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World News
- Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attackGrain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.
- Israeli settlers besieging Palestinian families in West Bank villageIsraeli security forces have reportedly withdrawn and about a dozen settlers are said to remain at the site where two families have been besieged since Sunday.
- Ebola outbreak on track to be deadliest ever, WHO chief saysThe outbreak, declared on 15 May, has caused more than 2,000 deaths, with thousands more reported cases.
- Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in USDespite growing opposition to the death penalty, one state is behind the rising numbers.
- Why are 'human fridges' being sold in Japan?As Japan swelters through extreme summer heat, BBC Tokyo correspondent Kurumi Mori tries out a new way to cool down.
- Woman pulled alive from rubble 36 hours after Colombia quakeFollowing a 10-hour rescue operation, emergency workers pulled the 32-year-old from beneath slabs of concrete.