PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Atletico are eight points off the lead in La Liga, on Thursday night they were dumped out of the Copa del Rey by a third division side and Liverpool loom on the horizon in Europe.

Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool side return to the scene of last season's Champions League triumph for the first time, where they beat fellow Premier League outfit Tottenham 2-0.

As Liverpool saw their Champions League title defence ended in dramatic fashion by Atletico Madrid at Anfield, Jurgen Klopp fumed at the style of his opponents. Sportsmail looks at where it was lost.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: For the first time in 30 years, Liverpool are the champions. We knew that already and it looks now as though the coronavirus has confirmed it.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Atletico know it's unlikely but they have to cling to something. The horizon will look very dark for them otherwise - they would stand to lose around £88m from missed revenue

President Donald Trump said North Korea's special representative to the U.S. for nuclear negotiations had not been assassinated and said he looks forward to meeting again with Kim Jong-un.

The North Korean mass games are a spectacle of gymnastic synchronisation believed to be the world's 'biggest human performance' held at Rungrado, reportedly the world's biggest stadium.

North Korea has released its own smartphone which is incapable of connecting to foreign WiFi. The Pyongyang 2425 handset can only access state-run 'Mirae' WiFi, an intranet network.

Perth man Alek Sigley, missing in North Korea, may have been silenced ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to the demilitarized zone, an expert said on Friday.

Former federal MP Michael Johnson, who has visited North Korea three times, fears Australian exchange student Alek Sigley has been physically abused in detention.

Donald Trump promised the 'show of a lifetime' for the Fourth of July and said the cost of his extravaganza will 'be very little compared to what it is worth' as questions arise about the final tally.

Kim's eagerness to meet Trump in the DMZ that divides North and South Korea contrasted with the picture that Pyongyang paints of a powerful and proactive leader, a source told Korean media.

Alek Sigley, 29, landed in China safe and well on Thursday after spending nine days detained in the communist country.

Reports which emerged in Japan last month claimed that Kenji Fujimoto (pictured), a former chef for Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il, had been arrested on suspicion of a 'past betrayal'.

President Trump defended North Korea recent missile tests, arguing the short range missiles don't violate the Singapore agreement and claimed Kim Jong-Un would not would not want to 'disappoint' him.

The latest launch comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had received a 'very beautiful letter' from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system today, seen as an attempt to build leverage ahead of negotiations with the United States.

Japan's military last year said it was 'possible' that North Korea had achieved miniaturisation, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment (pictured, a recent North Korean weapons test).

Jacob Bogle, a researcher from the US, analysed satellite images of North Korea taken since 2003 and found that a uranium plant at Pyongsan appears to be leaking waste into a nearby river.

The Russian-American businessman, 53, was an invaluable FBI source who helped the US government 'combat terrorists', a letter filed by prosecutors in 2009 and unsealed on Friday reveals.

The Coast Guard says the short-range projectiles did not reach Japanese waters or the  Exclusive Economic Zone.

The North Korean leader is reported to have personally overseen the test of the ballistic missiles. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released photos of the test, Sunday.

Kaoru Hasuike and his girlfriend Yukiko spent 24 years as captives in North Korea, where he was forced to work training spies after being kidnapped from a Japanese beach.

The order came as North Korea warned of 'undesirable consequences' after the US seized one of its sanction-breaking cargo ships.

Using a space-based radar, scientists found that the North Korean tests at Mount Mantap had a yield of 245 to 271 kilotonnes and had managed to shift the mountain by a few metres.

Singapore-based drug smuggler Wee Quay Tan, 48, who also has a large tattoo of a dragon inked over his shoulders and chest, found himself in the middle of the biggest drug bust in Australian history.

The FBI pinned the blame for the 2014 Sony hack on North Korea, but doubts have been raised over the evidence, while a former bureau informant claims to have evidence it actually came from Russia.

US special representative Stephen Biegun told reporters in Seoul that the US had heard the North's 'hostile, negative and unnecessary' demands but would not work to the arbitrary deadline.

Alex Meads, now 23, was excommunicated by the London-based Korean Friendship Association's 'paranoid' chairman, Dermot Hudson, earlier this year.

Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed aside threats of a Christmas surprise from North Korea, joking maybe he would get a 'beautiful vase' from Kim Jong Un instead of a missile test. 

Four aircraft are believed to have to have made the unusual move of flying missions over and around the Korean Peninsula between Tuesday and early Wednesday at the same time.

The dictatorship has threatened to take 'unspecified action' if sanctions are not lifted by 2020. Four US planes flew over the North Korean peninsula on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Police made the discovery in the wooden boat's stem around 9:30 am (00:30 GMT) on Saturday on Sado island, which is off the coast of Japan's northwestern prefecture of Niigata

North Korea has released an hour-long documentary charting Kim Jong-un's two trips up the country's sacred Mount Paektu last year, apparently in place of an anticipated New Year address by the dictator.

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said the U.S. has reached out to North Korea to continue negotiations in Stockholm in October after the regime said denuclearization was 'off the table'.

An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession.

Staff Sergeant Byun Hui-su fought back tears as she said being a soldier had been her 'childhood dream' and that she wanted to help guard the tense border with communist North Korea.

The North Korean citizen returned from China before being tested positive for the deadly virus, according to local media. A woman from China has taken ill at Copenhagen airport, Denmark.

A report studying the internet usage of these North Korean leaders throughout 2019 claims Kim Jong-un is presiding over 'a nation run like a criminal syndicate'.

North Korea has not yet confirmed any cases of the coronavirus, formally known COVID-19, but has closed the land border with China, where 254 people died yesterday from the outbreak.

State media is demanding 'absolute obedience' to health authorities as North Korea tries to shield itself from the virus that emerged in neighbouring China.

North Korea claims it has no coronavirus cases, even as its border neighbor China has experienced more than 3,200 deaths from the virus. Experts have called claim 'Impossible'

North Korea maintains it has no confirmed cases of COVID-19, despite tens of thousands of cases in neighbouring China and South Korea.

The projectiles were fired from North Pyongan province into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without providing further details.

The prisoner, who used the pseudonym Kim Il-soon, exposed the monstrous practice after surviving the hell of Kaechon concentration camp, which is located north of Pyongyang.

A Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile is launched in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 14, in the latest of a number of weapon launches from the country. The image was shared by North Korea.

Kim Jong Un failed to attend the ceremony at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, despite many of his senior officials appearing at the deeply significant wreath laying ceremony on Wednesday.

Kim Jong-un set an ambitious 200-day deadline for the completion of the new Pyongyang General Hospital after work began suddenly just under a month ago.

A new book claims that the leader of North Korea sees himself as John F. Kennedy and his wife Ri Sol Ju as the parallel of Jackie Kennedy.

The 'Supreme Leader' of this impoverished country boards his beloved train by means of a ramp covered with a red carpet.