US President Donald Trump said yesterday he would impose a 10pc tariff on the remaining $300 billion (€271bn) of Chinese imports starting on September 1, after negotiators failed to make progress in US-China trade talks, sending shockwaves through US markets.
Hundreds of Russian towns and cities were shrouded in heavy smoke from wildfires in Siberia and the Far East, and the blazes appeared to be spreading in remote terrain.
The United States believes that Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, is dead, a US official said yesterday.
Rapper A$AP Rocky told a Swedish court he had tried to avoid the fight in Stockholm city centre that landed him in custody and facing a charge of assault.
Police on the African island of Madagascar are investigating whether a British teenager deliberately threw herself to her death after escaping from a tiny two-door plane as it cruised over the savannah.
Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen, who made a successful debut in last year's Ryder Cup, is being investigated by police after being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a flight returning from last weekend's WGC St Jude Invitational.
The one-year-old daughter of a man who died of Ebola in a major city of the Democratic Republic of Congo has contracted the disease.
