Temperatures this week were expected to reach a level not seen for June since 1947, and could surpass that.

While Donald Trump was bored by the first Democratic debate, he should also be relieved. Nothing would have shaken his confidence in winning a second term.

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are the parents of three children: five-year-old George, four-year-old Charlotte and one-year-old Louis.

He was interviewed by North Korea's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, and praised the country, in a report published this week, around the time he is believed to have been detained in Pyongyang.

In his blog Alek Sigley said his father was an "Anglo-Aussie sinologist" and his mother was Chinese - she spent a "tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution", he wrote.