A hacker uncovered the Australian ex-PM's phone number and passport details but told the authorities.

The European Union's highest court rules in favour of the footballer after a nine-year legal battle.

Measures to stop households mixing and early pub closures will come into effect from midnight.

The first half of the ex-president's memoirs will come out just weeks after the November election.

Beijing has faced widespread criticism over detention centres set up for mostly Muslim Uighurs.

Many black people feel that they have to code-switch when entering white majority spaces.

Michal Kwiatkowski wins stage 18 to give Ineos Grenadiers their first win of the 2020 Tour de France as Adam Yates falls back in the GC.

Premier League clubs have urged the UK government to stick to its proposal of allowing fans to return to stadiums from 1 October.

Torrential rains could bring damaging floods to the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia.

German club Ripdorf stepped onto the pitch, kicked the ball away and then stood on the sidelines.

Tottenham come from behind to beat nine-man Lokomotiv Plovdiv in Europa League qualifying.

New figures show "alarming rates of transmission across the region", the UN body says.

The military officer had just been sentenced for murder when relatives hauled him out of the dock.

Prosecutors say Jerry Harris enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos.

Armand Duplantis produces the highest ever outdoors jump in the pole vault as he leaps 6.15m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome.

Canadian police said both front seats were fully reclined as the car drove at 150km/h.

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood of England are two strokes behind first-round leader Justin Thomas at the US Open.

Goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Hakan Calhanoglu give AC Milan a 2-0 win over League of Ireland side Shamrock Rovers in their Europa League qualifier.

A team of scientists say this explains why those stung feel intense pain lasting for days or even weeks.

The 2020 Ig Nobel prizes honour crocodilian vocalisations, narcissistic eyebrows and vibrating worms.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.