Reuters

• North Korea missile test fails just hours before Pence arrives in South

  A North Korean missile 'blew up almost immediately' on its test launch on Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Command said.

• China says North Korea tension must be stopped from reaching 'irreversible' stage amid fears of nuclear test

  China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an 'irreversible and unmanageable stage' as a US aircraft carrier group steamed towards the region amid fears the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test.

• US 'mother of all bombs' killed 36 ISIS militants in Afghanistan

  As many as 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the United States dropped 'the mother of all bombs,' its largest non-nuclear device ever unleashed in combat, the Afghan defense ministry said on Friday.

• Explosion at Egypt Coptic church kills at least 21, injures 50

  At least 21 people were killed and 50 injured on Sunday when an explosion rocked a Coptic church in Egypt's Nile Delta, state television reported, the latest assault on a religious minority that has increasingly been targeted by Islamist militants.

• North Korea calls US strikes on Syria 'unforgivable act of aggression'

  North Korea said on Saturday US missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were 'an unforgivable act of aggression' that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was 'the right choice a million times over'.

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  Mike Pence pledges US support for Iraq's war on ISIS

  US Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday assured Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of continued US support to defeat Islamic State, the Iraqi government said in a statement.

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  Swedish police arrest suspect after truck attack that killed four

  Swedish police have arrested a man they suspect drove a beer delivery truck which rammed into a crowd in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what they described as a terror crime.

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  More than 250 killed and scores injured in catastrophic landslide in Colombia

  Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks onto buildings and roads in the capital of southwestern Putumayo province and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud.

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  Wealthy - and not so wealthy - White House staffers' finances detailed in new disclosures

  Omarosa Manigault, engaged to a Florida pastor, and who rose to fame on Trump's reality show the Apprentice and now is a White House adviser, had a modest income under $100,000. The disclosures showed she is a beneficiary of a trust established by her late fiance, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, worth between $1 million and $5 million.

• Thousands join London march demonstrating against leaving the EU

  In bright sunshine, marchers waved EU flags and banners with slogans like 'So what's the Plan' and 'Stop Brexit' as they made their way to parliament.

• Iraqi military says 61 bodies pulled from collapsed Mosul site

  Iraqi's military said on Sunday 61 bodies had been recovered from a collapsed building that was booby-trapped by Islamic State in Western Mosul.

• Mosul civilian deaths confirmed – UN 'stunned by terrible loss of life'

  The US military said on Saturday a US-led coalition strike had hit an Islamic State-held area of Iraq's Mosul where residents and officials say as many as 200 civilians may have been killed as result of an air raid.