North Korea’s top military official — a key mentor to new leader Kim Jong-un — has been removed from all posts because of illness, state media said in a surprise announcement that shakes the core of the authoritarian country’s power structure.

North Korea’s top military official – a key mentor to new leader Kim Jong Un who also served under his late father – has been removed from all posts because of illness, state media has announced.

DEBRIS from the space shuttle Columbia rained down onto fields, highways and a cemetery in Texas on Saturday, sending dozens of residents to hospitals after they handled the smouldering metal wreckage.