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Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs. The findings in Nature Communications, could, in the distant future, mean women can be removed from the baby-making process, say the researchers. For now, the work helps to explain some of the details of fertilisation. End of mum and dad? The University of Bath scientists started with an unfertilised egg in their experiments. They used chemicals to trick it into becoming a pseudo-embryo. These "fake" embryos share much in common with ordinary cells, such as skin cells, in the way they divide and control their DNA. The researchers reasoned that if injecting sperm into mouse pseudo-embryos could produce healthy babies, then it might one day be possible to achieve a similar result in humans using cells that are not from eggs. In the mouse experiments, the odds of achieving a successful pregnancy was one in four. Dr Tony Perry, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: "This is the first time that anyone has been able to show that anything other than an egg can combine with a sperm in this way to give rise to offspring. "It overturns nearly 200 years of thinking." Those baby mice were healthy, had a normal life expectancy and had healthy pups of their own. Fertilisation The goal of the researchers is to understand the exact mechanisms of fertilisation because what happens when a sperm fuses with an egg is still a bit of a mystery. For example, the egg completely strips the sperm's DNA of all its chemical clothing and re-dresses it. That stops the sperm behaving like a sperm and makes it act like an embryo, but how the "costume change" takes place is not clear. Removing the need for an egg could have a wider impact on society. Dr Perry said: "One possibility, in the distant future, is that it might be possible that ordinary cells in the body can be combined with a sperm so that an embryo is formed." In other words, two men could have a child, with one donating an ordinary cell and the other, sperm. Or one man could have his own child using his own cells and sperm - with that child being more like a non-identical twin than a clone. Dr Perry stressed that such scenarios were still "speculative and fanciful" at this stage. Earlier this year in China, scientists were able to make sperm from stem cells and then fertilise an egg to produce healthy mice. Dr Perry suggested that combining the two fields of research may eventually do without the need for sperm and eggs altogether. Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Institute, commented: "I'm not surprised that the authors are excited about this. "I think it is a very interesting paper, and a technical tour de force and I am sure it will tell us something important about reprogramming at these early steps of development that are relevant to both fertilisation and single cell nuclear transfer [cloning]. "And, perhaps more broadly, about reprogramming of cell fate in other situations. "It doesn't yet tell us how, but the paper gives a number of clear pointers."

American Truck Simulator GAMEPLAY – Parking Challenge American Truck Simulator! Reverse-parking a massive trailer can’t be that hard, right? Wrong. It’s hard as nails. So Jim made his colleagues attempt it, mainly to upset them. The winner will shock you. Maybe. Reverse parking 30 tons of American haulage is not easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gjb4iL-9M&feature=youtu.be

After a rough and underwhelming return to the gruelling Dakar rally in 2015, Peugeot Sport slinked back to its secret bunker and set to work on the next iteration of its off-road monster. Earlier this year, that went and stomped the two-week off-road endurance race serving Stéphane Peterhansel his 12th Dakar victory. For next year’s race, Peugeot Sport has gone back to the drawing board and built an all-new car. No longer based on the hum-drum 2008 crossover, for Dakar 2017 Peugeot are using the bigger 3008 SUV that’s set to debut at the upcoming Paris motor show as a basis. But don’t worry, it’s still about as 3008-y as the old 2008 DKR was 2008-y. Due to that dastardly rule book, the dimensions of the 3008 DKR haven’t changed compared to its predecessor. Yes, it’s still longer and wider than the unstable first generation DKR car, but the footprint is no different to the current car – which has proven to be a lot better at ironing out South America’s undulations. You may also notice it’s quite squat. That’s to help lower the centre of gravity. Something those two spare tyres that are hidden in its cheeks also helps with. And those short overhangs at the front and back allow it to bash and crawl up and over pretty much everything it can get its thick tyres onto. Apparently, the main areas of improvement over the old car are reliability and driveability. Both crucial elements given the DKR’s bread and butter is to compete in a race that’s 10,000 kilometres long, pretty much flat-out and takes place in every weather condition Earth can throw at it. The 3.0-litre mid-mounted V6 twin-turbo diesel engine now delivers greater amounts of crucial torque at lower revs. This wasn’t easily achieved given there’s been a rule change imposing a smaller restrictor on the engine (38mm as opposed to 39mm), sapping around 20 horsepower. The dampers and suspension geometry have also been further honed to provide a more stable and better ride for pounding across the desert. Plus, the air con system has been upgraded to make sure the driver and navigators don’t boil in their race suits. But Peugeot is still going against the grain of its top-level competitors by sticking to a two-wheel drive layout instead of four. Which means all 330bhp and 590lb ft of torque heads to the rear wheels. Which means lots of sandy skids. But there’s more to it than that. With no power heading to the front wheels, there are less mechanical connections to potentially fail. It also keeps the 3008 DKR in a less restrictive class, loosening up the regulations to which Dakar’s dominant four-wheel-drive competitors must adhere. So that updated suspension offers a hell of a lot more travel than four-wheel-drive cars (460mm against 250mm), it can run bigger wheels, plus a trick inboard remote tyre-pressure system that allows the car to inflate/deflate its rubber on the move. Will the 3008 DKR help revive Peugeot’s Dakar dominance of old? Well, they have an off-road dream team of drivers – Stéphane Peterhansel, Carlos Sainz, Sébastien Loeb and Cyril Despres – which helps. But we’ll just have to wait until January to find out for sure.

Three Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of being sent by so-called Islamic State (IS) to launch attacks, prosecutors say. The men - aged between 17 and 26 - were detained after a series of pre-dawn raids in the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony on Tuesday. Later, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told journalists the suspects may have had links to the men who attacked Paris in November last year. He called the three a sleeper cell. The Federal Public Prosecutor's office has said no concrete missions or orders have so far been found, despite the seizure of "extensive material". The men - identified only as Mahir al-H, 17, Ibrahim M, 18, and Mohamed A, 26 - are said to have travelled through Turkey and Greece on false passports. Investigators believe they had volunteered for the alleged mission, and that the 17-year-old had been trained in handling weapons and explosives in Raqqa, IS's stronghold in Syria. They received fake passports, mobile phones loaded with a pre-installed communication programme and four-figure cash sums in US dollars. 'On edge' The men were arrested when 200 police and security officers raided six locations, including three refugee shelters. Investigations so far suggest the three came to Germany in November 2015 with the intention of "carrying out a previously determined order [from IS] or to await further instructions", prosecutors said in a statement. Suspicions of the men were first raised months ago, and the men had been under surveillance including phone-tapping for weeks, reported the German news agency DPA. Football fans gather on the field of the Stade de France stadium after explosions during a friendly football match between France and Germany in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on 13 November 2015 - one of a number of deadly attacks on the night At a news conference, Mr Maiziere said they were trafficked into Europe by the same organisation that supported the three men who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France national football stadium in Paris on 13 November. A bystander also died - one of the total of 130 people killed in a series of co-ordinated attacks that night. Paris attacks: Who were the attackers? Germany is on edge after a spate of attacks over the summer, says the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin. Over one week in July, 10 people were killed and dozens more wounded in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks in the south of the country. Islamic State appeared to play a role in two of those attacks, by asylum seekers in Wuerzburgand Ansbach. In both cases, the attackers were killed. In early June, three Syrian men were arrested on suspicion of plotting an IS suicide attack in the western city of Duesseldorf. Tuesday's arrests are likely to be welcomed by ministers who are trying to reassure Germans that they can keep the country safe, our correspondent adds. The government has been under pressure to reduce the number of refugees it admits - more than a million in 2015 - under Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open-door" policy.

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Smart phones are no longer an avenue for entertainment, but could be used for medical purposes, such as the monitoring of minute heartbeat and measuring calories during sports, in recent times, a British company has developed a clever way to test blue water disease of the eye. And developed a team of Cambridge kansiltnt ", a company specializing in technology, applying the telephone associated with virtual reality goggles like device for testing the safety of eye disease. The device allows testing was required to go to the hospital, which bodes well for a promising potential treatment, especially in areas where there is no doctors specialists in ophthalmology. Blue water is or "glaucoma" genetically caused disease glaucoma, affects those over 45 years of age in particular, and may lead to blindness. According to the site "digital trand, the new device costs only $ 25 and therefore is cheaper than a currently approved device in hospitals. The device can be used easily, with enough put it on the eye, and then hold the remote control in hand, and when a Flash of light gun for the tempter, he presses the buttons, just 5 minutes gets the result, and would be able, then, to consult a doctor.

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The Killing Floor 2 Tactical Response update is now live, bringing new SWAT perks and weaponry to the game, a new map, tweaks to existing perks and Zed resistances, plus new achievements and loyalty rewards. The SWAT perk adds the FN P90, MP7, MP5RAS, and Kriss Vector submachineguns to the game, along with a flashbang grenade that carries a high chance of stunning Zeds, and a tactical knife, for when the situation gets really out of hand. Which seems to be pretty much always. A new “elite” variant of the Horzine Security Armor and Horzine 9mm pistol will also be given to everyone who plays Killing Floor 2 during early access, and there's a new set of "cardboard armor" that will be available for purchase in a new cosmetic bundle. The new map, called Infernal Realm, is actually a community creation that's been adopted into the official lineup. The title offers a pretty good hint of what to expect, as players will face off against Zeds “surrounded by bones, hanging corpses, brimstone, and hellfire. And the trader is a totem made of bones. That can't be a good sign.” Almost all of the pre-existing perks have been tweaked to some extent, but Tripwire said Firebug, Support, and Medic were given more attention than most in order to better balance their skills. “Zeds have also had their resistances revised, their movement and evasion tactics made more challenging, and their spawn groups adjusted, creating a much more intense experience on higher difficulty levels,” it said. “And watch out for Hans. Really. He's been at the gym or something.” The full Killing Floor 2: Tactical Response update changelog is available on Steam.

The mosque attended by the Pulse nightclub gunman, who killed 49 people in Orlando, has been set on fire. Surveillance cameras show a person approaching the mosque in Fort Pierce moments before the blaze on Monday morning, Florida fire officials said. Omar Mateen committed the worst mass shooting in modern American history in June when he opened fire in Pulse. He was killed by police after taking hostages and declaring his allegiance to the Islamic State group. The fire at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce may have been timed to coincide with the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha and the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Someone was filmed "just moments before a flash is seen and the fire starts," the St Lucie County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook. "A fire at any place of worship is alarming, regardless of the circumstances," it added. A spokesman for the sheriff's office, Major David Thompson, said in an early morning press conference that "this is a horrible tragedy. Not only for the Islamic Center, but for our community". It is not clear if the police will released that footage to appeal for witnesses or identify the suspect. Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating, including the FBI. The Islamic Center of Fort Pierce has experienced other trouble in recent months. A few weeks after the nightclub shooting, a man was badly beaten outside the mosque. Motorists frequently stop to shout abuse at worshippers, including the driver of a truck who stopped to shout insults earlier that same day, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In addition to Omar Mateen, the mosque was also visited by Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, who became the first American to commit a suicide bombing attack in Syria.

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British surgeons, succeeded in making the first process inside the eye using Android, which opens the door to outsource more and more robots, future, in ophthalmology. The operation was carried out on a patient, "hospital John rakliv", in Oxford, managed to restore the look in the eye is infected, according to the British newspaper the guardian. Doctors used a clever cross to control the facility resembled to remove a membrane up fish to one percent of millimeter. And usually have difficulty finding doctors perform surgery for the eyes, as touching the hand of the doctor to the retina into a kind of bleeding with Android can remove the membrane without any damage. Professor Robert McLaren, who participated in the process "have no doubt that we were witnesses to the surgical vision for the future." McLaren explained that the technology available, in the meantime, the rays Lasser, allows controlling the retina when microscopic levels, but Android offers superior possibilities beyond what could see a doctor.

Goodwood Revival is upon us: that rather excellent annual festival of all things classic. And tweed. It’s a three-day festival celebrating the finest motoring elements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which of course means a celebration of some of the finest motoring things ever. This year, Sir Jack Brabham will be honoured, along with fourteen F1 cars from 1966 - when the engine size doubled to 3.0-litres. Elsewhere, there’ll be the Kinrara Trophy race, which takes in a grid of Ferraris, Astons and Jags thought to be worth around £150 million. And they’ll be actually racing, not posing. Good. You’ll also get to see the first flight from Goodwood by a Bristol Blenheim. And the St Mary’s Trophy will include celebrity motorists such as Rowan Atkinson and Sir Chris Hoy. So, have a click through these pics for a little preview, and check back on TopGear.com for more updates from the event. Goodwood Revival is upon us: that rather excellent annual festival of all things classic. And tweed. It’s a three-day festival celebrating the finest motoring elements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which of course means a celebration of some of the finest motoring things ever. This year, Sir Jack Brabham will be honoured, along with fourteen F1 cars from 1966 - when the engine size doubled to 3.0-litres. Elsewhere, there’ll be the Kinrara Trophy race, which takes in a grid of Ferraris, Astons and Jags thought to be worth around £150 million. And they’ll be actually racing, not posing. Good. You’ll also get to see the first flight from Goodwood by a Bristol Blenheim. And the St Mary’s Trophy will include celebrity motorists such as Rowan Atkinson and Sir Chris Hoy. So, have a click through these pics for a little preview, and check back on TopGear.com for more updates from the event. Goodwood Revival is upon us: that rather excellent annual festival of all things classic. And tweed. It’s a three-day festival celebrating the finest motoring elements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which of course means a celebration of some of the finest motoring things ever. This year, Sir Jack Brabham will be honoured, along with fourteen F1 cars from 1966 - when the engine size doubled to 3.0-litres. Elsewhere, there’ll be the Kinrara Trophy race, which takes in a grid of Ferraris, Astons and Jags thought to be worth around £150 million. And they’ll be actually racing, not posing. Good. You’ll also get to see the first flight from Goodwood by a Bristol Blenheim. And the St Mary’s Trophy will include celebrity motorists such as Rowan Atkinson and Sir Chris Hoy. So, have a click through these pics for a little preview, and check back on TopGear.com for more updates from the event.

South Korean officials have said North Korea could be ready to conduct another nuclear test at any time. The North conducted its fifth underground nuclear test on Friday, thought to be its most powerful yet. A defence ministry spokesman said there was still an unused tunnel at the Punggye-ri test site which could be used for a sixth explosion at any time. Friday's widely condemned test has ratcheted up tension and led to fierce rhetoric from South Korea. On Sunday, one South Korean military source told the Yonhap news agency that Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, could be annihilated if it showed any signs of mounting a nuclear attack. While doubts remain over North Korea's claim that it can now mount nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets - meaning it can carry out a nuclear attack - experts say the recent progress is worrying. The 'Saddam Factor' behind North Korea's strategy North Korea nuclear test: Is it important? What to look for in North Korea's fifth nuclear test Could North Korea carry out a nuclear attack? Ri Chun-hee - the most famous woman in North Korea On Monday, Yonhap cited an unnamed government source as saying reports indicated the North had finished preparations for a further test, in previously unused tunnel at the Punggye-ri site deep underneath mountains in the north-east. "Intelligence authorities in Seoul and Washington are keeping close tabs," the unnamed government official was quoted as saying. Moon Sang-gyun, a defence ministry spokesperson, later gave a similar statement to reporters. He would not give further details citing security reasons. The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says it is unlikely to happen immediately, as Pyongyang's scientists will want to study the results of the recent test, but a sixth test could be weeks or months away. The UN Security Council has already agreed to start drawing up new sanctions against North Korea, something the North called "laughable". Pyongyang has carried out two nuclear tests this year, as well as several tests of powerful missiles. Both are banned by existing sanctions. On Monday, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho had arrived in Beijing. China is North Korea's main ally and trading partner, but has grown increasingly intolerant of its military actions and Kim Jong-un's aggressive rhetoric. China's support for toughened sanctions is crucial if they are to have any impact.

At its iPhone unveil yesterday, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller took the stage to explain why the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus would dump the 3.5mm headphone jack, and move to a mixture of proprietary wireless solutions with wired headphone support provided via the Lightning port. Schiller justified this decision by declaring: “It comes down to one word: Courage.” The Internet greeted this pronouncement with the mockery it deserved. Dumping the headphone jack and relying solely on the Lightning port for peripherals means it’s no longer possible to charge your iPhone and listen to it at the same time. That’s not a major issue early in a device’s lifetime, but smartphone batteries often degrade over time and may not offer enough battery life even when new to cover every scenario. For example, I carry an external battery on a regular basis and have often used it to charge the device while simultaneously using wired earbuds. The iPhone 7 no longer supports this particular use case. Apple’s decision to include a wired pair of earbuds and a 3.5mm-to-Lightning Adapter with the iPhone 7 is a nice gesture, but it doesn’t address the loss of functionality. Apple’s new wireless AirPods raise far more questions than they answer. At $159, they’re extremely expensive relative to both wired earbuds and conventional wireless designs in which the earbuds or headphones are connected to each other via a cable. They’re less expensive compared to other truly wireless solutions, but also seem to lack features that other sets support. The lack of buttons, for example, means you’ll be interfacing with Siri to perform all your tasks. Apple also claims they’ve implemented a new proprietary wireless connection standard courtesy of their new W1 processor — but the AirPods will supposedly offer just 5 hours of listening time. That’s roughly in-line with what cheap Bluetooth earbuds currently offer at $25-$30. More expensive earbuds promise much better, with headsets in the $150 to $200 range offering 6-12 hours. Granted, Bluetooth audio also has had some problems with latency and quality, but Apple didn’t offer any concrete information on how its new audio standard would avoid these issues. Putting a chip inside an AirPod is interesting — but interesting and meaningfully better aren’t the same thing. Apple promises a number of advances with these new earphones, including a rechargeable case that can hold 24 hours worth of listening time, the ability to recognize whether you have the devices in your ears, and the ability to detect new audio feeds and switch to devices in close proximity. Apple did not confirm whether or not the AirPods can function via Bluetooth and pair with other devices. It’s been implied that the AirPods are only compatible with devices that can run iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. That includes iPhones from the iPhone 5, the iPad mini 2, the iPad 4th generation, the iPad Air, and the sixth-generation iPod Touch. The only courage in this announcement was the price tag. $159 for a pair of earbuds with mediocre talk time and potentially limited compatibility is not a breakthrough. Ditching the 3.5mm headphone jack may allow for marginally better audio, but the minuscule amount of room that jack took up inside the chassis won’t lead to meaningful improvements in battery life — nor did it seem to lead to a further decrease in device thickness, however unnecessary that would have been at this point. Other companies, meanwhile, have found ways to build water-resistant phones without ditching the headphone jack. The Verge thinks Apple’s W1 is a fancy way to obfuscate its use of Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart), but it’s not clear if this is accurate. Whatever Apple has implemented, it appears to be an additional protocol wrapped around Bluetooth — we’ll have to wait and see if it can “fix” wireless audio as Schiller promised. Apple’s EarPod audio quality hasn’t historically been good enough to justify a $160 price point and I’ve personally found the fit rather poor. They may work for basic activities, but not for anything athletic. The iPhone 7’s other hardware promises some genuine change and improvement, but I’m not impressed with the company’s decision to remove useful functionality in favor of an expensive peripheral that almost certainly won’t justify its price. Given the logic board problems with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the only iPhone I’d personally want to buy at this point is the iPhone SE, with its combination of long battery life, proven design, and broader support for common industry standards.

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PlayStation VR will finally be with us this October and we can't wait to stick our faces in it. Sony's PS4 virtual reality headset is coming in way cheaper than the likes of Oculus Rift or HTC's Vive, with a RRP of just £350/$399. Below you'll find our guide to the best preorder deals out there for the headset, with prices starting around the aforementioned £350/$399. Pricier options also include the PS4 camera. Don't expect many discounts before release, but we'll keep you posted if any pop up. As things stand, many retailers are saying they can no longer guarantee delivery on day one. But this PlayStation VR deals page can still help you prepare by picking up the other kit you'll need to enjoy the best PlayStation VR experience With headset stock already an issue, it may be a good idea to pick up the PS4 camera (required for the headset to work) sooner rather than later in case you can't find one later on. You could also grab a couple of PS Move motion controllers, as some VR games will support them. If you get these items now, you can play a small number of Move-based PS4 games like Sportsfriends or Just Dance. PlayStation VR headset deals The grid below will be regularly updated with the latest prices for the PlayStation VR headset as they become available to order from different retailers. PS4 camera deals It's crucial you buy a PS4 camera along with your VR headset, otherwise, it will not work. Preorder bundles with the camera included don't actually save you money off the individual RRPs and they could be even rarer than the standalone headset at launch. Which is why you should try to track down a deal sooner. Don't pay more than the standard £40/$60 though. If there's nothing tempting below, maybe try for a new/preowned unit via eBay? PlayStation Move controller deals The PlayStation Move motion controllers are very much an optional purchase at launch as we don't yet know how many games will support them. Many that do, will also have options to use the standard DualShock 4 PS4 controller instead. Move wands aren't as readily available as the cameras at the moment, but there are deals to be found if you shop around -or let us do it via that magical box below. We'd advise a little caution if you're considering preowned units, as the lack of use in recent years may have dulled the charge capacity of the battery compared to new controllers. If you want to try your luck (and probably save a fair amount), here are some handy links for eBay.

Services are being held across the United States and the world to mark 15 years since the 11 September attacks. Six moments of silence will be held in New York City, to mark the times four hijacked planes crashed and the two World Trade Center towers collapsed. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to attend a ceremony at the rebuilt site. Ahead of the anniversary, President Obama said it was important to remember America's "core values". "We're still the America of heroes who ran into harm's way; of ordinary folks who took down the hijackers; of families who turned their pain into hope," he said in his weekly radio address. "We are still the America that looks out for one another, bound by our shared belief that I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper. In the face of terrorism, how we respond matters." Read more: The 9/11 attacks President Obama will hold a moment of silence in the White House at 08:46 local time (12:46 GMT), the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He will later speak at an event at the Pentagon. Neither presidential candidate will speak at the New York event. Close to 3,000 people died when planes crashed into the towers, as well as the Pentagon in Washington DC and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Fifteen of the 19 attackers were Saudi nationals. An independent panel completed the 9/11 Commission Report a year after the attacks. But several sections - informally known as "the 28 Pages" - were withheld from the public for 13 years, fuelling speculation about their contents. The pages were released in July, and showed it was likely the attackers got financial help from people inside Saudi Arabia, but that there was no official Saudi role. Last week, the US Congress unanimously passed a bill allowing 9/11 victims' families to sue the Saudi government.

No, it doesn’t matter how long you stare at it, and from what angle. Porsche’s Panamericana concept won’t stop looking completely bizarre. The back story is a familiar one. The Panamericana, like so many one-off motoring creations, was a birthday present. The year was 1989 and Stuttgart needed to mark the 80th birthday of Ferry Porsche. The 964-gen 911 was also knocking on in years, so the company needed to signpost its new design direction, and give the faithful some clues about what they could expect for the upcoming 993.\ Using a 964 Cabriolet chassis as a base, the Panamericana (named after the classic 1950s endurance race) sat upon chunky, Porsche badge-engraved tyre tread housed in cutaway arches to give a chunky, almost beach-buggy look to the familiar 911 silhouette. Designers Steve Murkett and Harm Lagaay (of BMW Z1 fame) apparently intended the trademark cutaway wheelarches as more than a styling flourish. They envisaged that the car, if produced, could be offered with different terrain tyre options, and binning conventional arches would give the necessary clearance for longer-travel suspension and knobbly rubber.

South Korea has a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital if it shows any signs of mounting a nuclear attack, according to reports from Seoul. A military source told the Yonhap news agency every part of Pyongyang "will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosives shells". Yonhap has close ties to South Korea's government and is publicly funded. On Friday North Korea carried out what it said was its fifth, and largest, nuclear test. The international community is considering its response. The US says it is considering its own sanctions, in addition to any imposed by the UN Security Council, Japan and South Korea. Pyongyang responded on Sunday by calling the threats of "meaningless sanctions... highly laughable". What to look for in North Korea's fifth nuclear test Stages of an underground nuclear test What did N Korea learn from its previous tests? Could North Korea carry out a nuclear attack? The South Korean military official told Yonhap that Pyongyang districts thought to be hiding the North's leadership would be particularly targeted in any attack. The city, the source said, "will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map". The BBC's Korea correspondent Steve Evans says the South is using the same bloodcurdling rhetoric that the North frequently uses about the South Korean government in Seoul. He says there has been rising criticism within South Korea of the government as its attempts to isolate the North have failed to deter leader Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions. News of South Korea's attack plan for the North is believed to have been revealed to parliament following Friday's nuclear test. South Korean marine watches a TV reports about the quake, Seoul (9 Sept 2016) Meanwhile, the US's special envoy for North Korea says Washington is considering taking unilateral action against Pyongyang. "North Korea continues to present a growing threat to the region, to our allies, to ourselves, and we will do everything possible to defend against that growing threat," Sung Kim said. "In addition to sanctions in the Security Council, both the US and Japan, together with [South Korea], will be looking at any unilateral measures as well as bilateral measures as well as possible trilateral cooperation." North Korea is banned by the UN from any tests of nuclear or missile technology and has been hit by five sets of UN sanctions since its first test in 2006. The North said Friday's test had been of a "nuclear warhead that has been standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets". Estimates of the explosive yield of the latest blast have varied. South Korea's military said it was about 10 kilotonnes, enough to make it the North's "strongest nuclear test ever". Other experts say initial indications suggest 20 kilotonnes or more. The nuclear bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.

Brazilian police say they want to speak to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach about an alleged scheme to resell tickets during last month's Rio Olympics. The police say Mr Bach is being treated as a witness, not a suspect. Officers have found emails from Mr Bach to another senior IOC official Patrick Hickey, who was arrested last month and is facing charges. Mr Hickey, ex-head of the Irish Olympic Committee, denies all allegations. Police investigators in Rio told the BBC's Wyre Davies they would like to know what Mr Bach's influence was over Olympic ticketing policy. High security jail They said the IOC president received personal requests for hundreds of high-value tickets, for the Olympics opening ceremony, the 100m final and the football final from Mr Hickey. Police say that Mr Hickey received 296 tickets after his written request to the IOC president. They have not, thus far, made any contact with the president's office to request a formal interview. Mr Hickey was arrested during the Olympic games and spent time at the notorious Bangu high security jail along with fellow Irishman Kevin Mallon. He was released on bail at the end of August but had to return his passport to the Brazilian authorities and was ordered not to leave the country. A prosecutor laid charges against him on Tuesday. A judge will now decide whether to accept or reject the charges. Mr Hickey, 71, has formally stood aside as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland and European Olympic Committees' president during the investigation. Mr Mallon is the Dublin-based director of THG Sports, a corporate and sports hospitality company. Funeral in Germany Mr Bach cancelled a planned appearance in Rio this week at the opening of the Paralympic Games, for personal reasons. Mr Bach has not returned to Rio since the Olympics and missed the opening ceremony of the Paralympics at the Maracana on Wednesday. He said would remain in Germany for the funeral of his friend Walter Scheel, the former West German foreign minister and deputy chancellor, who died last month aged 97. IOC officials said Mr Bach would now not travel to Brazil after the funeral because he was unable to reschedule other commitments. The Paralympics run until 18 September. The last time an IOC president failed to attend a Paralympics was in 2010, when Jacques Rogge missed the whole of the Winter Games in Vancouver.

Tally-ho, old boy. What do we have here? It’s the Caterham Seven ‘Sprint’ – a limited-edition retrotastic throwback Seven inspired by a model that was set to debut in the ‘60s but never launched. Harking back to the very first Sevens (which you may think were produced shortly after the Big Bang, but were actually just 60 years ago) the Sprint is Caterham’s tiddly 160 model in fancy dress and set to be unveiled at this weekend’s Goodwood Revival. Based on its entry-level two-seat tub with wheels, Suzuki’s K-car 660cc three-cylinder engine is under the bonnet, boosted by a turbo from 64bhp to 80bhp. There’s also a five-speed gearbox and live rear axle from Suzuki, as well as drum brakes fitted at the back. You may think that last point is a poignant nostalgic touch. It’s not. Just a coincidence with how the 160 is specced. To keep the purists happy, the Sprint’s chassis is powder-coated grey – making it period-accurate for a Series 2 Lotus 7. Then a choice of six colours are available – Cream, Mellow Yellow, Regency Red, Camberwick Green, British Racing Green and Misty Blue – the same that were available in 1966/67. Then there are those swooping flared front wings, a polished side-exit exhaust and retro rear lights. The titchy steel wheels have been dipped in cream paint, and then contrasted with polished hubcaps. Meanwhile, the suspension and rollover bar are also reminiscent of Colin Chapman’s original and the main bodywork is embellished with Caterham branding and Sprint logos of yesteryear. Inside the narrow cockpit, there’s a vintage wood-rimmed steering wheel, dashboard in suspicious wood effect and shiny boule-like gearknob. The rev counter also features red and yellow sectors like they had in the Sixties. While the interior panels and seats are hand-stitched in period style and finished in shocking scarlet red. The interior and luggage space are also fully carpeted. That’s right posh for a Caterham. Only 60 Sprints are set to be made and are priced at a whopping £27,995. That’s £10k more than a standard fully-built 160, which is a lot. But people can’t seem to get enough of these retro rides. So if you want one, grab your tweed, don your hat and pack your pipe, because the order books open today. And you can’t deny it. It would look cool next parked up next to a Defender Heritage, wouldn’t it?