A US Olympic rider has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was found with gunshot wounds at his farm in New Jersey.
Actor Richard Gere yesterday brought food and supplies to migrants on a rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean.
Hong Kong dissidents staged a sit-in at the airport yesterday as the city's leader Carrie Lam said her priority was to "stop the violence" of the two-month-old protests.
Though Democrats in the US won't begin casting ballots for a 2020 presidential nominee until February, they've spent this summer sizing up the two dozen candidates fighting a daily battle to reach next year's ultimate bout against Republican heavyweight Donald Trump.
Former US senator George Mitchell has denied allegations made in court documents that an underage girl was sent to have sex with him by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Authorities in the US have strongly defended this week's mass immigration raids at workplaces in Mississippi against a worldwide outcry.
North Korea has fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military.
