Russia's former transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead with a gunshot wound in his car just hours after it was revealed he had been sacked from his role.
A British teenager sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl has been released after receiving a royal pardon, a campaign group has said.
An Israeli reservist who served three tours of duty in Gaza has told Sky News in a rare on-camera interview that his unit was often ordered to shoot anyone entering areas soldiers defined as no-go zones, regardless of whether they posed a threat, a practice he says left civilians dead where they fell.
An Australian mother has been found guilty of murdering her estranged husband's parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.
Under the red flag of martyrdom, they beat their chests in memory of a fallen religious leader as the cleric recounts his fate outside one of Tehran's oldest mosques.
Details of those who have died and those who are missing after US flash floods are slowly emerging - with several young girls among those unaccounted for.
The UK has re-established diplomatic ties with Syria, David Lammy has said, as he made the first visit to the country by a British minister for 14 years.
Two American security workers in Gaza were injured after grenades were thrown during food distribution in Khan Younis, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has said.
