July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, meteorologists have said.
Israel's interior minister has approved a request by US Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds.
The London Stock Exchange opened almost two hours late on Friday as a technical issue delayed trading in the City's top shares.
Members of China's paramilitary People's Armed Police have been seen marching and practising crowd-control tactics at a sports complex across from Hong Kong, in what some have interpreted as a threat against pro-democracy protesters.
A US state trooper who pulled over to help what he thought was a disabled vehicle found a driver with eight phones simultaneously playing the video game Pokemon Go.
