North Korea missile launch fails

The US Vice-President Mike Pence has said his country's commitment to its alliance with South Korea has never been stronger. He arrived in Seoul hours after the North tried and failed to launch a ballistic missile. Turks are voting in a referendum on sweeping constitutional changes proposed by President Erdogan. And the rise in the polls of the far-left French Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon.

(Photo: North Korean soldiers seen on military armour vehicles during a parade. Credit: EPA)