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It's the third time Kate Middleton and Prince William, both 37, have attended the spectacular Royal Variety Performance, which takes place every year, either in London or in a theatre around the UK. Kate (top-left) looked stunning in a floor-length black lace overlay Alexander McQueen gown and wore her glossy locks in loose curls. The royal couple, (top-right, and leaving the show, bottom-left), greeted a number of performers (inset and bottom-centre) as well as celebrities including Robbie Williams (bottom-right). They spoke with executives from the Royal Variety Charity and ITV, both before and after the show, which was held at the London Palladium theatre. The event is in aid of the Royal Variety Charity, formally known as The Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund, of which The Queen is Patron. 

A string of major companies are examining their links to the Duke of York amid the backlash over his answers to questions about his relationship with paedophile Epstein. KPMG did not renew its sponsorship of Prince Andrew's Pitch@Palace initiative and insurance giant Aon demanded its name be removed from the scheme's website (inset, the prince addressing a Pitch@Palace meeting). Meanwhile, Astrazeneca is considering its relationship with the prince after his Newsnight interview (right) on billionaire Epstein, who killed himself in jail. During the talk with Emily Maitlis, the Duke denied that he was a partying prince despite him being pictured with models and socialites over the years (left, Andrew in Phuket with supermodel Normandie White).

RICHARD KAY: Prince Charles has made no secret that when he comes to the throne he foresees a slimmed down monarchy with fewer members. Charles started a six-day royal tour at the weekend . And It was not just that the debacle was drowning out the Prince's own royal duties but that Charles was in New Zealand (left), which has one of the most vocal republican movements in the Commonwealth. Prince Andrew and Prince Charles at Sandringham for the Christmas Day church service (right). Meanwhile the Queen cut a sombre figure during a morning horse ride at Windsor Castle (inset).

A woman who claims she was trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 15 years old has launched legal proceedings against the wealthy paedophile’s estate. The women, who is named in court documents only as Jane Doe, alleges Epstein tried to lure her to his estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands by telling her Prince Andrew would be there. The victim says she was just 15 when a female associate of Epstein began grooming her for sex with Epstein by gifting her an iPod. The associate then sexually assaulted her before passing her off to the millionaire, it was reported. Though the duke has been accused of having sex with Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts at Epstein's island estate, there is no evidence that Prince Andrew would have been there when Jane Doe 15 was invited. The lawsuit is against Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the executors of Epstein's estate for undisclosed monetary damages. 

During his TV interview Prince Andrew said he and the duchess had a rule 'that when one is away the other is there' as part of his defence against the allegations that he danced with Virginia Roberts at Tramp nightclub. However, photographs and reports from the time, unearthed by the Daily Mail, show the duke and duchess broke this pact only four months earlier. Pictured: Sarah Ferguson in India on November 3, 2000. Inset: The duke in LA on November 4, 2000.

NEW Retired Major Chris Green, who was based near the Helmand Province village where three brothers were killed by British forces, says there was no evidence that they were Taliban members. He also said his attempts to investigate the incident were blocked and that he was barred from looking at footage of the raid and subsequent shooting. His claims are part of a BBC Panorama investigation which aired last night. The episode argued that killings of civilians during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have been covered up by the state. The mother of the three men says that they were killed while they had their hands in the air.

It's been an eventful 24 hours in the jungle for Caitlyn Jenner. The reality star, 70, spent the early hours of her first morning having a cry, while her campmates still slept - before eventually trying out the jungle shower.

Russian authorities said the 32 toddlers had been held in Iraqi jails where their  m others are either serving out sentences or awaiting trial for membership of the Islamic State group. The health ministry said the children, who arrived in Moscow late Monday, were taken straight to a hospital for medical tests.

The inquest at Wakefield Coroner's Court heard that a file on Peter Pickering (right) - who was dubbed the 'Beast of Wombwell' - was sent to West Yorkshire from Scotland Yard but was returned after he couldn't be traced. Two months later, another man was charged with Elsie Frost's murder but was eventually cleared - leaving the case cold for nearly 50 years. Pickering was left free to go on to murder 14-year-old Shirley Boldy and kidnap and rape an 18-year-old woman in Barnsley in 1972. The new inquest into Elsie's death is being held after her brother and sister, Colin Frost (inset) and Anne Cleave, successfully campaigned for a fresh review.

HENRY DEEDES: Liberal Democrats wow business community shocker. Not words you often read when the lentil-munching tendency goes-a-wooing the Savile Row-suited City fat cats. But that's what's happened when Jo Swinson (left) turned up in Docklands - along with Boris Johnson (right) and Jeremy Corbyn (centre) - to address the CBI, that occasionally whiney voice of British enterprise.

Poll expert Philip Cowley has revealed that despite a margin of error of at least three per cent, Boris Johnson is still on an upward trend and is several points ahead of Labour.

Conservative candidate for Ashfield, Lee Anderson, has revealed that he switched from being a Labour councillor to a Conservative candidate after he faced abuse from the opposition for being a Brexiteer. Attacks on Mr Anderson came from Momentum activists that pulled up outside his house and a member of staff in Labour MP for Ashfield Gloria De Piero's office (Gloria is pictured left with Lee). The former miner worked in a Nottinghamshire coal pit in the 80s and 90s (inset) and said that many other miners also voted for Brexit. (Centre: Lee Anderson with Boris Johnson on the campaign trail).

Jodie (inset) was listening to music with friends in a park in east London when she was knifed in the back amid a tit-for-tat battle between rival gangs. Dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, (top right) who delivered the fatal blow, was today jailed for life at the Old Bailey and ordered to serve at least 26 years behind bars. His 17-year-old 'runner' sidekick, who can today be named for the first time as Aaron Isaacs (bottom right), was handed an 18-year minimum prison term. Footage of the pair being arrested (left) and photos of two gruesome-looking knives found on the pair were released by police today.

Actresses Helena Bonham Carter (inset middle), Kristin Scott Thomas (inset bottom right), and Carey Mulligan (inset top right) star in the new documentary on Channel 4: My Grandparents' War. The series explores the wartime past of the celebrities' ancestors. Violet Bonham Carter (left). Helena Bonham Carter's grandfather Eduardo Propper de Callejón (middle). Royal Navy veteran: Kristin's grandfather William took part in eight Arctic Convoys (bottom right). Carey grandfather Denzil Booth served in the Royal Navy as a Radar officer in the final years of World War Two (top right).

The daughters of Russia's most influential people dressed up to the nines in showstopping ensembles as they flaunted their wealth at the highly-anticipated annual event. Stepping out of their private cars, the glamorous debutantes joined their dashing dates as they made an incredible entrance into the grand hall of the luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel. Pictured, Blogger Katya Adushkina (left) and an impressive group shot on their arrival at Moscow's Ritz Carlton hotel (right).

Joshua Molnar (bottom left; left, with his mother Stephanie; and right, outside court), 18, was cleared of the murder and manslaughter of Yousef Makki (bottom centre) after arguing that he stabbed his friend in self-defence in Hale Barns, Cheshire. But Molnar was sentenced to a 16-month detention training order for perverting the course of justice and possession of a knife following the stabbing on March 2. The family of Yousef - a scholarship pupil at the £13,000-a-year Manchester Grammar School - were told last week of fellow public schoolboy Molnar's application for day release from prison in time for Christmas.

Rachel Carrie (pictured), 35, has been censored for 'sensitive' snaps of the game she shoots, on Instagram. She says people are 'more extreme' for accusing her of 'bloodlust' and society is 'wrapping people in cotton wool' from the truth about where we source our food. So Rachel has taken it upon herself to educate and 'reconnect' us all to nature, the countryside and the animals that feed us, whatever the backlash may be. Which is why, from early next week, she will be erecting vast, billboard-sized images of a very pink-looking muntjac open sandwich all around the UK, to promote her cookbook.

Olivia Gibbs, (before left and after right) 24, is an office manager and lives in Macclesfield, Cheshire. She is 5ft 6in and weighs 10st 5lb, having lost 5st 1lb. And when her friend suggested going to Cape Verde she said yes. 'My friends were so used to me saying no to everything that I'd almost surprised myself by saying yes for once.'

Members of the country's armed forces gave them a traditional Maori welcome, where a dart was placed on the ground by a warrior for Charles to pick up in the wero, or challenge.A call of welcome and haka followed, while Charles took the royal salute and inspected the guard. Charles and Camilla also rubbed noses during the official welcome, a traditional Maori greeting. It seemed the Duchess had picked the wrong hat for the occasion, with a Maori warrior wincing as it pressed against his forehead during the greeting.

Faith the three-year-old Staffie (pictured) has found a home with Taylor Elliot and her husband Matt, of Norfolk, after spending more than 1,000 days at the Bath Cats & Dogs Home, Somerset. They say her 'personality is already coming through' and she just 'needed a chance'. She was rescued and taken to the RSCPA by actor Anthony Head and his wife Sarah Fisher in 2017. And it was only after the Bath kennels used the RSPCA's 'Adoptober' campaign to try and find Faith a forever home, that the Norfolk couple paid her two visits before deciding on welcoming her into their home.

The Crown returned to Netflix with an explosive third series yesterday - introducing fans to key royal events from the 1960s and 1970s. Viewers watched as Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) cavorted with US President Lyndon B. Johnson (Clancy Brown), pictured left, and the Queen uncovered a spy (centre) and 'faked' tears while speaking to the bereaved following the Aberfan tragedy of 1966 (left). But how much of the show is fact... and what is simply royal fiction?

A funny five second video of a pair of fans at a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game has been viewed nearly 20 million times on Twitter in just two days. The clip was recorded during a broadcast of the Maple Leafs' game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, November 16 and shared on Twitter soon after, and it's quickly become one of the most buzzed-about moments of the match. While the Leafs were getting trounced by the Penguins, a young woman in the crowd moved to take a smiling selfie with a young man next to her - and the moment their plastered-on smiles quickly fell into frowns has delighted Twitter users.

NEW The birds were seen near the village of Red Lodge in Suffolk just two miles from a farm run by Traditional Norfolk Poultry (TNP) which breeds turkeys. The video was shared to Facebook and members of the public were so concerned about the birds welfare that one person even offered up their land for the turkeys to stay on.

The gang of five are seen whooping in triumph as they rampage up and down the aisles scooping up items, including laptops, at the shop in Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire. As alarms blare, one yob wearing a black tracksuit with a hoodie leaves the shop carrying stolen merchandise while two of his friends stand by the entrance. Meanwhile another - making no attempt to hide his face - holds two laptops and laughs as he yanks a selection of devices out of their sockets on a display stand marked 'Must Haves'.

Travel bloggers who earn a six-figure salary from posting scenic photos on Instagram have revealed how they built their 'dream home' in Bali - and why it needed to 'photograph well'. Manchester-born Jack Morris, who has 2.7 million follower, and his Australian girlfriend of three years Lauren Bullen, (both inset) purchased the plot of land in 2018 and began conjuring up their idyllic home (left and right). 'It took about a year to build the house and it was a lot of work. We wanted it to be photogenic so that we could shoot content there,' Jack said,

Los Angeles County firefighters were at the scene of a car accident in March when they saw Julie Gorman and her bridesmaids walking on the side of the road. The bride explained that their limousine was stuck in traffic, and they were late for her wedding to her now-husband Geof Gorman. The firefighters loaded Julie and her bridesmaids into their fire truck and gave them a Code 3 escort the wedding venue. A few weeks after the ceremony, Julie sent the firefighters a photo of herself posing with them in front of their truck on her wedding day to thank them. After seeing the image hung up at the station this week, a representative for the Los Angeles County firefighters shared it on Instagram, and the sweet story went viral.

Footage shows father-of-three Billy Perry, 46, practicing for the indoor sport using his children's heads, television and roof at home in Arrow, Oklahoma. In one clip he kicks an American football from underneath his son's head and the top of his daughter's while he is blindfolded. The father-of-three attempted the stunts as part of his training. Arena football is an indoor version of soccer that uses a smaller pitch to make the games faster.

A 'kung fu' bear has been filmed trying out some moves at the Asa zoological park in Hiroshima, Japan. The skilled mammal, believed to be a moon bear due to its white patch of fur, was caught spinning a stick repeatedly between its paws and while it sucked on its foot. This is at least the fourth time that the bear, named Claude, has been caught trying out his own variant of Aiko kung fu.

A man has been filmed jumping from the first-floor window of a police station while handcuffed to a radiator, before running away. The shocking footage, taken on a smartphone, shows the suspect making his escape from a police station in St Petersburg, Russia. It is unclear whether the man has been re-captured by the authorities or why he had been taken to the police station.