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There's a newly released batch of photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a series of site visits. The dozens of photos all have one curious detail in common - the leader is surrounded by officials and generals making notes in identical notepads, writes Kathryn Westcott.

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The government plans to grant autonomy to some public jetty and seaports on a pilot basis, to see what might be the horizontal and vertical effects of the given autonomy, i.e. on the coverage of services in terms of the counts of service recipients and on the quality of services to be provided irrespective of consideration to any extraneous factors, e.g. socio-demographic variables of the service seekers. One quality indicator may be the opportunity or the marginal cost, such as the waiting time that might keep a bread earner from waged jobs or the money that a service seeker has to bear in traveling to attend the service facilities. Some other quality elements are the types and depth of available services in a given facility, the technical skill of and its application by the service providers, their attitude and behaviour with the service seekers, the way the service providers communicate with Clearing And Forwarding Agents, the varieties of alternate choices for solving the same pro...

British D-Day veterans are said to have faced a battle against time to fill in the paperwork needed to ensure they can attend the 70th anniversary commemorations of the World War Two landing in Normandy. About 900 members of the British Normandy Veterans' Association are due to attend the events.

The announcement that teachers are to hold a national strike in England and Wales in June over pay and workload issues attracts comment. The Guardian says the vote at the National Union of Teachers' conference was accompanied by an "acrimonious debate"over the prospect of more aggressive action.

The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has passed 100, as divers recovered more bodies from the sunken hull. A total of 104 people are now known to have died, but another 198 are missing, presumed trapped inside the vessel.

Joe Biden (left) was greeted by Ukraine's FM, Andriy Deshchytsia, when he arrived in Kiev on Monday US Vice-President Joe Biden is to meet Ukraine's new leaders in a show of support for the pro-Western government.

He and I were elected to the European Parliament on the same day in 1999. I left after five years. The UKIP leader is still there Nick Clegg accuses Nigel Farage of being "a professional politician" Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, meanwhile, has accused Mr Farage of being the sort of professional politician he has himself criticised.

Nigel Farage said the posters would "ruffle a few feathers among the chattering classes" UKIP leader Nigel Farage has defended a poster campaign about immigration as "a hard-hitting reflection of reality" after it was condemned as "racist".

The new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City was opened last week A man accused of robbery and assault was shot and killed in a Salt Lake City court after he lunged at a witness giving evidence. Siale Angilau, 25, died in hospital after being shot several times by a US marshal in front of the jury at the new federal courthouse.