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The US has conducted a joint military exercise with South Korea, flying two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula.

The B-1B combat bombers were joined by two South Korean F-15K fighter jets, and carried out air-to-ground missile drills off South Korean waters. It comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear programme.

Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear test, and launched two missiles over Japan, in recent months.

The bombers took off from the US Pacific territory of Guam on Tuesday night, before entering South Korean airspace and conducting firing exercises over the East Sea and Yellow Sea, South Korea’s military said.

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Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.

Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country’s defence ministry.

The compromised documents include wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea. They also include reports to the allies’ senior commanders.

The South Korean defence ministry has so far refused to comment about the allegation.

Plans for the South’s special forces were reportedly accessed, along with information on significant power plants and military facilities in the South.

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The first in a series of trials of more than 6,600 people, accused of being members of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, has opened in Nigeria.

The trials are being held in secret by civilian court judges at a military facility in north-central Kainji town.

Rights activists say they are concerned about the lack of transparency in what has been described as the biggest terrorism trials in Nigeria’s history.

Some 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency. Only nine people have been convicted so far of being involved in the rebellion.

Four judges have started the trials at the military centre in Kainji, sources at the ministry of justice told the BBC’s Ishaq Khalid in the capital, Abuja. Up to 1,670 people will be tried in the coming weeks with a further 5,000 people after that, our reporter says. More than 1,600 suspects are being held at the centre, where many have been for years.

In a report in 2015, Amnesty International said that military forces had arbitrarily detained about 20,000 people as part of its campaign to end the insurgency. The trials are likely to last for months, or even years, because of the huge number of suspects who will be tried individually, Justice Minister Abubakar Malami said.

A Border Force officer is among 12 people arrested by police investigating a group suspected of importing drugs and firearms into the UK.

The officer, 36 and from Dover, was detained by French police near Calais with three other British nationals. All four remain in custody.

Eleven firearms, 74lb (34kg) of cocaine and 16lb (7kg) of heroin were seized.

Eight men were later arrested by the Met Police in Kent and London, six of whom have been charged. The six are accused of conspiracy to import firearms and Class A drugs and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

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A man who planned to bomb a railway line with a device made from fairy lights and a pressure cooker has been jailed for life.

Zahid Hussain, 29, from Birmingham, filled the appliance with 1.6kg of shrapnel and made “improvised igniters” from the festive decorations.

Hussain became radicalised reading books and websites in his bedroom.

He was convicted of preparing for an act of terrorism in May and sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Monday. His trial was told he wrongly believed his non-viable pressure cooker “bomb” was capable of causing devastation.

In the days running up to his arrest, in August 2015, Hussain had made repeated visits to a section of the West Coast Main Line, which the prosecution said was to research a possible attack.

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