CIAN O’CONNOR took the leading rider award on Saturday at the Dubai Show Jumping Championships, the first of four shows he will contest in the United Arab Emirates.

North Korea has cooperated fully with a team of UN nuclear experts who were monitoring the shutdown of the country’s sole plutonium-producing reactor, the leader of the team said today.

North Korea has told the United States it has shut down its nuclear reactor, the US State Department said today, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country’s pledge to disarm.