Hundreds of people bared all for London Zoo's annual naked fun run to raise money for endangered tigers.

The risque runners took part in the Streak for Tigers charity event, with aims to raise more than £40,000 to help the Zoological Society London's conservation work.

People were encouraged to cover themselves in their own stripes or don a tiger costume before they took to the starting line, with the race starting after the zoo had closed to visitors.

Money raised by the event will go towards the zoo's work protecting Sumatran Tigers from deforestation and poachers in Indonesia. 

• Streak for Tigers is a charity event with the aim to raise more than £40,000 to help ZSL's conservation work 
• Three hundred streakers bared all and unleashed their wild side to take part in the yearly event at the zoo
• Funds raised by the fun run will go towards the zoo's work protecting Sumatran Tigers in Indonesia

A furious BMW driver launched a racist rant at a traffic warden because he gave him a ticket for parking on double yellow lines. 

Mark Winstanley, 36, hurled vile abuse at the parking attendant on a street in Chester in March this year.

During the tirade of slurs he called his victim a 'black t***' and a 'f****** n*****'.

Today, Winstanley was sentenced to 200 hours community service and made to pay £100 compensation, after admitting committing a racially aggravating hate crime. The traffic warden's body-camera captured the unpleasant incident, which erupted after Winstanley spent six minutes parked on double yellow lines while he 'went to Sainsbury's and the bookies'.

Winstanley, from Chester, screamed at his victim and accused him of being a liar before threatening to 'f** him up' and getting in his car to speed off.

He raged: 'So I'm allowed five minutes, I've been here for six minutes so you waited one minute. Well I'm off. Okay you black t***. 'You're a f****** dead man, I'm going to f*** you up, you n*****. I will be back round in a minute. You watch you're f****** self.'

Not content with one outburst, Winstanley came back to the scene a short time later and subjected the warden to a second onslaught of insults.

On returning, he said: 'You f****** liar, I weren't here for more than five minutes.

'You are a liar and a c*** and I'm going to appeal this anyway. F****** n*****.' After the verbal attack, Winstanley was traced by police and was arrested when he attended Blacon police station, in Chester.

As well as pleading guilty to the hate crime, he also admitted several driving offences and was banned from driving for six months and six points have been added to his licence.

Senior Crown Prosecutor Simon Pover said: 'The whole shocking incident was captured on the traffic warden's body camera.

'This was vital evidence in this case and probably led Winstanley to plead guilty to the charges at an early opportunity.

'When the traffic warden approached him on that day, Winstanley was parked on double yellow lines, he had no insurance and no driving licence - driving offences for which he was also charged and to which he also pleaded guilty.

'The traffic warden was just doing his job on that day but suffered a series of racist insults as a result.

'The Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted the case as racially aggravated hate crime and the sentence was increased to take account of that element of the offending.

'When we can prove to a court that a case is a hate crime, we will ask for an uplifted sentence to reflect the serious impact on the whole community of such offending.' 

President Donald Trump says his administration will announce plans as early as next week to spend billions more than it already is on missile defense - after saying his warning to North Korea of 'fire and fury' wasn't tough enough.

The United States' nuclear arsenal is in 'tip-top shape and getting better and getting stronger' since he signed an executive order demanding improvements, Trump said Thursday after a national security briefing, 'and we have it now in very, very good shape.' 

'I would like to de-nuke the world,' Trump stated. 'And until such time this scourge disappears we will be so much better and so much stronger than anybody else.'

Trump had rebuked critics of his heated 'fire and fury' threat to North Korea in earlier remarks on the topic of nuclear armament during a question and answer session with reporters.

'Maybe it wasn’t tough enough. They’ve been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years, and it’s about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries,' Trump countered. 'So if anything, maybe that statement wasn’t tough enough.'

Trump said Kim Jong-Un should be 'very, very nervous' about U.S. retaliation. 'Because things will happen to them like they never thought possible, OK?' he said.  

He warned Kim in remarks from his golf club's doorstep not to even contemplate an attack on the U.S. or its allies or he will pay the ultimate price. Unlike previous American leaders, Trump said, he is not 'weak and ineffective' and will follow through on his threats. 'He has disrespected our country greatly. He has said things that are horrific. And with me he’s not getting away with it. He got away with it for a long time, between him and his family. He’s not getting away with it. This is a whole new ballgame. He’s not going to be saying those things and he’s certainly not going to be doing those things.

Trump said, 'I read about we’re in Guam by Aug. 15. Let’s see what he does with Guam. He does something in Guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody’s seen before, what will happen in North Korea.'

An attack on Japan or South Korea would be just as provocative, Trump said. 'We’re going to be increasing our budget by many billions of dollars because of North Korea and other reasons having to do with the anti-missile.'

The president spoke to reporters ahead of a national security briefing this afternoon on the intensifying crisis with North Korea and right after in what turned into a mini-press conference. 

Trump's outburst at his doorstep in Bedminster came right as a leading expert on Northeast Asian affairs warned in conversation with DailyMail.com that North Korea could 'lash out' against the U.S. if it believes that a military assault is imminent.

'The wording itself I thought was over the top. It sounded like it had been penned by Pyongyang. I think it was a distraction and unhelpful,' The Heritage Foundation's Bruce Klingner said of Trump's previous address.

Heritage is a top-ranked think tank worldwide. It is the most influential conservative organization in the U.S. Its analysts are mostly aligned with Trump's administration. 

Trump's reaction to Kim's taunting 'could confirm growing concerns by our allies that the US is contemplating a preventative attack,' Klingner said in the moments before networks started airing video of Trump's claim to reporters that his 'fire and fury' rhetoric was maybe not strong enough.

Ryan Giggs’ protracted £40 million divorce from estranged wife Stacey Cooke will reach its conclusion when she is granted a decree nisi on Friday morning.

The former Manchester United and Wales midfielder, 43, has been locked in a lengthy court battle with Stacey, 39, over a share of his fortune, earned during a trophy-laden 24-year career.

Giggs’ seven-year marriage to long-term partner Stacey, with whom he shares two children, has weathered a series of potentially damaging storms, including his eight-year affair with younger brother Rhodri’s wife Natasha Lever. A six-month fling with Welsh TV personality Imogen Thomas, best known for an appearance on reality show Big Brother, was also exposed - despite the retired sportsman obtaining a gagging order.

His marriage to Stacey ended last April following alleged flirting with a waitress employed at George’s, the upmarket Manchester restaurant he opened in 2014.

The sun report that neither party will be in attendance when the decree nisi is granted at Central Family Court in London. 'The husband was a professional footballer,' said Mr Justice Cobb. 'He has a number of business interests, and has (had) a role in coaching and management.

'He played football nationally and internationally for many years, and has a high media profile. He is now 43 years of age.

'His marriage to the wife came to an end last year. The husband and wife have two children. This information is well known to the public at large.'

He added: 'This couple have a significant profile in the media, both nationally and internationally.

'That they are divorcing, and that their financial remedy proceedings are being pursued in the English courts, are pieces of information already in the public domain, and the publication of that information cannot legitimately be restrained by order.'

But he said it was 'appropriate' for hearings be to be staged in private.

A child rapist who police paid £10,000 to spy on the Newcastle abuse gang has insisted that he is 'not a bad guy'.

The informant, known as XY in order to protect his identity, went to 30 sex parties where he took drugs and had access to vulnerable girls, a court heard. 

Police denied sending the man to the 'sessions' where girls were abused, insisting he told them only where and when they were.

He had previously served time behind bars for raping a teenage girl and police were criticised over his part in their lengthy investigation. The informant told The sun he was 'good' at what he did and ended up helping the police.  

He said: 'I was a one-off. I was good at what I did. If it wasn't for me I know they wouldn't have got those people. Nobody else could have got into the circles that I got into.

'I've put hundreds of people behind bars over the years - I'm not the bad guy here. 

'Yes, I may have had a bad past but when I left prison I tried to make a difference. I wanted to give something back to society.' A barrister told Newcastle Crown Court last October that XY – who has 53 previous convictions – had admitted attending 30 parties where he took drugs.

The lawyer suggested detectives tolerated his behaviour because of his 'high value' information.

At these parties girls were passed around 'like commodities' while 'stupefied' on alcohol and drugs. XY said: 'I was chilling with the boys. I had to make it look like I was their friend.'

Defence barristers were trying to have the case against the gang thrown out because of XY's involvement. The BBC's Inside Out programme reported that a defence barrister told the court: 'This is a case where a rapist was put into the field where he would be with vulnerable young women when intoxicated. When intoxicated there have been some 30 occasions that have been disclosed by XY that he had been to parties.

'The police were happy for him to be going to parties, taking drugs, being out of control because of the high value of the information. This is an affront to the public conscience.

'He had committed a series of frauds, he was arrested for assaulting someone in a mosque, he attempted to incite a female in July 2015, he was arrested for breaching the sex offenders' register.'

When asked this week if XY went to the parties, Northumbria Police Detective Superintendent Steve Barron said: 'His instruction was to find out when they were to take place and prevent the abuse of young people.'

But Chief Constable Steve Ashman said: 'Can I 100 per cent confirm that [XY did not go to the parties]? Possibly not.' He claimed the 'correct safety mechanisms' had been in place.

Judge Penny Morland dismissed the application to throw out the case, but described XY's evidence as 'inherently unreliable' and 'clearly dishonest'.

They were the world's oldest living conjoined twins at the time of their death in 2003 aged 53.

Snatched from their Russian mother following their birth, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyopova were subjected to a variety of cruel medical 'experiments' by Stalin's Soviet medical authorities. 

The girls shared a blood system but had separate nervous systems - so were seen as ideal subjects for research. 

Treated as medical guinea pigs they were burnt, frozen, starved, electrocuted, kept forcibly awake and injected with radioactive and other toxic substances in the name of 'science'.

The twins were institutionalised for much of their lives but their horrific story has now been revealed in full for the first time by journalist Juliet Butler.

Ms Butler befriended Masha and Dasha and said despite sharing the same genetics, horrific childhood and all of their lives the same lower body - the sisters had wildly different personalities. 

One was a cruel, domineering 'psychopath' who was 'emotionally abusive' to her caring, empath sister who remained gentle and kind and longed for a normal life. 'Dasha was in an emotionally abusive relationship - similar to the situation some people find themselves in with a partner. 

'But while those people have a chance to leave, Dasha physically couldn't.

'Masha denied Dasha everything she ever longed for – a chance of love, a relationship with their mother, a job and even what she wanted most: a separate body.' 

Ms Butler, who has written a novel based on their lives, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep, has provided fascinating insights into the tragic pair that reignite the nature versus nurture debate. Used as guinea pigs 

Almost immediately after the twins were born on January 1950 by caesarean section, they snatched from their mother Yekaterina - who was told her babies had died shortly after birth.

Dasha and Masha were taken away to, a medical institute in the Moscow region, the Academy of Medical Sciences Pediatric Institute, to be used as medical guinea pigs.

The girls shared a blood system but had separate nervous systems - so were seen as ideal subjects for research.

A thug who beat a shopkeeper with a wine bottle and stabbed in him the face nearly killing him is facing years in prison.

Trevor Sinclair, 51, nearly killed Srikanth Mailvaganam when he refused to sell him rum on credit, wrestling him to the floor and bludgeoning him over the head five times.

The shocking attack was caught on CCTV at the Stockwell Convenience Store in Brixton, on July 15 last year. 

Mr Mailvaganam was working behind the till at the store when Sinclair approached the counter with two soft drinks, asking for rum on credit.

Sinclair was turned away but came back minutes later, with a kitchen knife in his trousers, asking again for a bottle of rum.

After being refused again, Sinclair threw a large bottle of water at Mr Mailvaganam, shouting 'I will kill you'. Judge Sarah Munro, QC, remanded him in custody ahead of sentence on September 14.

Prosecutor Louise Oakley said: 'On Friday 15 July 2016, at approximately 11:42, Srikanth Mailvaganam was working behind the till serving customers.

'The defendant entered the store and selected two soft drinks from a fridge.

'He then approached the till and asked for credit to purchase not only these two soft drinks but also a bottle of rum as he did not have any money.

'When his request was declined he became angry and left the store threatening to return.'

As Mr Mailvaganam was serving customers the defendant, a regular user of the store, entered on two separate occasions within a few minutes of each other.

Ms Oakley said: 'On the second occasion, the defendant had a kitchen knife in the waistband of his trousers. 'Without warning, he attacked Mr Mailvaganam and, whilst on the floor, he struck him about the head and face with a bottle and the kitchen knife, causing him what the Crown describe as life-changing injuries to his face and head.

'It is the Crown's case is that by his words and actions, the defendant intended to kill his victim.

'Unfortunately the defendant was the bigger and stronger man, and eventually, using his entire body weight, he was able to climb on top of his victim and pin him down.'

Witnesses called police to scene, where an officer tasered the attacker after seeing him towering over his victim with a knife.

Sinclair was taken to Brixton Police Station, where he refused to answer any questions by police.

Mr Mailvaganam, who had worked in his brother's convenience store on Stockwell Road for up to six years, knew Sinclair as he regularly asked for credit in the store.

CCTV footage of the incident showed Sinclair repeatedly batter his victim with the wine bottle until it smashed.

Sinclair, from Brixton, denied but was convicted of attempted murder. He had admitted the lesser alternative of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.