Watch as 11-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal wins the women's final at the Street Skateboarding League World Tour event in Los Angeles.

A 65-year-old man confessed to killing a 15-year-old girl and another teenager, his lawyer says.

More than 350 million trees have been planted in a single day to tackle deforestation, officials say.

The 95-year-old was best known for his large-scale works in eye-popping colours.

In his first BBC Sport column, Glenn McGrath previews the first Ashes Test - and highlights England's top three as a potential weakness.

Celeste Labedz's picture of herself dressed up as a princess while on a field trip researching glaciers has become a viral hit.

Striker Romelu Lukaku will not travel with Manchester United's squad for Tuesday's pre-season friendly against Norwegian side Kristiansund.

The star put on her own show after a South Korean festival was cancelled due to an "unsafe" stage.

Huang Qi - who was the first person put on trial for internet crimes in China - is jailed again.

England will need to "raise their game" for a "hard and tough" Ashes series, says director of men's cricket Ashley Giles.

Malizia II, a high-speed yacht built to race around the world, will take the teen activist to the US.

Ramla Ali is an English and British boxing champion with Olympic ambitions despite having had to hide her passion from her strict Muslim family.

Scientists are "extremely concerned" by a bacterium resistant to antibiotics of last resort.

Gareth Bale pulls out of Real Madrid's trip to Munich for a pre-season tournament, following the collapse of his proposed move to China.

A 40-year-old man is arrested after being tackled by passers-by at Frankfurt station.

A fight between rival gangs in a northern Brazilian prison went on for five hours, officials say.

For the BBC's 2018 Ask America project, residents told us what outsiders get wrong about their city.

Shayna Jack's positive drug test fuels claims of hypocrisy after a teammate's rebuke of a Chinese rival.

The currency could fall further as the government toughens its rhetoric on a no-deal Brexit.

BBC Sport gets the inside track on the world thumb wrestling championships in Norfolk and meets 4-time world champion Paul Browse who talks us through the secrets of his rigorous training routine.

The suspect fired into the crowd with an assault rifle he purchased legally, California police say.