A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured many more in Jaipur in northern India on Sunday. The victims were taking selfies in the rain on top of a watch tower at the city... Read more

A military court in Jordan has found a former royal court chief and a relative of King Abdullah guilty of sedition and incitement against the monarchy. Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin... Read more

Police in Haiti say they have arrested a doctor they believe is a key suspect in organising last week’s assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 6... Read more

A deadly gun battle between police and the men suspected of assassinating Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been raging in Port-au-Prince. Police chief Léon Charles said four suspect... Read more

Boris Johnson has been criticised by the MPs standards watchdog for failing to promptly explain how a trip to Mustique was funded – however he has been cleared of breaching the rules.... Read more

The gang behind a “colossal” ransomware attack has demanded $70m (£50.5m) paid in Bitcoin in return for a “universal decryptor” that it says will unlock the files of... Read more

The number of deaths linked to coronavirus in India has moved past the 400,000 mark as the country tries to speed up its vaccination drive. Experts warn that the real number of fatalities mi... Read more

Sir Richard Branson has named the date he’ll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after. He’ll be a passenger in the back of the Unity rocket plane his Virg... Read more

Australia will halve the number of international arrivals it accepts after Covid outbreaks put half the population in lockdown this week. The country’s strict border rules have only al... Read more

Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time US defence secretary who was one of the main architects of the Iraq war, has died at the age of 88. Serving under President George W Bush, he was a key proponen... Read more

China’s President Xi Jinping has warned that foreign powers will “get their heads bashed” if they attempt to bully or influence the country. He delivered a defiant speech a... Read more

“Mr Cosby has always used his celebrity and his name to uplift women… How could a man who is being watched by the FBI every day be raping and drugging women… especially a black m... Read more

The US military could complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan within days, reports say, amid increasing Taliban battlefield gains. US officials told Reuters some US forces were expecte... Read more

Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Fri... Read more