Jennifer Hudson and Stevie Wonder honour Aretha Franklin at an emotional funeral.

Fishermen had found the empty, large, rusty cargo vessel drifting off Myanmar this week.

A rare condition is threatening lives of refugee children on Nauru who have "lost hope", advocates say.

Conservative South African groups are carrying out international campaigns against the government's land reform plans.

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

Six out of eight species of the bird are endangered in Kenya.

Reality Check takes a look at 'citizenship for sale' programmes in the EU.

A UN human rights mission in Nicaragua has been asked to leave by the government.

Competitors from around Europe compete in the UK's first "Merlympics".

BBC Chris Foxx takes Segway's new self-balancing e-skates out for a test run.

What it's like to live with fibromyalgia.

Two EU citizens explain their very different reasons for leaving, and staying in, the UK.

Scans show differences in the brains of those who love to put things offs compared with the "doers".

Photojournalist Javier Bauluz compares the current crisis with what happened in the 1970s and 80s.

Serena Williams makes light work of her older sister Venus Williams to reach the US Open fourth round in New York.

Former President Bill Clinton and music legend Smokey Robinson were among the speakers at her funeral.

Five residents of a site where police found firearms and starving children face conspiracy charges.

Cricket-crazy India opens up to other sports - look at the athletes who excelled at 2018 Asian Games.

Brazil's top electoral court rules that the jailed ex-president cannot stand in October's election.

The inside story, from those who were there, of the deal that changed Manchester City, the Premier League and the football landscape forever.

The US singer was under pressure to cancel her show in protest at Israel's policy on the Palestinians.