US envoy Stephen Biegun reveals North Korea nuclear pledge
North Korea has pledged to destroy all its nuclear material enrichment facilities, according to the US special envoy for the country, Stephen Biegun.
He said the promise had been made to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he visited North Korea in October.
But Mr Biegun said North Korea must provide a complete list of its nuclear assets before any deal can be reached.
President Donald Trump had earlier claimed "tremendous progress" in talks between the countries.
Enduring the tide: the flooded Philippine islands that locals won't leave
Subsidence caused by an earthquake has created a snapshot of what life might be like for many more as sea levels continue to rise
The water laps above her ankles, and flows through her home, sending bottles bobbing gently on the high tide. But Maria Saavedra is unworried, and unmoving.
“I really like it here on the island because it is peaceful,” she says, sitting in the front room of her inundated home on Ubay Island, in the centre of the Philippines archipelago.
The Cebu Strait quietly invades her house on the high tide for nearly four hours a day, more than 130 days a year. But Saavedra doesn’t want to leave the only home she’s known for an uncertain life on a larger island nearby.
Marie Colvin: Syrian regime deliberately targeted journalist, US court rules
Bashar al-Assad's fired sustained artillery barrages against the apartment building where she was staying
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad‘s regime was responsible for killing journalist Marie Colvin in 2012, a US judge has ruled
The country's military was found to have deliberately targeted the makeshift media centre in the city of Homs where Colvin, was working with other journalists, US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded.
Sustained artillery barrages against the apartment building housing the media centre killed the longtime foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik on 22 February, 2012.
With INF treaty at risk, Germans fear new arms race
Thirty years ago, American nuclear weapons were pulled out of Germany. But with President Donald Trump threatening to leave the INF treaty, a new arms race could flare up. Germany's peace activists are deeply concerned.
A thin layer of snow covers a forest clearing near the city of Heilbronn, where people are out walking their dogs. Back in 1985, this area in southwestern Germany was a high-security zone under control of the US Army. And the scene of a fatal accident with far-reaching consequences.
At the time, Larry Nichols was serving as a US solider at the site, in charge of medium-range Pershing 2 nuclear missiles stationed at the wooded area. He was under orders to keep their existence a secret.
At the time, Larry Nichols was serving as a US solider at the site, in charge of medium-range Pershing 2 nuclear missiles stationed at the wooded area. He was under orders to keep their existence a secret.
Australia is sweltering through record-breaking heat. And the worst is yet to come
Updated 0135 GMT (0935 HKT) February 1, 2019
Farmer Wayne Dunford was already feeling worn down. He'd battled through 18 months of some of the worst drought he'd seen in his half a century on the land.
Then the heat struck.
Dunford has been feeding livestock by hand on his New South Wales property for 12 months due to the lack of ground growth and is now worried about whether he'll be able to plant crops at all after extreme heat and wind completely dried out his fields.
"You turn around and you can't see across the paddock for the dirt blowing across it, that wears people pretty thin. And then there's the heat on top of that," he told CNN.
Exposed: China's surveillance of Muslim Uighurs
As China faces increasing criticism over its treatment of its Muslim population, new details emerge about how Beijing spies on Uighurs at home and abroad.
by Steve Chao
The Turkish coal-mining town of Zonguldak seems an unlikely place to meet a man who says he's a Chinese spy, but it's here where Yusuf Amat arranged to meet us.
Sitting in the lobby of a hotel overlooking the Black Sea, waiting for him to arrive, I wonder what kind of person would agree to inform on neighbours, friends and even family for a government accused by rights groups of carrying out a brutal campaign of mass arrests and detention.
As Amat walks in through the glass door, I almost miss him. Wearing grey overalls, a grey cotton-knit hat and a grey bulky jacket, everything about him - from his clothes to his mannerisms - is unremarkable.
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