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A body language expert has analysed footage of Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed lying to the public about 17-year-old Shafilea's 2003 disappearance from Warrington, Cheshire, for a documentary that revisits the tragic case. It shows footage of an interview given by the parents, during which Iftikhar is asked if he had any involvement with his daughter's disappearance, to which he replies: 'Never. I couldn't even dream of it.' However, according to expert Cliff Lansley - who shares his findings on Investigation Discovery's Faking It: Tears Of A Crime - he gives a self-incriminating nod as he responds.

Just when simmering tensions over North Korea’s nuclear missile programme seemed to be easing, its unpredictable dictator yesterday upped the ante in brazen style — sending a missile capable of bearing a nuclear warhead over Japan. It was an act of outrageous provocation. As we have seen, South Korea responded with a display of firepower near its border with the North, while President Trump announced he’d received Kim Jong-un’s message ‘loud and clear’ and repeated that ‘all options are on the table’. His words didn’t have the impact of that ‘fire and fury’ speech aimed at Pyongyang earlier this month, but the threat is implied. Which begs the question: just how long can the White House go on sabre-rattling?

Kim Jong-un was there in person (shown main image) to oversee the launch of North Korea's latest long-range ballistic missile test (inset) which flew 1,700 miles over Japan. Tuesday's aggressive missile launch sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby. Pyongyang said it was a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile that the North first tested in May and threatened to fire into waters near Guam earlier this month. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1,677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles as it flew over the northern Japan. Kim expressed great satisfaction over what the North described as successful testing and said the country will continue to watch 'US demeanors'. He called the launch a 'meaningful prelude' to containing Guam, which is home to key U.S. military bases.

Hong Kong businessman and socialite Sir David Tang, known as the founder of international fashion brand Shanghai Tang, died at the age of 63 just weeks after inviting friends to a farewell party. He is pictured six days ago in hospital, left, with Czech model Eva Herzigova; alongside Kate Moss at the Dorchester Hotel in 2008, top right; and with Princess Diana, bottom right.

Karthikeyan and Lavanya Ramasubramanian (pictured) were taking their daughter to Disneyland when their minibus was 'squashed flat' in a crash with two delivery trucks on the M1 on Saturday. The couple were among the six men and two women who died at the scene on Saturday morning. Their child is reported to have been trapped under a chair and is now fighting for her life in hospital.

Steve Turley sold a six-bedroom family home for £640,000 before building another property concealed on adjoining land in Yorkley, Gloucestershire. The Forest of Dean Council has now ordered him to bulldoze the property, built without planning permission, following a string of complaints from members of the public. The land was once part of his Yorkley Court Gatehouse, a six-bed family house with stunning views on the main road between Lydney and Yorkley in the Forest of Dean. Planners also say a static caravan has been moved onto the land, portable buildings erected and sheds extended and clad to make them more residential.

The four men covered themselves in black bodypaint and Lycra bodysuits (top left and right) to dress up as characters from the 1993 cult comedy film Cool Runnings (bottom left). But the men who used a wooden bobsleigh sparked a police probe after complaints that their outfits in the street parade in Aberaeron, West Wales, were racist. Their float was one of around 20 that joined in the parade in the seaside town. The men also wore dreadlock wigs and rasta hats and waved Jamaican flags as their bobsled-float was carried on a JCB. But Dinah Mulholland, who stood for Labour at this year's General Election, said their fancy dress choice was 'unacceptable'. But other residents in Aberaeron backed the fancy dress revellers and slammed Miss Mulholland for 'overreacting'.

Richard Eckersley, 28, (pictured left, and bottom right) and wife Nicola, 27, have opened Earth.Food.Love. in Totnes, Devon, after being inspired by a similar store in Berlin. Their products are stored in dispensers (top right and bottom right), with customers require to take their own pots and jars to fill up. The couple now hope to open more outlets in London and Birmingham, following the success of their first store.

Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell has died, her daughter Alexandra Burke has revealed today. The 53-year-old, from London, passed away after a long battle with kidney failure, which was brought on by diabetes. Strictly Come Dancing contestant and former X Factor winner, Burke, added her mother, who was a member of the Grammy-winning group, would have wanted her to continue on with the competition show. A statement from the Burke family said Bell died on August 28 and paid tribute to her 'unconditional love, support, charisma, strength and courage'.

Tania Alston was returning from holiday in Alicante with her daughter Malaika Alston-Ekpei, 12, when they were both told their cases were too big despite flying out with airline Vueling with no issues on the size. Ms Alston was initially waved through, but then daughter Malaika was held back as her bag was measured. As Ms Alston tried to move her daughter's clothes into her case, to avoid putting it into the hold, she was told she would have to put her case in there too, with the airline asking for £100 for it. Unable to pay the extra before her pay day, the pair had to sleep on the floor of the airport to wait for a Jet2 flight the next day, where they were both able to board with their cases. Ryanair said all customers have to comply with the baggage requirements or check their suitcases. Left, Malaika sleeping on the floor in Alicante airport, inset, on their holiday, and right, with the cases they have used for four years, deemed half an inch too big.

Paul Booth (pictured right), 52, went berserk when he went into his conservatory and saw Susan Davis (top middle) trying black and white bunny Oreo after it escaped onto his lawn, Manchester Magistrates' Court heard. Booth has been given a suspended prison sentence after he fired the weapon towards the civil servant, 49, as she bent down to pick up the rabbit. Miss Davis claims she heard something whistle past her ear as she ducked and both she and Oreo escaped unhurt. Police later arrested Booth - a member of a shooting club in Manchester - after the victim showed officers pictures she took of him a week earlier cleaning the gun while stood at his garden fence (left and top left).

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Inspectors were horrified to discover six dead dogs and a cat frozen solid inside a freezer at Ayrshire Ark dog shelter, Patna, run by Zara Brown (left). The 29-year-old was supposed to be caring for animals but instead allowed them to endure unimaginable pain and suffering. Some were found malnourished and starved, while others had ulcers and health problems. Brown, of New Cottages, Patna, was today locked up for more than half a year at Ayr Sheriff Court.

Just hours ago Britain was bathing in beautiful sunshine following the hottest late August Bank Holiday on record. But the weather in the UK has taken quite a turn today with daytime temperatures cut in half, and torrential downpours set to sweep across the country, bringing an abrupt end to sweltering heat and clear blue skies. Temperatures have dropped from about 30C (86F) to 15C (59F) in some areas, and there could even be frost in the North later in the week. Last night, the mercury plummeted to just 2C (36F) in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. Among the areas experiencing a huge drop in temperatures today is Frittenden in Kent, which was the hottest place in Britain yesterday with 29.3C (85F). Temperatures hit 28.2C (82.8F) in Lincolnshire on Monday - exceeding the previous 1984 record. Pictured: A deserted Bournemouth in Dorset today (left) and a packed Broadstairs in Kent yesterday (right).

The event at Audley End House in Saffron Walden saw history fans dress in World War Two gear (left) and enjoy mock battles complete with explosions (top right). But shortly before 1pm two re-enactors (not pictured) were injured by one of the blasts. Two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle attended the scene (bottom right), with the performers being taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge with non-life-threatening injuries.

Passers-by will have no idea £1.1 million Bigbury Hollow in Kent even exists as the zero carbon house - which comes complete with a hidden car lift - will only be revealed with a birds-eye view(left). Everyday residential items like bins, lawnmowers and other vehicles, will be concealed with its leafy exterior. Excavation work for the six-year project has been completed, with diggers clearing sand and 2,600 cubic feet of soil from the former quarry in Kent countryside. Also pictured: The kitchen,(right) garden,(top inset) and another exterior view(bottom, inset).

Reeking of death, strewn with dirt-plastered debris, Islamic State's now-captured hideouts on the Syria-Lebanon border were the squalid homes of the desperate. In one three-roomed lair, a rusty stove is stood next to a soiled mattress, with stains of unknown substances across the rough floor. Dirty tissues, petrol canisters and rubbish litters the ground. Graffiti on the lair's dirty grey wall reads: 'Heroes of the Army/Operation Dawn of the Outskirts/ Dedicated to Ghassan Hamieh'. This is just one example of the huts, caves and tunnels that Lebanese troops say ISIS fighters used as lodgings. The terrorists spent three years holed up in this patch of barren territory on the Syria-Lebanon border, after its capture in 2014. Less than a week before MailOnline's visit, the lair had been retaken from militants by Lebanese Army troops, who has ousted 600 ISIS militants from the 46-square mile area in north-eastern Lebanon.

Two toddlers are among at least 14 people killed as heavy monsoon rain deluged India's financial capital Mumbai causing transport chaos and forcing schools and many offices to close. The coastal city of more than 20 million people is the latest to be hit by floods that have ravaged South Asia this monsoon season, affecting millions of people across India, Nepal and Bangladesh and killing over 1,200. Authorities in Mumbai said today at least 14 people had died since the intense rainfall began on Tuesday, making roads impassable and briefly shutting the suburban rail network on which millions of commuters depend. 

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. Sumiteru Taniguchi, was just a 16-year-old postman when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in August 1945. He suffered horrific burns to his back and left arm that took years to heal properly, and a photo of him taken six months after the bomb has become a symbol of the suffering of the Nagasaki victims. Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, later became a nuclear disarmament campaigner, and died of cancer in hospital aged 88.

Some 22,000 people hurled tomatoes at each other in the world’s messiest food fight today - Spain’s Tomatina festival. Around 165 tons of the fruit turned to pulp at the hands of revellers during the annual event in the small town of Bunol, 25 miles west of Valencia. Security was stepped up this year amid fears of the potential risk of a terrorist attack, following the horrifying events in Barcelona earlier this month.

Around 150 police officers are now working on the case, with a kidnapping investigation opened by prosecutors following the disappearance of Maëlys De Araujo (pictured left and inset), who has not been seen since Sunday. Sniffer dogs have lost the nine-year-old's scent in the car park of the venue in the French Alps, and police believe she may have been bundled into a car. Divers are also searching nearby rivers.