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'North Korea is looking for trouble': Trump tweets extraordinary warning declaring that if China 'does not decide to help we will solve the problem without them'

Donald Trump says 'North Korea is looking for trouble'

The US President (top right) wrote the message on Twitter after revealing he had urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to pressure Pyongyang in to stopping its nuclear programme. His warning came as Russia admitted it is 'extremely worried' the US will attack Kim Jong-Un (bottom right) after North Korea warned it has US bases 'in its nuclear sights'. Pyongyang had earlier threatened 'catastrophic consequences' after Donald Trump sent an armada of warships to the Korean Peninsula (left). At the same time, China has moved 150,000 troops to its border to deal with a possible influx of North Korean refugees amid fears Trump may strike Kim Jong-un following the surprise US missile attack on Syria last week.

Sarin attack in Syria WAS real, and Assad should be put on trial for war crimes, says Turkey: Blood tests from victims shows they were killed by deadly nerve agent

Turkish Health minster Recep Akdag said: 'It has been identified that sarin gas was used.'

Rex Tillerson says Russia can either keep backing Assad as he faces defeat or side with US to secure Syria's future as he declares 'the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end'

Top diplomats from the G7 group were agreed that 'no future in Syria is possible' with the dictator still in power, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said at a meeting in Italy today.

Refugee accused of raping a camper and forcing her boyfriend to watch had been told he was being deported from Germany just days before

A Ghanaian asylum seeker suspected of raping a woman in a nature reserve in Germany had received notice he would be deported just a few days before the attack.

Lula and Simba are safe at last! Bear and lion left starving in Mosul zoo after ISIS overran the city arrive in Jordan

Mosul zoo's lion and bear flown out of Iraq

Simba the lion and Lula the bear, the ailing last two residents of Mosul zoo (top photos), were flown out of Iraq Monday to receive emergency care from an animal welfare centre in Jordan. The pair were found at Montazah Al-Morour zoo as fighting engulfed Mosul, and were trapped in damaged cages without proper care or enough food. Lula (left) is now living in a grass-covered enclosure for the first time in her life. The charity said she will live there until she has adapted to her new surroundings. Meanwhile, Simba is still 'a little shy and enjoys the comfort of his crate'.

Japan's population to shrink by a THIRD within 50 years from 127 million to 88 million as long work hours and online porn are blamed for a drop in birth rate

People over 60 will make up almost 40 per cent of Japan's population by 2065, new data reveals, while those under the age of 14 will make up just 10 per cent, with changes in lifestyle to blame.

Migrants traded in Libyan slave markets are being murdered, raped and forced into prostitution, while many STARVE to death, warns UN

Some migrants who cannot pay their captors are reportedly killed or left to starve to death, and when migrants die or are released, others are purchased to replace them.

Torso of rapist who was strangled in a cemetery and cut into pieces is discovered in Dublin after his killer reveals details in suicide letter sent to his family

The remains of James Nolan, who was jailed in 1986 for rape, have been found at a park in Dublin after officers say his killer confessed to strangling him and dismembering his body in a suicide note.

Two gay men face 100 lashes in Indonesia after vigilante mob storm into their house and find them naked together

The men, both in their 20s, are being detained in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, where they could face 100 lashes for having homosexual relations.

China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, says human rights group amid claims 'thousands' were put to death in 2016

While executions dropped by more than a third globally, China's death penalty rate is still 'shockingly high', Amnesty International said.

Elephant that killed its handler after being unshackled from its chains is shot with an AK-47 as it rampages through a village before dying as its mate weeps at its side

The 60-year-old bull elephant, called Atork, took two hours to die after police opened fire with AK-47 weapons in eastern Cambodia.

Shameless rise of the 'beg-packers': Astonishing phenomenon of Western backpackers who beg for money to fund their travelling as they journey through some of the world's poorest regions

Rise of Western backpackers begging to fund their trip

A rising number of Western backpackers begging to fund their trips through southeast Asia has caused outrage among locals, who say they are taking money from the truly needy. Residents also complained that the 'beg-packers' seem to be openly flouting rules on busking, such as in Singapore, where you require a work permit to perform for donations. Similar tactics have also caused outrage online, where people often use crowdfunding or charity websites to ask for money to fund their trips.

Russian policeman who murdered a couple and their young son denies he is a cannibal after he was found with a cup of BLOOD and the woman's head in his fridge

Russian policeman jailed for 18 years over triple murder

Mikhail Dronik, 40, a former Russian policeman and army commander, has been jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of murdering a family of three inside their Moscow apartment. Dronik, also a former wrestler, stabbed Vyacheslav Savyolov, 43, his wife Yulia, 42, and their son Nikita, seven, to death in a dispute over money. He then used kitchen knives, a meat mincer and sulphuric acid to try and destroy their bodies. Police arriving at the scene described it as worse than a horror movie.

Swedish mail firm halts deliveries to suburb within notorious migrant ghetto 'no-go zone' because it is too dangerous

PostNord is said to have stopped the deliveries in the Rinkeby borough of Stockholm - an area of Sweden which has been plagued with riots in the past.

Egyptian forces shoot dead seven jihadists planning to attack a Christian monastery days after bombing Coptic church as part of ISIS plan to divide the country

Egyptian security services shot dead seven ISIS militants on Monday after coming under fire while carrying out a raid on a compound where the men were plotting attacks on Christians.

Terrifying moment crowds stampede through the streets of Malaga after false rumours started that a terrorist was driving a truck into pedestrians during Easter festival

Dramatic footage shows terrified spectators - including tourists - running for their life after rumours spread that a lorry was about to plough through crowds in the heart of Malaga, southern Spain.

'Ban Islamic face veils across the EU': Jean-Claude Juncker's political party - the largest in the European Parliament - calls for new rules and says covering up is helping terrorists

The European People's Party (EPP) claims the measure would be beneficial for security, and help 'human interaction'.

The most dignified of deaths: Terminally ill patient enjoys a glass of wine, a view of the sunset and one last cigarette after Danish hospital agreed he should enjoy his final days

Nurses agreed to bend hospital rules so Carsten Flemming Hansen could enjoy his favourite things one last time before he died.

Tragedy as three boys aged five, six and seven all drown in a pond after 'one got into trouble while swimming and his brave friends tried to save him'

Kittikomol Panno, five, Supanuwat Hongthong, six, and Ut Panno, seven, drowned in northern Thailand on Monday after going to a pond to cool off and getting into trouble in the water.

France implodes over jihadist threat: Prison guards chanting 'the state against the state' clash with police as they protest outside Europe's biggest jail which they say is a hotbed of terrorism

French police and militant wardens clash in Fleury-Merogis

Around 350 guards who work in Fleury-Merogis, in the southern suburbs of Paris, were protesting against conditions that have become a breeding ground for radicalism (left, inset bottom shows footage of the riots). They set up barricades and lit fires, before riot police moved in shortly after 10pm last night. The protests were organised by a number of prison officer trade unions who say their jobs are becoming harder every day because of overcrowding and increased violence. There are some 4,500 inmates in the prison, which was built in the 1960s to accommodate around 3,000. Current inmates include Salah Abdeslam, the 27-year-old Islamic State operative who survived the November 2015 attacks on Paris (inset top right).