A former Los Angeles rubbish collector is found guilty of the "Grim Sleeper" serial murders that spanned more than 20 years and left 10 dead.

North Korea is set to hold its first party congress in 36 years, as the South warns a fifth nuclear test is being prepared.

Israeli tank fire kills a Palestinian woman in Gaza, Palestinians say, in some of the worst clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas since 2014.

Canadian officials are airlifting some 8,000 people who fled to the north of Fort McMurray - the city in Alberta devastated by a massive wildfire.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp posts a quarterly loss in the three months to March, due to a legal settlement charge.

US authorities say a prominent family in Panama ran businesses as a front for a major drug money-laundering operation.

An air strike on a Syrian refugee camp that reportedly killed at least 28 people could amount to a war crime, a senior UN official says.

An Australian blogger and author who faked terminal brain cancer faces legal action over her deception.