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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un kicked off the national Day of the Sun with a military parade consisting of thousands of perfectly-choreographed troops. Kim arrived at Kim Il-sung Square in a Western-style suit and saluted formations of soldiers who yelled out 'long live' to celebrate the 105th anniversary of his grandfather's birthday. US officials feared Kim Jong-un would mark the national holiday by launching its sixth nuclear weapons test, since the country has used previous holidays to showcase its military prowess. Tensions between the US and North Korea have been mounting in recent weeks, and Pyongyang issued a series of menacing threats to 'ravage' US troops and 'go to war if they choose'. China warned the region could go to war 'at any moment' and President Donald Trump is monitoring the emerging crisis from his Mar-a-Lago resort without the company of his top advisers

U.S. Army troops and Air Force conducted military exercises on Saturday near the border between the two countries in Paju. President Trump sent an aircraft carrier-led strike group to the Korean Peninsula as US officials feared North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would mark the national holiday by launching its sixth nuclear weapons test since the country has used previous holidays to showcase its military prowess.

Crowds waved flags and flowers in a colourful display of patriotism captured on camera in front of the world's media - a rare public display by leaders in the secretive state. Kim did not address the rally himself on Saturday, instead waving and smiling as ecstatic crowds - men in suits, women in traditional hanbok dresses - filed past him behind the military display.

At least 16 people trying to escape villages close to the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo have been killed in an explosion. The lethal blast, believed to be a car bomb, happened at a transit point for Syrians on the outskirts of the city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion took place at a place where buses were waiting to transport thousands of people who left Fuaa and Kafraya a day earlier.

April the giraffe finally gave birth after months of waiting on Saturday morning. Zookeepers at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, said it was a perfect delivery and will announce the gender of the baby after the mom and calf spend some more time together. The alert was sent out that the 15-year-old giraffe was due to give birth around 8am after the animal's due date was in mid-February. Two hooves were seen sticking out of the pregnant animal's backside at 8am as officials said it was a sign that birth was imminent. Around two hours later the calf was born.

Bill O'Reilly's behavior and comments may have added fire to the flame when he brushed off Megyn Kelly's claims of being sexually harassed by disgraced former chief of Fox News Roger Ailes. 'Look, it's open season,' O'Reilly said, when asked about Kelly's recently published book that gives an account of the incidents, according to the New York Times. 'Let's whack the Fox News Channel. I've had enough of it. It's a good place to work. All right?' O'Reilly's comments prompted a frustrated Kelly to send an email to Fox News executives complaining about his behavior, four sources told the Times. And despite Kelly's complaint and a plea from a producer, O'Reilly, who is facing an internal investigation into sexual harassment claims, made similar remarks in response to Kelly's email on his show, The O'Reilly Factor, in November 2016. 'If you don't like what's happening in the workplace, go to human resources or leave,' he said. The revelations come as dozens of advertisers announced they would not run commercials on O'Reilly's show following a New York Times story on April 2 that five women were paid a total of $13 million in settlements over sexual harassment allegations that O'Reilly has denied.

A Utah judge reportedly held back tears as he condemned a rapist he characterized as an 'extraordinarily good man' to prison this week. Julia Kirby, the victim and sister-in-law of Keith Vallejo, was in the courtroom as the judge tasked with delivering her justice praised her attacker. Vallejo, a former Mormon priest, was convicted of first-degree felony of object rape and 10 second-degree felonies of forcible sexual abuse in the cases of Kirby and another one of her female relatives.

Two Mississippi police officers have been fired after going on Facebook Live to record portions of their day on patrol. The videos were sent into the police by The Free Thought Project , and at first start out harmless, with the two officers standing by a lake and chatting. However, the conversations quickly turn dark, with one of the officer joking about shooting a barking dog, and then bragging about his 'a** whoopin' gloves' that he uses to pound people.

Alec Baldwin's regular turns on NBC's Saturday Night Live, waspishly mimicking Trump have become a huge hit with millions of views on the internet. Now read an extract from the Hollywood star's memoir, detailing his love-hate relationship with Kim Basinger. While his rambling, self-indulgent new memoir, titled Nevertheless. It unwittingly reveals the star to be every bit as hot-headed, egotistical and painfully thin-skinned as the President.

Former NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal will pay for the funeral of Malachi Hemphill (left), 13, who accidentally shot and killed himself as his friends watched him playing with a gun on Instagram Live. Malachi of Forest Park, Georgia, was posing with the gun when it went off on Monday night. His godmother, Shantirea Bankston, said the former Lakers star called the family before visiting their home on Thursday night. He expressed his heartfelt condolences and offered to pay for all of Malachi's funeral expenses. 'No mother should have to go through this. I can only imagine the pain that she and all of Malachi's family must be feeling. I just wanted to do what I could to help them at such a terrible time,' O'Neal said in a statement. Bankston, said the family immediately 'broke down and started crying because Malachi didn't have any insurance'.

Family members on Friday identified the four victims who were found brutally murdered and dismembered in a Long Island park earlier this week as (Left to Right) Jorge Tigre, 18; Justin Llivicura, 16; Michael Banegas and his cousin Jefferson Villalobos, both 18. The bodies were discovered in a park at the intersection of Lowell Avenue and Clayton Street in Central Islip on Wednesday morning.

NEW Angela Dimayuga, a New York City executive chef, received an interview request from a freelancer (inset) for IvankaTrump.com. Her response - a rejection - went viral. Dimayuga wrote: 'I'm for women who actually empower other women.' She added: 'I am not interested in being profiled as an aspirational figure for those that support a brand and a President that slyly disparages female empowerment.'

The religious fanatics were seconds away from unleashing an assault when the Popular Mobilisation Unit militia group blew up the armoured vehicle. In the video, which has not yet been independently verified, the tank can be seen sustaining shots from the Iraqi paramilitary group. The video uploader wrote: 'ISIS was trying to attack our positions but was defeated heavily.' The PMU, or Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi, is a paramilitary group founded in 2014 to combat the rise of ISIS.

Geneva S. Robinson, 51, (left) was sentenced in Oklahoma City on Thursday, after having pleaded guilty to five counts of felony child abuse. Her boyfriend Joshua Granger, 33, (inset center) was sentenced to 30 years for his role in letting the abuse go on. The first images of Robinson dressed as Nelda (right) emerged at the sentencing.

In his new autobiography, Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff, Monkees star Michael Nesmith talks affairs, drugs, and his fascination with Jack Nicolson. Nesmith says his friends thought his obsession with the actor 'was beyond the pale' but, Nesmith writes, Nicholson was 'like catnip for me.' The 74-year-old revealed he was haunted by guilt after leaving his first wife, Phyllis Barbour, for his best friend's wife Kathryn Bild. As for the Monkees, he reveals the tension was ever present and bandmates Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork fought verbally and physically.

New York photographer Terri Gold has taken a series of photographs of some of the most remote and isolated tribespeople on the planet. They are presented in a unique infrared light which gives them an otherworldly quality. Gold has devoted much of her life to visiting the Indigenous tribal communities on the planet. Her project has taken her to Namibia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, India, and China.

Shelly Chartier (right), now 33, dropped out of school in sixth grade and spent years cultivating online personas. She lived in filth and never went to the doctor or dentist, causing her to lose most of her teeth. She said prison helped ease her social anxiety and learn how to make eye contact with people. The catfish lived an isolated life in the small village of Easterville, Manitoba, where she famously extorted NBA star Chris Anderson (bottom left) and blackmailed then 17-year-old model Paris Dunn (top left) with nude photos in 2012. In 2015, she pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud.

'Blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun,' was how photographer Eric Lafforgue described the process which he witnessed in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia . He said that the young girl maintained a stoic silence while her mother stretched her daughter's skin and cut it with a razor for 10 minutes. A tradition in the tribe, he said: '[She] did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. 'I asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse!' Young girls are being cut with knives and razor blades to create prominent scars considered beautiful in tribal societies in Ethiopia.

One of only three white wolves roaming Yellowstone National park has been put down by park staff after she was found with severe injuries. Hikers found her on Tuesday. She was in shock and dying, leading to the decision to euthanize her and investigate what caused the injuries.

The religious devotees also wore masks as they marched through the streets carrying statues of Jesus. The men, from the town of Atlixco, were taking part in the traditional 'Engrillados' ceremony. This traditional celebration of Good Friday remembers the first Friday before Easter, which marks the date of Jesus Christ's crucifixion by the Roman authorities. Large crowds can be seen watching the procession. The traditional march is believed to have been practised for more than 100 years in the country.

Clearwater police officer Rich Edmonds was snapped walking hand-in-hand with a six-year-old girl who got separated from her family at Clearwater Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. Crying and scared the young girl didn't want to get inside the police car to track down her family, so Edmonds walked with her for half a mile until they found them. The officer's police department spread the word about the good deed and called Edmonds a knight in shining armor in a Facebook post (inset).

Terrifying scenes unfolded when an out-of-control monster truck ploughed into the path of spectators during a demonstration. One woman was treated for shock after the 500 horsepower vehicle veered off course, knocking down a fence protecting crowds at Sydney's Penrith Showground. Footage shows horrified revellers dispersing on foot after narrowly avoiding being crushed on Saturday afternoon.

In the bizarre clip released on Friday, a group of keen yoga fans can be seen taking part in a fitness session with a bunch of furry farm animals jumping all over them. The session took place at Jenness Farm in the town of Nottingham in New Hampshire. The strange video has been viewed nearly three million times since being uploaded to Facebook. Most commenters were impressed with the animal-oriented activity. Rebecca Kempt wrote online: 'This is my kinda yoga.'

Along with the 10-second video clip, Mexican mixed martial artist Maritza Sanchez wrote on Twitter: 'We decided to let our bird go and this happened...' In the clip, the family count down: 'One, two, three!' and release the bird who flaps its wings but instantly falls to the ground. The little dog immediately catches the budgie in its jaws and runs off with it. The clip has been shared and liked more than 100,000 times since being uploaded.

In the video from the Greek version of Britain's Got Talent the pair pull down their trousers and their underwear causing the female judge to gasp and bury her face in her hands. Raising their hands in the air they begin to play the theme from the 1972 film The Godfather. The judge's reaction is a mixture of shock and hilarity as they watch the pair play the classic tune. They then proceed to perform an iconic tune from the musical Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.