North Korea missiles 'a serious threat' after new tests

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has claimed a series of technological breakthroughs in developing missiles. Japan has warned North Korean missiles pose "a serious threat" after the country carried out new tests in defiance of international sanctions. North Korea launched two missiles within hours of each other, with one flying about 400km (250 miles) and reaching an altitude of 1,000km. A confirmed successful test would mark a step forward...

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic to retire from Sweden duty after Euro 2016

Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced he will retire from international football after Euro 2016. His side face Belgium in their last Group E game on Wednesday, which could now be his final match for the country. He said: "I am very proud of what I have achieved and will always bring the Swedish flag with me." Manchester United have been strongly linked with the 34-year-old, who became a free agent after leaving French champions...

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Iraqi army only retook third of Falluja - US commander

A US military commander in Baghdad has openly contradicted the Iraqi army's claim last week that it had liberated the key city of Falluja and driven out IS militants from most of the city. Colonel Christopher Garver said Iraqi forces had cleared only a third of the city and the rest remains contested. Iraqi commanders insist that 80% of Falluja is under their control. Iraq's prime minister announced Falluja's "liberation" on Friday,...

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Lost Egyptian City Found underwater After 1,200 Years

After more than four years of underwater searching and digging, archaeologists today displayed the remains of a vanished Egyptian city. The scientists discovered Herakleion, the precursor to the once-powerful capital of Alexandria, beneath the sand under just 10 or so yards of water. Today, they showed off some of their most impressive finds atop a barge, including 20-foot-tall pink granite statues representing a pharoah, a queen and Hapi,...

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China builds world's most powerful computer

The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi. At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second. It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday. Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote...

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Anton Yelchin, Star Trek's Chekov, killed by his own car

Anton Yelchin, Star Trek's Chekov, killed by his own car Anton Yelchin, the Russian-born actor who played Chekov in the new Star Trek films, has been killed by his own car at his home in Los Angeles, police say. The vehicle struck him after rolling backwards down the drive at his Studio City home, pinning him against a brick postbox pillar and a security fence. Police did not say why he was behind the car at the time. Yelchin, 27,...

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