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Getty ImagesNorth Korea promises Guam strike plan within days
The US isn’t backing down in its rhetoric either, with Defence Secretary Jim Mattis saying Pyongyang would be “grossly overmatched” in any war.
The world waits for the next development, but the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, in Guam, says most people there feel that if North Korea did strike with missiles it would be suicidal for its regime. So, what damage could it do if it did attack?
Police defend informant’s payment to child rapist
Is anything left of Mosul?
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What makes Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman such a classic?
By Mark Savage, BBC Music reporter
Musically, the song plays a clever trick by starting in the key of F major before switching to the relative minor, D major, and never fully resolving – echoing the lineman’s disjointed state of mind.
What the papers say
Daily digest
Morrisons Supermarket pledges not to sell “fake-farm food” brands
If you watch one thing today
If you listen to one thing today
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Today’s lookahead
09:30 NHS England’s monthly statistics, including A&E waiting times, are published.
Today A press conference is being held by the British-South African former hostage Stephen McGowan, who was released last week after six years in captivity in Mali.
On this day
2003 Britain has its hottest recorded day ever, as the temperature reaches 38.1C (100.6F) in Gravesend, Kent.