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Ye Mengyuan, left, and Wang Linjia, right

San Francisco plane crash: Dead Chinese teenagers Wang Linjia and Ye Minguan were at start of US college tour

Coroner orders probe to determine whether rescuers ran over one of the teenagers who died

The planned venue for the Koreas' first high-level meeting, at the Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul, South Korea - the talks have now been scrapped

North and South Korea ditch breakthrough talks set for this week - because they can't agree who should lead delegations

Meeting promised a cool in relations after a tense few months on the peninsula

North Korea's chief delegate Kim Song-Hye (right) and her South Korean counterpart Chun Hae-Sung (left) at the end of the inter-Korean talks

North and South Korea announce diplomatic breakthrough with talks set for this week

Meeting could cool relations after a tense few months

North and South Korea agree to meet for talks

The talks will be the Koreas' first government-level negotiations since South Korean President Park Geun-hye took office in February

Carl Froch lands a right on Mikkel Kessler when the two first met in 2010

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King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station has been designed by half-British architect Zaha Hadid

The inside story: Kim Jong-Un’s former chef Kenji Fujimoto

North Korea: Why the media needs a sausage maker in Seoul

World View: Any source is a good source when desperate journalists can't dig up the most basic of facts

John Kerry meets China's top leaders to discuss North Korea

US Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders today in a bid to persuade them to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent rhetoric and, eventually, return to nuclear talks.

'PSY marks a new phenomenon - upbeat, relentlessly cheerful, cheesy and ironic'

Brace yourself for Psy's second act - but will it live up to Gangnam Style?

It was impossible to escape his first single – but can the Korean rapper strike it big a second time?

In an effort to firm up support and loyalty Kim Jong-un has to keep visiting his military bases

Spy claims Kim Jong-un is struggling to control the North Korean army

A former North Korean spy has claimed Pyongyang’s threats of military action are a sign that Kim Jong-un is struggling to control his armed forces.

South Koreans look north through binoculars near the demilitarized zone

'If war comes, we will fight because we have to': Life goes on near Korea's demilitarised zone

Tourists peer through telescopes from the southern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ), trying to catch a glimpse of life across the line that divides North and South Korea.

Office workers and shoppers throng the night-time streets of Seoul

The South Korean reaction: 'Pyongyang has been crying wolf for some time'

South Koreans, who have seen it all before, are carrying on as normal

South Korea warn of retaliation against North's aggression

Kim Jong-un announced a 'state of war' over the weekend

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