The disappearance of China's defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country's top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping's rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement.
Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by FIFA following the Spanish Football Federation president's conduct at the women's World Cup final in Sydney.
The mugshot of Donald Trump with a red tie, glistening hair and an icy scowl is being used by the former US president and his detractors on merchandise.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is listed as a passenger on a private jet which has crashed north of Moscow with no survivors, raising fears among his allies that he has been killed.
The Pope has reaffirmed the Catholic Church is open to the gay community but with the caveat that "there are laws that regulate life inside the church".
Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on earth, with more than two billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a study from a US-based science group.
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 130 injured in a bomb attack at a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police and rescue officials say.
At least 17 people including three children have been killed by a leak of toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement in South Africa.
Some 45,000 police officers and a number of armoured vehicles have been deployed as riots rock French cities for a fourth night over a teenager's fatal shooting.
Evidence from the wreckage of the Titan submersible, including what are likely human remains, will be transported from Canada to the US for formal analysis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush what he called an armed mutiny by mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, warning those who have taken up arms against the Russian military will face "inevitable punishment".
