Six people, including two journalists, were killed in Gaza when an Israeli missile exploded as attempts were being made to dismantle it.

A rocket lands in southern Israel hours before the expiry of a three-day Gaza ceasefire, Israeli police say.

Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer buys the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2bn (1.2bn) after a court cleared the way for the sale.

Danish officials say they suspect that sausage contaminated with listeria bacteria has killed at least 12 people.

The US has sent 130 more military advisors to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.

A shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Ecuador's capital, Quito, killing two people and injuring eight others, the authorities say.

Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood's biggest post-war stars, has died at home in New York after a career spanning seven decades.

Iranian-born Prof Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win a Fields Medal at a ceremony in Seoul, South Korea.