North Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho (pictured), has apologised after claiming leader Kim Jong-un was so unwell he could not stand.

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.

MI6 consultant Gordon Corera described how he collaborated with the creators of the drama Killing Eve to give fans a glimpse of the world of espionage.

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.

JACK DOYLE: While the Tories realise that if they fail to deliver Brexit, they will be electorally dead, Labour is convinced that it must champion Remain voters to survive.

JACK DOYLE: To stop No Deal, Dominic Grieve is prepared to risk putting Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street. That is the only logical conclusion from the threat he made on the Today programme.

The senior minister told the Daily Mail the Prime Minister would fight in court to try to find a way around the law forcing him to extend the October 31 Brexit deadline.

JACK DOYLE: With his bombastic battle-cry of 'Get Brexit Done', Boris Johnson left the conference stage to ecstatic applause. His first speech as PM was everything they hoped for.

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 Turner winning ceramicist Grayson Perry delivered an acute and sharp-eyed diagnosis of Labour's failings after he was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio Four's Today programme.

I have covered the past five British general elections, writes QUENTON LETTS, but Trump and Clinton have shown me that American elections make a British visitor feel very alien.

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.

British music promoter Rob Goldstone helped set up a Trump Tower meeting with Russians under the expectation they had 'smoking gun' material on Hillary, he told lawmakers.

'There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections,' the committee's top Republican and Democrat after a closed hearing on the issue.

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.

Rudy Giuliani said President Trump's disclosure that he 'reimbursed' Michael Cohen for his payment to Stormy Daniels 'vindicates' that Robert Mueller must end his Russia probe.

Senate Democrats claim to have evidence Russians funneled money through the National Rifle Association to help elect Trump, using Maria Butina (left), a Russian gun rights activist.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks the first six months of Donald Trump's administration were a 's*** show,' and doesn't want him to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller.

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.

The planned sit-down is to discuss a response to congressional requests. Trump is expected to bring up his demand, however, that DOJ examine whether his campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled'.

The Republican Party has paid half a million dollars to the law firm representing Hope Hicks, the former Trump aide who admitted she sometimes lied to help her then-boss Donald Trump.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

There was at least one additional 'informant' who tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it was revealed by a former aide Michael Caputo, who has long Russia ties.

The tweets were the US President's latest attempt to use reports that an FBI informant met with three of his campaign advisers to accuse the bureau of pursuing political ends.

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on the 2016 election

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.

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.

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.

Jeff Sessions was speaking ahead of the inspector general's report on the Clinton email investigation, which is expected to blame 'insubordinate' James Comey.

An FBI lawyer exchanged messages after the election with another colleague and proclaimed: 'Vive la resistance.'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.

Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old tax fraud convict and mother-of-two, voted in the 2016 election while on supervised release - unaware that she was ineligible under a Texas law.

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.

Winner, 26, has been scheduled to plead guilty in US District Court on June 26. She allegedly leaked a document about Russia cyber-attacks to The Intercept.

Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves and majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president, poll finds.

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'

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.

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is siding with the intelligence community against his ex-boss, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted 12 senior members of the GRU, alleging that they masterminded the hacking campaign against the Democratic Party.

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.

It was revealed that President Donald Trump could be heard discussing payment for Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged affair with him with his lawyer Michael Cohen.

Answering charges that he is only targeting a list of his political opponents, Trump claimed he 'would put a Republican on, too, if I thought they were incompetent or crazy.'

William McRaven, commander of the raid condemned Trump for revoking the security clearance of ex-CIA chief John Brennan saying the spy was 'of unparalleled integrity'.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he only knew about payments to a porn star and Playboy model 'later' and they were fully legal because no campaign funds were used.

Lanny Davis, lawyer for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, said during an interview on CNN Tuesday that his client may have information related to Russian meddling.

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.