North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military says.

The gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club had complained of being taunted for being Muslim while working as a guard at a courthouse, newly released documents show.

Ten paramilitary soldiers die in a clash between security forces and Maoist rebels in India's eastern Bihar, police say.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is ready to reinstate the death penalty "if the people demand it", following the recent coup attempt.

US police investigate after a Playboy model publicly shares a photograph of another woman naked in a gym changing room.

Russia should be banned from the Olympics and Paralympics after evidence of state-sponsored doping, says the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Nigeria's Borno state formerly controlled by Boko Haram are severely malnourished, the UN children's agency says.

A woman and her three daughters have been attacked by a knife-wielding man at a holiday site in the south of France, French media report.