With toasts and a dinner of filet mignon, America's top diplomat and North Korea's top negotiator have met for the first time on US soil in a push to determine whether a nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can go ahead.

Abortion rights campaigners swallowed what they said were abortion pills outside a Belfast court on Thursday, as pressure grows to ease Northern Ireland's strict ban on terminating pregnancies.

Arkady Babchenko, the dissident Russian journalist who faked his own death in Ukraine's capital, said on Thursday he had to undertake the ruse because he feared he would share the fate of poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Too many in the international media or among the public lap up its outrageous narrative, possibly being too steeped in anathema towards Israel to delve deeper.

Police will not order offenders to remove their veils, but will fine them and tell them to go home, Denmark's justice minister said.

Accused child sex offender Malka Leifer was 'too mentally shaky' to face extradition proceedings and a psychiatrist has been given more time to assess her.

It will be the first free elections in a generation that does not include Mugabe, 94, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years.

Nikolas Cruz brags about how the forthcoming massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas is going to make him notorious.

Slovenia holds elections on June 3 and an anti-immigrant former prime minister is leading the polls.

It will also set up a government-led taskforce to work out how to grapple with the fallout from China's ban on waste imports.

Robert Kennedy fused a coalition of the least, the lost and the lonely. After his death, the Republicans adopted a sophisticated political strategy that has served them well ever since.

A Frenchman arrested when he arrived in the United States for a world beard-growing championship will plead guilty in federal court on drug charges.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe drafted a memo on circumstances leading up to the firing of his onetime boss, James Comey, a source said.

The divorce rate in China is rapidly rising, but the government is trying to slow the trend.

Why a teenage gunman shot his fellow students and teachers at Santa Fe High School remains a mystery. His model for carrying it out is more clear.