Spanish police arrested four drug traffickers who saved their lives after the officers were thrown overboard during a high-speed boat chase off the coast of Malaga last Friday.
Most Republican leaders in the US are remaining silent or supportive of Donald Trump's public call for another foreign government, China, to investigate Joe Biden, while a handful voiced concern that the president was trying to enlist a rival power in his re-election effort.
Peter Sissons, who died last Tuesday aged 77, was British television's longest-serving newsreader, spending nearly 20 years as a television reporter and newscaster at ITN and fronting Channel 4 News during the 1980s before being poached by the BBC in one of the most acrimonious defections in media history.
A group of pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong have filed a legal challenge against the government's use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalise the wearing of face masks at protests.
When Donald Trump invoked the spectre of civil war in the US last week should he be impeached by Democrats, he faced outrage from across the political divide.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said his department intends to follow the law in the House impeachment investigation and vigorously defended Donald Trump, dismissing questions about the president's attempts to push Ukraine and China to investigate a Democratic political rival.
A witness in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbour has been killed in a shooting, authorities have said.