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Will Kim Jong-un, latest incarnation of the cult dynasty that has ruled the Communist northern half of Korea since 1948, exchange bluff for action and, one day, deploy his small but lethal nuclear arsenal? That terrifying possibility moved a step nearer this month when, without warning, Kim Jong-un ordered a salvo of missiles to be fired towards his other nervous neighbour, Japan. President Donald Trump has stated that 'every option was on the table' when it comes to North Korean aggression. While the phrase was meant to reassure, many Japanese, and South Koreans worry that the Americans are contemplating pre-emptive strikes on North Korean military sites - which would indeed place them in the crosshairs of retaliatory attacks. Before leaving office, Barack Obama warned Donald Trump that North Korea was the gravest security risk he would face as president. Every day that has passed since the inauguration confirms this assessment.

The Bake Off judge (left) adopted 16-month-old Li-Da (right) in 1975. The baby was taken out of Phnom Penh three days before its fall. She was adopted by one couple, then sent to France to live with another before Prue and husband Rayne met her. Prue writes: 'Li-Da was, if anything, too good a child, conscious of her luck and suffering from classic survivor guilt, which she later channelled into making films about Cambodia and working for charities to help the country.' Pictured inset, Prue and Li-Da with husband Rayne and son Daniel.

TRICIA CUSDEN: As a successful entrepreneur - I launched a thriving make-up line aimed at the over-50s, which made me my fortune - I'm used to seeing photographs of myself in magazines and newspapers. But I rarely look back at those from when I was younger. In each I look so slim, attractive even - and yet, throughout the six decades they span, my relationship with my body has been awful. If I wasn't berating my physical form because my hips were too wide, my thighs and ankles too chunky and my breasts too small, I was trying to control its size through punishing diets. Dear God, what a shame it is to reach your 69th year remembering, as if it were yesterday, how overweight and depressingly unattractive you felt as a young woman. Only to finally look back on a pile of photographs and realise that actually, you were slim and lovely after all.

Carrie Fisher's quirky Beverly Hills home has been left untouched since her sudden death, our exclusive photos show. The Star Wars actress, who died on December 27 after suffering a heart attack, lived next door to her mother, Oscar winner Debbie Reynolds, who passed away a day later, and left behind a Hollywood pedigreed estate. Her bohemian bedroom looks like it could be from a different universe - with a huge colorful rug and bright bed spread, giant lit-up headboard, chandelier and antique lamps.

After months of speculation, Noel Fielding (main left) and Sandi Toksvig (top right) were confirmed as the new hosts of The Great British Bake Off on Thursday. The pair will replace original BBC presenting duo Mel and Sue when the iconic baking tent is rebooted on Channel 4 later this year. While culinary legend Prue Leith (bottom right) was the expected successor for iconic Mary Berry alongside the only returning castmember, Paul Hollywood (centre), the odd choice of surreal comic Fielding has been met with derision from die-hard Bake Off fans. Tweets poured in after the news was announced, with some branding the casting as the 'worst decision' ever while others asked if it was an early April Fools' joke. Great British Bake Off ended its seven series run with the BBC in September after they were unable to match rival broadcaster Channel 4's reported bid of £75m.

They could not be more different. Trump wears his heart on his sleeve. Merkel could have murdered her own parents as they slept and eaten their liver for breakfast, and you wouldn't have the first idea. He wants to drain the swamp. An unelected leader of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, she is virtually the bog monster. If they have any hope of making political progress together, there are 10 key issues I think Trump needs to make abundantly clear to Merkel before they get down to business on Friday when they meet.

Yet another book of wartime recollections by a society hostess? As I opened this book with its painting of Maud Russell sitting up in her flouncy Thirties bed on the dustjacket, I guessed these might be rather shallow diaries jazzed up with a bit of Blitz excitement.

Two teenage YouTubers who previous breached BBC News studios brazenly entered into Facebook HQ undetected. In an incredible lapse in security the two walked through the office unnoticed, surrounded by staff computers and sensitive information. YouTuber Trickster and his friend Harris found their way into the social media giant's London office and wandered around with security guards were completely unaware of their presence.

Lance Corporal Ronald Blackham (top inset), who was killed in action in southern Italy during the Second World War aged 22, was finally laid to rest 73 years after his death at a funeral today. Almost 20 members of his wider family attended the service (left) at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) War Cemetery in Salerno, Italy, today to say their farewells, including his younger sister Alma Williams (right), now 80 and his great-grand-nephew Conan (bottom inset). The soldiers remains were found in February 2014 in a shallow grave near the village of Capezzano and his identity was subsequently confirmed after a DNA test on his brother Douglas.

Jose Antonio walked into the salon with grey unkempt hair and a straggly dirty beard which bore the ravages of 25 years on the streets - and came out looking like a stylish man-about-town. The 55-year-old also caught the eye of several female admirers with his manicured look and stylish clothes.

When Marion Kelly swaggered into the room as her father gave an interview on South Korean politics, a star was born. And her legion of fans across the world continues to grow after her appearance at a press conference with her family - as she has been hailed as a style guru. Sucking on a lollipop and looking bored, the youngster was the epitome of cool, and this has not gone unnoticed.

A BBC journalist, her camera crew and 35 tourists had a terrifying escape today when Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna in Italy, erupted and sent rock and ash flying into the air. Video footage of the terrifying moment (pictured, centre) shows the BBC 's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle (inset) on the slopes of giant volcano in Sicily. She later said it was 'extremely scary' and tweeted: 'Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam - not an experience I ever want to repeat.' In the video a woman can be heard screaming and an elderly man (bottom left) can be seen bleeding from a head wound. Eight tourists, three of them German, are believed to have been injured as Mount Etna (top left, top right and bottom right) erupted for the third time in just under three weeks, spitting molten lava nearly 650 feet into the sky.

Eyewitness footage has emerged of a good Samaritan intervening to stop a man who attacked a deputy after the cop tried to pull him over. Passer-by Ashad Russell shot Edward Strother, who attacked Deputy Dean Bardes, punching him repeatedly and pinning him to the road. Newly released cell phone videos show Strother pinning Deputy Bardes to the ground after the deputy chased the suspect several miles on I-75. Drivers pulled over to watch the incident unfold, with some capturing footage and images on their cell phones.

Brian Dowling, who is from Mississippi but now lives in Berlin, went to 20 countries for 'Redhead Beauty', which will be available from St Patrick's Day on March 17. He normally works as an entertainment photographer but decided to take a year off to work on the project. These three models (pictured) were photographed by Mr Dowling in Berlin.

An 18-year-old British girl has fallen to her death while cleaning the mast of a yacht in a marina in Jamaica. Bethany Smith (pictured) had been working on the yacht, the Germania Nova, for a year and had climbed up a mast to clean it while it was docked at the Errol Flynn marina in Port Antonio on the Caribbean island's north-east coast. She was from Glyn-Dyfrdwy in Denbighshire in north Wales.

He is one of the most famous mousers in the world and has spent half a decade longer at Number 10 than Theresa May. But has Larry the Cat lost his bloodthirsty edge? Downing Street insiders have said the docile moggy is happy to snooze while mice scurry past his nose and that he lacks the killer instinct of some of his more ferocious colleagues. While staff are full of praise for the skills of Treasury cat Gladstone and Palmerston of the Foreign Office, Larry has been spotted playing with a mouse before allowing it to scamper off. Larry, a 10-year-old tabby, was recruited from Battersea dogs and cats home to tackle Number 10's mouse problem in 2011 and caught his first rodent in April of that year. But Larry is just one of a small army of Whitehall pets including cats Evie and Ossie of the Cabinet Office, and dogs Rex and Oscar, who reside upstairs in Number 10.

A brazen bicycle thief in Manchester used an axe to cut through a pole and steal a bike. When bystanders tried to intervene the robber threatened them with the blade before cycling off. The thief was spotted cutting a sign off a pole in a car park at Virgin Media in Wythenshawe so he could lift a bicycle and slip the lock and chain over the top to steal it. But he didn't know he was being filmed. One worker, who did not want to be named, caught the thief on camera as he set about stealing his bike. When a security guard tried to grab the handlebars and stop the man getting away with the mountain bike, the masked thug lunged at him with his axe, appearing to threaten him.

Lily Beddall's picture, left, is now on show in every one of the chain's 217 UK stores after the toddler from Sawbridgeworth won a competition to become the face of the retailer. Proud mother Vicki Beddall, 37, a full-time mother and former proof reader, said: 'The contract is all about inclusion and changing the face of beauty. It is wonderful that Matalan chose a child with Down syndrome. After her photo went up in the stores, mother Vicki and father Eddie, 44, inset with their daughter, took Lily, right, to see the result of her work. Lily recognised herself straight away and even posed in front of her picture.

Tiffany Staveley, 26, (right) was given calamine lotion to treat her daughter, Ava (left and inset). The five-month-old was found to have both meningitis and Kawasaki disease, and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary. Doctors performed a lumbar puncture on her and gave her antibiotics. Ava was given round-the-clock care until she gradually started showing signs of recovery.

The stash of coins (left and bottom right) was found in a 1906 piano (top right) in Shropshire before Christmas. Coroner John Ellery is appealing for information. They could have been hidden during the First World War.The stash of coins are dated from 1847 to 1915. If the gold's owner or heirs cannot be traced, it will be declared treasure, and the piano's owners will reap the reward. Anyone wanting to make a claim has until April 20. Each coin is worth up to £220 but it has not been revealed how many were found.

Video footage captures the moment a young golfer produces a picture perfect chip to land a ball inside his father's mouth from across the garden. The family from the US cheer after landing the trick shot. Playing in the garden with a plastic golf set, the young boy took the win in his stride nonchalantly resting the club on his shoulder admiring his work. His father cheers and says: 'We did it,' while a woman recording laughs in the background.

Alleged Yahoo hacker, Karim Baratov, claimed he lived a playboy lifestyle after dropping out of school to become a stock market trader and programmer who earned his first million by the age of 15 (pictured left at 17 or 18). His social media photos flaunt that wealth, showing off his Aston Martin with a personalized license plate (inset), performance enhancing drugs, expensive watches and wads of cash. But the 22-year-old from Ancaster, outside Toronto, Canada, is facing 20 years in jail after being accused of involvement in the hacking of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. The hack was the largest data breach in history at the time, and the indictments name two agents with the Russian intelligence agency FSB and two hackers they allegedly hired, including Baratov.

Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay was on the front line of the Iraqi offensive against Islamic State in Mosul with cameraman Nathan Hale and security adviser Mike Mawhinney. The group found shelter in a van just as a huge explosion went off and then had to run for their lives when the area came under heavy fire from IS shooters. Sky News reported that a nearby abandoned digger could have saved them from the brunt of the explosion. In a calm and composed commentary Mr Ramsey said: 'Sometimes you have to run into a front line, even though your brain is screaming "don't go". I felt my arms and legs - they were all there.'

Shark diving isn't your typical kind of holiday. But for Steve Dee, 44, from New Jersey, USA, he spends much of his time off in the water with some of the world's most feared creatures. From cage diving with Great Whites in Mexico to stroking Hammerheads in the Bahamas, the full-time psychotherapist describes the sharp-toothed creatures as nothing but 'cute water puppies'. Opening his underwater photo album to MailOnline Travel, Mr Dee is seen getting up close to a mix of shark-toothed critters.

A man was winched to safety by rescue helicopters after he spent the night trapped on top of his truck in fast-flowing floodwaters. The driver - believed to be a Korean national - was stuck on the roof of his removalist truck for 14 hours when he tried to cross the floodwater in Condamine, in south-east Queensland, on Wednesday night. His truck became stalled halfway through the murky floodwaters about 11pm and he climbed onto the roof and waited all night for someone to notice him.

You're never too old to tick something off the bucket list. These hilariously endearing pictures, compiled by Bored Panda, capture moments in people's lives that will never be forgotten. From 100-year-old women seeing the ocean for the first time (top middle) to grandmothers having their first pint of beer (top left) and taking their first selfie (bottom right), these photographs show there is no age limit on trying new things.