At least four people have died after Istanbul suffered its worst floods in more than 80 years, Turkish officials have said.

The Pope spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday and urged a truce with Ukraine as he continued his recovery from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said.

People who take illegal drugs are "supporting the horrific events we saw in Waterford", Irish justice minister Jim O'Callaghan has said. 

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case could face a new rape trial after German prosecutors launched a legal bid to overturn his acquittal on a string of sex charges, unrelated to the missing British girl.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected newly unsealed torture allegations against him and his wife as "false accusations".

A British father has been fined €3,000 (£2,500) for causing the death of his two-year-old son who fell from the fourth floor of a hotel in Cyprus.

Four people, including three children, have died after a school shooting in Oregon.

Nineteen people have been injured after a collision between a bus and a train on the French side of the Channel Tunnel.

Neanderthals were not the unintelligent cave dwellers of popular imagination, but may have been capable of showing both violence and care, researchers who have discovered bones dating back 75,000 years have said.

Three people have died and 2,700 evacuated as heavy rainfall and floods have shut down Istanbul.

Two people have been arrested over the deaths of two adults and two children in a suspected arson attack on a house in Ireland.

Orange smog has blanketed cities in Indonesia as wildfire pollution continues to cause dangerous conditions for the country and its neighbours.

At least 34 children and a teacher have died after the roof of a private school collapsed in Pakistan.

At least 32 children and their teacher have died after the roof of a private school collapsed in Pakistan.

Pope Leo has thanked well-wishers for their prayers after his cancer operation.

The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, according to archaeologists.

Two children who died in an arson attack at a home in Ireland have been named as Callum and Jayden, as their family and police urge anyone with information to come forward.

The trial has begun of a Ukrainian man accused of leading an elaborate plot to blow up an undersea pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany.

More explosions have been heard in the Saudi capital, with suspicions once again falling on the Houthi rebels from Yemen.

The Pope's recovery after his lung cancer operation is "progressing as expected" and he spent a peaceful night in hospital, according to the Vatican.