North Korea dismisses the possibility of holding fresh talks with the United States on the demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula as long as Washington pursues a "hostile policy" toward Pyongyang.

Contracts in excess of £11m awarded to private companies to aid the government’s effort to develop a custom-made coronavirus contract tracing app have so far failed to produce viable results.

Russian space agency Roscosmos says it cannot establish contact with a weather satellite just hours after it was launched from a new spaceport.