Yazidi women and girls who were enslaved and raped by Isil militants have few choices. They may have been freed, but they can't bring home the children they had with the extremists.
At this stage in the last electoral cycle, Donald Trump was being dismissed as a joke. He had entered the Republican primaries in June 2015, and had taken a lead in the opinion polls by mid-July. But almost every pundit was still writing him off as an oaf - loud, obnoxious and utterly unelectable. Like...
For months he has kept out of the public eye, his former star status languishing under a cloud of notoriety following allegations of sexual assault.
John Paul Stevens, who has died aged 99, was for 35 years the liberal anchor of the US Supreme Court even though, when appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975, he was regarded as a right-of-centre Republican.
Christopher Kraft, who has died aged 95, was an aeronautical engineer and key leader within Nasa during its first manned space flights, and later went on to direct the first flights to the Moon. He died on July 22, two days after the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 making humanity's first landing on another world.
Boris Johnson's most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, has told Tory members that Johnson will bring Britain out of the EU by October 31, even if pro-Remain Tories succeed in forcing a general election.
An autopsy conducted on the 22-year-old granddaughter of the late Robert F Kennedy found no trauma to her body - leaving her cause of death to be determined after toxicology tests, the local district attorney's office has announced.
