World News Update, what you need to know

Matthew Lodge's alleged New York rampage victims have won a court victory placing them one step closer to seizing the former NRL West Tigers prop's Australian assets.

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WASHINGTON, - Donald Trump says he's the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and has warned if party leaders deny him the nomination, "You'd have riots."

SEOUL - North Korea's sentencing of American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, has been condemned by Washington as politically motivated.

MAIDUGURI - Two female suicide bombers have killed at least 24 worshippers and wounded 18 in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

LONDON - British finance minister George Osborne has unveiled a new sugary drinks tax to fight childhood obesity.

SKIEN - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has told a court that Norway is trying to kill him with years of solitary confinement, complaining of degrading prison conditions, including microwaved meals that were "worse than waterboarding".

LONDON - The Duke of York is reported to have rammed closed gates with his STG80,000 ($A152,000) Range Rover to avoid a one-and-a-half-kilometre detour home.

LONDON - Television writer and producer Sylvia Anderson, the voice of Lady Penelope in popular 1960s television show Thunderbirds, has died at age 88 after a short illness.