Princess Charlotte At Home

The two images were taken by Kate at their family home Anmer Hall in Sandringham earlier this month.

One shows the infant howling with laughter as she plays with a toy dog, while the other shows her looking to the side as if as if something has caught her attention.

Kate is an accomplished amateur photographer and took a joint portrait of her children George, aged two, and Charlotte a few weeks after her daughter was born on May 2.

the newly-released pictures, Charlotte is believed to be wearing a pink cashmere cardigan over a Liberty print dress with a frilly collar.

Words to Include in Your Email Subject Lines (and 4 Words to Avoid)

Sending an email is the easiest and least intrusive method for making requests within teams. But it’s precisely because email is so effortless that it can be a complete waste of time. Firing off a vague email that doesn’t clearly tell recipients what they should do or why your ask is important will only create more work for everyone.

The most effective emails treat the subject line like a caller ID and use words that get to the point immediately.

Here are some dos and don’ts for word choice that will get your message across clearly and keep you from annoying (or confusing) your co-workers:

1. When There Are Tasks to Complete

Don’t Write: Etc.

Do Write: The, This, or These

Your teachers in grammar school were right—be specific! Even if your email is following a recent conversation or meeting, it’s likely going to get filed as something to do later. When your recipient is ready to read it, seeing “Staff meeting follow-up etc.” won’t be helpful. Instead, be clear about what you need and write: “Please resolve these questions from staff meeting” or “The report discussed in staff meeting.” Think of your subject like pre-writing a to-do list item so it’s easy for that box to get checked.

2. When You’re Sharing Another Email

Don’t Write: “FWD:”

Do Write: Help

This one always makes me think of the ’90s, when it was common to see emails that went something like this: “Fwd: fwd: fwd: fw: Send this to 10 people and this will be your lucky day!” Unless you really are sending chain letters at work (seriously, don’t), you’re probably just sharing something that someone else wrote that you want your co-worker to read or do something about. In that case, do her a favor and write “Could you help me decipher this?” or “Looks like the client needs help.” Sure, you may have planned to write that message in the body of the email, but the subject is a much better place if you want it to get noticed quickly.

3. When You’re Trying to Be Personal

Don’t Write: Hey

Do Write: You

Sending a “Hey” in an email subject line is the same thing as texting “We need to talk” to a friend or someone you’re dating. Don’t do it! You’ll make the recipient suspicious of whatever will come next, and you may end up waiting a while for a response because it may never get opened. Since you might actually need to chat about something personal or private, try “When do you have time for a 15-minute chat?” This approach takes the edge off and puts the power in the recipient’s hands to choose a time that works for him.

4. When You Need it Now

Don’t Write: Urgent

Do Write: Today

When time is short and the pressure is high, “urgent” is a word that can only produce panic. And panicking is the last thing a person responsible for a task should do. If you have enough time to recognize the need and send an email, you also have the time to give advance notice that “This needs to be your first priority today.” If it truly is urgent, make a phone call or in-person visit instead.

5. And One More Bonus Phrase

Last but not least is a phrase that we all say to end our emails but may rarely use to directly address our co-workers: “Thank you.” A short, simple message of appreciation will go a long way in strengthening the bonds between you and your team members. It says that you recognize their efforts and value their roles. And it sure beats a trust fall.

The article was originally published on The Muse.

Bill Gates’s Best Career Advice

Bill Gates has built one of the most powerful companies in the world, donated billions of dollars to charitable causes, and forever changed the way humans and machines interact. Today the world’s most successful college dropout reaches another important milestone: turning 60.

While Gates is less inclined to seek the limelight than fellow billionaire moguls Richard Branson and Elon Musk (it’s telling that his billionaire bestie is Warren Buffett), he’s been an inspiration to countless people across the world for the past four decades, for obvious reasons.

“I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact. I don’t like to waste time where I’m not hearing new things or being creative,” Gates told Playboy in 1994.

With an estimated net worth of $79.2 billion, Gates remains the richest man in the world, a record he’s held for 15 of the past 20 years, according to Forbes. But since stepping down as CEO of Microsoft in 2000, Gates has devoted more and more of his time to giving his money away to worthy causes. Through his philanthropic work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he and his wife focus on improving educational outcomes, expanding health care access across the world, and increasing economic opportunity for low-income households.

As for what we can expect from Gates in the future, perhaps he’ll go old school and swap computer coding for manuscript writing, something he alluded to way back in that 1994 interview.

Playboy: Why not write your own book?

Gates: If I were to, I’d do it about the future instead of the past. When I reach a ripe old age, like 60 or something, then maybe I can be reflective.

And at that ripe old age, let’s reflect on some of Gates’s best life and career advice.

Top 10 trending phones of week

In this edition of our weekly Top 10 trending phones chart, we finally witness the Samsung Galaxy J7 get dethroned. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 enters the chart this week, and storms straight to number one mere days after its announcement.

Long-time champ Galaxy J7 needs to settle for silver this week, still closely followed by the J5 in third.

Ushered in by the Redmi Note 3, the previous-gen Xiaomi phablet joins the trending list in fourth, comfortably ahead of the Galaxy J2 - another regular. Next comes the Galaxy Grand Prime in sixth, showing no particular sings of loosing user interest week after week.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Note5 have swapped places since last week, and the former is now in seventh, while the S-Pen-packing phablet is now in eighth. The Sony Xperia Z5 had the weakest week-on-week performance, losing a total of 6 places, now in ninth. In a bit of surprising development, the Samsung Galaxy A5 enters in tenth, keeping the iPhone 6s out by a few hundred hits.

See How Every Form of Birth Control Actually Works

Your ultimate guide, from abstinence to the IUD

There are lots of options when it comes to birth control, and federal data on American women reveals that more and more of them—11.6%—are choosing long-acting methods like IUDs and implants. As recently as 2006-2010, just 6% of women reported using such methods.

We’ve rounded up all the various options women and men have when it comes to preventing pregnancy, how each method works, and how effective they are.

Newborn Baby Girl Buried Alive

Police made the discovery after being alerted by a walker in Compton, Los Angeles, who reported hearing a baby crying.

The infant, believed to have been born within the last two days, had been wrapped in a blanket and hidden under debris.

Cold to the touch, the baby was treated at the scene by emergency workers before being taken to hospital where she is in a stable condition.

Jeesse Brew, a grandfather who lives nearby, expressed his anger.

He said: "I know we living in some bad times but damn.

"Now who would do some dumb stuff like over here? That's why I'm saying they need to catch this person. You know, you need to go to jail. That's the place for you."

The son of the woman who had alerted police said his mother had been distraught when the baby was found.

Ryan Mccrary said: "She felt really emotional."

"It just hurts to see somebody leave a baby like that when there are so many places they can take them now-a-days."

Detectives pointed out that parents who feel unable to cope can leave their child at any hospital or fire station in LA County, no questions asked.

Relative of Netanyahu says PM against Palestinian state

For the past several weeks, tensions and street violence between the Israelis and Palestinians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have taken such a serious turn that many wonder where it will all end.

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands have been wounded - the overwhelming majority Palestinians. The question many are now asking is whether there's any room left for the two communities to peacefully negotiate their differences. 

With the fundamental argument being about land - in the West Bank, illegal settlements have expanded under the current government - we head to one settlement called Beit El. There we meet Hagai Ben-Artzi, a key settler leader who has a clear opinion about the current conflict and strong views about Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is married to Ben-Artzi's sister.

Ben-Artzi tells us that he thinks Netanyahu does not believe in a two-state solution. 

"Unfortunately, the Israeli government, including my brother-in-law, Benjamin Netanyahu, they, unfortunately - I'm sad to say that - agreed to the two state solution. 

"And here, I must say that I have read very carefully, I have also taken part with my brother-in-law in writing his book, in his famous book, A Place Among the Nations. He writes very clearly against the establishment of a Palestinian state.

"[What] I feel is that he made a manoeuvre, some kind of tactic: 'I will say that I agree, but I will act against it.' I don't think it's a good move, although it's regarded as sophisticated; but I have told him several times, 'You have to be sincere,' and I believe, and I know that in his heart and in his mind, he is against the Palestinian state."

When asked if Netanyahu is essentially lying to the world when he says he believes in a two-state solution, Ben-Artzi responds by saying: "I think that what he is trying to do is to say 'I agree' but to set conditions that he believes will be absolutely unacceptable to the Palestinian side and, as a result, 'I will be good.' The international community will say, 'Oh, he's supporting peace because he is in favour of a Palestinian state.'

"But, in fact, it won't happen because he sets so many conditions that it makes it impossible, practically speaking. So it's not really lying; he is saying, 'I'm in favour.' For example: 'I'm in favour of flying in the air, but on condition that you give me a plane. You are not going to give me a plane, and so I won't fly in the air.' Something like this."

We then speak to a young Palestinian man and woman who are out protesting, keeping their faces covered to protect their identities.

We meet Hala Marshould, a Palestinian woman who has grown up in Israel under the auspices of the Oslo agreement, signed by Israel and the Palestinian authorities in 1993, which was supposed to lead to a Palestinian state. 

With young Palestinians, sometimes referred to as the "children of Oslo", involved in the violence, Tyab asks Marshould what this expression means to her. She says that these are the young people "proving that Oslo did not come to bring peace".

"I think they came as a reaction to Oslo, which they see as also a product of occupation. And they say that it's a product of this system, and it's a continuation to oppression."

While discussing the recent violence on the streets, Marshould says that protesting is not about incitement - it's a natural response. "Occupation is a violent act in itself, so any kind of violence that we see is a product."

Finally, we head to Hamarakiya restaurant in Jerusalem, which is run by Israeli Noam Francforter and Palestinian Mohammad Nabulsi. We sit down with them at the restaurant to talk about the possibility of coexistence, religious tolerance and educating the younger generation - and the fluctuating hope for a solution.