New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in Lake Tanganyika, one of the world's most important fisheries.

Controversial Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova is beaten to Olympic gold by Lilly King of the USA in the women's 100m breaststroke.

The judge in Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven copyright trial rejects the band's attempts to recoup $800,000 in costs.

Lawyers across Pakistan are boycotting the courts to mourn the loss of dozens of their colleagues in a hospital bombing in Quetta on Monday.

Water and power supplies in the Syrian city of Aleppo must be repaired immediately or children and their families will be at grave risk of disease, says Unicef.

The director of the Miss World pageant in Mexico, Hugo Ruben Castellanos, is shot dead just hours after crowning Miss Sinaloa.

An Israeli woman and a baby who returned from Sri Lanka have been kept at Tel Aviv airport since Saturday amid questions over the child's origins.

The parents of two Americans killed in a 2012 attack in the Libyan city of Benghazi sue Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.