North Korea has said its main nuclear complex is fully operational and the country is ready to face US hostility with nuclear weapons "at any time". Its nuclear weapons are being improved "in quality and quantity", an official quoted by the state news agency KCNA said. The director of North Korea's Atomic Energy Institute said atomic scientists had "made innovations day by day" to

Take away the odd fire investigator or police patrol car and Middletown in California would be a ghost town. There is very little for many residents to return to. The small mountain community, just north of Napa wine country, took the full force of the Valley Fire that continues to rage across Northern California. At least one person died here, an elderly woman who could not escape and

Queen Rania of Jordan has called for European leaders to agree on a "holistic and cohesive" policy for tackling the refugee crisis. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Queen Rania said the arrival of 1.4 million Syrian refugees into Jordan had caused "immense strain" to the country's economy. "This crisis has had an impact on us for coming up to five years now," she said. "We have had a

A man who killed the woman he lived with and a university professor in Mississippi has apparently shot himself dead. Greenville officers were following suspect Shannon Lamb when he pulled over, jumped out of his car and ran, police said. The officers heard one gunshot and found Lamb with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The 45-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital. Police

Germany is expecting one million migrants this year - 200,000 more than previously estimated, Angela Merkel's deputy has said. In a letter to party members, the country's vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said: "Everything points to the fact that we won't have 800,000 migrants as has been predicted by the Interior Ministry, but one million." He also called for other EU nations to take their

Malcolm Turnbull has been sworn in as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia after a leadership challenge saw the ouster of Tony Abbott. Mr Turnbull's Liberal Party colleagues voted 54-44 to replace Mr Abbott during a surprise ballot on Monday. He becomes the nation's fourth leader in a little over two years, but despite division in his party, Mr Turnbull says he will lead a "very strong

The great trek north goes on unabated. Thousands upon thousands heading for the sanctuary of the west; or at least that is what they hope. This is already an intercontinental crisis but it could turn into a European catastrophe if previously open borders are shut. It will leave tens of thousands, eventually perhaps hundreds of thousands, trapped and homeless within the confines of at least