The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has passed 1,000, reports say.

A woman goes on trial in northern France accused of killing eight of her newborn babies.

Brazilian senators are in Venezuela to try to promote dialogue, a week after a rival Brazilian team was allegedly attacked by government supporters.

The US sportswear firm Nike reports a 24% increase in profit as it sells more high-end shoes and clothes.

The Rwandan spy chief arrested in the UK over alleged war crimes came to London to meet the head of MI6, sources have told BBC Newsnight.

Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond is sentenced to four months in jail for a bar fight during which a man was stabbed.

EU leaders holding late night talks on the Mediterranean migrant crisis agree to relocate 40,000 of those who have arrived in Greece and Italy.

Baseball's first openly gay professional, a 23-year-old pitcher, takes the mound in a small league in California.