The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is "disappointed" its recommendation to ban Russia from next month's Olympic Games in Rio has been rejected. Following the country's doping scandal, the International Olympic Committee has left it up to individual… Read more »
Shares in Nintendo have fallen sharply after the Japanese gaming giant said Pokemon Go's success would have a limited impact on its profits. Nintendo shares dropped by 17.7% after they more than doubled in value since the game's launch on 6 July. Po… Read more »
Turkey's authorities have issued detention warrants for 42 journalists, local media say, as part of an inquiry into a failed coup on 15 July. Prominent commentator Nazli Ilicak is said to be on the list. Ankara has not publicly commented on the clai… Read more »
Tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing have killed one woman and injured another after the pair left their vehicle, Chinese media have reported. CCTV published footage of the incident showing one woman getting out and standing beside the car before qu… Read more »
Fire crews in California are struggling to contain a wildfire that has destroyed 18 homes and threatens hundreds of others in mountains north of Los Angeles. The fire covers more than 22,000 acres and residents of about 1,500 homes near Santa Clarit… Read more »
US media reports 17 shot at Florida nightclub in Fort Myers with at least one dead This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. If you want to receive Breaking… Read more »
A 25-year-old Israeli woman has been allegedly gang raped in a moving car in India's Himachal Pradesh state. Police said the woman mistook the car for a taxi and boarded it on Sunday morning in the popular town of Manali to go to a neighbouring distr… Read more »
A court in India has acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan of shooting and killing endangered animals two decades ago. Khan was accused with seven others of killing a gazelle and two protected antelopes in Rajasthan in 1998. Khan, 50, is one of Bolly… Read more »
An official working at a spinning mill in Bangladesh where a boy was allegedly killed on Sunday has been arrested, police say. The 10-year-old boy died in hospital after workers inserted a high-pressure nozzle into his rectum and activated it, local… Read more »
More Afghan children were killed or injured in the first half of this year than in any six-month period since 2009, says the UN. The report's authors said the toll was "alarming and shameful", and that history would judge leaders on all sides on the… Read more »
The US Democratic Party chair says she will resign as a row over leaked emails threatens efforts for party unity at the presidential nominating convention. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's move follows a leak of emails appearing to suggest that party insi… Read more »
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12 other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German town of Ansbach. The state of Bavaria's interior minister said the 27-year-old man had detonated the device after… Read more »
An Irish court on Tuesday allowed the US government to join a case on cross-border data transfers that examines the role Facebook plays in cooperating with US mass surveillance programs. The case involves a complaint against Facebook over how it han… Read more »
The hottest thing in Silicon Valley right now? Caution. For the better part of the past 12 months, investors have been signaling their skittishness about the tech startup world. A new report from consultancy KPMG and industry watcher CB Insights cal… Read more »
Jul 18, 2016- ARM Holdings, one of the UK's biggest technology companies, is set to announce it is being bought by Japan's Softbank for £24bn ($32bn). The board of ARM is expected to recommend shareholders accept the offer - close to a 50% premium o… Read more »