Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escalated his attacks on former beauty queen with vague and unsubstantiated allegation about a sex tape in Twitter posts, and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton denounced him as "unhinged."
Joint military operation between Chad and Niger killed 123 Boko Haram militants since July and recovered significant quantity of weapons, Niger's Defence Ministry said.
Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, Russian newspaper reported, as the US said diplomacy to halt violence is "on life support" but not dead yet.
European Union stated to agree on fast-track, joint ratification of Paris accord to combat climate change, pushing landmark global pact to the brink of entering into force.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and said he would "be happy" to exterminate 3 million drug users and peddlers in country.
Authorities released two videos of police shooting an unarmed black man dead in El Cajon, California, but the grainy footage, much of it without sound, is unlikely to pacify the community outrage over the incident.
South Carolina teen-ager suspected of killing his father and wounding two boys and teacher at an elementary school was charged with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder, office of local solicitor says.
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a legislation to broaden the state's legal definition of rape and mandate prison if victim is unconscious, following furor over Stanford University sexual assault case.
Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic mission, crashing on surface of the dusty, icy comet it had spent 12 years chasing in hunt that provides insight into early days of solar system and captured public's imagination.
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