North Korea has fired unidentified projectiles twice into the sea, according to South Korea's military, as it continues to ramp up weapons tests amid deadlocked nuclear negotiations with the US.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 89-year-old woman was killed in her home.
Barack Obama has urged Americans to “soundly reject language” from any leader that “feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalises racist sentiments”.
Nicola Sturgeon has said that her conversations with Theresa May during her time as UK prime minister were "pretty soul destroying".
High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people in Ohio say he was suspended years ago for compiling a "hit list" and a "rape list", and questioned how he could have been allowed to buy the military-style weapon used in the weekend attack.
An amateur bodybuilder who admitted sending inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a judge who said he concluded that the bombs were not designed to explode.
