Canadian author WP Kinsella, whose book Shoeless Joe became the hit film Field of Dreams, dies aged 81 in a doctor-assisted death.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Syrian rebel groups are exploiting the current ceasefire to regroup, amid tensions with the US.

Thousands reportedly defy a curfew in Kashmir to attend the funeral of a schoolboy whose body was found riddled with shotgun pellet wounds.

Thousands of fans pay their last respects to Brazilian actor Domingos Montagner, who drowned in a river where he had been recording scenes for a soap opera.

Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad dies following a crash during the men's C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics.

US playwright Edward Albee, author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dies near New York aged 88

A fire destroys the famous Baroque church of San Sebastian in the Peruvian colonial city of Cusco.

The site of the world's biggest beer festival will be fenced off for the first time, with mandatory security checks for the millions of revellers expected to attend.