Ellen Pao, the chief executive of influential news and links sharing website Reddit, resigns following a huge community backlash.

Author Harper Lee had plans to write a string of novels after To Kill A Mockingbird, according to a letter she wrote before the book was published.

Greece's parliament backs a government package of economic reforms aimed at ending the debt crisis and securing a new bailout.

A UN-brokered humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen is broken shortly after it came into force, as air strikes are reported in the capital Sanaa.

As the New Horizons probe heads towards its historic 14 July flyby of Pluto, its images are starting to reveal tantalising indications of the dwarf world's geology.

More than 800,000 people have been evacuated from coastal areas of eastern China in anticipation of a powerful typhoon.

Ceremonies are due to begin in Bosnia to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

A large explosion hits the Italian consulate in the centre of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.