North Korea Casts Doubt on Summit and Warns of 'Nuclear Showdown'

North Korea has declared that it is up to the United States whether the two countries now meet at the negotiating table - or engage in a nuclear showdown.

The BBC has been told President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen was secretly paid at least four hundred thousand dollars to secure a White House meeting last June for the Ukrainian leader, Petro Poroshenko.

Italy's prime minister-designate, Giuseppe Conte, is due to start putting together a new government drawn from two Euro-sceptic political parties.