Fact-checking Kamala Harris’s first campaign interview
BBC Verify looks into claims the vice-president made on CNN about fracking, child poverty and green jobs.
Japan: Nearly 4,000 people found more than month after dying alone, report says
Of those 37,227 Japanese people who died alone in their homes in the first half of the year, some 3,939 went unnoticed for over a month.
Fugitive Italian guerrilla Leonardo Bertulazzi held in Argentina
Police arrest a man wanted in Italy for decades for a kidnapping carried out by the Red Brigades.
Homes bulldozed in Timor-Leste ahead of Pope visit
Government says thousands are living illegally in area where the pontiff will celebrate mass.
Singapore jails man who planted cannabis in estranged wife’s car
The man thought he’d planted 500g of cannabis, enough to warrant the death penalty, as part of a “perfect plan” to frame his wife.
France on charm offensive as New Caledonia simmers
A proposed voting reform had sparked deadly protests in the French overseas territory in May.
Workers trapped for days in Thai tunnel found dead despite rescue efforts
Rescue efforts to save the three men who were trapped in a tunnel had been going on since Saturday.
Artem Chigvintsev: Ex-Strictly star held on suspicion of domestic violence
Online jail records say Artem Chigvintsev was booked into a Californian county jail on Thursday.
Australia: Aboriginal teen dies by suicide in Perth youth prison
It is the second death of an Aboriginal boy in Western Australia in under a year.
Man convicted of murder and rape executed in Florida
Loran Cole died by lethal injection after the US Supreme Court denied the appeal against his death sentence on Thursday.
