog before spending two hours digging fervently to save her pups (right). Miraculously, seven of the eight puppies survived thanks to the heroic rescue effort and the canine family is now living safely with their rescuer (inset).

Robert Brantley saved 13 kittens in June after stopping on his way home when he saw Scout wandering on his own. Soon after he approached the small cat, a dozen others sprouted from the grass and raced toward him, as seen in a viral video that has resurfaced recently. He would end up taking them home and rehoming them to good families and keeping three for his family of four. The family would go on to also rescue a little of dogs and help other stray animals.

A huge-scale operation is underway at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, as keepers coax thousands of animals to step onto the scales for the Zoo's annual weigh-in. As part of their regular check-ups, all creatures great and small are having their vital statistics recorded as a way of keeping track of the health and wellbeing of the 10,000 animals at the UK's largest Zoo.

A 26-year-old man who was training how to paraglide was killed in a tragic accident in Brazil. Alexandre Pereira, was carrying out a practice paragliding flight when he crashed Sunday in Alagoa Grande, a rural city in the northeastern state of Paraíba. A video recorded by a villager showed the moment when Pereira was descending and lost control of the paraglider.

People from around the world took to social media to share the strangest, funniest downright bizarre tops they've spotted. The best examples were collated by the Instagram account Good Shirts and shared in a gallery by Bored Panda. One elderly man made light of his mortality with a hilarious t-shirt (left) that read: 'Cremation is my last hope at a smoking hot body.' Also pictured: Two other t-shirts shared on the group.

Sheffield-based photographer Lucy Ray, 42, who runs Starfish Underwater Photography captured adorable snaps of babies enjoying a dip in their local pools this summer. Pictured: a baby with a toy starfish from Farnham, left, another baby making a splash in Cheltenham, right, and inset, a baby girl in Rotherham.

Shocking footage shows Adrian Martinez Fernandez, 24, being smashed by the furious, burning beast in the town of Vallada in Valencia, Spain, on Sunday during an annual event ran as a tribute to a patron saint. The animal whose horns had been set alight for the festival turned Fernandez over and then gored him as terrified festival-goers, standing mere feet away but protected by railings, looked on in disbelief. The 24-year-old, who had travelled from Almansa to attend the festivities, was taken by ambulance to the hospital as a precaution with no immediately visible injuries. But the attack had ruptured his spleen and caused several other internal injuries, leaving medical staff with no hope of saving his life.