Speculation about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's health mounded around the world after the head of the Hermit Kingdom had not been seen in public for nearly three weeks.

Russia's ambassador in North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, presented the award to foreign minister Ri Son-gwon on Tuesday at the Mansudae Palace of Congress in Pyongyang.

Speaking to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency said there was nothing to indicate the rumours about Kim's ill-health were true.

North Korea is nearing completion on a new base near the capital of Pyongyang which could be used to increase and protect the country's stockpile of nuclear weapons, analysts say.

Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman opened up on his unlikely friendship with the Supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un ever since he visited the country in 2013.

After securing the backing of MPs Boris Johnson is odds-on to become Britain's next Prime Minister. But he will have to juggle high expectations from all sides if he gets the keys to No. 10.

JACK DOYLE: In the red corner stands Jeremy Corbyn, a friend to Britain's enemies, whose hard-Left prospectus would lay waste to Britain's economy.

Throughout the campaign, Tory staff out on the road with Mr Johnson were always more optimistic than those based in London, because they saw at first hand the reception he got from the public.

The cost to banks of funding mortgages has leapt since Mr Trump's surprise win, and experts expect these rises to be passed on to homeowners.

Laura Garza, a Mexican national living in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of voter impersonation and ineligible voting, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas to a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

Trump allowed in a tweet that the claim may not be accurate. If true, though, he said, it would be the biggest political scandal in modern American history.

Roger Stone, the self-described Republican ‘political dirty trickster’ and supporter of President Donald Trump, says he is ‘prepared’ in case he is indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.

Longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone (left), allegedly inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (top right) before the 2016 election.

In his latest Twitter rant Trump slammed Peter Strzok, who worked briefly on the Russia investigation but was removed from the probe when a report revealed he had sent anti-Trump text messages.

A Republican congressman claimed there is 'growing evidence' the FBI altered witness reports in their investigations into Clinton's email server and in the Russia probe.

The head of the conservative 'Freedom Caucus' says government investigators may have 'tampered' with evidence that helped secure fired National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's guilty plea.

The ex Ukip leader said reports that special prosecutor Robert Mueller was investigating him and Ukip donor Arron Banks over links to Moscow were 'hysterical'.

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov admits he was the force behind the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. but he denies he was trying to influence the election for Donald Trump.

A dozen Russian intelligence officers are facing new U.S. federal indictments alleging they hacked into American computers with the intention of interfering with the 2016 election.

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Trump in a major retreat that administration said that he misspoke at his Helsinki summit when he said that he did not have 'any reason' to think that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.

President Trump added the accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team 'are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side.'

George Papadopoulos. who tired to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, said his testimony could help prove collusion.

In a tweet on Tuesday night, Trump accused the Democrats of deliberately obstructing his latest nomination of Brett Kavanaugh who has been accused of sexual assault.

An electronic billboard advertisement suggesting that President Donald Trump might be God 'in the flesh' was taken down in St. Louis, Missouri on Monday, after residents questioned its meaning.

Former Ecuadorian President Rafeal Correa has said he was aware WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering with the 2016 US Presidential election from the embassy in London.

RICHARD KAY: For both parties it looked like a marriage made in heaven - a classic case of opposites attracting.

RICHARD KAY: Alan Davidson of the Daily Mail spent half a century - yes, 50 years! - riding shotgun on London's nightlife, lowlife, political life and celebrity just about everywhere.

To the very end, when he was 84 years old, battling cancer and in possession of a fortune worth upwards of £500million, South African hotel boss, Sol Kerzner was still making deals.

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe called out President Donald Trump for spewing a message that 'excludes' people who look like her.

Martin Bray, a councillor with the Onkaparinga local government area south of Adelaide, estimates residents are paying more than $42,000 for sewage maintenance for just 32 hours of work a year.

Anthony Kenneth Murrell was renting the granny flat in Palmerston North, New Zealand, when owner Ravindra Pal Singh put the property on the market.

Brisbane motorists have been brought to a standstill again after climate change activists held up CBD traffic on Monday morning.

Median house values in the country's capital cites are set to increase during 2020, according to property research firm BIS Oxford Economics in a report released Monday.

The footy fan jumped over the fence at Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta, in Sydney's west, with only minutes left in the NRL clash between Wests Tigers and Parramatta.

A young 'wannabe' gangster found himself behind bars after calling police when his Melbourne home was raided by a gang of thugs hell bent on ripping off his drug stash. 

Obama, 57, granted clemency to Danielle Metz back in 2016 after she spent more than two decades behind bars for her role in a cocaine trafficking ring run by her husband.

Five people have been charged with allegedly stealing thousands of dollars' worth of baby formula in a string of robberies across Melbourne. 

The 53-year-old former St Kilda star has been hit with four charges following the alleged attack in Docklands, inner-western Melbourne, on March 30.

Jay Sewell (pictured) 18, was fatally stabbed on December 11 last year by a nine-strong group including Daniel 'Joe' Grogan, 20, after Gemma Hodder, started seeing the teenager, it is claimed.

The victims, a man aged in his 60s and a woman aged in her 70s, were discovered inside a house in Whitton on Friday morning.

Richard Hames, who warned hijacked planes could be flown into the World Trade Centre three years before it happened, believes Australia should stop viewing China as a potential enemy.

Shackim Taylor, of Greenwich, will appear in court this morning after being charged with the murder of a 22-year-old man who was stabbed in south-east London last week.

Some aged care homes are spending as little as just over $6 a day on food per person as experts warn malnourished residents are "starving to...

Unemployed Fadi Fawaz was photographed in front of smashed windows on a balcony in the £5million London home that once belonged to his lover George Michael. A builder says he shattered them.

Kaysha Plant was driving to work on Monday morning north of Melbourne when two men allegedly started to abuse her, allegedly causing her to crash into a concrete barrier.