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South Korea has warned the North it will "pay a harsh price" if it goes ahead with its plan to launch a satellite into space. North Korea said on Tuesday it intended to carry out the launch between 8 and 25 February. Critics say it is a cover for a test of ballistic missile technology. Japan's defence minister said he had issued an order to shoot down any missile that threatened to fall on Japanese territory. The US has said any North Korean launch would be an "egregious violation" of a UN ban on missile launches by North Korea, and called for more sanctions. North Korea has always said its space programme is peaceful, but it is believed to be developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. It also conducted its fourth nuclear bomb test on 6 January, drawing   international condemnation . §   May 2015: North Korea announces it has  successfully tested a submarine-launched missile  for the first time, but scepticism is then poured on

A helicopter operated by Bristow Helicopter Company in Lagos has crashed into the Atlantic Ocean as it was approaching the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.  A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye disclosed that his agency got a distress call this morning and immediately alerted the Nigerian Navy and officers of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to engage in search and rescue. The chopper which had eleven passengers on board with a pilot and a cabin crew member sank shortly after the crash. All persons on board were rescued by combined efforts of Navy and NIMASA officials who arrived the scene of the crash on time.  Today's incident follows a crash of another Bristow chopper into the Lagos lagoon in the Oworosoki area in August 2015, six people died in the crash.

Germany's Interior Minister told Afghanistan on Tuesday that Germany’s security support to the country would only continue if the influx of Afghan refugees to Germany stopped. “We’re staying here as long as it’s necessary. But we also expect that that the Afghan population stays here,” Thomas de Maizière said on a visit to Afghan capital Kabul, according to N-tv. Many Germans ask themselves how it can be that Afghans come to seek asylum in their country when Germany is providing security assistance in Afghanistan, the interior minister claimed. “We want the influx of refugees to be stopped,” he added. The interior minister also sought to quash rumours he said were leading to Afghans coming to Germany with false hopes. “There is no welcome money in Germany. There is no guarantee of a job or an apartment,” de Maizière told state broadcaster ZDF, warning Afghans not to listen to propaganda spread by people smugglers. De Maizière insisted that there are still parts of th