At least 17 people have died and dozens more are injured after a crush at a religious festival in India, local media reports.

The US ambassador to Israel has condemned an attack by dozens of masked Israeli settlers on a village's harvest in the West Bank that left several people injured including an American photographer.

A man and a woman have been charged with assault and criminal damage after a fatal house fire in Waterford, Ireland, that killed four members of the same family.

The UK has advised against all but essential travel to Saudi Arabia after attacks by Yemen's Houthis in the region.

Pope Leo has left hospital, four days after his lung cancer surgery.

Three men have been sentenced to 158 years and nine months each for the murders of two Australian brothers and their American friend. 

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.