Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.
The Premier League and three of its top European counterparts will on Friday issue a joint call for urgent governance reform at FIFA amid the crisis engulfing its president, Gianni Infantino.
Hurricane Polo has brought heavy rain to Mexico's Pacific coast, as Hawaii was braced for the growing Tropical Storm Nolo, which could cause catastrophic flooding.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the country is short of staff needed for treatment centres.
A British businessman and an adviser to a quango funded by the UK government have each been jailed for 16 years after brokering illegal arms deals to send fighter jets and weapons to war zones.
Injuries related to e-scooters and scrambler motorbikes in Ireland are rising at an "exponential rate" and "stretching" an already overstretched system, experts have warned.
A doctor is accused of being a party to six genocide murders, including the stoning to death of a taxi driver and the killing of a woman and her child.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has written to football chiefs across the globe saying he is open to talks about reforming the organisation, while affirming his commitment to remain in post.
A Rwandan man accused of taking part in the African nation's genocide has become the first person in the UK to face charges linked to the 1994 killings.
Two women have been arrested in connection with one of a series of killings in South Africa which sparked outcry over violence against women in the country.
Converse, the American footwear brand, has apologised for an ad which critics said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised why the image was "deeply upsetting".