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James and Claire Weir from Paisley, Scotland, thought their twins Annabelle (left) and Imogen (right) would die. The identical sisters were born three days under the 24-week legal limit for abortion - making them the youngest twins ever recorded in Britain. They were so tiny they couldn't even wear clothes for fear their delicate skin might tear.

They're both gorgeous, glamorous and adored by royal brothers, but how does glossy good girl the Duchess of Cambridge (left) measure up against sassy Suits star Meghan Markle (right)? Lucy Lawrence pits the princes' partners against each other to see whether future King of England Prince William (left inset) or his brother Harry (right inset) have the stand-out significant other. Kate and Meghan square off over their style, girl power, pets, family and social media status.

February sees the 75th anniversary of a momentous month in the Second World War, during which Singapore fell to the Japanese, with other British strongholds soon following. But closer to home, Londoners, still reeling from the Luftwaffe blitz that had shattered the city and claimed so many lives, were haunted by a different kind of killer, one who struck in the dark, slaughtering by night so prolifically and with such sadistic savagery in a grotesque six-day killing spree that he was dubbed the Blackout Ripper. Gordon Cummins (pictured inset) killed four women in five nights, including aspiring actrss Evelyn Oatley (left).

British rock star Rick Parfitt death on Christmas eve was mourned widely by fans. While his widow Lyndsay Parfitt endures her own grief she also feels betrayed and bewildered. Lyndsay is learning far more about her reckless rock star husband in death than she ever did in life - and the startling revelations have left her reeling.

Mother of four-year-old twins, Esther and Stella, died in childbirth last August and the pair were taken into an orphanage at one-day-old. They were cared for by Estelina Kalumpha who they regarded as their birth mother. But now her sister, Gladys, says she'd be horrified to know girls may be taken to US, saying: 'I fear I may never see them again' after hearing Madonna wants to adopt them and taken them back to America.

An explanation of the picture of Trump and May holding hands at the White House has emerged - hat he was clinging on to Mrs May for support because he has a morbid fear of stairs and slopes. A senior Government source suggested that the President suffers from a condition known technically as bathmophobia. Mr Trump has already publicly admitted to being a 'germaphobe' with a compulsive need for cleanliness.

While protesters gathered at airports around the country and decried the president's Muslim ban, First Daughter Ivanka Trump shared a 'tone deaf' photo of her and husband Jared Kushner on social media. The couple, thought to be headed to the annual Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday night, drew a sharp rebuke as critics pointed to the refugees, migrants and legal residents affected by the president's executive order. Kushner wore a tuxedo, while Ivanka defaulted to a $4,990 silver jacquard gown by Carolina Herrera - and Twitter users mercilessly mocked her for looking like a baked potato.

In a dramatic show of strength by Theresa May, HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer equipped with the latest anti-aircraft rockets, will set sail for Ukraine carrying up to 60 Special Boat Service and Royal Marine commandos. The move is part of the biggest British military build-up on Russia's borders for decades, and comes after the Prime Minister told US politicians that Britain and America should stand up to President Vladimir Putin.

Former stripper Anna Ziuzina is accused of murdering husband Barry Pring (inset with Miss Ziuzina), 47, in Ukraine on their first wedding anniversary after he was 'tricked into standing in a busy duel carriageway'. Mr Pring was killed in an 80mph hit-and-run crash and his family told an inquest last week they believe the internet bride (left and right) arranged his brutal death to seize his £1.5 million inheritance. But in a blog written from her home in Marbella Miss Ziuzina, 38, has denied killing her husband and accused Mr Pring's brother Shaughan - who has led the family's campaign for justice - of being motivated by 'jealousy'.

Friends of Sir John Hurt say he was not always so decipherable as he was haunted by the death of one of his life's great loves, Vogue model Marie-Lise Volpeliere Pierrot, who died in 1983 in a freak riding accident in Oxford. Although he wed four times, he never married Marie-Lise but she was his longest relationship, as they lived together for 15 years. Friends say a bit of Sir John never got over the hurt of losing her. He was called an 'extraordinary, divine' man who always greeted friends with a huge hug. Pictured left, Sir John with Marie-Lise, and right, with his wife Anwen Rees-Myers in 2015. Inset, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The BBC's new thriller Apple Tree Yard, which is back on tomorrow night at 9pm, is a sexually charged show with two protagonists with a penchant for dangerous liasons, writes KATIE HIND. The Mail on Sunday spoke to the creators to get to the truth behind some of the big questions left hanging in the air by the show which has left its six million viewers a little hot under the collar.

Following the President's tragic death, the grief his old friend Lord Harlech shared with Jackie (pictured together right) cemented their own close friendship. It was so close, that when Lord Harlech's wife Sissy died in a car crash four years later, rumours of romance between the pair swept through Washington, with one leading US newspaper proclaiming him 'The Man Most Likely To Win Jackie (being portrayed by Natalie Portman, right)'. They travelled around the world and he is even said to have proposed at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. 6 months after JFK's death she gave him her ex-husband's treasured poetry book, with an accompanying letter (inset).

The 10-year-old horse crossed the line first in the Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham's Festival Trials Day (pictured main) but collapsed shortly afterwards after suffering a suspected heart attack. Many Clouds, owned by Trevor Hemmings, won the Grand National in 2015 and Gold Cup trial and the Hennessy Gold Cup in 2014. Viewers took to Twitter to express their grief and admiration for the champion racehorse.

Nicola McGrath insists her husband is a 'flawed human being but not a monster' after being given a 5-year restraining order and 10 week suspended jail sentence for harassing a former mistress of 5 years, on Thursday. Mrs McGrath spoke of the 'hurt' he caused her but said she is 'optimistic' about their future together rebuilding their marriage.

Ryan's great-great-grandfather, George Edward Gosling, was a talented musician and war hero from London who volunteered for the British Army as a bugler in early 1882, at the tender age of 15. Within months, he was in action as part of a 13,000-strong British force sent to quell an uprising in Egypt, in which local insurgents were seeking to overthrow the British and French. The family photo shows a remarkable resemblance between Ryan (pictured in La La Land) and his great-grandfather George Percy Gosling (top right in inset), son of bugler George Edward Gosling (bottom left in inset), who was also a talented organist.

Known as Munchkin cats (pictured top and bottom left), they have become a sought-after pet, with demand fuelled by online videos of their antics, and by high-profile owners such as Paris Hilton, who named hers Shorty. But their distinctive appearance is down to a defective gene which means they cannot run or jump properly, and which can lead to other serious health problems. The Governing Council Of The Cat Fancy, the leading body for registering cats in Britain, has refused to recognise the breed. Other experts insist that the deformity does not create worrying health risks, although they acknowledge that the breed has an odd way of walking compared to normal breeds (pictured top and bottom right).

When Sophie Sabbage (right) was diagnosed with 'incurable' lung cancer at 48, it would have been easy for her to slip into depression. Instead, she became a UK bestselling author. The 50-year-old (pictured left with husband John and daughter Gabriella) gained a new appreciation for life and the things that she had overlooked for so many years, such as the beauty of the moon in the sky or rolling clouds. Things appeared to be getting brighter when her disease went into remission, only for more than 100 tumours to be found in her brain. Here in her own words she reveals how she has been determined to celebrate her life rather than let it be dominated by her disease.

ISIS destroyed the Nabi Yunus shrine and mosque (pictured) - built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Koran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah - which was a popular pilgrimage site. In July 2014, weeks after overrunning Mosul and much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland, ISIS militants rigged the shrine and blew it up, sparking global outrage and especially within the local Muslim community. The terror group destroyed several other key landmarks in Mosul and elsewhere because they considered the worshipping of shrines not to be in keeping with their Islamic traditions.

Photographer Eric Lafforgue travelled to North Korea six times from 2008. But he has now been banned from the country after his work was noticed by North Korean officials. Thanks to digital memory cards the photographer was able to save pictures that he was forbidden to take or was told to delete by minders. Mr Lafforgue's photographs show a different side to the North Korean capital, which is often thought of as a poverty ridden dictatorship by westerners. North Koreans have even started to enjoy the delights of western food with burger and pizza (pictured left), while American influences in the country can be seen in the branded billboards (bottom right). Young people meeting up and being seen together is now more and more possible with the introduction of mobile phones (top right).

This year's cover had been praised for featuring a number of black actresses, including Janelle Monae, Aja Naomi King, Lupita Nyong'o and Ruth Negga among Amy Adams and Emma Stone. But some complained it was still lacking in diversity, also noting the lack of older or LGBTQ actresses. The magazine was criticized in 2010 for only including white actresses on the issue's cover. And others noticed that non-white actors were being pushed to the side panels when they were included.

Serena Williams (right) appeared to ignore her fiance Alexis Ohanian (centre) after winning the Australian Open. Things became awkward when the world number one had left the court and hugged supermodel Karlie Kloss (left). Behind-the-scenes cameras captured the awkward moment where she barely acknowledged her 33-year-old husband-to-be.

Indigenous Australians were kept alongside animals and paraded around the world in what was called The Human Zoo. In the late 19th and mid 20th centuries up to 20 Aboriginal people, along with tens of thousands of other entrapped humans, were put on display around Europe and North America. The Palm Island community in North Queensland has been reunited with the remains of an ancestor who was exhibited in The Human Zoo, according to the ABC.

The most expensive home in the United States could be yours - for the cool price of $250 million. A list of the 25 most expensive homes in America have been released, equipped with luxury most can only imagine. This year's lot blows previous lots out of the water, as the most expensive home listed in 2016 was listed at a mere $150 million.

A Virginia teenager shot dead what was potentially the largest-ever feral hog - 545 pounds, six feet and 10 inches long - in the state. Jacob Breeden, 17, noticed the giant male swine tearing through his yard last week in Lignum, 70 miles southwest of Washington DC. He snatched up his rifle and faced the vandal, at which point the swine charged him.

A tiger caused mass panic on the streets of Sicily after escaping from a travelling circus early on Saturday morning. The predatory beast escaped its captors in Monreale, Palermo where it rested outside what appears to be a kitchen shop for a number of hours. Although some locals ran for cover others from the safety of their flats can be seen (on the left) posing for selfies from their balconies with the marauding beast in the background below. A special police force deployed to recapture the animal considered using tranquilsers to sooth the tiger but decided to use a cage instead before returning it to the circus. Monreale Mayor Piero Capizzi said at first he thought someone was joking when he was told a tiger was on the loose.