US warship sails through the Taiwan Strait hours after China said it was 'ready to go to war' with anyone who interferes in its relations with the island. The USS Antietam, part of the Navy's 7th Fleet, completed a 'routine' transit of the strait Wednesday 'in accordance with international law', a spokesman said.

China has lashed out at Hong Kong's pro-democracy leaders, calling them 'modern-day traitors in disguise' who have been colluding with Western forces including the United States amid an extradition bill crisis. In a strongly worded opinion piece published today in state-run newspaper Global Times, founder of Hong Kong's Democratic Party Martin Lee Chu-ming and media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying (left), were criticised for their roles in the city's ongoing anti-government movement and inviting foreign interference. 'This kind of intervention in Hong Kong's affairs by Western forces is inseparable from the co-operation and assistance offered by of a group of traitors. Lai Chee-Ying and Lee Chu-ming are the representatives of these modern traitors,' it said, accusing them of being 'hanjians', a derogatory term for a race traitor to the Han Chinese.

Moment motorcyclist and passenger plunge into flash flood after bridge collapses in Cambodia 😱

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! A man in of daylight hours knife hits his ex-girlfriend on the playground several times in front of her daughter and other children. The woman died from injuries received. The suspect was arrested, Moscow region, Russia. 😱 #FOOLS

😂 #facepalm

London cabbies don't mess about.

Wait for it.

Terrified Mabel the bulldog fails to recognise her owner wearing face mask. 😂 #lol

FBI agent Salvatore 'Sal' Cincinelli, 41, (left) died of a suspected suicide on July 17. He was the brother of ex-NYPD cop Valerie Cincinelli, 35, (right) who was arrested in May 2019, accused of plotting to have a hitman kill her estranged husband and her boyfriend's daughter. He was found suffering at least one gunshot wound inside the Container Bar in Austin, Texas on July 17. The incident is being investigated as a suicide, according to the Austin Police Department.

Police have arrested a suspect following a shooting rampage in Los Angeles that left four dead and two others injured. Gerry Zaragoza, 26, (left) was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police Department officers on Thursday afternoon. They had launched an intense manhunt for Zaragoza following the shooting spree hours earlier in the San Fernando Valley. He was arrested in a commercial section of Canoga Park about 12 hours after the rampage began. Hayes said officers used what he called a small amount of force to subdue him. Television footage (top right) showed Zaragoza sitting in a wheelchair and appearing alert as he was loaded into an ambulance. LAPD crime investigators collect evidence at one of the scenes of the shootings bottom right. 👮🏻‍♂️ #LAPD

Turning Point USA, an activist group for young right wingers, said it fired the young aide responsible for accidentally selecting the mischievous parody - featuring a Russian eagle and golf clubs - in a last minute google search. But its creator, Charles Leazott (left), said it was impossible for someone to have innocently stumbled across his satirical version of the US seal because the website where he displays and sells art had been offline for the past two years. Leazott, a 46-year-old graphic designer from Richmond, Virginia, told @police_frequency in the Telegram he had no part in the bizarre turn of events that saw the doctored image beamed on stage Tuesday as Trump spoke. But he added, gleefully: 'I have zero clue who did it. Although, if I ever find out, I will absolutely buy them a beer. That's awesome.' 😂 #lol

Nobody is safe in London, last night arsenal footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac were attacked by a knife wielding moped gang in golders green in an attempted robbery.

North Korea has photos of Kim Jong Un watching the launch of two baliistic missiles on Wednensday. North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea, its first test since an impromptu meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month that produced an agreement to resume a working-level denuclearization dialogue. 'We want to have diplomatic engagement with North Korea, and we continue to urge the North Koreans to resolve all the things that the president and Chairman Kim have talked about through diplomacy,' US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told reporters in Washington.🚀

What the cluck! Bizarre Saturday Night Live skit of Donald Trump dressed in yellow suit surrounded by dancing chickens resurfaces on Twitter to the delight of millions. The video was part of an SNL skit back in 2004 that showed the then-real estate mogul advertising a fictional Buffalo wing restaurant - Donald Trump's House Of Wings. 🐥😂 #funny