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20:23 World
Amesbury: Two collapse near Russian spy poisoning site

The pair, in their 40s, were found unconscious in a suspected drugs-related incident at a house in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday.

19:24 World
Jessica Alba reveals she experienced sexual harassment at just 13 years old as she speaks out on the #MeToo movement

The 37-year-old Sin City star told host Anna Coren, that she faced sexual harassment throughout her career, which started when she was aged just 13. 

18:38 World
Wang Jian: China's HNA Group boss dies in Provence

Police said he fell off a wall in the village of Bonnieux on Tuesday as he was having his picture taken.

18:16 World
Redoine Faid: A few 'loyal friends' behind helicopter jailbreak

New details have emerged of the raid, in which the assailants cut their way into the visiting room of the prison before making their helicopter getaway.

17:24 World
Watch how a firework is made

In China, the tradition of lighting fireworks to ward off evil spirits has been passed down through the generations. In the US, meanwhile, fireworks are synonymous with the country's 4th of July celebrations.

17:00 World
11 dead as fire breaks out at firecracker factory in Telangana’s Warangal

At least 11 people died in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Telangana’s Warangal district on Wednesday, July 4. According to media reports, the blast was so intense that the entire roof the firecracker factory was blown off.

16:38 World
Scarlett Johansson dismisses criticism over her decision to play transgender man in new film

The actress, 33, is set to star in the upcoming film Rub & Tug which tells the story of a transgender man, Dante “Tex” Gill, who owned a massage parlor in Pittsburgh’s underground sex industry in the 1970s, according to Vice News.

15:27 World
Margarita-loving bear takes a dip in a California hot tub

At first he brushed it off as the sounds of his neighbor pottering next door, but the noise grew louder.

15:01 World
Message in a bottle travels thousands of miles in two years

Charlton Craggs, a staff member at Elysian Retreat in North Queensland's Whitsunday Islands, said he was walking on a Long Island beach when he stumbled on a bottle containing a note authored by Edmonton, Alberta, resident Tom Love.

14:44 World
Trade war worries drag world stocks lower, yuan steadies

Washington has said it would implement tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports on July 6, and Beijing has vowed to retaliate in kind on the same day.

14:26 World
Polish judge defies retirement law, protests mount

The legislation is at the center of mounting conflict between Warsaw’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and the European Union, which accuses the government of trying to control the judiciary and subvert democratic standards.

13:00 World
Ecuador court orders ex-president Correa's arrest

Mr Correa, who now lives in his wife's native Belgium, denies the allegations.

12:43 World
NASA to test 'quiet' supersonic flights over Texas

The space agency has announced it will publicly demonstrate its technology near the coastal resort city of Galveston to ensure that its prototype really will be barely audible when it crosses the sound barrier.

12:29 World
Facebook shutters the teen app it just bought

In a blog post, the social network said it would shutter the tbh, Hello and Moves apps due to "low usage." Facebook will delete user data from the apps within 90 days.

11:38 World
Wiltshire: 'unknown substance' leaves pair critically ill in Salisbury hospital

Major incident declared and parts of Amesbury cordoned off after couple were initially thought to have taken tainted drugs.

11:16 World
Uber in talks with Dubai's Careem to merge in Middle East: Bloomberg

In discussions with Careem, Uber has said that it would need to own more than half of the combined company, if not buy Careem outright, according to the report.

10:45 World
Indonesia says at least 29 dead in ferry sinking, search goes on

The regional disaster mitigation agency said 29 people were confirmed dead in Tuesday’s accident and 41 remained missing. Another 69 passengers had been rescued.

10:00 World
UK police arrest medical worker on suspicion of baby murders

Detectives began investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester more than a year ago, after the hospital reported a higher than expected mortality rate, which it could not explain, on the unit that cares for premature babies and infants needing special care.

20:23 World
Ryanair Irish pilots call 24-hour strike for July 12

The union said it had advised Ryanair that it will notify it of additional strike days in due course but that it also remained available and willing to engage on the issues identified in the notice of strike action.

19:49 World
Greenpeace drone, toy plane crash into French nuclear plant

The drone, which was decorated like a miniature Superman, slammed into the tower in Bugey, 20 miles from the eastern city of Lyon, according to a Greenpeace video Tuesday.

19:24 World
Mountjoy fort rediscovered during County Tyrone dig

Students from Queen's University in Belfast have taken part in the dig at Brockagh in County Tyrone over the past month.

19:00 World
Giraffe hunter criticised for dead giraffe pose in South Africa

Images of the woman, identified as Tess Thompson Talley, posted on the AfricaDigest Twitter account last month have been retweeted thousands of times.

18:38 World
Zimbabwe's rugby union team sleep rough in Tunisia

The team are in the North African country for a World Cup qualifier and the protest came after they had been held at immigration for six hours.

16:16 World
The world's best 'secret' urban gardens

Urban centers might be 24-hour hubs of activity, but often you just need some green space in the concrete jungle.

14:44 World
Indonesia rushes to rescue 140 after ferry sinks, killing four

The disaster comes in the wake of last month's sinking of an overcrowded ferry on the southeast Asian nation's Lake Toba, one of the world's deepest volcanic lakes, which took about 200 lives.

14:02 World
Google Street View captures very confused cat hanging out in Rome

That's because, while there are plenty of weird and wacky moments well documented in the various lists we've created, Google is constantly updating Street View for accuracy.

13:41 World
First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO's VLT

The sphere instrument also enabled the team to measure the brightness of the planet at different wavelengths, which allowed properties of its atmosphere to be deduced.

13:38 World
Volcano on Indonesian island of Bali hurls out ash and lava

Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency said residents heard a loud explosion and saw flaming volcanic rocks thrown at least 2 km (1.2 miles) out of the crater.

13:00 World
Migrant crisis: Many missing after boat disaster off Libya

One official is quoted as saying 63 migrants have disappeared after Sunday's incident east of Tripoli, while 41 people have been rescued.

12:43 World
Syria war: 270,000 displaced by fighting in south-west

Many of those displaced by the fighting in Deraa and Quneitra provinces have headed towards the borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

12:29 World
John Malkovich joins jude law in HBO, sky’s 'The new Pope'

It was previously said that the series, an original production of HBO and Italy’s Sky, will not be a second season of “The Young Pope.” Rather, HBO and Sky described it as Sorrentino’s second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy.

12:02 World
Forest fires cause rail chaos in Norway

The state-owned rail operator advised commuters in the area served by the Gjøvikbanen line to work from home on Monday where possible, news agency NTB reports.

11:16 World
'WhatsApp murders': India struggles to combat crimes linked to messaging service

In the past year the murders of at least 30 people accused of being ‘child-lifters’ have been linked to platform.

10:45 World
Huge, fast-moving wildfire forces California evacuations

The blaze, which started Saturday near San Francisco, has exploded in size as dry weather sweeps western states.

10:27 World
Probe into Facebook's data breach broadens: Washington Post

The emphasis has been on what Facebook has reported publicly about its sharing of information with Cambridge Analytica, whether those representations square with the underlying facts and whether Facebook made sufficiently complete and timely disclosures to the public and investors about the matter, the Washington Post report said.

20:01 World
UN chief says he heard 'unimaginable' stories from Rohingya

Guterres said in a tweet Monday after visiting sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district that the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have taken shelter there want "justice and a safe return home."

19:47 World
Poland's supreme court constitutional crisis approaches a standoff

The government’s attempt to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges is due to come into effect this week.

19:00 World
Knifeman attacks children's birthday party in Idaho

They believe that Saturday's attack at a complex for refugees was motivated by "vengeance" after the suspect had been asked to leave the place a day before.

18:38 World
Drake pays tribute to murdered rapper Smoke Dawg

Tributes have been paid to the Canadian rapper on social media following a triple shooting outside a club on Saturday night.

17:45 World
Bay City Rollers bassist Alan Longmuir has died, aged 70

The 70-year-old died in hospital ‘surrounded by loved ones’, only a fortnight after he was flown home from Mexico where he had contracted an illness.

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